Working With Ubuntu 13.04 and 13.10 Java JDK/JRE ,Chrome and Android

Hi All,

Recently i updated my Linux system to 13.10 and to my greatest pleasure and frustration i ran into couple of issues :D

Here is a brief of what i faced and how it got resolved, hope this will help you get your stuff too! :)

In this post we will install Chrome, Instal Java7 and setup Android SDK. So lets begin

INSTALLING GOOGLE CHROME
Well i am a great fan of Google Chrome but was upset with the fact that Google has not yet updated their application to support latest libraries, thus when you install Ubuntu 13.04 and above you will find that there are couple of dependencies that are unsatisfied.

Well there ain't much you need to do! :)

Install this depending on your OS installation

For 64 bit Systems: libudev064bit.deb
For 32 bit Systems: libudev032bit.dev

Once above is installed you can simply download the application from google and run the deb file. You should be able to install Chrome now :)


INSTALLING JAVA
This has been a very prolonged issues as Oracle as not been able to make its way in Canonical repositories andUbuntu has been pushing openjdk and other open Java.
Again if you are a developer the you will be better off with Oracle Java only.

No worries simply follow the following steps:

1. First remove openjdk from your system: sudo apt-get purge openjdk*
2. Now install oracle java 7 in ubuntu 

• sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java
• sudo apt-get update
• sudo apt-get install oracle-java7-installer
• Follow the installation steps

That its now you can check installed java version by typing  : java -version

CONFIGURING ANDROID SDK

Even if you have downloaded Android SDK you will not be able to run adb you will get follwoing issue all the time. error=2 No such file or directory' while attempting to get adb version from

This is due to missing ia32-lib which is not available for 13.04 and above hence you need to individual install libraries required for adb

Type following command

sudo apt-get install libc6-i386 lib32stdc++6 lib32gcc1 lib32ncurses5 lib32z1

And you are done :)

Hope you have been able to resolve all your issuesand now enjoy your Linux

Google Chrome 11 with voice search!

There is a hidden new feature in Chrome 11: Speech input that is integrated in web pages in a similar way as you would use your Android phone. It’s not perfect yet, but the recognition rate of spoken words is impressive. Is Google planning a release of Chrome for Android?

Google published a new beta release of its Chrome browser, which updates the browser to version 11.0.696.16. However, it’s not the new Chrome icon and it’s not the GPU-accelerated 3D CSS that makes this release special. It is the integration of the HTML5 speech input API.

It is a Google-proprietary feature at this time, which has been submitted to the W3C (thanks to the guys over at c’t for finding this submission) with the request to turn the technology into a specification as part of the HTML5 framework. There is a basic demo Google has set up to demonstrate the speech recognition engine, which works just like Google’s Android speech recognition integration: The speech-to-text translation rate is impressive, as long as there is clear speech input. What would be nice is if this engine could detect different languages automatically. At this time, the feature only works in the language of the web browser version.

So, input in German in an English version of Chrome results in garbage, as shown above.

Would this be a feature that is enhancing the feature set of Chrome? I am not so sure, as you have to click on the microphone icon to start the speech input anyway and writing your search phrase will be much faster (especially when combined with instant search) than waiting for the speech engine to translate your voice input. However, it could make sense for tablets (and smartphones) where typing is still a bit slower than on a regular keyboard. The problem is that there is no Chrome browser on tablets and smartphones – yet.

Since Google has been working on a touch interface for Chrome recently, and since we are now seeing voice input and we have heard about a possible elimination of the URL bar (which could work very well in tandem with voice search input), we’d be tempted to predict the release of a Chrome browser for Android in the near future.

Pwn2 Own hacking contest No one hacks Android !!

Pwn2 Own hacking contest is all about hacking the OS, Browsers and Softwares who claim them self to me UNBEATABLE!!!
There are money award to those that are able to hack the software in some instances. Google put in its Chrome browser and the Android OS to see if anyone could Hack em in!
Google made it through the competition with no one reportedly able to hack Chrome or Android.The same can’t be said for the iPhone 4 with the browser on the iPhone falling and the smartphone being hacked during the contest as well. Along with Android, Windows Phone 7 survived the hack contest.
Exactly what hacks were used to gain control of the devices hasn’t been announced. The Google Chrome browser was running a chrome OS Cr-48 notebook when the hackers tried to break it. It’s nice to see the OS is secure despite all the malware that has been popping up in the Android Market lately.

A hacker exploited a zero-day flaw in Internet Explorer 8 using a technique that bypassed Microsoft's Data Execution Prevention technology and Address Space Layout Randomization security features. The hacker, who remained anonymous, then exploited a zero-day flaw in the Apple Safari and Mozilla Firefox browsers. The hacker was rewarded with $15,000 from the coffers of the TippingPoint DVLabs Zero-day Initiative.

Google also had said it would pay $20,000 to anyone who successfully attacked Google code as part of the Chrome contest.