A Normal Monoguy

There is also the Configuration made to my Ubuntu 8.10 (Part II).

1.  Edit timeout of the grub to be 0 in

sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst

2.  Install Ms Core Font but still no tahoma

sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts
sudo fc-cache -fv

3.  Install Tahoma font.  First install msttcorefonts then download the font.

wget http://download.microsoft.com/download/ie6sp1/finrel/6_sp1/W98NT42KMeXP/EN-US/IELPKTH.CAB
cabextract -d tahomafont IELPKTH.CAB
sudo cp tahomafont/*.ttf /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/
rm -rf tahomafont/
sudo fc-cache -fv

source: How to install tahoma font on Ubuntu

Now loma shows up but still no tahoma. I need to restart the firefox so that the tahoma font show up. That's it. I can now change the default font for content to be tahoma 16pt.

4.  Configure TvTime to run Tvtime without the root permission, however it won't save any configuring done by this method. To save it, you must be the root.

cd /home/your-desktop-name/
sudo chmod +rwx .tvtime

5.  Cannot unrar files? Enable it!

sudo apt-get install rar unrar

6.  Move all files from my old desktop to the current desktop (links also work).  I found that some 3gp files got their sound working.
7.  Install wine

sudo apt-get install wine

8.  Install stardict

sudo apt-get install stardict

9. Install Latex Compiler

System > Administration > Synaptic
Wait for updating and search for "latex" in Tex Authoring.
select:
texlive-latex-base and its dependency
texlive-math-extra
latex-beamer
preview-latex-style
texlive-pictures
texlive-latex-extra
latex-xft-fonts
In Tex Authorng (universe)
texlive-latex3
latex-make
texmaker
thailatex
Search for "thai latex" in (universe)
latex-cjk-thai
latex209-base
latex209-bin
kile

The download will be about 310 MB. Before applying this you may want to copy old *.deb files from /var/cache/apt/archives/ to your new one so that the download will not be that much.

10. to play .amr file from my phone, I have also done:

sudo apt-get install amrnb