WebUpd8 PPAs Status

I’ve updated Y PPA Manager to support the latest Linux Mint 13 “Maya”. There are no new features in this release.

Package info:

• Description: Y PPA Manager is a tool for easily managing Launchpad PPAs that uses YAD for a graphical user interface. It can search for packages in all Launchpad PPAs, display their versions, add, remove or purge PPAs, list packages in your PPAs, backup PPAs, remove duplicate PPAs and more.
• Package name: “y-ppa-manager”
• Ubuntu versions: 12.04, 11.04, 10.10, 10.04 (and Linux Mint, obviously)
• PPA: Y PPA Manager

The first gThumb 3 bugfix release: 3.0.1, is now available in the WebUpd8 gThumb PPA for Ubuntu 12.04 and 11.10.

Starting with version 3.0, gThumb has been ported to GTK3, so it can’t be built for Ubuntu versions older than 11.10.

Changes:

  * Resize images: correctly restore the last used width and height
    (#675498)
  * Preserve XMP lists when saving an image. (#674908)
  * Fixed loading of thumbnails after re-enabling thumbnails again.
  * Fixed mouse wheel navigation with the video viewer.

Package info:

• Description: gThumb is an image viewer and browser for the GNOME Desktop. It also includes an importer tool for transferring photos from cameras.
• Package name: “gthumb”
• Ubuntu versions: 12.04, 11.10 (for older Ubuntu versions, there’s an older gThumb available in our PPAs)
• PPAs: gThumb WebUpd8 PPA, main WebUpd8 PPA

Gnomish Dark, a beautiful dark theme pack based on Adwaita which includes GTK2/3/Shell themes, has been updated for GNOME 3.4.

Package info:

    Package name: “gnomishdark-theme”
    Ubuntu version(s): 12.04 Precise Pangolin
    PPA: WebUpd8 Themes PPA

GPaste 2.8 is available in the WebUpd8 GNOME 3 PPA.

Changelog:

- various cleanup and bugfixes
- the history file now has a version number
- CDATA can now be copied
- ToggleHistory is now ShowHistory
- The “keyboard-shortcut” preferences is now called “show-history”
- New feature : Paste & Pop with a new keybinding (experimental)
- vapi is no longer shipped and is generated when building
- Now requires automake 1.12 and autoconf 2.69
- Brazilian Portuguese translation by Elder Marco
- FIFO mode
- Multi-history with “gpaste backup-history” and “gpaste switch-history”
- New commands: “gpaste delete-history” and “gpaste list-histories”
- gpaste-settings has been rewritten
- libgpaste improvements

Package info:

    Description: GPaste is a native GNOME Shell clipboard manager that supports image and file copy, more.
    Package name: “gnome-shell-extensions-gpaste”
    Ubuntu version(s): 12.04 Precise Pangolin
    PPA: WebUpd8 GNOME3 PPA.

Oracle has released Java 7u4, and the new version is now available in the WebUpd8 Java PPA.

Changelog:

• New JVM (Java HotSpot Virtual Machine, version 23)
• New Supported Garbage Collector: Garbage First (G1)
• JavaFX 2.1 Runtime co-installs with JRE 7 during auto-update
• JAXP upgraded to 1.4.6
• Java DB upgraded to 10.8.2.2
• SPARC T4 specific crypto optimizations in the security area
• New flag to unlock Commercial Features

Package info:

• Package name: “oracle-java7-installer”
• Ubuntu version(s): 12.04, 11.10, 11.04, 10.10, 10.04
• PPA: Oracle Java7 Installer

Puddletag is an audio tag editor for Linux, similar to Mp3tag, which uses a spreadsheet-like layout. Besides basic tagging features, Puddletag comes with tag lookup using Amazon, Discogs, FreeDB and MusicBrainz.


Puddletag 1.0 beta 5 has been released yesterday, the new version bringing some important fixes: MusicBrainz, Doscogs and Amazon tag lookup should now work again. There are also some new features:

• __md5_sig field for FLAC.
• $regex scripting function.
• Dutch Translation by Fabian Bakkum.
• Added AcoustID support, but not for general use yet due to the heavy dependency load. Do not try to make it work unless you’re an ‘advanced’ user.

Since the stable Puddletag version has many bugs, I’ve uploaded the latest beta to the WebUpd8 Puddletag PPA instead of using the unstable PPA.

Package info:

• Description: Puddletag is a Linux audio tag editor similar to Mp3tag (a popular Windows audio tagging tool) that supports ID3v1, ID3v2 (mp3), MP4 (mp4, m4a, etc.), VorbisComments (ogg, flac), Musepack (mpc), Monkey’s Audio (.ape) and WavPack (wv).
• Package name: “puddletag”
• PPA: PuddleTag

gThumb 2.14.3 is available in our gThumb PPA for Ubuntu 11.10 and 11.04, backported from Ubuntu 12.04.

gThumb 2.14.3 changelog:

* Do not show duplicate entries in the sidebar and bookmarks menu.
* Fixed filtering by embedded title and description.
* Fixed crash when opening the comment dialog.
* Fixed many memory leaks.
* Fixed file renaming in viewer mode. (#670392)
* Fixed some compiler warnings. (#668947)

Package info:

• Description: Thumb is an image viewer and browser for the GNOME Desktop. It also includes an importer tool for transferring photos from cameras.
• Package name: “gthumb”
• Ubuntu versions: 11.10, 11.04
• PPAs: gThumb WebUpd8 PPA, main WebUpd8 PPA

Adwaita Cupertino GTK3 theme has been updated and it now supports GTK3.4.

Changelog:

  * Integration with Gnome 3.4 and Ubuntu 12.04
  * Some changes affect unity-ubuntu 11.10 (Metacity theme) and you may prefer to continue with the previous version.
  * Known issues: The text of the active tab, not change to white (highlight) in Ubuntu 12.04
  * Small fixes in GTK2 for synaptic buttons and GIMP toolbar-buttons

Package info:

• Description: a Mac-like GTK3 theme in two variants, each optimized for either GNOME Shell or unity
• Package name: “adwaita-cupertino-gtk-theme”
• Ubuntu versions: 12.04, 11.10
• PPA: WebUpd8 Themes Repository

Audacious 3.2.2 is available in the main WebUpd8 PPA, for Ubuntu 11.10 and 12.04. There’s no official changelog, so to see what’s new, you can take a look at the Audacious GitHub page:

• https://github.com/audacious-media-player/audacious-plugins/commits/master/
• https://github.com/audacious-media-player/audacious

Package info:

• Description: Audacious music player is a fork of Beep Media Player (BMP), which itself forked from XMMS. It looks a lot like Winamp 2.x (and the playlist, song adding functions and so on, are similar to Winamp) but it also comes with a GTK interface.
• Package name: “audacious”
• Ubuntu versions: 12.04, 11.10 (for older Ubuntu versions, the WebUpd8 PPA provides Audacious 2.5.3)
• PPA: main WebUpd8 PPA

There’s no new JDK 7 version, but Oracle has updated the way users can download the latest Oracle JDK 7 and this broke our Oracle Java 7 installer package, so I had to update the packages to get it to work again. Unfortunately, because of this, all the PPA users will get a Java update even though there’s no new version. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Besides this fix, the latest Oracle Java7 Installer package available in the WebUpd8 Java PPA got the following changes:

  * better desktop integration (thanks to Eugene San)
  * renamed package name from oracle-jdk7-installer to oracle-java7-installer (and created metapackage for old name). The old name was a bit confusing since this installs both JDK7 and the Java 7 browser plugin, etc. Don’t worry, there’s no need to do anything if you’ve already installed the old package name (oracle-jdk7-installer) - the new one will be automatically installed.

Package info:

• Package name: “oracle-java7-installer”
• Ubuntu version(s): 12.04, 11.10, 11.04, 10.10, 10.04
• PPA: Oracle Java7 Installer