Install & Update Wine 1.7.44 on Ubuntu or Linux Mint via PPA

Install & Update Wine 1.7.44 on Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS) or Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana via PPA  

Wine stands for "Wine is not an emulator" and it is an open source command-line software that's capable of translating Windows API calls into POSIX calls on-the-fly for integrating Windows applications into your Linux/UNIX desktop. For regular Linux users, the above means that the Wine software will allow them to run applications which are designed to be installed only on Microsoft Windows operating systems.

It's not a virtual machine or an emulator
However, Wine should not be confused with a virtual machine or an emulator. It provides binary compatibility, support for graphics, sound interaction, as well as support for modems, networks, scanners, tablets, keyboards, and other devices. The software’s API allows developers to integrate Wine in their projects, and as a result, numerous graphical user interfaces, both free and commercial, appeared on the Internet over the years.

The Wine development release 1.7.44 is now available.
What's new in this release:

• More support for the COM interfaces of the RichEdit control.
• Initial version of a SmartTee filter.
• Some more support for the ARM64 platform.
• Support for the null device kernel object.
• Various bug fixes.

The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.

Update/Install Wine 1.7.44 on Ubuntu or Linux Mint via PPA

To Install/Update WineHQ 1.7.44 on Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Ubuntu 13.10/13.04/12.04, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Linux Mint 13 Maya, Pinguy OS 14.04, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya, Elementary OS 0.2 Luna, Peppermint Five, Deepin 2014, LXLE 14.04, Linux Lite 2.0, Linux Lite 2.2 and other Ubuntu derivative systems via PPA, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install wine1.7 winetricks

Optional, to remove Wine 1.7.44 and winetricks, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:

sudo apt-get remove wine1.7 winetricks

How to Completely removing Wine:

sudo apt-get remove wine
rm -rf $HOME/.wine
rm -f $HOME/.config/menus/applications-merged/wine*
rm -rf $HOME/.local/share/applications/wine
rm -f $HOME/.local/share/desktop-directories/wine*
rm -f $HOME/.local/share/icons/????_*.xpm

Enjoy! I hope this article adding you more clarity.

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Installation of “Fedora 22 Workstation” with Screenshots

Fedora Project has proudly announced the general availability of Fedora 22. Fedora 22 which don’t have a name has succeeded Fedora 21. Fedora comes in three editions namely Workstation for desktop and Laptops, Server for powering the Server Machine and Cloud for Cloud and Docker related application hosting and Deployment.

We have covered a detailed description of what’s new in Fedora 22 Workstation, Server and Cloud, to know what you can expect in various editions and in general in the latest release of Fedora, go through this article.
Fedora 22 Released – What’ New

If you are running a previous version of Fedora and want to Update to Fedora 22, you may like to go through this article:
Upgrade Fedora 21 to Fedora 22

If you are trying Fedora for the first time or want to install fedora 22 on one of your system, this guide will help you in Installing Fedora 22 and also we would be reviewing features/applications briefly, after installation.

The very first thing is to download the ISO image of Fedora 22 from the official Fedora website, as per your machine architecture.

To download Fedora 22 Workstation, use the link below. You may wget the image file as well.

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How to Handle ISO Files on Linux with Mount, AcetoneISO and Furious

ISO files are basically archive files that represent the contents written in every sector of an optical disk. This way you can have a CD or DVD image handy any time in your hard drive and use it accordingly (either mount it to access the data, or burn it on an actual physical disk).

Linux users are very font of ISO files as this is the most common format that Linux distributions come in. You can use them as local repositories/media to update or enrich your existing distribution, install them on a virtual machine for testing purposes, or just burn them on a CD/DVD and use it as an installation and system recovery disk.




There are many ways you can follow to mount or burn an ISO file in Linux and as you probably already guessed, the Terminal and the 'mount' command is the most direct of all. This post won't deal with this though, as there are other more user-friendly ways to deal with ISO files like the Acetone and Furius GUI tools.

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Cinnamon 2.6.3 is released, you can Install on Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca and LMDE 2

Cinnamon 2.6.3 is released, you can Install on Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca and LMDE 2 

Cinnamon is an open source project that provides users with a full featured desktop environment for GNU/Linux operating systems. It is a fork of the GNOME Shell user interface distributed with the GNOME project. It has been designed from the ground up to provide users with a traditional, yet advanced and modern graphical session for their Linux-based operating systems. It's usually deployed on the Linux Mint distribution.

Designed for Linux Mint

Actually, the Cinnamon project has been developed by the same team of hard working people behind the Linux Mint project, out of frustration with the GNOME desktop environment. However, the desktop environment is not attached to the Linux Mint distribution, as it can be easily installed on other open source GNU/Linux operating system, straight from their default software repositories or using third-party ones provided by the community.

New in Cinnamon 2.6.3:

mint-x-icons:

• Updated pidgin tray icons
• cinnamon-desktop, cinnamon-session, cinnamon-settings-daemon, cinnamon-screensaver
• Split “use-systemd” configuration key into three different keys for cinnamon-settings-daemon, cinnamon-session and cinnamon-screensaver
• Note: In Betsy, you’ll want to set the session and settings-daemon keys to true, and the screensaver key to false. In Mint 17.x, set all keys to false. In systemd distributions, set all keys to true.

nemo:

• nemo-application: register with org.gnome.SessionManager – this should fix the race condition where c-s-d dies before nemo does, causing all of our icons to revert to fallbacks briefly.
• menus: Always show icons in Open With and Templates submenus.
• nemo-bookmark-list: make sure to keep the bookmarks file writable by the user (and not just root) when running nemo as root.

cinnamon:

• Power settings: Don’t rely on output.get_backlight_min|max() to show brightness controls as it’s not reliable with all hardware. Try to get backlight() info directly to see if it’s supported instead.
• Theme settings: Fixed regression caused by gettext fix ;)
• Power settings: Don’t show “When the battery is critically low” option with upower 1.0 (it no longer supports that)
• Power settings: Don’t use variables that don’t exist (in UPS handling)
• Calendar applet: Refresh view when show-week-numbers setting is changed
• Network applet: Properly detect active VPN connection at session start when updating the panel icon
• On-Screen keyboard: Affect Struts
• On-Screen keyboard: Removed transparent background in default theme.
• Sound applet: Only read position for seek-supported players, only support seek when playback rate is 1.0, don’t support seek for Totem/GNOME-MPlayer/Pithos (either getting or setting the position isn’t fully functional), only update position at most once per second
• Systray applet: Factorize icon resize code, removed special cases (we know they don’t work for pidgin and thunderbird)
• Systray applet: force natural icon sizes for known buggy icons (pidgin, thunderbird)
• Keyboard settings: Renamed horizontal/vertical maximization options
• cinnamon-slideshow.py: fix crash when file change
• expo.js: don’t respond to scrolls when animating
• cs_general.py: Sync GNOME HiDPI settings
• Fix panel launcher dnd
• cinnamon-settings: be compatible with old gi
• cs_screensaver.py: use gtk_container_foreach instead of gtk_container_forall
• cs_panel.py: better protection against broken panel config
• Don’t show stack switcher on applet configuration page
• Follow date format setting in notification applet
• Load default icon if icon theme doesn’t have application icon
• js/docInfo.js: don’t make a thumbnail factory (it never gets used)
• cinnamon-settings: invert mouse sensitivity setting so it makes sense, eliminate rubber-banding of GSettingsRange by restricting int setting types to whole number adjustments in the slider.
• cs_privacy: replace broken unbind() – take advantage of the behavior that a new binding will overwrite a previous one on the same object property.
• Add image for default screensaver preview.
• cs_screensaver.py: bring the currently selected screensaver row into view when the panel is displayed.
• menu applet: when refreshing happens, apps, recent and places need to end up in the same order as before. Also, since we empty the whole container during an app refresh, we need to rebuild recent and places.
• SettingsWidgets: display the correct number of SpinButton digits depending on the step value. (fixes issue with font scale spinner)
• cs_panel: don’t connect to settings until the page has been constructed. Don’t crash and burn if cinnamon isn’t running.
• cs_panel: don’t crash when there aren’t any panels
• osd: fix the media keys osd not showing on top of full screen windows
• allow disabling of pointer barriers on all panels
• Added missing method to ExtensionSidePage class, which blocked the update of the indicator of the active theme

Install Cinnamon 2.6.3 on Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca and LMDE 2

Installation instructions:

Despite the fact that Cinnamon 2.6.3 is labeled as stable, it is available via the Unstable repository (Romeo), for both Linux Mint 17.1 and Linux Mint Debian Edition 2.0, so be cautions when installing it.

