How to Install Sweet Home 3D 5.5.2 Upgraded Java 3D on Ubuntu 16.04, 17.0 and 17.10

Sweet Home 3D is a free interior design application that helps you draw the plan of your house, arrange furniture on it and visit the results in 3D.  The latest Sweet Home 3D 5.5.2 was released on September 20, 2017 Upgraded Java 3D to version 1.6.0 for the Mac OS X distributions running under Java 6.

Sweet Home 3D 5.5.2 Changelog:

• Fixed photo creation at the two lowest quality levels when two monitors are used.
• Fixed how lights in groups are rendered at the two best quality levels in the photo creation tool.
• Upgraded Java 3D to version 1.6.0 for the Mac OS X distributions running under Java 6 (Mac OS X 10.6.8 to 10.13), leaving the JAR Executable as the only version able to run Sweet Home 3D under Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5, and/or PowerPC.
• Other minor bugs fixes and enhancements.

Installation instructions:

Open terminal and insert command line...

32Bit OS

$ wget https://sourceforge.net/projects/sweethome3d/files/SweetHome3D/SweetHome3D-5.5.2/SweetHome3D-5.5.2-linux-x86.tgz $ tar -zxvf SweetHome3D-5.5.2-linux-x86.tgz $ sudo mv SweetHome3D-5.5.2 /opt/

64Bit OS

$ wget https://sourceforge.net/projects/sweethome3d/files/SweetHome3D/SweetHome3D-5.5.2/SweetHome3D-5.5.2-linux-x64.tgz $ tar -zxvf SweetHome3D-5.5.2-linux-x64.tgz $ sudo mv SweetHome3D-5.5.2 /opt/

If everything goes OK. Let’s create a launcher for it so that you can start it from Unity Dash or Launcher.

Open terminal and insert command line...

$ sudo gedit /usr/share/applications/sweethome3d-5.5.2.desktop

Paste below content into the file and save it.

[Desktop Entry] Version=1.0 Name=Sweet Home 3D 5.5.2 GenericName=Interior 2D design application with 3D preview GenericName[de]=Innenraumplaner Comment=Interior design Java application for quickly choosing and placing furniture on a house 2D plan drawn by the end-user with a 3D preview Exec=/opt/SweetHome3D-5.5.2/SweetHome3D Icon=SweetHome3DIcon StartupNotify=true StartupWMClass=com-eteks-sweethome3d-SweetHome3D Terminal=false Type=Application Categories=Graphics;2DGraphics;3DGraphics; Keywords=interior;design;2D;3D;home;house;furniture;java;

Create icon for Sweet Home 3D 5.5.2

$ cd /opt/SweetHome3D-5.5.2 $ cp SweetHome3DIcon.png /usr/share/icons/

 Once installed, launch the Sweet Home 3D from your application launcher and enjoy!

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How to install Visual Studio Code 1.17 Adds Mac OS Touch Bar Support on Ubuntu

   Visual Studio Code is a lightweight but powerful source code editor which runs on your desktop and is available for Windows, macOS and Linux. It comes with built-in support for JavaScript, TypeScript and Node.js and has a rich ecosystem of extensions for other languages (such as C++, C#, Python, PHP, Go) and runtimes (such as .NET and Unity).

Visual Studio Code 1.17 release highlights:

• macOS Touch Bar support - Touch Bar actions for navigation and debugging.
• Source code folding improvements - Collapse region markers and off-side language blocks.
• Integrated Terminal performance - Terminal rendering is up to 45 times faster.
• Automatic import suggestions - See module and path import suggestions while coding.
• Debugging shows source location - Easily navigate from the Debug Console to source code.
• Better colorization of regex and format strings - Helps with parsing and identifying errors.
• Improved multiple SCM support - New UI to view changes in multiple source control repositories.
• New online documentation - Java language, 'Tips and Tricks', and Debugging Recipes topics.
• Preview: Multi-root workspaces - No reload on workspace updates, combined view of available tasks.
• Multi-root guide for extension authors - To help extenders be ready for multi-root workspaces.

