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Kdenlive Video Editor 20.08.3 Released, How to Install via PPA

Last updated: December 12, 2020

The third and last minor release for Kdenlive video editor 20.08 was released today with many fixes and improvements.

Changes in Kdenlive 20.08.3 include:

Fix on monitor displayed fps with high fps values.
Ensure timeline ruler is correctly updated on profile switch.
When switching project profile and there is only 1 clip in timeline, update the timeline clip duration accordingly to profile change.
Project archiving: check after each file if archiving works, add option to use zip instead of tar.gz.
Fix opening project files with missing version number.
Fix duplicated audio from previous commit.
Fix playlist clips have no audio regression.
Fix keyframeable effect params left enabled when selecting a clip, leading to possible crash.
Don’t allow removing the only keyframe in an effect.
Fix crash inserting zone over grouped clips in same track.
Check ffmpeg setting points to a file, not just isn’t empty.
Qtcrop effect: make radius animated.
Render widget: avoid misuse of parallel processing.
Fix resizing clip loses focus if mouse cursor did not get outside of clip boundaries.
Fix rounding error sometimes hiding last keyframe in effectstack.

How to Install Kdenlive 20.08.3 in Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 20.10:

The kdenlive team ppa has built the latest packages for Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 20.10, Linux Mint 20.

1.) Open ‘terminal’ from your system application menu, and run command to add the PPA:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kdenlive/kdenlive-stable

Type your password when it asks (no asterisk feedback) and hit Enter to continue.

2. ) If an old version of kdenlive was installed, upgrade it via Update Manager:

Or simply run command in terminal to install the video editor:

sudo apt install kdenlive

NOTE for non-KDE users, Kdenlive will be installed along with a large list of KDE libraries.

Uninstall:

To purge the PPA as well as downgrade Kdenlive package, run command in terminal:

sudo apt install ppa-purge && sudo ppa-purge ppa:kdenlive/kdenlive-stable

To remove the PPA only, run command:

sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:kdenlive/kdenlive-stable

And to remove Kdenlive, run command:

sudo apt remove --autoremove kdenlive kdenlive-data

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Gmusicbrowser 1.1.16 Released! How to Install it in Ubuntu 20.04

Last updated: November 20, 2020

Gmusicbrowser, an open-source jukebox for large music collections, released version 1.1.16 a few days ago. Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 20.10, Linux Mint 20.

Gmusicbrowser 1.1.16 is the first release in over 5 years. And now it’s working on GTK3 port.

Changes in version 1.1.16 include:

Fix not working with perl >=5.24
Add support for .opus files
Add option to simplify tree in folder pane
Add option to ignore articles when sorting
Add has_picture and has_lyrics optional fields
Add artist_has_picture and album_has_picture virtual fields
PictureBrowser: add embedded picture mode (+ all files mode)
PictureBrowser: add “Reset view position when file changes” option
Add option to some fields to show a “find songs with same …” menu item
Add support for mp2 extension and change mp3 filetype
Update AppStream metadata
Update picture sources for picture finder plugin
Add musixmatch.com for lyrics plugin
Various bug-fixes and translation updates

How to Install gmusicbrowser 1.1.16 in Ubuntu:

The software offers official .deb binary package available to download at the link below:

gmusicbrowser-1.1.16_all.deb

Just grab the package and click install either via Gdebi package installer or “Software Install” context menu.

Install gmusicbrower via its official apt repository.

The software has an official apt repository for Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint based systems. You can add the repository then install the software and receive future package updates via Software Updater utility.

1. Add gmusicbrowser apt repository:

Run command in terminal to add its official repository:

sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://gmusicbrowser.org/deb ./" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/gmusicbrowser.list'

Type user password (no asterisk feedback) when it asks for sudo prompt and hit Enter.

Then download & install the key via command:

wget http://gmusicbrowser.org/squentin.key.asc -O - | sudo apt-key add -

2. Refresh package cache & install the software:

Run command in terminal to update your system package cache:

sudo apt update

And finally install it via command:

sudo apt install gmusicbrowser

Uninstall gmusicbrowser:

To remove the music collections manager, simply open terminal and run command:

sudo apt remove --autoremove gmusicbrowser

To remove its apt repository, open Software & Updates -> Other Software tab and remove the repository line.

In Howtos, News gmusicbrowser

Opera Adds Built-in Player for Spotify, Apple Music & YouTube Music

Last updated: November 19, 2020

opera web browser

A new update for Opera web browser 72 was released a day ago, which introduced a built-in music player for Spotify, Apple Music, and YouTube Music.

