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Install GnuCash 2.6.17 via PPA in Ubuntu 16.04, 17.04

Last updated: April 4, 2019

GnuCash

GnuCash 2.6.17, the seventeenth maintenance release in the 2.6-stable series of the free financial-accounting software, was released 2 weeks ago. Now you can install it via ~~GetDeb repository~~ in Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 17.04, and Linux Mint 18.x.

GnuCash 2.6.17 fixed following bugs:

Relax the account type change restrictions. Prevent changing some Account Options if it has transactions.
Improve the styling of the table element used for foreign currencies in the Balance sheet report so they end up aligned with the other currencies.
link in github repo README file needs correction/editing
Add ‘transaction’ to the schema and document it in gnc-pricedb.h.
Fix that Online Banking Wizard Crashes for Windows (gnucash-on-windows)
Also separate translatable commodity namespace strings from those used in storage.
Transactions produced by Transfer Funds or Process Payment dialogs sort to beginning of day and do not honor NUM field for custom sorting.
Fix Stock Split Assistant crashes if you enter a New Price and that already exists in the Price DB
Fix gnucash-2.6.16 segfaults on startup
Fix typo in ‘import customers or vendors from text file’ dialog

How to Install GnuCash 2.6.17 in Ubuntu:

Open terminal via Ctrl+Alt+T or by searching for “terminal” from app launcher. When it opens, run following commands one by one:

1. Add the GetDeb repository via command:

sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://archive.getdeb.net/ubuntu $(lsb_release -sc)-getdeb apps" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/getdeb.list'

For Linux Mint 18.x, run following command instead to add the repository:

sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://archive.getdeb.net/ubuntu xenial-getdeb apps" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/getdeb.list'

2. Upgrade GnuCash via Software Updater utility if you have a previous release installed:

upgrade GnuCash

Or install it via commands:

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install gnucash

Uninstall:

To remove GnuCash, either use your system package manager or run command:

sudo apt-get remove --autoremove gnucash

The GetDeb repository can be removed via Software & Updates utility under Other Software tab.

In Howtos GnuCash

How to Install WeChat Desktop App in Ubuntu 16.04 & Higher

Last updated: July 17, 2017

WeChat is one of the most popular Chinese social media (instant messaging and payment services) mobile application developed by Tencent.

For desktop computers, there’s an open-source project, electronic-wechat, allows you to run WeChat on Linux, Mac OS.

The application features:

Modern UI and all features from Web WeChat.
Block message recall.
Stickers showing support.
Share subscribed passages on Weibo, Qzone, Facebook, Twitter, Evernote, and email.
Mention users in a group chat.
Drag and drop to send photos.
Behaves like a native app, based on dozens of optimization.
Removes URL link redirects and takes you directly to blocked websites.
Press Esc to hide application windows.

The app is available via Snappy store for all Linux distributions. For Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 16.04, and higher, do following steps to install it:

1. Open terminal via Ctrl+Alt+T or by searching it from app launcher. When it opens, run command to install snapd daemon and snapd-xdg-open if you don’t already have them installed:

sudo apt install snapd snapd-xdg-open

Type in your password (no visual feedback while typing due to security reason) and hit Enter.

2. Then install the wechat app via command:

sudo snap install electronic-wechat

install wechat snap

Once installed, launch the desktop app from your app launcher and enjoy!

Uninstall:

To remove the app, run following command in a terminal window:

sudo snap remove electronic-wechat

In Howtos instant messaging client, wechat

How to Install The Latest IntelliJ IDEA in Ubuntu 16.04, 17.04

Last updated: July 22, 2017

This quick tutorial is going to show you how to install the IntelliJ IDEA IDE, both community and ultimate editions, via PPA in all current Ubuntu releases.

IntelliJ IDEA is a Java IDE developed by JetBrains. So far the latest is version 2017.1.5 that was released more than a week ago with some bug-fixes and performance updates.

While the official Linux binaries lack application launcher integration, Marcel Kapfer made an installer script that automatically downloads the source tarball from JetBrains server, installs it to /opt/, and finally creates an app launcher.

Install the script:

For all current Ubuntu releases, including Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 16.10, Ubuntu 17.04, and derivatives, I’ve made the new script into PPA since the original maintainer does not update the latest release at the moment.

Download the latest script from the link below:

intellij-idea-community_xxxx.xx-1_all.deb (community version)

intellij-idea-ultimate_xxxx.xx_all.deb (ultimate edition)

Then open terminal via Ctrl+Alt+T or by searching for it from app launcher, and run command to install the script:

sudo dpkg -i ~/Downloads/intellij-idea-community_*_all.deb

replace community in the command with ultimate for ultimate version.

Once installed, launch the IDE from your app launcher and enjoy!

