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How to Install FrostWire BitTorrent client on Ubuntu

Last updated: April 21, 2024

frostwire

This simple tutorial will show you how to install the FrostWire on Ubuntu 24.04 Noble, Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy, and Ubuntu 20.04 Focal.

FrostWire is a free and open-source BitTorrent client forked from LimeWire, and was previously a hybrid Gnutella and BitTorrent client. Unlike most other BitTorrent clients, FrostWire is able to search for, and download torrents from many major trackers.

The app is written in Java, and works in Windows, macOS, Linux and Android. For Ubuntu, it so far only works on x86_64 platform meaning for AMD/Intel CPUs.

Download & Install FrostWire

1. To install the app, first download the official .deb package, through the official download link below:

Download Frostwire for Ubuntu

2. After downloading the package, press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open up a terminal window. Then, run the command below to install it:

sudo apt install ~/Downloads/frostwire*.deb

Instead of typing ~/Downloads/frostwire*.deb, you can drag’n’drop the file into terminal instead to insert path to the package. Then, hit enter, type your password (no visual feedback, just type in mind) to start installing it.

3. Once installed, search for and launch the app either from start menu or GNOME overview depends on your desktop environment and enjoy! Though, on first launch, you need to follow the wizard to accept license and setup some basic settings.

How to Uninstall/Remove Frostwire

To remove the app, simply open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run command:

sudo apt remove --autoremove frostwire

That’s all. Enjoy!

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Install RSSOwl Feed Reader on Ubuntu From PPA

Last updated: April 21, 2024

RSSOwl is a reader for RSS, PDF, Atom News. Since Google Reader is no longer running, RSSOwl added the option to synchronize with Google.

UPDATE: RSSOwl discontinued since 2014!! And, this tutorial does not work anymore.

This simple and brief tutorial will show you how to install the latest RSSOwl on Ubuntu 13.04 Raring, 12.10 Quantal, 12.04 Precise from GetDeb repository.

To get started, press Ctrl+Alt+T to open terminal, then follow the below steps:

1.) Copy and paste this command and run in terminal to download getdeb package:

wget http://archive.getdeb.net/install_deb/getdeb-repository_0.1-1~getdeb1_all.deb

2.) Install the downloaded package to add the repository:

sudo dpkg -i getdeb-repository_0.1-1~getdeb1_all.deb

3.) Update:

sudo apt-get update

4.) Install the reader:

sudo apt-get install rssowl
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How to Disable Ping Response on Ubuntu Server

Last updated: April 21, 2024

This simple and brief tutorial is going to show you how to disable ping response on Ubuntu Server to make it more secure.

To get started, you need to first run command below to get the root privilege:

sudo su

Then, you can disable ping for IPv4 using the command below to set config file value to 1:

echo  1  > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_echo_ignore_all

For IPv6, you may use the command below instead:

echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv6/icmp/echo_ignore_all

Or, you can use iptables command instead to do the same job. Though, you need to replace eth0 to yours network interface name (run ip -4 address to tell).

iptables  -I  INPUT  -i  eth0  -p   icmp  -s  0/0  -d  0/0   -j  DROP

To re-enable ping response, use commands:

echo  0  > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_echo_ignore_all
echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv6/icmp/echo_ignore_all

or

iptables  -I  INPUT  -i  eth0  -p   icmp  -s  0/0  -d  0/0   -j  ACCEPT

To make it permanently, edit the “/etc/sysctl.conf” file and add the link below, so that the setting gets picked up at boot time.

net.ipv4.icmp_echo_ignore_all=1
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Install StarDict and Setup Dictionaries on Ubuntu

Last updated: April 21, 2024

This simple tutorial is going to show you how to install StarDict and set up dictionaries on Ubuntu System. It’s useful for students and others.

NOTE: StarDict does NOT launch in current Ubuntu 22.04 due to this bug. So this tutorial does no longer work until the bug is fixed!

StarDict is a free dictionary lookup program. Works on Windows, Linux and Mac, off-line or international.

