This brief tutorial is going to show you how to create application shortcuts on Unity Desktop in Ubuntu 13.04 Raring. You can just drag and drop icons to your desktop, but it won’t always work. Some of them have the permission issues which can be fixed by below steps:
UPDATES: For Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy, copy and paste the programs .desktop file from /usr/share/applications to user’s Desktop folder
1.) Search for applications from Unity Dash, drag and drop them onto desktop:
2.) After added all app icons to your desktop, press Ctrl+Alt+T to open a terminal.
Change the ownership of them. My username is handbook, in below command change it to yours.
This simple tutorial shows you how to enable log-in a user account without typing its password. Like Guest account, user can be login by single click.
The default ‘User Accounts’ utility can do this job, but it will set user password to none! That’s not good, you’ll need another Administrator account which has the ability to reset your password.
Here I will use the Gnome Users and Groups management tool which was default before Ubuntu goes to Unity desktop.
To install Users and Groups, open up Ubuntu Software Center, search for and install gnome-system-tools package.
Then open this tool from Unity Dash:
Highlight the user you want it don’t ask password on log in. Then click on the ‘change’ button after ‘Password: Ask on Login’.
Check the box which said “Don’t ask for password on login”
This tutorial shows you how to install the most recent Rubyripper on Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 20.04, and Linux Mint 21.
Rubyripper is a secure audiodisc ripper for Linux and macOS. It uses cdparanoia in a sophisticated way to make sure that a CD rip is done successfully and accurately. It is very similar to and inspired by EAC. Rubyripper is written in the ruby programming language.
Install RubyRipper in Ubuntu via PPA
Besides building the app from source code, there’s an Ubuntu PPA that so far contains the app packages for Ubuntu 23.10, Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 20.04, and even Ubuntu 18.04.
1. To add the PPA, press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open up a terminal window. Then run command:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:alex-p/rubyripper
Type user password (no asterisk feedback) when it asks and hit Enter to continue.
2. Then, refresh system package cache, though it should be done automatically in current Ubuntu releases.
sudo apt update
3. Finally, run command to install the app from PPA:
sudo apt install rubyripper
Once installed, search for and launch it from either start menu or overview screen depends on your desktop environment, and enjoy!
Uninstall Rubyripper
To uninstall the app package, open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run command:
This tutorial shows you how to install ClipGrab video downloader and converter on Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 24.04, and Linux Mint 20/21 via PPA.
ClipGrab is a free downloader and converter for YouTube, Vimeo, Metacafe, Dailymotion and many other online video sites. It converts downloaded videos to MPEG4, MP3 or other formats in just one easy step.
It supports HTTP and Socks5 proxy.
ClipGrab has an official PPA which is however no longer updated for very long time. For the all current Ubuntu releases on amd64(Intel/AMD) and arm64/armhf, there’s an unofficial PPA available for choice.
To install this utility, press Ctrl+Alt+T to open terminal, then follow the below steps:
1.) Run this command to add the ppa repository to your system:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:xtradeb/apps
2.) Then update the package cache by running command:
sudo apt update
3.) Finally install it via:
sudo apt install clipgrab
The ClipGrab website also provides non-install version for Linux, just download, extract and make it executable in file’s Properties, finally click to run.
NOTE: PeerGuardian is NO LONGER updated since 2016. This tutorial only works in old Ubuntu 16.04 and earlier.
In this tutorial I’ll show you how to install the PeerGuardian Linux (pgl) on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty, 12.04 Precise using ppa repository.
PeerGuardian Linux (pgl) is a privacy oriented firewall application. It blocks connections to and from hosts specified in huge blocklists (thousands or millions of IP ranges). Its origin seeds in targeting aggressive IPs while you use P2P.
PeerGuardian Linux is actively developed. However the team is very small and with few spare time. Contributors are welcome! Check out http://peerguardian.sourceforge.net.
A ppa repository has been created to make it easy to install for Ubuntu and Linux Mint users. Press Ctrl+Alt+T to open terminal, then follow the below steps:
1.) Run this command in terminal to add the ppa repository:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jre-phoenix/ppa
2.) Update the package lists to make it available:
This brief tutorial is going to show you how to install Google Talk plugin on Ubuntu 13.10, 13.04, 12.10, 12.04 from the official repository.
Update: This Tutorial is outdated, and does NOT work anymore!
Google Talk is browser plugin that allows you to make a voice and video chat with your friends via your webcam and microphone connected to the computer.
To get started, press Ctrl+Alt+T to open terminal, then follow the steps below:
1.) Run this command to add the official repository:
sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://dl.google.com/linux/talkplugin/deb/ stable main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-talkplugin.list'
pixus250, pixus255, pixus550, pixus560, pixus850, pixus860, pixus950, pixus990 series
pixusip3100, pixusip4100, pixusip8600 series
To install the drivers:
Make sure to disconnect the Canon printer from your computer first. Press Ctrl+Alt+T to open terminal, copy and paste this command and run to add the ppa:
Install Synaptic Package Manager from Ubuntu Software Center, then open it.
Then search for and install cndrvcups-common to install Common Modules, search cnijfilter and find your driver to install. Also search and install scangearmp to install ScanGear MP.
Once installed, connect your printer to the computer. Your printer will be automatically detected by Ubuntu.
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:
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:
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’.
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.
