Various Linix Distros, tested recently – winners and losers
Losers Linux Mint Mate, 19.1 Whew – this is really not ready for prime time, based upon my experience. Off the top of my head, here’s a couple of major[…]
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Installing Wine on Ubuntu, Mint, etc. 18.04
123456789101112#!/bin/bashsudo dpkg --add-architecture i386wget -qO - https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/winehq.key | sudo apt-key add -sudo apt-add-repository 'deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/ bionic main'sudo add-apt-repository ppa:cybermax-dexter/sdl2-backportsudo apt updatesudo apt install --install-recommends winehq-stableapt-get install winetricks -yInstall Some Games for Linux Download
Revised instructions for install Office 2010 via PlayonLinux on 18.04
First…. apt-get install winbind -y apt-get install playonlinux -y 1. Open PlayOnLinux 2. In the toolbar at the top, go to: Tools > Manage Wine Versions 3. Find Wine 3.8[…]
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Installing Office 2010 with PlayonLinux on 18.04
I just wrote an update to this entire page – go here and forget about this page! Major Woes I tried to install Office 2010 using PlayOnLinux – on PopOS[…]
Acronis ext4 fix
So numerous editions of Acronis purport to support imaging a drive formatted in ext4, but, often when you attempt to image such a partition you receive a message that “Some[…]
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Fixing Kodi exit problem on Linux
Kodi can be installed from official repos on Ubuntu-based PopOS 18.04, but, with a couple of minor problems. First, the program often hangs (in my experience) when exiting the program.[…]
Using fsck to check and repair Linux filesystems
No matter how well you take care of your computer, sometimes, it will just crash and you often have to pull off the plug to restart the computer. When such[…]
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7z on Linux
I was pleasantly surprised to discover that 7zip is available for Centos and other Linux distributions. And it works just as it does on Windows. On Redhat-style distros you can[…]
Nginx – simple install script for Centos 5.5
Anything that you find on this site, like this, is really here for my own entertainment/study. You can download things and use them but, of course, there are no guarantees…[…]
