Szyszka is a new batch file renaming tool written in Rust programming language with GTK+ 3 toolkit. And it works on Linux, Windows, and Mac OS.
The name, Szyszka, is Polish word which means Pinecone. The tool has a very simple user interface, simple click “Add Entries”, press and hold Shift, or Ctrl to select your desired files. Add folder is not supported in the first 1.0 release, it is however marked as planned feature.
You can then add multiple rules which can be freely combined:
Replace text
Trim text
Adding text
Adding numbers
Purge text
Change letters to big/small
Use custom rule
While adding rules, it shows example at bottom with before and after change which is extremely helpful for beginners.
How to Get Szyszka in Ubuntu:
The tool is available in Ubuntu Software as Snap package. Before installing it, you can try the .Appimage package which is available to download in the releases page:
Once you get it, right-click and go to file ‘Properties’ dialog. Then check “Allow executing file as program” in Permissions tab. Finally right-click and select ‘Run’ the Appimage.
As a new project, there may have bugs. Please report issue at the Github page.
Kodi 19.1, the first update for the “Matrix” series, was released with various bug-fixes.
The new release of the media player and entertainment hub contains mainly bug-fixes. It fixed HDR metadata detection issue, playback of optical DVDs in Linux, and BD-J Blu-ray chapter skipping via remotes/keyboard.
System fonts and use fonts detection for ASS subtitles, as well as rendering of semi-transparent ASS subtitles on Wayland are now fixed in the release.
Kodi 19.1 also enabled filecaching by default for network filesystems, improved reliability for HTTP and NFS network filesystems, and added support for WS-Discovery protocol to locate SMB servers and browse shared folders via SMBv3.
Other changes in the release include:
Fixed media flagging for DVD/BluRay
Fixed incorrect HDR metadata
Fixed green screen when playing the menu of some DVDs
The official Kodi PPA has made the packages for all current Ubuntu releases including Ubuntu 21.04.
Open terminal either from system app launcher or by pressing Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard. When it opens, do following steps one by one.
1. Add Kodi PPA.
To add the official Kodi PPA, run command in terminal:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:team-xbmc/ppa
Type user password when it asks, with no asterisk feedback, and hit Enter to continue.
2. Install / Update Kodi.
If you’re now running the stock version of Kodi package in Ubuntu, the Software Updater will refused to update it. So it’s recommended to use the command below to install or update the media player.
Firstly refresh system package cache, if you’re on Ubuntu 18.04, via command:
sudo apt update
Then install Kodi via command:
sudo apt install kodi
Once installed Kodi, either launch it from system app launcher or log out and select “Kodi” session to login.
How to Downgrade:
You can purge the Ubuntu PPA as well as downgrade Kodi to the stock version available in Ubuntu main repositories. To do so, run command:
HP printer drivers for Linux, HPLIP, released version 3.21.4 today with new devices and Linux distros support.
HPLIP 3.21.4 is a small release adds HP Envy 6400 series printers support, and adds new systems LinuxMint 20.1, Debian 10.8 support. Ubuntu 21.04 is not yet supported though it has been released for a few weeks.
And it does not install in Ubuntu 20.04 in my case, though it works in Ubuntu 20.10 and Ubuntu 18.04.
Download & Install HPLIP 3.21.4:
HPLIP packages are hosted on sourceforge.net, go to link below and download the “hplip-3.21.4.run” package:
FFmpeg 4.4 “Rao” now can be installed in all current Ubuntu releases easily via an Ubuntu PPA.
FFmpeg is a free and open-source solution to record, convert and stream audio and video. The major 4.4 version was released almost a months ago with PGX decoder, AV1 encoding support SVT-AV1, AV1 decoder with hardware acceleration used only, AV1 VAAPI decoder, and so many other new features.
Thanks to Rob Savoury, an Ubuntu PPA is available contains the packages for all current Ubuntu releases.
1.) Add the PPA:
Firstly open terminal either from system app launcher or by pressing Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard. When it opens, run the command below to add the PPA:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:savoury1/ffmpeg4
Type user password (no asterisk feedback) when it asks and hit Enter to continue.
2.) (Optional) Add optional PPAs:
For newest versions of graphics and multimedia dependencies, you can also add the following PPAs by running commands one by one:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:savoury1/graphics
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:savoury1/multimedia
3.) Finally install / update FFmpeg:
As a widely used media library, it’s mostly installed on your system. So you can run command to upgrade it in terminal:
sudo apt full-upgrade
NOTE: using Software Updater is not recommended in the case. It may keep back FFmpeg since old libraries may be required for some apps, Pitivi in the case.
4.) Check FFmpeg version:
Once installed, run command to check software version:
ffmpeg -version
How to Restore Stock FFmpeg version:
You can purge the Ubuntu PPA which will also downgrade FFmpeg libraries to the stock version in Ubuntu. Also purging the FFmpeg PPA may also remove some apps for unknown reasons :(.
Want to try out the Pipewire sound server? It’s easy to do this in Ubuntu 21.10 / Ubuntu 21.04, and here’s how!
PipeWire is a server for handling multimedia on Linux. Its most common use is for Wayland and Flatpak apps to implement audio and video playback and capture with minimal latency. And it offers seamless support for PulseAudio, JACK, ALSA, and GStreamer based applications.
Use Pipewire to replace PulseAudio in Ubuntu 21.10 & Ubuntu 21.04:
Ubuntu now has better Pipewire support in recent releases. The service is even running out-of-the-box in Ubuntu 21.10.
