How to Upgrade to Linux Kernel 4.1 RC6 on Ubuntu / Linux Mint

How to Upgrade and install to Linux Kernel 4.1 RC6 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

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.

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

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How to Upgrade to Linux Kernel 4.1 RC6 on Ubuntu / Linux Mint

to update and upgrade Linux Kernel 4.1 RC6 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, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:


For Ubuntu OS 32 bit :

$ wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.1-rc6-unstable/linux-headers-4.1.0-040100rc6_4.1.0-040100rc6.201506010235_all.deb \ http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.1-rc6-unstable/linux-headers-4.1.0-040100rc6-generic_4.1.0-040100rc6.201506010235_i386.deb \ http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.1-rc6-unstable/linux-image-4.1.0-040100rc6-generic_4.1.0-040100rc6.201506010235_i386.deb

For Ubuntu OS 64 bit :

$ wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.1-rc6-unstable/linux-headers-4.1.0-040100rc6_4.1.0-040100rc6.201506010235_all.deb \ http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.1-rc6-unstable/linux-headers-4.1.0-040100rc6-generic_4.1.0-040100rc6.201506010235_amd64.deb \ http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.1-rc6-unstable/linux-image-4.1.0-040100rc6-generic_4.1.0-040100rc6.201506010235_amd64.deb

for ARM you can download full in here .

Install, update or Upgrade Linux Kernel 4.1 RC6 :

$  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.
 

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.

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.

Cutegram 2.2.0 Released, Install on Ubuntu and Linux Mint via PPA

Cutegram 2.2.0 Released, Install 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 via PPA

Cutegram is a completely free and open source graphical software project that has been designed from the offset to act as a Linux client for the Telegram messaging service. It offers an attractive and modern graphical user interface implemented in Qt.

Features at a glance

Key features include support for sending and receiving files, support for the system tray area of many open source desktop environments, native desktop notifications, customizable fonts, Twitter emojis, as well as support for all GNU/Linux operating systems.

Additionally, the software comes with complete drag & drop support for sending files, deleting messages and forwarding messages, an experimental secret chat, and a smooth and beautiful graphical user interface based on the latest QML technologies.

Another interesting features is that the program is independent of a desktop environment, thus supporting GNOME, KDE, Xfce, LXDE, Cinnamon, MATE, LXQt, Openbox, Fluxbox, and other open source desktop environments/window managers.

What's new in Cutegram 2.2.0:

• Link preview (disabled on trusty, because of some problems)
• Audio Recorder
• Audio Player
• Focus on User messages using click on their messages
• New messages separator
• Mention and Hashtag support
• Add new contact dialog on contact list
• Better scroll bars
• An option to disable badges
• Update and Add new translations
• Improvement on Secret chat
• Non-contact chat bugfix
• Many other improvements and bugfixes

Cutegram 2.2.0 Released, Install on Ubuntu and Linux Mint via PPA

Because it is available via PPA, installing Cutegram 2.2.0 on Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS) and derivative systems is easy. All you have to do is add the ppa to your system, update the local repository index and install the cutegram package. Like this:

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:aseman/desktop-apps
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install cutegram

Optional, to remove cutegram, do:

$ sudo apt-get remove cutegram

to install Cutegram 2.2.0 with single file deb extension on Ubuntu derivative systems, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:

Ubuntu 32 bit ;

$ wget http://aseman.co/downloads/cutegram/2/cutegram_2.2.0-1-i386.deb
$ sudo dpkg -i cutegram_2.2.0-1-i386.deb
$ sudo rm -rf cutegram_2.2.0-1-i386.deb

Ubuntu 64 bit ;

$ wget http://aseman.co/downloads/cutegram/2/cutegram_2.2.0-1-amd64.deb
$ sudo dpkg -i cutegram_2.2.0-1-amd64.deb
$ sudo rm -rf cutegram_2.2.0-1-amd64.deb

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

$ sudo apt-get install -f

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.

Install Google Chrome 42.0 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

Install Google Chrome 42.0 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

Google Chrome, or Chrome, is a web browser software that tries to compete with major players, such as Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari, and even the Opera web browser. It is available for the Linux, Android, iOS, Microsoft Windows, and Mac OS X operating systems. But Google Chrome is more than a web browser, as it combines sophisticated open source technology, borrowed from the Chromium application, into a minimal design, all in order to help users surf the web much faster, a lot easier, and safer than ever before.

Features at a glance

A unique functionality of the Google Chrome application is its ability to search the web directly from the address bar. Just type one or more words in the address bar and immediately get suggestions for popular web pages. The application displays thumbnails of your top websites on the new tab page, a function that is popularly called Speed Dial. This functionality is also available on other similar products, and it allows you to easily access your favorite web pages instantly, with lightning speed, from any new tab.

Install Google Chrome 42.0 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 :

To Install/Update Google Chrome 42.0 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:


For Ubuntu 32 bit :

$ wget -c https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_i386.deb
$ sudo dpkg -i google-chrome-stable_current_i386.deb
$ sudo rm -rf google-chrome-stable_current_i386.deb

For Ubuntu 64 bit :

$ wget -c https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb
$ sudo dpkg -i google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb
$ sudo rm -rf google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb

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

$ sudo apt-get install -f

Note: Installing Google Chrome will add the Google repository so your system will automatically keep Google Chrome up to date. If you don’t want Google's repository, do “sudo touch /etc/default/google-chrome” before installing the package.  

Enjoy! I hope this article adding you more clarity.

FrostWire 6.0.8 is out, Available for Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Fedora, CentOS, OpenSUSE and Mac OSX

FrostWire 6.0.8 is out, 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, Fedora 22, Fedora 21, CentOS, OpenSUSE and Mac OSX

FrostWire is an open source and cross-platform application that allow users to share large files and folders at faster download speeds over the Internet, with other people. It is compatible with the BitTorrent network, and allows users to download Magnet links.

Features at a glance

Key features include user-friendly online chat rooms, support for Internet radio stations, skins, Apple iTunes support, as well as a media library and audio player. Being an open source software, FrostWire includes no spyware and no adware. Guaranteed!

It is inspired by the well known LimeWire application and has been designed from the ground up to support search inside cloud and .torrent files, IRC (Internet Relay Chat) service, playback of audio and video files using the MPlayer software, as well as local file sharing and streaming via Wi-Fi/HTTP.

In addition, the program allows users to send downloaded audio files to the iTunes music player application in order to play them. Also, the integrated video player component will let you to playback downloaded video files.

What's new in FrostWire 6.0.8:

• Significant improvements in search result availability.
• Faster Bitsnoop, Extratorrent and KAT individual file search results.
• Reduced use of DHT network for search.
• Faster torrent download start time.
• Fixes download error on some Archive.org search results.
• Fixes Yify search.
• Misc fixes in Library functionality.
• Crash fixes.

FrostWire 6.0.8 is out, 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, Fedora 22, Fedora 21, CentOS, OpenSUSE and Mac OSX

open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:

$ wget -c http://dl9.frostwire.com/frostwire/6.0.8/frostwire-6.0.8.amd64.deb
$ sudo dpkg -i frostwire-6.0.8.amd64.deb
$ sudo rm -rf frostwire-6.0.8.amd64.deb

Download RPM File and DMG (Mac OSX)

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

Darktable 1.6.6 is out, Install on Mac OSX, Ubuntu or Linux Mint via PPA

Darktable 1.6.6 ubuntu ppa / Darktable 1.6.6 ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet / Darktable 1.6.6 Linux Mint ppa / Darktable 1.6.6 ubuntu 14.10/14.04 ppa

Darktable is an open source application that provides both amateur and enthusiasts photographers with a virtual lighttable and darkroom that allows them to manage their digital negatives in a single and handy database. It has been designed from the ground up to be used for developing RAW images from digital cameras.

Features at a glance

Key features include an astonishing graphical user interface designed for the modern computer user, support for importing single image files, folders, and scan for devices, ability to categorize images by numerous filters, such as ISO, color label, rights, creator, publisher, camera, date, time, title, lens, aperture, etc., as well as to access recently used collections.

In addition, the application lets users to view detailed information about an image, if available, such as lens, exposure, aperture, focal length, focus distance, ISO, model, maker, filmroll, image id, filename, version, full path, width, height, copyright, local copy, date, time, title, creator, latitude, and longitude.

It also features fully non-destructive editing, 4x32-bit floating point pixel buffers, GPU acceleration via OpenCL, built-in ICC profiles (sRGB, XYZ, linear RGB and Adobe RGB), zero-latency fullscreen mode, tethered shooting, flexible search functionality, powerful export system, and many translations.

The program is capable of importing a wide range of standard, RAW and HRD image formats, among which we can mention JPG, CR2, HDR, and PFM, and can export images to Picasa and Flickr, as well as to export to low dynamic range (JPEG, PNG, TIFF), linear high dynamic range (PFM, EXR) and 16-bit (PPM, TIFF) images.

What's new in darktable 1.6.6:

• fix the Olympus E330 support (which was accidentally broken in 1.6.4)
• fix white balance reading for the Canon Powershot SX50 HS
• white balance presets for RICOH GR
• minor assorted bug fixes (masks, lens correction, profiled denoise, etc)

Darktable 1.6.6 is out, Install on Mac OSX, Ubuntu or Linux Mint via PPA

To install Darktable 1.6.6 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:pmjdebruijn/darktable-release
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install darktable

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

Install dd Utility 1.4 on Ubuntu or Linux Mint

Install dd Utility 1.4 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

dd Utility - Write and Backup Operating System IMG and ISO files on Memory Card or Disk

Features

• Write disk image files to memory cards and removable storage.
• Create bootable USB stick from ISO files of Linux installations.
• Backup and Restore IMG files to memory card and disk.
• Install and Restore compressed disk image files on the fly. Supported file formats: IMG, ISO, Zip, GZip and XZ.
• Backup and compress disk image files on the fly to significantly reduce the file size of backups.
• Drag and Drop Backup and Restore.
• Ideal for flashing IMG files to SD Cards for use with Raspberry Pi, Arduino, BeagleBoard and other ARM boards.

Requirements

• Linux and Mac OS X supported

Technical

• Written in Bash and a bit of Applescript for dialogs for the OS X version
• OS X version packaged with Platypus
• Debian/Ubuntu version packaged with Debreate

Installation

• Download the dd Utility DEB file. 
• or using command : $ sudo wget http://i11.at/dwl/eos/ddutility_1.4_all.deb
• Double click on the DEB file to open and install with the Ubuntu Software Center, or from the command line on other Debian based distros with:
• 
  or open terminal ; $ sudo dpkg -i ddutility.deb
• Select dd Utility from your Dash or Applications menu to start.

Check this page for How to use dd Utility

Krita 2.9.2 is out, Install on Ubuntu / Linux Mint via PPA

Tag : Krita 2.9.2 ubuntu ppa / Krita 2.9.2 linux mint / Krita 2.9.2 ppa / install Krita 2.9.2 on ubuntu / install Krita 2.9.2 on linux mint / Krita 2.9.2 ppa ubuntu

Krita 2.9.2 is out, You can Install on OpenSUSE, Fedora, Gentoo, Chakra Linux, FreeBSD, Ubuntu / Linux Mint via PPA

Krita is an open source application that provides users with a sophisticated graphical software for creating amazing paintings, drawings, sketches, and any other type of artwork. It was previously distributed as part of the deprecated KOffice office suite for the KDE desktop environment.

What's new in Krita 2.9.2:

• Make the eraser end of the stylus erase by default
• Make krita remember the presets chosen for each stylus and stylus end
• Don’t show the zoom level on-canvas message while loading
• Fix initialization of the multi-brush axis
• Add some more kickstarter backers to the about box
• Fix memory leak when loading presets (and a bunch more memory leaks)
• Fix crashes related to progress reporting when running a g’mic action
• Add a toggle button to hide/show the filter selection tree in the filter dialog
• Fix a focus bug that made it hard to edit e.g. layer names when activating the editor in the docker with a tablet stylus
• Fix geometry of the toolbox on startup in some cases
• Fix lock proportions in the free transform tool when locking aspect ratio
• Add an option to hide the docker titlebars
• Update the resource manager lists after loading a resource bundle
• Make the resource manager look for bundles by default
• Make Krita start faster by only loading images for the references docker when the references docker is visible
• Fix a crash in the g’mic docker when there’s no preview widget selected
• On switching images, show the selected layer in the layer box, not the bottom one
• Show the selected monitor profile in the color management settings page instead of the default one
• Make the Image Split dialog select the right export file type.
• Fix saving and loading masks for file layers
• Make the default MDI background darker
• Fix loading some older .kra files that contained an image name with a number after a /
• Don’t crash if the linux colord colormanager cannot find a color-managed output device
• Clean the code following a number of PVS studio code analyzer warnings
• Add tooltips to the presets in the popup palette
• Fix a problem where brush presets in the popup palette were sometimes misaligned
• Fix loading most types of images in the reference docker on Windows

The application features painting tools with brushes and colors, support for layers and channels, gradients, airbrush, erase tool, simple geometric forms, undo and redo support, zoom, color selections, as well as many filters. In addition, it allows users to create brushes from squares and circles, load and save images in the app’s native file format, add, merge, reorder and remove layers, or to load GIMP brushes, pipe brushes, patterns and gradients.

The program also allows users to use patterns and colours for filling the background, import and export images in any other format that is supported by the ImageMagick program, create layers with transparency, use RGB(A), gray(A) and color models, use high-quality scaling, and much more. Another interesting feature is the ability to work with Wacom tablets, which makes this application perfect for processional graphicians who want to create amazing artwork for blockbuster video games.

How To Install Krita 2.9.2 on OpenSUSE, Fedora, Gentoo, Chakra Linux, FreeBSD, Ubuntu / Linux Mint via PPA :

Ubuntu / Linux Mint

Use the following PPA:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kubuntu-ppa/backports
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install krita

Note: Previous versions of Krita MUST be uninstalle

OpenSUSE

Visit KDE_repositories to find which repository fits your needs.

Fedora

Fedora packages are available in the stable repository for Fedora 20 and 21 with the name 'calligra-krita'.

Gentoo

The e-build for Calligra Suite is in the portage tree as: app-office/calligra-2.7.00. You can use this to install Krita as well; there might be newer versions as well.

Chakra

Krita is part of the Calligra Suite, avaliable in the Chakra official repositories. To install Krita simply run this command:

sudo pacman -S calligra-krita

Wine 1.7.39 released, available for Ubuntu and Linux Mint on PPA

Wine 1.7.39 released, available for 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 on 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.

Numerous GUIs exist

PlayOnLinux, Crossover, Q4Wine, Bordeaux, Pipelight, Swine, WineXS, and winetricks are some of the most popular Wine GUI (Graphical User Interface) front-ends on Linux. On Mac OS X you can use the Wineskin, WineBottler and osxwinebuilder apps. Also, the application is not only supported on the Linux platform, as it is also compatible with other POSIX-compliant operating systems, such as BSD (FreeBSD, PC-BSD), OpenSolaris, and Mac OS X.
The Wine development release 1.7.39 is now available.
What's new in this release:

• WinMM joystick support on Mac OS X.
• Kerning support in DirectWrite.
• Support for DirectX Media Objects filters.
• Better support for animated GIFs in GdiPlus.
• Improved support for Known Folders in Shell32.
• Various bug fixes.

Install Wine 1.7.39 on Linux Mint and Ubuntu derivative system :

Because it is available via PPA, installing Winehq 1.7.39 (development) on the listed 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 is easy. All you have to do is add the ppa to your system, update the local repository index and install the wine package. Like this:

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

Optional, to remove Wine 1.7.39 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

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

flareGet 4.1-80 Stable Released, Available for Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Debian, Fedora, Mandriva, OpenSuse, Arch Linux, Chakra Linux and many more...

flareGet 4.1-80 Stable 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, Linux Mint 13 Maya, Debian 8 "jessie", Debian 7 "wheezy", Fedora 22, Fedora 21, Fedora 20, Mandriva, OpenSuse, Arch Linux, Chakra Linux and many more...

flareGet is a freeware product that provides users with a complex, full featured, multi-threaded, multi-segment and cross-platform download manager and accelerator that can easily replace the default download manager of popular web browsers, such as Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera or Internet Explorer.



It supports Windows XP/Vista/7/8 , Mac OS X 10.7+ and almost all 32 and 64 bit Debian, RPM and Pacman based Linux Distributions. The supported Linux Distributions include Ubuntu, Fedora, Mandriva, OpenSuse, LinuxMint, Arch Linux, Chakra Linux and many more...

Features at a glance

Key features include enhanced browser integration through add-ons, dynamic file segmentation algorithm for amazingly fast downloads, batch download, support for pausing and resuming unfinished downloads, on completion actions, YouTube video grabber, scheduler, proxy support, as well as intelligent file management.

What's new in flareGet 4.1-80:

• fixed failure of downloads with file size than 5KB
• fixed the download dialog behaviour to display on top
• fixed hiding of main window on closing to tray in Mac
• fixed some minor UI issues
• added notification for download start, if download dialog is disabled
• improvements in queue manager
• added support for showing files selected on opening in file manager
• other minor bug fixes and improvements

Download and 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 and Debian 8 "jessie", Debian 7 "wheezy", Debian 6:

open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:
For Linux system 32 bit :

$ wget -c http://flareget.com/files/flareget/debs/i386/flareget_4.1-80_i386.deb
$ sudo dpkg -i flareget_4.1-80_i386.deb

For Linux system 64 bit :

$ wget -c hhttp://www.flareget.com/files/flareget/debs/amd64/flareget_4.1-80_amd64.deb
$ sudo dpkg -i flareget_4.1-80_amd64.deb

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

$ sudo apt-get install -f

Download and Install on Fedora 22, Fedora 21, Fedora 20 and OpenSUSE 13.2, OpenSUSE 13.1 :

open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:
For 32 bit :

$ wget -c http://www.flareget.com/files/flareget/rpm/i386/flareget_4.1-80_i386(stable)_rpm.tar.gz

For 64 bit :

$ wget -c http://www.flareget.com/files/flareget/rpm/amd64/flareget_4.1-80_x86_64(stable)_rpm.tar.gz

For Mac OSX 64 bit : Download i here

For Arch Linux, Chakra Linux and other Pacman based Linux distributions.
Download 32 bit | Download 64 bit

FlareGet for Linux System Requirements:
FlareGet is a native Linux application written in C++, using Qt framework. FlareGet will run on almost all desktop environments - GNOME, KDE, Unity, Cinnamon etc. To run FlareGet following minimum dependencies should be met:

• Qt libraries with version >=4.8.1
• glibc (C library) with version >=2.13

FlareGet Issues:
FTP support is limited. Only single threaded download is supported, with no resume and proxy support.

Unknown Horizons 2014.1 is out, you can install/Update on Ubuntu and Linux Mint via PPA

Unknown Horizons 2014.1 is out, you can install/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, 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

Unknown Horizons is a 2D realtime strategy simulation with an emphasis on economy and city building. Expand your small settlement to a strong and wealthy colony, collect taxes and supply your inhabitants with valuable goods. Increase your power with a well balanced economy and with strategic trade and diplomacy.

What New in Unknown Horizons Release 2014.1

• Only expand settlement range for certain buildings
• Color overlays (if running with FIFE 0.3.6 or newer)
• Armory producing weapons
• Button to fill lumberjack range with trees
• Fixed some bad bugs causing the game to crash completely
• Lots of other improvements
• See changelog for more details about new features, improvements and fixed bugs & crashes

All in all, the new release Unknown Horizons 2014.1 provides a more stable gaming experience with new content and a bit of eye candy added as well. As some of you may have noticed already, there are several big changes happening around our engine FIFE right now. As a result of this, some new features (like the color overlays spotlighted above) are only available after a new engine release, or if you’re running a development snapshot. There is more work ahead to fully adopt our code to more of those changes, like replacing the currently used guichan library with its FIFE-maintained improved fork fifechan. Look forward to advanced text styling, many new cool widgets (e.g. for in-game statistics) and full UTF-8 support.

Install/Update Unknown Horizons 2014.1 on Ubuntu and Linux Mint via PPA :

To install/update Unknown Horizons 2014.1 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, 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:christoph-egger/unknown-horizons
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install unknown-horizons

For Gentoo Linux, Debian, Arch Linux, Chakra Linux installation, see here

Bomi 0.9.3 Multimedia Player is out, Install on Ubuntu and Linux Mint via PPA

Bomi 0.9.3 Multimedia Player is out, Install 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 via PPA

Bomi is a multimedia player formerly known as CMPlayer, which is aimed for easy usage but also provides various powerful features and convenience functions. Bomi comes with an intuitive, user friendly interface, with unlimited playback history, and restoration. It also has support for hardware accelerated GPU decoding, dvd playback and image slide show. Bomi is based on mpv for Linux.

 

Bomi 0.9.3 update

• New: display used encoding for subtitle file track in playinfo
• New: ‘–dump-api-tree’ and ‘–dump-action-list’ command line options
• New: JSON-RPC interface
• New: current deinterlacing method in playinfo
• New: options to set general font and fixed-width font
• New: ‘Window > Remove Frame’ for frameless(borderless) window
• New: ‘Subtitle > Subtitle Sync > Bring Previous/Next Subtitle’ menu
• New: allow to map actions for left/right button click
• New: ask username and password on permission denied for smb://
• New: ‘Subtitle > Subtitle Scale’ menu to adjust font scale during playback
• New: ‘Subtitle > Override ASS Style’ menu
• New: options to specify authentication info for samba
• New: configurable step for ‘move screen position’
• New: ‘Video > Zoom’ menu
• New: color adjustment for RGB channel
• New: video color editor dialog
• New: new skin ‘air’
• New: ‘Est. Frame Number’ item in playback information
• New: aspect ratio is adjustable now
• New: enable smbclient support(smb:// protocol)
• New: caption filter in subtitle viewer
• New: checkbox to display time in milliseconds
• New: language filter list for subtitle find dialog
• New: reconstruct encoding list
• New: reload file with specific encoding
• New: seek by double clicking caption in subtitle viewer
• New: accept non-media type URL by drag-and-drop
• and lots of bugfixes

Install/Update to Bomi 0.9.3 Multimedia Playeron Ubuntu and Linux Mint via PPA :

to install, update and upgrade to Bomi 0.9.3 Multimedia Player 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 via PPA, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:

$ sudo apt-get remove cmplayer
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:darklin20/bomi
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install bomi

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

Popcorn Time 0.3.7 Finally released, Available for Ubuntu and Linux Mint on PPA

Popcorn Time 0.3.7 Finally released, you can install, update 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 via PPA

Popcorn Time is a tool that allows you to play hundreds of movies and episodes from TV series directly on your Android device, without having to download anything. Popcorn Time app version is very similar to the Windows version in that it takes the .torrent file for the movie or episode that you want to watch and streams it on your device. It is recommended to use it with a WiFi connection due to streamed data size.

Popcorn Time’s interface is elegant and intuitive. On the first screen of the app you can quickly access any of the latest releases available to download, and you can access the selection of series or the search tool just by tapping on the screen. Note that the video file might end up stored on your device, so it’s a good idea to clean the temporary file folder for Popcorn Time every so often.

Whats New in Popcorn Time 0.3.7 Finally :

BugFixes:

• Fall back to Sequential ID when AirPlay devices do not respond to ServerInfo queries
• Rebuild the new built-in VPN Client
• Renamed “External” to “ExtPlayer” to avoid confusion with non-local devices
• Fix the movie cover resizing code and garbage collect the cache to ensure old metadata isn’t used
• Greatly improves the built-in DLNA detection
• Fix retina display for Ultra HD screens
• Properly hide the spinner in cases where an error occurs
• Always show the FileSelector if TorrentCol is active. Fixes PT-1575
• Fix subtitle error handling in the streamer
• Prevent the app from getting stuck on “Waiting for Subtitles” if subtitle discovery fails
• Fix the HTTP API / Remote API
• Improved IP-Detection for all external devices. Fixes PT-1440
• Fix the issue where the Ukrainian flag was displayed instead of the Armenian flag
• Fixed TV Show covers not showing up due to Trakt shutting down Slurm Image Server

Features:

• Calculate the remaining time before stream download completion
• Added a “Magnet” icon in the details pane to allow copying of the magnet link
• Added the ability to save the .torrent files and magnet links in-app for later

Install/Update Popcorn Time 0.3.7 Finally on Linux Mint and Ubuntu derivative System via PPA :

to install Popcorn Time 0.3.7 Finally 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 via PPA, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:

$ sudo apt-add-repository ppa:webupd8team/popcorntime
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install popcorn-time

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

Note : Downloading copyrighted material may be illegal in your country. Use at your own risk

Home Popcorn Time

How to Install FFmpeg 2.6 on Debian, Fedora, Linux Mint and Ubuntu Derivative System via PPA

FFmpeg 2.6 out now, you can install on Debian, Fedora, Linux Mint and Ubuntu Derivative System via PPA

FFmpeg is an open source utility that allows Linux, Windows and Mac OS X users to playback, convert, record and stream video and audio files. It is used in almost all Linux distributions. It is a command-line software that can encode, decode, demux, mux, transcode, stream, play and filter almost any media format available. FFmpeg uses libavcodec, the most advanced audio/video codec library for Linux and UNIX-like systems.

What's new in FFmpeg 2.6:

• The FFmpeg Project proudly presents FFmpeg 2.6 "Grothendieck", about 3 months after the release of FFmpeg 2.5. A lot of important work got in this time, so let's start talking about what we like to brag the most about: features.
• A lot of people will probably be happy to hear that we now have support for NVENC — the Nvidia Video Encoder interface for H.264 encoding — thanks to Timo Rothenpieler, with some little help from NVIDIA and Philip Langdale.
• People in the broadcasting industry might also be interested in the first steps of closed captions support with the introduction of a decoder by Anshul Maheswhwari. Regarding filters love, we improved and added many. We could talk about the 10-bit support in spp, but maybe it's more important to mention the addition of colorlevels (yet another color handling filter), tblend (allowing you to for example run a diff between successive frames of a video stream), or the dcshift audio filter.
• There are also two other important filters landing in libavfilter: palettegen and paletteuse. Both submitted by the Stupeflix company. These filters will be very useful in case you are looking for creating high quality GIFs, a format that still bravely fights annihilation in 2015.
• There are many other new features, but let's follow-up on one big cleanup achievement: the libmpcodecs (MPlayer filters) wrapper is finally dead. The last remaining filters (softpulldown/repeatfields, eq*, and various postprocessing filters) were ported by Arwa Arif (OPW student) and Paul B Mahol.
• Concerning API changes, there are not many things to mention. Though, the introduction of device inputs and outputs listing by Lukasz Marek is a notable addition (try ffmpeg -sources or ffmpeg -sinks for an example of the usage). As usual, see doc/APIchanges for more information.
• Now let's talk about optimizations. Ronald S. Bultje made the VP9 decoder usable on x86 32-bit systems and pre-ssse3 CPUs like Phenom (even dual core Athlons can play 1080p 30fps VP9 content now), so we now secretly hope for Google and Mozilla to use ffvp9 instead of libvpx. But VP9 is not the center of attention anymore, and HEVC/H.265 is also getting many improvements, which include C and x86 ASM optimizations, mainly from James Almer, Christophe Gisquet and Pierre-Edouard Lepere.
• Even though we had many x86 contributions, it is not the only architecture getting some love, with Seppo Tomperi adding ARM NEON optimizations to the HEVC stack, and James Cowgill adding MIPS64 assembly for all kind of audio processing code in libavcodec.
• And finally, Michael Niedermayer is still fixing many bugs, dealing with most of the boring work such as making releases, applying tons of contributors patches, and daily merging the changes from the Libav project.

Features at a glance

The software is comprised of a multimedia streaming server for live broadcasts, a simple media player based on the powerful SDL library, a simple multimedia stream analyzer, a library that contains functions for simplifying programming, and another library that includes muxers and demuxers for multimedia container formats. Additionally, it comes with support for input and output devices, media filters, a library for performing highly optimized image scaling and color space/pixel format conversion operations, and a library for performing highly optimized audio rematrixing, resampling and sample format conversions.

How to Install FFmpeg 2.6 on Debian, Fedora, Linux Mint and Ubuntu Derivative System via PPA :

to install FFmpeg 2.6 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 add-apt-repository ppa:jon-severinsson/ffmpeg
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ffmpeg
sudo apt-get install frei0r-plugins

To remove FFmpeg 2.6 in Ubuntu derivative system, do :

sudo apt-get remove ffmpeg

For Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux packages (i386, x86_64) and debian packages.

Converting videos and audios has never been so easy.

$ ffmpeg -i input.mp4 output.avi

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

Wine 1.7.38 is out, you can install on Linux Mint and Ubuntu derivative system

Wine 1.7.38 is out, you can 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

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.

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 1.7.38 is now available.
What's new in this release:

• New version of the Gecko engine based on Firefox 36.
• Support for themed scrollbars.
• Updated version of the Mono engine.
• More compatible RPC interface for service control.
• Support for X Drag & Drop version 5.
• Threading fixes in IME support.
• Various bug fixes.

Install Wine 1.7.38 on Linux Mint and Ubuntu derivative system :

Because it is available via PPA, installing Winehq 1.7.37 (development) on the listed 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 is easy. All you have to do is add the ppa to your system, update the local repository index and install the wine package. Like this: - See more at: http://media-opensource.blogspot.com/2015/02/installupdate-wine-1737-on-ubuntu-and.html#sthash.C6LEbIYW.dpuf

Because it is available via PPA, installing Winehq 1.7.38 (development) on the listed 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 is easy. All you have to do is add the ppa to your system, update the local repository index and install the wine package. Like this:

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

Optional, to remove Wine 1.7.38 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

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

PlayOnLinux 4.2.6 Released, You can Install on Arch Linux, Debian, Fedora, Frugalware and Ubuntu

PlayOnLinux 4.2.6 Released, You can Install on Arch Linux, Debian, Fedora, Frugalware and Ubuntu 14.04, ubuntu 13.10/13.04
 
PlayOnLinux is an open-source and completely free software project that has been designed from the ground up as a graphical user interface (GUI) for the Wine application, allowing you to effortlessly install and use a wide range of software designed for the Microsoft Windows operating system.

Features at a glance

Key features include an easy-to-use and straightforward graphical user interface, support for multiple Wine versions, ability to run local scripts, built-in messenger, debugger and console, support for a wide range of Windows applications, as well as a plugin architecture that will extend the default functionality.

What's new in PlayOnLinux 4.2.6:

• Use $ POL_TERM more Consistently, allow POL_TERM global configuration override. Beware, the carrier must terminal -T and -e options, so gnome-terminal Does not Qualify (gnome-terminal.wrapper Does though)
• Add a function to compute a hash of a POL_Wine_VersionSignature Wine Package
• Python version string extraction hardening (# 4895)
• POL_System_PartInfo APPROBATION thru mount filesystems point INSTEAD of device (Btrfs subvolumes compatibility)
• Modify bash / document_reader to pass extra arguments Unchanged ( http://www.playonlinux.com/en/topic-12519-Pass_arguments_to_PDFXChange_Viewer.html )
• Remove "skipped lines" messages When The debugger gets the focus back
• POL_Shortcut: do not overwrite $ binary logging to Improve
• mainwindow: make boxen alert child of the main window So They can not get lost behind --other windows
• Prevent POL_Download_Resource clobbering $ APP_ANSWER
• Critical error: wget throwing SSL error when Install Components uses wget (bug 5002)

Install/Update PlayOnLinux 4.2.6 on Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Ubuntu 13.10/13.04 :

PlayOnLinux: PlayOnLinux_4.2.6.deb

Ubuntu Precise (and superior) users : You must install the package wine:i386 to get PlayOnLinux working

For the Trusty version
Type the following commands:

wget -q "http://deb.playonlinux.com/public.gpg" -O- | sudo apt-key add -
sudo wget http://deb.playonlinux.com/playonlinux_trusty.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/playonlinux.list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install playonlinux

For the Saucy version
Type the following commands:

wget -q "http://deb.playonlinux.com/public.gpg" -O- | sudo apt-key add -
sudo wget http://deb.playonlinux.com/playonlinux_saucy.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/playonlinux.list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install playonlinux

For the Precise version
Type the following commands:

wget -q "http://deb.playonlinux.com/public.gpg" -O- | sudo apt-key add -
sudo wget http://deb.playonlinux.com/playonlinux_precise.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/playonlinux.list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install playonlinux

Install/Update PlayOnLinux 4.2.6 on Arch Linux :

As root (or with sudo), type the following command:
pacman -Syu playonlinux

Install/Update PlayOnLinux 4.2.6 on Debian 7 "wheezy" and Debian 6 "squeeze" :

PlayOnLinux: PlayOnLinux_4.2.6.deb

Wheezy users : You must install the package wine:i386 to get PlayOnLinux working

With the Wheezy repository
Type the following commands:

wget -q "http://deb.playonlinux.com/public.gpg" -O- | apt-key add -
wget http://deb.playonlinux.com/playonlinux_wheezy.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/playonlinux.list
apt-get update
apt-get install playonlinux

With the Squeeze repository
Type the following commands:

wget -q "http://deb.playonlinux.com/public.gpg" -O- | apt-key add -
wget http://deb.playonlinux.com/playonlinux_squeeze.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/playonlinux.list
apt-get update
apt-get install playonlinux

With the Lenny repository
Type the following commands:

wget -q "http://deb.playonlinux.com/public.gpg" -O- | apt-key add -
wget http://deb.playonlinux.com/playonlinux_lenny.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/playonlinux.list
apt-get update
apt-get install playonlinux

With the Etch repository
Type the following commands:

wget -q "http://deb.playonlinux.com/public.gpg" -O- | apt-key add -
wget http://deb.playonlinux.com/playonlinux_etch.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/playonlinux.list
apt-get update
apt-get install playonlinux

Install/Update PlayOnLinux 4.2.6 on Fodora 20 and Fedora 21

Go here and install the playonlinux-yum package.

Install/Update PlayOnLinux 4.2.6 on Frugalware

Just type the following command:

pacman-g2 -S playonlinux

VLC 2.2.0 Media Player Released, Install on Ubuntu and Linux Mint via PPA

VLC 2.2.0 Media Player is Released, You can Install 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 via PPA
 
VLC Media Player (formerly VideoLAN Client) is an open source and highly portable multimedia player application that integrates support for many audio and video formats, as well as DVDs, VCDs, and several streaming protocols. In addition to those, VLC reads Audio-CDs, DVB-S/C/T streams, MPEG encoding cards, and video acquisition from a supported V4L (Video4Linux) device.

What's new in VLC 2.2.0:

• Important changes:
• The licenses of more modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+, notably most of the streaming output, muxers and access output modules
• Core:
• Support automatic rotation using streams metadata, GPU-accelerated when possible
• Add extensions manager and downloading from external repositories
• Rework the metadata fetching algorithm and policies
• Partial fix of playback of short audio samples
• Access:
• Added TLS support for ftp access and sout access New schemes for implicit (ftps) and explicit (ftpes) modes
• MMS audio selection on split audio streams
• Blu-Ray: support overlays, preferred menu languages, region selection and BD-J navigation
• Digital Cinema Package support, including encrypted DCP with KDM
• Partial fixes for Arccos protected DVDs
• Fix CDDB lookups, including pregap data
• Decoder:
• Support VDPAU acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
• Support MediaCodec acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
• Add Media Foundation Transform audio and video decoder
• Add video decoder module based on GStreamer plugins
• Add MMAL decoder for Broadcom VideoCore chips (like the RaspberryPi) supporting MPEG-2 and H.264, supporting GPU-zerocopy display
• Partial support for Voxware MetaSound
• libvpx decoder for VP8 and VP9
• Support MSN Audio, Atrac3+, VP7, Bink, TAK, On2 AVC, DK3, DK4, IMC, Vivo g723.1, Smacker, FIC, Auravision, Canopus Lossless, and numerous videogame codecs
• Teletext subtitles display improvements
• Mediacodec speed improvements on x86
• Support setting the post processing level in Theora
• OpenMax IL improvements, notably for RaspberryPi
• Fix channel ordering of LPCM codec in m2ts files
• New jpeg image decoder
• Add tx3g subtitles decoder
• New SVG image decoder
• Fix Speex decoding over RTP and in flv
• Support more x264 and FFv1 RGB modes
• Improvements on ZVBI teletext decoder, notably for speed and alignments
• Encoder:
• Support for MPEG-2 encoding using x262
• Support for HEVC/H.265 encoding using x265
• Support for Opus encoding using libopus
• New jpeg image encoder using libjpeg
• New png image encoder using libpng
• Demuxer:
• Support for Core Audio Format (CAF) files
• Important rework of the Ogg demuxer, notably improving seeking, streaming resilience, speex demuxing and chained Ogg
• Important rework of the ASF/WMV demuxer, notably for seeking, synchronization and tracks exclusion
• AVI improvements for better seek-indexing in non-fastseekable situations
• AVI fixes for uncompressed, indexed and paletized bitmaps
• MP4 fixes for fragmented files, vobsub, duration, aspect-ratio and support for rotation, covr atom and tracks exclusion
• Support Opus in MKV
• Support VP8 in OGG
• Basic support for WebVTT
• Handle support for ISO/IEC 14496-3 (AAC) Audio stream type in TS
• Support HDPR TS files
• Support microseconds in SubRip subtitles
• FLAC packets validation using CRC
• Improvements in metadata support in Ogg/Opus/Vorbis files
• Fix encoding issues and relative paths in some XML playlist formats
• Support THP Wii/Gamecube, RenderWare and Escape Replay game video files
• New HEVC raw packetizer and demuxer
• TS support for WiDi/Miracast LPCM
• Handle MOV/MP4 tx3g styled subtitles through codec
• Support SVG images files (on glib platforms)
• Keep selection of tracks on segment changes in MKV
• Support detection of SRT languages based on filename
• Support for seeking Standard MIDI Files
• Video Output:
• Direct rendering and filtering for VDPAU hardware acceleration
• New CoreAnimation OpenGL video output module for NPAPI plugins
• New OpenGL ES 2.0 through EGL video output module for Android
• New Android native window provider module
• Direct rendering for MediaCodec Android hardware acceleration
• Support for loading HLSL shaders in Direct3D video output
• Add MMAL based video output for RaspberryPi
• Video Filter:
• New Oldmovie effect filter
• New VHS effect filter
• New Freeze effect filter
• Support I422 and J422 in transform
• NEON optimizations for deinterleaving chroma, notably NV12->I420
• Fix audiobargraph activation and usage
• Audio Output:
• Allow setting volume while not connected with PulseAudio
• Audio device notifications for WASAPI
• Fix replay of sound buffer in DirectSound
• Split of MMDevice and WinRT audio modules
• Numerous fixes on AUHAL, including device management and stream changes
• Fixes for SPDIF passthru in most modules
• Muxers:
• Important rework of the Ogg muxer, notably for skeleton
• Fixes for the AVI muxer to respect the specification
• Support VP8 in OGG
• Add HEVC muxing in MP4 and TS
• Streaming:
• Important rework of the transcoding module to fix numerous bugs
• WebM streaming, including live sources, compatible with all major browsers vlc vlc://quit --sout '#transcode{vcodec=VP80,vb=1000,acodec=vorb,ab=128} :std{access=http{mime=video/webm},mux=webm,dst=:4212}'
• GSM, VP8, Opus and JPEG RTP packetization
• HLS: Allow setting the first segment number and numerous improvements
• new stats module to output block timing values and md5 sums
• transcode module access fps values as rationals now, eg 30000/1001
• VLC now streams all elementary streams, you can revert to previous behaviour with --no-sout-all
• --ts-out option has been removed, it has been superceded by --demux demuxdump --demuxdump-access udp --demuxdump-file 127.0.0.1:1234
• Support Metacube protocol when streaming over HTTP
• libVLC:
• add equalizer API libvlc_audio_equalizer_* functions
• add libvlc_media_player_program_scrambled function
• Visualizations:
• Add a 3D OpenGL spectrum visualization.
• Allow setting the FFT windowing style for 3D and normal spectrum
• Interfaces:
• Add support for subtitles drag 'n drop in skins2
• Add record button in Qt menus
• New module for core dialogs on iOS
• New layout for Qt buttons customization
• Support to continue media playback where it was left off for Qt and OS X
• Mac OS X Interface:
• Support for OS X Yosemite
• Avoid grey bars in fullscreen when using Mavericks with multiple monitors
• Improve fullscreen behavior for the native and VLCs own mode
• Fixes for advanced preferences
• Added 'file size' column to playlist table
• in addition to iTunes, Spotify is automatically paused on playback start
• Option to increase playlist font size
• Improved crash log reporting
• Misc:
• New module for TLS on OS X and iOS
• Windows installer will kill running instance before installing
• Teletext navigation buttons support in Qt4 gui
• Update and improve Koreus, Dailymotion, Soundcloud and Youtube scripts
• Security:
• Numerous integer and heap overflow in Ogg, AVI, ASF, TTA and MP4 demuxers
• Removed modules:
• iOS video output: use ios2
• OpenMash H.261 video decoder
• dirac encoder: use schroedinger
• Translations:
• New translation in Urdu, Tatar, Silesian, Samoan, Kapampangan, N'ko, Kurdish, Kabyle, Mexican Spanish, Catalan, Amharic
• Update of all translations: Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Vietnamese, Uzbek, Ukrainian, Turkish, Thai, Swedish, Serbian, Albanian, Slovenian, Slovak, Russian, Romanian, Brazilian Portuguese, Polish, Punjabi, Dutch, Nepali, Norwegian Bokmål, Malay, Marathi, Latvian, Lithuanian, Korean, Kannada, Khmer, Japanese, Italian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Hebrew, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, French, Finnish, Persian, Estonian, Spanish, Modern Greek, German, Danish, Welsh, Czech, Bosnian, Bengali, Asturian

 

Supports a wide range of multimedia file formats

Among the input formats supported by VLC Media Player, we can mention MPEG ES/PS/TS/PVA/MP3, AVI, ASF/WMV/WMA, OGG/OGM/Annodex, MP4/MOV/3GPP, Matroska (MKV), WAV, DTS WAV, Raw DV, Raw AAC, Raw AC3/a52 audio, Raw DTS audio, and FLAC audio. The MPEG-1, MPEG-2, DivX 1/2/3, MPEG-4/DivX 5/XviD/3ivX D4, Sorenson (SVQ 1/3), DV, Cinepak, Theora, H263/H263i, MJPEG A/B and WMV 1/2 video codecs are supported by default.

Install/Update VLC 2.2.0 Media Player 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 via PPA : 

Because it is available via PPA, installing VLC 2.2.0 on Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.10 and derivative systems is easy. All you have to do is add the ppa to your system, update the local repository index and install the vlc package. Like this:

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:videolan/stable-daily
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install vlc

Optional, to remove vlc, do:

$ sudo apt-get remove vlc

VLC Media Player is available in a Beta form on the Google Play Store for the Android platform, and in the last few years it became one of the most used media player applications for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X operating systems.