How to install Converseen on Ubuntu 24.04

 Converseen is a free  cross-platform batch image processor for Windows, Linux, macOS, FreeBSD, and other  operating systems. It allows you to convert, resize, rotate, and flip an infinite number of images with a single mouse click. Moreover, Converseen can convert an entire PDF document into a set of images with your preferred characteristics. You can choose from over 100+ formats, set the size, resolution, and the filename.

 

What can I do with Converseen?

• Carry out a single or a multiple conversion.
• Resize one or multiple images.
• Compress images for your web pages.
• Rotate and flip images.

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! 

 

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.
 

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

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.

How to install Oracle Java 13 on Ubuntu 18.04, 16.04, 19.04, 19.10

Oracle will provide Java 13 as the Oracle OpenJDK release using the open source GNU General Public License v2, with the Classpath Exception (GPLv2+CPE), and also under a commercial license for those using the Oracle JDK release as part of an Oracle product or service, or who do not wish to use open source software.

Java 13 Changelog

Five enhancements are delivered with Java 13, inclusive of two preview features:

JEP 350 – Dynamic CDS Archives: Extends application class-data sharing to allow the dynamic archiving of classes at the end of Java application execution. The archived classes will include all loaded application classes and library classes that are not present in the default, base-layer CDS archive.

JEP 351 – ZGC: Uncommit Unused Memory: Enhances the z garbage collector to return unused heap memory to the operating system.

JEP 353 – Reimplement the Legacy Socket API:  Replaces the underlying implementation used by the java.net.Socket and java.net.ServerSocket APIs with a simpler and more modern implementation that is easy to maintain and debug. The new implementation will be easy to adapt to work with user-mode threads, a.k.a. fibers, currently being explored in Project Loom.

JEP 354 – Switch Expressions (Preview): Extends switch so it can be used as either a statement or an expression, which will simplify everyday coding, and prepare the way for the use of pattern matching (JEP 305) in switch.

How to install Oracle Java 11 long-term support on Ubuntu

   Java 11 has arrived. The new release is the first planned appearance of Oracle's long-term support (LTS) releases, although Oracle has also grandfathered in Java 8 as an LTS release to help bridge the gap between the old release model and the new approach

Java 11 Changelog

• Standardize the incubated HTTP Client API introduced in JDK 9, via JEP 110, and updated in JDK 10
• New Collection.toArray(IntFunction) Default Method
• The locale data based on the Unicode Consortium's CLDR (Common Locale Data Registry) has been updated for JDK 11.
• Lazy Allocation of Compiler Threads
• ZGC (Experimental): a brand-new garbage collector designed for sub-10ms pause times (even on large heaps) with an aim of no more than a 15% performance penalty.
• Epsilon GC is the new experimental no-op garbage collector. Epsilon GC only handles memory allocation, and does not implement any memory reclamation mechanism. It is useful for performance testing, to contrast costs/benefits of other GCs.

How to Install GScan2PDF 2.2.0 release on Ubuntu 18.04

    gscan2pdf is a GUI to ease the process of producing PDFs or DjVus from scanned documents. You scan one or several pages in with File/Scan, and create a PDF of selected pages with File/Save PDF. At maturity, the GUI will have similar features to that of the Windows Imaging program, but with the express objective of writing a PDF, including metadata. Scanning is handled with SANE via scanimage. PDF conversion is done by libtiff. Perl is used for portability and ease of programming, with gtk2-perl for the GUI. This should therefore work more or less out of the box on any system with gtk2-perl, scanimage, and libtiff.

GScan2PDF 2.2.0 Changelog: 

• Check validity of device blacklist regex when applying preferences
• Modify preference “Force new scan job between pages” to only take effect when scanning from flatbed.
• Fixed crash switching frontend option in Edit/Preferences between libimage-sane-perl and scanimage.
• Fixed visibility of scan widgets when switching from libimage-sane-perl to scanimage.
• Collect all warning and error messages in one dialog.

Install HP Print Drivers HPLIP 3.18.12 on Ubuntu 18.04

    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 3.18.12 Changelog: 

Added Support for the Following New Printers:

• HP Tango
• HP Tango X

Added support for the following new ScanJet Device:

• HP Scanjet Pro 2000 S1

How to install Krita 4.1.1 released on Ubuntu 18.04

   Krita is a professional FREE and open source painting program. It is made by artists that want to see affordable art tools for everyone.

•     concept art
•     texture and matte painters
•     illustrations and comics

    Krita 4.1 is the second feature release in the Krita 4 series and is released only three months after 4.0. But there is still a heap of interesting new things and improvements to check out!