To enable the Romeo repository and install Cinnamon 2.6.3 on Linux Mint 17.1, do:

$ sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://packages.linuxmint.com rebecca romeo"
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install cinnamon

To enable the Romeo repository and install Cinnamon 2.6.3 on LMDE 2, do:

$ sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://packages.linuxmint.com betsy romeo"
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install cinnamon

Also, on Betsy only, you need to set the session and settings-daemon keys to true and the screensaver key to false:

$ gsettings set org.cinnamon.desktop.session settings-daemon-uses-logind true
$ gsettings set org.cinnamon.desktop.session session-manager-uses-logind true
$ gsettings set org.cinnamon.desktop.session screensaver-uses-logind false

Enjoy! I hope this article adding you more clarity.

Install/Update KDE Plasma 5.3.1 on Ubuntu, Debian, OpenSUSE, Fedora and Arch Linux

KDE Plasma 5.3.1 is out, Now you can install KDE Plasma 5.3.1 on (K)Ubuntu, Debian, OpenSUSE, Fedora and Arch Linux

KDE Plasma (formerly K Desktop Environment and KDE Software Compilation and KDE Plasma Workspace and Applications) is an open source project comprised of numerous packages, libraries and applications designed to provide a modern graphical desktop environment for Linux and UNIX-like workstations.

What New in KDE Plasma 5.3.1:

• Bluedevil
• Fileitemactionplugin: Don't use blocking DBus calls. Commit. Fixes bug #347113
• Applet: Fix showing incorrect device name in connect failed notification. Commit.
• Update pin-code-database.xml. Commit.
• bluez-qt
• Don't ignore interface name in DBus properties changed signal. Commit.
• Breeze
• Cleanup tests in scrollarea event filter. Commit. Fixes bug #347971
• Default to Qt::AlignVCenter (instead of Qt::AlignTop) when vertical alignment flag is not set. Commit. See bug #346679
• Make sure iconSize is valid before rendering. Commit.
• Sanitize button positioning. Commit.
• Pass iconSize as button's parameter rather than trying to calculate it from geometry and offset. Commit.
• Implement SH_ItemView_ActivateItemOnSingleClick in kde4. Commit.
• Build on ARM. Commit.
• Plasma Addons
• DateTimeRunner: Fix off by 1 error. Commit. Fixes bug #346021
• Kimpanel: fix window position when coordinate is outside screen. Commit.
• KInfoCenter
• Extract messages from Modules/base into the catalog kcminfo. Commit. Code review #123864
• KIO Extras
• Don't mangle UDS_TARGET_URL to UDS_LOCAL_PATH in UDSEntries. Commit. Code review #123781
• KWin
• Fix presentwindows crash on disabling closebuttons. Commit. Code review #123865
• No VBO upload for zero vertex count. Commit. Fixes bug #347900. Code review #123865
• [effects] Fix loading of trackmouse effect textures. Commit. Code review #123862
• Show Desktop: activateNextClient prefers desktop. Commit. Code review #123783. See bug #346837. See bug #346933. See bug #347212
• Show Desktop: break state with activation (only). Commit. Code review #123783. See bug #346837. See bug #346933. See bug #347212
• Show Desktop: keep desktop group visible. Commit. Code review #123783. See bug #346837. See bug #346933. See bug #347212
• Showing Desktop: keep docks visible. Commit. Code review #123783. Fixes bug #346933. Fixes bug #347212. See bug #346837
• Fix CM reselection. Commit. Fixes bug #347813. Code review #123826
• Lazy setting of xbc properties on qApp. Commit. See bug #346748. Code review #123777
• Stall wobbling while screen is transformed. Commit. Code review #123733. Fixes bug #338972
• Ignore elevation list while screen is locked. Commit. Fixes bug #347466
• Prefer query Screens::refreshRate(). Commit. Fixes bug #347360. Code review #123693
• Add Screens::name(int screen); STUB but for XRandr. Commit.
• Add OutputInfo class to obtain output names. Commit.
• Add refreshRate to Screens. STUB but for XRandr!. Commit.
• Forward resource modes next to crtcs. Commit.
• Desk grid: do not recreate DesktopButtonsViews. Commit. Fixes bug #347339. Code review #123668
• Make switchWindow FROM stickies act on current VD. Commit. Fixes bug #331512. Code review #123640
• UpdateXTime before sending a takeFocus message. Commit. Fixes bug #347153. Code review #123639
• Window aperture always needs to cancel. Commit. Fixes bug #347174. Code review #123636
• Do not switch desktop on resizing windows. Commit. Code review #123599
• Break desktopshowing state from cover & flipswitch. Commit. Code review #123550. See bug #346837
• libkscreen
• Handle backend being deleted during GetConfigOperation. Commit. Fixes bug #347626. Code review #123860
• BackendLauncher: delete and unload backends before returning from main(). Commit.
• XRandR: use intermediate screen size when applying config. Commit.
• Fix crash introduced in previous commit. Commit.
• Fix potential crash when running ConfigOperation in exec() mode. Commit. Fixes bug #346575
• Muon
• Make sure the apt notifier gets initialized. Commit.
• --debug. Commit.
• Polish Discover menu configuration. Commit.
• Improve display of the update button. Commit. Fixes bug #343210
• Use proper icon to identify updates. Commit.
• Only emit about found updates when they change. Commit. See bug #346622
• Oxygen
• Default to Qt::AlignVCenter (instead of Qt::AlignTop) when vertical alignment flag is not set CCBUG: 346679. Commit.
• Fix popup menu items getting stray highlighted. Commit. Fixes bug #332377. Code review #123807
• Implement SH_ItemView_ActivateItemOnSingleClick. Commit.
• Plasma Desktop
• Require xorg-evdev >= 2.8.99.1. Commit.
• Fix translation of strings in kcm/touchpad.kcfg. Commit.
• Fix toolbox positioning. Commit. Fixes bug #347857
• Abort window highlight effect before launching present windows. Commit. Fixes bug #347395
• Remove redundant proxy. Commit.
• Fix force stripes on vertical. Commit.
• Add FindEvdev cmake module. Commit. Fixes bug #347749. Code review #123808
• KAStats: Properly resetting model when clear is called. Commit.
• Fix reverse scroll in Mouse KCM. Commit.
• Don't close when emptying Recent* categories. Commit.
• Adjust margins in vertical panels as horizontal. Commit.
• Don't add menu actions twice. Commit.
• Fix 'Add to Desktop' against the Folder containment being unreliable. Commit.
• SQLite supports offset only of limit is specified. Commit.
• Clean up some debug junk. Commit.
• Keeping ResultSet open as little as possible and fixing the count limit. Commit.
• Grab on the right item; fixes regression from 1c38100f while retaining the crash fix. Commit.
• Fix missing signal connect + some speed optimizations for KAMD submenu reveals. Commit.
• Fix race condition between PlacesModel and deriving URL from UI state. Commit.
• Use TextMetrics for lower bound. Commit.
• Ignore press events on scrollbars and make sure smooth scroll is disabled when not autoscrolling. Commit.
• Improve visibility of running widget checkmark. Commit. Code review #123539. Fixes bug #342112
• KActivitiesStats: Obey the item count limit for the ResultModel. Commit.
• Remove use of KCoreAddons.Format; KDirModel now returns preformatted data. Commit. Fixes bug #346567
• Plasma Media Center
• Use correct header for used class. Commit.
• Plasma Networkmanager (plasma-nm)
• Fix typo in END_TLS_AUTH_TAG. Commit. Fixes bug #347416
• Drop WiMAX support for NM 1.2.0+. Commit. Code review #123657
• Editor: request secrets when "secretkey-flags" is not present in setting. Commit.
• Add option to show/hide menu bar. Commit. Fixes bug #347141
• Plasma Workspace
• [libtaskmanager] Use windowClass from KWindowInfo instead fetching from X each time. Commit. See bug #340583
• Adjust the one pixel gap for right aligned panels. Commit. Fixes bug #347873
• Process updates scripts even after we load the default layout. Commit.
• Enable translations for devicenotifications dataengine. Commit. Code review #123846
• Add missing TRANSLATION_DOMAIN for dataengines keystate, network, rss, weather. Commit. Code review #123854
• Default to desktop sorting. Commit.
• ++paranoia;. Commit.
• [notifications] Make notifications work properly with --reverse. Commit. Code review #122648. Fixes bug #343251
• [notifications] Clip the NotificationItem to prevent painting outside of its rect. Commit. Fixes bug #346419
• [digital-clock] Add timezone filtering by region too. Commit. Code review #123740. Fixes bug #346681
• [klipper] Ensure global shortcut actions work. Commit. Fixes bug #345945. Code review #123727
• Guard access to kscreen configuration. Commit. Fixes bug #346590. Code review #123648CHANGELOGCHANGELOG:Fix crash on Plasma startup caused by a race condition
• [digital-clock] Use KCMShell.open for the formats KCM. Commit. Fixes bug #347032
• Make ConfigFile() reuse the Corona's KSharedConfigPtr when its config file is requested. Commit.
• Fix second arg not being used when parent is a ConfigGroup. Commit.
• [digital-clock] Fix missing function return. Commit.
• [digital-clock] Change the id of the root item. Commit. Fixes bug #346841
• When switching activities, use only the running ones. Commit. Fixes bug #347029. Code review #123597
• [notifications] Clear notification from show queue if it's closed before it's shown. Commit. Fixes bug #342605
• [notifications] Always check first if the dispatch timer isn't running already. Commit. See bug #342605
• Fix a crash in PowermanagementEngine::populateApplicationData when the given name is empty. Commit. Code review #123555
• Check for model existence. Commit. Fixes bug #346870
• Only restart Timer when the dialog is visible. Commit.
• Fix running applet calculation. Commit.
• Manually keep track of jobs sources. Commit. Code review #123502. Fixes bug #346673
• Match window switch dialog borders with addwidgets/switch activity. Commit. Fixes bug #345614. Code review #123506
• [notifications] Replace ' with ' as ' is not supported by StyledText. Commit. Fixes bug #346710
• Disable indeterminate animation for suspended jobs. Commit.
• Fix last commit. Commit.
• Fix logic in argument check in plasma-windowed. Commit. Fixes bug #346311
• Powerdevil
• Consider overall percentage when emitting battery warning on startup. Commit. Code review #123704. Fixes bug