In the browser’s sidebar beneath the messengers section, a “Player” icon is there allows you to login and enable music playback with Spotify, Apple Music and YouTube Music.

The playback can be controlled via the standard playback buttons on your keyboard or by hovering over the Player icon in the sidebar, where a mini playback control menu will appear.

And the Player pauses whenever you start streaming a video or an audio file in a tab, and automatically resumes music playback once it’s over.

How to install the latest Opera 72 in Ubuntu:

The official Ubuntu binary package is available for downloading at the link below:

Download Opera for Linux

Grab the .deb package, and double-click to install it.

You may also add the official apt repository via following steps to receive future software updates.

1. Open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run command to add the opera repository:

sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://deb.opera.com/opera-stable/ stable non-free" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/opera.list'

2. Get the key:

wget -O - http://deb.opera.com/archive.key | sudo apt-key add -

Finally either install Opera via following command or upgrade the browser via Software Updater:

sudo apt update

sudo apt install opera-stable

Uninstall:

For the Opera apt repository, launch Software & Updates and navigate to Other Software tab, then remove the relevant line.

To remove the opera package, either use your system package manager or run command in terminal:

sudo apt remove --autoremove opera-stable

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Firefox 83 Released with JavaScript Engine Updates, Https-Only Mode

Last updated: November 18, 2020

Mozilla Firefox 83.0 was released a day ago with significant updates to its JavaScript Engine, SpiderMonkey. It improved page load performance by up to 15%, page responsiveness by up to 12%, and reduced memory usage by up to 8%.

Firefox 83.0 release highlights:

Https-only mode.
Pinch zooming support for Windows touchscreen devices and touchpads on Mac devices.
Picture-in-Picture supports keyboard shortcuts for fast forwarding and rewinding videos
Improved user interface for screen sharing.
Improved search functionality.
Support AcroForm, allows to fill in, print, and save supported PDF forms.
Pocket recommendations for users in India with English version.
Various accessibility and security fixes

How to Install Firefox 83 in Ubuntu:

The new release package has been made into security & updates repositories for Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 20.10.

Simply open Software Updater utility and install the package update after checking for updates:

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BleachBit 4.1.1 Released with Cleaning Slack Support

Last updated: November 16, 2020

BleachBit 4.1.1 was released a day ago as the new Beta release for the next major 4.2.0 release.

Compare to the previous beta, BleachBit 4.1.1 brings support for cleaning Slack (messenger), and Chromium installed via Snap package.

BleachBit 4.1.1 changes since the latest stable release:

Clean Slack (messenger).
Clean Pale Moon.
Clean Zoom.
Fix bug that not cleaning Chromium browser installed as Snap.
Fix bug that not deleting whole Firefox URL History.
Fix that cleaning LibreOffice erase all its extensions.

How to Get BleachBit 4.1.1:

The deb packages for Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 20.04, as well as packages for Debian, CentOS, Fedora, Windows, and source code are available to download at the link below:

Download BleachBit

There will soon be a package for Ubuntu 20.10 Groovy Gorilla. Until then, use the 20.04 deb package.

Grab the .deb package for your Ubuntu edition, open & install file with either ‘Software Install’ or ‘Gdebi package installer’ if installed.

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OpenRazer 2.9 Released with New Razer Peripherals Support [PPA]

Last updated: November 11, 2020

OpenRazer, open-source driver and user-space daemon to manage Razer peripherals on Linux, released version 2.9.0 a few days ago with new Razer devices support, improvements, and bug-fixes.

OpenRazer 2.9.0 added support for following new devices:

Razer Atheris
Razer Basilisk X HyperSpeed
Razer Blade 15 Advanced (2020)
Razer Blade 15 Base (Early 2020)
Razer Blade Stealth (Early 2020)
Razer Cynosa Lite
Razer Cynosa V2
Razer DeathAdder 2000
Razer Kraken Kitty Edition
Razer Kraken Ultimate
Razer Viper Miniv

The new release also adds read support for idle_time and low_battery_threshold, ability to configure the battery notification frequency, screensaver monitor support on Xfce, improved fake driver support, and more.

Polychromatic – OpenRazer GUI

How to Install OpenRazer 2.9.0 in Ubuntu:

The software has an official PPA so far contains the latest packages for Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 20.10.

1. Open terminal either via Ctrl+Alt+T keyboard shortcut or by searching for ‘terminal’ from app launcher. When it opens, run command:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:openrazer/stable

Type user password (no asterisk feedback) when it prompts and hit Enter to continue.

