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How to post links that integrate with the Software Center?

There are some posts with nice Software Center icons and links to software installation via apt. How to do that?
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How to post links that integrate with the Software Center?

A simple script that prompts for package name and copy the formatted code to your clipboard: #!/bin/bash PACKAGE=$(zenity --entry --text="packagename") echo "#[${PACKAGE}](https://apps.ubuntu.com/ca …
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How to run the chat on the browser sidebar?

For Firefox you can do this: bookmark the chat address, the right-click in the bookmark, select "Properties" then tick the option "Load this bookmark in the sidebar". install User Agent Switcher Ex …
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How to run the chat on the browser sidebar?

It would be really nice if I could run the chat on the browser sidebar, but it doesn't shrink enough.
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How can I open Ask Ubuntu chat directly?

Prism You can create your chat app by launching Prism from the Internet menu, or directly from Firefox via Prism extension. If you are using the extension, visit the chat you want or the main chat …
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How to post links that integrate with the Software Center?

Version 1.0.1 of AskUbuntu Add-on will come with such functionality. http://askubuntu-extension.blogspot.com/2010/10/new-features-coming-soon.html
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Tag pages not rendering properly

The problem was that I was accessing the tags with this url: http://askubuntu.com/questions/tagged/firefox Which uses the last selected filter. Adding the following to the url, fixed the problem a …
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Tag pages not rendering properly

The tag pages are not rendering the list of questions when using Firefox 4.0b8pre or Opera 11.00 alpha build 1029. It does render properly with Google Chrome 8.0.552.5 dev.
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Why do I need to deal with Captcha while logged in?

The Captcha feature is really freaking annoying. This is the only thing that is really making my experience in the site less than enjoyable. It fails most of the time.
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