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I am trying to set up web2py. When I use Chrome on the Jetson it displays the 'hello world' for web2py but when I use a browser from another machine on the l......Mon, 20 Jul 2026 05:12:35 -0400https://liberty.io/quicktime-player-installation.htmlhttps://liberty.io/quicktime-player-installation.htmlI am trying to install QuickTime Player on Ubuntu. I have done some research on the web regarding this. Many webpages say that we need to install "Restricted Formats" of Ubuntu based on version. I ......Mon, 20 Jul 2026 05:02:13 -0400https://liberty.io/how-to-create-a-perl-script-which-checks-the-system-stats-cpu-ram-hdd-.htmlhttps://liberty.io/how-to-create-a-perl-script-which-checks-the-system-stats-cpu-ram-hdd-.htmlThe script is for adding to the cron tab. The flow of the shell script should be like this. 1. Checks the CPU state. 2. Checks the RAM usage. 3. 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When I try to open a chm file I get this error: ../src/common/unichar.cpp(65): assert "Assert failure" failed in ToHi8bit(): character cannot be converted to si......Mon, 20 Jul 2026 04:53:21 -0400https://liberty.io/not-able-to-do-usb-tethering-on-ubuntu-16-04.htmlhttps://liberty.io/not-able-to-do-usb-tethering-on-ubuntu-16-04.htmlI was trying to USB tether my Samsung Galaxy S7 to use home wifi on my desktop which has Ubuntu 16.04. When I turn 'USB tethering' on, I was not able to connect to any device....Mon, 20 Jul 2026 04:48:51 -0400https://liberty.io/sublime-text-3-icon-in-ubuntu.htmlhttps://liberty.io/sublime-text-3-icon-in-ubuntu.htmlRecently Sublime Text 3 came out (finally out of beta!). The new version has a new icon. However when I upgraded, I still have the old icon in the launcher. How can I fix it?...Mon, 20 Jul 2026 04:44:36 -0400https://liberty.io/is-it-a-good-idea-to-use-sudo-bash-c-instead-of-sudo-forever-closed.htmlhttps://liberty.io/is-it-a-good-idea-to-use-sudo-bash-c-instead-of-sudo-forever-closed.html1st of all, we are talking about Debian/Ubuntu OS only. 2nd of all, we are talking about a non-root user with sudo privilege only. So question is, Is there any occasion that can not use sudo bash ......Mon, 20 Jul 2026 04:42:56 -0400https://liberty.io/how-many-ubuntu-users-are-there-worldwide.htmlhttps://liberty.io/how-many-ubuntu-users-are-there-worldwide.htmlWas just wondering if there is any solid data available as to how many people are using ubuntu. 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XPCOMGlueLoad error for file /home/mike/thunderbird/libxul.so: libdbus-glib-1.so.2: cannot open shared object......Mon, 20 Jul 2026 04:38:02 -0400https://liberty.io/can-i-remove-unity-now-and-how.htmlhttps://liberty.io/can-i-remove-unity-now-and-how.htmlI have installed gnome-session-flashback and I love my new Gnome desktop, and I am sure that I do not want to go back to Unity, and as unity stuff takes up a lot of space on my machine, is there a ......Mon, 20 Jul 2026 04:38:00 -0400https://liberty.io/how-to-install-php8-0-mbstring-for-php8-0-it-keeps-installing-to-php7-.htmlhttps://liberty.io/how-to-install-php8-0-mbstring-for-php8-0-it-keeps-installing-to-php7-.htmlI am trying to install Laravel. I am on Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS, have php 8.0.2, and running Apache2. 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But when I do this breaks system settings in ubuntu. ......Mon, 20 Jul 2026 04:21:59 -0400https://liberty.io/how-do-i-add-locale-to-ubuntu-server.htmlhttps://liberty.io/how-do-i-add-locale-to-ubuntu-server.htmlI currently have those locales: locale -a C en_AG en_AG.utf8 en_AU.utf8 en_BW.utf8 en_CA.utf8 en_DK.utf8 en_GB.utf8 en_HK.utf8 en_IE.utf8 en_IN en_IN.utf8 en_NG en_NG.utf8 en_NZ.utf8 en_PH.utf8 e......Mon, 20 Jul 2026 04:19:29 -0400https://liberty.io/can-039-t-open-wmv-video-files-duplicate.htmlhttps://liberty.io/can-039-t-open-wmv-video-files-duplicate.htmlI installed 12.04 and installed all plug-ins related to video drive. I installed VLC player and tried to start a .wmv file but I get this error: No suitable decoder module: VLC does not supp......Mon, 20 Jul 2026 04:16:11 -0400https://liberty.io/how-can-i-download-a-video-that-are-in-screencast-com.htmlhttps://liberty.io/how-can-i-download-a-video-that-are-in-screencast-com.htmlWhat Chrome or Firefox plugin can help me to download a video published at screencast.com. Pls, if you know another method to grab the video and the sound, let me know too ;)...Mon, 20 Jul 2026 04:15:23 -0400https://liberty.io/cifs-vfs-cifs-mount-failed-w-return-code-2-duplicate.htmlhttps://liberty.io/cifs-vfs-cifs-mount-failed-w-return-code-2-duplicate.htmlOn boot my nas mounts are timing out, but when I manually run sudo mount -a after login they all mount just fine. The problem occurs with and without vers=3.0. $ dmesg [ 5.521690] FS-Cache: Load......Mon, 20 Jul 2026 04:09:32 -0400https://liberty.io/how-do-i-install-anything-sync-daemon.htmlhttps://liberty.io/how-do-i-install-anything-sync-daemon.htmlFrom the Arch Linux wiki: Anything-sync-daemon (asd) is a tiny shell script designed to manage target directories in tmpfs and to periodically sync them back to your physical disc (HDD/SSD). Thi......Mon, 20 Jul 2026 04:07:45 -0400https://liberty.io/installed-kodak-3250-aio-printer-but-will-not-print.htmlhttps://liberty.io/installed-kodak-3250-aio-printer-but-will-not-print.htmlI have installed drivers for the Kodak 325O AIO printer but it will not print...It stalls in the processing phase. It will not print anything. Pictures, documents, anything...can anyone help with ......Mon, 20 Jul 2026 03:55:16 -0400https://liberty.io/davinci-resolve-ubuntu-20-04-no-access-to-microphone.htmlhttps://liberty.io/davinci-resolve-ubuntu-20-04-no-access-to-microphone.htmlactually Davinci Resolve 16 runs fine on my Ubuntu system,except fairlight cannot access the microphone. maybe it has to do with permission rights? in the permission settings for the applications, ......Mon, 20 Jul 2026 03:52:13 -0400https://liberty.io/take-photo-using-webcam.htmlhttps://liberty.io/take-photo-using-webcam.htmlI would like to take a photo from my webcam. As I moved from Windows to Ubuntu I wonder if there is a built-in way to achieve this or I need special software. If so can you suggest a good one?...Mon, 20 Jul 2026 03:28:10 -0400https://liberty.io/npm-install-return-network-error-econnreset.htmlhttps://liberty.io/npm-install-return-network-error-econnreset.htmlEverytime I try installing packages using npm I get the following error npm ERR! code ECONNRESET npm ERR! errno ECONNRESET npm ERR! network Invalid response body while trying to fetch https://reg......Mon, 20 Jul 2026 03:26:46 -0400https://liberty.io/user-ethank-ask-ubuntu.htmlhttps://liberty.io/user-ethank-ask-ubuntu.htmlQ&A for Ubuntu users and developers...Mon, 20 Jul 2026 03:25:57 -0400https://liberty.io/chrome-in-ubuntu-21-10-only-achieves-video-acceleration-with-vp9-not-w.htmlhttps://liberty.io/chrome-in-ubuntu-21-10-only-achieves-video-acceleration-with-vp9-not-w.htmlI'm checking with the developers tools, and with VP9 on youtube, I get Vpx decode, but with H264, I get FFMpeg only. I'm launching with the flags: --ignore-gpu-blocklist --use-gl=desktop --enable-...Mon, 20 Jul 2026 03:24:32 -0400https://liberty.io/keymap-for-formosa21-infrared-remote-control.htmlhttps://liberty.io/keymap-for-formosa21-infrared-remote-control.htmlwhen i plug in the TechniSat Formosa21 USB IR Receiver, /dev/input/by-id/usb-Formosa21_USB_IR_Receiver-event-ir appears and keypresses on the remote control can be seen in a text editor. For in......Mon, 20 Jul 2026 03:22:12 -0400https://liberty.io/how-do-i-install-qemu.htmlhttps://liberty.io/how-do-i-install-qemu.htmlHow do I install the qemu command? I type qemu and press tab and I get a list of several binaries installed. qemu-alpha qemu-arm ... qemu-x86_64 but no qemu. I type man qemu and it returns the ......Mon, 20 Jul 2026 03:19:11 -0400https://liberty.io/playing-age-of-empires-ii-multiplayer-in-virtualbox-over-wi-fi-network.htmlhttps://liberty.io/playing-age-of-empires-ii-multiplayer-in-virtualbox-over-wi-fi-network.htmlI installed Age of Empires II (Expansion) in VirtualBox (hosting Windows XP). It works great in single player mode. Unfortunately, I tried playing multiplayer via WI-FI which I created on my Ubuntu ...Mon, 20 Jul 2026 03:18:13 -0400https://liberty.io/microphone-not-working-in-asus-f555u.htmlhttps://liberty.io/microphone-not-working-in-asus-f555u.htmlThe microphone is not working in Asus F555U in Ubuntu 14.04 and kernel 4.2.0-27-generic. By running the command arecord -l I have found the following: **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices **** ca......Mon, 20 Jul 2026 03:13:30 -0400https://liberty.io/ubuntu-18-04-intel-hd-graphics-530.htmlhttps://liberty.io/ubuntu-18-04-intel-hd-graphics-530.htmlI have a AiO (HP ProOne 400 G2 20-inch Touch All-in-One PC): Graphics: "Intel HD Graphics 530". I install Ubuntu 16.04 and then install "intel-graphics-update-tool_2.0.6_amd64.deb" but I have error "...Mon, 20 Jul 2026 03:11:02 -0400https://liberty.io/are-user-files-still-private-when-two-sudo-users-exist-in-ubuntu.htmlhttps://liberty.io/are-user-files-still-private-when-two-sudo-users-exist-in-ubuntu.htmlI am sharing my personal Ubuntu PC with one of my colleagues. I created another user with a different password (he knows of course) and added it to the sudoer list. 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