2. (Optional) Also add Polychromatic PPA, if you fancy a graphical front-end, by running command:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:polychromatic/stable

3. Finally refresh your system package cache and install the drivers and GUI tool via commands:

sudo apt update

sudo apt install openrazer-meta polychromatic

Once installed, open polychromatic from your system application launcher and enjoy!

Uninstall:

To remove the drivers as well as the configuration tool, run command:

sudo apt remove --auto-remove openrazer-meta polychromatic

And open Software & Updates, navigate to Other Software tab to remove the PPAs.

In Howtos, News Razer Drivers for Ubuntu

RSS Guard Feed Reader 3.8.0 Released with Labels Support

Last updated: November 10, 2020

RSS Guard feed reader 3.8.0 was released today. The new release adds supporting for labels and basic CLI interface.

RSS Guard is simple, light and easy-to-use RSS/ATOM feed aggregator based on Qt. It support online feed synchronization with:

Tiny Tiny RSS,
Inoreader,
Nextcloud News,
Gmail API.

RSS Guard 3.8.0 was released with following changes:

Add support for labels:
- Labels are even synchronizable for Inoreader and TT-RSS
- Each message can have assigned multiple labels
- Feed’s view now offers “Labels” folder with handy per-label filtering
- Labels assigned in message are now even available in message filtering
- You can assign arbitrary color to each of your labels
New bundled icon theme – Numix (Windows only)
Numix is now default icon theme
Use mini.css instead of Bootstrap as built-in web-base message viewer
Message body now has “auto” reading direction
JSON feeds are now supported
Added basic CLI interface

Install RSS Guard in Ubuntu:

There’s no deb packages for the feed reader so far. It however offers official .Appimage for 64-bit Linux.

1. Download the .Appimage package from the github releases page.

RSS Guard Releases

2. Right click on the file, and go to its Properties dialog. Under ‘Permissions’ tab, tick the box which says “Allow executing file as program”.

3. Finally, right-click on the Appimage file and select “Run” to launch the application.

The feed reader is also available as Flatpak package, though it’s not been updated to v3.8.0 at the moment.

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LiVES Video Editor 3.2.0 Released with Tons of New Features [PPA]

Last updated: November 10, 2020

LiVES, a free and open-source video editor and VJ tool, released new major version 3.2.0 with new features, performance and resource usage improvements, and tons of other changes.

Changes LiVES 3.2.0 include:

Initial startup has been rewritten.
Updated GTK+ support to 3.24.
A total rewrite of buttons, a new font chooser.
Specify configuration directory from commandline.
Implemented a thread pool with generic worker threads.
Introduced the idea of lives_proc_threads.
optimised memory handling in some specific cases.
Disk space quota can be set for the application.
Implemented auto gamma correction.
Implemented threading for swscale.
Added a predictive caching mechanism to the player.
Fixed several screen / window sizing issues.
The renderer now uses a separate thread for saving frames to disk, making rendering much faster.
New intelligent “auto-layout” mode to improve the appearance of all parameter windows.
Visual tweaks for Preferences window.
Fixed mkv_decoder so it can decode webm clips.
ctrl-alt-space now performs loop locking in clip editor (trickplay).
Add keys a / A (audio track lock / unlock) for clip editor playback.
Added two more keyboard effect keys (ctrl-minus and ctrl-equals).
Audio can now be normalised after rendering.
Added “audio bleedthru” mode in multitrack.
Individual clip volume levels can now be adjusted during playback (temporary) and non-playback (permanent).
Added a new “normalize audio” function.
Add more preferences to the prefs window.
Frame number now defaults to pointer position when opening the seperate window.
Seperate window in multitrack can now appear undecorated.
Improved appearance for ‘fireTV’ effect.
Add menu options jump to next mark / jump to previous mark in multitrack.

How to Install LiVES 3.2.0 in Ubuntu:

For the source code go to:

github.com/salsaman/LiVES/releases

The unofficial PPA contains the packages for Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 20.04, Linux Mint 20.

1. Open terminal either via Ctrl+Alt+T keyboard shortcut or from application menu. When it opens, run command to add the unofficial PPA:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntuhandbook1/lives

Type user password (no visual feedback while typing due to security reason) when it asks and hit Enter.

2. Then upgrade the software from an existing release via Software Updater:

or simply run commands in terminal to install or upgrade LiVES:

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install lives lives-plugins

Uninstall:

To remove the software, simply run commands:

sudo apt-get remove --autoremove lives lives-plugins

The PPA can be removed via Software & Updates utility under Other Software tab.

