Linux is so userfriendly, so the rpm that can be downloaded is missing dependencies. However, I'm quickly becoming a fan of zypper and OpenSUSE's dependency handling, and comes to the rescue:
sudo zypper in cryptomator.rpm
Even though cryptomator made a mistake in signing part of the application, it can still be installed by pressing ignore. Are you sure you want to do that? It seems a bit crap for such an essential utility.
Both the official RPM and the discover package failed for me due to missing dependencies, without specifying what those are. However the following worked:
sudo zypper install dropbox-cli dropbox start -i dropbox autostart
KDE’s ability to remove all panels continues the long-standing Linux tradition of shooting yourself in the foot.
Having wasted too much time installing Ubuntu on a laptop recently, I thought it would be helpful for the future self to document the issues.
I'm seeing one or more of the following issues with Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:
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Install Ubuntu 16.04 LTS which is not a piece of garbage. #omg |
|---|---|
| Migrate SSH keys from Putty to OpenSSH | https:// |
| What are the correct permissions for the .ssh folder? | Typically you want the .ssh directory permissions to be 700 (drwx------) and the public key (.pub file) to be 644 (-rw-r--r--). Your private key (id_rsa) should be 600 (-rw-------). Lastly, your home directory should not be writeable by the group or others (at most 755 (drwxr-xr-x)). |
| How do I connect to our team networkshare automatically on startup? |
sudo su apt install cifs-utils echo "//path/to/windows-share /mnt/team cifs credentials=/etc/samba/credentials,uid=1000 0 0" >> /etc/stab cat > /etc/samba/credentials <<EOC username=UserName password=PassWord EOC chown root.root /etc/samba/credentials && chmod 400 /etc/samba/credentialsChange the username and password appropriately verify your userid is 1000 with id -u UserName |
| I skipped creating a passphase for my encrypted home directory, how do I do it now? | run "ecryptfs-unwrap-passphrase" in the terminal |
| How to stop the mouse sticking to the edges of the display | https:// |
| Can't install vagrant plugins | Download vagrant from vagrantup.com |
| nfsd is not installed | sudo apt-get install nfs-kernel-server |
| vagrant booting vms reports a timetout | delete (rm) the IdentityFile mentioned in vagrant ssh-config |
This document will get updated as I stumble and fix other issues.
| Clipboard manager | https:// |
| Remote connection manager | https:// |
| Google Drive | https:// |
| Phrase Expansion | https:// |
| Screen Recorder | Kazam (https:// |
I've been finding that browsing has been slow for me lately on my linux box, which has Ubuntu 16.04 installed. After some investigation it seemed worthwhile to try to install a DNS cache to speed up DNS queries. This has sped up successive DNS queries from 21ms to 0ms, removing sluggishness.
sudo apt install bind9 cd /etc/resolvconf/resolv.conf.d sudo echo "nameserver 127.0.0.1" >> head
Apply the configuration as follows:
sudo resolvconf -u
The improvement can be seen by using dig to query a domain and looking at the Query time output. After the first dig, subsequent digs return in 0 ms.
Ubuntu 17.10 comes with python3 3.6.3 installed by default but not pip and pipenv. We can install install pip systemwide and pipenv into the user local bin so we can use all the convenience when working with our python projects:
wget https://bootstrap.pypa.io/ get-pip.py -O /tmp/get-pip.py sudo python3 /tmp/get-pip.py pip3 install --user pipenv echo "PATH=$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH" >> ~/.profile source ~/.profile
Sources: Installing Python 3 on Linux; pip installation; Installing pipenv; How to permanently set PATH on Linux
Update 9 Nov 2017: replaced curl with wget, thanks Peter
Today a problem came up where the files on my Samba fileshare did not indicate to my Windows system that they were changed. Software that relies on this information such as TortoiseHG and SimpleLESS would not know that the file had changed. This was especially obvious with SimpleLESS which should take the .less file and process it, but wouldn’t.
I recently set up a local development server running Ubuntu on VMware player. I thought it would be interesting to document the process and instructions so that it will be useful to others, and you can follow along / correct / improve this guide. On completion of this series you will end up with a complete LAMP local development system..
You will need:
Install VMware player (VMP). Restart the pc if necessary.
I’m installing the virtual machine on my USB harddisk, this way I can take my whole development with me on the go (home/work) - this is great because you only have to set all this up once, instead of on every machine you plan to use it on.
