Using the Partition Editor

The file manager (Nautilus) currently does not support renaming disk partitions, but Gnome's Partition Editor (GParted) does. To change a partition's label, follow these directions. (Be careful using Partition Editor, as it's capable of making your computer completely unusable if you do the wrong thing.)

1. Open the System > Administration menu and see if there's an entry for GParted (previously Partition Editor).
2. If there is, launch it. If there isn't, install the "gparted" package and it should now appear in the menu. Enter your password when prompted.
3. Disk drives are divided up into partitions. To find the partition you want to re-label, you first have to find the disk drive that contains it, using the drop-down menu in the upper right. It will show a device name like /dev/sdb and the drive's total size in parentheses. After selecting a drive, you will see a list of all partitions on that drive.
4. If the partition is mounted (has a key icon next to it), right-click on the partition and select Unmount.
5. With the key icon gone, right-click on the partition and select Label. If you can't select it, install the ntfsprogs package.
6. Enter the new partition name and press Ok.
7. The label change is now pending, but has not been completed. Press the Apply button near the top of the window. After confirming, it should say "All operations successfully completed". The drive now has a new label.

Install Multimedia codec / VLC with out internet connection (offline)

credit goes to sundar_ima. who posted it here

Here is the script (ubuntu restricted extras offline installer) written by hacktolive.org along with most commonly used packages to make life easier for those who do not have internet connection or those who want to install multimedia codec and other useful packages offline. All the links listed below will direct to the rapidshare and other file hosting sites. Download the package, extract and read the read me file for further instructions.

These packages are actually ubuntu-restricted-extras came with respective versions. Hope these links will help some people...

UBUNTU 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) HERE

UBUNTU 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) HERE

UBUNTU 9.10 (Karmic Koala) HERE or HERE

UBUNTU 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) HERE or HERE

Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) HERE


If anybody is only looking for multimedia playback then installing VLC will solve most of the problem. Here are some of the links to download VLC-offline-installer for various release. Installation is same as ubuntu-restricted-extras-offline-installer.

UBUNTU 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) HERE

UBUNTU 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) HERE

UBUNTU 9.10 (Karmic Koala) HERE or HERE

UBUNTU 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) HERE or HERE

Torrent Links

Ubuntu restricted extras offline installer 10.04 for Ubuntu 10.04

VLC offline installer 10.04 for Ubuntu 10.04

Install JDK on UBUNTU (any version) Without Internet Connection

Thanks to kishore and his post.

here is the link 

These are the steps I used to install the Java JDK binary,Externally on my System which ain't have Internet.

1.Dowload the latest Java JDK for Linux Platform (in my case,jdk-6u22-linux-i586.bin) from the Sun Java site.Using any System Which Have Internet.

(you can also use jdk-6u3-linux-i586.bin and many other versions)

[*Note:Do not download ".rpm" version of jdk(like jdk-6u22-linux-i586-rpm.bin)]

2.In Terminal Change directory to /usr/local/lib [using comand $cd /usr/local/lib]

3.From there extract the JRE or JDK archive file you downloaded:

   $ sudo sh /some/path/jdk-6u3-linux-i586.bin

[In the above commands, replace /some/path with where the JRE/JDK .bin resides and of course replace the filename with what it actually is in your case.]

(In my case: $sudo sh /home/Kishor/Downloads/jdk-6u22-linux-i586.bin)

4.Now Lets create some symlinks so that the executables can be run easily:
Change directory to /usr/local/bin [$ cd /usr/local/bin]

From there execute the following set of commands:

$ sudo ln -sf ../lib/jdk1.6.0_22/bin/* .

[Please Pay attention to the "dot(.)" at the end of the command, it is required and IMPORTENT.
And adjust the directory as well to what you have (e.g. jdk1.6.0_03 in folder /usr/local/lib)
(in mycase it is: jdk1.6.0_22/bin)]

5.Verify installation

To verify that the installation was successful, execute

$ java -version

The output should look something like this if everything is well

java version "1.6.0_22"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_22-b04)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 17.1-b03, mixed mode, sharing)

6. Now you can Execute Java Programs From any directory from your system,here is a small example of mine:

kishor@ubuntu:~/Desktop$ javac HelloWorld.java
kishor@ubuntu:~/Desktop$ java HelloWorld
Hello World!!
kishor@ubuntu:~/Desktop$

-Kishor[kishorbenede15@gmail.com]