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Ubuntu Audio-Recorder

Installation

Refer: https://launchpad.net/~osmoma/+archive/ubuntu/audio-recorder

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:osmoma/audio-recorder
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install audio-recorder

User the "Built-in Audio Analog Stereo (Audio output) for Source to record from browser and you can also choose VLC, for example, to record from an application.

Also make sure to go into additional settings to change your target output folder.

 

 

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Installing Wine in Ubuntu 16.04

Installing Wine 3.0

Refer: https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-play-world-of-warcraft-on-linux-with-wine

If you are getting black buttons, use winecfg and change default setting to Windows XP instead of Windows 7

$ winecfg
$ sudo apt install winetricks
$ winetricks, launch, and choose option install corefonts
$ wine uninstaller

Refer: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/04/how-to-add-wine-repository-ubuntu

You might want to install from /tmp, because your going to download a Release.key

Instructions: install-wine-on-ubuntu.txt

Older Install Wine in Ubuntu 16.04

Refer: http://linuxg.net/install-wine-1-8-on-ubuntu/

Install with the following:

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install wine1.8 winetricks

Remove with
$ sudo apt-get uninstall wine1.8 winetricks

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Update Parallel Tools from Command Line

Found that Parallel Tools seems to keep hanging when it needs to do an update.  If you cancel the auto updater it works much better from the command line.

$ sudo /media/<username>/Parallels\ Tools/install
Refer: http://kb.parallels.com/en/117044
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Add exFat Support to Ubuntu

Works for Ubuntu 18.04.2 on 05/27/2019
Refer: https://itsfoss.com/mount-exfat/

$ sudo add-apt-repository universe
$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt install exfat-fuse exfat-utils

Newer notes:

Refer: http://www.howtogeek.com/235655/how-to-mount-and-use-an-exfat-drive-on-linux/

$ sudo apt-get install exfat-fuse exfat-utils

Older notes that worked on Ubuntu 14.04 but reported errors

Refer: https://www.maketecheasier.com/access-exfat-file-system-in-ubuntu/

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:relan/exfat
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install fuse fuse-exfat exfat-utils

In the event that your system doesn’t automount the external drive, here is what you can do to mount it manually:

$ sudo mkdir /media/exfat
$ sudo mount -t exfat /dev/sdb1 /media/exfat
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Fixing Audio in Ubuntu Netbook 14.04

Fixing Audio
Refer: http://askubuntu.com/questions/508221/sound-input-device-microphone-not-working

I had a similar problem on 14.04, sound input source was blank in the 'Sound Settings'. I did the following, what did the trick is installing 'Audacity', for more info check the following link

sudo apt-get remove --purge alsa-base pulseaudio
sudo apt-get install alsa-base pulseaudio
sudo apt-get install audacity