The DeadBeef music player now is available for Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy Salamander in its PPA repository after Canonical released the Ubuntu 13.10 Final.
As you may know, DeedBeef is a free audio player for Linux only. It has following features:
mp3, ogg vorbis, flac, ape, wv/iso.wv, wav, m4a/mp3 (aac and alac), mpc, tta, cd audio, and many more
nsf, ay, vtx, vgm/vgz, spc and many other popular chiptune formats
SID with HVSC song length database support for sid
tracker modules – mod, s3m, it, xm, etc
ID3v1, ID3v2.2, ID3v2.3, ID3v2.4, APEv2, Xing/Info, VorbisComments tag reading and writing, as well as reading many other tag/metadata formats in most supported formats
automatic character set detection for non-unicode id3 tags – supports cp1251, iso8859-1, and now chinese cp936 (optional), as well as SHIFT-JIS and MS-DOS CP866 for selected formats
unicode tags are fully supported as well (both utf8 and ucs2)
cuesheet (.cue files) support, including charset detection/conversion
clean fast GUI using GTK2 and GTK3, you pick what you like more!
no GNOME or KDE dependencies
minimization to system tray, with scrollwheel volume control, etc
drag and drop, both in playlist, and from other apps
control playback from command line
global hotkeys
multiple playlists using tabbed interface
album cover display
OSD notifications about current playing songs
18-band graphical equalizer and other DSP plugins
built-in high quality tag editor, with custom fields support
customizable groups in playlists
customizable columns with flexible title formatting
streaming radio support for ogg vorbis, mp3 and aac streams
gapless playback for correctly encoded files
lots of plugin, such as global hotkeys, last.fm scrobbler, converter, and many more, sdk is included
comes with advanced Converter plugin, which allows to transcode files to other formats
was tested on x86, x86_64, powerpc, arm, mips architectures, should work on most modern platforms
new features are being added all the time — check for updates frequently!
Install Deadbeef Music Player:
Press Ctrl+Alt+T on your keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, run command to add the PPA:
As you may know, BitTorrent protocol client that offers multiple torrent downloads, queuing/priority systems (on torrents and files), start/stop seeding options, and instant access to numerous pieces of information about your torrents. It includes an embedded tracker that is easily set up and ready to use.
Vuze in Ubuntu’s default repository is old. Here’s how to install the latest v5.1.0 in Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy or Linux Mint 16 Petra using getdeb repository.
Enable GetDeb repository
For Ubuntu 13.10, press Ctrl+ALt+T on your keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, run below commands one by one:
This simple tutorial is going to show you how to disable laptop camera in Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy. Cameras are controlled by the uvcvideo kernel module, so all you need to do is block it from loading.
After this tutorial, you’ll get a blank screen in Cheese:
blank screen after disabled camera
To get started:
Press Ctrl+Alt+T on your keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, run command to disable the camera until reboot:
sudo modprobe -r uvcvideo
You will be asked for your password, and after typing it, if there are no errors shown in the terminal, your webcam should be disabled.
To enable your webcam again, run:
sudo modprobe uvcvideo
If you want to permanently disable camera, run below command to block the kernel mode by adding to config file.
echo 'blacklist uvcvideo' | sudo tee -a /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
qBittorrent 3.1.0 has been released with a lot of new features and bugfixes. This tutorial shows you how to install or upgrade it in Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 13.04, Ubuntu 12.10, Linux Mint 16/15.
What’s New in qBittorrent 3.1.0:
Add command line option to daemonize qbittorrent-nox (ngaro)
Add “Shutdown qBittorrent” button to Web UI (ngaro)
Add setting to copy .torrent files for finished downloads (Driim)
Add option to start qBittorrent on Windows startup (sledgehammer999)
Add context menu to Web seed list (Gelmir)
Add support for tracker tiers / groups to creator (Gelmir)
Allow clearing execution and ban logs (Gelmir)
Add option to use random port on each startup (ireallylikeher)
Expose the cache expiry to the user (Gelmir)
Support Atom feeds (Gelmir)
Add “save path” column (John Peterson)
Add μTorrent-compatible “Flags” column in the peer tab(sledgehammer999)
Load magnet metadata in the background while the “Add New Torrent” Dialog is showing (Gelmir)
Allow to enter only an info-hash for download(sledgehammer999)
Bring the “Add New Torrent” Dialog to the front(glassez)
Add confirmation dialog for “Force recheck” action (closes #131)
Calibre, the free and open source e-book computer software application suite has reached v1.6 with handy mark-book feature.
What’s New in Calibre 1.6:
Temporary marking of books in the library
This allows you to select books from your calibre library manually and mark them. This ‘mark’ will remain until you restart calibre, or clear the marks. You can easily work with only the marked subset of books by right clicking the Mark Books button. To use this feature, go to Preferences->Toolbars and add the ‘Mark Books’ tool to the main toolbar.
