Questions tagged [plugins]

An extension to a program that enhances the functionality or adds specific features over what is offered by the program. Plugins are developed separately, often by a third party and are commonly installed manually after the host program is installed.

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Is there any Sound Equalizer for Ubuntu 17.04 [duplicate]

I'm really new in Ubuntu. I never used it before. Any time I face any kind of problem of needing I hit google bar and I get solution from askubuntu.com. But this time I failed to find solution of ...
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Using the Adobe browser plugin to view pdf files (or alternatives) on Ubuntu 14.04

I am in the process of applying for a Marie Curie fellowship, and the application forms are all online. Unfortunately, I need to fill out certain parts of the application by opening an editable pdf ...
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Kate External Tools Plugin

I have installed Kate Editor (with KWrite, which installs some plugins) and I have just realized that the Kate External Tools plugin is missing since version 4.8. I really need this plugin, and if ...
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Printing odd/even pages using system dialogue ubuntu

I am printing (Basically saving to file) a pdf. I want to print only the odd/even pages from a PDF. In the printing dialogue box which appears I see only 3 options in the range All Pages Current Page ...
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Can't install add-ons for Firefox on newly installed Lubuntu 17.04

I installed Lubuntu for the first time yesterday and since then I'm unable to access the Firefox Add-ons website properly. The site takes a very long time to load and then I only get the html without ...
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How to reset Krusader configuration to defaults / remove corrupted config file?

I have the problem described here: How to solve bleaching Krusader? and I want to reset Krusader configuration to fresh-install-like one. (unfortunately opening configuration and applying defaults ...
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Which software package has the flash plugin for the konqueror web browser?

I have installed the package that provides a flash plugin to use with firefox and chromium. (adobe-flash-plugin) Which software package has the flash plugin for the konqueror web browser? When ...
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Installing "Emmet plug-in" in Sublime Text Editor

I am using Sublime Text code editor and I want to download one of the recommended plug-in for Sublime - Emmet for its ability to code HTML+CSS faster. Visit site for more information about Emmet.
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What programs support PAM image format?

I am interested to know what programs (particularly image viewers, editors and converters) support the PAM imageformat. So far I've tested 16 viewers (Eye of Gnome (eog), Eye of MATE (eom), Eyesight, ...
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Install Java Plugin in Pale Moon Browser

Pale Moon seems to continue supporting NPAPI plugins like Java indefinitely. I use a website, which require java plugin enabled. But I can't get the java plugin in the plugins list. I know the ...
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Is there any web browser with NPAPI plugins support?

As per this article, Mozilla has dropped the support of NPAPI plugins from Mozilla Firefox version 52. Is there any web browser with NPAPI plugin support? I have to use a website frequently, which ...
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How to install gst-plugins? Unable to locate package

While trying to get "Play it slowly" back to work, I need to install Gconfaudiosink, contained in the gst-plugins package. guest@guest:~$ sudo apt-get install gst-plugins [sudo] password for ...
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Java plugin no longer supported in firefox 52. Is there any other way to run java applets in firefox

Recently I installed Oracle Java. It worked fine, But with the recent upgrade with Firefox throws an error. I checked it here, which says: Starting with Firefox Version 52 (released in March 2017),...
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Is it possible to change the theme of multimedia icons on the panel в xfce4-mpc-plugin?

In my xfce4 panel, gray and dark icons are almost invisible. Do you know Is it possible to change the theme of multimedia icons on the panel in xfce4-mpc-plugin? How to make the icons back, stop, ...
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Report: Google Talk Plugin is not working and showing in Firefox 52.0 but works in Firefox 51.0.1

Reporting that Google Talk Plugin works and shows in Firefox 51.0.1 (64bit), but not in Firefox 52.0 (64bit). Process: Google Talk Plugin (5.41.3.0-1 (stable)) installed from repository http://dl....
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Firefox and other browsers fail to launch after Flash downloaded [closed]

Firefox, and now Thunderbird Mail, Chromium, and Browser, fail to launch from Dash after I installed Adobe Flash plugin downloaded from Applications Store. The problem persisted after removal, ...
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How can I make Java works in browser on Ubuntu (64bit) in 2017?

I need to run some old browser-based java applications. But when today I open my Firefox and try to open this app, I found that Java plugin not works. I searched Internet and find that new Firefox not ...
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Are there any default programs in Ubuntu 16.10 which take my data and pose a privacy risk?

For instance: the Amazon icon. That's a red flag for me because some huge corporation is always up to no good. Also, there is a facebook plugin. Get my tinfoil hat and hold onto my jimmies. Are there ...
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What is the correct folder location for a dissector lua as plugin for wireshark?

I have a lua dissector (xxx.lua) which I normally run on windows under C:\Program Files\Wireshark\plugins\2.2.4 I tried to copy this in Ubuntu 14.04 following various recommendations found online ...
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HOW should I go about getting Xubuntu to run a proprietary Windows/Mac browser plugin? [closed]

I'm exploring bringing Linux into a client's manufacturing environment, and nearly all their production tasks run on a system called Plex Manufacturing Cloud. It supports Firefox, Chrome and Safari, ...
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kate: get back old document switcher (as in Ubuntu 14.04)

In Ubuntu 14.04 kate (version 3.13.3) had such a nice "quick document switcher": When hitting control+tab, it showed a list of files and by typing a few letters the list was reduced to the ones ...
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Make Gedit embedded terminal colors match global theme? (16.04)

The embedded terminal of Gedit in my 16.04 session is not following the default ubuntu theme, and does not seem to be configurable in any way. More precisely, it follows the username@hostname color ...
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Vim-plug installation on Ubuntu 16.10

I'm a new user of Ubuntu, and I'd like a little bit of help with plugins. According to this website, I installed vim-plug with curl -fLo ~/.vim/autoload/plug.vim --create-dirs \ https://raw....
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cannot export radio stations as a playlist

I have installed the playlist export plugin from the ppa:fossfreedom/rhythmbox-plugins but I can not import or export lists. I configured the folder where I want to export the lists from add-ons but ...
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Build linux 4.9

when i am trying to Build Linux in build directory using make O=<linux_build_directory> ARCH=arm Image, so getting the errors as: make[1]: Entering directory `/home/payal/chanda/build/kernel' ...
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How to track broken Application indicator icon xubuntu-desktop

I have a broken Application indicator icon in tray. It is a black rectangle with stop sign. No menu available. Is there a way to track the source of that icon? It is not Dropbox, Dropbox icon is fine.
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Change length of quotes in variety plugin

I have been using the variety plugin for ubuntu for last 1 year. Usually I was able to get long quotes in the plugin. But I don't know what happened with the new version. The quotes get truncated at ...
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Chromium build (out of tree), Plugins location, and Flash?

I wanted to install Chromium "out of tree" on Ubuntu 14.04, and I found Where can I find Chromium binary tarballs? - so I tried: wget http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/chromium-browser-...
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:PluginInstall not a command on vim?

I am new to using vim as an IDE and I've been trying to get the proper plugins to install a python friendly vim IDE, and somehow it stopped working a couple hours ago, giving me the error: E492: Not ...
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Failure to download extra data files [pepflashplugin-installer] download issue [duplicate]

I've searched through all the messages relating to this issue & have tried all the solutions but still get this persistent box that pops up. It happened after a recent software update about a ...
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Wordpress: Unpacking the package… Could not create directory

On my website i am using apache: 2.2.22 and wordpress: 4.2.10, Since i enabled my website to have ftp access, every plugin update or installation gives me the error: Unpacking the package… Could ...
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Problem with chromium flash plugins

I just switched from ubuntu mate 15.10 to mate 16.04 I install chromium and pepper flash from synaptic. When I start chromium there is some videos that I can't read and I get this message : Click ...
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How to get mp3 decoding to work with gstreamer 0.10 on ubuntu 16.04?

