Ubuntu

To disable this annoying advertisement in your shell simply run This will add .bak to the end of the file and should survive updates.

In my last post I found out who was to blame for filling my complete disk. It was this new and fu**** slow snapd added to ubuntu in the last few moments before release to get into the app market business. I decided to live without this feature and uninstalled it: After letting this run

The new snap system starts eating my system partition. Next to being slow it also holds old backups of upgraded snaps. Ubuntu itself has no option to disable that. You can only lower the number of old versions by using which will limit the number to one live and one backup copy. But what if

To create a network bridge with netplan you have to create a file network: version: 2 ethernets: enp6s0: dhcp4: true bridges: br0: interfaces: [enp6s0] dhcp4: true optional: false macaddress: <some mac> Make sure to place a mac address in and replace the interface name enp6s0 with yours. Then run sudo netplan apply. The machine gets a

I tried to rim robo3t-1.1.1-linux-x86_64 downloaded from https://robomongo.org/ and got the following error when trying to run it: This application failed to start because it could not find or load the Qt platform plugin “xcb” in “”. Available platform plugins are: xcb. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem. Aborted Trying to install xcb via

Updating to the latest grub version (at the moment 2.02~beta2-29ubuntu0.3) leads to “error: symbol ‘grub_efi_find_last_device_path’ not found” when I try to start Windows on my dual boot system having Ubuntu 15.10 next to Windows 10. This can be fixed by downgrading to the version before the latest one in the ubuntu repository till this bug

Ubuntu 15.10 is using lightdm desktop manager. man lightdm says that it is using /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf for configuration. Ubuntu 15.10 does not include such a file. To disable the guest session create the file (/etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf) with following content: [SeatDefaults] allow-guest=false  

First make sure you have the latest version and an actual kernel running. Execute theses commands as root: apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade reboot Then install docker with the following lines as root: #!/bin/bash apt-key adv –keyserver hkp://pgp.mit.edu:80 –recv-keys 58118E89F3A912897C070ADBF76221572C52609D echo “deb https://apt.dockerproject.org/repo ubuntu-precise main” > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list apt-get update apt-get purge lxc-docker* apt-cache policy docker-engine apt-get

I got a new mainboard with Realtek ALC1150 onboard sound. First I was thinking it doesn’t work, but it only was very silent. Here is how to fix this: sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ubuntu-audio-dev/alsa-daily sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install oem-audio-hda-daily-dkms sudo reboot