1.) Update system
Firstly, press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open terminal and run command to install all available package updates (recommend for those still running Ubuntu 21.04).
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade
A system restart may be required if you haven’t done system package update for long period of time.
2.) Install the latest Pipewire libraries:
Thanks to the “PipeWire Upstream PPA“, it contains the latest Pipewire libraries to make all the things easy!
Open terminal and run the command below to add the PPA:
5.) I followed the previous steps via Debian Wiki, but it didn’t work. The system tray sound icon’s gone, and pactl info outputs “Connection failure: Connection refused”.
To workaround the issue, enable pipewire-media-session service may work by running command:
KeePass password manager released version 2.48 a few days ago. Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu 21.04, Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 18.04 via PPA.
KeePass 2.48 introduces version 4.1 of the KDBX file format, which supports various new features, including:
group tags support,
ability to disable password quality estimation
remember the previous parent group when moving an entry/group into a different group
custom icons now have names and last modification or deletion times
save last modification time for custom date items.
Other changes include:
Add command ‘Move to Previous Parent Group’
Add support for loading images with Exif orientation tags.
Enhanced the LastPass import module to support CSV files created by the latest versions.
Enhanced the nPassword import module to import group tags.
Various user interface improvements.
How to Install KeePass 2.48 in Ubuntu via PPA:
KeePass2 is still available to install via an Ubuntu PPA. So far, the PPA supports for Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 20.10, and Ubuntu 21.04.
UPDATE: Ubuntu 22.04 has better pipewire support. The system default package runs quite good though PPA provides more recent package. See this tutorial for more.
This simple tutorial shows how to install the latest PipeWire server via an Ubuntu PPA in Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 21.04, Ubuntu 21.10, and Ubuntu 18.04
PipeWire is a new low-level multimedia framework, aims to offer capture and playback for both audio and video with minimal latency and support for PulseAudio, JACK, ALSA and GStreamer based applications. And it also work with sandboxed Flatpak applications.
PipeWire is available in Ubuntu universe repositories, and it’s officially supported since Ubuntu 21.04. While the default version is always old, a fan of Arch user maintains an Ubuntu PPA with the latest packages so far for all current Ubuntu releases.
1.) Add the Ubuntu PPA:
To add the PPA, firstly open terminal either from system app launcher or by pressing Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard. When it opens, run command:
This is a step by step guide shows how to install the Eclipse IDE in Ubuntu 24.04, Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 22.04, and their based systems, such as Linux Mint 22/21.
For Java developers, Eclipse is easy to install in Ubuntu through Snap package from either App Center or Ubuntu Software (for 22.04 and earlier). Though it runs in sandbox environment.
If you want to use Eclipse for C/C++, PHP, or other language developing, or you don’t like running in sandbox, then you may use the official installer.
1. Download & start Eclipse Installer:
Firstly go to the official download page, and grab the installer:
Then extract the tarball, and navigate into the result folder. Right-click and select “Run” the eclipse-inst file to start the installer.
For choice, you may right-click on blank area in that folder and select “Open in Terminal“, then run ./eclipse-inst command in the pop-up terminal instead:
2. Install Eclipse:
When the installer wizard opens, choose “Eclipse for Java Developers”, “Eclipse for C/C++ Developers”, or other options depends on which you want to install.
Next, choose either a local Java VM (if installed) or select download one from web, and change installation folder if you want (default selections are OK). Finally, click on “Install” button, and accept the license to start installing the IDE:
The software is by default installed to the user home folder for single user use. Once installed, you can launch it either from system application launcher or the desktop shortcut (need to first right-click and choose “Allow Launching”).
How to Remove Eclipse Completely:
The software is installed by default in user’s home directory. Simply open the file manager, and remove the eclipse folder and eclipse-workspace folder.
For the desktop shortcut, just move it to trash. For the app icon in start menu, press Ctrl+Alt+T to open terminal and run commands:
Want to make a certain folder different to others in Ubuntu? You can change the icon color and add emblem via Nautilus extension.
Nautilus, the default file manager in Ubuntu, has an extension called Folder Color. It allows to change the color of selected folder or folders into: Blue, Blown, Green, Gray, Pink, Purple, Red and Yellow.
You can also add a emblem, e.g., Important, In Process, Favorite, Finished, and New. And reset to default is also available in folders’ context menu.
Install Folder Color:
The extension is available in Ubuntu universe repository. However, it’s not well working with the default Yaru theme.
For Ubuntu 20.04, So you have to first add the developer’s PPA with Yaru integration. To do so, open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run command:
qBittorrent, free and open-source Qt5 based Bittorrent client, released version 4.3.5 a few days ago.
qBittorrent 4.3.5 is the last release in the 4.3.x series. And it’s going to drop support for Ubuntu 20.04 in the next release since it has an outdated Qt5 libraries.
Users who prefer qBittorrent can still get updates for Ubuntu 20.04 through the Flatpak package, since it’s a containerised package format bundle with most run-time libraries.
MACOS: Don’t use executable name as CFBundleName value
Lower Qt requirement to 5.11
Clarify that the license is GPLv2+
How to Install qBittorrent 4.3.5 via PPA:
The official qBittorrent PPA has built the new release packages for Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 20.10, and Ubuntu 21.04.
1. To add the PPA, open terminal by either pressing Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard or searching for “Terminal” from application menu. When it opens, run command:
