Questions tagged [software-recommendation]

Questions asking for specific applications that perform a given task or work with a given file format. Give details about the purpose of the software you want and your minimum requirements for it.

You know what you want to do, and you need help finding an application you can run on Ubuntu that will help you achieve it.

When asking for software recommendations, please be detailed and specific about what you want the software to do. At a minimum, it is helpful to give

  • your use case
  • what features are required

Stack Exchange has a dedicated software recommendations site and a meta post there gives further guidance on how to ask for software recommendations effectively.

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How do I download a YouTube video?

What are instructions on how to download videos from YouTube? Notice: Terms of Service Violation Please be aware that by following any of the answers below, you will be violating YouTube's Terms of Service (TOS). In particular, from Section…
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Software to read a QR code?

I saw a QR code reading a book, but I don't have a smart phone to decode it. So I just took a picture of it and saved the picture to my PC. I downloaded libdecoderqr0, libdecodeqr-dev, and libdecodeqr-examples for reading it. But I don't know how to…
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Which Time Tracker application do you recommend?

I have to do three or four jobs a day, and each has several parts. I want a time tracker tool to help me know how much time I've spent on each part and each job overall. I've found some like gnotime and hamster. What application do you recommend…
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How to search for strings inside files in a folder?

Is there any utility to make searches for a string inside ASCII files to avoid command line searches? How to make a command line search, for example for the string "test" inside all files in the directory /var/x/?
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What are some good GUI diff and merge applications available for Ubuntu?

What are some alternatives to WinMerge and the pros and cons of each?
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How to view CHM files?

How to view CHM files in Ubuntu?
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How can I download an entire website?

I want to download a whole website (with sub-sites). Is there any tool for that?
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What developer text editors are available for Ubuntu?

I'm looking for a text editor for programming in Python, preferably one which is easy to learn for beginners.
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What media (music and video) players are there?

This question is present as a matter of historical interest. While you are encouraged to help maintain its answers, please understand that "big list" questions are not generally allowed on Ask Ubuntu and will be closed per the FAQ. What media…
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UPNP / DLNA (client) player recommendations?

Since neither VLC stable / VLC nightly builds / Totem with Coherence Plugin work properly in oneiric I'm searching for an alternative to watch media streamed from my seagate dockstar using minidlna as a server. The only client that works is XBMC,…
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Convert docx to PDF

I am trying to convert docx files to pdf on my Ubuntu server using the command line but none of converters I tried so far seems to convert Word 2007/2010/2013 files correctly. Appearently online converters can manage it without any problems but Web…
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What scientific plotting software is available?

I am currently doing some experimental work and I have a lot of data to trawl though. I use Gnumeric, and it's very good, but often I feel there has to be something better. Ideally I would like the maximum number of features with a minimal learning…
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What's the best Mind Mapping Software?

Back in the dark days when I used to run windows I used to use MindJet Mindmanager and I found it to be very good. Since I have been using Ubuntu as my main operating system I have been trying to find a replacement mind map software to use but have…
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Slap me when I stop working

On Mac OS X I have an app that plays a sound when I enter certain sites. I want a similar software to use on Linux. Does anybody know one?
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What is a good Amazon S3 client?

I've been using the Amazon S3 Management console to browse my S3 files. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to be able to sort files (in a given bucket) by anything other than whatever its default is (which seems to be by name). I'd like a nice GUI…
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