How to Install Virtual box 3.2.10 in Ubuntu 10.10

VirtualBox is a powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). See "About VirtualBox" for an introduction.

Presently, VirtualBox runs on Windows, Linux, Macintosh and OpenSolaris hosts and supports a large number of guest operating systems including but not limited to Windows (NT 4.0, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista, Windows 7), DOS/Windows 3.x, Linux (2.4 and 2.6), Solaris and OpenSolaris, and OpenBSD.

Oracle released VirtualBox 3.2.10 , a maintenance release of VirtualBox 3.2 which improves stability and fixes regressions. See the ChangeLog for details.

How to Install Virtual Box in Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick

Open a terminal and enter the following command to add the PPA

$sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian maverick non-free"

Now add the Verification Key

$ wget –q http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/oracle_vbox.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add - 

Now Update
$ sudo apt-get update

Install New Version

$ sudo apt-get install virtualbox-3.2

Debian Releases and its Code Names

Debian Releases and its Code Names

•   1.1  called "Buzz"
•   1.2  called "Rex"
•   1.3  called "Bo"
•   2.0  called "Hamm"
•   2.1  called "Slink"
•   2.2  called "Potato"
•   3.0  called "Woody"
•   3.1  called "Sarge"
•   4.0  called "Etch"
•   4.0r4  called "Etch-and-a-half"
• 5.0   called "Lenny"
• 6.0   called "Squeeze"

How to Intall high quality educational software suite for Kids Gcompris in Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick

 Gcompris is a  large collection of educational games for small children.  It is meant to become some sort of unified interface to integrate more educational games. It will help Children from age 2 to 16

Language-oriented games now contain vocabulary for too many languages
to list them heres.  Sounds and voices are also available for a number of
languages, check the gcompris-sound packages for your language.

Currently available boards include:
   computer discovery: keyboard, mouse, different mouse gesture, ...
  algebra: table memory, enumeration, double entry table, mirror image, ...
  science: the canal lock, the water cycle, the submarine, electric simulation ...
  geography: place the country on the map
  games: chess, memory, connect 4, oware, sudoku ...
  reading: reading practice
  other: learn to tell time, puzzle of famous paintings, vector drawing, cartoon making, etc...

How to Install GCompris in Ubuntu
Open a terminal

$sudo apr-get install gcompris

or Select System--> Administration-->Synaptic Package manger

Now search for Gcompris and Install