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For example Ubuntu mate has mate-terminal How to write commands ...Mon, 20 Jul 2026 08:29:04 -0400https://liberty.io/tar-restore-from-tape-fails.htmlhttps://liberty.io/tar-restore-from-tape-fails.htmlI have a basic backup to tape script and restore script that was written by a previous admin. When trying to restore from tape, I get the following error: tar: v: Cannot open: No such file or dir......Mon, 20 Jul 2026 08:26:06 -0400https://liberty.io/wacom-pen-small-tablet-ctl-490-b-isn-039-t-recongnized.htmlhttps://liberty.io/wacom-pen-small-tablet-ctl-490-b-isn-039-t-recongnized.htmlI have ubuntu version 14.04 on my laptop. When plugged my wacom pen into the usb drive the led light turned on but the tablet isn't working and not recognized by my laptop. (the cursor doesn't reac......Mon, 20 Jul 2026 08:23:31 -0400https://liberty.io/play-window-games-on-ubuntu-closed.htmlhttps://liberty.io/play-window-games-on-ubuntu-closed.htmlI have many windows games on my PC like Doom, Doom 2, Diablo, Diablo 2, Diablo 3, NFS Games, Left 4 Dead games call of Duty games, Halo games and many many more games i have in my Laptop. I just li......Mon, 20 Jul 2026 08:13:42 -0400https://liberty.io/user-aanc-ask-ubuntu.htmlhttps://liberty.io/user-aanc-ask-ubuntu.htmlQ&A for Ubuntu users and developers...Mon, 20 Jul 2026 08:05:35 -0400https://liberty.io/how-to-read-wmv-videos-in-chromium-browser.htmlhttps://liberty.io/how-to-read-wmv-videos-in-chromium-browser.htmlI download a wmv video with firefox and I can read it with gnome mplayer without any problem. But if I try to read it with chromium it says to me that I have a missing plugins. How can I fix this ?...Mon, 20 Jul 2026 07:50:54 -0400https://liberty.io/how-to-install-flash-player-on-ubuntu-16-04-lts-duplicate.htmlhttps://liberty.io/how-to-install-flash-player-on-ubuntu-16-04-lts-duplicate.htmlI want to install flash player on ubuntu 16.04 LTS. how i perform it kindly concern with your best...Mon, 20 Jul 2026 07:50:06 -0400https://liberty.io/set-default-language-to-english-us-in-12-04.htmlhttps://liberty.io/set-default-language-to-english-us-in-12-04.htmlI accidentally installed Canadian English instead of US English when I did my install. How can I set this back? When I go to System Settings > Language Support English and English (Canada) are ...Mon, 20 Jul 2026 07:47:24 -0400https://liberty.io/bluetooth-not-working-on-my-hp-compaq-8200-elite-tower.htmlhttps://liberty.io/bluetooth-not-working-on-my-hp-compaq-8200-elite-tower.htmlI have problém with installing bluetooth driver for HP Compaq 8200 Elite. I tried some drivers, during installation seemes ok but bluetooth not working. Can you help me? Thanks for your time....Mon, 20 Jul 2026 07:35:16 -0400https://liberty.io/where-is-the-file-used-by-file-1-and-libmagic-to-determine-mime-types.htmlhttps://liberty.io/where-is-the-file-used-by-file-1-and-libmagic-to-determine-mime-types.htmlAccording to man 5 magic: "The file /usr/share/misc/magic specifies what patterns are to be tested for, what message or MIME type to print if a particular pattern is found, and additional informat......Mon, 20 Jul 2026 07:32:22 -0400https://liberty.io/lengthy-resume-from-hibernate-ubuntu-20-04lts-on-gateway-e-475m-laptop.htmlhttps://liberty.io/lengthy-resume-from-hibernate-ubuntu-20-04lts-on-gateway-e-475m-laptop.htmlRunning Ubuntu 20.04LTS on Gateway e-475M laptop with 2Gb RAM/4Gb SWAP. Got hibernate (to disk), and suspend (to RAM), to work on it (finally) and hibernates