Krita 4.1.1 Changelog:

• Added context menu (right click) options for transform tool. This makes it easier to change your transform type between perspective, free, warp, etc.
• Added context menu (right click) options for crop. This makes it easier to use without needing the tool options open.
• New Cursor option. Force brush outline to always be shown at 100%
• HEIF file format can now be opened and saved to. Thanks to a patch by Dirk Farin. Note that this is not enabled in the default builds because the libraries needed to build the import/export filter are very new.
• Ask the user what DPI they want their SVG images imported with
• Multibrush tool now accepts decimals for the angle
• Fixes to links for new documentation site

How to install Opera 56 Released on Ubuntu 18.04

Opera 56 elease there is mostly incremental changes, but we are looking forward to seeing what people can do with the new CSS conical gradient support. Below is a quick overview of changes. Follow the links for more details, specifications and examples.

Features in Opera 56:

• Add volume control for video pop out.
• Hover over the title of pop out video and click back to tab.
• Add new option in Settings > Advanced > Browser > User interface for the scroll to the top of the page feature
• Add a page zoom indicator in the address and search bar when the zoom level for a page changed.
• Easy bug reporting via O menu > Help > Report an issue.
• Redesigned about page, and tidied up the settings.
• For more, see the announcement.

How to install Virtualbox 5.2.18 Released on Ubuntu 18.04

  VirtualBox  is a powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2.

Virtualbox 5.2.18 Changelog:

• VMM: See user manual.
• VMM: fix loading with recent binutils and self-built versions of VirtualBox
• NAT: fix --nataliasmode sameports which is a valid setting
• VRDP: fixed VM process termination on RDP client disconnect if 3D is enabled for the virtual machine  

How to install Curlew 0.2.5 GTK3 Video Converter for Ubuntu 18.04

     Curlew is a free multimedia converter for Ubuntu Linux that features small package size, few library dependencies, 100+ output formats, easy to use UI, and more.

Curlew is a GTK3 software written in Python and uses ffmpeg/avconv for media encoding. The latest Curlew 0.2.5 features:

• Added an option to include all audio tracks of file.
• Added support for merging files.
• Added Fade In/Out filter feature.
• Added paste "from the Clipboard" feature.
• Use Home directory as default converting destination.
• Hide unused page/widget.
• Add xplayer to players list.
• Colored buttons (Convert/Close).
• Removed CSD option.
• Deleted stdeb config files and use native debian packaging system.
• Fix disabled convert button issue.

How To Install OpenShot Video Editor 2.4.3 released On Ubuntu 18.04

   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.

 

OpenShot 2.4.3 release highlights:

• Masks and transitions can now be modified at any time, and can now use an image or video! This utilizes the grayscale of each frame and converts it into a mask, and can be used to create some really amazing effects.
• Threading improvements help prevent crashing around effects (including masks and transitions), and improve performance on many systems.
• Save frame button for quickly saving the current preview frame
• Huge improvement to language translations

How to install Gnome MPV (MPV Frontend) 0.15 Released on Ubuntu 18.04

     GNOME MPV is a simple GTK+ frontend for mpv. GNOME MPV interacts with mpv via the client API exported by libmpv, allowing access to mpv's powerful playback capabilities.
     GNOME MPV is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

Gnome MPV (MPV Frontend) 0.15  Changelog:

• Set default screenshot directory to XDG_PICTURES_DIR
• Improve handling of --window-scale, --autofit, --autofit-larger, and --autofit-smaller
• Add command line option for setting WM_ROLE
• Add context menu item for removing playlist items
• Add context menu item for copying location of playlist items

How to install SMPlayer 18.9 Released on Ubuntu 18.04

  SMPlayer is a free media player for Windows and Linux with built-in codecs that can play virtually all video and audio formats. It doesn't need any external codecs. Just install SMPlayer and you'll be able to play all formats without the hassle to find and install codec packs.

SMPlayer is a graphical user interface (GUI) for the award-winning MPlayer, which is capable of playing almost all known video and audio formats. But apart from providing access for the most common and useful options of MPlayer, SMPlayer adds other interesting features like the possibility to play Youtube videos or download subtitles.

SMPlayer 18.9 Changelog:

• Fix for YouTube.
• (Experimental) New option in the Play menu: Cast to -> Smartphone/tablet. It displays a QR code that you can scan to play the video on your device. 

Qmmp Music Player 1.2.4 'Winamp Like' on Ubuntu 18.04

   qmmp is a free and open-source audio player written in C++ with the help of the Qt library. It officially supports the operating systems Linux, FreeBSD and Microsoft Windows. It is the only audio player not featuring a database that uses the Qt library. The default user interface of qmmp is inspired by Winamp

Qmmp 1.2.4 changelog:

• added equalizer optimization
• updated translation list
• improved PCM WAVE support
• fixed segmentation fault
• fixed tag reading in the archive plugin