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I just found that there’s a new PPA available in launchpad, this new PPA is telepathy related. A PPA (Personal Package Archives) as you may already know it’s a service provided by launchpad to developers that simplifies software distribution for ubuntu distros. In the other hand Empathy might be the next IM client in the GNOME desktop, it was proposed for inclusion some time ago, but enoght talking, lets how easy is to install this great program.

Add the following lines to your /etc/apt/sources.list

#telephaty ppa
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/telepathy/ubuntu gutsy main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/telepathy/ubuntu gutsy main

(You can do it from a terminal, wih something like this, sudo nano -w /etc/apt/sources.list)

Now update the repositories,

sudo apt-get update

And finally install Empathy,

sudo apt-get install empathy

And you are done, try out and report bugs!

Obviously the mandatory screenshot here and here

This time i was in need of a mytop program but for postgresql and after some googleing i found pgtop. pgtop is a top like query monitor for postgresql. Installation was really easy i just downloaded the program, installed the needed modules and installed pgtop.

All of you may know about the top command line of linux, well there are a lot of similar programs to monitor other type of resources, here we have some of the more useful to me,

iftop
This is a nice one to monitor network usage, more specific bandwidth usage.

Installation:

cd /usr/local/src
wget http://www.ex-parrot.com/~pdw/iftop/download/iftop-0.17pre3.tar.gz
tar -xvzf iftop-0.17pre3.tar.gz
cd iftop-0.17pre3
./configure && make && make install

You wil need libcap and libcurses but most of the cases they are already installed.

mytop

This program can be quite useful to debug mysql.

Installation:

Install TermReadKey,

cd /usr/local/src
wget http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/J/JS/JSTOWE/TermReadKey-2.30.tar.gz
tar -xvzf TermReadKey-2.30.tar.gz
cd TermRead*
perl Makefile.PL
make test && make && make install

Install DBI,

cd /usr/local/src
wget http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/T/TI/TIMB/DBI-1.48.tar.gz
tar -xvzf DBI-1.48.tar.gz
cd DBI*
perl Makefile.PL
make test && make && make install

Now finally mytop,

cd /usr/local/src
wget http://jeremy.zawodny.com/mysql/mytop/mytop-1.4.tar.gz
tar -xvzf mytop-1.4.tar.gz
cd mytop*
perl Makefile.PL
make test && make && make install

apachetop

This is a program that uses the logs of apache to monitor it.

Installation:

cd /usr/local/src
wget http://www.webta.org/apachetop/apachetop-0.12.6.tar.gz
tar -xvzf apachetop-0.12.6.tar.gz
cd apachetop-0.12.6
./configure && make && make install