Installation instructions:

    Download .deb package for Debian/Ubuntu at the link below:

 https://code.visualstudio.com/Download

 Then install it via command (Ctrl+Alt+T):

$ sudo dpkg -i ~/Downloads/code_*.deb; sudo apt -f install

   who want to receive updates for VS Code via Software Updater utility, add the Microsoft repository via following steps (64bit only):

$ sudo sh -c 'echo "deb [arch=amd64] https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/vscode stable main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vscode.list' $ curl https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc | gpg --dearmor > microsoft.gpg $ sudo mv microsoft.gpg /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/microsoft.gpg

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Airtel Lunch 4G smartphone at Rs 1399

As a 4G smartphones, jio marketed the with Zero Rupee, while Airtel has now merged with karbonn  and the karbonn company has launched this A40. The valid price of Aitel smartphone is 1399rs. Airtel has started marketing the upcoming new phone  name is 'My First Smartphone'. The fact that is A40 karbonn  launch in July is Rs. 3499, but the price of Airtel phone is 1399rs will cost an effective price. For this, the holders will have to pay a first donation of Rs 2899. After that you have to recharge a small amount of money for 3 years. After 3 years you will get back Rs 1500, and the cashback of Down payment will have to pay Rs 1399rs.

It is a claim that after getting cashback, you will not have to return the headphones of these A40 smartphones to the karbonn  and on this phone, you can use Google's entire application by using Google's play store , which is not possible in jio Phones.

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How to install SMPlayer 17.10 Released on Ubuntu 16.04, 17.04, 17.10

  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 17.10 Changelog:

• The deprecated video and audio filters have been replaced with new ones.
• The karaoke filter is available again.

Installation instructions:

    Run the following commands in Terminal to install SMPlayer 17.10, via PPA, on Ubuntu:

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:rvm/smplayer $ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install smplayer smtube smplayer-themes smplayer-skins

For those who prefer Qt4 version, use the new PPA instead

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:rvm/smplayer-qt4

Optional, to remove SMPlaye, do:

     If you want to uninstall SMPlayer from Ubuntu Systems, run the following commands in Terminal:

$ sudo apt install ppa-purge && sudo ppa-purge ppa:rvm/smplayer

For the qt4 ppa, replace ppa:rvm/smplayer with ppa:rvm/smplayer-qt4 in the code

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Install s-tui for CPU monitoring in Linux Ubuntu

   s-tui is a terminal UI for monitoring your computer. s-tui allows to monitor CPU temperature, frequency, power and utilization in a graphical way from the terminal.
  The s-tui monitors CPU temperature/utilization/frequency/power and shows performance dips caused by thermal throttling.

s-tui manual

usage: s_tui.py [-h] [-d] [-c] [-t] [-j] [-nm] [-v] [-ct CUSTOM_TEMP]

TUI interface:

The side bar houses the controls for the displayed grahps.
At the bottom of the side bar, more information is presented in text form.

• Use the arrow keys or 'hjkl' to navigate the side bar
• Toggle between stressed and regular operation using the radio buttons in 'Modes'.
• If you wish to alternate stress defaults, you can do it in 'Stress options'
• Select a different temperature sensors from the 'Temp Sensors' menu
• Change time between updates using the 'Refresh' field
• Use the 'Reset' button to reset graphs and statistics
• Toggle displayed graphs by selecting the [X] check box
• If a sensor is not available on your system, N/A is presented
• If your system supports it, you can use the utf8 button to get a smoother graph
• Press 'q' or the 'Quit' button to quit
• Run `s-tui --help` to get this message and additional cli options

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -d, --debug           Output debug log to _s-tui.log
  -c, --csv             Save stats to csv file
  -t, --terminal        Display a single line of stats without tui
  -j, --json            Display a single line of stats in JSON format
  -nm, --no-mouse       Disable Mouse for TTY systems
  -v, --version         Display version
  -ct CUSTOM_TEMP, --custom_temp CUSTOM_TEMP
                       
                        Custom temperature sensors.
                        The format is: <sensors>,<number>
                        As it appears in 'sensors'
                        e.g
                        > sensors
                        it8792-isa-0a60,
                        temp1: +47.0C
                        temp2: +35.0C
                        temp3: +37.0C
                       
                        use: -ct it8792,0 for temp 1

Installation instructions:

Add the PPA to your system, update the local repository index and install the Stress Terminal UI: s-tui package:

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:amanusk/python-s-tui $ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install python-s-tui

Using s-tui:

$ sudo s-tui

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How to Install RawTherapee 5.3 on Ubuntu 16.04, 17.04, 17.10

    RawTherapee is a powerful, cross-platform raw photo processing program, released under the GNU General Public License Version 3 and written in C++ using a GTK+ front-end. It uses a patched version of dcraw for reading raw files, with an in-house solution which adds the highest quality support for certain camera models unsupported by dcraw and enhances the accuracy of certain raw files already supported by dcraw. It is notable for the advanced control it gives the user over the demosaicing and development process.

