Dropbox Uploader 0.12 Released [Bash Script To Access Dropbox Via Command Line]

<div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://github.com/andreafabrizi/Dropbox-Uploader">Dropbox Uploader</a> is a bash script that allows you to perform various actions on your <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/">Dropbox</a> (upload, download, delete, share, etc.) without installing the Dropbox client. This is useful for servers, automatic backups or accessing Dropbox from ARM devices, like Raspberry Pi.</div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;">The script was updated recently, getting a copy function, a "-s" option to skip existing files when uploading/downloading (files are overwritten by default), along with other changes. </div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Here are the <b>changes in the latest Dropbox Uploader 0.12:</b></div><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li>added copy function;</li><li>added <i>-s</i> option to skip existing files when upload/download;</li><li>fixed problem uploading twice the same directory;</li><li>add checking for not allowed file names;</li><li>handling connection/resolving host errors;</li><li>better error handling;</li><li>converted if condition to BASH native syntax;</li><li>added normalize_path function, to canonicalize paths;</li><li>removed check for free quota on every file upload to improve performance;</li><li>added checks for file permissions before writing/reading files on the local fs;</li><li>fixed unicode problem in file listing;</li><li>many other minor changes and improvements.</li></ul><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Since our last article about Dropbox Uploader</b>, the script has received numerous improvements, including <b>support for downloading and uploading directories</b>, move/rename function and more.</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The latest Dropbox Uploader 0.12 supports the following commands: upload, download, delete, move, copy, mkdir, list, share, info and unlink. There are also some optional parameters, like the newly added "-s" to skip already existing files when uploading or downloading, "-p" to show curl progress meter and more.</div><br /><br /><h2>Download and install Dropbox Uploader</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Dropbox Uploader depends on Bash and Curl. In Ubuntu, Bash is already installed and to install Curl, use the following command:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install curl</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Then, download and install Dropbox Uploader using the following commands:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>curl "https://raw.github.com/andreafabrizi/Dropbox-Uploader/master/dropbox_uploader.sh" -o /tmp/dropbox_uploader.sh<br />sudo install /tmp/dropbox_uploader.sh /usr/local/bin/dropbox_uploader</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">You can also grab the latest Dropbox Uploader with Git:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install git<br />git clone https://github.com/andreafabrizi/Dropbox-Uploader/</code></pre><br /><br /><h2>Authorize Dropbox Uploader with your Dropbox account</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The first time you run Dropbox Uploader, you'll need to authorize it with your Dropbox account. To do this, run Dropbox Uploader:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>dropbox_uploader</code></pre><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/dropbox-uploader_1.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="206" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT43EDvj7aWB5tkvanzQfKtW1dSYk3lrDlzXRq3Ypk801n3g6FQZozzOEIuBxc9VmCmeYR2vDbZsN3Vwbcd0TdbU1IvIHLeENPWr2rmwfr0E05t5SwEUUlJTygb5hZ2zHzEysyZ7Ay6mA/s320/dropbox-uploader_1.png" width="320" /></a></div><br />Then visit <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/developers/apps">https://www.dropbox.com/developers/apps</a>, click "Create app", select "Dropbox API app" and: <br /><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li>for the type of data select "Files and datastores";</li><li>then choose if the app should be limited to a single folder or if it can access files already in your Dropbox;</li><li>if you didn't limit the app to is own private folder, you can also select the file types it can access ;</li><li>enter the app name provided by Dropbox Uploader.</li></ul><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/dropbox-uploader_2.png"><img alt="Dropbox Uploader" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/dropbox-uploader_2_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Click "Create app" at the bottom and on the next page you should see your app key and secret which you need to enter in the terminal where you ran <i>dropbox_uploader</i>:</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/dropbox-uploader_22.png"><img alt="Dropbox Uploader" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/dropbox-uploader_22_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Now back to the terminal: select the access level you have chosen when creating the app and Dropbox Uploader will display a link you need to enter in your browser - visit the link, click "Allow" and finally, back to the terminal, press ENTER and you're done:</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/dropbox-uploader_3.png"><img alt="Dropbox Uploader" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/dropbox-uploader_3_thumb.png" /></a></div><br />To see all the available commands, simply run:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>dropbox_uploader</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>For more information, bug reports, etc., see the Dropbox Uploader <a href="https://github.com/andreafabrizi/Dropbox-Uploader">GitHub page</a>.</b></div>

Dropbox Uploader 0.12 Released [Bash Script To Access Dropbox Via Command Line]

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Command Line Video Download Tool `youtube-dl` Gets Support For 17 New Websites

<div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="http://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/">Youtube-dl</a> is a command line tool that allows downloading videos from YouTube and other similar websites. </b></div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Recently, youtube-dl has received support for 17 new websites</b>: hotnewhiphop.com, auengine.com, gamespot.com, RingTV, wat.tv, traileraddict.com, tu.tv, instagram.com, Statigr.am, break.com, tudou.com, Jukebox, Wimp.com, CSpan, 3sat, brightcove.com and archive.org.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfwlIE9KK2Kfc8aa1dZTbM0baYxGE2ITailnzykIdIyq_Yy9Fxz4xVZGVdXgp1bH0ab7aLzj2QT7RNqUePt3mKf7j7FYJgzUqC8rMCvE23wFlUDyDF9YSiC1H0LDpj5cZ8qUoXuhreX5k/s1600/youtube-dl.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="211" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfwlIE9KK2Kfc8aa1dZTbM0baYxGE2ITailnzykIdIyq_Yy9Fxz4xVZGVdXgp1bH0ab7aLzj2QT7RNqUePt3mKf7j7FYJgzUqC8rMCvE23wFlUDyDF9YSiC1H0LDpj5cZ8qUoXuhreX5k/s320/youtube-dl.png" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Compared to the version available in the Ubuntu repositories (13.04, 12.10 or 12.04), there are many other changes in the latest youtube-dl (version 2013.07.08.1), including:</div><ul><li>Improved support for encrypted signatures in Youtube;</li><li>Improved support for videos from ArteTv;</li><li>Vimeo: allow to download password protected videos;</li><li>Youtube: A lot of work for downloading VEVO videos;</li><li>Fixed downloading from Google+ videos;</li><li>Added support for downloading automatic transcribed subtitles;</li><li>Added support for downloading subtitles in WebVTT (vtt) format;</li><li>Improved support for Youtube's crypto signing fields;</li><li>YouTube subscription feed download support;</li><li>Dailymotion: fixed the download of the video in the max quality;</li><li>Fixed bash completion.</li></ul><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Besides the newly added websites, youtube-dl also supports: <b>YouTube (besides single videos it also supports playlists, searches and user videos)</b>, metacafe.com, Google Video (including searches), Pinsthotobucket, Dailymotion, DepositFiles, blip.tv, Vimeo, myvideo.de, The Daily Show / Colbert Nation, The Escapist, CollegeHumor, arte.tv, Soundcloud, xvideos, infoq, mixcloud, Stanford Open Content, Youku, MTV, Xnxx, Google Plus and there's also a generic downloader that works with some other sites.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The application comes with many useful features, including <b>options to specify the video quality/format</b>, add the original title to the downloaded video filename, proxy support, <b>automatically extract audio from downloaded videos</b> and more.</div><br /><br /><br /><br /><h2>Install youtube-dl in Ubuntu</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Ubuntu users can install the latest youtube-dl from the main WebUpd8 PPA</b> (note: the PPA contains some other packages so check out the <a href="https://launchpad.net/~nilarimogard/+archive/webupd8">package list</a> before adding it):</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install youtube-dl</code></pre><div style="text-align: justify;">You can manually <a href="https://launchpad.net/~nilarimogard/+archive/webupd8/+packages?field.name_filter=youtube-dl&field.status_filter=published&field.series_filter=">download</a> and install the deb if you don't want to add the PPA.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">youtube-dl can update itself if installed manually however, to make sure you have the all the required dependencies, proper bash completion, etc., it's better to use the PPA / deb above.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Other Linux distributions:</b> search for youtube-dl in the repositories or download it from <a href="http://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/download.html">HERE</a>. You can update it to the latest version using the following command: "<i>youtube-dl -U</i>". </div><br />To download a video, simply use the following command:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>youtube-dl http://VIDEO_URL</code></pre>where "<i>VIDEO_URL</i>" is the url of the video you want to download. <br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">To see all the available options, type the following commands in a terminal: "<i>man youtube-dl</i>" or "<i>youtube-dl -h</i>".</div>

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Liquid Prompt: An Adaptive Prompt For Bash Or Zsh

