Software for common users on Ubuntu

In this article, I’ll describe Ubuntu software for common users, which I personally use and which could be helpful on daily basis. Ubuntu software dedicated to programmers AKA developers will be described in separate article. Chrome In my opinion, it’s currently the best web browser. We can download, unpack and install it, with the following commands: sudo apt-get install libxss1 libappindicator1 libindicator7 wget https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable\_current\_amd64.deb sudo dpkg -i google-chrome*.deb Skype Maybe it’s not the best, but one of the most known messengers and lot of people use it....

August 18, 2014 · 6 min · 1084 words · Piotr Wittchen

Ubuntu system boot problem

Description of the problem Recently, after installing Linux Ubuntu 14.04 LTS on my computer, I encountered strange problem during the system boot. Before system launched, I received the following message: After that, I typed: exit and system started normally, but this error occurred every time after reboot, so I decided to fix it. Fixing the problem Attempt #1 First, I tried to change rootdelay as error message said. I opened file /etc/default/grub I found there the following line:...

August 17, 2014 · 3 min · 465 words · Piotr Wittchen