If you happened to see a "sudo: add-apt-repository: command not found" error when typing sudo add-apt-repository command, then you need to install the software-properties-common package by typing the following: This error typically happens when you try to add a PPA to install any program that's not in the official repositories in Ubuntu. Further Reading … [Read more...]
What To Do Next After Installing Linux Mint
After installing Linux Mint, these are the things you may want to keep it up to date and configured properly. Get Updates Open Update Manager by clicking on the shield icon on the bottom right-hand corner (see inset) and click on the Install Updates button. Or from the terminal run the following command: Set UTF-8 Locale Open Terminal and type in this command: You will see this … [Read more...]
Installing Apache, MySQL and PHP on Linux Mint
This setup is intended for those who need to get their system up and running to do PHP web development. It is not recommended for production websites. Install Apache Open Terminal and type: At the end of installation you will see a message saying: * Starting web server apache2 apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.1.1 for … [Read more...]
How to Install Sublime Text in Linux
This short tutorial is based on the link provided on the bottom of this post with slight modifications. The example is shown with 64-bit version of Linux Mint. Download Sublime Text Open your browser and go to Sublime Text and download the file to directory Downloads. Setup Open Terminal and type in the following command: Then type in this command to extract the file: Once the … [Read more...]
How to Install Linux on Windows 8 Hyper-V
This step-by-step guide focuses more on setting up the Hyper-V environment prior to installing Linux rather than on how to install the OS because Linux Mint installation itself is actually very straightforward. Launch Hyper-V Manager. If you haven't had it installed, you can read the previous posting on how to install Hyper-V on Windows 8. While there are several ways to do the setup, … [Read more...]