I upgraded to Ubuntu 12.04 and tried to add the Ugene Ubuntu ppa in order to run the latest version of Ugene (the Ubuntu repositories still have 1.9.8) but I noticed that support for the latest Ubuntu is yet to be added.  

Right now I'm running an gene binary downloaded from the download webpage. I'm not sure why, but this makes it lack proper integration with the OS (e.g. there's no global menu and therefore no HUD).

So my request is to update the ppa for the latest version of both Ugene and Ubuntu. Thanks!

Hi, Alvarenga. There's no need to add the "ppa:iefremov/ppa".

Just make sure you have other sources enabled and you'll find Ugene in the software center. It's outdated but you get the integration you mentioned. Then you need to extract the newer version to the folder (/usr/lib64/ugene, for the 64 bits version) and that's all (you have to make it as root, so from terminal: 'gksu nautilus', then search and open the ugene compressed file and extract to /usr/lib64/ugene, unless you use the 32 bits, in which case I guess is lib32 or maybe just lib, not sure).

To enable other sources in ubuntu: search for the update manager, click Settings (bottom left) and then in other sources, check canonical partners (see screenshot attached).

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Ok, I'll do that until the ppa gets updated. Thank you.

I tried doing what you said, but I still don't get global menu for Ugene 1.10.4. See the attached picture where Nautilus is interacting with the global menu but Ugene retains a menu on its own window. Ugene 1.9.8 and other Qt applications are working fine on my computer. Could this be a bug?

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Sorry for that Alvarenga. I should have warned you that the only two examples you gave, wouldn't work. This is not a bug. We are replacing the original Ugene files made for Ubuntu with the updated ones for a generic linux. So, the things that are specific for Ubuntu (and here also specific for Unity) won't work. My post was a workaround in order to have the latest version installed, even though the ppa is not updated.

If you want to go back, uninstall Ugene from the Software center, then delete the files in /usr/lib64/ugene and reinstall Ugene.

Now, I also want to have Ugene in the HUD.


Please, update the ppa!

We're going to update ppa this week, or (the latest) the next week. Sorry for the delay.

Now with version 1.11.0 UGENE is perfectly integrated and the HUD works (repeated the above method of installing 1.9.8 from software center and then extracting the updated linux version).

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Thank you very much, Agu and Olga! Cheers!

Hey, I really meant that, I wasn't being sarcastic! Believe me, Linux users can be that patient and grateful. ;)

I know it's hard to support so many different operating systems, so I do appreciate the efforts from the Ugene team very much. Thank you everyone involved in this great open source bioinformatics tool!

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