9:08 AM
The third major release of "the best free office suite ever" LibreOffice 3.5.0 now can be installed easily on Ubuntu via PPA. So, what's new in this release? Here are some of them.
LibreOffice Writer
- a new built-in Grammar checker for English and several other languages
- improved typographical features, for professional looking documents
- an interactive word count window, which updates in real time
- a new header, footer and page break user interface
LibreOffice Calc:- support for up to 10,000 sheets
- a new multi-line input area
- new Calc functions conforming to the ODF OpenFormula specifications
- better performances when importing files from other office suites
- multiple selections in autofilter
- unlimited number of rules for conditional formatting
For further information about LibreOffice 3.5.0, please visit
this page or you can download an infographic contains the new features and improvements
here.
Install LibreOffice 3.5.0 on Ubuntu via PPAUbuntu users can install LibreOffice 3.5.0 by typing this command:
- sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice/ppa
- sudo apt-get update
- sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Please make sure you have removed OpenOffice (if any) to avoid any conflict.
- sudo apt-get purge openoffice*
Desktop integrationIf you want seamless integration for GNOME and KDE, you might want to install this package:
For GNOME- sudo apt-get install libreoffice-gnome
For KDE- sudo apt-get install libreoffice-kde
via:
WebUpd8
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9:05 PM
Have you ever upgraded an application via PPA that makes trouble? For example, upgrading Firefox that causes add-ons incompatibility and you want to have your "old" version back? If so, you are in the right place. Today, I'd like to write a post intended for newbie in Linux on how to use PPA Purge. What is PPA Purge? It's an application which lets you to downgrade your installed application to its "original" version from Ubuntu repository. It is like a first-aid-kit when you are going mad encountering many problems after upgrading application from PPA Launchpad.
Installing on UbuntuPPA Purge is available in official Ubuntu repository, so you can install it by typing the following command:
- sudo apt-get install ppa-purge
How To Use PPA PurgeFor example, you've upgraded Mozilla Thunderbird from PPA with this command:
- sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mozillateam/thunderbird-next
To downgrade Mozilla Thunderbird from the above PPA, you should run this command:
- sudo ppa-purge ppa:mozillateam/thunderbird-next
PPA Purge will automatically remove Mozilla Thunderbird which is installed from PPA and then install the "original" version of Mozilla Thunderbird from Ubuntu repository.
"Unfortunately, I forget what PPA I've used to install the app?" Well, you should make use of "history" command on Terminal combined with "grep" function. Here's the example:
- history | grep add-apt-repository
The output of the above command is shown below
Now you have a comprehensive list of "add-apt-repository" commands you've typed on Terminal. They can help you to remember what PPA you've used to install certain application.
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7:55 AM
As we all know, Sun Java 6 are being removed from Ubuntu for the following reasons:
- As of August 24th 2011, Canonical no longer have permission to redistribute new Java packages as Oracle has retired the “Operating System Distributor License for Java”.
- Oracle has published an advisory about security issues in the version of Java currently in the partner archive. Some of these issues are currently being exploited in the wild.
- Due to the severity of the security risk, Canonical released a security update for the Sun JDK browser plugin which disables the plugin on all machines.
- In the near future, Canonical will remove all Sun JDK packages from the Partner archive. This will be accomplished by pushing empty packages to the archive, so that the Sun JDK will be removed from all users machines when they do a software update. Users of these packages who have not migrated to an alternative solution will experience failures after the package updates have removed Oracle Java from the system.
Install Sun Java 6 on Ubuntu via PPAOf course, this news brings some panic to many Ubuntu users, but don't worry! You can still install Sun Java 6 via PPA:
- sudo apt-add-repository ppa:flexiondotorg/java
- sudo apt-get update
- sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre sun-java6-plugin
The above PPA contains Sun Java 6 package for Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx to Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin!
Install Cinnamon on Ubuntu via PPAThere is also another news about Cinnamon, it can be installed on Ubuntu via PPA with some addition "Cinnamon Settings" for easy Cinnamon configuration.
By installing via PPA, you can have the latest release of Cinnamon while updating your system.
