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Today i became frustrated about my favourite editor kate. It’s a great tool, but it is still missing tools that a developer really needs everyday (e.g. replace in files). Also searching in opened files is a pain because the search text has to be entered for each file seperately. Why is it not possible to define the search text once and press F3 in each document tab?

Years ago i used PSPad on Windows, but sadly there is no Linux port available (using Wine is no option). So i began to search for a useful Linux GUI text editor and came across Komodo Editor.

It is enhanceable via plugins and seems to have all features i’m missing till now. The only feature i’m missing is the ‘block’ editing mode.

The fiollowing plugins seems to be useful:

P.S.: Emacs and vi are no options, i want to have a GUI 🙂

If you want to enable various codecs in FFmpeg that are not supported by the official Ubuntu package (e.g. H.264) then this short howto will help you to build your own package quickly. I’m using the official package sources to make it as easy as possible and to ensure to do not break something. Make sure you have the Multiverse and Universe repositories enabled.

Create a new directory

mkdir ffmpeg-unstripped
cd ffmpeg-unstripped

Install some additional packages, especially the codecs you want to add to the FFmpeg package

sudo apt-get install build-essential libxvidcore-dev libx264-dev libfaac-dev libmp3lame-dev

Have a look into the debian/confflags file to find out additional packages that can be added also.

Next the packages required by the offical FFmpeg package are downloaded, also the source package itself.

sudo apt-get build-dep ffmpeg
apt-get source ffmpeg

Now its time to build the package

cd ffmpeg-*
fakeroot debian/rules binary

Finally we can install and validate the result. Before it is necessary to remove a previously installed FFmpeg package.

sudo apt-get remove ffmpeg
sudo dpkg -i ../*.deb
ffmpeg -format

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Unstripped build of FFmpeg for Ubuntu