For those who want to upgrade the IDE through Software Updater (Update Manager), add the PPA repository via command:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntuhandbook1/apps

In Howtos IDE, IntelliJ IDEA, java

LibreOffice 5.3.4 Available for Install via PPA in Ubuntu

Last updated: July 14, 2017

LibreOffice 5.3.4

LibreOffice 5.3.4, the fourth release for LibreOffice 5.3 family, was announced more than 2 weeks ago. It’s finally made into PPA for Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 16.10, Ubuntu 17.04, and Ubuntu 17.10.

LibreOffice 5.3.4 integrates over 100 patches, with a significant number of fixes for interoperability with Microsoft Office RTF and OOXML documents. See HERE for details.

Install LibreOffice 5.3.4 via PPA in Ubuntu:

1. Open terminal via Ctrl+Alt+T or by searching for “terminal” from app launcher. When it opens, run command to add the PPA:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice/ppa

Type in your password (no visual feedback when typing due to security reason) when prompts and hit Enter.

LibreOffice Fresh PPA

2. Then launch Software Updater and upgrade LibreOffice after checking for updates:

How to restore:

To revert back to the stock version of LibreOffice in your Ubuntu, purge the PPA via command:

sudo apt-get install ppa-purge && sudo ppa-purge ppa:libreoffice/ppa

In Howtos, News LibreOffice

Visual Studio Code 1.14 Now Opens Multiple Project In Same Editor

Last updated: July 12, 2017

Visual Studio Code IDE

Microsoft Visual Studio Code has reached the 1.14 release earlier today with many great new features.

VS Code 1.14 release highlights:

Integrated terminal improvements – Find support, select/copy multiple pages
Command Palette MRU list – Quickly find and run your recently used commands
New Tasks menu in top-level menu bar.
Automatic indentation – Auto indent while typing, moving, and pasting source code.
Emmet abbreviation enhancements – Add Emmet to any language. Multi-cursor support.
New Diff review pane – Navigate Diff editor changes quickly with F7, displayed in patch format.
Angular debugging recipe – Debug your Angular client in VS Code.
Better screen reader support – Aria properties to better present list and drop-down items
Preview: 64 bit Windows build – Try out the Windows 64 bit version (Insiders build).
Preview: Multi-root workspaces – Open multiple projects in the same editor (Insiders build).

Download / Install VS Code in Ubuntu:

Visual Studio Code is available as Snap app for Ubuntu Linux, though it’s version 1.13.1 at the moment of writing.

Also the official .deb installer is available for download at the link below:

VS Code Download Page

Download the .deb package and click install via Ubuntu Software or Gdebi package manager.

Add Visual Studio repository:

For those who want to add VS code Linux repository so to receive updates via Software Updater along with other system updates:

1. Open terminal via Ctrl+Alt+T or by searching for “terminal” from app launcher. When it opens, run command to add the repository:

sudo sh -c 'echo "deb [arch=amd64] https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/vscode stable main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vscode.list'

2. Then download and install the key (need curl installed) via 2 commands:

curl https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc | gpg --dearmor > microsoft.gpg

sudo mv microsoft.gpg /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/microsoft.gpg

In News Visual Studio Code

How to Install Hugin 2017 in Ubuntu 14.04, 16.04 & Higher

Last updated: July 11, 2017

The Hugin panorama photo stitcher has reached the 2017.0.0 release. The official Ubuntu binary packages are now available via its PPA repository for Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 16.10, Ubuntu 17.04, Ubuntu 17.10, and derivatives.

Hugin is an easy to use cross-platform panoramic imaging toolchain based on Panorama Tools. With it, you can assemble a mosaic of photographs into a complete immersive panorama, stitch any series of overlapping pictures and much more.

The latest version 2017.0.0 is mainly a bug fix release. Changes include:

Several fixes for working with HDR images
Fixes handling of masks in cpfind when images needs remapping for cp finding.
Sometimes unsaved changes were disregarded without asking the user. Unsaved changes should now always require user confirmation.
Added special assistant variant for single image projects.
Display of final panorama dimensions on stitcher tab.
Extended the user defined output sequences
Use wxWidgets help windows instead of default browser
Other small improvements and translation updates.

How to install Hugin 2017 via PPA in Ubuntu:

1. Open terminal via Ctrl+Alt+T or by searching for “Terminal” from app launcher. When it opens, run command to add the official PPA:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:hugin/hugin-builds

Type in your password when prompts and hit Enter

2. Then launch Software Updater and upgrade the software after checking for updates.

How to Restore:

To revert back to the stock version of Hugin packages in your Ubuntu, purge the PPA via command:

sudo apt install ppa-purge && sudo ppa-purge ppa:hugin/hugin-builds

In Howtos Hugin

How to Install MusicBrainz Picard 1.4.2 in Ubuntu 16.04 via Flatpak

Last updated: July 10, 2017

MusicBrainz Picard is an open-source cross-platform music tagger written in Python. While Ubuntu repositories provide an old version of the software, here’s how to install the latest release (Picard 1.4.2 so far) in Ubuntu 16.04, and higher.