<div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="https://github.com/nojhan/liquidprompt">Liquid Prompt</a> is an adaptive, smart prompt for Bash and Zsh. It can display various useful information on the shell prompt, only when it's needed,</b> like the battery status when it's discharging over a given threshold, an up arrow if using an HTTP proxy, the number of detached sessions  (screen or tmux) and more.<b><br /></b></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/liquid-prompt.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDYqiSz9ZBlPGJBSYsUq5xtvzzhc6YtU4KIt6GMqvrm9UiAfJbTUN77NumBFhFaCL_JK6jc_MEkWQ_P04P2CcvJj5NmeVTm99jYhLnLZin6PtjDMMAVy_hDHq3Ijwg3Kfiep9LixoVtnWK/s550/liquid-prompt.png" width="450" /></a></div><br /><a name='more'></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Liquid Prompt can be configured so if you don't want certain information to show up either because you don't need it or because Liquid Prompt simply displays too much of it for your taste, you can easily disable some info from showing up by editing its configuration file.<b><br /></b></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Here's some of the <b>info Liquid Prompt may</b> (depending on the configuration and if it's needed in a given context) <b>display</b>:</div><ul><li style="text-align: justify;">the average of the processors load, if it is over a given limit, with a colormap that becomes more and more noticeable with increasing load;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">the error code of the last command, if it has failed in some way;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">a green ⏚ if the battery is charging, above the given threshold, but not charged, a yellow ⏚ if the battery is charging and under threshold, a yellow ⌁ if the battery is discharging but above threshold, a red ⌁ if the battery is discharging and under threshold;</li><li>the current directory in bold, shortened if it takes too much space, while preserving the first two directories;</li><li>a green colon if the user has write permissions on the current directory, a red one if he has not; </li><li style="text-align: justify;">current time as numerci values or an analog clock;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">the number of detached sessions (screen or tmux), if there are any;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">the number of attached sleeping jobs (when you interrupt a command with Ctrl-Z and bring it back with fg), if there are any;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">the number of attached running jobs (commands started with a &), if there are any;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">the current host, if you are connected via a telnet connection (in bold red) or SSH (either a blue hostname or different colors for different hosts); </li><li style="text-align: justify;">a green @ if the connection has X11 support, a yellow one if not;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">an up arrow if an HTTP proxy is in use;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">the name of the current branch if you are in a version control repository (git, mercurial, subversion, bazaar or fossil), in green if everything is up to date, in red if there is changes, in yellow if there is pending commits to push;</li><li>the number of added/deleted lines (git) or files (fossil), if changes have been made and the number of pending commits, if any;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">a red star if there is some untracked files in the repository;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">the current user, in bold yellow if it is root, in light white if it is not the same as the login user;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">a tag associated to the current shell session (you can easily add any prefix tag to your prompt, by invoking prompt_tag MYTAG);</li><li style="text-align: justify;">a smart mark: ± for git directories, ☿ for mercurial, ‡ for svn, ‡± for git-svn, ⌘ for fossil, $ or % for simple user, a red # for root; </li></ul><br />Below you can see more examples of what Liquid Prompt can display (image via Liquid Prompt GitHub page):<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/liquid-prompt-demo.png"><img alt="Liquid prompt" src="http://img.netupd8.com/liquid-prompt-demo_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><br /><br /><h2>Install Liquid Prompt</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>1.</b> To install Liquid Prompt, firstly install Git. In Ubuntu / Debian, use the following comand:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install git</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Then get <a href="https://github.com/nojhan/liquidprompt">the code</a> and install Liquid Prompt using the following commands:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>git clone https://github.com/nojhan/liquidprompt.git ~/.liquidprompt<br />cp ~/.liquidprompt/liquidpromptrc-dist ~/.config/liquidpromptrc</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Alternatively, if you cannot use Git for some reason (behind a firewall that doesn't allow this, etc.), you can download the code from <a href="https://github.com/nojhan/liquidprompt/archive/master.zip">HERE</a> - extract it in your home directory, rename it to ".liquidprompt" (don't forget the dot in front of the folder name) and then run the last command above to copy the configuration file into<i> ~/.config</i>.</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>2. </b>Then, open ~/.bashrc (or ~/.zshrc for Zsh) with a text editor - I'll use Gedit for the command below:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>gedit ~/.bashrc</code></pre><br />And at the bottom of the file, add this:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>. ~/.liquidprompt/liquidprompt</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Note: for battery info, you need to install "acpi" (in Ubuntu / Debian: <i>sudo apt-get install acpi</i>).</div><br />That's it.<br /><br /><b>3. Optional:</b> If you want to configure various aspects of Liquid Prompt, enable / disable some info, open <i>~/.config/liquidpromptrc</i> with a text editor and change the settings to suit your needs.<br /><br /><br /><b>If you want to undo the changes</b>, remove the "<i>. ~/.liquidprompt/liquidprompt</i>" line from <i>~/.bashrc</i> (or <i>~/.zsh</i>) and to remove the Liquid Prompt files, use the following commands:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>cd && rm -rf ".liquidprompt"<br />rm ~/.config/liquidpromptrc</code></pre><br /><br /><b>For more information, see the Liquid Prompt <a href="https://github.com/nojhan/liquidprompt">GitHub</a> page.</b>

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Improve Power Usage / Battery Life In Linux With TLP

<div style="text-align: justify;">There are various tweaks that you can apply to your laptop to save battery power, but many of them depend on the hardware, Linux distribution, some are outdated or too hard to apply for regular users and so on. <b><a href="http://linrunner.de/en/tlp/docs/tlp-linux-advanced-power-management.html">TLP</a> is an advanced power management command line tool for Linux that tries to apply these settings / tweaks for you automatically, depending on your Linux distribution and hardware</b>.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUoZHLkj-t53y8oc49a1R8Dq7EcZ3V-1TZDEvcpBQWvj1hD36KMhu0xLcfM7RE11gEQRVJaS5ZHj9PbBa8poA-xkO3GjLrX4Wf0PfFWtOb_evtdVnZHJc5bxbK8nXRTfz5wgc9aHPIQhoo/s1600/system76-ubuntu-laptop.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Ubuntu laptop" border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUoZHLkj-t53y8oc49a1R8Dq7EcZ3V-1TZDEvcpBQWvj1hD36KMhu0xLcfM7RE11gEQRVJaS5ZHj9PbBa8poA-xkO3GjLrX4Wf0PfFWtOb_evtdVnZHJc5bxbK8nXRTfz5wgc9aHPIQhoo/s320/system76-ubuntu-laptop.jpg" title="Ubuntu laptop" width="320" /></a></div></div><br /><a name='more'></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>TLP applies the following settings depending on the power source (battery / ac):</b></div><ul><li>Kernel laptop mode and dirty buffer timeouts;</li><li>Processor frequency scaling including "turbo boost" / "turbo core";</li><li>Power aware process scheduler for multi-core/hyper-threading;</li><li>Hard disk advanced power management level and spin down timeout (per disk);</li><li>SATA aggressive link power management (ALPM);</li><li>PCI Express active state power management (PCIe ASPM) – Linux 2.6.35 and above;</li><li>Runtime power management for PCI(e) bus devices – Linux 2.6.35 and above;</li><li>Radeon KMS power management – Linux 2.6.35 and above, not fglrx;</li><li>Wifi power saving mode – depending on kernel/driver;</li><li>Power off optical drive in drive bay (on battery).</li></ul><br /><b>Additional TLP functions:</b><br /><ul><li>I/O scheduler (per disk);</li><li>USB autosuspend with blacklist;</li><li>Audio power saving mode – hda_intel, ac97;</li><li>Enable or disable integrated wifi, bluetooth or wwan devices upon system startup and shutdown;</li><li>Restore radio device state on system startup (from previous shutdown);</li><li>Radio device wizard: switch radios upon network connect/disconnect and dock/undock;</li><li>Disable Wake On LAN;</li><li>WWAN state is restored after suspend/hibernate;</li><li>Undervolting of Intel processors – requires kernel with PHC-Patch;</li><li>Battery charge thresholds – ThinkPads only;</li><li>Recalibrate battery – ThinkPads only.</li></ul><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">TLP applies these settings automatically on startup and every time you change the power source. To use it, all you have to do is install TLP, however, there are some settings that you can apply manually, overwriting the TLP default settings, such as enabling or disabling the WiFi, Bluetooth or Wwan (3G or UMTS) radios, switching between AC or battery settings, ignoring the actual power source, apply autosuspend for all attached USB devices or power off the optical drive. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">There are also some TinkPad-only settings that you can use, like temporarily changing the battery charge thresholds, temporarily set battery charge thresholds to factory settings, recalibrating the battery and more.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">For more about these settings, see the TLP <a href="http://linrunner.de/en/tlp/docs/tlp-linux-advanced-power-management.html">homepage</a> or consult the TLP manpage (type "<i>man tlp</i>" in a terminal).</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I've only been using TLP for a couple of hours so I can't say yet how efficient this tool is regarding battery life, but I've noticed that my laptop's temperature is lower than before using TLP. You may have seen an icon on my Unity launcher in some posts on WebUpd8, which displays a number that's usually around 65 - that's <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/07/monitor-hardware-temperature-in-ubuntu.html">Psensor</a> and it displays the CPU temperature (Celsius; it's 165 degrees Fahrenheit) - here's an <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/04/get-ubuntu-touch-feeling-on-unity.html">example</a>. Well, after installing TLP, the CPU temperature didn't go past 55 degrees Celsius (135 degrees Fahrenheit), at least not yet, with regular desktop usage: using a browser with quite a few tabs open, a text editor and a few AppIndicators running, under Unity. This, of course, depends on various factors but so far this tool seems to do its job. Also, some Reddit users have <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/Ubuntu/comments/1cdg2h/ubuntu_battery_draining_issues/">reported</a> that TLP makes quite a big difference.</div><br /><br /><br /><h2>Install TLP in Ubuntu</h2><br /><b>Before proceeding with the installation, there are a couple of things you need to do:</b><br /><ul><li>firstly, if you've added any power saving settings / scripts (e.g.: in <i>/etc/rc.local</i>), remove them or else TLP may not work properly;</li><li>remove laptop-mode-tools ("sudo apt-get remove laptop-mode-tools").</li></ul><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Ubuntu (and Linux Mint, etc.) users can install TLP by using its official PPA. Add the PPA and install TLP using the following commands:</b></div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:linrunner/tlp<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install tlp tlp-rdw</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">TLP will automatically start  upon system startup, but to avoid having to restart the system to get it running for the first time, you can start it (required only the first time) using the following command:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo tlp start</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>There are some optional packages you can install for some extra features:</b></div><ul><li><i>smartmontools</i> - needed to display disk drive S.M.A.R.T. data;</li><li><i>ethtool</i> - needed to disable wake on lan.</li></ul><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Install these tools (available in the Ubuntu repositories) using the following command:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install smartmontools ethtool</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>There are also some ThinkPad only, optional packages you may need:</b></div><ul><li><i>tp-smapi-dkms</i> - needed for battery charge thresholds and ThinkPad specific status output of tlp-stat;</li><li><i>acpi-call-tools</i> - acpi-call is needed for battery charge thresholds on Sandy Bridge and newer models (X220/T420, X230/T430, etc.).</li></ul><br />Install these packages using the following command:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install tp-smapi-dkms acpi-call-tools</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Other Linux distributions: there are TLP packages for Debian 6.0+, Arch Linux, openSUSE 11.4+, Gentoo, Fedora 16+</b> - see the TLP <a href="http://linrunner.de/en/tlp/docs/tlp-linux-advanced-power-management.html">homepage</a> for installation instructions. You can grab the source / report bugs @ <a href="https://github.com/linrunner/TLP">GitHub</a> </div><br />Make sure to also read the <a href="http://linrunner.de/en/tlp/docs/tlp-faq.html">TLP FAQ</a>.<br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><i>application seen on <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/Ubuntu/comments/1cdg2h/ubuntu_battery_draining_issues/">Reddit</a>; image via <a href="https://www.system76.com/">system76.com</a></i></div>

