Ubuntu 24.04 ships with GNOME’s new camera app and it doesn’t work. It simply fails to recognize the in-built or external webcams. When you open the Camera app, it shows “No Camera Found. Connect a camera device” message. This may make you
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AppImage is a popular packaging format for Linux systems. You’ll often find applications packaged in this format. Sometimes, when you try to log in to a service’s AppImage through a browser, even though it will report a success and tell you to
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Recently I encountered a strange issue in Ubuntu 24.04. When I ran some applications, their icons didn’t show in the launcher. Instead, it displayed a gear/settings symbol. Some application icons are not shown in the launcher This was particularly weird because those
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It’s only human to forget passwords, especially if you are not using it frequently. It happens with Ubuntu, Linux, or any other operating system you use. If you don’t use it frequently, you are likely to forget the password. I have written
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One of the annoying issues I encountered in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS is with updating the App Store. It gives the following error: Unknown Snapd Exceptioncannot refresh “snap-store”: snap “snap-store” has running apps (snap-store), pids:5263 And the way to get rid of this
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In Ubuntu, I use the update-grub command to update grub. Recently, I made a switch to Arch Linux for new adventures and there I encountered the error saying “sudo: update-grub: command not found”: I remember choosing GRUB while installing Arch and the
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So, I installed Arch Linux quite easily thanks to the archinstall script. After I started using it and exploring it, I tried using my Bluetooth headphones only to notice that the Bluetooth was not working. I could see the Bluetooth option but
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The other day I was trying to install Hyperland on Arch Linux. When I used the Pacman command to install it, it threw a ‘target not found’ error. [abhishek@itsfoss ~]$ sudo pacman -S hyperland [sudo] password for abhishek: error: target not found:
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After years, I have been experimenting with Arch Linux again. I had forgotten the usage of the pacman command so I tried accessing its man page. What happened next shocked me (yeah! I have been reading BuzzFeed 😜). It showed me this
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So, here’s the scenario. You are trying to install a software in Ubuntu using a PPA. You add the PPA repository with ‘sudo add-apt-repository’ and when it updates the package cache, it generates an error: Cannot add PPA: ”This PPA does not
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