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Ubuntu 14.10 And Its Flavors Officially Released

Last updated: October 24, 2014

Ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn

Ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn and its flavors including the newest Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu Gnome, Xubuntu, Ubuntu Kylin, and Ubuntu Studio were officially released today.

According to the release note, there have been updates to many core packages, including a new 3.16-based kernel, a new AppArmor with fine-grained socket control, and more.

Ubuntu Desktop has seen incremental improvements, with newer versions of GTK and Qt, updates to major packages like Firefox and LibreOffice, and improvements to Unity, including improved High-DPI display support.

Ubuntu Server 14.10 includes the Juno release of OpenStack, alongside deployment and management tools that save devops teams time when deploying distributed applications – whether on private clouds, public clouds, x86 or ARM servers, or on developer laptops. Several key server technologies, from MAAS to Ceph, have been updated to new upstream versions with a variety of new features.

Kubuntu 14.10:

Kubuntu 14.10 comes in two flavours, the stable Plasma 4 running the desktop we know from previous releases, and a tech preview of the next generation Plasma 5 for early adopters.

See: www.kubuntu.org/news/kubuntu-14.10.

Lubuntu 14.10:

Lubuntu 14.10 mainly features:

  • General bug fix release as we prepare for LXQt.
  • Many LXDE components have been updated with bug fix releases.
  • An update of the artwork (more icons, theme update, more compatibilities …).

See: wiki.ubuntu.com/UtopicUnicorn/ReleaseNotes/Lubuntu

Xubuntu 14.10:

Xubuntu 14.10 features new Xfce Power Manager plugin in panel and ittems in the newly themed alt-tab dialog can now be clicked with the mouse.

See: wiki.ubuntu.com/UtopicUnicorn/ReleaseNotes/Xubuntu.

Other Flavors:

Ubuntu Gnome 14.10: wiki.ubuntu.com/UtopicUnicorn/ReleaseNotes/UbuntuGNOME

UbuntuKylin 14.10: wiki.ubuntu.com/UtopicUnicorn/ReleaseNotes/UbuntuKylin

UbuntuStudio 14.10: wiki.ubuntu.com/UtopicUnicorn/ReleaseNotes/UbuntuStudio

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Emacs 24.4 Released, How to Install it in Ubuntu 14.04

Last updated: December 27, 2021

Emacs 24.4 in Ubuntu 14.04

NOTE: This post is outdated. Please read this new tutorial about compiling GNU Emacs from the source.

GNU Emacs has finally reached version 24.4 with many new features and improvements. The most notable is that the text editor brings a built-in web browser.

GNU Emacs is the most popular and most ported Emacs text editor, and it was created by Richard Stallman for the GNU Project.

The latest release Emacs 24.4 was released a few hours ago. The new release features:

  • A built-in web browser (M-x eww)
  • Improved multi-monitor and fullscreen support
  • “Electric” indentation is enabled by default
  • Support for saving and restoring the state of frames and windows
  • Emacs Lisp packages can now be digitally signed
  • A new “advice” mechanism for Emacs Lisp
  • File notification support
  • Pixel-based resizing for frames and windows
  • Support for menus in text terminals
  • A new rectangular mark mode (C-x SPC)

Emacs 24.4 in Ubuntu 14.04

How to Install Emacs 24.4 in Ubuntu:

At the moment of writing this tutorial, there’s no PPA repository that contains Emacs 24.4. Fortunately, it’s not hard to build it from the source tarball. I’ve done it successfully in 64-bit Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. Below steps will show you how:

1. If have the old Emacs 24.3 installed, you may first remove it from Ubuntu Software Center so that you can install the new version over it.

2. Press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open terminal, or open it from the Unity Dash.

Open Terminal to run commands

3. Run command below to install the build-essential:

sudo apt-get install build-essential

4. Install the required dependencies:

sudo apt-get build-dep emacs

While the installing process, you’ll be asked to configure the Postfix.

5. Now download Emacs 24.4 from its official FTP download page.

Emacs FTP download Page

6. Extract the source and go into the result folder in terminal:

cd ~/Downloads && tar -xf emacs-24.4.tar.* && cd emacs-24.4

7. Finally compile the package by running commands below one by one. 

./configure

make

sudo make install

Once done, you should be able to launch Emacs by running emacs or emacs-24.4 in terminal and lock the shortcut to the Unity Launcher.

To create a launcher for Emacs 24.4. Thanks to Emad Khoury, run command to create a .desktop file and edit it with Gedit text editor:

sudo gedit /usr/share/applications/Emacs-24.desktop

When the file opens, paste below into it and save the file.

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Name=Emacs-24
Exec=env UBUNTU_MENUPROXY=0 /usr/local/bin/emacs
Terminal=false
Icon=emacs
Type=Application
Categories=IDE
X-Ayatana-Desktop-Shortcuts=NewWindow
[NewWindow Shortcut Group]
Name=New Window
TargetEnvironment=Unity

Depends on where you install Emacs 24, you may replace the value of Exec and Icon to the path to executable and shortcut icon file.

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Audacious 3.5.2 Released, Install it in Ubuntu 14.04/14.10

Last updated: October 20, 2014

Audacious Audio Player

Audacious, the default audio player in Lubuntu, has just reached version 3.5.2 with updated translations and a few bug fixes.

Audacious is a free and open source audio player with a focus on low resource usage, high audio quality, and support for a wide range of audio formats. It contains built-in gapless playback and supports plugins and Winamp 2 skins.

Audacious GTK interface

Audacious GTK interface

Audacious Winamp Skin

Audacious Winamp Skin

Audacious 3.5.2 is the final release in 3.5 series. The developers are now working hard on Audacious 3.6. Bug fixes in v3.5.2:

  • Problem with single instance in Windows #457
  • build fails if faad headers are missing #458
  • When adding a SID file with multiple subtunes to playlist, only the first subtune is added. #462

Install / Upgrade Audacious in (L)Ubuntu:

Thanks to Web Upd8 Team, the binary packages have been made into PPA, available for Ubuntu 14.10, Ubuntu 14.04 and their derivatives.

To add the PPA and install Audacious, press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open the terminal. When it opens, run commands below one by one:

sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install audacious audacious-plugins

Install Audacious in Ubuntu From PPA

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Free Planetarium App Stellarium 0.13.1 Released [Ubuntu PPA]

Last updated: October 19, 2014

stellarium planetarium

Stellarium, a free and open source planetarium software, has recently reached version 0.13.1 with new features and a few bug fixes.

Stellarium is a free and open source planetarium software available in Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X. It uses OpenGL to render a realistic projection of the night sky in real time.

stellarium-ubuntu

The latest Stellarium 0.13.1 was released just hours ago. The new release added:

  • Light layer for old_style landscapes
  • Auto-detect location via network lookup.
  • Seasonal rules for displaying constellations
  • Coordinates can be displayed as decimal degrees
  • Support of multi-touch gestures on Windows 8
  • FOV on bottom bar can be displayed in DMS rather than fractional degrees
  • Oculars plugins support eyepieces with permanent crosshairs
  • Pointer Coordinates Plugin can displayed not only RA/Dec (J2000.0)
  • Angle Measure Plugin can measure positional angles to the horizon now
  • Search tool can search position not only for RA/Dec (J2000.0)

And fixed:

  • Galactic plane renamed to correct: Galactic equator
  • Speed issues when computing lots of comets
  • Spherical mirror distortion work correctly now
  • Location coordinates on the bottom bar displayed correctly now
  • Ecliptic coordinates for J2000.0 and grids diplayed correctly now
  • Rule for select a celestial objects
  • Loading extra star catalogs
  • Creates spurious directory on startup
  • Various GUI/rendering improvements
  • “missing disk in drive “

Install / Upgrade Stellarium in Ubuntu:

The latest binaries have been made into its official PPA, available for Ubuntu 14.10, Ubuntu 14.04, Linux Mint 17.

Press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, run commands below one by one to add the PPA and install the app:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:stellarium/stellarium-releases

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install stellarium

Install Stellarium in Ubuntu from PPA

Once installed, open the software from the Unity Dash and you can receive future updates by running regular updates via Software Updater.

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How to Install Minecraft in Ubuntu 14.10

Last updated: October 18, 2014

minecraft ubuntu 14.10

Installing Minecraft in Ubuntu is quite easy. All we need to do is install Java, download and run the .jar executable from its official website.

1.) To get better game experience, you may first install graphics driver for your video card:

  • For Intel graphics, you’re good to go with the default open-source driver.
  • For NVIDIA or AMD graphics, it’s better to use a proprietary video driver. Open Additional Drivers utility from the Unity Dash, select the NVIDIA or AMD driver from the list and install it.

2.) For Java, you can either install OpenJDK Java 7 from Ubuntu Software Center or install Oracle Java from PPA.

To install OpenJDK Java 7, click the button below to bring up Ubuntu Software Center and click the install button.

Click to Install OpenJDK 7

To install Oracle Java, see this post or just run commands below one by one in terminal:

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:webupd8team/java

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install oracle-java8-installer

3.) Once Java Runtime is installed, download the Minecraft.jar file from:

Minecraft Download Page

4.) Make the Minecraft.jar file executable.

To do so, right-click on the file in Nautilus browser and go to its Properties windows -> Permissions tab and finally check the box where it says “Allow executing file as program”.

Make Minecraft.jar executable

5.) Finally start the Minecraft Launcher:

MineCraft Launcher

When the launcher opens, log-in with your account and click the Play button. After downloading required packages, you’re finally able to play the game:

Minecraft in Ubuntu 14.10

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