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Terminology: More Than A Terminal Emulator (Ubuntu Installation Instructions)

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/terminology.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Terminology terminal emulator" border="0" height="203" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgI7Peicd2sf2JV2UiE0MPKaZsDxbFxQfVulFMyvJyWT4Uq8A6ysAFat6Ap_iwINT2bDGvuzGmtI8AR4WK6DIiFaox8BXVIOdQ6U_tu6ziBVVN1Bas7Tkqx6JPLScihphtdQzblwZPf9JRP/s320/terminology.png" title="Terminology terminal emulator" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="http://www.enlightenment.org/p.php?p=about/terminology">Terminology</a> is a relatively new terminal emulator written for the Enlightenment desktop, but it can be used in other desktop environments. The application comes with many cool features, some of which do not exist in any other terminal emulator.</b></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Besides features that are already available in other terminal emulators such as split views support, Terminology can do a lot of things you wouldn't expect from a terminal emulator, like displaying <b>thumbnails</b> for images, videos and documents and furthermore, it also allows you to <b>preview</b> those <b>files</b> directly from Terminology.</div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>That's not all Terminology can do. Other features included in the latest 0.3 release:</b></div><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li>tabs support (although these aren't like the tabs you've seen in other applications - they look like a desktop switcher / expose); the tab switcher has live thumbnail content;</li><li>custom background support and transparency (and each tab or slip can have its own background; supported backgrounds: bitmap, scalable/vector, animated gif, videos);</li><li>text / links drag and drop;</li><li>themes for the layout and design;</li><li>URL, file path and email address detection and link-handling;</li><li>inline display of link content;</li><li>works in X11 and Wayland;</li><li>can be touch controlled;</li><li>scan scale by UI scaling factors;</li><li>can render using OpenGL or OpenGL-ES2;</li><li>block text selection;</li><li>cool visual bell that can be themed;</li><li>comes with a few built-in color schemes, including the popular Solarized light / dark;</li><li>more!</li></ul><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/terminology-tabs.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Terminology terminal emulator" border="0" height="203" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaoLotbQlF9LZG03PPwDK-OzYR8iLAbaPmS6W3vY2v5VdNa6XZgNza7oyAGMS2oE1cEGfX1XqIgJPMieU2Si6dT0c_JO8TcuGvv93RI9oeISEOBqILFlY2gQ0-qq__JduuA77MuoYTtocN/s320/terminology-tabs.png" title="Terminology terminal emulator" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Terminology "tabs"</td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/terminology-preview.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Terminology terminal emulator" border="0" height="204" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhJthNK2BebV9ed0KE40jEN6PrPcUdzIEwGAOV-gVSp_5fq_FFgJcwITSEDbVNC5pjEn337KTUVSJ0FZloYkLptyWFbBn2f0x59FV5BVWS7SXVNz3JBGWCgaWchet24coiooxFPhq1zEof/s320/terminology-preview.png" title="Terminology terminal emulator" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Previewing a video file</td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/terminology-preview-tycat.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Terminology terminal emulator" border="0" height="228" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVgJZ8uANrG4y4lhMP4EplDi3aizwLHuHT0NSeiwHlviY1czvotL_E01sfHeMsv3GqCikl0xG_deW8oes5Bt_ZowSEb43QAli3RJ8iFD9Yormr5ebwoaWicWLkyCpu1quJkPhqMDNzt642/s320/terminology-preview-tycat.png" title="Terminology terminal emulator" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"tycat" command allows previewing files</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Below you can watch a video recorded by the Terminology developer, demoing the application (unfortunately, the resolution isn't great but it should be enough to get an idea on what Terminology can do):</div><br /><center><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/ibPziLRGvkg" width="420"></iframe><br />(<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibPziLRGvkg">direct video link</a>)</center><br /><br /><br /><h2>Using Terminology</h2><br />Here are a few Terminology usage tips:<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>1.</b> To set a background image use "<i>tybg image.jpg</i>" (where "image.jpg" is the image you want to use). The background can be a jpg, png and you can even use animated backgrounds, such as videos for instance. To reset the background, use: tybg ""</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>2.</b> To get a list of files with thumbnails, use "<i>tyls -m</i>". Please note that in my test under Ubuntu, the thumbnails only showed up for some image files, probably because of some missing dependency. Clicking on the thumbnail opens the Terminology external file previewer.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>3.</b> To preview a file, besides clicking on the thumbnail as stated above, you can also use "<i>find /path/to/some/folder</i>", etc., for example "<i>find ~/Videos</i>", and then click on the file - the full path is required so this won't work for "ls" for instance. You can also use "typop file".</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">You can also preview a file in the terminal by using "tycat file".</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>4.</b> To switch between tabs, use Ctrl + PageUp / PageDown. These keyboard shortcuts are hardcoded for now so you can't change them.</div><br /><br /><h2>Install Terminology in Ubuntu</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Terminology is included by default in <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/04/minimalistic-e17-linux-distribution.html">Bodhi Linux</a> (which is based on Ubuntu) so if you're running Bodhi, it should already be installed.<b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>To install the latest Terminology in Ubuntu 13.04, 12.10 or 12.04, you can use the PPA below</b> which provides daily builds for E17, EFL and some apps:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:hannes-janetzek/enlightenment-svn<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install terminology</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">You can also use the Enlightenment Foundation Libraries <a href="https://launchpad.net/~efl/+archive/trunk">stable PPA</a>, but currently this PPA provides Terminology 0.2 (the latest being 0.3).</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Arch Linux</b> users can install Terminology via <a href="https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/terminology/">AUR</a>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>For other Linux distributions, get Terminology from <a href="http://www.enlightenment.org/p.php?p=about/terminology">HERE</a>.</b></div>

Terminology: More Than A Terminal Emulator (Ubuntu Installation Instructions)

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Easily Backup IMAP Email Accounts Using nopriv.py

<div style="text-align: justify;"><b><i>nopriv.py</i> is a Python script that allows you to back up your emails, which supports any IMAP compatible email accounts, such as Gmail for instance.</b></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUMxw-j2zTcOQ4uFREmOr4dY4aEYkLD36_uii6ioHZCzWbXpX49oGCRI9i0wfIL6Sbha3J7NTETFZcOestsUpjNV3msVbCr2-qA37da_2Sh8iG8MpV9-Y3fNaeLtWAfcvnCPpBGOjzcYL6/s1600/nopriv-index.png" imageanchor="1"><img alt="nopriv.py" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUMxw-j2zTcOQ4uFREmOr4dY4aEYkLD36_uii6ioHZCzWbXpX49oGCRI9i0wfIL6Sbha3J7NTETFZcOestsUpjNV3msVbCr2-qA37da_2Sh8iG8MpV9-Y3fNaeLtWAfcvnCPpBGOjzcYL6/s320/nopriv-index.png" title="nopriv.py" /></a></div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>The tool backs up the emails to Maildir and to a browsable HTML5 archive</b>, so you can easily browse all your emails offline with just a web browser. <b>It supports multiple IMAP folders, attachments, incremental backups, HTML and text emails as well as multipart emails</b>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">For now the script can't restore your email backups, but on its homepage there's a link to another script which can do this. Also, since this is just a script, the password is stored in plain text, but you can remove the password after the backup is complete.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Here's how an email backed up using <i>nopriv.py</i> looks like when opening it in a web browser:</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/nopriv-email-example.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="nopriv.py" border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkrfgTDKK5aIDqJM5pPtW29kiMPoTlBQljb0IKNzcS5WaQuntRIxkbiVPvcaA5CeFOXJpG_MoaoDJ7DEecRJdv7potEQRbcVqHRt4HqaE4qN16aKpAeB90YAiJy2wM1iEgnUs6vx1Nu0b5/s320/nopriv-email-example.png" title="nopriv.py" width="128" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">In my test, <i>nopriv.py</i> took about half an hour to backup one of my Gmail accounts which has about 4400 emails. But obviously, this depends on your Internet connection speed, email attachements, IMAP server and so on.</div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>For more info and how to use nopriv.py, head over to its <a href="https://raymii.org/s/software/Nopriv.py.html">homepage</a> </b>(scroll to "Usage" for instructions on getting the script and setting everything up).</div><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><i>thanks to Remy van Elst for the tip!</i></div>

Easily Backup IMAP Email Accounts Using nopriv.py

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Dropbox-Like Cloud Sync And Collaboration Tool Seafile Gets Command Line Support, More