fine (Except wifi pci driver gets corru......Mon, 20 Jul 2026 07:30:02 -0400https://liberty.io/user-novwhisky-ask-ubuntu.htmlhttps://liberty.io/user-novwhisky-ask-ubuntu.htmlQ&A for Ubuntu users and developers...Mon, 20 Jul 2026 07:23:07 -0400https://liberty.io/steam-error-logs-are-huge.htmlhttps://liberty.io/steam-error-logs-are-huge.htmlI am on Ubuntu 18.04 and use Steam regularly. I just noticed that the file $HOME/.steam/error.log weighs 86GB (!!!) and seems full of the following line: type unknown not a basic type Is there a ......Mon, 20 Jul 2026 07:22:47 -0400https://liberty.io/is-there-any-way-of-setting-a-custom-startup-and-shutdown-sound.htmlhttps://liberty.io/is-there-any-way-of-setting-a-custom-startup-and-shutdown-sound.htmlI'm on Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS with GNOME Desktop. I was wondering if you can have a custom sound play (the default one is nice, but I'd rather have a custom one) when you log into Ubuntu, as well as wh......Mon, 20 Jul 2026 07:16:25 -0400https://liberty.io/questions-about-ubuntu-18-04-lts-install-partition-sizing-on-ssd-hdd-s.htmlhttps://liberty.io/questions-about-ubuntu-18-04-lts-install-partition-sizing-on-ssd-hdd-s.htmlHi Everyone – I am planning to upgrade my dual boot Ubuntu 16.04LTS/Win 10 system to 18.04LTS /Win10 and would love some opinions. My main drive is a 1TB SSD and my data drives are 2 8TB HDD’s runn......Mon, 20 Jul 2026 07:15:23 -0400https://liberty.io/wc-prints-a-byte-count-for-a-nonexistent-process.htmlhttps://liberty.io/wc-prints-a-byte-count-for-a-nonexistent-process.htmlI came across a program called wc, which prints the number of bytes, words, and lines in files. Now my intention is to use it to determine if a process is actually running on my computer. If it is,......Mon, 20 Jul 2026 07:14:05 -0400https://liberty.io/my-speaker-works-fine-but-have-no-more-control-from-volume-button.htmlhttps://liberty.io/my-speaker-works-fine-but-have-no-more-control-from-volume-button.htmlI just bought a new computer and install Ubuntu 16 for the first time. Everything worked perfectly, sound control was fine, until I start playing with my arduino. I had to run some cmd to get it to......Mon, 20 Jul 2026 06:57:07 -0400https://liberty.io/failed-to-start-myapp-service-unit-myapp-service-not-found.htmlhttps://liberty.io/failed-to-start-myapp-service-unit-myapp-service-not-found.htmlI created a super basic init.d script for my python bot: #!/bin/bash # chkconfig: 2345 20 80 # description: Description comes here.... # Source function library. . /etc/init.d/functions start() ......Mon, 20 Jul 2026 06:56:20 -0400https://liberty.io/saving-monitor-settings.htmlhttps://liberty.io/saving-monitor-settings.htmlIs there a way to save my monitor settings? I have an external monitor at work, but each morning i have to plug it in, rearrange the windows from being side by side to being on top of each other. C......Mon, 20 Jul 2026 06:53:21 -0400https://liberty.io/user-hongoman-ask-ubuntu.htmlhttps://liberty.io/user-hongoman-ask-ubuntu.htmlQ&A for Ubuntu users and developers...Mon, 20 Jul 2026 06:45:42 -0400https://liberty.io/android-studio-update-issue-with-jre-bin-java.htmlhttps://liberty.io/android-studio-update-issue-with-jre-bin-java.htmlWhile updating Android Studio I got the following error. The patch was downloaded and extracted, but there was some conflict with jre/bin/java Access denied. The error message is shown in the below ...Mon, 20 Jul 2026 06:44:08 -0400https://liberty.io/is-there-any-adobe-flash-alternative-which-runs-actionscript-3-on-brow.htmlhttps://liberty.io/is-there-any-adobe-flash-alternative-which-runs-actionscript-3-on-brow.htmlI am an Engineering student and due to this pandemic, I was asked to do a virtual simulation of a lab. https://vem-iitg.vlabs.ac.in/Experiment_DC.html . I am using a ubuntu 20.4 machine and I use b......Mon, 20 Jul 2026 06:42:16 -0400https://liberty.io/how-do-i-expand-dev-sda3-and-volume-group-from-the-command-line.htmlhttps://liberty.io/how-do-i-expand-dev-sda3-and-volume-group-from-the-command-line.htmlWe're running Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS as a VM under Hyper-V - no UI, so gparted isn't really an option. We were running low on space on /dev/sda3 so I expanded the drive inside of Hyper-V, then ran: s......Mon, 20 Jul 2026 06:37:21 -0400https://liberty.io/i-039-ve-added-googles-dns-server-8-8-8-8-to-a-base-read-only-file-in-.htmlhttps://liberty.io/i-039-ve-added-googles-dns-server-8-8-8-8-to-a-base-read-only-file-in-.htmlI want to change that address to a more private and secure DNS server. I added it just to connect to the internet and be able to install my updates, now since it's a read-only file I can't directly ...Mon, 20 Jul 2026 06:36:20 -0400https://liberty.io/installing-starlink-what-does-this-step-mean.htmlhttps://liberty.io/installing-starlink-what-does-this-step-mean.htmlI've just installed Ubuntu so that I can install the Starlink astronomical data analysis tools, and I'm stuck on one of the installation steps: "7.If not yet available, install the following packa......Mon, 20 Jul 2026 06:33:13 -0400https://liberty.io/convert-speech-mp3-audio-files-to-text.htmlhttps://liberty.io/convert-speech-mp3-audio-files-to-text.htmlI am looking for simple converter from mp3 to txt. I have tried, without success: julius, CMU Sphinx, ... In the past 4 hours I did not find a way how to use them (or properly install them). What ......Mon, 20 Jul 2026 06:31:20 -0400https://liberty.io/can-not-access-windows-10-after-ubuntu-dual-boot-duplicate.htmlhttps://liberty.io/can-not-access-windows-10-after-ubuntu-dual-boot-duplicate.htmlI recently installed Ubuntu alongside Windows 10 but am no longer able to access Windows when rebooting. On start up my computer, which is booting through UEFI, goes straight to GRUB but there is no ...Mon, 20 Jul 2026 06:30:09 -0400https://liberty.io/discrete-graphics-and-multiple-users.htmlhttps://liberty.io/discrete-graphics-and-multiple-users.htmlI have a 2014 Lenovo notebook with both integrated (Intel) and discrete (NVidia) graphics. When I first boot the PC, and login, glxinfo shows the nvidia GPU. After logout or user switch, the second......Mon, 20 Jul 2026 06:23:17 -0400https://liberty.io/how-to-use-teamlink-on-ubuntu-18-04.htmlhttps://liberty.io/how-to-use-teamlink-on-ubuntu-18-04.htmlTeamlink is a video conferencing software that we have to use for online classes. It's the software that seems to work fine even in low connectivity areas. But it is not compatible with Ubuntu or L......Mon, 20 Jul 2026 06:23:10 -0400https://liberty.io/how-to-add-addtype-application-x-httpd-php-html-line-in-etc-apache2-ap.htmlhttps://liberty.io/how-to-add-addtype-application-x-httpd-php-html-line-in-etc-apache2-ap.htmlI want to deploy my PHP website in Ubuntu Virtual Machine in Azure. I am downloading the website zip file from Azure blob storage and copying it to /var/www/html/ using below command. wget https://...Mon, 20 Jul 2026 06:20:24 -0400https://liberty.io/installing-ubuntu-14-04-on-asus-zenbook-raid.htmlhttps://liberty.io/installing-ubuntu-14-04-on-asus-zenbook-raid.htmlThis