The Wine development 1.7.13 has been released recently. Here is how to install or upgrade in Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 12.10, Ubuntu 12.04 and their derivatives via its official PPA repository.

Wine 1.7.13 was released on February 20, 2014, which brings more Task Scheduler support, a few more Direct3D 10 interfaces, more Windows Media Player stubs, ARM code generation improvements, better memory size reporting on Mac OS X, as well as 63 bug fixes. For details, read the announcement.

Install Wine 1.7.13:

The source tarball is available here.

The binary packages will be available very soon in Wine PPA for all supported Ubuntu releases. By then, press Ctrl+Alt+T on your keyboard to open a terminal window. When it opens, run the commands below one by one:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa

sudo apt-get update 

sudo apt-get install wine1.7

That’s it. Enjoy!

There are quite a few Mplayer frontend for Linux. ExMplayer is yet another one that has the thumbnail seeking feature.

As well as that, ExMplayer also has following features:

• 3D video playback support
• Volume booster
• Seekview
• Audio extractor
• Audio converter
• Media cutter
• 10 band audio equalizer
• video equalizer
• Winamp dsp plugins support
• 8 Audio effect filters
• 17 Video effect filters
• Configurable keyboard shortcuts and mouse

The latest release ExMplayer 3.8.0 was just released with following great new features:

• Facebook sharing( Listening to… Watching….)
• subtitle Search (Thanks to Opensubtitles.org)
• subtitle download and upload (Thanks to Opensubtitles.org)
• support for multiple subtitle languages
• update checking
• mini mode

If you would like to try out this media player, you can easily install it by running the commands below one by one in terminal (press Ctrl+Alt+T to open the terminal). Supports Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 12.10, Ubuntu 12.04, Ubuntu 10.04 and old version for Ubuntu 13.04.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:exmplayer-dev/exmplayer

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install exmplayer

Good news for AMD users, the latest beta release of AMD Catalyst™ Linux finally added supported for Linux Kernel 3.13. As well as that, this release added support for:

• AMD A10-7850K
• AMD A10-7700K
• RHEL 6.5 production support
• openSUSE 13.1 production support
• Ubuntu 13.10 production support
• Xserver 1.15 support
• Kernel 3.13 support

See the release note for details.

Download the driver:

AMD Catalyst 14.1 Beta Driver for Linux​

Note! This Driver is provided “AS IS” and under the terms and conditions of the End User License Agreement provided therewith

If you would like a graphical tool to install or upgrade your AMD driver, see this post.

This simple tutorial is going to show you how to install Spotify Desktop Client in Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 14.04, and Linux Mint.

Spotify for Linux Preview can be installed on currently canonical supported Ubuntu releases from the Spotify repository. This method is recommended as it allows you to automatically upgrade to new releases of Spotify using Ubuntu’s Software Updater/Update Manager tool.

To get started, press Ctrl+Alt+T on your keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, run below command to add the Spotify repository to your system:

sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://repository.spotify.com stable non-free" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/spotify.list'

Get the key:

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 94558F59

After that, we can install the client after checking for updates:

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install spotify-client

You can also use Synaptic Package Manager to update & install Spotify after added the repository and import the key.

This simple tutorial is going to show you how to install the vokoscreen via PPA in Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 13.04, Ubuntu 12.10, Ubuntu 12.04, Ubuntu 14.04.

As you may know, vokoscreen is an easy to use screencast creator to record educational videos, live recordings of browser, installation, videoconferences, etc.

To get started:

Press Ctrl+Alt+T key combination on keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, run below command to add vokoscreen PPA:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:vokoscreen-dev/vokoscreen

After that, update package lists:

sudo apt-get update

Finally install the tool via:

sudo apt-get install vokoscreen

If you’re running Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy on laptop, you may already find that the power settings only allows you to suspend or do nothing when laptop lid is closed.

What if we want to shutdown or hibernate laptop when lid is closed? Well, this tutorial is going to show you how to do it.

To get started, press Ctrl+Alt+T on your keyboard to open terminal window for running commands. When it opens, copy and paste below command and hit run to edit the config file with root privilege:

sudo gedit /etc/systemd/logind.conf

Note that you need to type in user password (terminal display nothing when typing password, type in mind and hit enter to get pass).

Then find out the line said:

#HandleLidSwitch=suspend

change it into:

HandleLidSwitch=poweroff

Save the file and then restart the service via below command to apply changes (or just restart).

sudo restart systemd-logind

Replace poweroff with hibernate will make your laptop hibernate when lid is closed.

Enjoy!

QMPlay2 is qt media player which also supports searching and downloading YouTube videos. QMPlay2 is based on FFMpeg and QT GUI, therefore it can play all formats and stream supported by the ffmpeg and the libmodplug (including J2B).