After upgrading Ubuntu from 14.04 to 16.04, my most favourite application suddenly stopped playing music with the error message: ** Message: don't know how to handle audio/mpeg, mpegversion=(int)1, ...
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Can't upload wordpress theme, plugins or images with Filezilla

I'm using Ubuntu 16. If I download a plugin in the wordpress panel it works fine, but when I upload a plugin, image or theme with FTP (FileZilla) nothing happens. It does create a directory with ...
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GIMP CLI Batch script errors

I am trying to liquid rescale pictures dynamically with GIMP Liquid Rescale Plugin. I am doing this on my Ubuntu Server 16.04 LTS using the following command: gimp -i -f -b "(batch-gimp-lqr-full "/...
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Advanced Find/Replace plugin successfully installed but I'm unable to use it

I just installed the Advanced Find/Replace (Simply downloaded advanced_find-3.6.0.tar.gz, extracted it and used bash ./install.sh in the terminal) plugin for gedit 3.18.3 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. It seems ...
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Decoration Windows is conflict with the Unity plugin

hello after upgrade to 16.04 my compiz crash Unity top bar, side bar, and window decorations are missing I tried enable Windows Decoration in ccsm but it makes conflict with Unity Plugin I tried ...
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How to add rgedit plugin to pluma?

As most of you might know that in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS rgedit plugin does not work any more in gedit. Someone advised to downgrade gedit to version 3.10.4, but it didn't work for me, although the ...
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Insuff. permissions to download Audacity plugins?

I'm trying to download Audacity plugins (.ny files) to my plug-ins folder at usr/share/audacity/plugins but it once I try to download it, it says insufficient permissions? I can't copy/paste any ...
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error playing video in ubuntu 16.04 [duplicate]

After playing any video...following msg is shown: Required plugin could not be found Videos requires to install plugins to play files of the following types: • MPEG-4 AAC decoder • H.264 (Main ...
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Search in Applications Help menu

In OSX (also know as macOS) there is a very handy feature: In the sub menu of the help menu there is a search function which search in other sub menus of the application. Is there something like that ...
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Rhythmbox - How to get an iHeart radio station to play

In attempting to play an iHeart radio station with Rhythmbox under Ubuntu 16.04 I get two error messages. Rhythmbox is working correctly with the default sample radio stations. The first error ...
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Drumgizmo midi drum plugin with Ardour

Trying to install DrumGizmo (Midi Drum Plugin) as an LV2 Plugin for Ardour. Update: Ok, DrumGizmo seems to be a part of the Ubuntu Packages. Running a package search on packages.ubuntu.com returns: ...
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Can't install terminal plugin of gedit [duplicate]

I was trying to embed terminal to gedit. But Embedded Terminal option is missing when I go to Edit -> Preference->Plugin. On searching web I figured that I need to install gedit-plugin which I can ...
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how to install gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad? WONT INSTALL

hello AskUbuntu Ive been having trouble for a few days with AUDIO.Mid files for a few games i play like fallout 3 where i need to play AUDIO.mid files what happens is when i try to play mid files it ...
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Need to access InstaOn.com from Ubuntu

I need to access my DVR over Internet using Firefox on Ubuntu. The web site is www.instaon.com, but when I try to login it asks for ActiveX plug-in. Is there a alternate for ActiveX for Ubuntu or any ...
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Can't play media file in Ubuntu [duplicate]

Whenever I try to play media file, it says "required plugins couldn't be found"..... I installed Ubuntu via flash drive...how can I install MPEG-1 Layer 3 (MP3) decoder? I just installed Ubuntu and ...
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Where to put gedit macros plugin?

Please, in which folder should I put the gedit plug-in files for macros? OK, this may be marked duplicate, but I have tried, last time creating a folder as indicated by gedit help: https://i.stack....
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Unable to Install Flash plugin 22 on Chromium on Ubuntu 16.04

I have tried all of the options described on this site, on Adobe, and on the Goggle and nothing works. In most cases after following the instructions the flash plugin does not appear in chrome://...
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plugin problem w/ mp3 and videos

When I try to play a movie or a song on my computer (not online), I get a message saying I need to install a plugin. How can I install this plugin or to play media ?
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