galigio.org: 2011 in review January 23, 2012
Posted by galigio in Computers & Internet, GNU/Linux, Linux, Linux & OpenSource, Tech, Technology, Technology and Software, Technology News, Tecnologia, Ubuntu, Ubuntu tips, windows.Tags: 2011, review, statistics, website statistics
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The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 150,000 times in 2011. If it were an exhibit at the Louvre Museum, it would take about 6 days for that many people to see it.
Video – [HowTo] Upgrade Firefox to the latest version on Ubuntu by bitspired.com January 19, 2012
Posted by galigio in Computers & Internet, Firefox, GNU/Linux, Linux, Linux & OpenSource, Tech, Technology, Technology and Software, Technology News, Tecnologia, tutorial, Ubuntu.Tags: Firefox, Linux, Mozilla, tutorial, Ubuntu, update, upgrade
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How to update Firefox to the 9.01 version on Ubuntu January 18, 2012
Posted by galigio in Computers & Internet, Firefox, GNU/Linux, Linux, Linux & OpenSource, Tech, Technology, Technology and Software, Technology News, Tecnologia, tutorial, Ubuntu, Ubuntu 10.04.Tags: Browsers, Firefox, Linux, Mozilla, Mozilla Firefox, Ubuntu, update, upgrade
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If you use Ubuntu 10.04 or any other Linux distribution which doesn’t automatically upgrade your Firefox to the latest version you can force it.
First of all you have to launch Terminal and add the right PPA to the repository:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-mozilla-security/ppa
Then you need to update and upgrade the OS using:
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade
If you are installing Firefox for the first time the right commands are:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-mozilla-security/ppa sudo apt-get updatesudo apt-get install firefox firefox-gnome-support firefox-locale-en
As usual on Linux, it is not necessary to reboot the computer and you can start immediately to use your updated Firefox.
How ro repair Ubuntu 10.04 LTS if the Update Manager and Synaptics don’t work January 16, 2012
Posted by galigio in Computers & Internet, GNU/Linux, Linux, Linux & OpenSource, Linux Tips, Tech, Technology, Technology and Software, Technology News, Tecnologia, tutorial, Ubuntu 10.04.Tags: Advanced Packaging Tool, Linux, Sudo, synaptic, Synaptic Package Manager, Ubuntu, update manager
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After I installed some new software I wasn’t able to update Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. The Update Manager was not able to check for updates and when I tried to use the Synaptic Package Manager I hadn’t better results. A reboot was not the right solution and I tested different ways to solve my problem saving the Ubuntu installation in my computer.
Searching on internet I discovered that there are few possible solution to avoid this problem and, in case you have the same bug on your computer, I decided to sum-up the most powerful after I successfully tried them.
First of all you can try to force the update process through the Terminal typing:
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade
If this doesn’t work you will try with this next step:
sudo rm var/lib/dpkg/lock sudo dpkg --configure -a
Then launch again the Update Manager to verify if you succeed and if nothing happened solve the matter typing:
sudo rm /var/lib/apt/lists/* -vf sudo apt-get update
and try again to launch the Update Manager.
In my case this was enough to restore all the Update Manager features and solve the problem. If you have extra problems about this bug or if you want to suggest alternative solutions, please, don’t hesitate to comment this post.
Time to clean-up! Ubuntu – Linux suggestions. January 4, 2012
Posted by galigio in Computers & Internet, GNU/Linux, Linux, Linux & OpenSource, security, Seguridad, Software News, system tools, system utility, Tech, Technology, Technology and Software, Technology News, Tecnologia, tools, tutorial.Tags: Advanced Packaging Tool, autoremove, Linux, Personal Package Archive, script, Ubuntu, update, upgrade
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Christmas time is ending and today we really don’t know how many relatives used out computer for “just few minutes” or “to quickly (sic) check the emails”. In few words, our Linux PC could have been overstuffed with unwanted temporary files and we haven’t had time to update it. So, it’s time to clean-up!!
First of all I suggest to use BleachBit because, for my experience, it’s the most powerful software to clean temporary files, log files and unwanted traces on your computer. BleachBit is easy to use and, as we described in previous post, very effective.
Then we have to check if our system is really updated so we can use the usual ways as Synaptics Package Manager or quickly run a some simple commands through Terminal to update, upgrade and remove old packages or Kernel.
For this purpose I collected three simple commands and chained them in a single line:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade && sudo apt-get autoremove
In this way you will be sure that you can start again to work on your Ubuntu as before the Christmas time!
