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This article shows how to install the latest version of the productivity suite, LibreOffice. When I say "latest" I'm referring to alphas and betas, so I'll quote the "LibreOffice Packaging" team: Only for the most brave and courageous! If you're running Xubuntu 12.04, LibreOffice 3.6 RC will be installed. And LibreOffice 4.0 alpha will be installed for the Xubuntu 12.10 users. Install Open a terminal window and run: sudo apt-get purge libreoffice-core -y && sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice/ppa -y && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install libreoffice -y Usage LibreOffice can be accessed via Applications Menu > Office > LibreOffice . References LibreOffice Pre-Releases | PPA

To find out the repository address for a package we use the policy argument of the apt-get tool. Syntax Open a terminal window and run: apt-cache policy PACKAGE_NAME Example The repository link is presented on the line second to last: apt-cache policy diodon diodon: Installed: 1.0.2-0ubuntu0~quantal1 Candidate: 1.0.2-0ubuntu0~quantal1 Version table: *** 1.0.2-0ubuntu0~quantal1 0 500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/diodon-team/stable/ubuntu/ quantal/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status References How To Find Out To Which PPA Repository A Package Belongs To | Web Upd8

Wine 1.5.11 has been released with the following major changes: Multi-channel support in the ALSA driver. Removal of the big X11 lock. Support for pair positioning adjustments in Uniscribe. More I/O stream implementations in the C++ runtime. Various bug fixes. A total of 36 were fixed in applications such as "SIM City 4", "S.T.A.L.K.E.R.", "F.E.A.R.3", "Fallout 3", "Prince of Persia: Forgotten Sands", etc, and GeForce GT 630M (with Bumblebee) is now properly recognized. Ubuntu repositories is still 1.4. Bellow instructions are provided to install the latest Wine version from the "Latest official WineHQ releases" PPA. Install Open a terminal window and run this line: sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa -y && sudo apt-get update && if [ `uname -m` == "x86_64" ]; then wine="wine1.5-amd64"; else wine="wine1.5"; fi && echo $wine && sudo apt-get...

Ambiance and Radiance are two Gtk themes and they have a version compatible with Xfce/Xubuntu. Ambiance has dark panel, dark toolbar and dark window title bar, while Radiance displays this elements with light colors. There are also some color variations for each theme: Blue, Graphite, Green, Orange, Pink, Purple, Red and Yellow. Radiance theme at top left and Ambiance at top right. The panel appearance of each theme is beneath it. At the bottom are two color variations of the Ambiance theme. Install Open a terminal window and run: # Add Ravefinity Project PPA sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ravefinity-project/ppa -y # Update package information and install ambiance and radiance themes sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install ambiance-xfce-lxde radiance-xfce-lxde # Install other colors variations (blue, green, purple, ...): sudo apt-get install ambiance-colors-xfce-lxde radiance-colors-xfce-lxd...

"Diodon is a lightweight clipboard manager for Linux written in Vala which "aims to be the best integrated clipboard manager for the Gnome/GTK+ desktop". It lightweight having a small memory footprint." Diodon features include Ubuntu indicator, clipboard sync (primary selection and Ctrl+C / Ctrl+V clipboard) and an option to set the clipboard size. Install Open a terminal window and run: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:diodon-team/stable -y sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install diodon -y Just in case you're running Ubuntu (and Unity), you might also want to install the diodon-plugins package which contains the "Unity Lens" plugin that provides access to clipboard history with the unity dash: sudo apt-get install diodon-plugins -y Footnotes Run diodon pressing Alt+F2 and type diodon before hitting return Access diodon clipboard history with the shortcut Ctrl+Alt+V (it can be changed in the preferences). Diodon will ...

Xfce 4.10 has been released. Just below this paragraph are some highlights (more information is available at Xfce 4.10 tour ). In the "Install" section are instructions for installing Xfce in Xubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin. The application finder has been completely rewritten and combines the functionality of the old appfinder and xfrun4 (press Alt+F2 and start typing the name of the application you want to open). The new settings manager groups configuration dialogs in categories and allows you to search for their names or descriptions. The new MIME type editor does just that. It allows you to easily assign a default application to a file type, see your changes and reset them to default settings when necessary. In 4.10 you can drag and drop a tarball with a downloaded theme onto the style or icon list. Xfce will attempt to extract and install the files into th...

Oracle VM VirtualBox (formerly Sun VirtualBox, Sun xVM VirtualBox and innotek VirtualBox) is an virtualization software package that's installed on an existing host operating system as an application; this host application allows additional guest operating systems, each known as a Guest OS, to be loaded and run, each with its own virtual environment. Install Open a terminal window and run: # 1 sudo sh -c "echo deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian `lsb_release -a | egrep -i codename | awk '{print $2}'` contrib > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualbox.list" # 2 wget -q http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/oracle_vbox.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add - # 3 sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install virtualbox virtualbox-qt virtualbox-guest-additions-iso -y # 4 sudo usermod -a -G vboxusers $USER References VirtualBox 4.1.14 for Linux VirtualBox at Wikipedia Ubuntu – Distribution Agnostic Virtualbox Auto...