<div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="http://seafile.com/">Seafile</a> is an open source cloud sync and collaboration tool, similar to Dropbox, OwnCloud or Sparkleshare that you can install on your own server </b>or you can sign up for an account and get 5 GB of free space. We've talked about it a while back so for more information about Seafile, see our <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/02/seafile-robust-file-synchronization-and.html" title="Seafile: Robust File Synchronization And Collaboration Tool That You Can Run On Your Linux Server">previous post</a>.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNz2PzoAigRJKQpXs5c2Rw5fpT_o8L1OeY_WkkcBP5CN66Sq4rEiGu9mlG2XHqM9WLH_5vyiR7fKIRKLUVQTnlHH33pSxny1Hs26Sw3001fOWFYDFq0NpT9oIl72pVV8yYCgoRHfzL-oAf/s1600/seafile-1.5.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" title="Seafile web interface"><img alt="Seafile" border="0" height="184" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNz2PzoAigRJKQpXs5c2Rw5fpT_o8L1OeY_WkkcBP5CN66Sq4rEiGu9mlG2XHqM9WLH_5vyiR7fKIRKLUVQTnlHH33pSxny1Hs26Sw3001fOWFYDFq0NpT9oIl72pVV8yYCgoRHfzL-oAf/s320/seafile-1.5.png" title="Seafile" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Both the Seafile server and client have been updated recently</b>, getting new features and bug fixes. <b>Seafile Server 1.5 comes with two major new features: command line client support and LDAP</b>, as well as some other features and improvements, such as:</div><a name='more'></a><ul><li>audio / video playback support;</li><li>improved public info page;</li><li>support selection of file encoding when viewing online;</li><li>edit library title / description;</li><li>bug fixes for using httpserver under https.</li></ul><br />Here is the new audio / video playback feature in action:<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/seafile-video.png" rel="image_group" title="Seafile web interface: Video playback"><img alt="Seafile web interface: Video playback" src="http://img.netupd8.com/seafile-video_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/seafile-music.png" rel="image_group" title="Seafile web interface: Audio playback"><img alt="Seafile web interface: Audio playback" src="http://img.netupd8.com/seafile-music_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Also, there is now a <b>separate Seafile server for Raspberry Pi</b>, however, it hasn't been updated to the latest 1.5 version yet.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Seafile client was also updated, and there's now a command line client so you can use it on a headless server. Other improvements include displaying detailed syncing message and bug fixes.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>The next Seafile release should come with a redesigned collaboration feature</b>, bringing Seafile a lot more closer to its team collaboration platform goal.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">For <b>how to use the new Seafile command line client</b> on Debian / Ubuntu, see <a href="https://github.com/haiwen/seafile/wiki/Seafile-CLI-client">THIS</a> page.</div><br /><br /><br /><h2>Download Seafile</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The Seafile server for Linux runs on Debian, Ubuntu (11.10, 12.04), Centos 5.8, 6.0+ and Raspberry Pi and is very easy to set up thanks to a script that does everything for you. For the server installation instructions, see the <a href="https://github.com/haiwen/seafile/wiki/Download-and-setup-seafile-server">Seafile wiki</a>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">For upgrading the Seafile server, see the instructions from <a href="https://github.com/haiwen/seafile/wiki/Upgrading-Seafile-Server">HERE</a>. I've tested the upgrade instructions and everything worked as expected, even though the upgrade script has displayed a message saying that my Seafile server has been upgraded from 1.3 to 1.4, when in fact it was upgraded to 1.5.</div><br /><a href="http://seafile.com/en/download/">Download Seafile server / clients</a> (clients available for Windows, Mac, Linux and mobile: Android and iOS).

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Try TextAdept, A Fast, Cross-Platform Text Editor That Comes With GTK And Ncurses Interfaces

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjUj7ChvjODv5qkFX3UUWGjS7BSXeRvilk6KERqf6toTzVp-24kC-ZpG2392JjSPEpXflbkb4iPkp7PAeWyoPqDym4hmMI8FDoMGlI60XYtkfj6WKlzMwiIBMGe_Mgq-Z9aJbBl3Un4zjl/s1600/textadept-splitview-snapopen.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="textadept" border="0" height="189" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjUj7ChvjODv5qkFX3UUWGjS7BSXeRvilk6KERqf6toTzVp-24kC-ZpG2392JjSPEpXflbkb4iPkp7PAeWyoPqDym4hmMI8FDoMGlI60XYtkfj6WKlzMwiIBMGe_Mgq-Z9aJbBl3Un4zjl/s320/textadept-splitview-snapopen.png" title="textadept" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="http://foicica.com/textadept/">TextAdept</a> is a fast, minimalistic text editor that can be extended through Lua. The application is free, open source and runs on Windows, Mac OSX and Linux.</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">TextAdept features unlimited split views, support for over 80 programming languages, powerful snippets and key commands, code autocompletition and API lookup and is entirely keyboard driven.</div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Since our last TextAdept <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2011/05/textadept-is-lightweight-cross-platform.html">article</a></b>, the application has improved a lot, getting many new features and other changes, including:</div><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li style="text-align: justify;">menu mnemonics for indentation size;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">support for indicator and hotspot events;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">added native folding for more than 60% of existing lexers. The rest still use folding by indentation by default;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">added language-specific context menu support;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">new dark and light themes and on-the-fly theme switching;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">autocomplete supports multiple selections;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">more! </li></ul><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAng941bw7A5MVQLFp8dbzAla4wdkL0m8b6oSjfnQnAU0SV8CwPCW1QVARWl8hph9D5_rvms8m9KWSvyhnLalbYqepgR9-AFeBccluLanZ215NpyxWngL4saLFK5DGs_-HZeTh_PAwQejj/s1600/textadept-ncurses.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="textadept-ncurses" border="0" height="207" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAng941bw7A5MVQLFp8dbzAla4wdkL0m8b6oSjfnQnAU0SV8CwPCW1QVARWl8hph9D5_rvms8m9KWSvyhnLalbYqepgR9-AFeBccluLanZ215NpyxWngL4saLFK5DGs_-HZeTh_PAwQejj/s320/textadept-ncurses.png" title="textadept-ncurses" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">textadept-ncurses</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>There's also a ncurses version now</b>, so you can run TextAdept in the terminal. The ncurses-based TextAdept is very user-friendly and easy to use - it follows the GNOME HID (Human Interface Design) key-bindings standard for many actions so you can use: Ctrl + s to save the file, Ctrl + o to open a file, Ctrl + q to quit and so on.</div><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicq6DzRpuh2Ms7ISoBpbAu5LtYBnor1pxdPigeR7MkE1EhfLiQkjL-C4_QA8b4vcOpbJDXMmqHK1sBDPKArtTGaZmcoywKmSAHdxL4MX1kZcVP4Nuo1LyJ7bpjZDK5lZx6uIXy3loD9eRX/s1600/textadept-buffers.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="202" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicq6DzRpuh2Ms7ISoBpbAu5LtYBnor1pxdPigeR7MkE1EhfLiQkjL-C4_QA8b4vcOpbJDXMmqHK1sBDPKArtTGaZmcoywKmSAHdxL4MX1kZcVP4Nuo1LyJ7bpjZDK5lZx6uIXy3loD9eRX/s320/textadept-buffers.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">TextAdept buffers</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;">TextAdept doesn't uses tabs like most text editors and instead it uses the buffer browser - press Ctrl + b to open the buffers (files) switching dialog or use Ctrl + Tab to switch to the next buffer or Ctrl + Shift + Tab to switch to the previous one. Alternatively, you can also bring up the recent files dialog using Ctrl + Alt + o. And there is yet another way to quickly open files: snapopen, which behaves like the buffer browser, but displays a list of files to open which includes files in subdirectories - you can snapopen the current directory files using Ctrl + Alt + Shift + o.<br /><br />You can find the list of key bindings for both the GTK and terminal version <a href="http://foicica.com/textadept/api/_M.textadept.keys.html#Key.Bindings">HERE</a>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">For extra TextAdept language modules, including LaTeX, Python, Markdown, CoffeeScript and so on, see the <a href="http://foicica.com/wiki/textadept">TextAdept wiki</a>.</div><br /><br /><h2>Download TextAdept</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="http://foicica.com/textadept/download">Download TextAdept</a></b> - there are binaries available for Linux (as tar.gz, so there are no deb or rpm files but you can simply extract the archive and run it), Windows and Mac OS X as well as source files.</div><br />Arch Linux users can install the latest stable TextAdept version via <a href="https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/textadept-latest-stable/">AUR</a>.<br /><br />Ubuntu users can install TextAdept using using the main WebUpd8 PPA:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install textadept</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">TextAdept should then show up in the menu / Dash. To use the ncurses-based version, type "textadept-curses" in a terminal.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">If you want to make textadept-ncurses the default command line editor in Ubuntu, also install the following package:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install textadept-default-cli</code></pre><br />For how to use TextAdept, see the <a href="http://foicica.com/textadept/">manual</a> and its <a href="http://foicica.com/wiki/textadept">wiki</a> as well as the doc/ folder available in the TextAdept archive (available under <i>/opt/textadept/doc</i> for Ubuntu users who are using our PPA).<br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><i>Thanks to Bruce Ingalls!</i></div>

Try TextAdept, A Fast, Cross-Platform Text Editor That Comes With GTK And Ncurses Interfaces

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Terra: Drop-Down Terminal Emulator With Support For Multiple Terminals In One Window