Start VMP and “Create a New Virtual Machine” and browse to the downloaded .iso. As part of the Easy Install Information write down the login:
username: __________ password: __________ Store the VM on your removable drive.
On the Specify Disk Capacity screen you will want to go higher than the recommended disk size, I chose double (40GB). Make sure you have enough free space available, check this before continueing. I went for double the recommended amount as I want to avoid to repartition later. Accept the other defaults and Ubuntu will start. Keep waiting as Easy Install is installing Ubuntu on your behalf.
If you are a chmod 777 user (jackpot settings), this is a great time to read up on file system permissions by reading the article series starting with “Linux File Permission Concepts” (click next in the summary, there are 5 articles in total): http://
After a restart the login screen appear and after a successful login you will see the desktop. Because we are going to install a bunch of software let’s make sure everything we already have is up to date. Start the update manager > Settings > Ubuntu Software > Other > Select Best Server. This will speed up downloads. Check again and install updates.
Time to read some more, btw have you created a new tag for all these bookmarks yet? When you are finished reading the above articles, here are some really good resources to read later:
You should now have a running Ubuntu system.
(Source: donationcoder.com)
Once you understand Linux file permissions, the next step on the road to enlightenment is learning how to check the permissions for a file or directory.
via http://
Linux file permissions are strange and wondrous things. Start down the path of understanding by looking at the core concepts behind them before moving on to practical applications.
Today, after making a change to a php file, I had to update all copies of this file with the changes. The following command will update all files with the same name. Note that this will only work as expected if the name is unique. A theoretically better way to do it would be to find all files with a certain hash.
Anyways, here's the linux shell command. First copy the updated file into the current directory (/tmp for example):
find /target_path/ -iname "some_file.php" -exec cp new_file.php '{}' \;
After publishing the previous article about serve.sh - the shell script I created to easily serve websites in development - I made some changes to make it easier to run it from the terminal, for example over ssh. I thought I'd share it with you.
One of the problems with the original script was that it was optimized for a GUI setting - ie. start the script by clicking on it from the desktop. However usually I want to run it from the terminal. I don't like typing so I added code to make the script available from any directory to the ~/.bashrc:
export PATH=$PATH:~/bin
Then moved it to that path and renamed it to shave another 3 characters off the syntax:
mv ~/Desktop/serve.sh ~/bin/serve
In addition I noticed that prompting which site should be served was just a workaround for commandline arguments, which are now added. It doesn't check that you entered an argument though. So the new script now requires you to specify which directory you want to serve: to serve the current directory simply run:
serve .
Latest script contents:
#!/bin/bash my_path=`readlink -f $1` sudo rm /var/www sudo ln -s $my_path /var/www echo Now serving $my_path...
I am experimenting with using a Linux virtual machine as my web development environment of choice. I store the vm on a removable drive so that I can develop from any location, without having to setup a working environment. Previously I had to check out the repositories, setup a local webserver and I had trouble keeping things working, because every configuration change had to be applied in every location. Now it is all centralized and my life is simpler.
The aim is to make working on projects as easy as possible. I have all projects checked out in a folder called /var/sites. They are mostly PHP projects and because of my shared hosting environment they share a single apache configuration. How can I easily serve them? Having seperate virtualhosts for each project would result in me having to make manual changes on every location again, so this was not the way to go.
Instead I created a simple shell script that creates a symbolic link from the Apache's webroot to the project I am working on:
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#!/bin/bash echo "Available sites:" ls /var/sites
echo echo -n "Type site to serve: " read site if [ -z "$site" ] then exit fi
sudo rm /var/www sudo ln -s /var/sites/$site /var/www
Our php.log was nearing 550MB so I was investigating how to rotate the logs. The easiest solution seems to be using logrotate (ubuntu linux) with a script like follows.
sudo nano /etc/logrotate.d/php5
/var/log/php5/*.log {#rotate daily daily
#keep 14 days rotate 14
missingok nocompress sharedscripts postrotate apache2ctl graceful endscript
}
You can check the configuration by running logrotate --force /etc/logrotate.d/php5
I noticed a backup of ours did not finish and that the temporary file rsync uses was still listed. A quick google search indicated that rsync had lost its connection. Thanks to Ian Young's article on the subject rsync now resumes when cut off and hopefully the backup will complete now.