Wine 1.7.8 fixed foobar2000 issue, Install it via PPA in Ubuntu

December 7, 2013 — Leave a comment

Wine 1.7.8

Wine development 1.7.8 was released recently with improvement and many bug fixes. In this release, foobar2000 crashes issue has been fixed.

What’s New in Wine 1.7.8:

  • Updated version of the Mono package.
  • Improvements in the BITS service implementation.
  • Better data tables for Japanese vertical fonts support.
  • Improved backtraces on recent Mac OS X versions.

    • Bugs fixed in this release:

  • Max Payne 2: mirror reflections not working correctly
  • Settlers of Catan runs very slow.
  • Artrage3 studio pro demo : installer hangs.
  • Runtime error in RPG Maker VX
  • zMUD works in background but UI is not visible
  • Ignition display hangs when changing resolution
  • Debug4x: Application locks/crashes at start due to bad symbol font handling (failed default charset/map selection)
  • foobar2000 needs SHELL32.dll.SHOpenFolderAndSelectItems
  • NSIS ExecWait not working
  • Regression from wine 1.5.4; same bug as 24679
  • YGOPRO 1.032.1 V2 Percy (free online dueling system made for playing Yu-Gi-Oh! duel) crashes during gameplay
  • The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct error with glTexSubImage2D
  • Age of Empires 2 Conquerors is no longer playable
  • Very slow performance. StarCraft: Brood War.
  • Hot Corners are active when using programs in fullscreen mode (the mac driver)
  • Resident Evil 3: there’s no music, some sounds are missing
  • winedbg crash reports are missing important information on Mac OS X 10.8+
  • Sigil 0.6.2 crashes on start
  • Fellowship One Check-In Application v2.5 needs IBackgroundCopyJob::SetDescription method
  • Original War: intense screen flickering
  • Fellowship One Check-In Application v2.5 needs IBackgroundCopyManager::GetJob method
  • [Freetype]Impossible to compile Wine
  • League of Legends installer page faults in custom action during stackwalk (SymFromAddr with NULL displacement ptr)
  • FEAR Combat (SEC2) v1.1 community full installer doesn’t display cd key/serial field (no PIDTemplate property provided)
  • Steam Client update from Dec. 3, 2013 breaks Wine (Steam Client/Service crash after update, login fails)
  • HF pAppLoc (AppLocale) installer crashes due to unimplemented function apphelp.dll.ShimFlushCache
  • Wine out-of-source tree build broken when specifying a full path to configure

    • Install Wine via PPA:

    The Wine PPA is ready for Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 13.04, Ubuntu 12.10, Ubuntu 12.04 and their derivatives.

    To get started, press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, run commands below one by one:

    sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa 

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install wine1.7

    For source code and other Linux binaries, go to Wine download page

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    Install Synapse, Apple’s Spotlight style search bar in Ubuntu

    December 6, 2013 — Leave a comment

    synapse search

     

    Synapse is an indicator applet that brings Mac OS X and iOS’s spotlight style search feature. With it, you can search from files, applications and Google/Google Maps.

    Synapse indicator looks great in Pear OS 8 (Ubuntu based, iOS 7 inspired). Here’s what it looks like in Ubuntu Unity:

    synapse indicator

    To install the app, press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, follow the steps below one by one:

    1. Add the indicator ppa:

    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:elementary-os/unstable-upstream

    2. For Ubuntu 12.04, Ubuntu 12.10 and Ubuntu 13.04, add the dependencies ppa:

    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:birdie-team/stable

    For Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 14.04, download and install the DEBs below:

    libgranite-common.deb

    libgranite (64 bit) | libgranite (32 bit)

    3. Update and install:

    sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install indicator-synapse

    Once installed, you’ll see the applet on next login.

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    Install TeamViewer 9 in Ubuntu 14.04, 13.10 (both 32 bit & 64 bit)

    December 6, 2013 — Leave a comment

    teamviewer ubuntu 14.04

    TeamViewer 9 Stable now is available. It features multiple connections in tabs, wake-on-lan, two step authentication, shared clipboard and more. This tutorial shows how to install it in Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty, Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy, Linux Mint and their derivatives.