Install StarDict in Ubuntu:

StarDict is available in system repositories for all current Ubuntu versions. Simply launch Ubuntu Software or App Center, then just search and install the ‘stardict’ package:

For choice, you can press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open terminal, then run the command below instead to install it:

sudo apt install stardict

Download and install dictionaries:

You can download Babylon (.bgl) dictionaries from: tuxor1337.frama.io/firedict/dictionaries.html. If instead of .bgl files you are getting .exe installers, use 7Zip to extract them.

To setup dictionaries for StarDict, extract the downloaded packages and move them into /usr/share/stardict/dic/.

Press Alt+F2, type and run gksudo nautilus to open file browser as root, then do the previous copy and paste things.

Enjoy!

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Install Google Music Manager on Ubuntu from Official Repository

Last updated: April 21, 2024

This simple tutorial will show you how to install Google Play Music Manager on Ubuntu 13.10, 13.04, 12.04 from Google official repository.

UPDATE: Google Music Manager is NO longer available due to favor of YouTube Music!!!

Press Ctrl+Alt+T to open terminal and get started with below steps:

  1. Copy and paste this command and hit run to add the Google repository: 
    sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://dl.google.com/linux/musicmanager/deb/ stable main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-musicmanager.list'
  2. Download and install the key: 
    wget -q -O - https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | sudo apt-key add -
  3. Update: 
    sudo apt-get update
  4. Finally install Google Music Manager, so far it’s still in beta: 
    sudo apt-get install google-musicmanager-beta

Enjoy!

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How to Convert PNG to JPG on Ubuntu via Command

Last updated: April 21, 2024

This simple tutorial will show you how to convert PNG to JPG in Ubuntu, so that it reduce the memory size and speed up loading image time.

1.) Install the required package by running below command in terminal:

sudo apt-get install imagemagick

2.) Then you can convert an .png image to .jpg format via below command. It takes “ubuntuhandbook.png” in the current directory and creates a JPEG image from it.

convert ubuntuhandbook.png ubuntuhandbook.jpg

You can also specify a compression level for JPEG images.

convert ubuntuhandbook.png -quality 90 ubuntuhandbook.jpg

3.) If you want to convert a batch of photo images, for example all .png files in “Pictures” folder, use try this command instead:

cd ~/Pictures && for file in *.png; do convert $file ${file%.png}.jpg; done

4.) To convert all PNG files into JPEG files with that same filename but a different suffix. However be warned that if existing file with the same name will be over-written.

mogrify -format jpg *.png
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Change Date and Time on Ubuntu 24.04 Server

Last updated: April 22, 2024

This simple tutorial is going to show Ubuntu beginners how to display and change date and time on Ubuntu Linux both Server and Desktop.

UPDATE: The commands in this tutorial are tested and also works in Ubuntu 24.04.

To display data and time, use date command:

date

Sample output:

Wed Jul 3 20:59:28 CST 2013

To display calendar, use cal command:

cal

If the command not found, run sudo apt install ncal to install it.

Sample output:

July 2013
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
1 2 3 4 5 6
7 8 9 10 11 12 13
14 15 16 17 18 19 20
21 22 23 24 25 26 27
28 29 30 31

To change date and time, use command:

sudo date -s "4 June 2020 18:00:00"

NOTE: your Ubuntu server may enabled network time synchronization. The command above will NOT work until you disable it by using command:

sudo timedatectl set-ntp no

To re-enable network time synchronization, run command:

sudo timedatectl set-ntp yes
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Install Cinelerra Video Editor on Ubuntu 24.04 | 22.04

Last updated: April 21, 2024

This tutorial shows how to install Cinelerra video editor in current Ubuntu 22.04 and Ubuntu 24.04.

Cinelerra is a free open-source video editor for Linux. It supports advanced composition operations such as keying and mattes, and many other professional functions depending on the variant.

Cinelerra has a few variants, including GG, CV, HV. The GG variant, which supports up to 8K video, and can also create DVDs and Blu-rays, is presently under active development and the only one that works in my case in current Ubuntu releases.

Download & Install Cinelerra GG

The GG edition now provides the official binary package for AppImage package.

