Category: cool tested GNU Linux Apps

apt-get update; apt-get install –only-upgrade <packagename>; # update only this package

rename is the man… rename ’s/^/THIS_WILL_BE_AT_THE_BEGINNING_OF_ALL_FILES_IN_THE_CURRENT_DIRECTORY/‘ *

usually iphones/smartphones take pictures with 2-3-4-5MByte which can fill your harddisk/webserver pretty fast. It is wiser to shrink them down before upload. While under Windows i would recommend you http://www.irfanview.com/ Under Linux you can do that with ease 😀 apt-get […]

echo "deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian wheezy main non-free" >> /etc/apt/sources.list apt-get update && apt-get install rar rar RAR 4.00 beta 3   Copyright (c) 1993-2010 Alexander Roshal   17 Dec 2010 Shareware version         Type RAR -? for help […]

a simple, sleak, efficient Gnome2 based desktop system, adding printers worked like a charm 🙂 keep up the good work. MARCO(1)                                       […]

i am impressed. i did not know there is such a cool chart 😀

If you insert an copy-protected DVD into Linux Debian, it won’t play. if you run: dmesg [ 23.698945] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE [ 23.698948] sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] [ 23.698950] Sense Key : Illegal Request [current] [ 23.698955] sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] [ […]

installing ffmpeg on debian is rather tricky (you will need to compile from source). under CentOS7 it is easy yum install ffmpeg and you can substitute avconv command with ffmpeg and the script just works the same. thanks to all […]

You can not include links to pics – you will have to embed the Base64-encoded-version of your pic in the /etc/mumble-server.ini 1. open a picture in GIMP e.g. 2. shrink it down to like 100-300px in width. 3. ramp up […]

It’s as simple as cool as linux… the „player“ software VLC is also a recorder or a streaming-station 😀 you can try to automate this process: This one-liner worked for me, with audio and video: cvlc v4l2:// :input-slave=alsa:// :v4l-vdev="/dev/video0" :v4l-norm=3 […]

tested on: Linux laptop 3.16.0-4-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-ckt20-1+deb8u2 (2016-01-02) i686 GNU/Linux if using one core is enough: apt-get update; # install image manipulation programs — binaries apt-get install imagemagick; for i in *.png ; do convert "$i" "${i%.*}.jpg" ; […]

tested and works on: Linux laptop 3.16.0-4-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-ckt20-1+deb8u2 (2016-01-02) i686 GNU/Linux it is a little confusing… but you can set the default wired or wireless connection profile that the machine should chose like that: 1. you start […]

for easy network management under gnome apt-get update; apt-get install network-manager-gnome; # install the network manager tool # optional: apt-get install gnome-nettool; # install network debugging tool network-manager-gnome nice tool to manage your weird wired and wireless networks if it […]

sudo apt-get install calibre To actually convert the EPUB file you can use the following command: ebook-convert file.epub file.pdf (For details, check this other answer)

gnome-maps is a nice openstreetmap based application under gnome3. tested under Linux laptop 3.16.0-4-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-ckt20-1+deb8u3 (2016-01-17) i686 GNU/Linux https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Maps

„So it appears that the unexpected (putting it mildly) disappearance of TrueCrypt.org and the startling disavowal of TrueCrypt’s bullet proof security will turn out to be a brief disturbance in the force. We should know much more about a trustworthy […]

Checkout: IceCat QupZilla 1.6.6 on Debian-Gnome3 install debian linux apt-get update; # you know what this does apt-get install qupzilla; # install qupzilla Screenshots Import Bookmarks.html it’s nice that Arora and QupZilla (the naming is terrible 2 remember :-D) allow […]

update: 2018.04 PaleMoon (Mozilla code base) was just updated and released https://www.palemoon.org/releasenotes.shtml It is based on Firefox 27.9 (?) and pretty fast UserAgent from header Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.9) Gecko/20100101 Goanna/3.4 Firefox/52.9 PaleMoon/27.9.0 youtube works uBlock works and comes […]

Checkout: IceCat it’s always a good idea to try out alternatives. 🙂 Welcome to Arora: (under Debian-Gnome3) Arora is a lightweight, cross-platform, free and open-source web browser developed by Benjamin C. Meyer.[2][3][4][5]  Benjamin C Meyer (icefox) Waltham, MA benÄTmeyerhomePUNKTnet http://benjamin-meyer.blogspot.com/ Joined on […]

… some aptitude command deinstalled a bunch of programs so i could not unzip anything under gnome desktop. (love it… sleak fast beautiful… maybe 50MByte of RAM usage) sudo bash; # become root apt-get update; # update package def apt-get […]

what is great about mumble: clients exist for Windows, OSX, (at least Debian/Ubuntu) Linux and even Android and IPhone. the audio quality is SUPERB (better than phone) if you use good headphones like sennheiser a disadvantage is the reverb that […]

Source & Creditz: https://l3net.wordpress.com/2013/03/17/a-memory-comparison-of-light-linux-desktops if you are running Debian Linux on a Laptop with only 1GB of RAM and want to use things as Virtualization… lightweight is important. There are Linux-Desktops out there consuming less than Windows 98!

tested under: Linux laptop 3.16.0-4-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-ckt11-1 (2015-05-24) i686 GNU/Linux vim /etc/apt/sources.list; # open software package repository list # and add at the end deb http://apt.jenslody.de/stable jessie main deb-src http://apt.jenslody.de/stable jessie main apt-get update; # you will get […]

get a terminal-bash-shell… apt-get install libgtk-3-dev; # install gnome3 header files mkdir -p /projects/c/guigtk+; # create project directory cd /projects/c/guigtk+; # enter project directory vim gnome3gui.c; # create new file # fill it with that content #include <gtk/gtk.h> static void […]

Sware Iron runs well on: Linux DebianGiada 4.0.0-2-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.0.8-1 (2015-07-11) x86_64 GNU/Linux but on a Virtual Machine running: Linux debian7 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.68-1+deb7u1 x86_64 GNU/Linux i get: /usr/share/iron/iron: symbol lookup error: /usr/share/iron/iron: undefined symbol: g_type_class_adjust_private_offset […]

find your usb stick lsblk NAME   MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT sda      8:0    0 111.8G  0 disk ├─sda1   8:1    0 107.2G  0 part / └─sda5   8:5    0   4.6G  0 part [SWAP] sdb      8:16   1  29.1G  0 disk └─sdb1   8:17   […]

gui-way: DO NOT USE ANY OTHER HARDDISK FORMAT THAN THE DEFAULT QCOW2!!! with VirtualBox it’s the same. THEORETICALLY they support Micro$oft’$ HYPER_V_DISK_IMAGE.VHD BUT PRACTICALLY THINGS WILL FALL APART QUICKLY! (broken/corrupted disk image) So just stick to the defaults and you […]

1. find out where your dvd/cd drive is mounted then: cat /proc/sys/dev/cdrom/info; CD-ROM information, Id: cdrom.c 3.20 2003/12/17 drive name: sr0 drive speed: 24 drive # of slots: 1 Can close tray: 1 Can open tray: 1 Can lock tray: […]

DUFF apt-get update; apt-get install duff; # install duff Examples Normal mode Shows normal output, with a header before each cluster of duplicate files, in this case using recursive search (with the -r flag) into the images directory. elmindreda@balthasar~$ duff […]

update: 2018: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivaldi_(web_browser) Vivaldi is a freeware, cross-platform web browser developed by Vivaldi Technologies, a company founded by Opera Software co-founder and former CEO Jon Stephenson von Tetzchner and Tatsuki Tomita. The browser was officially launched on April 12, 2016.[8][9] […]