Get Books: Add Wolne Lektury and Amazon (Canada) ebook stores
DOCX Input: Handle hyperlinks in footnotes and endnotes
Driver for Sunstech reader
Allow using both uri: and url: identifiers to create two different arbitrary links instead of just one in the Book details panel
E-book viewer: Make all keyboard shortcuts configurable
Conversion: Add an option to not condense CSS rules for margin, padding, border, etc. Option is under the Look & Feel section of the conversion dialog.
calibredb: Allow setting of title sort field
ebook-meta: Add an –identifier option to set identifiers.
Fix a locking error when composite columns containing formats are used and formats are added/deleted.
EPUB Output: Do not strip <object> tags with type application/svg+xml in addition to those that use image/svg+xml.
Cover grid: Fix selecting all books with Ctrl+A causing subsequent deselects to not fully work
HTMLZ Output: Fix long titles causing error when converting on windows.
Content server: Fix OPDS category links to composite columns
E-book viewer: Fix regression that broke import/export of bookmarks
E-book viewer: Use the default font size setting for the dictionary view as well.
DOCX Input: Avoid using the value attribute for simple numbered lists, to silence the asinine epubcheck
HTML Input: Images linked by the poster attribute of the <video> tag are now recognized and processed.
DOCX Input: Fix erorr when converting docx files that have numbering defined with no associated character style.
EPUB Metadata: Implementing updating identifiers other than isbn in the epub file from calibre when polishing or exporting the epub
Amazon metadata download: Fix parsing of some dates on amazon.de
New news sources
Various Uruguayan news sources by Carlos Alves
Improved news sources
National Geographic Magazine
New York Review of Books
Focus (PL)
Carta Capital
AM 730
Ming Pao (HK)
Neu Osnabrucker Zeitung
Install / Upgrade Calibre:
For Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 13.04, Ubuntu 12.04, Ubuntu 12.10, Linux Mint users, press Ctrl+Alt+T on your keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, copy and paste below codes and hit enter to run:
sudo python -c "import sys; py3 = sys.version_info[0] > 2; u = __import__('urllib.request' if py3 else 'urllib', fromlist=1); exec(u.urlopen('http://status.calibre-ebook.com/linux_installer').read()); main()"
It automatically download the source code and install it on your system.
This quick tutorial is going to show you how to disable overlay scrollbars and switch back to old fat regular scrollbars in Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy Salamander.
Since Ubuntu 13.04, there’s an option in Dconf Editor allows to switch on / off this feature. Follow steps show you how:
1. Open Ubuntu Software Center. Search for and install dconf Editor.
2. Open dconf Editor, navigate to com/canonical/desktop/interface. Change the scollbar-mode to normal
If you’re familiar with command line, just run one command in terminal:
gsettings set com.canonical.desktop.interface scrollbar-mode normal
The latest Linux Kernel 3.11.5 has been released. It fixed a security issue: ipv6 ipsec encryption bug in sctp_v6_xmit. Also there’re a lot of bugfixes and drivers udpates. See the changelog.
All users of kernel 3.11 series are urged to upgrade as soon as possible. Here’s how to upgrade in Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 13.04, Ubuntu 12.04, Ubuntu 12.10 and Linux Mint 13/14/15/16.
Upgrade Linux Kernel 3.11.5:
At the moment of writing this tutorial, the kernel PPA is not ready for this kernel. I’ll update this post once the PPA updated.
Press Ctrl+Alt+T on your keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, follow the steps below:
Because FrostWire depends on Java, so you need to install OpenJDK from Ubuntu Software Center. Or install oracle Java via PPA. Then double-click on downloaded package to install via pop-up Ubuntu Software Center.
The Linux Kernel 3.10 LTS series has reached v3.10.16, all users of this series are urged to upgrade as soon as possible. Here’s how to upgrade in Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 13.04, Ubuntu 12.04, Ubuntu 12.10 and Linux Mint.
Linux Kernel 3.10.16 fixed a security issue: ipv6 ipsec encryption bug in sctp_v6_xmit, updated drivers as well as other bug fixes. See changelog.
Upgrade Linux Kernel 3.10.16:
Press Ctrl+ALt+T on your keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, follow the steps below:
The popular Ubuntu configuration tool Ubuntu Tweak has released v0.8.6, which adds support for Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy Salamander and remove support for Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric.
See what’s new in Ubuntu Tweak 0.8.6:
Add support for Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy Salamander, drop support for Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric
Improve the old kernels clean up, now it will find out more old kernels
Disable appcenter and sourcecenter, they are no longer maintained
Fixed modules show error with “expected string or buffer”
Fixed Ubuntu Tweak crached in logo in GNOME 3.8
Fixed Ubuntu Tweak crashed while processing override
Fixed problem showing error dialog if dest path contains special characters e.g. “ö”
Fixed LovewallpaperHD failed to load
Read official announcement on developer’s English & Chinese blogs.
The PPA is ready for Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 13.04, Ubuntu 12.04, Ubuntu 12.10 and their derivatives, such as Linux Mint 13/14/15/16, Elementary OS. Run below commands one by one in terminal: