Remove Asian Fonts

sudo apt-get remove “fonts-kacst*” “fonts-khmeros*” fonts-lklug-sinhala fonts-guru-extra “fonts-nanum*” fonts-noto-cjk “fonts-takao*” fonts-tibetan-machine fonts-lao fonts-sil-padauk fonts-sil-abyssinica “fonts-tlwg-*” “fonts-lohit-*” fonts-beng-extra fonts-gargi fonts-gubbi fonts-gujr-extra fonts-kalapi “fonts-samyak*” fonts-navilu fonts-nakula fonts-orya-extra fonts-pagul fonts-sarai “fonts-telu*” “fonts-wqy*” “fonts-smc*” fonts-deva-extra fonts-sahadeva

Nautilus issues in Ubuntu 18.04

There some issues with nautilus file browser in 18.04. For starters no clear way to run scripts, no app-runner for instance.

Here is how to install nautilus-actions in 18.04

Here is a fix for lack of contextual menus in 16.04, it should work after you install the above.

And here is a fix for the lost or broken icons:

Since latest Nautilus 3.26.4, most external thumbnailers are not working anymore under Ubuntu 18.04 or 18.10.

I realized the problem when my LibreOffice and MsOffice thumbnailers stopped to work.

Why ? Because, since few months, some Nautilus external thumbnailers vulnerabilities have come to light (gnome-exe-thumbnailer for example).

As a result, Gnome Shell team has decided to harden thumbnails generation when using external thumbnailers.

First hardening steps have come with Nautilus 3.26.4, where all external thumbnailers are not called directly but thru bwrap, the bubblewrap project sandboxing tool.

Default bwrap options used by Nautilus appear to work fine under Fedora, but fail badly under Ubuntu and Debian based distros.

This short article explains how to reactivate Nautilus external thumbnails generation under Ubuntu Bionic 18.04 and Cosmic 18.10. You should get back thumbnails generation as they were working with previous versions of Nautilus.

 

Avoid CUPS upgrade hell

Okay, its been a long while since I upgraded one of my partitions, running ubuntu 12:04, and so the need to get closer to 18:04 meant, I had to upgrade one step at a time, and you know the problem, nobody figured an easier way to skip past a decade of neglect.

Trouble is, I don’t want to upgrade too far, since its old hardware. And there lies the rub.

After experiencing a cups log inflation story from hell, see here.

I then ran into this problem, no working CUPS panel

solution

sudo apt remove --purge cups
apt autoremove
apt remove cups*
cd /etc/cups & rm *
cd /usr/share/cups & rm *

apt install cups
apt install lsb


service cups restart

check permissions

first check if the log is kicking up a fuss:

tail /var/log/cups/error_log
E [01/Apr/2019:17:07:50 +0200] [CGI] Directory \"/usr/lib/cups/backend\" has insecure permissions (040755/uid=1000/gid=1000)

which gives us an indication, to make certain

ls -al /usr/lib/cups/backend

then

sudo chmod 755 /usr/lib/cups/backend
sudo chown root:root /usr/lib/cups/backend

and if that fails, try this trick:

sudo cp /usr/share/cups/cupsd.conf.default /etc/cups/cupsd.conf
sudo service cups restart

Create a multiboot USB stick

This is by far the best method of managing multiple ISO on a USB

MultibootUSB

I used this tutorial to get the first ISO onto the stick, after which you can simply drop the ISOs into the multiobootusb folder.

Another method which I haven’t tried

Epson L382 Linux drivers for Ubuntu

This page will take you to the support page for searching Epson drivers

Epson Printer Utility

ESC/P Driver (full feature)

Image Scan

 

install the drivers for the Canon PIXMA

Here is a step-by-step solution how to install the drivers for the Canon PIXMA iP3600 printer on Ubuntu 9.10 (should work for all printers as well with their respective drivers, and for later ubuntu releases as well)
The .deb packages from canon need to be modified to replace the dependency on libcupsys2 by libcups2

1) download Canon’s driver in .deb format from here:
http://software.canon-europe.com/software/0031336.asp and save it to your disk. The file will be ip3600_debian_printer.tar

