I recently got an iPhone 6s. Is there a way to transfer files (music, photos, PDF, or really anything actually) between Ubuntu and the phone? It should not involve syncing via an internet service, as I may have the need to transfer large or private files. Also, I do not want to jailbreak the device.
There are a few results when searching for this on Google, but none seems very up to date.
I am trying to install Gimp on a 64 bit PC with Ubuntu 14.10. I have added the dedicated PPA
ppa:otto-kesselgulasch/gimp
but I am not able to install Gimp due to its reliance on a lot of 32 bit libraries (nor was I able without the PPA).
For instance it depends on libgegl, which does not seem to be in the repositories, according to Synaptic. I can find the debugging symbols libgegl-0.2-0-dbg:i386, but if I try to install those (not that they would help, just to see), I find that they depend on a lot of i386 stuff, and this in turn would force me to remove a lot of important 64 bit libraries, such as libblas3 or liblapack3, on which numpy depends. Same happens with other dependencies such as libbabl.
So, while there seems to be a 64 bit version of Gimp, it seems to rely on 32 bit libraries which are not installable in my system, and often do not appear into Synaptic at all.
What is the way to install Gimp?
EDIT As request, I post the terminal output
andrea@lafcadio:~$ LC_ALL=C sudo apt-get install gimp
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
gimp : Depends: libbabl-0.1-0 (>= 0.1.10) but it is not installable
Depends: libgegl-0.2-0 (>= 0.2.0) but it is not installable
Depends: libwebkitgtk-1.0-0 (>= 1.3.10) but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
I am experiencing a strange bug with a new installation of Ubuntu 14.10.
It looks like I/O events are processed with a delay. That is, every event from either the mouse or the keyboard (both USB) acts like the previous event. Let me give a few examples:
foo is selected. I click on file bar, and Nautilus still shows foo selected. Then, as soon as I move the mouse, the selection switches to bar.Sometimes, but not always, the event is processed even if I do not touch the mouse or keyboard, but with a few seconds delay. Also, there are periods when the bug does not happen and I can work smoothly, then all of a sudden it reappears.
The bug seems to appear only when using the official NVIDIA drivers for my video card (an NVIDIA quadro 4000), which I need to work with CUDA (I am not sure - I may have been lucky the moments I was using nouveau). It happens both with the NVIDIA drivers in the Ubuntu repositories (v331) and those on the NVIDIA site (v346). It happens both with Unity and Gnome shell. I also reinstalled eveythigng from scratch and it still happens.
At this points, I am not even sure what to look for. It seems related to some form of buffering, but I h ave no idea what this has to dot with the video driver. Any ideas?
I have recently made a clean install of Ubuntu 14.10 and once again I am left with trouble with MPD. I think I had managed to fix it last time, but I am not sure how.
My issue is to be able to use an external bluetooth speaker with MPD. Even better, I would like to be able to use both the plugged and the bluetooth speaker at the same time.
Unfortunately, MPD does not show under the applications that are producing audio under Gnome audio settings, and hence it ignores my directive to use the bluetooth speaker. I think this is because MPD is using Alsa instead of Pulseaudio.
Now, in my mpd.conf I have the lines
audio_output {
type "pulse"
name "MPD"
# server "localhost"
}
I have also tried to decomment the server line, but in this case, MPD does not even start.
To clarify, MPD is running under the user mpd, which is under the groups pulse and pulse-access, but this does not seem to be enough.
Now, I believe I can run MPD under my own user, and this could fix some of the issues, but I'd rather not, as other users of this PC may want to listen to music as well.
What is the right way to make MPD use Pulseaudio (or do whatever is necessary to connect it to other speakers than the default?)
I just made a clean install of Ubuntu 14.10, since I had a 14.04 that I had upgraded a few times. After the install, the OS asks root permissions for a lot of stuff I was able to do without issues before, such as
Fortunately I ma a sudoer and it is just a matter of entering the password a few times, but it is starting to be annoying. How can I find out what's wrong?
I just upgraded to Ubuntu 12.04, looking forward to use the new Gnome Contacts, but I had some issues.
At the first start, I was asked what contact source to use. I had three choices: local, Google and Google. Which is weird, since I have configured just one Google account configured in online accounts. At any rate, I chose the first one (blindly, I had no way to tell the two apart) and it seems that I see my Google contacts in the address book.
The problem is that for some of them, I see something like
some data...
Local
some data..
Google
some data...
that is, the data is repeated three times. I am pretty sure my Google address book is clean: I manually removed all cruft and merged all duplications no longer than one month ago.
So, why is that I am seeing these repetitions? Is Gnome contacts using my old Evolution address book? I would like to configure it, but I cannot even find a menu.
Is there a tool in Ubuntu to automatically merge two images having a common strip? I need to scan a large image, which will not fit at once in the scanner. I was thinking about scanning it in two parts and hand-editing the result in Gimp to join them. But probably an automatic tool can do the same more quickly and better.
EDIT I think I may have not made my point clear. My difficulty is not aligning two images. My problem is that one has to compensate for the rotation or distortion introduced by the manual process of putting the sheet into the scanner, and an automatic tool should obtain more precise results at analyzing common patterns in the two images to rotate and align them seamlessly.
I am trying to organize my photographs with tags. The last time I have been doing this was about three years ago, so I have a lot of pictures to organize.
All of the photographs should have correct EXIF tags for the time they were shot. I want to manually add tags for the people appearing in the photos.
My requirements are simple. Labels should be stored inside the photos themselves, in the form of IPTC or XMP tags, and it should be easy to do mass tagging, say by selecting a bunch of photos and adding a common tag. Since this task is mostly visual, I'd rather not use command line tools. If possible, I would like to have the timing of the shot copied from EXIF to ITPC or XMP, in order to have all tags in the same format.
I have been trying to use Shotwell for this, but it is rather annoying. Shotwell wants me to import all the photos before being able to tag them, and this makes it difficult to go folder by folder and tag the pictures. It would be easier for me to tag the pictures beforehand and only then copy them into my main photo folder, which is where Shotwell looks for new pictures.
Are there any good tools to tag photos? I would need something like an EasyTag equivalent.
I have been always using FooBar2000 to add ReplayGain tags to my music library (consisting of .mp3 or .ogg files). On my new computer I would like to avoid installing Wine for just this task.
Are there any native tools that I can use for the same purpose?
I don't mind if they are command-line only, or to use two different programs for mp3 and ogg, but I want to be absolutely certain that they only write a tag and do not mess with the original file otherwise, e.g. by actually reencoding at a different volume.
I am using Gnome Shell on Ubuntu 11.10, and I frequently use workspaces, as the shell encourages to do. My only complaint is that it is slow to place different windows of the same program in different workspaces.
What I would like to do: click on an empty workspace, click on the Nautilus icon in the dock and browse to the correct folder. Then click on another empty workspace, click on the Nautilus icon and so on.
This does not work: the second time I open Nautilus, the dock lets me switch to the previous instance, which is almost never what I want. So I have to click on the Nautilus icon, open a new window, place it on a different desktop, switch to that folder and finally browse to the correct folder.
Is there a way to simplify this flow?
It would be even better if I was able to link a specific folder from the dock, or better yet to have something similar to a Unity lens, where I can choose between the most used folders.