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Ubuntu 9.10: Installing and Working with Malayalalam fonts

Earlier, as a beginner I felt so difficult to work with Linux. Especially in areas like installing a new software, mounting NTFS partitions, installing my CDMA modem driver etc. But Linux is improving day by day. Newer versions of Ubuntu detects wide range of modems automatically! One can easily mount and manage NTFS files by clicking on your windows drives. Installing Malayalam font swanalekha is also a simple task even though the process contain a set of commands. All that you need to do is to create a shell script (Shell script is a script file that can be used in Unix environments to run a set of commands) and store these commands to that file. Save the script. Connect to the Internet and run it as root. The steps for installing and using swanalekha phonetic keyboard are as follows:- Step 1 . Open Text Editor (Applications-> Accessories->Text Editor) Step 2. Copy following commands to it:- =================== apt-get install language-support-ml language-pack-ml language-pack-