machine have 2 128 GB SSD drives (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00EPGHE0E/ref=twister_B00JYFOKKS). I managed to install Ubuntu with no problems on one SSD drive, but I am having following trouble......Mon, 20 Jul 2026 05:53:50 -0400https://liberty.io/how-to-screen-mirror-android-phone-to-ubuntu-pc-duplicate.htmlhttps://liberty.io/how-to-screen-mirror-android-phone-to-ubuntu-pc-duplicate.htmlI need to screen mirror my android phone to Ubuntu PC. Is there any tool or package available in Ubuntu to do this?...Mon, 20 Jul 2026 05:47:43 -0400https://liberty.io/how-do-i-make-panel-always-transparent-like-the-dock-in-gnome-3.htmlhttps://liberty.io/how-do-i-make-panel-always-transparent-like-the-dock-in-gnome-3.htmlI'm using Ubuntu 17.10. I want the Panel to be always transparent instead of dynamic transparency....Mon, 20 Jul 2026 05:47:01 -0400https://liberty.io/vbox-guest-addition-6-1-32-install-fails-on-ubuntu-20-04-4-in-win7-ult.htmlhttps://liberty.io/vbox-guest-addition-6-1-32-install-fails-on-ubuntu-20-04-4-in-win7-ult.htmlI have a 64 bit Win7 Ultimate guest VM installed on 64 bit Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS box. Install of the Guest Additions for 6.1.32 VBox fails with "ERROR (800b0100) No signature was present in the s......Mon, 20 Jul 2026 05:43:24 -0400https://liberty.io/how-to-uninstall-duplicate-pip-in-python3-on-ubuntu-20-04.htmlhttps://liberty.io/how-to-uninstall-duplicate-pip-in-python3-on-ubuntu-20-04.htmlI have a clean installation with Ubuntu 20.04 and use Python3. I once installed PIP with sudo apt install python3-pip. I use "pip3" always as "pip" doesn't exist and it reminds me ...Mon, 20 Jul 2026 05:40:23 -0400https://liberty.io/epson-scanner-under-ubuntu-20-04.htmlhttps://liberty.io/epson-scanner-under-ubuntu-20-04.htmlI mean to install scanner Epson 3170 Photo under Ubuntu 20.04. I post at the bottom the (usual) installation steps I took prior to checking if my PC finds the scanner. Then, sane-find-scanner found......Mon, 20 Jul 2026 05:40:13 -0400https://liberty.io/difference-between-menu-shutdown-and-039-shutdown-h-now-039.htmlhttps://liberty.io/difference-between-menu-shutdown-and-039-shutdown-h-now-039.htmlWhat is the difference between the shutdown menu item and shutdown -h now? The former sometimes hangs up my laptop on Ubuntu 11.10....Mon, 20 Jul 2026 05:38:44 -0400https://liberty.io/windows-filepath-converted-to-linux-filepath.htmlhttps://liberty.io/windows-filepath-converted-to-linux-filepath.htmlI have a Windows path in a bash variable as a string: file='C:\Users\abcd\Downloads\testingFile.log' I am trying to convert this path into a Linux path starting with /c/Users.... My attempt The ...Mon, 20 Jul 2026 05:38:19 -0400https://liberty.io/modem-connects-but-no-internet-connection-ubuntu-17-04.htmlhttps://liberty.io/modem-connects-but-no-internet-connection-ubuntu-17-04.htmlI have modem with which I connect to the internet, and it works fine on-till when I installed Best resume ever a node.js package on github and later when I try connecting to internet using the mo......Mon, 20 Jul 2026 05:35:37 -0400https://liberty.io/use-of-an-external-hard-drive-for-backups.htmlhttps://liberty.io/use-of-an-external-hard-drive-for-backups.htmlI have acquired an used external HD (a WD Passport) that I'm planning to use for the backup of important files - I was thinking of using it with Déjà Dup. Should I format it beforehand? Which part......Mon, 20 Jul 