In Howtos, News LiVES

FlightGear 2020.3 Released with New Default Keflavík (BIKF) Airport [Ubuntu PPA]

Last updated: November 8, 2020

After 2 years of development, Flightgear 2020.3 was released as the latest stable version of the flight simulator. Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 20.10, and derivatives.

FlightGear 2020.3 release highlights:

New default Keflavík International Airport (BIKF)
Aircraft updates:
- The A320 has been overhauled
- The C182 gained an excellent integration of the FG1000 glass-cockpit, as did the J3 Cub and the Diamond DA40.
- The SEPCAT Jaguar GR.1, Bombardier Q400 and twenty more aircraft were added.
FlightGear now simulates tides covering and uncovering shallow areas (littoral areas), like tidal flats (mudflats).
Textures can be cached & compressed for faster loading and reduced memory use, giving better performance.
Connection to the VATSIM network via SWIFT is officially supported.
Better translation support, and handling of non-ASCII file names.
Many view improvements, including a new Tower-AGL view.

1.) To install the flight simulator, first open terminal either from system application menu or by pressing Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard.

When terminal opens, run command to add the PPA repository:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:saiarcot895/flightgear

Type user password (no asterisk feedback) when it prompts and hit Enter to continue.

2.) Then refresh system package cache and install the software via command:

sudo apt update

sudo apt install flightgear

If an old version was installed, you can also upgrade it via Software Updater utility.

Uninstall:

To remove FlightGear PPA, either go to Software & Updates > Other Software, or run command:

sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:saiarcot895/flightgear

And remove the flight simulator if you want by running command:

sudo apt remove --autoremove flightgear flightgear-data

In Howtos, News flightgear

How to Install GIMP 2.99.10 (Dev for GIMP 3.0) in Ubuntu 20.04

Last updated: April 24, 2024

This tutorial shows how to install the latest Beta release of GIMP 3.0, so far GIMP 2.99.10, in Ubuntu 20.04 using the official flatpak package.

What’s New in GIMP 2.99.10 compare to current stable:

GTK+3 user interface
Native Wayland and HiDPI support.
Major refactoring and cleanup
New plug-in API
Plugins now possible with Python 3, JavaScript, Lua, and Vala
More (color) space invasion
Render caching available for better performance
Clone-type tools on multiple layers
JPEG-XL file format support.
Pinch gesture on canvas for zooming
New Paint Select tool in the playground
New generic dialog generation and metadata support API for export plug-ins
Multi-threaded JPEG2000 decoding

GIMP 2.99.10 is available to install via Flatpak package in the “beta” branch of the official Flathub repository. You can open terminal and run following commands one by one to install it in Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 20.04, and Ubuntu 21.10.

1. Install Flatpak framework if you don’t have it (For Ubuntu 18.04 and even 16.04, add this PPA first).

sudo apt install flatpak

2. Add the flathub beta channel via command:

flatpak remote-add --user flathub-beta https://flathub.org/beta-repo/flathub-beta.flatpakrepo

3. Finally install GIMP 2.99.x via command (for single user only):

flatpak install --user flathub-beta org.gimp.GIMP

Once installed, launch it from ‘Show Applications’ menu and enjoy! In the case, I have GIMP 2.10 (via deb) and GIMP 2.99.x (via flatpak).

NOTE: If you installed both GIMP flatpak stable and beta packages, only one will be visible in app launcher. To make beta version visible, run command:

flatpak make-current --user org.gimp.GIMP beta

And to make stable version visible, replace beta in the command with stable.

Uninstall GIMP 2.99.x:

To remove the package, simply run command:

flatpak --user uninstall org.gimp.GIMP

In Howtos, News GIMP 3.0

Archives For November 30, 1999

How to Install Kdenlive 20.08.3 in Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 20.10:

Uninstall:

How to Install gmusicbrowser 1.1.16 in Ubuntu:

Install gmusicbrower via its official apt repository.

Uninstall gmusicbrowser:

How to install the latest Opera 72 in Ubuntu:

Uninstall:

How to Install Firefox 83 in Ubuntu:

How to Get BleachBit 4.1.1:

How to Install OpenRazer 2.9.0 in Ubuntu:

Uninstall:

Install RSS Guard in Ubuntu:

How to Install LiVES 3.2.0 in Ubuntu:

Uninstall:

Uninstall GIMP 2.99.x:

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