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Install BleachBit 1.2 on Ubuntu 14.04

BleachBit 1.2 updates Add cleaner for APT package lists. Update Konqueror cleaner (thanks to tiemay). Update Debian package for Debian and Ubuntu. Add Fedora 20 RPM package. Add Ubuntu 14.04 DEB package. Do not crash on startup for new platforms (in this case, for FreeBSD)

Install Stellarium in Ubuntu 14.04

Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope. The latest release Stellarium 0.13.0 brings some interesting new features: New modulated core. Refactored shadows and introducing the normal mapping. Sporadic meteors and meteors has the colors now. Comet tails rendering. New translatable strings and new textures. New plugin: Equation of Time – provides solution for Equation of Time.