- sudo add-apt-repository ppa:merlwiz79/cinnamon-ppa
- sudo apt-get update
- sudo apt-get install cinnamon cinnamon-session cinnamon-settings
The above PPA can only work with Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot and upcoming Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin.
via:
Ubuntugeek and
WebUpd8
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8:21 AM
Ubuntu Tweak 0.6 (Stable) has been released with a brand new interface and features. It comes with many old features too, but the application and source center is removed because they cause many problems to the system. Here’s the noteworthy highlights of Ubuntu Tweak 0.6.0:
- Brand new UI and interaction focus on better looking and easy to use
- Supports the latest Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot and well integrated with system
- Every part of Ubuntu Tweak is plug-able, this make Ubuntu Tweak more powerful then ever before
- Janitor keeps your system clean
- Overview makes you know your system better
As Ubuntu Tweak 0.6 supports the latest Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot, it can tweak many GNOME 3 and Unity settings such as changing visual style, icon, cursor, and windows theme. It can also tweak the behavior of Unity such as launcher icon size, launcher opacity, etc.
And the killer feature of Ubuntu Tweak 0.6 is so-called Janitor with a more easy to use interface and powerful clean feature than the old one. Janitor will scan the cruft, after you double check the items you don’t need, select and click the “Clean”. Everything will get out of your system.
Install Ubuntu Tweak 0.6 on Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot
The new Ubuntu Tweak 0.6 can only be installed on the latest Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot. Please enter the following command on Terminal to install it:
- sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tualatrix/ppa
- sudo apt-get update
- sudo apt-get install ubuntu-tweak
If you don't want to add such a PPA repository, you can download it manually from
Launchpad.
Let's rock with Ubuntu.
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8:53 PM
Mozilla Firefox 9 has been released and now available on PPA Launchpad. The key feature of this release is Type Inference that significantly improving JavaScript performance. There are also many improvements and bugs fixing:
- Improved theme integration for Mac OS X Lion
- Added two finger swipe navigation for Mac OS X Lion
- Added support for querying Do Not Track status via JavaScript
- Added support for font-stretch
- Improved support for text-overflow
- Improved standards support for HTML5, MathML, and CSS
- Fixed several stability issues
- Fixed several security issues
For further information about this release, please read the complete list of changes
here.
Mozilla Firefox 9 should be available as a security update via official repository of Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal and Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot, but if you do not want to wait for it, you can install it via PPA:
- sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-mozilla-security/ppa
- sudo apt-get update
- sudo apt-get install firefox
Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx and Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat users can install Mozilla Firefox 9 by typing the following command:
- sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mozillateam/firefox-stable
- sudo apt-get update
- sudo apt-get install firefox
If you're using Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin or another Linux distributions, you can the latest version of Firefox
here.
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11:35 AM
Blender 2.61 has been release with 180 bugs fixed since it last release, it's available in ppa:cheleb/blender-svn and ready install it through them. this version is available for Ubuntu 11.04 (Lucid) until Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise), here to install Blender 2.61 via PPA, as follows :
- sudo add-apt-repository ppa:cheleb/blender-svn
- sudo apt-get update
- sudo apt-get install blender
Blender 2.61 test Cycle and Fluids (taken from here) What's New Blender 2.61Most notable features in this release is the new render engine Cycles, the Camera Tracker, Ocean Simulation texture and Dynamic Paint. Check following links for the full changelog. - Cycles Render Engine
- Motion Tracking
- Dynamic Paint
- Ocean Simulation
- New Add-on, read here
- More Features, read rest of the news here
to see more images which created by Blender 2.61, visit this gallery.
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7:35 AM
ProZilla is ncurses based download accelerator that supports parallel downloads, HTTP and FTP downloads with FTP search feature. FTP search means ProZilla can search fastest FTP mirror for faster download speed. Because it based on ncurses, ProZilla is lightweight download accelerator too.
Installation:Ubuntu Lucid, Maverick, Natty and Oneiric can install ProZilla download accelerator by simply typing the following command:
- sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tldm217/tahutek.net
- sudo apt-get update
- sudo apt-get install prozilla
Usage instruction:General usage
Resume download
Limit download speed (at 20000 bps)
- proz --max-bps=20000 download_link
Do FTP search
More download options
Happy downloading :)
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8:41 AM
Obnam is simply backup application that closed to rsync which can Backups data then store into local hard disks or online storage through the SSH SFTP protocol, Obnam make simple procedure backup and didn't need any supporting application unless SSH. Till now Obnam have come to version 0.23 and ready to install in Ubuntu via PPA, even though we call `functionality is does not replace Deja-dup`, Obnam is such interesting application to Developer for trying.