1. Ubuntu does not support AppImage out-of-the-box since 22.04. To enable it, press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open terminal, then run command:

sudo apt install libfuse2

2. Then, select download the latest version of the AppImage from its website:

Download Cinelerra GG

Scroll down in that page and click download the latest package. At the moment of writing, it’s “CinGG-20240229-x86_64.AppImage” (for modern Intel/AMD CPUs).

3. After downloaded the package, right-click on it in file manager, then click go to its “Properties” dialog.

Next, navigate to Permissions tab and click enable “Allow executing file as program”. Finally, click Run the AppImage file to launch the video editor:

4. Create an App icon for Cinelerra.

If you want to launch the video editor from start menu or Gnome ‘Show Apps’ screen just like other normal apps. Then, click launch text editor first.

When text editor opens, create a new empty file (if it does not open a new one), then write following lines into it:

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Cinelerra GG
Comment=MultiMedia Editor
Categories=AudioVideo;AudioVideoEditing;
Encoding=UTF-8
Exec=/home/ji/Apps/CinGG-20240229-x86_64.AppImage
Icon=Cinelerra
Terminal=false
Type=Application

IMPORTANT: In the lines above, you need to replace the value for “Exec”! In my case, I moved the AppImage file into my custom “Apps” folder in user home. So, it’s “/home/username/Apps/file-name.AppImage”. You have to change it to yours!

And for icon, you need to download one from web. Either .png or .svg file. Re-name to Cinelerra.png (or Cinelerra.svg depends on image type), and put it to “.local/share/icons” directory.

When done editing the text file, click “save” (or save as), then select save the file to .local/share/applications directory, whatever name as you want with “.desktop” extension.

If everything’s done properly, you’re able to search for and launch the video editor from menu a few moments later.

Uninstall Cinelerra GG

To uninstall the video editor, just delete the .AppImage file from your file manager. Then, also remove the .desktop file from ‘.local/share/applications’ directory, as well as the icon file from ‘.local/share/icons’.

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How to Install WordPress on Ubuntu Server

Last updated: April 22, 2024


Already installed LAMP or LEMP (Nginx with PHP, Mysql) on your Ubuntu Server? This time I’m going to show you how to install WordPress CMS.

WordPress is a popular blogging tool and a content management system (CMS) based on PHP and MySQL. It’s free and open-source.

To install WordPress, first login your Ubuntu Server as root, then follow the steps below:

1.) Create Mysql Database and User for WordPress.

    • First log into Mysql as root user: 
      mysql -u root -p

Type in the root password to get past.

  • Create a database. Change database-name in code to whatever you want. 
    CREATE DATABASE database-name;
  • Create an user. Change database-user in code to whatever you want. 
    CREATE USER database-user@localhost;
  • Give a password to the user just created. Change password-here in code. 
    SET PASSWORD FOR database-user@localhost= PASSWORD("password-here");
  • Grant all privileges to the new user. 
    GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON database-name.* TO database-user@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'password-here';
  • f.) Finally, refresh Mysql: 
    FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
  • g.) Exit Mysql sell 
    exit

2.) Download WordPress and setup the configuration.

  • Download the latest wordpress: 
    wget http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz

    Then extract:

    tar -xzvf latest.tar.gz
  • Copy the sample configuration file to make a backup. 
    cd wordpress && cp wp-config-sample.php wp-config.php
  • Edit the configuration file: 
    vi wp-config.php

    Press I to start editing, Esc to stop editing. Press :, then type wq to save and exit, type q! to exit without save.

    Then change the section of database-name, database-user, password-here.

    // ** MySQL settings – You can get this info from your web host ** //
    /** The name of the database for WordPress */
    define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘database-name’);

    /** MySQL database username */
    define(‘DB_USER’, ‘database-user’);

    /** MySQL database password */
    define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘password-here’);

3.) Setup the permissions.

    • Give ownership of the directory to the apache or nginx user by running following commands one by one:
sudo rsync -avP ~/wordpress/ /var/www/
cd /var/www/
sudo chown www-data:www-data * -R 
sudo usermod -a -G www-data username

4.) Finally in your browser go to IP or domain/wp-admin/install.php and start installing.

Enjoy!

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