    To get started, click the official link below to download the DEB:

    Download TeamViewer DEB

    Then install Gdebi from Ubuntu Software Center. Gdebi lets you install local deb packages resolving and installing its dependencies.

    Gdebi DEB installer in Ubuntu

    Gdebi DEB installer in Ubuntu

    Finally right-click on TeamViewer DEB and choose “Open With Gebi Package Installer”

    install teamview via gdebi

    Click “Install Package” button. Once done, open TeamViewer from Menu or Unity Dash.

    teamviewer 9 stable

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    Install rdesktop RDP client 1.8.1 via PPA in Ubuntu 13.10/13.04/12.04

    December 6, 2013 — Leave a comment

    rdp client in Ubuntu

    RDesktop is an open source RDP client for Windows NT/2000 Terminal Server and Windows Servers. While the default version in universe repository is old, this tutorial shows how to install the latest rdesktop 1.8.1 via PPA in Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 13.04, Ubuntu 12.04 and their derivatives.

    RDesktop 1.8.1 and 1.8.0 changelog:

    • Fix a typo in configure.ac
    • Fix a bug which made rdesktop steal CPU cycles.
    • Fix issue with reconnect, make use of deactivate variable
    • Added 4 new disconnect reasons with exit codes
    • Fix issues of window handling in SeamlessRDP parts of rdesktop
    • Fix a backward compability with OpenSSL < 0.9.9
    • Fix a bug when code needs a x window available but there are none.
    • Fix a sigsegv zeroing memory
    • Fix a 64bit portability issue
    • Support for protocol negotiation eg. SSL/TLSv1 and CredSSP
    • Support for CredSSP + Kerberos authentication (NLA)
    • Support for smart card single-sign-on
    • Support passing smart card pin as password as argument
    • Added IPC for controlling a master rdesktop process
    • Support for connection sharing when using SeamlessRDP
    • Improved handling of network connection failures
    • Autoreconnect using the connection cookie at network failure
    • Fix a few smart card issues
    • Fix bug with mouse scroll handling
    • Fix for left/right braces in Italian keymap
    • Fix crash and memory leak in local drive redirection
    • Fixes issues with license files loading/saving

    Install rdesktop via PPA:

    Press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, run commands below one by one:

    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:pmjdebruijn/rdesktop-release

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install rdesktop

    Once installed, run rdesktop in terminal to get a list of options.

    Most cases, you’ll use one of the following two commands:

    rdesktop -u john -fP 143.210.123.456
    rdesktop -u john -g 100% -PKD 143.210.123.456

    Both commands login as john and display remote desktop in full screen.

    To create a launcher, see this post

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    Install Pepper Flash Plugin for Chromium in Ubuntu via PPA

    December 5, 2013 — Leave a comment

    flash player chromium

    Want the latest Adobe Flash Player in Ubuntu Chromium browser? After v11.2, the Flash Player plugin for Linux will only be available via the “Pepper” API as part of the Google Chrome. Adobe will continue to provide security updates to non-Pepper distributions of Flash Player 11.2 on Linux for five years from its release.

    There’s a PPA contains installer packages which will download the latest Google Chrome package, extract the Pepper Flash files, and install them for Chromium (Google Chrome itself is not installed).

    To add the PPA, press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open terminal and then run command below:

    sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:skunk/pepper-flash

    Install Pepper flash installer:

    sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install pepflashplugin-installer

    After that, you can enable Pepper Flash Plugin for Chromium browser by adding this line into /etc/chromium-browser/default:

    . /usr/lib/pepflashplugin-installer/pepflashplayer.sh

    (I.e. a period, then a space, then the filepath.)

    To do so, run command below in terminal:

    sudo sh -c 'echo ". /usr/lib/pepflashplugin-installer/pepflashplayer.sh" >>/etc/chromium-browser/default'

    Restart Chromium and check out by typing in chrome://plugins, in my case the flash version is 11.9

    Pepper flash chromium ubuntu

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