...that gives you an on-the-fly internet domain routing to your localhost. On ubuntu, you can install ngrok with sudo snap install ngrok. Then start it using
Ubuntu has decided to disable PDF processing because ImageMagick and the underlying Ghostscript had several security issues. When your Ghostscript is up to date (and receiving updates regularly), you can...
...processing on your computer like this: Open /etc/ImageMagick-6/policy.xml (requires sudo) For older versions of Ubuntu (or possibly ImageMagick), the path is /etc/ImageMagick/policy.xml Remove/Comment lines after If you need it enabled...
I noticed that tig 2.5.1 that is provided by Ubuntu 22.04 repositories has inferior bash completion than older versions after a complete rewrite. Newer versions, however, received some fixes. This...
...to upgrade tig. The official debian repositories have more recent versions of tig than Ubuntu does. remove your current version of tig: sudo apt purge tig go to http://deb.debian.org...
...You can install it via snap: sudo snap install insomnia or via package (on Ubuntu...
Background You can choose your "Default applications" via UI in the Ubuntu "Settings" application (gnome-control-center). This is just a very rough setting (e.g. open Photos...
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...change highlighting. Installation Download a git-delta_*_amd64.deb file from the releases page. On Ubuntu 20.04, I had to use v14.0 because of dependencies Install with dpkg -i path/to/git-delta*.deb...
Updating Chromedriver is often a hassle: If you use chromium-chromedriver from the Ubuntu sources, it usually won't be updated when a new Chrome version is released. Manually...
...available to a process. You may need to install it first. For example, on Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install trickle To start an application with limited downstream or upstream, run...
On our Ubuntu machines we have nautilus file manager with nautilus-extension-gnome-terminal installed. This adds an entry to the context menu (right click) to start a gnome-terminal...
...somewhere in your $PATH" If you are not using the default archive extractor from ubuntu replace file-roller with your preferred application 2. Desktop file Create a file ~/.local/share/applications/coverage-zip-opener.desktop with...
Fortunately, you can run Awesome within MATE, by following these steps (tested on Ubuntu MATE 16.04): Awesome + MATE Create the following file at /usr/share/xsessions/Xsession.desktop: [Desktop Entry]
Bye sudo mysqladmin shutdown Fixing startup and maintenance scripts on Debian and Ubuntu If you've changed root's authentication method, starting and stopping the mysql and some...
...automatic maintenance scripts on Debian and Ubuntu will fail, since those all used now invalid authentication method. Adding the new root password to /etc/mysql/debian.cnf will fix that, though.
Ubuntu has a package mysql-sandbox that lets you install multiple MySQL versions into your user home: Install mysql-sandbox sudo apt install mysql-sandbox Download the version of MySQL...
...use from mysql.com: https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/file/?id=480427 Make sure to choose "Generic Linux" instead of "Ubuntu" so you get a .tar.gz instead of .deb cd into the directory the mysql binaries...
...Shift+E for splitting the terminal. I got used to this shortcut. Yesterday the Ubuntu update seems to have upgraded ibus, which got this emoji picker that also uses Control...
Ubuntu comes with keyboard layouts like "Germany Eliminate Dead Keys", which are practical for programming. If you need to type accented characters with such a layout, make sure to configure...
...on most Linux distros through their package management systems, e.g. apt install cairosvg on Ubuntu. It has few dependencies (most importantly Python 3 and some related packages, but really not...
"bspwm": 1 "mate": 1 "xfce": 1 Gnome dominates (unsuprising, it's the Ubuntu default), but quite a few people use tiling window managers, most popular i3 and the...
...like changing the HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE is not possible for a headless chrome. On Ubuntu the headless Chrome derives the Accept-Language from the operation system Adding the option options.add...
Because colors improve readability so much. On Ubuntu 18.04 you can install it with sudo apt install grc From github: For the impatient - try following commands: grc netstat
Copy and paste at will, they're free! German quotation marks: „ “ (Ubuntu-Hotkey: AltGr+v and AltGr+b) English quotation marks: “ ” En dash: – Em dash: — Ellipsis: … Some useful hints for...
...users of Ubuntu Linux Your Ubuntu comes with a searchable list of Unicode chars. Go to Accessories / Character map. Ctrl + F searches for a character by name.
suppress_multiple_term_dialog = True [keybindings] [profiles] [[default]] cursor_color = "#aaaaaa" font = Ubuntu Mono 14 use_system_font = False [layouts] [[PROJECT_NAME]] [[[child0]]] type = Window parent = "" position...
...at runtime actually matches the one it was compiled against. However, at least on Ubuntu 22.04, the mariadb library files themselves seem to report 2 conflicting versions. The fix simply...
...new AWS Command Line Interface At first you need the IAM Cli Tools. On Ubuntu you can easy install it with sudo apt-get install iamcli. Otherwise, you can install...
...certificate you need to install the ElasticLoadBalancing Tools. At the moment there is no ubuntu package available so you have to do this manually. download and unzip the ElasticLoadBalancing Tools...