Supertux, a classic 2D jump’n run sidescroller game inspired by Super Mario. It’s been more than 3 years since the last development of Milestone 2.
The new release Supertux 0.3.4 has been made into Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty. It is hard to
say what the most notable changes are, but one thing players should notice is a greater wealth of levels to play through an expanded availability of add-ons. Here’s how to install it via PPA in Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 13.04, Ubuntu 12.04, Ubuntu 12.10 and Linux Mint.
supertux 2 0.3.4 in Ubuntu 13.10
To get started installing this game, press Ctrl+Alt+T on your keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, run commands below one by one:
The GUI front-end for ClamAV virus scanner, ClamTk 5.00 has been released today with right-click file manager support. Here are the new features and how to install it in Ubuntu 13.10, 13.04, 12.04, Linux Mint.
What’s New in ClamTk 5.00:
Right-click file manager support uses nautilus-python
clamtk scanner nautilus plugin
Use of Virustotal API; requires perl-JSON and perl-LWP-Protocol-https
Now using Time::Piece instead of Date::Calc. It’s a Perl built-in
Now using Digest::SHA (sha256) instead of Digest::MD5
Built-in documentation (requires yelp), currently English only…
Updated language files: German (de), Bulgarian (bg), Galician (gl), Ukrainian (uk), Russian (ru), English (en_UK), Malay (ms), Hebrew (he), Italian (it), Dutch (nl), Asturian (ast), Uzbek (uz), Chinese (zh_TW), Finnish (fi), Spanish (es), Croatian (hr), Marathi (mr), Chinese (zh_CN), Slovak (sk), Indonesian (id), Latvian (lv), Azerbaijani (az).
Download & Install ClamTk 5.00:
For ClamTk main program:
clamtk_5.00-1_all.deb
For Xfce Thunar plugin:
thunar-sendto-clamtk_0.04-1_all.deb
For KDE Dolphin plugin:
clamtk-kde_0.15-1_all.deb
Once downloaded, click to install them via Ubuntu Software Center. Run command below to fix dependency problem if any:
sudo apt-get -f install
For Fedora, CentOS and source code, download it from google code.
Skippy-XD is a program for X which provides Mac OS Exposé-like features. It is a standalone application for providing a window picker with live previews (including live video) on Linux desktops that run an X server with composite support. Thus it is not part of the window manager, and the composite is not being used all the time.
To use Skippy-XD, you need Xfce (xfwm4) or a NetWM compliant window manager (LXDE, Openbox-based window managers, etc.).
This tutorial shows you how to install this task-switcher via PPA in (X)Ubuntu 13.10, (X)Ubuntu 13.04, (X)Ubuntu 12.10, (X)Ubuntu 12.04 and Linux Mint Xfce.
Mac OS X’s Exposé windows picker in Ubuntu 13.10 Xfce 4.10
Install Skippy-XD:
The Skippy-XD code has been released in 2004, and only slightly improved in 2011. Currently Skippy-XD is under (somewhat) active development and the latest GIT code is available in the PPA below.
Press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, run commands below one by one to install it from PPA:
Pear OS 8, a Linux distribution based on Ubuntu 12.04 Precise and inspired by iOS7 has been released today. It aims to be reliable, efficient and innovative.
It’s hard to run Virtualbox Guest OS on my old laptop, so I installed Pear OS 8 as a quintuple-boot. Now I have Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy, Linux Mint 15 Olivia, Elementary OS Luna, Windows 7 and Pear OS 8.
Tutorial Objectives:
Install Pear OS 8 from USB Stick
Enjoy!
Preparation:
Format your USB Stick (2G+) to FAT32 format without ‘Quick Format’ enabled.
Download Pear OS 8 from its official download page
Create bootable Pear OS USB from ISO image
The first step is going to burn the Pear OS iso into USB, so that you can boot up and start the install wizard. There are a few tools can do this job, here I used Unetbootin.
