Wine

Official instructions: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wine

Installation:

system > administration > synaptic package manager

find wine

select wine1.2 and install (it will automatically get the dependencies)

Configuration:

terminal > type 'winecfg'

Application Install:

cd /Downloads

type 'wine <executable>', where <executable> is the name of the program to install

Running Application:

open terminal

type 'wine '

Uninstalling Application:

open terminal

type 'wine uninstaller'

Tweetdeck

Download AIR & TweetDeck - http://bit.ly/getair & http://bit.ly/thedeck

(as of this posting AIR is version 2.0.4 and TweetDeck is version 0.35.2)

Open-up Terminal and type:

cd Downloads/

chmod +x AdobeAIRInstaller.bin

sudo ./AdobeAIRInstaller.bin

enter password

agree to Adobe Air installer setup license agreement

Once Adobe AIR is installed, right click the TweetDeck air file.

Select 'open with other application'

find the Adobe AIR Application Installer from the list

-OR-

choose 'use a custom command', select browse

from the list, choose Adobe AIR Application Installer

on the screen which displays, select Install

for installation preferences, add shortcut to my desktop and start application after installation are checked

for installation location, default value is /opt

agree to TweetDeck license agreement (looks vaguely familiar to the Adobe AIR earlier)

insert password at dialogue prompt

sign into TweetDeck and enjoy!

Recover Mozilla Profiles

retain the default profile for firefox (from the installation) and recover the old profiles:

backup the current profile.ini to profile.ini.bak

open terminal

cd .mozilla/firefox/

cp profile.ini profile.ini.bak

copy profiles from /home//.mozilla/firefox to /home//.mozilla/firefox

modify profiles.ini to include old profiles

old profile:

[General]

StartWithLastProfile=1

[Profile0]

Name=default

IsRelative=1

Path=<random>.default

new profile:

[General]

StartWithLastProfile=0

[Profile0]

Name=default

IsRelative=1

Path=<random>.default

[Profile1]

Name=default_old

IsRelative=1

Path=<random>.default

Default=1

[Profile2]

Name=36x

IsRelative=1

Path=<random>.36x

<random>

[Profile3]

Name=_36x

IsRelative=1

Path=<random>._36

start firefox and test