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The following are instructions for using the command-line interface to set up your own instance of Charles Li’s Saktumiva (Upama) on your ow...

 I recently installed and used a Python program, internetarchive .  Somewhere along the line of installing it with pip , the Python setup on...

I gather that there were good security-related reasons for discontinuing gksudo. But it's quite inconvenient not having it, for example...

This is well documented elsewhere , but just for clarity, here are my settings, that work. I.e., the Google drive appears automatically moun...

When I upgraded to Linux Mint 19.1 with Cinnamon, I encountered a problem that my screen flickered immediately after logging in.  Others enc...

With the update to Linux Mint 19 Cinnamon, the sliders controlling the trackpoint's accelleration and speed on my Thinkpad T560 and T500...

See https://askubuntu.com/questions/688270/mouse-speed-too-fast Put the following commands in a file (foobar.sh), make the file executable...

Further to https://cikitsa.blogspot.ca/2012/01/ibus-bug-fix.html , I found the same bug cropping up in Linux Mint 18.1, with IBUS 1.15.11. ...

Getting the swap file working in Linux Mint.  Using LVM sudo /sbin/mkswap /dev/mapper/foobar [e.g., mint--vg-swap_1] sudo swapon -a

I've been very happy with Linux Mint 17, and the Cinnamon GUI. Except for the occasional system freezes.  This happened usually when I ...