I followed this nice guide Connecting to MSSQL with Ruby on Ubuntu - lambie.org until I ran in the following errors: irb(main):001:0> require "dbi"; dbh = DBI.connect('dbi:ODBC...
...the famous "yellow triangle". I got it working again doing the following. Remove the Ubuntu packages the "Lightning" and "Google Calendar Provider" Thunderbird addons: ^ sudo apt-get remove xul-ext...
...it should work now. Maybe swapping only one of them out for the non-Ubuntu version (I'd assume the Google provider addon) would be enough, but I really didn...
.desktop files define launchers for applications installed on your machine. They specify the command that will be executed when launched...
...which we were using for most Rails 2.3 projects, does not run on Ubuntu 14.04 any more. Here is how to update affected projects. Update (or create) .firefox-version with...
Install Ubuntu Server Download an image from this site Select File > New… to and follow the instructions, choose the .iso file you downloaded as image file Deselect "Simple installation" – you...
If you can now longer hear or record sounds after upgrading Ubuntu, you probably need to re-tell Ubuntu which devices to use for playback/recording. Fix sound output
There are some frontends available, but they all suck, are no longer maintained or are hard to install.
Sometimes sound breaks for me and speaker output is completely broken. This helped: pulseaudio -k && sudo alsa force-reload
...rid of the dead PPAs you might have installed for LibreOffice 4.x: Open *Ubuntu Software Center Go to Edit / Software Source...
.../ Other Software Find and uncheck lines like...
...in sudo’s PATH. Unfortunately, you can’t change the path, since sudo for Ubuntu is compiled with the --with-secure-path option. #Solution A: symlink the gems (if you...
You can configure a Ubuntu system as a gateway in order to share it's internet connection (maybe via WLAN or tethering) with other computers on the network.
...does not offer it for download. \ However, some files may not display properly on Ubuntu's default PDF reader Evince or PDF forms may not work as expected. Hence, you...
...sudo dpkg -i AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i386linux_enu.deb The above instructions worked for me on a 64 bit Ubuntu...
...by going to Tools / Add to desktop. Unfortunately this doesn't work reliably on Ubuntu MATE with recent Chromes: The icons could not be moved away from the desktop, or...
Rbenv won't compile REE 2011.03 properly on Ubuntu 12.04, failing with an error in tcmalloc.cc. If you want to keep tcmalloc functionality, you can do it like this:
If bower complains about a missing node binary, do not install Ubuntu's node package. Instead, you need to create a symlink that points to the binary one of the...
sudo apt-get install nodejs If you already installed the node Ubuntu package, bower will just do nothing (i.e. not show any input, or respond to any...
...find such an entry you may need to add it yourself -- the command for Ubuntu's default terminal is gnome-terminal. Be aware that many programs use shortcuts of their...
...couldn't successfully execute a simple iptables command and got this error on an Ubuntu server: # /sbin/iptables -I INPUT .... iptables: No chain/target/match by that name The cause was that two...
...modules weren't loaded: xt_multiport and xt_comment. Normally Ubuntu loads them automatically, but not this time due to another problem...
...forget to restart after editing the sshd_config: sudo service ssh restart (Tested on Ubuntu...
...are on natty, precise, quantal, or something else? Check /etc/lsb-release. $ cat /etc/lsb-release DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_RELEASE=12.04 DISTRIB_CODENAME=precise DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS" Or, use the lsb...
...release command: $ lsb_release -cd Description: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS Codename: trusty
Note that if you plan to downgrade Firefox because your Selenium tests broke after a Firefox upgrade, there is a...
When you have a program running in a hidden X screen (like with Xvfb for Selenium tests) you may want...
killall gnome-panel This will terminate all gnome-panel processes. On my machine (Ubuntu 11.04) the panel then restarted itself after a moment. If the panel does not automatically...
...did not work in any application. Turns out that keyboard combination was hijacked by Ubuntu as it's the default for switching input languages (i.e. keyboard layouts). If you use...
If others on a call (Skype, SIP, ...) can not hear you loud enough, your volume levels are probably too low...