<div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Terra is a Python / GTK3 drop-down terminal emulator similar to Guake or Yakuake, which shows up from the top of the screen when you press a keyboard shortcut, like the console used in games such as Quake.</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The application combines some of the features available in <a href="http://guake.org/">Guake</a> and <a href="https://launchpad.net/terminator">Terminator</a>, resulting in a nice drop-down terminal emulator in which you can use <b>multiple terminals in the same window (you can split the terminal horizontally or vertically):</b><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_caHLbhSUCMhR87ajlIr6-w4PGb3bnLHfKyXqdmxuajnoyWbgdna3TywUbZBHhbNHRxxAq6bTEsQ-tR2CHzWn3DT4sT4bUdGrVFpcHjA-KGobmVZihbBI_H3eIJA_xdrw0QPYgt_Lkno3/s1600/terra-terminal-emulator.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="terra terminal emulator" border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_caHLbhSUCMhR87ajlIr6-w4PGb3bnLHfKyXqdmxuajnoyWbgdna3TywUbZBHhbNHRxxAq6bTEsQ-tR2CHzWn3DT4sT4bUdGrVFpcHjA-KGobmVZihbBI_H3eIJA_xdrw0QPYgt_Lkno3/s320/terra-terminal-emulator.png" title="terra terminal emulator" width="320" /></a></div></div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Compared to Guake</b>, Terra also comes with some extra configuration options like:</div><ul><li>configurable window height or width</li><li>configurable horizontal and vertical alignment</li></ul><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Other features include initial multi-monitor support (available with the latest 0.1.5 release): you can select the monitor on which the terminal will show up, transparency support, configurable keyboard shortcuts to toggle the terminal visibility, split the terminal horizontally or vertically and more.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The application is still pretty new so expect new features to be added soon. You might also find some small bugs - for instance, in my test under Ubuntu 13.04, the "hide on lose focus" option is greyed out so it can't be selected (I've already reported this <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/terra/+bug/1122052">bug</a>). Report any bugs you may find @ <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/terra">Launchpad</a>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">To use it, launch Terra from the menu / Dash and then <b>use F12 to show / hide the terminal</b>. The shortcut to show / hide the terminal can be changed from its preferences - if you change it, remember to restart Terra.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>To get multiple terminals in the same window, right click Terra and select  "Split vertical" or "Split horizontal"</b>. For now there's no option to save / restore the terminals layout (like in Terminator), but such a feature will probably be added in a future release.</div><br /><br /><br /><h2>Install Terra Terminal Emulator</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Ubuntu Precise, Quantal and Raring users can install Terra Terminal Emulator by using its official PPA:</b></div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ozcanesen/terra-terminal<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install terra</code></pre><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />Arch Linux users can install Terra via <a href="https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/terra-bzr/">AUR</a>.<br /><br />For other Linux distributions, you can grab the Terra Terminal Emulator source via <a href="https://code.launchpad.net/terra">Launchpad</a>.</div><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><i>Also see: <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/01/how-to-use-xfce4-terminal-06x-as-drop.htmlhttp://www.webupd8.org/2013/01/how-to-use-xfce4-terminal-06x-as-drop.html">How To Use Xfce4 Terminal 0.6.x As A Drop-Down Console (Guake-style)</a></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: right;"><i>Thanks to Yusuf Baran for the tip (I've received it a while back but I've waited for <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/terra/+bug/1086835">multi-monitor support</a> before publishing the post)!</i></div>

Terra: Drop-Down Terminal Emulator With Support For Multiple Terminals In One Window

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Undistract-me Notifies You When Terminal Commands Are Completed

<div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="http://mumak.net/undistract-me/">Undistract-me</a> is a simple tool that notifies you when a command you run in a terminal which takes longer than ten seconds to finish is done.</b><br /><br />Besides letting you know that the command has finished running, the notifications sent by Undistract-me display the command you ran (useful if you run multiple commands in the same time) and the number of seconds it took for the command to finish.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">This can be useful e.g. when you start to compile something and then you switch to some other window to read your emails or whatever and get distracted and forget about the command you ran: Undistract-me displays a notification when the command / job you ran in the terminal is done so you can go back to the terminal and see the final result, etc.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY2nYO-hTGWx-ChFvdvnCSbc_as0GBpgZ5gmRbxO-F6CthLp3shOJtgAM96Iq-Jqc47uRkuL9FIwOiqyzjVYqPx5LVE3eoJi0C21h4W0LoYQhtXIgUatoh0Y7qKSoJfmW8cPQRt3X_e3j_/s1600/undistract-me-notification-update.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="command completed notification" border="0" height="161" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY2nYO-hTGWx-ChFvdvnCSbc_as0GBpgZ5gmRbxO-F6CthLp3shOJtgAM96Iq-Jqc47uRkuL9FIwOiqyzjVYqPx5LVE3eoJi0C21h4W0LoYQhtXIgUatoh0Y7qKSoJfmW8cPQRt3X_e3j_/s320/undistract-me-notification-update.png" title="command completed notification" width="320" /></a></div><br /><a name='more'></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>There is another way of doing this: using an "alert"</b>, about which we've <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2010/07/get-notified-when-job-you-run-in.html" title="Get Notified When A Job You Run In A Terminal Is Done, Using NotifyOSD [Ubuntu]">written a while back</a> (or a simple notify-send command added after the actual command you want to run) - which by the way is now available by default in Ubuntu, simply use "some command; alert". <b>However, using the "alert" alias, you must add "alert" at the end of each command you want to be notified for and you may forget to do this sometimes</b>, while using Undistract-me, this is not required and any command that takes more than 10 seconds to complete will trigger a notification.<br /><br /><b>Undistract-me only works with Bash (default in Ubuntu) and should display notifications on any desktop environment</b> - here's a GNOME Shell screenshot:</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAVepC2hZXZ5iFBcyzt8QXKOP7O9WMSRkRycYjR-k1prCftRs7TnOB_TU2-dmHgpRkgkD6kiO_YoHTiaKwiRx01wM2Otwlv4psmXxOWOxmSzKnLBUzzSJdzmELRgmFlAad6KFps8ZBs7fI/s1600/undistract-me-gs.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="undistract-me notification GNOME Shell" border="0" height="207" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAVepC2hZXZ5iFBcyzt8QXKOP7O9WMSRkRycYjR-k1prCftRs7TnOB_TU2-dmHgpRkgkD6kiO_YoHTiaKwiRx01wM2Otwlv4psmXxOWOxmSzKnLBUzzSJdzmELRgmFlAad6KFps8ZBs7fI/s320/undistract-me-gs.png" title="undistract-me notification GNOME Shell" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><b>By default, Undistract-me notifies you when any command that takes longer than 10 seconds to complete is done, </b>so you don't get flooded with notifications for simple commands like "ls" or "cd",<b> but you can change this: </b>edit the <i>/usr/share/undistract-me/long-running.bash</i> file as root and changing the "LONG_RUNNING_COMMAND_TIMEOUT=" variable value from 10 to whatever you want.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Update: in a later release, Undistract-me  has added a "LONG_RUNNING_COMMAND_CUSTOM" variable which you can use to send a command other than "notify-send". Also, <b>the notifications are now displayed only if the window isn't active.</b></div><br /><br /><h2>Install Undistract-me in Ubuntu</h2><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYVMPF6Jz3vhX0Xi6-6EnaKGGBzE1KipY_EDYMSGM7a8zLFhjngEmFUcx2X6Qf7Ph3EVSj8VJnIlNU0hn_L4wmYXTk3A2VzfNn7Odv-tTgPQmcXJydDm8VIVujW31OhnRwxnSxxzCSUQI_/s1600/undistract-me-notification-make.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="terminal command completed notification" border="0" height="162" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYVMPF6Jz3vhX0Xi6-6EnaKGGBzE1KipY_EDYMSGM7a8zLFhjngEmFUcx2X6Qf7Ph3EVSj8VJnIlNU0hn_L4wmYXTk3A2VzfNn7Odv-tTgPQmcXJydDm8VIVujW31OhnRwxnSxxzCSUQI_/s320/undistract-me-notification-make.png" title="terminal command completed notification" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Undistract-me is available in the official Ubuntu 13.04 repositories so to install it, simply search for it in Ubuntu Software Center or install "undistract-me" via command line.<br /><br /><b>To install Undistract-me in Ubuntu 12.10 or 12.04, use the following commands:</b></div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:undistract-me-packagers/daily<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install undistract-me</code></pre><br />Arch Linux users can get Undistract-me via <a href="https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/undistract-me-bzr/">AUR</a>.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">For other Linux distributions, you can grab Undistract-me from <a href="https://launchpad.net/undistract-me">Launchpad</a> (instructions <a href="http://mumak.net/undistract-me/">HERE</a>).</div><b><br /></b> <br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>To get Undistract-me to work, you must enable "Run command as a login shell"</b> so open the terminal you're using and:</div><ul><li>for GNOME Terminal: select <i>Edit > Profile Preferences</i> and on the Title and Command tab, check the "Run command as login shell;</li><li>for Guake Terminal, right click in a terminal, select "Preferences" and on the General tab, check the "Run command as a login shell" box.</li></ul><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXmtBEdI_enClass2hYWGr6EiiDfifyh2Iet8xsyi3Zedvxc2xUVZ-emY5W4o9kYzZJ1kjCnsNMLo_bAyj9LPJAR_RWJeasJbAwEcqCaAdksibyA0xUMY2M5CkdVFuPWpRt00tm9jCnENr/s1600/run-command-login-shell.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="terminal Run command as a login shell" border="0" height="211" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXmtBEdI_enClass2hYWGr6EiiDfifyh2Iet8xsyi3Zedvxc2xUVZ-emY5W4o9kYzZJ1kjCnsNMLo_bAyj9LPJAR_RWJeasJbAwEcqCaAdksibyA0xUMY2M5CkdVFuPWpRt00tm9jCnENr/s320/run-command-login-shell.png" title="terminal Run command as a login shell" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">If you're using a different terminal, look through its preferences for the "Run command as a login shell" option and make sure it's checked.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Once you do this, restart the terminal </b>(make sure you close all open terminal windows)<b> and you're done. </b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">If you want to test it, run a command that takes longer than 10 seconds to complete or you can simply run "sleep 11" in a terminal and in 11 seconds, you should get a notification like the ones you can see in the two screenshots in this article.</div><br />Report any bugs you may find @ <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/undistract-me">Launchpad</a>.

