LiVES is a simple, yet powerful video editor and VJ tool. It allows you to combine realtime and rendered effects, streams and multiple video/audio files, and then encode to over 50 formats.
LiVES 2.2.0 was released a few days ago with new features, improvements and bug fixes. This tutorial is going to show you how to install it in Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy or Linux Mint 16 Petra via PPA.
What’s New in LiVES 2.2.0:
Add new avformat_decoder.
Optimisations for handling larger clips.
Use threading for pulling frames from video clips.
Much faster loading/saving of layouts in multitrack.
Fix crash in swscale when frame width is not multiple of 4.
Fix crash (regression) setting parameters in multitrack.
Fix breakage in multiple image loading.
Fix opening preview for quick opening clips.
Fix bug in “delete frames” for virtual clips.
Fix audio encoding in “Encode Selection”
Fixes for letterbox mode playback.
Compilation fixes for Debian Sid.
Various improvements to rte window.
Add “randomiser” data processing plugin.
Improvements to colour correction and tvpic effects.
Fix jack transport during playback (regression).
Fix for saving data connection mappings.
Implement multiple inputs per output in the data connector.
Optimised thread locking between audio and video effects threads.
Fix problems with setting defaults for colour values.
Decoder plugin fixes for ffmpeg 2.2 (needs further testing).
Preserve clip comments and renamed clip names between restarts (bugfix).
Small fixes for rfx_builder window.
Minor GUI improvements.
Add initial translation to Piemontese. (Simon Uslengh).
Updated translations to UK English, German, Russian and Ukranian.
Install LiVES:
For Ubuntu 13.10 and its derivatives, run commands below one by one in terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) to install it from PPA:
FlightGear is a sophisticated and open flight simulator framework for use in research or academic environments, pilot training, as an industry engineering tool, for DIY-ers to pursue their favorite interesting flight simulation idea.
FlightGear is available in Ubuntu Software Center, but it’s a little old. The latest v2.12.x has been released with many exciting new features, enhancements and bug fixes. Highlights in this release include improved usability, continued development of the Canvas rendering toolkit, and improved scenery rendering. For details, see the changlog
Install FlightGear via PPA:
There’s a PPA for Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 13.04, Ubuntu 12.10, Ubuntu 12.04, Linux Mint users to easily install FlightGear easily via 3 commands in terminal.
To get started, press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, run the 3 commands below one by one:
As the PPA description said, if you’re upgrading from a previous version of flightgear, you will need to remove ALL flightgear-related packages before installing flightgear:
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:
To install the app, press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, follow the steps below one by one:
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
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:
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).
UPDATE: Since Ubuntu 14.04, you can directly install Pepper Flash installer from Ubuntu Software Center, or by click the link below:
To add the PPA, press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open terminal and then run command below:
This tutorial shows how to install Chromium browser 31 via PPA in Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy, Ubuntu 13.04 Raring, Ubuntu 12.04 Precise, Linux Mint and their derivatives.
Chromium is an open-source web browser project from which Google Chrome draws its source code. The latest has reached version 31, it is available in Ubuntu Mozilla Security Team PPA for Ubuntu 12.04 and higher.
Chromium 31 changelog:
Include dmesg events mentioning chromium in apport reports.
Abandon nss transitional package as Dependency, and add real package with epoch version number.
Fix multiple memory corruption issues.
Use after free related to speech input elements.
Use after free related to media elements.
Out of bounds read in SVG.
Use after free related to “id” attribute strings.
Use after free in DOM ranges.
Address bar spoofing related to interstitial warnings.
Out of bounds read in HTTP parsing.
Issue with certificates not being checked during TLS renegotiation.
Various fixes from internal audits, fuzzing and other initiatives.
Read of uninitialized memory in libjpeg and libjpeg-turbo.
Read of uninitialized memory in libjpeg-turbo.
Use after free in libjingle.
debian/chromium-chromedriver.install: Drop unsupported, broken old chromedriver v1 and add chromedriver2.
Update webapps patches.
Disable chromedriver testing until the new server-test client dependencies are figured out.
Drop base_unittests and automated_ui_tests build and automatic test and from installation exclusion.
Include wildcat package ‘pepflashplugin-nonfree’ in apport reportting.
To get started installing Chromium, press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, run commands below one by one:
Linux Kernel 3.10 LTS (Long Term Support) has reached version 3.10.22. All users of this kernel series are urged to upgrade as soon as possible. Here’s how to do it in Ubuntu, Linux Mint and their derivatives.
Linux Kernel 3.10.22 comes with wireless, sound and powerpc improvements, radeon, nouveau, i915 driver updates, as well as other changes. See the changelog for details.
Install / Upgrade Kernel 3.10.22:
The DEB packages have been made into Ubuntu Kernel page. Follow the steps below to download and install them.
1. Press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, run commands below to download the DEBs:
If for some reason the kernel does not work properly on your system. Restart and boot into Grub -> Advanced -> previous kernel, then remove Linux Kernel 3.10.22 via:
The latest Linux Kernel 3.12.3 has been released a few hours ago. If you’re using Kernel 3.12 series, this tutorial shows how to install or upgrade in Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 13.04, Ubuntu 12.04, Linux Mint and their derivatives.
Linux kernel 3.12.3 is yet another big release that introduces numerous updated drivers, many architecture improvements (AMR, PowerPC, s390, parisc, ARM64, avr32), some fixes for the CIFS and EXT4 filesystems, as well as sound improvements.
Want to monitor Ubuntu Server remotely with a graphical interface? Well, there are quite a few ways. Here I’ll you a lightweight tool called Monitorix.
Monitorix is an open source tool which allows to monitor server information through your web browser. It displays graphs with:
System load average and usage
Global kernel usage
Kernel usage per processor
Filesystem usage and I/O activity
eth0 network traffic and usage
System services demand
Network port traffic
Users using the system
Devices interrupt activity
Monitorix has a built-in HTTP server, it also works with Apache, Nginx, lighttpd, etc.
monitorix login screen
monitorix main window
Install Monitorix:
On Ubuntu/Debian server, first install the dependencies: