This page presents the list of all published posts in alphabetical order about the category “Linux”, with the title (it’s a link to the post) and a short abstract.
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- Alternative Windows NTFS chkdsk /f on linux: ntfsfix
If you have got some troubles in mounting your NTFS-formatted Hard Drive – $MFTMirr does not match $MFT (record 0) – this post could help you to find the searched solution.
- Bash: loop on files in folder
This is a simple trick to process files inside a folder, when the*command fails because the argument list (the number of the files) is too long.
- CLI markdown viewer
A little post to advice to you a markdown viewer: Terminal Markdown Viewer, with a guide to install it on ArchLinux.
- Compress pdf files via CLI
If you have a pdf file too big or you just need to compress a pdf file, this is a simple article that explain how to do using Ghostscript via CLI.
- Convert rtf to pdf with Ted
How to convert RTF files in PDF files with a single simple command.
- CPack DEB generator: control-file-has-bad-permissions mdsums 0644 != 0644
How to fix the error “control-file-has-bad-permissions md5sums 0664!=0644” generated by CPack.
- CRON & CRONTAB: automatically run your commands when you want
If you need to run a command at an exact time or recursively every selected time interval you can follow these simple steps. In addition how to setup it for recursively use at the last day of the month!
- Downgrade a package when it crashes after a pacman upgrade
Sometimes, after apacman -Syu, a package stops to work, because the last released version presents one or more bugs. Thus, the simplest way to solve this problem is to do a downgrade to the last working version.
- dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting
If your Ubuntu virtual machine came with this error, just read this post to solve!
- dwb SIGSEGV: how to solve the problem!
If your dwb crash after the upgrade of pacman as our, in this post you can find how we have solved the problem.
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- Enable/Disable Touch-Screen on Arch Linux
Nowadays, many pcs have a touchscreen. This post is useful if you want to manage this type of device under a GNU/Linux OS, to enable and to disable it via command line.
- Error: status_command process exited unexpectedly (exit 1)
When the updates are dangerous..how to solve the locale problem “status_command process exited unexpectedly”.
- External drives on Arch Linux: shut them down
You might want to completely shutdown external drives via CLI. Here you can find how to do that.
- Hidden files in linux: how to move them between folders
This post shows a simple trick to move hidden files from a folder to another one via command line in whatever linux environment..
- How to enable Gsky GS-27USB on ArchLinux
This is a simple guide to follow if you need to enable a new wireless interface on GNU/Linux, in particular the Gsky GS-27USB adapter.
- How to enable LAN on Arch Linux
This is a simple guide to follow if you want to switch between LAN interface and WLAN interface using Arch Linux distro.
- How to install Debian on a Sata Raid
This is the basic link to install Debian on a Sata Raid.
- How to pass password to scp command in bash script
Install and use of sshpass command to pass password to scp in a bash script.
- iwlwifi-7260-17.ucode failed with error -2
Info about an error you might get configuring the network during the installation of ArchLinux.
- iw dev: Unnamed/non-netdev interface
Info about warnings you might get configuring wpa_supplicant during the installation of ArchLinux.
- Monospace font issue in Mozilla Firefox
How to solve font issue in Mozilla Firefox, changing monospace to the one you prefer. Try it!
- Mount partition at startup and get write privileges on GNU/Linux
Read and write within data partion is of vital importance and it’s not so simple in linux, if you ever used an fstab (File System TABle).
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- Mutt: view images in the Mutt e-mail client
This post is useful if you use Mutt as e-mail client and you want to open as preview the attached images.
- netctl: wifi-menu with wpa2-enterprise network
How to setup, with example, the netctl used on a WPA2-enterprise network!
- netctl service ([email protected]***.service) failed because the control process exited with error code.
How to fix the error explained in the title…in a strange way.
- Pacman autocompletion: enable it on ArchLinux
This is a simple post that explains the steps to enable autocomplete on a bash-based shell to use it with pacman or yaourt.
- Print psswd protected pdf files
Sometimes you might need to print psswd protected pdf files. Of course you cannot unencrypt the file, but ghostscript helps you in printing it.
- poppler.so: undefined symbol: poppler_orientation_get_type
A brief post to alert you about conflict using poppler new and old version.
- Signature from “User” is unknown trust
How to deal with an unknown signature during an update in ArchLinux.
- Statusbar configuration of wmfs windows manager
A useful guide that can help you for setting up the status bar for the Window Manager wmfs for your linux distro. All the bash commands used are well explained, and can be useful also for other purposes.
- Skype: webcam not working
This post explain how to preload the V4L library for use Skype webcam, that doesn’t support the new V4L2 library.
- /tmp folder totally full
How to resize the /tmp folder in order to solve installing issue and Call Stack error.
- Teamviewer installation on Archlinux
Teamviewer is a very useful tool. Here you can read the recipe of the teamviewer installation on Archlinux. It’s easy, just follow it!”.
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- Terminal: date command use
How to use the date command. This post was written as support for the post “Statusbar configuration of wmfs windows manager”.
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- Terminal: time command use
How to use the time command, in a standard way and in an alternative way.
- Ubuntu 14.04: from Unity …to GNOME!!!
If you are nostalgic or simply you want to return with GNOME just open this link and enjoy your choice!
- Unrecognized archive formatPacman
If your updates doesn’t have a nice end cause of this error, here you can find the solution!
- USB controller on Virtualbox VM
Enabling the USB controller on a Windows guest virtualized OS is not an easy task. Here you can read how to do that. However we are still looking for enabling the USB 3.0 controller because it still doesn’t work.
- Useful commands and keybindings to use ranger
This is a collection of most useful shortcuts to use ranger file manager. Try the fast way to do things and comment to help us to do it better.
- Virtualbox: create shared folder with GNU/Linux OS as guest
This post explains how to create a shared folder between the OS’machine and GNU/Linux OS as guest.
- Virtualbox: install guest addition in a GNU/Linux OS as guest
This post explains how to install guest addition of virtualbox on a GNU/Linux OS as guest.
- wpa_supplicant: Could not read interface p2p-dev-wlp3s0 flags
This post explains how to fix the bugCould not read interface p2p-dev-wlp3s0 flags.
- Reload .Xresources without restarting the xterm
This post is useful if you may want to reload that file without restarting the xterm. The following command is what you want!
- Removing extension from filename in bash
Here we are: removing extension from filename in bash. Nothing difficult, but here you can find a little more about the command you use for this purpose.
- yaourt: how to install it through terminal
This post explains how to install yaourt for the very first time after the installation of ArchLinux, when only few packages have been installed.
- /run/lvm/lvmetad.socket: connect failed
This post explains how to temporarily fix the bug/run/lvm/lvmetad.socket: connect failedaftergrub-mkconfigcommand.
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