News, Tutorials, Howtos for Ubuntu Linux
The free and open source BitTorrent client FrostWire released v5.6.8 for Windows, Mac OS, and Linux. This release mainly fixes issues related to YouTube search and greatly improves the translation to Spanish.
According the official blog post, a final fix is coming to bring back all the search results to UK users, the developers are working as fast and hard as they can.
Download FrostWire for: Ubuntu/Linux Mint/Debian, Windows, Mac OS X, Tarball.
The latest gThumb image viewer and browser 3.2.4 fixed important bugs and updated translations. Among the bugs fixed, we can mention an error when rotating JPEG images, window layout issues with GTK+ 3.10, a crash when opening the preferences dialog, a crash when trying to play a video under special conditions, a crash when moving or copying files, and a crash when using a predefined directory.
The PPA updated just a few hours ago with the new release for Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 13.04, Ubuntu 12.10, Ubuntu 12.04, Linux Mint, Pear OS, Elementary OS.
gThumb 3.2.4 in ubuntu 13.10
gThumb 3.2.4 changelog:
To get started installing / upgrading the app, press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, run command below to add the PPA:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:dhor/myway
Then install gThumb 3.2.4 after checking for update:
sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install gthumb
This tutorial shows how to easily install or update your AMD Catalyst Proprietary Drivers to the latest in Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 13.04, Ubuntu 12.04.
A developer builds a graphical installer called “Ubuntu AMD Catalyst Driver install“. It provides a reliable consistent way to update AMD / ATI graphics drivers on Ubuntu machines.
With this app, we can follow the steps below to install or update AMD Catalyst drivers:
1. Download the app from the links at the end of this tutorial.
Then install it via:
sudo dpkg -i ~/Downloads/ubuntu-amd-catalyst-install_*.deb; sudo apt-get -f install
2. Open the app from Unity Dash, it will automatically detect your system hardware configuration and driver compatibility.
3. You’ll be shown a display similar to the one below indicating full support, legacy support or not support.
4. Select the latest Stable, Legacy or Beta driver to install:
5. It automatically download the driver you selected. When done, click Next button.
6. Build Ubuntu DEB installation packages.
7. It will prompt you to remove the old driver before installing the new one:
8. Install the new driver from the built DEB packages and enable the driver when done.
Finally reboot.
Via: developer’s site
RedNotebook is a modern journal app with calendar, templates and keyword searching. This tutorial shows how to install the latest RedNotebook (so far it’s 1.7.3) via PPA in Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 13.04, Ubuntu 12.04, Ubuntu 10.04 and Linux Mint.
RedNotebook features:
Changes in RedNotebook 1.7.3:
To add the RedNotebook official PPA and install the app, press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, run commands below one by one:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:rednotebook/stable sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install rednotebook
rednotebook main picture, from its website
Running Ubuntu on Apple MacBook / MacBook Pro computers?
Well, you may already know that there’s a fan control daemon which reads the temperature sensors in an Apple Macbook (or Macbook Pro) computer and throttles the fans accordingly to keep the temperature within configurable limits.
I don’t have an Apple MacBook. But I think this daemon will work good on Ubuntu because Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty has made this into its universe repository.
You can easily get this daemon from the developer’s PPA. So far, it supports Ubuntu 13.04 Raring, Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal, Ubuntu 12.04 Precise, and Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid.
Press Ctrl+Alt+T on your keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, run commands below one by one:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mactel-support/ppa sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install macfanctld
For Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy, install it from an unofficial repository:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:detly/mactel-utils sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install macfanctld
For Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty, search for and install macfanctld package in Ubuntu Software Center after checking for updates.
Gambas is a free development environment aims at making a graphical development environment based on a Basic interpreter, so that we have a language as easy as Visual Basic™ under Linux™. Gambas3 is available in Ubuntu Software Center since Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal, but it’s a little old.
The latest Gambas 3.5 was released on October 22 with more than 240 bugfixes and more than 270 new features. See the official release note.
This tutorial show how to install the latest Gambas 3.5.1 in Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 13.04, Ubuntu 12.04 and Linux Mint via PPA.
To get started, press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, run commands below one by one:
For the latest development version, use the daily build PPA (it’s 3.5.99 at the moment):
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gambas-team/gambas-daily sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install gambas3
For the more stable version which is available in official download page:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gambas-team/gambas3 sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install gambas3
gambas 3.5.1 in ubuntu 13.10
Speed Dreams, formerly known as Torcs-NG, is a free and open source 3D racing video game. This tutorial shows you how to install it in Ubuntu 13.10 or Linux Mint 16 Petra
Speed Dreams 2.0 features :
and much more …
The PPA is not available for Ubuntu 13.10 so far. Here I use the Playdeb repository.
1. Press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open terminal. When it opens run commands below to add the Playdeb repository:
sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://archive.getdeb.net/ubuntu saucy-getdeb games" >> /etc/apt/sources.list'
2. Get the key:
wget -q -O- http://archive.getdeb.net/getdeb-archive.key | sudo apt-key add -
3. Check for updates and install the game:
sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install -y speed-dreams
The installing process will take a few minutes downloading the DEBs.
speed dreams in ubuntu 13.10
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:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:landronimirc/supertux-git sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install supertux-git
You can also run command below to install the Supertux level editor, but it doesn’t work properly in my case:
sudo apt-get install supertux-editor-git
For old version and Supertux stable, search for and install them in Ubuntu Software Center.
supertux in ubuntu software center
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.
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).
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.
clamtk virus scanner 5.00 in ubuntu 13.10
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
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:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:landronimirc/skippy-xd-daily sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install skippy-xd
Once installed, start the daemon via:
skippy-xd --start-daemon &
And activate the windows picker:
skippy-xd --activate-window-picker
Typically, it is helpful to set up keyboard shortcuts for skippy-xd. For Xfce4:
1. Go to Settings Manager -> Settings Editor -> xfce4 keyboard shortcuts.
2. Click on New, and type in:
/commands/custom/<Alt>1 #You may change <Alt>1 to other key combination.skippy-xd --activate-window-picker
xfce4 add custom shortcut key
Go to Settings Manager -> Session and Startup -> Application Autostart. Click on Add button, type in name and command skippy-xd --start-daemon
