HP Linux Imaging and Printing (HPLIP), HP Linux solution for printing, scanning, and faxing with HP inkjet and laser based printers, has reached the 3.16.11 release one day ago.
HPLIP 3.16.11 adds following new printers support:
HP LaserJet M101-M106 Printer
HP LaserJet Pro M203-M206 Printer
HP LaserJet Pro MFP M227-M231 Printer
HP LaserJet Pro MFP M129-M134
Also new Linux Distro’s Fedora 25 and OpenSuse 42.2 are supported in this release.
How to Install HPLIP 3.16.11 in Ubuntu:
Download the official Linux binary from the link below:
Then open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T), run commands to give executable permission, and finally run the installer:
cd ~/Downloads/ && chmod +x hplip-3.16.11.run && ./hplip-3.16.11.run
Follow the terminal prompts and finally restart your computer when everything’s done.
Thanks to Mystic-Mirage, both professional and community editions are made into PPA, available for Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 16.10, Linux Mint 18 and derivatives.
1. To add the PPA, open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run command:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mystic-mirage/pycharm
Type in your password (no visual feedback) when it asks and hit Enter.
2. Then update system package index and install the IDE via commands:
For Google Chrome users not satisfied with the built-in download manager, here’s how to integrate the uGet download manager with Chrome browser in Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 14.04, and Linux Mint 17, 18.
uGet used to have an official extension for Chrome/Chromium, though it’s out of date because Google removed NPAPI support.
Now there’s an open-source uGet Chrome Wrapper that integrates uGet Download Manager with Google Chrome in Linux Systems. With it, youcan:
Simply click on any download links, ‘uGet new Download’ dialog will appear and continue the download.
Right-click on a link and there’s ‘Download with uGet’ option.
Press and hold Insert key to prevent uGet from interrupting your download.
Use Ctrl+Shift+U to disable or re-enable the extension (uGet Download option in context menu still available).
How to Install uGet Chrome Wrapper in Ubuntu:
1. First in Chrome browser, install the uGet integration extension by going to the link below:
2. Then open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run commands below one by one to install the wrapper for uGet from the developer’s PPA:
Intel Graphics Update Tool, formerly known as the Intel Graphics Installer, has now reached the 2.0.3 release with support for Ubuntu 16.10 and Fedora 24.
The Intel® Graphics Update Tool for Linux* OS (formerly known as the Intel® Graphics Installer for Linux*) was renamed starting from version 2.0.2, in order to more accurately reflect the purpose of the tool. Linux distributions already include by default an Intel® graphics driver, without needing any extra installation. This tool aims to make the latest Intel® Graphics Stack available before it gets officially released by Linux* OS vendors. Specifically, it benefits those Linux* users of both Ubuntu* and Fedora* distributions who want to update their graphics subsystems for Intel® platforms.
Version 2.0.3 of the update tool is targeted specifically at both Ubuntu* 16.10 and Fedora* 24. Earlier revisions for those Linux distributions are now deprecated and are no longer being supported by the update tool. Please upgrade to a more recent version of your OS distribution if you want to take advantage of this release.
The 2.0.3 release includes the Mesa 12.0.3 3D Graphics Library, Cairo 1.15.2 graphics library, libva-intel-driver 1.7.2, as well as all the libva related libraries, such as libva-wayland, libva-tpi, libva-glx, libva-egl, libva-drm, libva-x11, and libva-utils. Also Intel Graphics Stack Recipe 2016Q3 for Linux is supported in this release.
The Cinnamon Desktop 3.2 was released two weeks ago. There’s now a stable PPA to make it easy to install it in Ubuntu 16.04 and/or Ubuntu 16.10.
Cinnamon 3.2 is a massive release with hundreds of changes, it brings support for vertical panels, the ability to play sound effects when displaying notifications, revamped Keyboard applet, a setting for the new menu animations.
Other features include:
new “Peek at desktop” feature
workspace switcher improvements
simplified background manager
keyboard navigation for context menus
updated appindicators and settings
support for displaying percentage next to the volume slider
For ThinkPad X220, or X230 tablet running Ubuntu Desktop, there’s an open-source project thinkpad-scripts for screen rotation, docking etc.
Thinkpad-scripts is a collection of scripts intended for the Lenovo ThinkPad X220 Tablet. You can still use them with the regular X220 machine, but only thinkpad-rotate will probably be useless for you then.
In short, this script fixes or improves the following:
Rotation of the internal screen and any Wacom touch and pen input devices using the bezel buttons or physical screen rotation
Get the microphone mute button to work.
Automatically use any external monitor, speakers and LAN connection when docking onto an UltraBase or similar.
Ability to disable touch pad or touch screen.
How to Install Thinkpad-Scripts in Ubuntu 16.04, 14.04:
The scripts are available in the PPA repository, so far available for Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 14.04 and their derivatives.
1. Open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run command to add the PPA:
For those who want to record a selection of your screen to an animated GIF image, Peek is open source tool for Linux that offers a simple window that can be resized to select a screen area to record over.
After resizing Peek window to select a screen area, click the Record button to start recording.
Once you stop the recording, a dialog pops-up and prompts you to give a name and select where to save the GIF image.
After you save the GIF image, a dialog pops-up allows you to open the file folder quickly with the GIF image automatic highlighted.
Install Peek Animated GIF recorder in Ubuntu 16.04:
Peek so far only support Linux with X11. Other Unix like systems using X11 should work as well. It is planned to also support Wayland and maybe other operating systems in the future.
1. Open terminal from Unity Dash, App Launcher, or via Ctrl+Alt+T keys, then run command to install the requirements:
Mozilla Firefox browser has now reached the 50 release, with updated keyboard shortcuts, other new features, various security fixes and more.
According to the release note, Firefox 50 features:
Updates to keyboard shortcuts
Set a preference to have Ctrl+Tab cycle through tabs in recently used order
View a page in Reader Mode by using Ctrl+Alt+R (command+alt+r on Mac)
Added option to Find in page that allows users to limit search to whole words only
Increased availability of WebGL to more than 98 percent of users on Windows 7 and newer
Added download protection for a large number of executable file types on Windows, Mac and Linux
Improved performance for SDK extensions or extensions using the SDK module loader
Playback video on more sites without plugins with WebM EME Support for Widevine on Windows and Mac
Fixed rendering of dashed and dotted borders with rounded corners
Added a built-in Emoji set for operating systems without native Emoji fonts (Windows 8.0 and lower and Linux)
Download / Install Firefox 50 in Ubuntu:
For the portable non-install version, please go to mozilla.org.
For Ubuntu 16.10, Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 12.04, and derivatives, Canonical will soon offer the new Firefox 50 updates via the updates/security repository. Check out the build page.
At that time, just launch Software Updater and upgrade Firefox after checking for updates.
Boot Repair is a simple tool to repair frequent boot issues for Linux, Windows, and other OSes. It’s free, open-source, and easy to use (repair in one click).
By booting up your PC into Ubuntu / Debian via a live-CD or live-USB, then installing Boot-Repair in the live system, just launch Boot-Repair, then click the “Recommended repair” button will automatically detect the problems and recover access to your OSes.
When repair is finished, note the URL (paste.ubuntu.com/XXXXX) that appears on a paper, then reboot and check if you recovered access to your OSs. If the repair did not succeed, indicate the URL to the support email in order to get help.
Boot Repair features:
recover access to Windows (XP, Vista, Windows7, Windows8, Windows10).
recover access to Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora, OpenSuse, ArchLinux…
recover access to any OS if your PC contains Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, OpenSuse, ArchLinux, or derivative.
repair MBR-locked OEM computer boot
repair the boot when you have the “GRUB Recovery” error message
reinstall GRUB2/GRUB1 bootloader easily
and much more ! (UEFI, SecureBoot, RAID, LVM, Wubi, filesystem repair…)
How to install boot-repair in Ubuntu:
For Ubuntu 16.10, Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 12.04, and derivatives so far, boot-repair is available for install via its official PPA.
1. To add the PPA, open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run command:
MuPDF, a lightweight PDF, XPS, and E-book viewer, has reached the release candidate for version 1.10.
MuPDF 1.10 features FictionBook (FB2) e-book support, simple SVG parser, mutool convert (a new document conversion tool and interface), multi-threaded rendering in mudraw, luratech decoders for JBIG2 and JPEG2000, optional JPEG-XR support (not included by default for security reasons), updated base 14 fonts from URW, new CJK font with language specific variants, hyperlink support in EPUB.
There are also interface changes and cleanups, code size and memory usage improvements:
New tool muraster: example printer driver with limited RAM usage and automatic banding.
Alpha channel is now optional in pixmaps.
More aggressive purging of cached objects.
Partial image decoding for lower memory use when banding.
Reduced default set of built-in CMap tables to the minimum required.
FZ_ENABLE_PDF, _XPS, _JS, to disable features at compile time.
Function level linking.
Dropped pdf object generation numbers from public interfaces.
Simplified PDF page, xobject, and annotation internals.
Closing and freeing devices and writers are now separate steps.
Improved PDF annotation editing interface (still a work in progress).
Document writer interface.
Banded image writer interface.
Install MuPDF 1.10 RC in Ubuntu:
Besides building the new release from source, there’s an unofficial PPA available for Ubuntu 16.10, Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 14.04 and derivatives.
Open terminal from the Dash / Launcher / or via Ctrl+Alt+T shortcut keys, then do following steps to install it:
1. Run command to add the PPA:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntuhandbook1/apps
Type in password (no visual feedback) when it asks and hit Enter.
2. To upgrade from a previous release, launch Software Updater and install updates after checking for updates.
Or run command in terminal to install /upgrade mupdf:
sudo apt install mupdf mupdf-tools
Once installed, right-click on your PDF file and select open with MuPDF PDF Viewer.
You can set MuPDF as the default viewer from PDF file’s Properties window -> Open With tab.
Uninstall:
To restore MuPDF to the stock version available in your Ubuntu’s main archive, run command in terminal to purge the PPA:
