Whilst updating a computer: apt upgrade It listed all the gets and then concluded with this error: dpkg: warning: ‘ldconfig’ not found in PATH or not executable dpkg: warning: ‘start-stop-daemon’ not found in PATH or not executable dpkg: error: 2 expected programs not found in PATH or not executable Note: root’s PATH should usually contain […]
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The computer was showing a command line login. The SDDM login was failing to show. Once logged in, if I waited a while and then pressed any key the SDDM login screen would appear. Username and password to be entered as usual. Interestingly in the top bar it was the US layout which was selected […]
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Creating a new portfolio page for a website I was looking for a simple to use thumbnail creator. The thumbnail creator should have the following criteria: minimum of steps, one would be ideal easily repeatable consistent output sizing I wanted to avoid: resizing the browser to specific dimensions for the next batch. Once closed reproducing […]
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With the emphasis on sites being hosted using https rather than http there’s also the redirect of the old website references, to the new encrypted https. The .htaccess file in the root of the the web site supports the use of redirect rules. Using htaccess file’s the Rewrite Condition and Rewrite Rule pairing we’ll redirect […]
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I like to run WordPress websites showing their URL as friendly URLs. The permalink setting of Post name (http://www.example.com/sample-post/) is selected for this. However, on a new WordPress website after clicking on Save changes I was getting a screen showing a 406 not acceptable error. I investigated making this setting manually, editing the file .htaccess. […]
Opening some programs in KDE also causes the KDE wallet popup window to appear. Indeed when I close Vivaldi browser it opens once more. I have found that the programs which open the KDE wallet dialogue are: Vivaldi browser; Google Chrome browser; and Choqok micro blogger. I wanted to find the method to prevent the […]
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To connect a laptop to a Wi-Fi network I was using one of the USB devices. I found that the network could be configured but the connection wasn’t being made. To understand why the computer was failing to connect to the Wi-Fi iI looked at the syslog using tail -f /var/log/messages I found that it […]
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Configuring a new Linux installation I was creating a new MySQL database using phpMyAdmin, which I had just installed to allow me to import a database I tried with directly logging into the database using mysql -u Username -p The error was shown as: ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can’t connect to local MySQL server through socket […]
From a set of files on a computer I wanted to create an ISO disk image. The ISO image, which I had, required some changes to a configuration file before could make user of it. Having downloaded an ISO disk image, I wished to extract the files, edit one of the configuration files and to […]
Following a recent update to Apache I found that when I navigated from the MythWeb main page to one of the sub-pages, for example, to the television listings Example mythweb tvlist: http://192.168.0.1/mythweb/tv/list I was seeing an empty page with the simple message: File not found. I drew the conclusion that because the main page was […]
