Prevent the restart of daemons from Debian package upgrades. Proper written postinstall scripts for Debian packages utilize deb-systemd-invoke...
With Ubuntu 24.04 it's not longer possible to setup FDE with BTRFS The new installer won't offer you any options for manually created dm-crypt volumes
...Only continue if you're a real BTRFS ultra fan. Manual BTRFS setup Boot Ubuntu 24.04 Desktop Go to Disk setup -> Erase disk and install Ubuntu -> Advanced features
Ubuntu 24 added some guarding for Python packages which no longer allows installing applications through pip on system level. Instead, you are presented with this error message: error: externally-managed...
...more information. As the error says, if your desired application is available as an Ubuntu package, you may install it through apt. If you need to install through pip (e.g...
...is enabled for node. Installing nvm DigitalOcean has a HOWTO for installing nvm on Ubuntu (16.04, 18.04, 20.04) that I recommend. During the installation of node via nvm, a compatible...
...as there were multiple issues between 5.2.0 and 7.3.0. After a distribution upgrade of Ubuntu you might experience a Host key verification error if you try to connect to the...
...It usually occurs after an upgrade of the server’s operating system (e.g. to Ubuntu 22.04 or 24.04) which changes the server's SSH host keys...
If you want to have an English Ubuntu UI, but still see dates, money amounts, paper formats, etc. in German formats, you can fine-tune your /etc/default/locale like this:
Canonical does not ship Ubuntu 24.04+ Vagrant images due to HashiCorps switch to the Business Source License (BSL). There is currently no open source fork of Vagrant. Alternatives
...is an alternative which you can use to create containers and virtual machines. All Ubuntu versions are available as official LXD Image. Use vagrant-libvirt It's possible to run...
...to be vulnerable. So far there is no information on updated Packages for Ubuntu (https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-44268). Due to that we patched our systems as follows: Ubuntu 22.04:
...source on a Ubuntu 22.04 system: apt-get source imagemagick cd imagemagick-6.9.11.60+dfsg/ Apply the patch with additional code which wasn't backported to the ubuntu version yet:
This note is a reminder that there is something called AppArmor that could cause weird errors ("File not found", "Can...
...and not extract them immediately, wich is the new behaviour when clicking archives in ubuntu 24.04. [Default Applications] application/zip=org.gnome.FileRoller.desktop; application/x-7z-compressed=org.gnome.FileRoller.desktop; application/x-bzip2=org.gnome.FileRoller.desktop; application/x-gzip=org.gnome.FileRoller.desktop; application/x-tar=org.gnome.FileRoller.desktop; application/x-xz=org.gnome.FileRoller.desktop...
...frequency, temperature sensors, etc. we found s-tui quite useful. It's included in Ubuntu's default repositories: $ sudo apt install s-tui $ s-tui While it's possible to...
Switch Secure Boot to Disabled. Install throttled Boot back into the regular Ubuntu system and install throttled: $ sudo apt install git build-essential python3-dev libdbus-glib...
...install) to a newer version, see How to upgrade RubyMine. Option A (new way) Ubuntu 16.04 comes with snap, a way to package software with all its dependencies. RubyMine is...
If you want to system-wide disable the microphone of your external webcam in PulseAudio use the following one-liners...
Sometimes you may want to print files from the command line, especially when you have lots of them.
If you're trying to start a cloud-init based Ubuntu VM with KVM you will suffer long boot times and confusing output on the terminal. If you want to...
Ubuntu 18.04 uses systemd to manage services. There are basically two commands for listing all services and manipulating the state of a certain service: service and systemctl: service manages System...
...in your version. Here's how to get old versions of Chrome for your Ubuntu installation: First, go to UbuntuUpdates and pick the full version string of the version you...
...and CTRL+Alt+ Arrow Right to navigate through the code. It worked great on Ubuntu 18.04 and MATE but after migrating to my new notebook with GNOME and Ubuntu...
Back up your entire disk. Fetch a USB drive with an Ubuntu Live System (any flavor will do), a HDD/SSD that is at least the size of...
Unfortunately I couldn't find a complete and working documentation on how to do this. But this steps succeeded (at...
...and versions 0.3.x (required for Rails 3.2) can no longer be installed on Ubuntu 20.04. Trying this either leads to errors when compiling the native extension, or a segfaults...
ZSH is an alternative command line shell that includes some features like spelling correction, cd automation, better theme, and plugin...
Ubuntu might create several keyrings for you. Note that keyring passwords are initially set to the user password but do not change with it. If you can't seem to...
We're usually running Ubuntu LTS versions. Sometimes newer hardware requires packages from more recent Ubuntu releases that only come with 6 months of support. If there is really no...
...other way, it's possible to install packages from later Ubuntu releases Caution: Pay really close attention to what you're doing. Depending on the package, this process may require...