Category: Software

  • Fix “error when loading shared libraries” on Ubuntu

    Today, after upgrading to Ubuntu 20.04 (yes, I’m taking it slow…) and trying to reinstall my favourite screenshot tool, ksnip, I ran into this error: (That is, after noticing it wouldn’t open, and running ksnip in the terminal to investigate.) Put on the right track by this AskUbuntu answer, I wanted to detail the process…

  • Fix OpenRefine stuck on “Working…” when trying to reconcile with Wikidata

    When trying to reconcile your data with items stored in Wikidata, you might find OpenRefine to be stuck on the “Working…” step, thinking it is taking a while to match your column to Wikidata entity types. However, it might be because the type guessing won’t work with a redirect that was used in version 3.3…

  • Uninstall a development version of LibreOffice

    If you have been testing a development version of the office suite LibreOffice, it will probably be sitting next to a stable version on you computer. To uninstall it once you are finished testing it, you can use the following command in a terminal (on an Ubuntu-based system, or a system that uses apt as…

  • Fix limitcheck error when trying to print a PDF

    I use an old salvaged office printer (Kyocera Ecosys FS-1118MFP) which might not be able to handle some fancy things with recent PDFs – or, who knows, the PDF was a very crappy one? When trying to print the PDF in questions, I got an empty page and another one with the following error message:…

  • fix all boot options gone from Asus F201E after LibreElec installation

    I recently tried to install LibreElec 9.0 on my old Asus F201E, and the installation from the bootable USB seemed to work well, but at first boot from the hard drive, the system goes straight to the Bios options, with the usual boot options nowhere to be seen. I noticed that I had never updated…

  • Add “open terminal here” in Gnome Files on Ubuntu Budgie 18.04

    The distribution I currently used is shipped with Tuxedo computers and is based on Ubuntu Budgie 18.04. The thing that I missed the most when I started using it was the right-click menu item to “Open terminal here” in Gnome Files (version 3.26.3 at the time of writing). Tilix is the default terminal on this…

  • Install the Riot desktop client on a Debian-based system

    Riot is a messaging app that uses the Matrix decentralised communication network. It can be described as a Slack alternative. It is available as a webapp from your browser, but you can also install a desktop client (which currently looks pretty much the same as the webapp) on a Debian-based system (i.e. all Debian, Ubuntu…

  • Use Enigmail with Thunderbird 56 beta

    If you are trying the sign and encrypt your emails with Enigmail (v. 1.9.8.2 in my case) in the latest Thunderbird 56 beta (v. 56.0b3 in my case), you might run into a blocker: In Enigmail Preferences > Basic > Files and directory, a simple “(error)” appears and there is no way to fix the…

  • Fix “unmet dependency” issue for pulseaudio in KXStudio (and others)

    [note: this tip will apply to other “unmet dependency” situations, but definitely not all of them] If you are a user of the KXStudio repos, and use an environment rid of pulseaudio, you probably were disappointed to see that Firefox recently stopped supporting the ALSA backend. The issue came back recently for me, as Firefox…

  • An alternative to Facebook events

    After leaving Facebook, you realise how much people rely on it to organise events. Some organisations and even administrations actually only use Facebook to publicise their events, and people have to have an account to be able to RSVP, or even have a look at the detailed information. I thought I’d ask and look around…