Obnam 0.23 Backup features
here'resome features that will you get in Obnam :
- Snapshot backups. Obnam is complated with snapshot features, you don't need to worry about full versus incremental backups, or rotate real or virtual tapes.
- Data de-duplication, across files, and backup generations. If the backup repository already contains a particular chunk of data, it will be re-used, even if it was in another file in an older backup generation. This way, you don't need to worry about moving around large files, or modifying them.
- Safe and secure backup using GnuPG.
- Push or pull operation, depending on what you need. You can run Obnam on the client, and push backups to the server, or on the server, and pull from the client over SFTP (just like Rsync).
And in this released (Obnam 0.23) there are some visible changes are :
- restore now complate with progress bar.
- fsck now has more useful progress reporting, and does more checking, including the integrity of the contents of file content.
- fsck now also checks the integrity of the B-trees in the repository, so that it is not necessary to run fsck-larch manually anymore. This works remotely as well, whereas fsck-larch only worked on B-trees on the local filesystem.
- force-lock now gives a warning if the client does not exist in the repository.
- Subcommands for encryption now give a warning if encryption key is not given.
- The --fsck-fix option will now instruct obnam backup fsck to try to fix problems found. For this release, it only means fixing B-tree missing node problems, but more will follow.
- SFTP protocol use has been optimized, which should result in some more speed. This also highlights the need to change obnam backup so it can do uploads in the background.
Install Obnam Backup Application in UbuntuIf you ubuntu user, you can install Obnam Backup through 2 ways, you can install it via PPA other ways you can Download and install Obnam through direct download.
Add following Repository to Install Obnam via PPA (thanks to Chris Cormack by providing this PPA)
- deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/chris-bigballofwax/obnam-ppa/ubuntu natty main
- deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/chris-bigballofwax/obnam-ppa/ubuntu natty main
Check following page to download/instal obnam directly from source
- http://code.liw.fi/debian/pool/main/o/obnam/
Interested to try it ?, find some valuable information about Obnam through following
page.
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10:20 AM
Finally GIMP 2.7.3 (unstable) has been released and ready to test, the most visible changes in this release are full single-window mode just like Photoshop which run on Windows, other enhancements contained on GIMP 2.7.3 are :
- Support Layer Groups
- Program administration
- Enhancements in order to ‘on canvas’ textual content modifying
- Addition of a ‘Lock Content’ switch in order to Levels,Channels and Path dialogs.
- ‘Rule of fifths’ crop guide overlay.
Install GIMP 2.7.3 in Ubuntu via PPATo Install Ubuntu 9.10 as well as Ubuntu 11.04 via PPA, you can include this ’ppa:matthaeus123/mrw-gimp-svn’ to your Repository. This particular PPA isn't officially provide by GIMP. So, you should be thought about unstable.
To install GIMP 2.7.3 open a terminal window (press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy+paste the following line: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:matthaeus123/mrw-gimp-svn
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gimp
If you have GIMP Installed in your ubuntu before, just add the PPA and upgrade GIMP using the Ubuntu Software Center or the Update Manager.
Download GIMP 2.7.3 via FTP
You can also download GIMP 2.7.3 directly via GIMP FTP bellow :- Download GIMP 2.7.3, here.
- Download GIMP 2.7.3 release notes, here
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5:14 PM
Finally Mozilla Firefox team has Officially release Firefox 6 Final trough this announcement and has been putted in mozillateam PPA, for those ubuntu user who have not tried yet, can Install/Upgrade to Firefox 6 through this way.  |
| Mozilla Firefox 6 Final |
Upgrade / Install Firefox 6 via PPA
Follow this step to upgrade/install Mozilla Firefox 6 Final to ubuntu :
- sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mozillateam/firefox-stable
- sudo apt-get update
- sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Mozilla Firefox 6 final also available for download via Mozilla Firefox FTP, which usually released ahead it's official release.Now Firefox 6 Final has available in ubuntu 11.04 default repository, go to terminal then type apt-get upgrade firefox. (you do not need to use PPA repository to install/upgrade Firefox 6 in ubuntu).
