Software for Linux, like Ubuntu, is available in many formats: DEB packages, AppImage, Flatpak Snap… There are so many formats available that even Linus Torvalds has complained that he (more…)
Updated on 5/5/2022 – Have you ever encountered a situation in which you were unable to download any package on your Linux machine ? Or you might have probably seen an error like package not installed? This kind of error can (more…)
Updated on 5/5/2022 – Using the APT package management utility in Ubuntu or some other Linux distros is straightforward for most users. It helps to install, remove and update packages. Sometimes however, when third party dependencies (more…)
Updated on 4/4/2022 – If you have a docker container and would like to add users to run some processes, this short tutorial is for you. The trick here is to rely on USERADD rather than on the interactive wrapper (more…)
Pinfo is an information file viewer. It was created because its author, Przemek Borys, was very tired trying to read gtk information entries using standard tools. (more…)
PIP is a utility that manages software packages such as libraries and dependencies for the development modules of Python. In this short tutorial, you will learn how to install pip on Ubuntu 18.04 or 20.04. (more…)
Updated on January 21st, 2021 – The Linux file system comes originally from UNIX and thus follows UNIX traditions. This is why for instance it uses the forward slash instead of the back slash as in Windows. Linux also differentiates between uppercase (more…)
Ubuntu and Linux mint are two of the best and popular Linux distributions available in the market. They both have some advantages over each other. Ubuntu is based on Debian and Linux Mint is based on Ubuntu. (more…)
In this short tutorial, you will discover three ways to update NodeJs on Ubuntu 18.04 and 20.04. (more…)
When a Linux system has an out-of-memory error or runs out of RAM, .i.e. can no longer store data in the virtual memory, it will temporarily use swap space in order to increase the size of the virtual memory available. (more…)