This tutorial is going to show you how to easily install QMPlay2 from PPA repository in Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 13.04, Ubuntu 12.04 and Linux Mint.

Screenshots:

To get started installing QMPlay2, press Ctrl+Alt+T to open terminal. When it opens, run command to add the PPA:

sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:samrog131/ppa

Then update:

sudo apt-get update

Install the player:

sudo apt-get install qmplay2

Mozilla Firefox 26 has been released. This tutorial will show you how to upgrade it in Ubuntu and this will also work when another new Firefox release is out.

See what’s new in Firefox 26:

Added:

• All Java plug-ins are defaulted to ‘click to play’
• Password manager now supports script-generated password fields
• Updates can now be performed by Windows users without write permissions to Firefox install directory (requires Mozilla Maintenance Service)
• Support for H.264 on Linux if the appropriate gstreamer plug-ins are installed

Changed:

• Support for MP3 decoding on Windows XP, completing MP3 support across Windows OS versions
• CSP implementation now supports multiple policies, including the case of both an enforced and Report-Only policy, per the spec

Developer:

• Social API now supports Social Bookmarking for multiple providers through its SocialMarks functionality (see MDN docs)
• Math.ToFloat32 takes a JS value and converts it to a Float32, whenever possible
• There is no longer a prompt when websites use appcache
• Support for the CSS image orientation property
• New App Manager allows you to deploy and debug HTML5 webapps on Firefox OS phones and the Firefox OS Simulator
• IndexedDB can now be used as a “optimistic” storage area so it doesn’t require any prompts and data is stored in a pool with LRU eviction policy, in short temporary storage

Fixed:

• When displaying a standalone image, Firefox matches the EXIF orientation information contained within the JPEG image
• Text Rendering Issues on Windows 7 with Platform Update KB2670838 (MSIE 10 Prerequisite) or on Windows 8.1
• Improved page load times due to no longer decoding images that aren’t visible
• AudioToolbox MP3 backend for OSX
• Various security fixes

Upgrade Firefox in Ubuntu:

1. Install Synaptic Package Manager from Ubuntu Software Center.

2. Start package manager and click Reload button to refresh package lists.

3. Search for firefox in quick filter box.

4. Right-click on the Firefox and select “mark for ugprade”

5. Click tick button to start upgrading. Done!

Calibre is a free and open source e-book computer software application suite that organizes, saves and manages e-books. The software updates frequently, about once a week. At the moment, the latest release is 1.14 which comes with following changes:

New Features

Bug Fixes

• Table of Contents Editor: Handle generating ToC from headings if the first heading level in the document is not h1 or the document skips some intermediate heading levels
• Update the metadata download and Get Books plugins for ozon.ru
• Fix sending by email not working on computers with non-ascii hostnames.
• Wireless driver: Fix launching programs from within calibre causing the wireless driver port to remain in use even after calibre is shutdown.

This tutorial shows you how to easily install the latest Calibre with one command in terminal. The command will always download and install the most recent release on your Ubuntu Linux.

Press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, copy and paste the command below and run:

sudo python -c "import sys; py3 = sys.version_info[0] > 2; u = __import__('urllib.request' if py3 else 'urllib', fromlist=1); exec(u.urlopen('http://status.calibre-ebook.com/linux_installer').read()); main()"

Linux Kernel 3.13.1 RC1 was released days ago with many exciting new features: better hardware device drivers, new file-system improvements, and other improvements (Linux Kernel 3.13.1 RC1 release announcement).

This simple tutorial shows you how to install or upgrade to Linux Kernel 3.13.1 RC1 in Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 13.04, Ubuntu 12.04. Note that you video driver may or may not supports this new kernel, don’t do this in product machine because this is not a stable release.

To get started, press Ctrl+Alt+T to open terminal and run commands below to download the DEBs:

For 32 bit system:

wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.13-rc1-trusty/linux-headers-3.13.0-031300rc1-generic_3.13.0-031300rc1.201311221535_i386.deb

wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.13-rc1-trusty/linux-image-3.13.0-031300rc1-generic_3.13.0-031300rc1.201311221535_i386.deb

For 64 bit system:

wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.13-rc1-trusty/linux-headers-3.13.0-031300rc1-generic_3.13.0-031300rc1.201311221535_amd64.deb

wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.13-rc1-trusty/linux-image-3.13.0-031300rc1-generic_3.13.0-031300rc1.201311221535_amd64.deb

Then install them via:

sudo dpkg -i linux-headers-3.13.0-*.deb linux-image-3.13.0-*.deb

Once installed, restart computer and done.

If the new kernel does not work properly. Boot into previous kernel and run commands to remove this kernel:

sudo apt-get purge linux-headers-3.13.0-* linux-image-3.13.0-*

sudo update-grub