Ubuntu 14.04

Fix “The Update Information Is Outdated”

March 13, 2016 · claude Ubuntu Ubuntu 14.04 Ubuntu 15.04

Sometimes, the message "The Update Information Is Outdated" is displayed when you click on a red warning red icon in the status bar. It happened to me last week. This time, it was caused by a Google Chrome update that failed. First, open a terminal...

Change the Ubuntu login screen background?

July 13, 2015 · claude Ubuntu Ubuntu 12.04 Ubuntu 14.04 +1

Changing the login screen background is easy but not obvious. The image file you want to use as the login screen background must have a read access for everyone. Open the image with the Image viewer installed by default. Select the option Set as...

How to Install libnfc for PN532 NFC Readers on Linux

February 25, 2015 · claude Ubuntu 11.10 Ubuntu 11.04 Ubuntu +5

Installing libnfc for PN532 based NFC reader is not exactly as described in the documentation. Some information is scattered in the documentation. This installation guide has been tested with the GO2NFC GO2NFC141U NFC Reader and the Adafruit PN532...

How To Setup an Internet Gateway using Ubuntu

February 18, 2015 · claude Ubuntu 11.10 Ubuntu 11.04 Ubuntu +4

Setting up an Internet Gateway using Ubuntu is pretty straight forward. In order to do so, you will need:

Installing memcached to use it with php

February 13, 2015 · claude Ubuntu 11.10 Unix Ubuntu 11.04 +6

Installing Memcached with php support in Ubuntu is a matter of a few steps: sudo apt-get install memcached php5-memcached sudo service apache2 restart You can test if memcached is active by running this command: echo "stats settings" | nc localhost...

phpMyAdmin session timeout

October 9, 2014 · claude Ubuntu Ubuntu 14.04 phpMyAdmin

phpMyAdmin session timeout is controlled through two parameters. The first one can be found in /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini. It is called session.gc\_maxlifetime. The other one can be found in the phpMyAdmin configuration file often named /etc/phpmyadmi...

Java Applets are no longer working in Linux

September 24, 2014 · claude Linux Ubuntu 14.04 Java Applets +1

NPAPI support was dropped in Chrome version 35 introduced in Spring 2014. One of the consequences is that Java Applets running with IcedTea no longer works. Upgrading to Ubuntu 14.04 install the newest version of Chrome. You then lose the ability to...

Issues after upgrading to Ubuntu 14.04.1

September 7, 2014 · claude Unix Ubuntu Ubuntu 14.04

After upgrading to Ubuntu 14.04.01, I ran into two issues: One with Apache2 and one with Samba 4. Apache has been upgraded from 2.2.22 to 2.4.7. The content was no longer accessible. The site configuration directives Order, Allow and Deny such as...

How to rename a user in Linux

May 20, 2014 · claude Ubuntu 11.10 Unix Ubuntu 11.04 +4

Simply issue this command: usermod -m -d /home/new-account-name -l new-account-name old-account-name It creates the home directory if it does not exists. It also copy the stuff of the old user into the new user account.

preinst: line 118: a2query: command not found

May 4, 2014 · claude Ubuntu Apache Ubuntu 14.04

If you are getting the following errors while trying to install Apache on Trusty (Ubuntu 14.04), execute the commands below and try to re-install it. Preparing to unpack .../apache2_2.4.7-1ubuntu4_amd64.deb ... /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/preinst: line 118:...

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