A list of useful or fun programs i’ve been using under ubuntu that are not in the normal repositories:

BleachBit – Clean junk to free disk space and to maintain privacy

Catch And Convert – Download and convert video from websites

DropBox – Online Backup

FreeRapid Downloader – A simple Java downloader for downloading from file-sharing services

Gnome Commander – sudo apt-get install gnome-commander

Handbrake – Video conversion

Radio Tray – Online streaming player that runs on a Linux system tray

SubsDownloader – Download subtitles for movies

Torrent Search – Find all your torrents

With Custom Repositories

• Skype:
  • sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
  • Add:
    • deb http://download.skype.com/linux/repos/debian/ stable non-free
  • Now you need to install GPG key
    • sudo apt-key adv –keyserver pgp.mit.edu –recv-keys 0xd66b746e
  • Update sources list
    • sudo apt-get update
  • Install skype using the following command
    • sudo apt-get install skype