Ubuntu Software

Most of the software can be easily installed through the Ubuntu Software Center.

Operating System

• Terminal
• Linux Directory Structure
• Automount disk on boot and Mount Partitions & External Devices in Ubuntu 11.10 with pySDM

Text

• Gedit
  • To add a new language install "myspell-de" for example.

PDF

Edit PDFs

• PDFedit - read, change and extract information from a PDF file.
• PDF-Shuffler - merge or split pdf documents and rotate, crop and rearrange their pages.

Annotate PDFs

• Foxit under Wine: http://askubuntu.com/a/41131

Remove PDF password

with Ghostscript (Source):

• gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=unencrypted.pdf -c .setpdfwrite -f encrypted.pdf

Password Generation

Install pwgen and run it from the Terminal.

Audio

• Sound Converter - convert to ogg, mp3
• PulseAudio Volume Control - better volume control.

Record Audio Output:

• http://catlingmindswipe.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/how-to-record-sound-card-output-in.html

Video

• Mobile Media Converter - download from youtube and convert to mp4, mp3.
• GTK+ UVC Viewer - record with your camera, a lot of settings.

Flash

Fix your flash problems with Flash Aid (Download and drag and drop it in Firefox)

• https://github.com/webgapps/flashaid/downloads

Webcam

• Cheese Webcam Booth - make pictures with your webcam, install from SC.

VoIP

• Mumble - open source, conference audio, no video yet, needs installed server.

Image Processing

• GIMP - editing images.
• Inkscape - for creating and editing SVG files.
• nautilus-image-converter - Rotate and Resize multiple images from Nautilus (explorer).

File Exchange

• FileZilla - sftp client
• Dropbox - clowd file exchange, 2GB free space.

Screen Recording

• Kazam
  • Can record 2 different audio channels (microphone and loud speakers), better than RecordMyDesktop, BUT unfortunately crashes every few minutes on Nikolay's computer.

• RecordMyDesktop (Video + Sound)
  • Converts into *.ogv file. 1 Minute is about 18MB.
  • Note: After recording the screen it takes time to convert the file! For 1 Minute recording about 1 minute conversion.
  • Video quality is not good on Nikolay's computer.

• Eidete
  • No Problems during recording.
  • Can record only one audio channel.
  • Installation instructions: http://blog.sudobits.com/2012/07/17/eidete-a-screencasting-application-that-really-works-on-ubuntu-12-04/

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:shnatsel/eidete-daily
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install eidete

Media and Flyers

• Scribus - Open Source Desktop Publishing.

IT Administration

• Putty - connect through SSH to a server (console mode)

Server

• Install lamp with 1 command in Ubuntu

Another way:

• Follow these steps: http://www.wpwebhost.com/install-wordpress-in-ubuntu-12-04-lts-localhost-lampp-server/
• But use this apache configuration: http://serverfault.com/a/422865

Apache Wordpress permissions

Permanent fix:

• sudo nano /etc/apache2/envvars
  • export APACHE_RUN_USER=<your_username>
  • export APACHE_RUN_GROUP=<your_username>
• sudo chown -R <your_username>:<your_username> /var/lock/apache2
• sudo chown -R <your_username>:<your_username> /var/log/apache2
• sudo chown -R <your_username>:<your_username> /var/lib/php5/
• sudo service apache2 restart

www dir

• What's the best way of handling permissions for apache2's user www-data in /var/www?
  • UMASK under Ubuntu
  • cd /opt/lampp/htdocs
  • sudo ln -s ~/public_html /opt/lampp/htdocs/$USER

Apache Others

• Find Apache version: apache2ctl -v OR curl -I localhost
• Enable mod_rewrite:
  • make sure that your site's configuration has AllowOverride All in order for the .htaccess file to be read at all
  • http://stackoverflow.com/a/5758551/2510374

Disk Analyzer

• Disk Usage Analyzer - analyzes disk space. Installation from the SC.

Java

Oracle Java

• Install: http://www.webupd8.org/2012/01/install-oracle-java-jdk-7-in-ubuntu-via.html

Ubuntu Settings

• Add an application to the unity dash
• Enable Hibernation
• Resize window and content continuously
• Keyboard Shortcuts

Xorg.conf

• Problem: No screens found
  • Solution: sudo nvidia-xconfig

Search Engines

• Comparison of Privacy Search Engines
• https://duckduckgo.com/
• https://startpage.com/

Printers

• Canon PIXMA MP640

Windows

• PlayOnLinux - install and use windows software on linux.

Others

See Software