2) Change to this directory, and untar the archive:
tar xvf ip3600_debian_printer.tar
It produces the following files:
cnijfilter-ip3600series_3.00-1_i386.deb
cnijfilter-common-3.00-1.tar.gz
cnijfilter-common_3.00-1_i386.deb

3) It is the two .deb files, which need modifications before installation. For both of them do the following (where X.deb stands
for the given .deb file, replace X by the filename)

ar x X.deb
# this produces debian-binary, data.tar.gz and control.tar.gz
# in the current working directory)

mkdir tmp; cd tmp
# create and change to the tmp directory

tar xvzf ../control.tar.gz
# this extracts the following files into tmp/: md5sums, control
# (and postinst and postrm in case of cnijfilter-ip3600series_3.00-1_i386.deb)

sed -i ‘s/libcupsys2/libcups2/g’ control
# this replaces libcupsys2 by libcups2 in the file ‘control’

rm -f ../control.tar.gz
# remove the old archive

tar cvzf ../control.tar.gz *
# this re-creates the control.tar.gz archive with all the files

cd ..; rm -rf tmp
# change one directory up, remove tmp/ directory

ar r X.deb control.tar.gz
# this replaces the control.tar.gz member in the X.deb debian
# package file (which is a standard Unix ‘ar’ archive)

rm -f control.tar.gz debian-binary data.tar.gz
# this cleans up temporary files

4) Ready. Install these two packages:
sudo dpkg -i *.deb

Good luck!

ESP8266 Getting Started with Arduino IDE

If you find that your board isn’t showing up in ports and you’re getting this error:

error: espcomm_open failed

error: espcomm_upload_mem failed

First install the  Silicon Labs CP2102 USB to UART Bridge driver for your operating system.

Then follow the instructions here to add the ESP8266 board to the Arduino IDE.

see this tutorial 

 

New U8UNTU Elixir Site

Our new address: http://u8untu.blogetery.com

The Blogetery.Com Reboot

Good news is blogetery.com is back online. If you recall, this blog was  in the process of moving to blogetery when the site got taken down by an over-eager service provider who thought Open Source was the work of El Quaeda. It didn’t help matters that a magazine called Vision was publishing recipes about how to blow up the world with Ubuntu.

Check out our new site

http://u8untu.blogetery.com

Ubuntu Global Jam

The Ubuntu Global Jam is an event held on the weekend of 27 to 29 August in which the Ubuntu community comes together to work together and think about improvements. Ubuntu Global Jam used to be called Ubuntu Global Bug Jam, but since we took the bug out, the event is now more of a social than a bug jam.

Everyone can participate in the Jam and is welcome and encouraged to participate If only to meet with other members of Ubuntu who contribute on a weekly and daily basis.

The Ubuntu Global Jam will include events that are planned around the world on staple topics such as: Bugs, testing the new version and reporting on it, upgrading to Maverick Lucid, information about how to use Ubuntu and join the community, translation or packaging. I would also suggest some fresh topics, such as focusing on making Ubuntu a great sound platform as opposed to being mediocre. ( If you’re a musician, now is your time to literally jam), also using Ubuntu in real-life situations as opposed to server-client networks.  Exactly how plug ‘n play is Ubuntu in a home office environment? Another pet project is to implement drag-n-drop more uniformly across applications (see Appearance applet for an example of drag ‘n drop)   and to have greater application interoperability. We should be able to create new applications like lego blogs, without ever having to see a line of code!!!

Although the wiki already has a few Global Jam logos, Bognarandras , has created an awesome universal logo for Ubuntu Global Jam which is really refreshing. Why keep repeating the same old designs?

Just another word on the Global part of the Global Jam, raised at last year’s Jam event. Videoconferencing and/or IRC communication between Jam events is encouraged. We should be communicating, not simply eating pizza!!! Throw us some skypes, plug in some sounds, make it a real jam this year. This probably means creating some form of roster for linkups and testing links with kit, so that when the general public arrive at your local event, they are not simply greeted by a dark screen running code.