1. Download unetbootin executable from unetbootin.sourceforge.net. For Ubuntu, you can also install it in Ubuntu Software Center.
2. Plug-in your USB stick, then open Unetbootin. Choose Diskimage and browser to select the iso image.
create bootable bear os 8 usb
3. Click on OK button and wait a few minutes for the burning process.
Install Pear OS 8 from the bootable USB
Insert the USB stick into the target computer. Start the machine and choose to boot up via USB in BIOS. You’ll see a blue background with a few options, choose to boot with ‘Start the installer directly’.
NOTE: If you have Ubuntu based system previously installed as dual or triple boot, you may choose to install boot loader to local partition rather than whole hard disk.
Yarock, a Qt4 Modern Music Player designed to provide an easy and pretty music collection browser based on cover art now reached a new version with new features and improvements. One interesting feature is add support to drag from playqueue to file browser in order to copie music file to folder.
What’s New in Yarock 0.9.64:
New : add support for multiset album (grouping or not)
New : add support to drag from playqueue to file browser (in order to copie music file to folder)
New : add standalone vlc audio engine (without phonon layer)
New : add option to choose color scheme
BugFix : fix multithreading issue when populating playqueue
BugFix : fix cover searcher threadmanager
BugFix : fix crash on media item context menu access
BugFix : fix lyricsmania extraction rule
BugFix : fix echonest artist image download
BugFix : fix context view item layout update
BugFix : fix seek bar and time label widget spacing
Change : reorganise code structure
Change : rewrite file dialogs
Change : replace navigator bar by a menu icon bar
Change : lot of minor ui improvement
Install Yarock:
There’s a PPA repository contains yarock packages for Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 13.04, Ubuntu 12.10, Ubuntu 12.04 and their derivatives. The new release will be available soon in this PPA.
To add the PPA, press Ctrl+Alt+T and run command in terminal:
This tutorial shows you a graphical tool for generating and reading QR codes in Ubuntu Linux. It’s QtQR, a GUI front-end of qrencode made in Python & Qt, which provides a simple and easy to user interface to encode text, url, bookmark, Email, telephone number, phonebook, SMS, MMS, Geolocalization and decode from image file or webcam.
QtQR QR code generator & reader in Ubuntu 13.10
What is QR code?
A Quick Response code is a two-dimensional pictographic code used for its fast readability and comparatively large storage capacity. The code consists of black modules arranged in a square pattern on a white background. The information encoded can be made up of any kind of data (e.g., binary, alphanumeric, or Kanji symbols)
Install QtQR
This simple application is available in Ubuntu universe repository since Ubuntu 12.10. Just search for and install qtqr in Ubuntu Software Center (Works for Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 13.04, Ubuntu 12.10, Linux Mint 14/15/16).
For Ubuntu 12.04, Ubuntu 10.04, Elementary OS Luna, run commands below one by one in terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) to install this tool from PPA:
HPLIP, HP Linux Imaging and Printing released v3.13.11 with many new HP printers and Debian 7.2/6.0.8 support. Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 13.04, Ubuntu 12.04, Linux Mint.
As you may know, HPLIP is an HP developed solution for printing, scanning, and faxing with HP inkjet and laser based printers in Linux. The HPLIP project provides printing support for over 2,080 printer models–including; Deskjet, Officejet, Photosmart, PSC (Print, Scan, Copy), Business Inkjet, LaserJet, Edgeline MFP, and LaserJet MFP.
