Programs to Install in Linux Mint 17 Qiana

arj
unarj
codeblocks
codeblocks-contrib   
dict
dosbox

dropbox
dvipng
fatsort 
firefox-locale-es
g++
gcc-4.8-doc
gnuplot
google-earth-stable
htop
imagemagick
inkscape
kdesudo
kdiff3
kile
kolourpaint4
kompare
krename
krusader
joe
latex-xcolor
libstdc++-4.8-doc
manpages-dev (man pages funciones C)
mc
meld
octave
p7zip-full
pfg (TikZ)
rar
wxmaxima maxima-share maxima-doc
vlc
unace
ubuntu-restricted-extras

screen
skype
subversion
texlive
texlive-fonts-recommended
texlive-lang-spanish
texlive-latex-recommended
texlive-full
ttf-mscorefonts-installer 
valgrind 
wine
workrave


To enable playback of encrypted dvds, install the following package.

$ sudo apt-get install libdvdread4
$ sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread4/install-css.sh

Download ACROBAT READER: ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/unix/9.x/9.5.5/enu/

Disabling BALOO in Linux Mint 17 Qiana KDE

There is a bug with this program, which is using one of my processors and making my system sluggish:

Following the steps here:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/437635/how-to-turn-off-baloo-in-kde-4-13
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2217434

I edited:
$HOME/.kde/share/config/baloofilerc

And added the option:

Indexing-Enabled=true  

 
Also I erased the directory with the indexing, since I do not need it anymore:

rm -rf ~/.local/share/baloo

Inkscape + psfrag + latex

Inkscape 0.46 works nicely with psfrag and LaTeX. However, since version 0.47 it has a bug that hinders this. As a workaround I still use INKSCAPE 0.46 for WINDOWS running under WINE. In order to do this, I use the following macro, which I located into ~/bin:

#!/bin/bash
wine /opt/windows/inkscape/inkscape.exe "$*"

How to install the "dict" dictionary

dict is a very powerful console dictionary for linux:

Installation:
Download libmaa from http://sourceforge.net/projects/dict/files/libmaa/
$ ./configure
$ make
$ make install

Download dictd from http://sourceforge.net/projects/dict/
$ ./configure
$ make
$ make install

Create the configuration file:
either /etc/dict.conf  or   ~/.dictrc with:

# This file is used to specify the dict servers to talk to.  See the
# CONFIGURATION section of dict(1) for the full syntax.
#
# A list of public dict servers is available at
#  http://luetzschena-stahmeln.de/dictd/index.php
# but one of the following should work.
#

server dict.org
server dict.trit.org
server dict.die.net


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 Some useful commands:
$ dict -D
List all available dictionaries in the servers listed in ~/.dictrc

$ dict -d deu-eng Haus
Searchs for Haus in the German-English dictionary

$ dict dict://dict.org/d house
Looks up a word using the server dict.org

Lines in Midnight Commander

Just create this alias in .bashrc

alias mc='export LANG=en_US; mc'

Track down your stolen computer

Just install Prey: http://preyproject.com/

How to replace the track of a HD MP4 file

This is not a linux program, but it was damn helpful

Use
http://yamb.unite-video.com/download.html
http://kurtnoise.free.fr/Yamb/installer/

YAMB, which is a open source code program.

And then do the audio processing in AUDACITY