Full Plasma 5.3.1 changelog

A beautiful, modern and traditional desktop environment

It combines ease-of-use, superior graphical design and powerful functionality with the unique features and architecture of the Linux operating system. It’s comprised of the KDE Plasma Workspaces and KDE Applications components.

Additionally, it contains extra add-on for the panel and desktop, a download manager, an instant messenger, an addressbook, a document viewer, a multimedia layer called Phonon (similar to GStreamer on GNOME), and accessibility functionality, such as a powerful text-to-speech system.

How to Install/Update KDE Plasma 5.3.1 on Ubuntu, Debian, OpenSUSE, Fedora and Arch Linux :

to Install/Update KDE Plasma 5.3.1 on (K)Ubuntu and Debian and other Debian derivative systems, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:

$ sudo apt-get build-dep qtbase5-dev

$ sudo apt-get install libbz2-dev libxslt-dev libxml2-dev shared-mime-info oxygen-icon-theme libgif-dev libvlc-dev libvlccore-dev doxygen gperf bzr libxapian-dev fontforge libgcrypt20-dev libattr1-dev network-manager-dev libgtk-3-dev xsltproc xserver-xorg-dev xserver-xorg-input-synaptics-dev libpwquality-dev modemmanager-dev libxcb-keysyms1-dev libepoxy-dev libpolkit-agent-1-dev libnm-util-dev libnm-glib-dev libegl-mesa-dev libxcb-xkb-dev libqt5x11extras5-dev libwww-perl libxml-parser-perl libjson-perl libboost1.55-dev libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-dev libgstreamer1.0-dev 

to Install/Update KDE Plasma 5.3.1 on OpenSUSE and other Debian derivative systems, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:

$ sudo zypper si -d libqt5-qtbase

$ sudo zypper in libbz2-devel libxslt-devel libxml2-devel shared-mime-info oxygen-icon-theme giflib-devel vlc-devel doxygen gstreamer-0_10-devel gstreamer-0_10-plugins-base-devel docbook-xml-slides docbook-xsl-stylesheets xcb-util-keysyms-devel perl-JSON boost-devel libxcb-devel libXrender-devel xcb-util-wm-devel xcb-util-devel xcb-util-image-devel gettext-tools

$ sudo zypper in gtk3-devel # for kde-gtk-config

$ sudo zypper in grantlee5 # for kdevplatform

$ sudo zypper in libkdcraw-devel liblcms2-devel # for gwenview

Optional for kdeplasma-addons: libibus >=1.4.2 (see http://software.opensuse.org/package/libibus-1_0-5) 

to Install/Update KDE Plasma 5.3.1 on Fedora and other Fedora  derivative systems, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:

$ sudo yum-builddep qt phonon-backend-vlc phonon-backend-gstreamer

$ sudo yum install gcc-c++ ruby doxygen git bzr flex bison gperf socat boost-devel bzip2-devel libxslt-devel libxml2-devel shared-mime-info oxygen-icon-theme giflib-devel xcb-util-keysyms-devel perl-JSON perl-Pod-Usage "*xcb*-devel" perl-XML-Parser NetworkManager-glib-devel xapian-core-devel libxkbcommon-devel libxkbcommon-x11-devel  systemd-devel libwayland-cursor-devel libwayland-server-devel libepoxy-devel gtk3-devel sane-backends-devel libattr-devel libcanberra-devel libusb-devel libxkbfile-devel fontforge-devel libical-devel gpgme-devel cyrus-sasl-devel openldap-devel libpwquality-devel polkit-devel

to Install/Update KDE Plasma 5.3.1 on Arch Linux and other Arch Linux  derivative systems, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:

Arch Linux: All the dependencies used for building frameworks can be installed by running:

$ sudo pacman -Sy phonon-qt5 qt5-webkit qt5-script qt5-svg qt5-tools qt5-x11extras enchant jasper openexr libutempter docbook-xsl shared-mime-info giflib libxss upower udisks2 bzr git doxygen perl-json perl-libwww

$ <your_AUR_helper> kf5-akonadi-git

Enjoy! I hope this article adding you more clarity.

Install Calibre 2.28 on Ubuntu or Linux Mint

How to Install Calibre 2.28 on buntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS) or Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana

 
Calibre is an open source e-book library management application designed for the 21th century, for the digital world that were are living in right now. It lets users to manipulate digital books in any way possible. It helps users to easily read ebooks on their personal computer, convert ebooks from one format to another, create electronic books based on recipes of your very own ideas.

Features at a glance

The software can download news from a sleuth of various sources, and comes with a content server for online access. Syncing ebooks to a supported mobile reader device is also possible with Calibre. E-book library management is the the main component of the application, displayed every time you open the application. From here, you can convert and organize e-books in a simple manner. It imports and exports many ebook formats, including ePub, MOBI, AZW, DOC, XML, etc. Just like any other software that can be extended via plugins, Calibre features an internal collection of add-ons, which provide support for editing metadata of ebooks, or add support for various ebook readers.

What New in Calibre 2.28 :

• New Features:
• Conversion of all ebook formats to Microsoft Word (DOCX) files
• Add keyboard shortcuts (Ctrl+Right, Ctrl+Left) to switch between virtual library tabs.
• When sending email using GMX pause for five minutes between books, to prevent GMX from blocking the account. The delay can be configured via Preferences->Tweaks
• Bug Fixes:
• Open With: Fix application icons in XDG_DATA_HOME on linux not being found and fix unhandled error when choosing non-executable files as applications.
• AZW3 Output: Remove duplicate anchors to workaround some Kindle renderers using the last occurrence of an anchor as the target instead of the first.
• Fix language definition on body tag being ignored during conversion
• Edit book: When importing multiple files into the book, import them in the order sorted by their filenames instead of in random order
• E-book viewer: Fix print to pdf not working on some windows systems with non-ascii usernames and non-utf-8 system locales. Also make the print to pdf dialog a little easier to use.
• Edit Book: Fix TOC editor window not remembering its last used size

 

Install Calibre 2.28 on Ubuntu or Linux Mint :

to install Calibre 2.28 on Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Ubuntu 13.10/13.04/12.04, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Linux Mint 13 Maya, Pinguy OS 14.04, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya, Elementary OS 0.2 Luna, Peppermint Five, Deepin 2014, LXLE 14.04, Linux Lite 2.0, Linux Lite 2.2 and other Ubuntu derivative systems, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:

sudo -v && wget -nv -O- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kovidgoyal/calibre/master/setup/linux-installer.py | sudo python -c "import sys; main=lambda:sys.stderr.write('Download failed\n'); exec(sys.stdin.read()); main()"

Enjoy! I hope this article adding you more clarity.

How to Install Everpad 2.15.8 on Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet via PPA

How to Install Everpad 2.15.8 on Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet via PPA

Everpad is now available for install on Ubuntu 15.04 via its PPA repository. Everpad as we know is the Linux client equivalent for Evernote available only in Windows. It works great and is fully integrated with Ubuntu Unity lens, indicator applet and unity launcher. The client Linux client supports notes, tags, notebooks, resources and places.

Everpad Evernote client is well integrated with Linux desktop and the  Everpad Client has:

• unity lens
• indicator applet
• unity launcher

The Everpad Client supports Notes, Tags, Notebooks, Resources, Places, En-* tags

How to Install Everpad 2.15.8 on Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet via PPA

to Install Everpad 2.15.8 on Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet via PPA and other Ubuntu derivative systems, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nvbn-rm/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install everpad

Run via terminal :

everpad

Enjoy! I hope this article adding you more clarity.

Install LibreOffice 4.4.3 on Ubuntu or Linux Mint via PPA

Install LibreOffice 4.4.3 on Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS) or Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana via PPA 

 

LibreOffice is an open source productivity suite that provides all the necessary office components for small-business, educational and non-profit organizations. It is a fork of the well-known OpenOffice.org application.

LibreOffice 4.4.3 changelog

Filters

• Improved OOXML support
• Improved Visio support
• Improved Table of Contents in HTML export
• Document thumbnails
• Improved MS Publisher support
• Improved Abiword support
• Improved MS Works Spreadsheet support
• Improved FictionBook support

Localization

• New languages/locales with locale data
• Improved language tools (spell-check dictionaries, thesaurus, hyphenation patterns)

API changes

• OSL macro clean-up
• IReference and ReferenceObject
• UNO API changes
• UNO API removals

GUI

• Dialogs conversion to WidgetLayout finished
• Sifr as the default icon theme on OS X
• Changes to rulers
• Start Center
• New default templates
• New color selector
• Reworked paragraph line spacing dropdown
• Bullet and Numbering dropdown
• Sidebar changes
• Context menu changes
• Edit / Read-only mode
• Tab changes
• Firefox Themes
• Image scaling
• Simplification of Special Character dialog
• Icon improvements
• Locale in About dialog
• UI text improvements

Writer

• Master Document Templates
• Shapes can have a TextBox
• Improvements to Track Changes
• Style dropdown
• Line numbering easier to apply for headers and footers
• Status bar improvements
• Toolbar improvements
• Navigator bookmarks
• AutoCorrect improvements

Calc

• Statistics Wizard (alternative to Excel’s Add-in “Analysis ToolPak”)
• Direct conversion of formulas into static values
• Formula engine
• Toolbar improvements
• Sheet context menu

Impress and Draw

• Text of Master View Object Previews
• Select and toggle off master elements directly via Delete
• OpenGL transitions
• Page Title field
• Inherit current style of cells when inserting New row/column in table
• Password for editing
• Printing: use specified paper size
• Zoom Mode button
• Toolbar improvements
• Menubar improvements

See changelog for full details.

Install LibreOffice 4.4.3 on Ubuntu or Linux Mint via PPA :

To install LibreOffice 4.4.3 on Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Ubuntu 13.10/13.04/12.04, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Linux Mint 13 Maya, Pinguy OS 14.04, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya, Elementary OS 0.2 Luna, Peppermint Five, Deepin 2014, LXLE 14.04, Linux Lite 2.0, Linux Lite 2.2 and other Ubuntu derivative systems, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:

sudo apt-get remove --purge libreoffice*
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libreoffice

The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.

FFmpeg 2.6.3 “Grothendieck” is out, Install on Ubuntu or Linux Mint via PPA

FFmpeg 2.6.3 “Grothendieck”  is out, Install on Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Ubuntu 13.10/13.04/12.04, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Linux Mint 13 Maya, Pinguy OS 14.04, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya, Elementary OS 0.2 Luna, Peppermint Five, Deepin 2014, LXLE 14.04, Linux Lite 2.0, Linux Lite 2.2 and other Ubuntu derivative systems via PPA

FFmpeg is the leading multimedia framework, cross-platform solution that is used to decode, encode, transcode, mux, demux, stream,filter and play any audio or video files. A notable addition to this release is the support for NVENC — the Nvidia Video Encoder interface for H.264 encoding.

FFmpeg 2.6.3 changelog

• diracdec: prevent overflow in data_unit_size check
• ffmpeg: remove incorrect network deinit
• avformat/avidec: add mp2 to the list of exceptions… n2.6.3
• avformat/mov: Fix parsing short loci
• avformat/mov: Print reason of loci parsing failure
• avcodec/hevc: Fix typo in num_entry_point_offsets check
• avcodec/libtheoraenc: Check for av_malloc failure
• avcodec/dcadec: Check active_bands
• avcodec/dcadec: Check scale table index
• avcodec/sonic: check memory allocations
• avcodec/shorten: More complete pred_order check
• avcodec/shorten: Check skip_bytes()
• avcodec/shorten: Fix code depending on signed overflow…
• avcodec/proresdec2: Reset slice_count on deallocation
• ffmpeg_opt: Fix -timestamp parsing
• avcodec/dcadec: Check subsubframes
• avcodec/dcadec: Check nchans
• avcodec/on2avc: Check run more carefully
• swr: fix alignment issue caused by 8ch sse functions
• avcodec/jpeg2000dec: fix boolean operator
• avcodec/hevc_ps: Check vps_num_hrd_parameters
• avcodec/hevc_ps: More completely check vps_num_layer_sets
• avcodec/hevc: Check num_entry_point_offsets
• avcodec/hevc: Check offset_len
• avcodec/hevc_sei: Check num_sps_ids_minus1 value
• avcodec/vqavideo: Check chunk size
• avformat/hevc: Check cpb_cnt_minus1
• avformat/nutdec: Fix use of uinitialized value
• avformat/rtpenc_jpeg: Check remaining buffer size for SOS
• See changelog for full detals

 

Install FFmpeg 2.6.3 “Grothendieck” on Ubuntu or Linux Mint via PPA :

to install - update FFmpeg 2.6.3 “Grothendieck” on Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Ubuntu 13.10/13.04/12.04, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Linux Mint 13 Maya, Pinguy OS 14.04, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya, Elementary OS 0.2 Luna, Peppermint Five, Deepin 2014, LXLE 14.04, Linux Lite 2.0, Linux Lite 2.2 and other Ubuntu derivative systems via PPA, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:samrog131/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ffmpeg-real
sudo ln -sf /opt/ffmpeg/bin/ffmpeg /usr/bin/ffmpeg

The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.

Enjoy! I hope this article adding you more clarity.

Vivaldi 1.0.178.2 Tech Preview 3 Released, Available for Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Fedora, CentOS, Mac OSX

Vivaldi 1.0.178.2 Tech Preview 3 Released, You can install and update on Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Ubuntu 13.10/13.04/12.04, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Fedora 22, Fedora 21, Fedora 20, CentOS 6, CentOS 7 and Mac OSX

Vivaldi is a feature-rich, next-generation web browser application based on the powerful and open source Chromium project, from which the popular Google Chrome web browser is derived. The application is freely distributed and cross-platform, created by the former CEO of Opera Software, built using modern Web technologies like React, JavaScript, Node.js, and Browserify.

A web browser designed for you
The main goal of the Vivaldi project is to make a highly flexible, low on resources and extremely fast web browser software that works across all mainstream computer operating systems, a web browser that is rich in functionality and designed for you, the user.

What's new in Vivaldi 1.0.178.2 Tech Preview 3:

• VB-5668 - “Close other tabs” closes active tab as well
• VB-5645 - Wrong tab gets closed when closing tab stack
• VB-4987 - f5 doesn’t refresh the page while page is loading
• VB-4183 - Fast forward sometimes not working correctly with dynamically created DOM
• VB-5540 - Setting to disable single key shortcuts
• VB-5659 - Vivaldi opens new tabs on the left instead of on the right
• VB-5654 - vivaldi:about page background issue
• VB-5599 - Multiselection of tabs not properly recognized
• VB-3197 - Make “startup” option

Install Vivaldi 1.0.178.2 Tech Preview 3 on Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Fedora, CentOS, Mac OSX

• Windows: 32-bit | 64-bit (experimental)
• Mac: Intel
• Linux Ubuntu DEB: 64-bit | 32-bit
• Linux Fedora & CentOS RPM: 64-bit | 32-bit

Install on Ubuntu via Terminal :

$ sudo dpkg -i vivaldi-snapshot_1.0.178.2-1_*.deb

In case “dpkg” indicates missing dependencies, complete the installation by executing the following command:

$ sudo apt-get install -f

Install on Fedora and CentOS via Terminal :

$ sudo yum install vivaldi-snapshot-1.0.178.2-1.*.rpm

Release Announce | Home Vivaldi

VirtualBox 4.3.28 Released, Install on Ubuntu & Linux Mint via PPA

Install VirtualBox 4.3.28 on Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Ubuntu 13.10/13.04/12.04, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana and other Ubuntu derivative systems

Oracle VirtualBox (formerly Sun VirtualBox, innotek VirtualBox and Sun xVM VirtualBox) is a free and cross-platform virtualization application that provides a family of powerful x86 virtualization tools designed for desktop, server and embedded use. VirtualBox can be used on Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows platforms to run virtual machines of any of the aforementioned operating systems, as well as any BSD distribution, IMB OS/2 flavors, DOS, Netware, L4, QNX, and JRockitVE.

It's portable

Oracle VirtualBox is portable, requires no hardware virtualization, includes guest additions and great hardware support. It also features USB device support, full ACPI support, multiscreen resolutions, and built-in iSCSI support. Support for PXE network boot, multigeneration branched snapshots, remote machine display, extensible RDP authentication, and USB over RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol) is also integrated in Oracle VirtualBox.

Supports 32-bit and 64-bit architectures

At the moment, the program is capable of running only AMD64/Intel64 and x86 architectures. By default, when creating a new virtual machine, you will be able to select the operating system that you plan on virtualizing. Ever since Oracle acquired the Sun Microsystems company, VirtualBox is actively developed by a team of professional engineers who implement new features and functionality with every release.

VirtualBox 4.3.28 changelog

• VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation when rebooting certain guests (for example Solaris doing fast reboot) by fixing the implementation for INIT IPI
• VMM: added some information for diagnosing rare VERR_VMX_INVALID_VMXON_PTR Guru Meditations (VT-x only)
• GUI: HID LEDs sync: prevent synchronization if VM window has no focus (Windows and Mac OS X hosts only)
• GUI: fixed drag and drop moving the cursor between guest screens on certain hosts
• 3D: fixed a crash on restoring the VM state on X11 hosts
• 3D: fixed a crash on Linux guest shutdown
• VRDP: fixed incompatibility with rdesktop 1.8.3
• VRDP: fixed listening for IPv6 on some systems
• Storage: don’t crash if creating an asynchronous I/O context fails (e.g. when starting many VMs) and show a proper error message
• Floppy: several fixes
• Audio: improved the behavior of the volume control for the HD audio device emulation
• USB: increase the number of supported drivers from 3 to 5 (Windows hosts only)
• PS/2 keyboard: synchronize the LED state on VM restore (Windows and Mac OS X hosts only)
• NAT Network: when running multiple NAT networks with multiple VMs, only stop the respective services when stopping VMs
• NAT: don’t kill UDP bindings on ICMP errors
• NAT: bandwidth limit now works properly with NAT
• BIOS: fixed the returned size value of the VBE 2.0 PMI function 0Ah
• Guest Control: fixed parameter quoting in Windows guests
• Webcam passthrough improvements for Linux (V4L2) hosts to support more webcam models
• API: don’t fail starting a VM with VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE under certain conditions
• API: be more verbose on VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE if a medium is attached to a running VM
• API: fixed a bug which could result in losing certain screen resize events with multi-monitor guests
• rdesktop-vrdp: fixed path to the keymaps
• rdesktop-vrdp: switch to version 1.8.3
• Windows hosts: more hardening fixes
• Linux hosts: another fix for activated SMAP on Linux 3.19 and newer (Broadwell and later)
• Linux hosts: Linux 4.1 compile fix
• Solaris hosts: fixed using of VNIC templates with Crossbow based bridged networking to be compatible with vanity interface names
• Mac OS X hosts: fixed crash during VM termination under rare circumstances
• Windows Additions/WDDM: improved video memory utilization and allow more/bigger guest screens with large resolutions (including HiDPI)
• X11 Additions: prevent flickering when updating mouse cursor
• Solaris Additions: fixed incorrect usage of ‘prtconf’ while installing Guest Additions (Solaris 10 only)

Install VirtualBox 4.3.28 on Ubuntu & Linux Mint via PPA :

to install VirtualBox 4.3.28 on Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Ubuntu 13.10/13.04/12.04, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana and other Ubuntu derivative systems, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:

$ sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian trusty contrib" >> /etc/apt/sources.list'
$ wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/oracle_vbox.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install virtualbox-4.3

Enjoy! I hope this article adding you more clarity.

Plex Media Server 0.9.12.1 released, Install on Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Fedora, Mac OSX and CentOS

Plex Media Server 0.9.12.1 released, Install on Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Ubuntu 13.10/13.04/12.04, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Fedora 22, Fedora 21, Fedora 20, CentOS 6 and CentOS 6

Plex Media Server is a powerful application that will help you to manage and stream media files stored on your computer to various mobile devices and smart TVs, across a local network or over the Internet.

The application can be downloaded for Chromcast, Roku, Google TV, and a supported Samsung Smart TV, as well as on Synology, Netgear, QNAP, unRAID, Drobo and ASUSTOR NAS (Network-attached storage) devices.

Features at a glance

With Plex Media Server, you can organize your movie, photo, music and TV show collections in order to access them easily and fast from one of the aforementioned devices and platforms.

It can serve content to clients on the same machine or within the local network, and even over the Internet. One of its best features is that it includes its own App Store, from where plug-ins can be installed and extend the default functionality of the software.

In addition to the free version reviewed here, there's also a PlexPass edition of Plex Media Server, which provides users with a paid service that gives them early access to new versions and premium features.

What's new in Plex Media Server 0.9.12.1:

• New:
• Enable iTunes importing code for UNIX; set advanced preference with path to library XML.
• Support for decade-based filtering for movies and albums.
• Add a hidden preference for sorting albums (AlbumSort, with default value "year:desc", you can set "year", "title", etc.).
• Add a new library preference to tell scanner to respect media tags (for new libraries).
• CentOS 7 support.
• Fixes:
• A crash shortly after startup.
• (Linux) Crash on start.
• (Windows) Scanner might not pick up new media, or might stop in the middle.
• A few other crashes and minor stability issues.
• Fix install/uninstall issues on Ubuntu/Mint.
• Fixed possible issue locking out an alternate admin user on Synology

Install Plex Media Server 0.9.12.1 on Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Fedora, Mac OSX and CentOS

UBUNTU

Download For Ubuntu 32 bit

Download For Ubuntu 32 bit

to install Plex Media Server 0.9.12.1 on Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Ubuntu 13.10/13.04/12.04, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:

$ sudo dpkg -i plexmediaserver_*.deb

In case “dpkg” indicates missing dependencies, complete the installation by executing the following command:

$ sudo apt-get install -f

FEDORA


Download for Fedora 32 bit
Download for Fedora 64 bit

to install Plex Media Server 0.9.12.1 on Fedora 22, Fedora 21, Fedora 20, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands: 

$ sudo yum install plexmediaserver-*.rpm

CENTOS

Download for CentOS 32 bit
Download for CentOS 64 bit

to install Plex Media Server 0.9.12.1 on CentOS 6 AND 7, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands: 

$ sudo yum install plexmediaserver-*.rpm

Enjoy! I hope this article adding you more clarity.

Install & Update Wine 1.7.43 on Ubuntu or Linux Mint via PPA

Install & Update Wine 1.7.43 on Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS) or Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana via PPA 

Wine stands for "Wine is not an emulator" and it is an open source command-line software that's capable of translating Windows API calls into POSIX calls on-the-fly for integrating Windows applications into your Linux/UNIX desktop. For regular Linux users, the above means that the Wine software will allow them to run applications which are designed to be installed only on Microsoft Windows operating systems.

It's not a virtual machine or an emulator
However, Wine should not be confused with a virtual machine or an emulator. It provides binary compatibility, support for graphics, sound interaction, as well as support for modems, networks, scanners, tablets, keyboards, and other devices. The software’s API allows developers to integrate Wine in their projects, and as a result, numerous graphical user interfaces, both free and commercial, appeared on the Internet over the years.

The Wine development release 1.7.43 is now available.
What's new in this release:

• Improved support for Shell Browser windows.
• Some more API Sets libraries.
• Read/write operations support with built-in devices.
• Major Catalan translation update.
• Support for WoW64 mode on ARM64.
• Various bug fixes.

The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.

Update/Install Wine 1.7.43 on Ubuntu or Linux Mint via PPA

To Install/Update WineHQ 1.7.43 on Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Ubuntu 13.10/13.04/12.04, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Linux Mint 13 Maya, Pinguy OS 14.04, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya, Elementary OS 0.2 Luna, Peppermint Five, Deepin 2014, LXLE 14.04, Linux Lite 2.0, Linux Lite 2.2 and other Ubuntu derivative systems via PPA, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install wine1.7 winetricks

Optional, to remove Wine 1.7.43 and winetricks, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:

sudo apt-get remove wine1.7 winetricks

How to Completely removing Wine:

sudo apt-get remove wine
rm -rf $HOME/.wine
rm -f $HOME/.config/menus/applications-merged/wine*
rm -rf $HOME/.local/share/applications/wine
rm -f $HOME/.local/share/desktop-directories/wine*
rm -f $HOME/.local/share/icons/????_*.xpm

Enjoy! I hope this article adding you more clarity.

How to Upgrade to Linux Kernel 4.1 RC4 on Ubuntu / Linux Mint

How to Upgrade to Linux Kernel 4.1 RC4 on Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS) / Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana

Linux kernel is the essential part of any Linux operating system. It is responsible for resource allocation, low-level hardware interfaces, security, simple communications, basic file system management, and more. Written from scratch by Linus Torvalds (with help from various developers), Linux is a clone of the UNIX operating system. It is geared towards POSIX and Single UNIX Specification compliances.

Includes powerful features
Linux provides users with powerful features, such as true multitasking, multistack networking, shared copy-on-write executables, shared libraries, demand loading, virtual memory, and proper memory management.

Initially designed only for 386/486-based computers, now Linux supports a wide range of architectures, including 64-bit (IA64, AMD64), ARM, ARM64, DEC Alpha, MIPS, SUN Sparc, PowerPC, as well as Amiga and Atari machines.

Read Full Changelog 

What's new in Linux Kernel 4.1 RC4:

• So here it is, last-minute fix and all. The -rc4 patch is a bit bigger than the previous ones, but that seems to be mainly due to normal random timing - just the fluctuation of when submaintainer trees get pushed, and rc4 has fixes from Greg to various driver trees _and_ the networking fixes from Davem, so the slightly larger size isn't indicative of any sudden problems.
• But while drivers and networking dominate the changes, there's a random smattering of other changes. Filesystems (btrfs, nfsd) and architecture updates (mainly arm, arm64 and mips) and some other misc changes.

The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.

How to Upgrade to Linux Kernel 4.1 RC4 on Ubuntu / Linux Mint

to install  & upgrade to Linux Kernel 4.1 RC4 on Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS) and Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana and other Ubuntu derivative systems, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:

For Ubuntu 32 bit :

$ wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.1-rc4-unstable/linux-headers-4.1.0-040100rc4_4.1.0-040100rc4.201505181436_all.deb \http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.1-rc4-unstable/linux-headers-4.1.0-040100rc4-generic_4.1.0-040100rc4.201505181436_i386.deb \ http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.1-rc4-unstable/linux-image-4.1.0-040100rc4-generic_4.1.0-040100rc4.201505181436_i386.deb

For Ubuntu 64 bit :

$ wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.1-rc4-unstable/linux-headers-4.1.0-040100rc4_4.1.0-040100rc4.201505181436_all.deb \ http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.1-rc4-unstable/linux-headers-4.1.0-040100rc4-generic_4.1.0-040100rc4.201505181436_amd64.deb \ http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.1-rc4-unstable/linux-image-4.1.0-040100rc4-generic_4.1.0-040100rc4.201505181436_amd64.deb

For LowLatency Kernel and ARM you can download full in here.

Install, update or Upgrade Linux Kernel 4.1 RC4 :

$ sudo dpkg -i *.deb

Atfer install complete, update grub and reboot your computer and choose new kernel in grub :

$ sudo update-grub
$ sudo reboot

WARNING: Installing a new kernel may render your system unusable or unstable. If you proceed with the installation using the instructions below, make sure you back up any important data you have to an external hard drive.

Enjoy! I hope this article adding you more clarity.

How to Upgrade to Linux Kernel 4.0.4 Stable on Ubuntu / Linux Mint

How to Upgrade to Linux Kernel 4.0.3 Stable on Ubuntu / Linux Mint - See more at: http://media-opensource.blogspot.com/2015/05/how-to-upgrade-to-linux-kernel-403.html#sthash.BLrcwLK4.dpuf

install  & upgrade to Linux Kernel 4.0.4 Stable on Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS) and Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana

How to Upgrade to Linux Kernel 4.0.3 Stable on Ubuntu / Linux Mint - See more at: http://media-opensource.blogspot.com/2015/05/how-to-upgrade-to-linux-kernel-403.html#sthash.BLrcwLK4.dpuf

Linux kernel is the essential part of any Linux operating system. It is responsible for resource allocation, low-level hardware interfaces, security, simple communications, basic file system management, and more. Written from scratch by Linus Torvalds (with help from various developers), Linux is a clone of the UNIX operating system. It is geared towards POSIX and Single UNIX Specification compliances.

Includes powerful features
Linux provides users with powerful features, such as true multitasking, multistack networking, shared copy-on-write executables, shared libraries, demand loading, virtual memory, and proper memory management.

Initially designed only for 386/486-based computers, now Linux supports a wide range of architectures, including 64-bit (IA64, AMD64), ARM, ARM64, DEC Alpha, MIPS, SUN Sparc, PowerPC, as well as Amiga and Atari machines.



Read Full Changelog Kernel 4.0.4 Stable

The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.

How to Upgrade to Linux Kernel 4.0.4 Stable on Ubuntu / Linux Mint

to install  & upgrade to Linux Kernel 4.0.4 Stable on Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS) and Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana and other Ubuntu derivative systems, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:

For Ubuntu 32 bit :

$ wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.0.4-wily/linux-headers-4.0.4-040004_4.0.4-040004.201505171336_all.deb \ http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.0.4-wily/linux-headers-4.0.4-040004-generic_4.0.4-040004.201505171336_i386.deb \ http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.0.4-wily/linux-image-4.0.4-040004-generic_4.0.4-040004.201505171336_i386.deb

For Ubuntu 64 bit :

$ wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.0.4-wily/linux-headers-4.0.4-040004_4.0.4-040004.201505171336_all.deb \ http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.0.4-wily/linux-headers-4.0.4-040004-generic_4.0.4-040004.201505171336_amd64.deb \ http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.0.4-wily/linux-image-4.0.4-040004-generic_4.0.4-040004.201505171336_amd64.deb

For LowLatency Kernel and ARM you can download full in here.

Install, update or Upgrade Linux Kernel 4.0.4 Stable :

$ sudo dpkg -i *.deb

Atfer install complete, update grub and reboot your computer and choose new kernel in grub :

$ sudo update-grub
$ sudo reboot

WARNING: Installing a new kernel may render your system unusable or unstable. If you proceed with the installation using the instructions below, make sure you back up any important data you have to an external hard drive.

Enjoy! I hope this article adding you more clarity.

Tor Browser 4.5.1 released, Install on Ubuntu / Linux Mint via PPA

Tor Browser 4.5.1 released, Install on Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn / Linux Mint via PPA

Tor Browser Bundle is a free and platform-independent application designed to allow users to browser the Web anonymously through the powerful Tor network on the Linux, Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X operating systems, without the need to use any third-party software.

The Tor software protects you by bouncing your communications around a distributed network of relays run by volunteers all around the world: it prevents somebody watching your Internet connection from learning what sites you visit, it prevents the sites you visit from learning your physical location, and it lets you access sites which are blocked.

The Tor Browser lets you use Tor on Windows, Mac OS X, or Linux without needing to install any software. It can run off a USB flash drive, comes with a pre-configured web browser to protect your anonymity, and is self-contained.

Features at a glance

It is a portable software, allowing users to use directly from a USB flash drive, running a pre-configured web browser to protect their anonymity. The Tor software is the key component of Tor Browser Bundle, protecting users by bouncing their communications around a distributed network of relays, which are run by volunteers all around the world.

What's new in Tor Browser 4.5.1:

• All Platforms:
• Update Firefox to 31.7.0esr
• Update meek to 0.18
• Update Tor Launcher to 0.2.7.5
• Translation updates only
• Update Torbutton to 1.9.2.3
• Bug 15837: Show descriptions if unchecking custom mode
• Bug 15927: Force update of the NoScript UI when changing security level
• Bug 15915: Hide circuit display if it is disabled.
• Translation updates
• Bug 15945: Disable NoScript's ClearClick protection for now
• Bug 15933: Isolate by base (top-level) domain name instead of FQDN
• Bug 15857: Fix file descriptor leak in updater that caused update failures
• Bug 15899: Fix errors with downloading and displaying PDFs
• Windows:
• Bug 15872: Fix meek pluggable transport startup issue with Windows 7
• Build System:
• Bug 15947: Support Ubuntu 14.04 LXC hosts via LXC_EXECUTE=lxc-execute env var
• Bugs 15921+15922: Fix build errors during Mozilla Tryserver builds

Tor Browser 4.5.1 released, Install on Ubuntu / Linux Mint via PPA

To Install Tor Browser 4.5.1 on Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn / Linux Mint via PPA, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:upubuntu-com/tor-bundle
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install tor-browser

to remove Tor Browser 4.5.1 :

sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:upubuntu-com/tor-bundle
sudo apt-get remove tor-browser
sudo apt-get update

The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations. 

How to upgrade to Linux Kernel 3.19.8 [EOL] on Ubuntu or Linux Mint

How to upgrade to Linux Kernel 3.19.8 [EOL] on Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS) or Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana

Linux kernel is the essential part of any Linux operating system. It is responsible for resource allocation, low-level hardware interfaces, security, simple communications, basic file system management, and more. Written from scratch by Linus Torvalds (with help from various developers), Linux is a clone of the UNIX operating system. It is geared towards POSIX and Single UNIX Specification compliances.

Features at a glance

Linux comes with powerful features, such as true multitasking, multistack networking, shared copy-on-write executables, shared libraries, demand loading, virtual memory, and proper memory management. Initially designed only for 386/486-based computers, now Linux supports a wide range of architectures, including 64-bit (IA64, AMD64), ARM, ARM64, DEC Alpha, MIPS, SUN Sparc, PowerPC, as well as Amiga and Atari machines.

Read Full Changelog

The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations. 

How to upgrade to Linux Kernel 3.19.8 [EOL] on Ubuntu or Linux Mint

to upgrade / install Linux Kernel 3.19.8 [EOL] on Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS) or Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana and other Ubuntu derivative systems, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:

For Ubuntu 32 bit :

$ wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.19.8-vivid/linux-headers-3.19.8-031908_3.19.8-031908.201505110938_all.deb \ http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.19.8-vivid/linux-headers-3.19.8-031908-generic_3.19.8-031908.201505110938_i386.deb \ http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.19.8-vivid/linux-image-3.19.8-031908-generic_3.19.8-031908.201505110938_i386.deb

For Ubuntu 64 bit :

$ wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.19.8-vivid/linux-headers-3.19.8-031908_3.19.8-031908.201505110938_all.deb \ http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.19.8-vivid/linux-headers-3.19.8-031908-generic_3.19.8-031908.201505110938_amd64.deb \ http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.19.8-vivid/linux-image-3.19.8-031908-generic_3.19.8-031908.201505110938_amd64.deb

For LowLatency Kernel you can download full in here.

Install, update or Upgrade Linux Kernel 3.19.8 [End Of Life] :

$ sudo dpkg -i *.deb

Atfer install complete, update grub and reboot your computer and choose new kernel in grub :

$ sudo update-grub
$ sudo reboot

WARNING: Installing a new kernel may render your system unusable or unstable. If you proceed with the installation using the instructions below, make sure you back up any important data you have to an external hard drive.

Enjoy! I hope this article adding you more clarity.

Adobe Flash Player 11.2.202.460 released, Install on Fedora, CentOS, RHEL, OpenSUSE and Mandriva

Adobe Flash Player 11.2.202.460 released, Install on Fedora 22, Fedora 21, CentOS 7, CentOS 6, RHEL, OpenSUSE 13.2, OpenSUSE 13.1 and Mandriva

Adobe Flash Player is a proprietary (closed source) and freeware web browser plugin designed to allow users to enjoy rich multimedia and Internet applications powered by the Flash technology.

Supports popular web browsers

Initially developed by the American Macromedia web development software company, the project was previously known as Macromedia Flash. These days it is actively developed by the Adobe Systems and Microsoft Corporation.

It is basically a simple library, a plugin for several well known web browsers, including the powerful Mozilla Firefox application, supporting playback of audio and video streams, as well as to view Flash websites and interact with rich Internet apps.

What's new in Adobe Flash Player 11.2.202.356:
These updates resolve a buffer overflow vulnerability that could result in arbitrary code execution (CVE-2014-0515).

Install Adobe Flash Player 11.2.202.460 on Fedora 22, Fedora 21, CentOS 7, CentOS 6, RHEL, OpenSUSE 13.2, OpenSUSE 13.1 and Mandriva

For Linux 32 bit :
Download adobe-release rpm from

# wget http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm

Install olea-repo-release rpm:

# rpm -Uvh adobe-release*rpm

Install flash-plugin rpm package:

# yum install flash-plugin

For Linux 64 bit :
Download adobe-release rpm from

# wget http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-x86_64-1.0-1.noarch.rpm

Install olea-repo-release rpm:

# rpm -Uvh adobe-release*rpm

Install flash-plugin rpm package:

# yum install flash-plugin

Enjoy! I hope this article adding you more clarity.

Nvidia Linux Display Driver 346.72 released, available for Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Pinguy OS, Elementary OS, Deepin, Peppermint, LXLE, Linux Lite, Debian, Robolinux, SparkyLinux, Fedora, CentOS, OpenSUSE, Mageia, OpenMandriva, Arch Linux, Manjaro, ROSA Desktop etc.

Nvidia Linux Display Driver 346.72 released, available for Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Pinguy OS, Elementary OS, Deepin, Peppermint, LXLE, Linux Lite, Debian, Robolinux, SparkyLinux, Fedora, CentOS, OpenSUSE, Mageia, OpenMandriva, Arch Linux, Manjaro, ROSA Desktop etc.

Nvidia Linux Display Driver is a proprietary, yet freely distributed OpenGL video driver that aims to offer support for Nvidia graphics cards on any Linux kernel-based operating system. This version has been designed to be installed only computers supporting the 64-bit architecture. For 32-bit support, see this link. It is a native Linux driver that provides users with only a command-line installer, as well as a settings panel. It’s also the number one choice for gaming users.

What's new in Nvidia Linux Display Driver 64-bit 346.72:

• Fixed a bug causing loss of stereo synchronization in certain Quadro Sync framelock configurations.
• Fixed Pixel Buffer Object operations when row length is less than width. GL_[UN]PACK_ROW_LENGTH can be set to a value lower than the width of the operation being carried out. The OpenGL specification allows for this (the source or destination lines will be overlapping). Previously, our implementation of Pixel Buffer Objects did not support this case and would throw an error.
• Fixed a rare deadlock condition when running applications that use OpenGL in multiple threads on a Quadro GPU.

What Nvidia graphics cards are supported by this driver?

Officially, the Nvidia Linux Display Driver supports a wide range of Nvidia graphics cards, much more than the open source Nouveau driver supports. Most of the ION, ION LE, Quadro Plex, Quadro Sync, GRID, NVS, nForce Professional 3000, Quadro FX, Quadro Blade, as well as all the GeForce series are supported at this time.

How to Download and Install Nvidia Linux Display Driver 346.72

to install Nvidia Linux Display Driver 346.72 on Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Pinguy OS, Elementary OS, Deepin, Peppermint, LXLE, Linux Lite, Debian, Robolinux, SparkyLinux, Fedora, CentOS, OpenSUSE, Mageia, OpenMandriva, Arch Linux, Manjaro, ROSA Desktop etc, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:

Download for Linux 32 bit :

$ wget http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/346.72/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-346.72.run

Download for Linux 64 bit :

$ wget http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/346.72/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-346.72.run

How do I install the Nvidia graphics driver?

In order to install the Nvidia Linux Display Driver on your Linux box, you will have to first download the binary package using the “Download” button above, save the run file on your Home directory, open a TTY and execute the “sh ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86-xxx.xx.run” command (without quotes), as root (with sudo), where xxx.xx is the version number.

Keep in mind though, that you will have to install the Linux kernel header packages first! During the installation, you will be asked if you want to manually edit the X configuration file or let the installer do all the hard work. Alternatively, it is possible to automatically configure it by running the nvidia-xconfig command via a Linux terminal emulator after the installation.

Enjoy! I hope this article adding you more clarity.

Mozilla Firefox 38.0 released, available for Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Pinguy OS, Elementary OS, Deepin, Peppermint, LXLE, Linux Lite, Debian, Robolinux, SparkyLinux, Fedora, CentOS, OpenSUSE, Mageia, OpenMandriva, Arch Linux, Manjaro, ROSA Desktop etc.

Mozilla Firefox 38.0 released, available for Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Pinguy OS, Elementary OS, Deepin, Peppermint, LXLE, Linux Lite, Debian, Robolinux, SparkyLinux, Fedora 22, Fedora 21, CentOS, OpenSUSE, Mageia, OpenMandriva, Arch Linux, Manjaro, ROSA Desktop etc.

The Mozilla Firefox project is a redesign of Mozilla's browser component, written using the XUL user interface language and designed to be cross-platform, supporting Linux, Android, Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X operating systems. It is a fast, small and very easy-to-use web browser/navigator/explorer that offers many advantages over other similar products, such as the ability to block pop-up windows and the feature-rich tabbed browsing experience.

Features at a glance

The application offers a well designed graphical user interface that integrates search (powered by Google, Bing, Yahoo, etc.), and industry leading accessibility with Find As You Type - find links and page text by simply typing. As mentioned before, the Firefox browser features comprehensive pop-up controls, which will keep unwanted advertising off your desktop. A tab browsing mode will let you open several pages in a single window, allowing you to load links in the background without leaving the page you're on.

What's new in Mozilla Firefox 38.0:

• New tab-based preferences
• Ruby annotation support
• Share the active tab or window in a Hello conversation - enabled for first half of the beta cycle
• Keep track of articles and blog posts with the Reading List - enabled for the first half of the beta cycle
• Base for the next ESR release.
• autocomplete=off is no longer supported for username/password fields
• RegExp.prototype.source now returns "(?:)" instead of the empty string for empty regular expressions
• Page load times improved by speculative connection warmup
• WebSocket now available in Web Workers
• Implemented srcset attribute and element for responsive images
• Implemented DOM3 Events KeyboardEvent.code
• Mac OS X: Implemented a subset of the Media Source Extensions (MSE) API to allow native HTML5 playback on YouTube
• BroadcastChannel API implemented
• Implemented Encrypted Media Extensions (EME) API to support encrypted HTML5 video/audio playback (Windows Vista or later only)
• Automatically download Adobe Primetime Content Decryption Module (CDM) for DRM playback through EME (Windows Vista or later only)
• Optimized-out variables are now visible in Debugger UI
• XMLHttpRequest logs in the web console are now visually labelled and can be filtered separately from regular network requests
• WebRTC now has multistream and renegotiation support
• copy command added to console

Installation instructions:

Mozilla does not provide a repository for its Firefox browser, but the installation steps are quite easy anyway and should not create difficulties on any Linux distribution.

The latest versions of Firefox are available as pre-compiled libraries via the Mozilla FTP, so we need to download the archive (i386 or i686 for 32 bit systems and amd64 or x86_64 for 64 bit systems), extract  it and run the firefox file. Also, it is advised to remove previous versions of Firefox, move Firefox to /opt and create a symlink, for an easier usage.

The below instructions should work on all the popular Linux systems, including Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Pinguy OS, Elementary OS, Deepin, Peppermint, LXLE, Linux Lite, Debian, Robolinux, SparkyLinux, Fedora, CentOS, OpenSUSE, Mageia, OpenMandriva, Arch Linux, Manjaro, ROSA Desktop etc.
How to install Firefox 38 on 32 bit Linux systems:

$ wget ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/38.0/linux-i686/en-US/firefox-38.0.tar.bz2
$ tar -xjvf firefox-38.0.tar.bz2
$ sudo rm -rf /opt/firefox*
$ sudo mv firefox /opt/firefox
$ sudo ln -sf /opt/firefox/firefox /usr/bin/firefox

To start Firefox, just open a terminal, type firefox and hit enter.
How to install Firefox 38 on 64 bit Linux systems:

$ wget ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/38.0/linux-x86_64/en-US/firefox-38.0.tar.bz2
$ tar -xjvf firefox-38.0.tar.bz2
$ sudo rm -rf /opt/firefox*
$ sudo mv firefox /opt/firefox
$ sudo ln -sf /opt/firefox/firefox /usr/bin/firefox

For update on Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Pinguy OS, Elementary OS, Deepin, Peppermint, LXLE, Linux Lite and other Ubuntu derivative systems, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get upgrade

To start Firefox, just open a terminal, type firefox and hit enter.