New Rupee Symbol in Debian

Steps to include new rupee font in Debian:

1.Download the file named Rupee Foradian.ttf from the the Foradian Technology blog “http://blog.foradian.com/rupee-font-version-20

2.In your Debian machine login as root or use su

mkdir /usr/share/fonts/ttf
cp Rupee_Foradian.ttf /usr/share/fonts/ttf
apt-get install ttmkfdir
cd /usr/share/fonts/ttf
ttmkfdir  > fonts.scale
mkfontdir
cd /usr/share/fonts/ttf/
chmod 644 /usr/share/fonts/ttf/Rupee_Foradian.ttf

For other Linux versions see the below presentation :

3.Now either reboot your computer or restart gdm and start enjoying Indian rupee Symbol 😛

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Remove swfdec*

If you wanna remove swfdec-mozilla from your Debian system without removing the gnome ( as it contains the dependencies on gnome metapackage ) Then follow the following instruction :

gaurav@paliwal:~/gaurav$ sudo aptitude purge swfdec-mozilla

This will remove the swfdec-mozilla package.If you still want to keep your gnome working they run the command :

gaurav@paliwal:~/gaurav$  sudo aptitude keep-all

This will tell Aptitude to “keep-all” installed packages. This cancels all scheduled actions on all packages (including installation, removal, or upgrade).

Fedora to Debian & Code::Block

After using Fedora (http://www.fedoraproject.org/) for more then 2 year , I decide to switch to Debian (http://www.debian.org) because Fedora is really going too aggressive in their development. Many of the packages which are actually in their beta days are the part of their official repository.Also packages available in Debian repository are almost thrice then that of those available in the fedora repositories. Though I strongly believe in the philosophy that great packages always come in *tar.gz , but still i am not that much kind to myself to compile vlc or xchm before installing them on my box.

The first things I notice in Debian (off course after noticing its stability :P) is that Code::Block is not a part of the Debian official repository , But still you can install in using the apt repo provided by Jen (http://apt.jenslody.de/) , just by following the instruction given at http://apt.jenslody.de/