2026 05:32:32 -0400https://liberty.io/how-to-disable-wifi-interface-with-netplan.htmlhttps://liberty.io/how-to-disable-wifi-interface-with-netplan.htmlMy netplan config at /etc/netplan/wireless.yaml seems to be working well for my WiFi-to-USB adapter, but I seem to still get the native interface to come up. I would prefer to keep that down. Rig......Mon, 20 Jul 2026 05:30:41 -0400https://liberty.io/ethernet-device-not-managed.htmlhttps://liberty.io/ethernet-device-not-managed.htmlI am using Ubuntu 16.10 and recently I have not been able to connect to internet using Ethernet. The network manager shows device not managed. The WiFi network is working fine. I've tried the solu......Mon, 20 Jul 2026 05:24:58 -0400https://liberty.io/octave-invalid-elf-header-ubuntu-18-04.htmlhttps://liberty.io/octave-invalid-elf-header-ubuntu-18-04.htmlTLDR; I want to run octave code in the terminal without any GUI but am facing a ELF header error. Full question; I am trying to run a basic octave script as can be seen here which is saved as a......Mon, 20 Jul 2026 05:24:30 -0400https://liberty.io/why-dropbox-doesn-039-t-work-properly-anymore.htmlhttps://liberty.io/why-dropbox-doesn-039-t-work-properly-anymore.htmlFor about a week dropbox stopped to work properly on all of my Linux computers. There are no Dropbox icons in indicator, dropbox folder sometimes shows sync icons, but usually does not. Reinstalling ...Mon, 20 Jul 2026 05:20:04 -0400https://liberty.io/use-github-with-yubikey-without-phone.htmlhttps://liberty.io/use-github-with-yubikey-without-phone.htmlI am using Xubuntu 18.04 and wonder if there is a way to use Two-factor authentication with github but without a phone. Currently I need to enter the verification number that is shown on my phone/nfc/...Mon, 20 Jul 2026 05:17:16 -0400https://liberty.io/trying-to-open-port-8000.htmlhttps://liberty.io/trying-to-open-port-8000.htmlI have an Nvidia Jetson running Ubuntu. 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. Checks the HDD usage. 4.Sends an alert mail to recip......Mon, 20 Jul 2026 04:55:04 -0400https://liberty.io/how-to-run-terminal-as-root.htmlhttps://liberty.io/how-to-run-terminal-as-root.htmlWhen we want to run a programs as root we use sudo, gksu, gksudo and etc. Now my question is how do we can run a Terminal as the root user in Terminal? I tried with using gksudo terminal and gksu ...Mon, 20 Jul 2026 04:54:08 -0400https://liberty.io/xchm-can-039-t-open-any-of-chm-file.htmlhttps://liberty.io/xchm-can-039-t-open-any-of-chm-file.htmlMy xCHM Reader can't open any file. 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. I was also interested in the attrition rate with ubuntu users, etc....Mon, 20 Jul 2026 04:42:44 -0400https://liberty.io/can-039-t-install-thunderbird-38-1-on-ubuntu-14-04.htmlhttps://liberty.io/can-039-t-install-thunderbird-38-1-on-ubuntu-14-04.htmlI am trying to install Thunderbird 38.1 on Ubuntu 14.04 but get the following error. 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. My issue is that I can't install Laravel as it keeps giving the error that I don't have the 'mbstring' ...Mon, 20 Jul 2026 04:34:07 -0400https://liberty.io/how-can-i-cleanly-remove-pulseaudio-in-ubuntu-14-04.htmlhttps://liberty.io/how-can-i-cleanly-remove-pulseaudio-in-ubuntu-14-04.htmlI am having sound issues in Ubuntu 14, mostly underruns causing skips and ugly noises and I want to remove pulse audio in an attempt to debug. 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. 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