The latest v3.13.11 added support for the following new printers:
HP Color LaserJet Pro MPF M176 series
HP Color LaserJet Pro MPF M176n
HP Color LaserJet Pro MPF M177 series
HP Color LaserJet Pro MPF M177fw
HP Color LaserJet Enterprise M750 Printer series
HP Color LaserJet Enterprise M750n
HP Color LaserJet Enterprise M750dn
HP Color LaserJet Enterprise M750xh
HP Color LaserJet Enterprise M855 Printer series
HP Color LaserJet Enterprise M855dn Printer
HP Color LaserJet Enterprise M855xh Printer
HP Color LaserJet Enterprise M855x+ Printer
HP Color LaserJet Enterprise flow M880 Multifunction Printer series
HP Color LaserJet Enterprise flow M880z Multifunction Printer
HP Color LaserJet Enterprise flow M880z+ Multifunction Printer
HP LaserJet Pro MFP M127 series
HP LaserJet Pro MFP M127fn
HP LaserJet Pro MFP M127fw
HP Officejet 2620 All-in-One
HP Officejet 2621 All-in-One
HP Officejet 2622 All-in-One
Also added supported for Debian 7.2, Debian 6.0.8, and added Pin Printing support for HP LaserJet m5035 MFP device.
Install HPLIP:
The .run installer is available in sourceforge.net. Press Ctrl+Alt+T on your keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, run:
The latest Nvidia Legacy GPU driver 304.116 has improved compatibility with recent Linux kernels. Here’s how to intall it if you have an old graphics card that is no longer supported in the regular NVIDIA Unified Graphics Driver.
What’s New in Nvidia 304.116:
Updated nvidia-installer to consider the “libglamoregl.so” X loadable extension module to be in conflict with the NVIDIA OpenGL driver. This module can cause the NVIDIA libGL to be loaded into the same process (the X server) as the NVIDIA libglx.so extension module, which is not a supported use case.
Improved compatibility with recent Linux kernels.
Updated the NVIDIA OpenGL driver to write temporary files to $TMPDIR if it is set, instead of unconditionally writing to /tmp.
Updated a fallback of writing temporary files to $HOME/.nvidia to use $HOME/.nv instead, as the latter path is already used for other NVIDIA driver related files.
Install Nvidia 304.116:
Before getting started, remove previous installed Nvidia proprietary drivers in terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T):
sudo apt-get purge nvidia-current
Then download the driver from official links below:
Blender 2.69, the latest stable release of the popular 3D creation software finally is available for Ubuntu & Linux Mint via PPA one week after Blender 2.69 was official announced.
What’s New in Blender 2.69:
Modeling:
A new hidden wire display option was added to help with retopology. Mesh Bisect is a new tool to cut meshes in half. The Bridge, Edgenet fill, Grid fill and Symmetrize tools were improved. New curve and lattice editing tools were added too.
Cycles Rendering:
Hair rendering was improved with a new Hair shader and reorganized settings. Subsurface scattering uses a new sampling algorithm and now supports bump mapping and texture blurring. Sky rendering now uses a more accurate sky model. New blackbody, vector transform and HSV nodes were added. The non-progressive integrator was renamed to Branched Path Integrator, and is now available for GPU rendering.
Motion Tracker:
The Motion tracker now supports plane tracking, which can be used to replace billboards, screens and other flat things in footage.
More Features:
Lists in the user interface can now be resized, sorted and filtered. Further there are small improvements for vertex parenting, empty objects, the shrinkwrap modifier, mask editing, armatures, f-curves and drivers.
Addons:
FBX Import support has been added and FBX/OBJ can now export split normals (without the need for the edge split modifier).
Bug Fixes:
In addition to the new features, over 270 bugs that existed in previous releases have been fixed.
Install or Upgrade Blender 2.69:
The PPA has updated for Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy, Ubuntu 13.04 Raring, Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal, Ubuntu 12.04 Precise, Linux Mint 13/14/15/16.
PPA now works for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 14.10 and Linux Mint 17 / 17.1.
To get started, press Ctrl+Alt+T on your keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, run commands below one by one:
NOTE that the packages doesn’t include pre-compiled CUDA kernel. If you want to use the Cycles renderer with CUDA support, you have to install the CUDA toolkit on your system to do runtime compilation of the CUDA kernel: