George Georgovassilis writes about information technology architecture
I think that Ubuntu 22.04 doesn't remove old snap packages when they become unused because on my system this command: snap list --all shows a long, long list of packages. User chipaca found an elegant solution [sh]: LANG=C snap list --all | while read snapname ver rev trk pub notes; do if [[ $notes = … Continue reading Removing unused snap packages
This post explains how to run Wikipedia offline on Linux inside a Docker container. Prerequisites (not explained here): a web browser to access the offline copy a Linux server connected to your network Docker on the Linux server 1. Download a ZIM archive of Wikipedia. In this example I used wikipedia_en_all_maxi_2023-11.zim. You can find the … Continue reading Running Wikipedia offline
Under Ubuntu 22.04, when Skype is installed as a snap, some menus are blank (+ it keeps freezing the entire computer sometimes). There's a simple workaround [1]: disable "access to opengl" in the snap store properties. I don't know, yet, what else this'll break... but we'll find out soon. [1] Some snap application menus don't … Continue reading Skype/Snap menus are blank
A quick one: Eclipse (2023-06) + Java (openjdk 17.0.7) under Ubuntu 22.04 crashes after a bit of interaction with this message: C [libwebkit2gtk-4.0.so.37+0xbbe3b6]. It's Wayland, but there's an easy workaround [1]: env WEBKIT_DISABLE_COMPOSITING_MODE=1 ./eclipse Resources [1] Eclipse IDE crashing with Java errors since 22.04 upgrade when using waylandhttps://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openjdk-lts/+bug/1988843/comments/5
New day, new gear. This post is about Ubuntu on the HP Victus 16-e0033nv and continues the long list of Ubuntu on laptops: Acer Nitro 5, HP ProBook, Asus VivoBook, Lenovo Thinkpad and probably others I'm forgetting about right now. The laptop comes with Windows 11 which I used mainly for a BIOS update. The … Continue reading Ubuntu 22.04 on the HP Victus
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