Wednesday, July 2, 2025

How to install GIMP Image Editor 3.0.4 is Available via PPA on Ubunto 24.04

    GIMP 3.0.4, the second update for the major 3.0 release series of this popular image editor, is out!

 


There was a bug with pasting selections from GIMP into other programs, where the pasted section was padded to the original image size. This is now fixed thanks to work from Anders Jonsson, Aruius, and Alx Sa. If you notice any regressions or other issues after this fix, please let us know!

 
GIMP 3.0.4 Changelog: 

 Since GIMP 3.0.2, in the main GIMP repository:

  • 90 reports were closed as FIXED.
  • 59 merge requests were merged.

How to Install GnuCash 5.12 the financial-accounting on Ubuntu 24.04

    GnuCash is personal and small-business financial-accounting software, freely licensed under the GNU GPL and available for GNU/Linux, BSD, Solaris, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows.
 


     GnuCash is personal and small-business financial-accounting software, freely licensed under the GNU GPL and available for GNU/Linux, BSD, Solaris, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows.
 

How to install Krita 5.2.9 released on Ubuntu 24.04

     Krita is a free and open source cross-platform application that offers an end-to-end solution for creating digital art files from scratch. Krita is optimized for frequent, prolonged and focused use. Explicitly supported fields of painting are illustrations, concept art, matte painting, textures, comics and animations. Developed together with users, Krita is an application that supports their actual needs and workflow. Krita supports open standards and interoperates with other applications.

 

   Krita 5.2.9! This is a bug fix release, containing all bugfixes of our bug hunt efforts back in November. Major bug-fixes include fixes to clone-layers, fixes to opacity handling, in particular for file formats like Exr, a number of crash fixes and much more! 

 

Wednesday, June 25, 2025

How To Install OpenShot Video Editor 3.3.0 released On Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS

 OpenShot Video Editor is a free, open-source video editor for Linux. OpenShot can take your videos, photos, and music files and help you create the film you have always dreamed of. Easily add sub-titles, transitions, and effects, and then export your film to DVD, YouTube, Vimeo, Xbox 360, and many other common formats.
 

Saturday, March 6, 2021

Install HP Print Drivers HPLIP 3.21.2 on Ubuntu 20.04, 20.10

    HPLIP is a free, open-source HP-developed solution for printing, scanning, and faxing with HP inkjet and laser based printers in Linux.


Drivers HPLIP 3.21.2 Changelog: 

Added support for following new Distro's:

  • Fedora 33
  • Manjaro 20.2
  • Debian 10.7
  • RHEL 8.3
  • RHEL 7.7
  • RHEL 7.8
  • RHEL 7.9

How to install Blender 2.92 released on Ubuntu 20.04, 20.10 via PPA

 Blender is the free and open source 3D creation suite. It supports the entirety of the 3D pipeline—modeling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing and motion tracking, even video editing and game creation.


Blender 2.92  highlights:

  • Multithreaded export of geometry, to improves performance in scene synchronization when there are many mesh, hair and volume objects.
  • GPU devices can now take over tiles that are currently being rendered by CPU threads to improve hybrid rendering performance.
  • NVIDIA OptiX
    • Hybrid rendering with CPU and GPU devices is now supported.
    • AO and Bevel shader nodes are now supported.
    • NVIDIA driver version must be 450 or newer, due to an upgrade to OptiX 7.1. This makes it possible to render more object instances.
  • Intel Iris and Xe GPUs can now be enabled for OpenCL rendering

Sunday, October 27, 2019

How to Install Eclipse IDE on Ubuntu 19.10

    Eclipse is a well known Integrated Development Environment. It is used by developers all around the world to code their application, it is primarily developed in Java, but programmers can use it to code their applications in various languages like C/C++, COBOL, Fortran, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby on Rails etc. It is a cross platform application and runs fine on Microsoft Windows, Linux, Solaris and Mac OS.



Installation instructions:

    Installing Eclipse on ubuntu is not very complex process, first of all make sure to install Java on your Linux system, Eclipse needs java as pre-requisite , run following command to install java on your ubuntu 19.10 system.

 for Java 7


sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jdk

or for Install Java 8  Click links
or for Install Java 9  Click links
or for Install Java 11  Click links
or for Install Java 13  Click links 
 
  It might take some moments to download and install java, once the installation is complete, download Eclipse according to your operating system architecture.