Whacked out ethernet names appeared in Linux Mint 18. Names such as enp3s0 came from nowhere and broke piles of programs and network connectivity by taking away the expected “eth0”.
Category: Technical
Replace Spaces
Hint from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2709458/bash-script-to-replace-spaces-in-file-names Uploading files to a web site for a customer, the customer frequently places spaces into the file names, which should be removed. From the GNU/Linux command line, to replace space characters in file names with an underscore character, try this: find -name “* *” -type f | rename ‘s/ /_/g’
Why Samba?
Why do programs such as BlueFish and system-config-printer-gnome need a module used to provide Microsoft access to a Linux server? I can see for example a hook to allow Microsoft systems to print on a Linux print server, but why is Samba required in order to run system-config-anything except samba itself? And why doe BlueFish, a programming language editor, need samba at all?
Steam Not Working on Linux Mint / MATE 17.3 64-bit
Steam Not Working on Linux Mint / MATE 17.3 64-bit. libGL error r600_dri.so, swrast_dri.so
Failed to Fetch APT error
Linux Mint APT-GET UPDATE error due to end of Chrome 32-bit Failed to fetch http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/dists/stable/Release Error started recently during updates. Supposedly due to Google ceasing support for the 32-bit Chrome. This web site promises a fix: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2016/03/fix-failed-to-fetch-google-chrome-apt-error-ubuntu As root, edit the lists file for chrome: