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.
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:
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)
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
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
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
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
Windows
- PlayOnLinux - install and use windows software on linux.
Others
See Software