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Here are some solutions that I have found to some common problems with Ubuntu Edgy Eft. All of them are easy fixes that you can do in about 5 minutes.

Installing the Citrix ICA client. The Citrix ICA client does not work out of the box on Ubuntu Edgy Eft. The problem is that it relies on Motif for the setup and management GUI. Here are the steps. To start, you need to download client from Citrix and unpack in its own folder.

sudo apt-get install libmotif3
sudo ./setupwfc

Flash keeps crashing Firefox. I noticed that after I had installed the flash player plugin, sites with flash ads would crash my browser. For some reason, the OEM/Alternate install CD set my graphics card to use 16 bit colour. To fix this, I had to change the default depth from 16 to 24 and everything is fine so far.

A must have for Edgy Eft is Automatix. Automatix gives you all the “good” stuff that you cannot get for various reasons, it is a must have for Ubuntu. To install Automatix2, follow the steps below:
Add the following line to /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb http://www getautomatix.com/apt edgy main to /etc/apt/sources

Then, issue the following commands:

sudo apt-get install automatix2
automatix2

If you need to connect to more than one wireless network with any frequency, then you need to install and use wifi-radar. This handy little utility is the easiest and most reliable way to go from hotspot to hotspot with ease. I tried to use the built in wireless configuration tool and found that it caused problems with my wireless card.

Once started, wifi-radar will find your preferred wireless network and automatically connect to it. To install wifi-radar, issue the following command:

sudo apt-get install wifi-radar

That’s all I have so far. If you have something essential that you want to share, or you need help with any of the above, feel free to post a comment below and I will do my best to help.

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