Sometimes when users try to install an application by executing the usual apt command on Ubuntu, they get the following error: (more…)
Sometimes we want to see the sizes of files as returned by the ls command displayed in some reasonable format or in other words in human readable presentation.
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To learn how copy a file from another machine or how to transfer files between two computers, you can use the scp utility. In this short tutorial you will see how to achieve this using simple commands. (more…)
To zip all files in a given directory on Linux with the zip tool, you can use * with the zip command. This will take care of files with and without extensions since extensions are not so special on (more…)
Computers nowadays are packed with powerful processors and graphics cards in order to cater for the demanding computations and big screens. This however has some consequences on the hardware: heat . (more…)
In this article we shall discuss how to Google search on Linux using a tool called Googler. Googler, a feature rich and Python based utility, allows users to query Google (Web and News) using the command line on Linux. (more…)
Is there a command to open the Ubuntu system settings window in Ubuntu 18.04 from the terminal ? To answer this, let’s first outline some ways to access the system settings : (more…)
Broken packages is a common problem in Ubuntu and other similar distros. Sometimes when you install a new application or update the system, you will encounter the error ‘Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an (more…)
It could happen, as it did to me, that when you open your Virtual box and start your Ubuntu virtual machine, you get the error below : (more…)
Normal users can acquire administrator privileges which is usually held by the root user, via the sudo command. In this short article, you will find an easy way to create a powerful new user who will have sudo (more…)