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12:33 PM
This articel is tell us how to make iOS4 (ipod/iphone operating system) work with Ubuntu through the Rhythmbox, This how to has been tested using a ipod touch 3rd gen running iOS 4.0 Dont be put off by the size of the how to. It may seem long because I have outlined every step to make it as easy for everyone as possible. Mention some notes bellow before you do the action.
Note :
- Make sure you are connected to the internet
- Don't have any ipods/iphones connected while doing this how to.
- Best to bookmark this page as you will need to restart your computer during the how to.
Here are step by step how to make your ipod and Iphone works with Ubuntu
- Open up the Synaptic Package Manager (System > Administration > Synaptic Package Manager)
- Go to the Repositories (Under Settings)
- Add this source - ppa:pmcenery/ppa
- Click Close and then click the 'Reload' button at the top left of the Synaptic Package Manager
- After it's finished reloading search for - libimobiledevice1
- You will see two package in the list, install both of them
- Now click the 'mark all upgrades' button and click 'mark' when the popup appears then click the 'Apply' button of the Synaptic Package Manager. Here some library need to upgrade : gvfs, gvfs-backends, gvfs-bin, gvfs-fuse, libgpod-common, libgpod4, libplist1, libusbmuxd1, usbmuxd.
- The software packages will then be downloaded and installed.
- Restart your computer and login back in.
The 1st time you connect you ipod/iphone/ipad with rhythmbox open it will unmount. Just close rhythmbox then disconnect and reconnect you ipod/iphone. You should now see your ipod/iphone/ipad listed under Devices in rhythmbox.
Notes - Always best not to have rhythmbox open before you connect your ipod/iphone/ipad Rhythmbox is only supported, rhythmbox may say the songs are transferred but the 'Sync in Progress' is usually shown on the ipod/iphone/ipad after so just wait till you no longer see this displayed.
For a more detailed how to, see hee - http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=53489
This post made by referencing askubuntu question about How to sync ipod and iphone with Ubuntu.
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3:23 PM
VLC Media Player 1.1.10 has release and available to be download for Ubuntu user
(11.04 and 10.10).
VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVD, Audio CD, VCD, and various streaming protocols.
What's VLC 1.1.10 Update ?
Here are some update of VLC 1.1.10 taken from it's changelog :
- Security update regarding an integer overflow in xspf demuxer
- Rewrite of the pulseaudio audio output module
- Update of libmodplug for security reasons in Windows and Mac versions
- Major updates in most language translations
- Removal of the font-cache re-building on the freetype module on Windows
- Numerous updates and fixes on the interface and look of VLC for Mac OS X
- Many miscellaneous fixes in decoders, demuxers and subtitles
- 3rd party libraries updates
Install / Download VLC 1.1.10 For Ubuntu
you can download VLC 1.1.10 through it's official website bellow :
- http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
VLC 1.1.10 also available to download via PPA provide by
Ferramosca Roberto, install / update your VLC through following command :
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ferramroberto/vlc
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install vlc mozilla-plugin-vlc vlc-plugin-pulse
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10:10 PM
Minutunes just another music player (like an itunes) that available on Mac OS, Windows and Linux. Minitunes bring simple and beautiful interface to optimal functionality. A Minitunes is developed by Flavio Tordini the same developer of a Minutune.
Don’t put usage data such as “rating”, “play count” or “last played” in the database. Don’t use them at all. No rating and no tagging. People want to listen to music not do data entry. Do not assume the player is used by a single person. In a lot of cases this is not true. No overly complex query tools. Again, we’re not doing data mining.
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| Minitunes 1.0 Screenshot |
Minutunes has available for download and bring to PPA by Alin Andrei, Download and Install Minitunes 1.0 through PPA link bellow :A Minitunes 1.0 also available in other Ubuntu version (Maverick, Lucid, and Karmic), to install Minitunes 1.0 for other Ubuntu Version, please visit this address.
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