Undistract-me Notifies You When Terminal Commands Are Completed

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How To List Packages From A PPA / Repository In Ubuntu

<div style="text-align: justify;">A few weeks ago, we saw how to find out <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/11/how-to-find-out-to-which-ppa-repository.html">to which PPA / repository a package belongs to</a> in Ubuntu / Debian. But how about getting a list of packages available in a PPA / repository?</div><br /><br /><a name='more'></a><br /><br /><h3>Synaptic</h3><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">To get a list of packages available in a PPA / repository enabled on your system (if the repository is disabled or not added on your system, it won't show up here), firstly install Synaptic if you haven't already:</div><br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install synaptic</code></pre><br />(or install <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/12/how-to-install-synaptic-with-gtk3.html">Synaptic GTK3</a>)<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Then <b>open Synaptic, select "Origin" on the bottom left, then select a PPA or repository on the left and it should list all packages in that PPA / repository for your Ubuntu version, both installed and not installed:</b></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/synaptic-origin.png" rel="image_group" title="List packages in repositories with Synaptic"><img alt="Synaptic origin" src="http://img.netupd8.com/synaptic-origin_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">In the latest Synaptic built with GTK3, there are two entries for each PPA here, one that uses "/now" at the end, which displays the packages you've installed from a repository and another one which displays all the packages available in that repository.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Important:</b> if the exact same package (including the package version) exists in two or more PPAs / repositories, it will only be listed for one repository entry in Synaptic. That's why I've added other ways of doing this (see below), which list all the packages, even if the package exists in other PPAs / repositories.</div><br /><br /><br /><h3>Command line</h3><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>You can also do this using a command like the one below, but this will only list the package names, without any additional info (no version, description, etc.):</b></div><pre class="linux-code"><code>awk '$1 == "Package:" { if (a[$2]++ == 0) print $2; }' /var/lib/apt/lists/*<b>PPA-FIRST-PART</b>*<b>PPA-SECOND-PART</b>*Packages</code></pre><br />where "PPA-FIRST-PART" is the first part of a PPA, e.g. for the ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8 PPA, "PPA-FIRST-PART" is "nilarimogard" and "PPA-SECOND-PART" is "webupd8".<br /><br />Let's try it out:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>awk '$1 == "Package:" { if (a[$2]++ == 0) print $2; }' /var/lib/apt/lists/*nilarimogard*webupd8*Packages</code></pre><br />And here's the terminal output:<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/list-packages-terminal.png" rel="image_group" title="Get a list of packages in a repository from the command line"><img alt="list packages ppa terminal" src="http://img.netupd8.com/list-packages-terminal_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">(I've tweaked the original command - see the credits -, to remove duplicate lines which would occur on 64bit systems with multi-arch support).</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">This works for regular repositories too, e.g. to see all the packages available in the proposed repository:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>awk '$1 == "Package:" { if (a[$2]++ == 0) print $2; }' /var/lib/apt/lists/*proposed*Packages</code></pre><br />Or, to see the packages available in the security multiverse repository:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>awk '$1 == "Package:" { if (a[$2]++ == 0) print $2; }' /var/lib/apt/lists/*security*multiverse*Packages</code></pre><br /><br /><br /><h3>Using Y PPA Manager</h3><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/10/y-ppa-manager-0092-released-with-new.html">Y PPA Manager</a>, a small application I've created, can list all the packages available in each PPA added on your system. It doesn't work with regular repositories (just Launchpad PPAs) though and the PPA needs to be enabled on your system for this to work. So it's not perfect. </div><br />But there are advantages over Synaptic / the command above:<br /><ul><li>unlike Synaptic, it lists all the packages in a PPA, even if the exact same package (exact version) is available in multiple PPAs;</li><li>unlike the command above, Y PPA Manager displays the package version next to the package name.</li></ul><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/y-ppa-manager-list-packages.png" rel="image_group" title="List all the packages in a PPA using Y PPA Manager"><img alt="List packages PPA Y PPA Manager" src="http://img.netupd8.com/y-ppa-manager-list-packages_thumb.png" /></a></div><br />To lists all the packages in a PPA, install Y PPA Manager:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/y-ppa-manager<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install y-ppa-manager</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Then launch Y PPA Manager, double click "Manage PPAs", select the PPA and click "List packages". </b></div><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><i>some info via <a href="http://askubuntu.com/questions/43581/how-to-list-packages-from-a-ppa-source-in-command-line">AskUbuntu</a> & <a href="http://usemoslinux.blogspot.com/2012/11/como-listar-los-paquetes-dentro-de-un.html">UsemosLinux</a></i></div>

How To List Packages From A PPA / Repository In Ubuntu

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How To Find Out To Which PPA Repository A Package Belongs To

<div style="text-align: justify;">There are various reasons why you may need to find out to which PPA a package belongs to, for instance, in case a package in a PPA breaks something on your system, if you want to install a package which is already installed on your computer on some other machine but you don't know the PPA you've used to install it and so on.<br /><br />So here's a <b>quick tip on how to find out to which PPA a package belongs to. </b></div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>To find out the PPA to which a package belongs to, simply run the following command in a terminal</b>:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>apt-cache policy <b>PACKAGE_NAME</b></code></pre>replacing "PACKAGE_NAME" with the package you want to find out the PPA for.<br /><br /><b>Example:</b><br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>apt-cache policy oracle-java7-installer</code></pre><br />Here's how the command output looks like:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2_uKAYsNzRx6hxpoEVv4NCEnHCZWHDuvQ4lL44RDHhlolzl3tooXX0TtBOxTQ7cEegE5mF83omuih_e0i7UQ8fG30AEbCNBiNUlzF7yo_iZoNX44xwXz6KielTj8TDXowHrVht5H06ARI/s1600/apt-cache-policy-ppa.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="apt-cache pollicy" border="0" height="218" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2_uKAYsNzRx6hxpoEVv4NCEnHCZWHDuvQ4lL44RDHhlolzl3tooXX0TtBOxTQ7cEegE5mF83omuih_e0i7UQ8fG30AEbCNBiNUlzF7yo_iZoNX44xwXz6KielTj8TDXowHrVht5H06ARI/s320/apt-cache-policy-ppa.png" title="apt-cache pollicy" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">As you can see, the command output displays the PPA url, which, right after "ppa.launchpad.net" contains the PPA you've used to install the package ("webupd8team/java" in my example above).</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">This, of course, also works with packages from the official Ubuntu repositories as well as packages from non-Launchpad repositories. For instance, here's how the output of "<b>apt-cache policy opera</b>" looks like (Opera is installed through its own repository):</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBFeMQ2LaWaIwILiWf4dMt70GVC2y4nVZf4ypLOHm4tLwZeeolw5fwkFnNjyVDK1vajxzh8oCekz0fupzy5_PdNXuwagGmwaBaWUImbcOiezAg29TqmvEAdKsBgB19n_13Q50zuS-0qVQ9/s1600/apt-cache-policy-repository.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="apt-cache pollicy" border="0" height="219" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBFeMQ2LaWaIwILiWf4dMt70GVC2y4nVZf4ypLOHm4tLwZeeolw5fwkFnNjyVDK1vajxzh8oCekz0fupzy5_PdNXuwagGmwaBaWUImbcOiezAg29TqmvEAdKsBgB19n_13Q50zuS-0qVQ9/s320/apt-cache-policy-repository.png" title="apt-cache pollicy" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">If the repository url is missing, it means you've installed the deb manually, not through a repository (and the package is not available in any repository on your system) or that the repository has been disabled or removed after the package installation.</div>

How To Find Out To Which PPA Repository A Package Belongs To

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Speed Up apt-get Downloads With apt-fast [Ubuntu PPA]