MusicBrainz Picard has an official Ubuntu PPA repository, however, it’s not been updated for more than a year. It now publishes the official Linux binaries only through Flathub repository.

1. Install Flatpak (Ubuntu 16.04 only).

While Ubuntu 16.04 does not ship Flatpak in the default repositories, open terminal via Ctrl+Alt+T and run commands to install it from the PPA.

Add the flatpak PPA via command (type your password when prompts and hit enter):
```
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:alexlarsson/flatpak
```

Then install flatpak via commands:

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install flatpak

2. Add the Flathub repository via command:

flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo

3. Finally grab and install the music tagger via command:

flatpak install flathub org.musicbrainz.Picard

Log out and back in after installation and then launch it from Unity Dash, Gnome launcher and enjoy!

Uninstall:

To uninstall the music tagger, run command:

flatpak uninstall --app org.musicbrainz.Picard

And remove the repository:

flatpak remote-delete flathub

In Howtos audo tag editor, flatpak, MuiscBrainz Picard

Install Parole Media Player 0.9.2 via PPA in Ubuntu 17.04

Last updated: July 9, 2017

Parole, a modern simple media player for XFCE, has reached the 0.9.2 release. Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu 16.10, Ubuntu 17.04 via PPA.

Parole 0.9.2 requires GTK >= 3.20. Ubuntu 16.04 won’t be able to update to this release with the default GTK+3 libraries.

Parole 0.9.2 features:

Update homepage to docs.xfce.org
Switch Xfce URLs to HTTPS
Keyboard shortcuts helper available in the Help menu
New B/N keybindings for previous and next track
Fixed null pointer dereference
Fixed adding directories to queue via commandline
Fixed shuffle functionality also repeating
Fixed display order of audio and subtitle tracks
Fixed “Clear Recent” clearing global history
Fixed Ctrl-Q keybinding when in fullscreen
Fixed string escaping in audiobox widget
Complete the Parole Plugins documentation and improved documentation quality
translation updates and code quality improvements.

How to Install Parole 0.9.2 in Ubuntu:

For Ubuntu 16.10 and Ubuntu 17.04, do following steps to add PPA and install or upgrade Parole to version 0.9.2:

1. Open terminal via Ctrl+Alt+T or by searching for “Terminal” from app launcher. When it opens, run command:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntuhandbook1/apps

Type in your password (no visual feedback when typing due to security reason) when it prompts and hit Enter.

parole ppa for zesty

2. Then upgrade the media player via Software Updater utility:

or run following commands to install / upgrade it:

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install parole

For Ubuntu 16.04 users who’ve updated GTK version (no recommended for beginners), grab the .deb package for Ubuntu 16.10 from HERE.

Uninstall:

Run following command to purge the PPA repository which also downgrade installed packages to the stock version in your Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install ppa-purge && sudo ppa-purge ppa:ubuntuhandbook1/apps

In Howtos media player, parole media player, xfce

How to Install Python 3.6.1 in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Last updated: December 23, 2017

This quick tutorial is going to show you how to install the latest Python 3.6.1 in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS via PPA.

Ubuntu 16.04 comes with both Python 2.7 and Python 3.5 by default. You can install Python 3.6 along with them via a third-party PPA by doing following steps:

1. Open terminal via Ctrl+Alt+T or searching for “Terminal” from app launcher. When it opens, run command to add the PPA:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jonathonf/python-3.6

Type in your password (no visual feedback due to security reason) when it asks and hit Enter.

2. Then check updates and install Python 3.6 via commands:

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install python3.6

Now you have three Python versions, use python command for version 2.7, python3 for version 3.5, and/or python3.6 for version 3.6.1.

3. To make python3 use the new installed python 3.6 instead of the default 3.5 release, run following 2 commands:

sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/python3 python3 /usr/bin/python3.5 1

sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/python3 python3 /usr/bin/python3.6 2

Finally switch between the two python versions for python3 via command:

sudo update-alternatives --config python3

After selecting version 3.6:

python3 -V

UPDATE: due to this bug, gnome-terminal won’t launch after step 3, a workaround is running following commands to recreate the symlink:

sudo rm /usr/bin/python3

sudo ln -s python3.5 /usr/bin/python3

In Howtos Python 3.6, Python IDE

Fix Terminal Shortcut & PrintScreen Key Delay in Ubuntu 16.04

Last updated: July 5, 2017

I’ve been running into desktop shortcut key issue recently in my Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. When I trying to launch a terminal or take a screenshot, there will be more than 20 seconds delay after pressing Ctrl+Alt+T or PrintScreen on keyboard.

This happened after installed some Gnome related application libraries. And I found this BUG after doing a little search. A workaround is to restart the gnome-keyring-daemon service.

1. Launch terminal from Unity Dash, Gnome launcher, or other app launcher.

When it opens, run command to kill the service: