digiKam 4.7.0 is released, avaialable for (K)ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, OpenSUSE, Arch Linux and Mac OSX

DigiKam 4.7.0 is released, avaialable for (K)ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, OpenSUSE, Arch Linux and Mac OSX

digiKam is an open source project that provides users with a dedicated photo management solution, specifically designed to be deployed on KDE desktop environments. It includes image editor and organizer components, which can be easily extended through a built-in and powerful plugin architecture.

Features at a glance

Key features include red eyes correction, brightness, contrast, gamma, hue, saturation and luminosity correction, color balance, color inversion, color auto-correction, ratio cropping, free cropping, black & white and tonality converter using curves adjustments, rotation, and flipping.

With this tool, you will be able to import pictures, organize your photo collection, view images, edit and enhance photos, create slideshows and calendars, print and share your photo creations using social web services, email images, and much more.

What's new in digiKam 4.7.0:

• This release includes many bugs fixes from Maik Qualmann who propose patches to maintain KDE4 version while KF5 port is under progress.

DigiKam 4.7.0 is released, avaialable for (K)ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, OpenSUSE, Arch Linux and Mac OSX :

How to install DigiKam 4.7.0 on Kubuntu 14.10, Kubuntu 14.04 and Linux Mint 17 KDE systems, using KDE 4.13 and non KDE Ubuntu 14.04 derivatives:

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:philip5/extra
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install digikam

How to install DigiKam 4.7.0 on Kubuntu 14.10, Kubuntu 14.04 and Linux Mint 17 KDE systems, using KDE 4.14:

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:philip5/kubuntu-backports
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install digikam

Optional, to remove DigiKam 4.7.0 from either Kubuntu 14.10, Kubuntu 14.04 and Linux Mint 17 KDE, do:

$ sudo apt-get remove digikam

Before you can use digiKam, you must first download and install it. There are three ways to do that:

• Use a package provided by your operating system
  This is the preferred way. It is easy and stable, but it might be a version which is somewhat older.

• Compile a tarball which we provide
  This is a bit more complicated, but you can install the most recent stable version.

• Compile the KDE4 latest versions (git repository) where we currently work in.
  This is even more complicated, but as recent as it gets. This is needed when you want to help us to find bugs or help us develop.

You can choose the one which fits you best. We provide detailed instructions for each of them.
Note: check the dependencies before trying to compile digiKam.

Kodi 14.1 “Helix” Stable is released, you can install on Ubuntu / Linux Mint via PPA

Kodi 14.1 “Helix” Stable 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

Kodi (formerly XBMC Media Center) is an open source and very powerful project that provides all the necessary tools for transforming your regular PC into a bona fide HTPC, which if used in conjunction a big screen TV and a Hi-Fi audio system, will transform your living room into a veritable home theater.

What's new in Kodi 14.1:

• Fix incorrect video screensize on Android AML devices
• Fix: potential segfault when silencing audio
• Fix: do not skip streaminfo if format is not know.
• Fix: DXVA flickering on AMD
• Fix: prevent possible over-flow in ALSA
• Fix: possible sorting problems in library
• Fix: possible problem in library navigation
• Fix: don’t scroll text when it’s set to not do it
• Fix: scroll text if it’s too long on spinner controls
• Fix: don’t overlap PVR search labels
• Fix: bug in DLNA client string on iOS
• Fix: updated several PVR add-ons
• Fix: remember played state of video when started from recently added
• Fix: correct vsync on OSX
• Fix: broken keyboard input
• Fix: prevent crash on circular dependencies of add-ons
• Fix: large file support on Android
• Fix: random exiting on Android x86 builds (Nexus Player for example)

Features at a glance

Key features include powerful media management capabilities, a fluid Interface, plug-ins that allow for great extensibility, cinematic effects and visualizations, built-in multimedia codecs, themes, and much more. The application can play your entire collection of music files, supporting all the popular formats like MP3, FLAC, WAV, WMA or OGG. It also provides support for cue sheets, audio tagging and smart playlists.

Your entire video collection can also be played by Kodi, supporting all the major video formats like AVI, MP4, DivX, XviD, DVD Video, MKV, and many more. In addition, it includes support for Internet streams. The program provides support for organizing and viewing your favorite TV shows, which will be sorted by episodes and seasons. Moreover, Kodi can be used to display an entire collection of digital photos.

Install/Upgrade Kodi 14.1 “Helix” Stable on Ubuntu / Linux Mint via PPA :

To Install/Update Kodi 14.1 “Helix” Stable 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 apt-get install python-software-properties pkg-config
sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:team-xbmc/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install kodi

Upgrading

To update XBMC/Kodi when a new version is released, just do a general system/package or use the following commands in the terminal (or via SSH):

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

Uninstalling

If you need to remove and purge an application and finally removing/purging also the application configurations files, do so by using the following commands:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get remove kodi*
sudo apt-get purge kodi*

Flattr (icon theme), Icon Pack with the Flattest Icons for Linux Systems

Flattr (icon theme), Icon Pack with the Flattest Icons for Linux Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Fedora, OpenSUSE, Mageia, Elementary OS, Debian, Redhat, Slackware, Mageia and Most Popular linux distro.

Linux users can choose from hundreds, if not more, of icons for their operating systems. There is something for everyone. If you don't like flat icons, you will surely find something you can use, no matter how different your tastes are from everyone else's.

When reporting missing icons make sure to follow these steps so we can resolve it faster:

For Linux:

1. Add screenshots, images speak louder than words. Add a screenshot of the missing icon and the instances where it's displayed ` (menus, taskbars, panels, notifications, etc.).
2. Use the following title prefix (without the quotes): "[Linux] App_name Desktop_environment" - that way we can tag them appropriately.
3. Add the relevant launcher information, software in Linux DE uses files with the extension .desktop as launchers in menus (like Homerun, Mint menu, Gnome Shell overview, Unity, etc.), these launchers are stored in /usr/share/applications (there might be a /kde folder for KDE apps) for software installed through a package or the package manager. Applications such as Google Chrome apps install their launchers here: /home/$USER/.local/share/applications/. Simply open these files with a text editor and copy their contents into your issue.
4. Add a description of the software, it's very important for us to know what the software does as we are not able to install every software under the sun and test them.

Some software uses hardcoded paths in their launchers, as such even when we add the icon the system will not load it, you may use Hardcoded Icon Fixer to resolve this problem.

Contributions

• You're allowed (and welcomed) to contribute icons to the icon theme, however, make sure to read the wiki to get up and close with the design guidelines.
• When creating pull requests make sure that your local copy is up to date before pushing changes.
• Add a preview of the icon to the pull request, in the size of the icon and a zoomed version.

Download

Icons are available to download directly from this repository. Simply clone it and move the resulting folder to the appropriate path.
In a Terminal execute the following command:

git clone https://github.com/NitruxSA/flattr-icons.git

Alternatively, click here.

Install

Move the folder(s) Flattr to /usr/share/icons
And finally select it in the Settings.

How to Install & Upgrade to Linux Kernel 3.19 RC7 on Ubuntu / Linux Mint

Linux Kernel 3.19 RC7 is released, you can install, Update and Upgrade on Linux 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.


What's new in Linux Kernel 3.19 RC7:

• Fairly normal rc statistics - about 50% drivers, 20% arch updates (mostly arm and arm64, some x86), with filesystems showing up a bit more than usual (largely due to some quota changes), and the rest being "misc" - perf tooling, some minor kernel and vm changes etc.

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.

How to Install/Upgrade to Linux Kernel 3.19 RC7 on Ubuntu / Linux Mint :

to install, Update and Upgrade on Linux 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 Linux system 32 bit :

wget -c http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.19-rc7-vivid/linux-headers-3.19.0-031900rc7_3.19.0-031900rc7.201502020035_all.deb \ http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.19-rc7-vivid/linux-headers-3.19.0-031900rc7-generic_3.19.0-031900rc7.201502020035_i386.deb \ http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.19-rc7-vivid/linux-image-3.19.0-031900rc7-generic_3.19.0-031900rc7.201502020035_i386.deb

For Linux system 64 bit :

wget -c http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.19-rc7-vivid/linux-headers-3.19.0-031900rc7_3.19.0-031900rc7.201502020035_all.deb \ http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.19-rc7-vivid/linux-headers-3.19.0-031900rc7-generic_3.19.0-031900rc7.201502020035_amd64.deb \ http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.19-rc7-vivid/linux-image-3.19.0-031900rc7-generic_3.19.0-031900rc7.201502020035_amd64.deb

Download for Latency Kernel

Install Linux Kernel 3.19 RC7 :  

sudo dpkg -i *.deb

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

sudo update-grub
sudo reboot

nstall Linux Kernel 3.18.5 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

- See more at: http://media-opensource.blogspot.com/2015/01/install-upgrade-latest-stable-kernel.html#sthash.c2zXwB6e.dpuf

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

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.

Darktable 1.6.2 is released, install on Ubuntu/Linux Mint via PPA

Darktable 1.6.2 is 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, 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

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.x :

General improvements

• Better names for key accels (no more <Primary>)
• Local gallery export limited to useful web formats (JPEG/PNG/WebP)
• Add a way to control the brush size with keys
• Default X-Trans Demosaic to markesteijn (single pass)

Bugfixes

• Fix IPTC Keyword reading for real
• rawspeed: support short values in DNG ActiveArea
• really disable parallel export
• remove special characters from style export
• Cropping aspect ratio fixes (#9942, #10265)
• Some fixes to lua/masks/brushes

Camera support

• Pentax *ist DS
• Pentax *ist DL2
• Pentax K110D
• Sony A7 II
• Sony ILCE-3500
• Nikon 1 S2
• Olympus E-450
• Panasonic LX1
• Panasonic G3 (aspect ratio modes)
• Samsung NX1 blackpoint finetuning
• Fuji X-E1 blackpoint finetuning

White balance presets

• 7D Mark II (updated)
• Olympus E-M1
• Sony A99

Install Darktable 1.6.2 on Ubuntu/Linux Mint via PPA :

To Install/Update Darktable 1.6.2 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

Download for 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.

Install Fotoxx 15.02 on ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS) and Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana

Fotoxx 15.02 released, you can install on ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS) and Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana


Fotoxx is an all-in-one complex image editor and collection manage open source graphical software. It provides users with powerful tools for manipulating image files made with a digital camera.

Features at a glance

The application features brightness and contrast functionality, allowing users to change bright and dark image areas independently, the ability to reduce haze and intensify colors, as well as HDR support, so you can merge underexposed and overexposed images, while improving detail in both bright and dark areas.

It can also create panorama images, allowing users to stitch multiple images together, as well as the usual crop, rotate, flip, resize, red-eye removal, sharpen fuzzy edges, reduce noise in low-light photos, stretch, and distort functionality.

Another interesting feature is the ability to use 24 bits per color in internal edit calculations. It removes color castes, reduces sharpen and blur, expands or flattens brightness distribution, fixes brightness uniformity issues, and removes dark spots on scanned slides.

What's new in Fotoxx 15.02:

• The indexing process for newly added image files was made faster: speedup is about 1.2x for a 7200 rpm disk and 1.9x for an SSD.
• A multi-row panorama capability was added by integrating the Panorama Tools utilities into the Fotoxx menus. Very easy to use.
• Slide Show: the maximum zoom-in speed was increased by 2x. (significant for a large or high DPI monitor or a slow computer).
• Slide Show: the option to show captions/comments can be configured per image, and these can be made to vanish after a specified interval.
• User Settings: Thumbnail file size can be set to 128/256/512 pixels (default 256). 512 is a bit slower but better for a large or high DPI monitor, or when viewing gallery pages with the thumbnail size set to maximum.
• Mashup: mouse-painted image transparencies are easier to control.
• Mashup: transparency blends can be set separately for all 4 image edges.
• Cosmetic improvements for gallery view and metadata short report.
• Startup parameter -nosync was replaced with the more correct -noindex.
• Bugfix: quick rotate 90 degrees: metadata was not being copied.
• Bugfix: crash if switch to gallery view during a slide show transition.
• Bugfix: HDR/HDF/Stack: crash if [cancel] pressed twice rapidly.

Install Fotoxx 15.02 on ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS) and Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana :

For Linux System 32 bit :

wget -c http://www.kornelix.com/uploads/1/3/0/3/13035936/fotoxx-15.02-i686.deb
sudo dpkg -i fotoxx-15.02-i686.deb
sudo rm -rf fotoxx-15.02-i686.deb

For Linux System 64 bit :

wget -c http://www.kornelix.com/uploads/1/3/0/3/13035936/fotoxx-15.02-x86_64.deb
sudo dpkg -i fotoxx-15.02-x86_64.deb
sudo rm -rf fotoxx-15.02-x86_64.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.

How to Install Inkscape 0.91 on Ubuntu, Elementary OS, Linux Mint, OpenSUSE, Fedora and Mac OSX

Inkscape 0.91 (Latest stable version)

Inkscape 0.91 (Latest stable version) is released, 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, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya, OpenSUSE 13.2, OpenSUSE 13.1, Fedora 21, Fedora 20 and Mac OSX

Inkscape is an award winning and cross-platform software project that provides you with a professional-grade SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) editor application, which sole purpose is to be an open source and completely free alternative to commercial products with similar capabilities, such as Visio, Corel Draw or Adobe Illustrator.

Features at a glance

Key features include object creation, object manipulation, fill and stroke, operations on paths, text support and rendering. It includes a pencil tool, a pen tool, calligraphy tool, a shape tool for creating rectangles, ellipses, polygons, stars and spirals, a text tool, embedded bitmaps and clone creator.

Additionally, the application allows the user to move, scale, rotate, skew, raise, lower, group and align objects, as well as to manipulate layers. Other useful tools include path markers, dashed strokes, pattern fills, color selector, color selector, gradient editor, node editor, path converter and simplification, bitmap tracing, and boolean operations.

Another interesting feature is the ability to export drawings to the PNG, PDF (Portable Document Format), OpenDocument Drawing, AutoCAD DXF (Drawing Exchange Format), PostScript, Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) and sK1 file formats.

Install Inkscape 0.91 (Latest stable version) 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, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya, OpenSUSE 13.2, OpenSUSE 13.1, Fedora 21, Fedora 20 and Mac OSX :

Inkscape 0.91 (Latest stable version) Available on PPA, 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, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:inkscape.dev/stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install inkscape

OpenSUSE: Package Search
Fedora: Install from rpmfind.net, or koji (unofficial)