 New Features in RawTherapee 5.3:

•   CIECAM02 enhanced with control over the scene and viewing conditions.
•   CIECAM02-friendly "Average Surround" color theme and L* middle gray preview background color, takes into account human vision and color appearance with regard to the surrounding color.
•   Manually save the collapsed/expanded state of tools.
•   Lensfun support, for automatic (and manual) profiled lens correction.
•   ACES, DCI-P3 Theater and DCI-P3 D65 output color profiles.
•   Numerous speed optimizations and bug fixes.
•   Lensfun is required. To use the system-wide lensfun database, do not set the CMake option -DLENSFUNDBDIR. To use a custom lensfun database, set -DLENSFUNDBDIR="/absolute/path/to/database"
•   Lensfun is required. To use the system-wide lensfun database, do not set the CMake option -DLENSFUNDBDIR. To use a custom lensfun database, set -DLENSFUNDBDIR="path/to/database"

See announcement for full details

Installation instructions: 

    You can install the RawTherapee 5.3 from PPA, simply run  of commands in terminal.

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:dhor/myway $ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install rawtherapee

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How to Install Rhythmbox 3.4.2 in Ubuntu 16.04, 17.04, 17.10 via PPA

    Rhythmbox is an audio player that plays and helps organize digital music. Rhythmbox is free software, designed to work well under the GNOME Desktop using the GStreamer media framework. However, Rhythmbox functions on desktop environments other than GNOME.

Rhythmbox 3.4.2  Changelog :
Bugs fixed:

• Critical Assertion Errors
• accept --version command-line option
• IM status plugin: Remove Gossip support
• Rhythmbox should not display "Examining files 0 of 0"
• grilo plugin leaves empty directories in /tmp
• rhythmbox crashed with SIGSEGV during import
• Expand playing icon column in entry view
• Use generic signal marshallers
• Ensure same size progress bar in task list
• Update README
• Rhythmbox should confirm before overwriting playlists.
• Search not cleared on clicking "View All"
• Client: Disconnect doesn't reset browser selection
• Server: Do not transmit unplayable rhythmdb entries to the DMAP client
• Import hangs for special file ( socket )
• Playqueue UI improvements
• Link podcast feed / episode plugin menus
• Properties with long text is not ellipsized in property view.
• GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget) assertion failures when selecting "Radio France" source
• Grilo plugin needs quality column
• Memory leak in error handling of utimes on podcast-timestamp
• Send tracks: update plugin description
• iradio plugin should include WUVT-FM
• build failure with gcc 7.1.1
• open settings crashes the app
• Keyboard navigation with tab is broken by search entry widget
• DLNA audio playback stops after 30 sec, can get back briefly with seeking

Translation updates:

• ca, courtesy of Jordi Mas
• cs, courtesy of Marek Černocký
• de, courtesy of Mario Blättermann
• es, courtesy of Daniel Mustieles
• fi, courtesy of Jiri Grönroos
• gl, courtesy of marcos
• hr, courtesy of gogo
• hu, courtesy of Meskó Balázs
• id, courtesy of Kukuh Syafaat
• it, courtesy of Milo Casagrande
• lt, courtesy of Aurimas Černius
• nb, courtesy of Kjartan Maraas
• pl, courtesy of Piotr Drąg
• pt_BR, courtesy of Isaac Ferreira Filho
• pt, courtesy of Tiago Santos
• ro, courtesy of Daniel Șerbănescu
• sk, courtesy of Dušan Kazik
• sr, courtesy of Милош Поповић
• sr@latin, courtesy of Miloš Popović
• sv, courtesy of Anders Jonsson
• vi, courtesy of Trần Ngọc Quân
• zh_CN, courtesy of 甘露(Lu Gan)
• zh_TW, courtesy of Cheng-Chia Tseng

Installation instructions:

Open terminal and insert command line...

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntuhandbook1/apps $ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install rhythmbox rhythmbox-plugins

   (Optional) To revert back to Rhythmbox 3.3, remove the current one and reinstall Rhythmbox (Remove the PPA after installation) from the main archive.

$ sudo apt-get remove rhythmbox rhythmbox-plugins && sudo apt autoremove $ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install rhythmbox rhythmbox-plugins

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