<div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Apt-fast is a script that can "<i>drastically improve APT download speed</i>" by using command line download accelerators such as Axel or Aria2 with multiple connections per package.</b></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">We've actually blogged about apt-fast back in 2009 but since then, the script has received some important changes so I've wanted to update our readers with its current status.</div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;">Since our previous apt-fast articles, the script has gained support for multiple download tools (axel and aria2), an option to download the binary in the current folder as well as an option to use either apt-get or aptitude. Furthermore, apt-fast has an official PPA for Ubuntu users and it's even present in the official repositories for some Linux distributions, like PCLinuxOS for instance.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5Wa46JN229kp63WGJdyloCkTcpVhFbXkiqmzPFv_Hz5PAL28ZLbR7HQyDWA0F3POBJkKn_2CGRjRxgqtMr-hQsNhset4neENvY9FC6bgVcCTmiuOBPeS01Fygh6one3QtJAHTjyV1J-bZ/s1600/apt-fast.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="apt-fast" border="0" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5Wa46JN229kp63WGJdyloCkTcpVhFbXkiqmzPFv_Hz5PAL28ZLbR7HQyDWA0F3POBJkKn_2CGRjRxgqtMr-hQsNhset4neENvY9FC6bgVcCTmiuOBPeS01Fygh6one3QtJAHTjyV1J-bZ/s320/apt-fast.png" title="apt-fast" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><b>Features:</b><br /><ul><li>uses <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2009/10/aria2-cross-platform-command-line-tool.html">aria2</a> or axel, 2 great command line download tools to improve download speed, with multiple connections per package </li><li>supports both apt-get and aptitude</li><li>proxy support</li><li>supports most apt-get functions: install, upgrade, dist-upgrade, build-dep and so on</li></ul><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Don't expect the script to do wonders for slow Internet connections (though I can't really comment here since I have a really fast connection), but if you have a decent Internet connection, you should see some pretty big improvements in downloading the binaries. This is especially useful for installing / upgrading multiple or large packages, such as games (hint for <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/09/rts-game-0-ad-hits-alpha-11.html">0 AD</a> fans).<br /><br />apt-fast only speeds up downloading the binaries, so even though 'apt-fast update' works, this command isn't ran using a download accelerator so the speed is the same as with apt-get. <b>Support for the 'update' command is, however, planned for a future release</b>. If you can help implement this, see the apt-fast <a href="https://github.com/ilikenwf/apt-fast">GitHub page</a>.</div><br /><br /><h2>Install apt-fast</h2><br /><b>Ubuntu users can install the latest stable apt-fast from its official PPA:</b><br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:apt-fast/stable<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install apt-fast<br /></code></pre><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrrtQ5dsRMgB13oDyRvFH699r8IMyAaY2IwQUBPDO1cXxopTPGMFWkXQcgtlNrlpP6yhXDBSNzS3WulIb7vcSSIJcjEWZpKob6MSjLyUFyGQtdU7ZFDx02GeBGYXhs9BHNTJ6sGIean90D/s1600/apt-fast-configure.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="apt-fast configuration" border="0" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrrtQ5dsRMgB13oDyRvFH699r8IMyAaY2IwQUBPDO1cXxopTPGMFWkXQcgtlNrlpP6yhXDBSNzS3WulIb7vcSSIJcjEWZpKob6MSjLyUFyGQtdU7ZFDx02GeBGYXhs9BHNTJ6sGIean90D/s320/apt-fast-configure.png" title="apt-fast configuration" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">When installing apt-fast in Ubuntu via its PPA, the package asks you if you want to use aptitude or apt-get, what download manager to use (axel or aria2c). If, later on, you want to change some of the apt-fast options, use the following command:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo dpkg-reconfigure apt-fast</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">aria2c is the download tool recommended by the apt-fast developers, mostly because it supports resuming downloads.</div><br /><b>For other Linux distributions, you can download apt-fast from <a href="https://github.com/ilikenwf/apt-fast">GitHub</a>.</b><br /><br /><br /><h2>Using apt-fast</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">apt-fast works the same as apt-get and all you have to do is use "sudo apt-fast install PACKAGE" instead of "apt-get" and so on for any operation.</div><br />Install a package:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-fast install PACKAGE</code></pre><br />Upgrade packages:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-fast upgrade</code></pre><br />Install the build dependencies for a package:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-fast build-dep PACKAGE</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Like I was saying, the commands are identical to apt-get and all you have to do is replace "apt-get" with "apt-fast". <b>There's also a download command ("apt-fast download PACKAGE") which downloads the binary into the current directory</b>.</div><br />If you encounter bugs, report them @ <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/apt-fast">Launchpad</a> or <a href="https://github.com/ilikenwf/apt-fast">GitHub</a>.

Speed Up apt-get Downloads With apt-fast [Ubuntu PPA]

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Subliminal: Command Line Tool To Download Subtitles From Multiple Websites

<div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="https://github.com/Diaoul/subliminal">Subliminal</a> is a python library / command line tool to search and download subtitles.</b></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Various video players like Totem or VLC (with the <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/02/vlsub-vlc-extension-to-search-and.html" title="VLSUB: VLC Extension To Search And Download Subtitles">VLSub</a> extension) already support downloading subtitles from OpenSubtitles based on the video name or hash, but Subliminal supports multiple subtitle websites: Addic7ed, BierDopje, OpenSubtitles, SubsWiki, Subtitulos, TheSubDB and TvSubtitles, so there are better chances for downloading working subtitles that match your video.</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><a name='more'></a>Subliminal uses video hashes and the "guessit" library to extract information from the filename / path to make sure the correct subtitles are downloaded. Further more, the tool uses a library called "enzyme" to detect embedded subtitles and avoid duplicates.</div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHeiG_te_1uaz7qMBGGHXVZwXCNsNOoWEKyV41emAHEsO_yX28aIwJLjJhfFSDSPPkeCG36mt13MUj76tiAQv8ebBGZ6WuRYOFAqRmpipxt7n-Ro5ec1snDzDbKMVRS9nuhHMz_eKEa-CJ/s1600/subliminal.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="subliminal subtitle downloader" border="0" height="221" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHeiG_te_1uaz7qMBGGHXVZwXCNsNOoWEKyV41emAHEsO_yX28aIwJLjJhfFSDSPPkeCG36mt13MUj76tiAQv8ebBGZ6WuRYOFAqRmpipxt7n-Ro5ec1snDzDbKMVRS9nuhHMz_eKEa-CJ/s320/subliminal.png" title="subliminal subtitle downloader" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><br /><h2>Installation</h2><br /><br /><b>To install Subliminal in Ubuntu, use the following commands:</b><br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install git-core python-pip<br />sudo pip install beautifulsoup4 guessit requests enzyme html5lib lxml<br />cd && git clone https://github.com/Diaoul/subliminal.git<br />cd subliminal<br />sudo python setup.py install</code></pre><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Now, to download subtitles, you can either use a file path, filename or folder path. Here's an example:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>subliminal -l en The.Big.Bang.Theory.S05E18.HDTV.x264-LOL.mp4</code></pre>This will download the subtitle in the current folder, if you want to download them into the video folder "cd" to that directory firstly.<br /><br />"-l" sets the subtitle language, "en" (English) in the example above.<br /><br /><br />For more on how to use subliminal, run this command in a terminal:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>subliminal --help</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><i>Thanks to Tamps for the tip!</i></div>

Subliminal: Command Line Tool To Download Subtitles From Multiple Websites

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Install ADB And Fastboot Android Tools In Ubuntu Via PPA

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3rgKUi_R1s8yVmOJdT_o4SGpNkgMp1zK2inr-2cPzfxHBsi1qmKqo3VMinFOG_bm3XG1YulKKqFYqG3c-QmrpJsVYSXL_yVGpjw1DFZ8wsi_KHTKGyx9xwedcwxr-xRz0MS0pSpUBPQG1/s1600/adb.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="adb" border="0" height="193" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3rgKUi_R1s8yVmOJdT_o4SGpNkgMp1zK2inr-2cPzfxHBsi1qmKqo3VMinFOG_bm3XG1YulKKqFYqG3c-QmrpJsVYSXL_yVGpjw1DFZ8wsi_KHTKGyx9xwedcwxr-xRz0MS0pSpUBPQG1/s320/adb.png" title="adb" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>A package called "android-tools", which comes with "adb" and "fastboot" command line utilities, has been uploaded to the Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal repositories recently. I've got a request to upload this package in a PPA for older Ubuntu releases, so I've backported it to Ubuntu 12.04, 11.10 and 11.04.</b></div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>"adb" (Android Debug Bridge) </b>is a command line tool you can use to access the file system from an Android device; it can be used to send commands, transfer or receive files, install or uninstall applications and more.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>"fastboot"</b> is a command line tools that you can use to flash the filesystem on Android devices over USB.</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">These tools can be found in the <a href="http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html">Android SDK</a> too; using the official package in Ubuntu 12.10 or the packages in our PPA is just an alternative and easier way I'd say, to install them in Ubuntu. Also, the packages in the PPA are available for both 32bit and 64bit, while the Android SDK provided by Google is only available for <a href="http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=904303">32bit</a>.</div><br /><br /><h2>Install "android-tools" package (adb and fastboot) in Ubuntu 12.04, 11.10 or 11.04</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Like I've said above, android-tools is available in the official Ubuntu 12.10 repositories so all you have to do is search for it in Ubuntu Software Center and click the install button.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>For Ubuntu 12.04, 11.10 and 11.04, you can install android-tools using the main WebUpd8 PPA:</b></div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install android-tools-adb android-tools-fastboot</code></pre><br />Once installed, run "adb" and "fastboot" in a terminal to see the available options and how to use these Android tools.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Update 1:</b> we've now backported the Ubuntu Raring builds to Ubuntu 12.10 as well as Ubuntu 12.04 and 11.10. This includes  a new android-tools-ext4-utils package (“sudo apt-get install android-tools-fsutils”) and <b>udev rules to allow fastboot flashing Nexus7.</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Update 2:</b>  The "android-tools-adb" package now includes / installs <b>51-android.rules</b> Udev rules. This isn't available in the official Ubuntu package but only in the package available in our PPA, and is available for <b>Ubuntu Raring, Quantal, Precise and Oneiric.</b></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><i>Thanks to Marcin Juszkiewicz for the packaging; I've only uploaded the package to the WebUpd8 PPA for older Ubuntu releases</i></div>

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Install PowerTOP 2.1 In Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin Via PPA

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht1kSDwmTI4icFT2v89RTlMpL-ObVEs16b-BhnJB0fj1jYG0iQBh0SDn2SLu_tXopTsD-5oZAnPdVwzhT_IW32VOJO_ulfZcwgv2rJYg4_CFxLh7QMh2gid9z4KfnVsgj26Qx3HycvOOBu/s1600/powertop-overview.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="powertop" border="0" height="196" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht1kSDwmTI4icFT2v89RTlMpL-ObVEs16b-BhnJB0fj1jYG0iQBh0SDn2SLu_tXopTsD-5oZAnPdVwzhT_IW32VOJO_ulfZcwgv2rJYg4_CFxLh7QMh2gid9z4KfnVsgj26Qx3HycvOOBu/s320/powertop-overview.png" title="powertop" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="https://01.org/powertop/">PowerTOP</a> is a command line tool that helps diagnose issues with power consumption and provides suggestions on how to improve power usage.</b></div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;">PowerTOP 2.1, released a few days ago, introduces support for Intel GPUs and for cores without P-states, a new manual page along with an option to specify workload to run during measurement and an option to suppress output to the terminal.</div><br /><br /><h2>Install PowerTOP 2.1 in Ubuntu 12.04 via PPA</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The latest PowerTOP 2.1 is available in the Ubuntu 12.10 official repositories, and for Ubuntu 12.04 in the main WebUpd8 PPA. Add the PPA and install PowerTOP 2.1 using the following commands:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install powertop</code></pre><br />The latest PowerTOP 2.1 source can be downloaded from <a href="https://01.org/powertop/">HERE</a>.<br /><br /><br /><br /><h2>Usage</h2><br />To use PowerTOP, you need to run it as root:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo powertop</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">PowerTOP doesn't just diagnose power consumption issues, but it can also provide solutions. On the Tunables tab, you can see what you can do to save some power:</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihIlPZjwevRXmOfx7n3e7ejAJ44Hux_clvvEPxiOZqR58h2xVUjFzgZMddj9yRj8OTPJKQicPCcp1_tK-ih-85XOltAzkuis4MdFroL7fxwTEAPUrk7obkvi3AUxx_bvyjF9I0996TN9QM/s1600/powertop-tunables.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="powertop" border="0" height="191" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihIlPZjwevRXmOfx7n3e7ejAJ44Hux_clvvEPxiOZqR58h2xVUjFzgZMddj9yRj8OTPJKQicPCcp1_tK-ih-85XOltAzkuis4MdFroL7fxwTEAPUrk7obkvi3AUxx_bvyjF9I0996TN9QM/s320/powertop-tunables.png" title="powertop" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">However, most of the settings are not saved and they are lost after a reboot. You, can, however, make them permanent, by using the commands provided in the PowerTOP html report. To generate an HTML report, run the following command:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo powertop --html=powertop.html</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">This will generate an HTML page which you can open in your web browser:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIr2L9HyHDmm73zs1Tfg7vPSfX4uafjscB33cVt08LGtrI1H4ajzPGXzI3c0r_NdTm1M5Z3PnAcz2aoeW2JPtrH22ASnYCjiXuSR_Sc0cGEFBrc2vPa70Vdu53TmjqYVobY7BGV-37i8So/s1600/powertop-html.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="powertop html" border="0" height="124" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIr2L9HyHDmm73zs1Tfg7vPSfX4uafjscB33cVt08LGtrI1H4ajzPGXzI3c0r_NdTm1M5Z3PnAcz2aoeW2JPtrH22ASnYCjiXuSR_Sc0cGEFBrc2vPa70Vdu53TmjqYVobY7BGV-37i8So/s320/powertop-html.png" title="powertop html" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Here, you can see various information related to power usage as well as a "Tuning" tab where the settings that need tuning are displayed, along with the commands required to apply them. Add these commands to the <i>/etc/rc.local</i> file to make them permanent.</div>

Install PowerTOP 2.1 In Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin Via PPA

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Use Facebook From The Command Line With fbcmd

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_hrJYOdTefyB1ZG8U51P2R9Kqo3bsUZ8IrY4hformSdbzfRjfmz7Ue3yUok3J1m3RYckTt_IJOIvnJUK7lQKSUwIY3wp9mMmQU8bFEvX265R4HjyK5seqXEcqOh6YV5oNSkYNXFjpkIWb/s1600/fbcmd.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="211" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_hrJYOdTefyB1ZG8U51P2R9Kqo3bsUZ8IrY4hformSdbzfRjfmz7Ue3yUok3J1m3RYckTt_IJOIvnJUK7lQKSUwIY3wp9mMmQU8bFEvX265R4HjyK5seqXEcqOh6YV5oNSkYNXFjpkIWb/s320/fbcmd.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="http://fbcmd.dtompkins.com/introduction">fbcmd</a> is a cross-platform tool that lets you use Facebook from the command line. It supports posting a status, uploading photos, creating albums, listing profile information for friends, display events or your stream, share links and lots more.</b></div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;">This little utility can be useful for those who want to quickly post a status on Facebook, upload some photos and so on without having to open a browser, or to use in scripts.</div><br /><br /><h2>Install fbcmd in Ubuntu</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>To install fbcmd in Ubuntu, follow the steps below </b>(the installation instructions below are for fbcmd 1.1 stable; for 2.0 beta, the installation is slightly <a href="http://fbcmd.dtompkins.com/introduction">different</a>):</div><br /><b>1.</b> Install the required dependencies:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install php5-cli php5-curl</code></pre><br /><b>2.</b> Download and install fbcmd using the commands below:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>cd && wget https://raw.github.com/dtompkins/fbcmd/master/fbcmd_update.php<br />php fbcmd_update.php<br />sudo php fbcmd_update.php sudo<br />php fbcmd_update.php install</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">And that should complete the installation. <b>To be able to use fbcmd, you need to give it access to your Facebook account:</b></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">- For basic access, run the following command - it should open a new tab in your default web browser, asking you to allow fbcmd to access Facebook:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>fbcmd go access</code></pre>- The second step is to authorize fbcmd to use Facebook in offline mode:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>fbcmd go auth</code></pre><div style="text-align: justify;">This once again opens a new tab in your default browser, which should display a code. Copy that code and run the following command:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>fbcmd auth CODE</code></pre>Replacing "CODE" with the code you've copied from Facebook.<br /><br />- And finally, to give fbcmd additional permissions, use the following command:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>fbcmd addperm</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Now everything should be ready. to see all the available fbcmd options, type the following command in a terminal:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>fbcmd</code></pre><div style="text-align: justify;">You can also find a list of available commands, with explanations and examples, <a href="http://fbcmd.dtompkins.com/commands">HERE</a><b>.</b></div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicwByDa7vpVgABEMqaFdr7Rb_kVPYL543WlQyXSctWlVkXNC4-PhZlt9Ck2FffCIEdpLDDSTQFJMb7-sYi1GjkM8CcCOjyz4a_NT50dz8r5vDvWHzqhDHwj6E9SXdTjd5kwgPHDxHyJPK9/s1600/fbcmd-fb.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="109" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicwByDa7vpVgABEMqaFdr7Rb_kVPYL543WlQyXSctWlVkXNC4-PhZlt9Ck2FffCIEdpLDDSTQFJMb7-sYi1GjkM8CcCOjyz4a_NT50dz8r5vDvWHzqhDHwj6E9SXdTjd5kwgPHDxHyJPK9/s320/fbcmd-fb.png" width="320" /></a></div><br />Here are a few<b> fbcmd examples:</b><br /><br />- update your status:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>fbcmd status "insert the status here"</code></pre><br />- upload a picture to an existing album called "myalbum":<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>fbcmd addpic myfile.jpg myalbum "photo description"</code></pre><br />- display your Facebook stream:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>fbcmd stream</code></pre><br /><b>Arch Linux</b> users can install fbcmd via <a href="https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=32086">AUR</a>.<br /><br /><b>For other Linux distributions, Windows or Mac OS X, download fbcmd from <a href="http://fbcmd.dtompkins.com/downloads">HERE</a>.</b><br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><i>via <a href="http://korben.info/facebook-en-ligne-de-commande.html">korben.info</a></i></div>

Use Facebook From The Command Line With fbcmd

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PDF Data Extraction In Linux

<div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6GjbC7erbrjDfSq0zY0ycpsa19bL-JsOwZMel25ue-0BYOxMoDRPoWdLLxe7MsNuAlykI05SoaPZkoQhrCZzlAY_itee2Q6fCru5QppCjV6JdV5kK5hMPuhcZdYKgtinLEkJ1ysXuNffS/s1600/pdf.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="pdf" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6GjbC7erbrjDfSq0zY0ycpsa19bL-JsOwZMel25ue-0BYOxMoDRPoWdLLxe7MsNuAlykI05SoaPZkoQhrCZzlAY_itee2Q6fCru5QppCjV6JdV5kK5hMPuhcZdYKgtinLEkJ1ysXuNffS/s150/pdf.png" /></a></div><br />This is a tip sent by WebUpd8 reader Stone Cut, on extracting images and text from PDF files. It's different from his <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2010/02/how-to-extract-all-text-from-pdfs.html" title="How To Extract All Text From PDFs (Including Text In Images) [Ubuntu]">previous tip</a> and useful for other cases.</div><br /><a name='more'></a>Firstly, install the necessary utilities:<br /><br />- Ubuntu:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install poppler-utils</code></pre>- Fedora:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo yum install poppler-utils</code></pre>For other Linux distributions, search for poppler-utils in your package manager.<br /><br />This command will <b>extract all the images </b>from "pdffile.pdf" and put them in the <i><b>/home/<username>/pdfimages/</b></i> directory:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>pdfimages -j pdffile.pdf ~/pdfimages/</code></pre><div style="text-align: justify;">The JPEG files will be saved with PPM extension with pdfimages unless you specify the "-j" (for JPEG) parameter.</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The advantage of pdfimages is that it will extract the original images as embedded in the PDF - For example: I extracted a PDF from our local kindergarten so I could use some images for an invitation and I was quite surprised to find out that the embedded image was much larger and showed much more of the photo when extracted than when embedded. Before that parts of the image were masked by the rest of the layout. Interesting and very useful.</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">This command will <b>extract all the actual text</b> and put a file with the same name as the PDF but with TXT extension (pdffile.txt) in the same directory as the source file:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>pdftotext pdffile.pdf</code></pre>Please note, that this command will only extract real text. If your PDF contains images with text printed on them then this won't work - please refer to my older tip for these sorts of files: <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2010/02/how-to-extract-all-text-from-pdfs.html">How To Extract All Text From PDFs (Including Text In Images)</a>.<br /><br /><br /><center><table style="border: 1px dotted; font-style: italic; text-align: justify; width: 90%;"><tbody><tr><td>This post was written by WebUpd8 reader Stone Cut (thank you very much!).</td></tr></tbody></table></center>

PDF Data Extraction In Linux

This is a tip sent by WebUpd8 reader Stone Cut, on extracting images and text from PDF files. It's different from his previous tip and ...

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