If you are running Java programs on Ubuntu using Eclipse, Maven or Netbeans etc, you’ll need to set JAVA_HOME to your path. Otherwise, your system will complain that “java_home environment variable is not set”. In this beginner’s tutorial, I’ll show the steps
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There are several graphical tools available for creating live USB. Etcher on Linux is probably the most popular. Ubuntu has its own Startup Disk Creator tool for this purpose. However, advanced Linux users swear by the comfort and swiftness of creating live
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GNOME is the popular desktop environment that thrives to give Linux a modern desktop experience. While it works for the most part, some of their decisions has left the user fuming and questioning. You cannot have icons and files on the desktop,
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Dropbox is one of the most popular cloud storage services available for Linux and other operating systems. In fact, Dropbox is one of the earliest services to provide a native Linux application. It still supports 32-bit Linux systems that is also a
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The simplest way to customize Ubuntu is to change the wallpaper. A good wallpaper changes the looks of the desktop drastically. Changing desktop background in Ubuntu is just a matter of a right click. However, I am writing this tutorial to share
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Installing Debian could be easy or complicated depending upon the ISO you choose. If you go with the default ISO provided by the Debian website, you’ll have a hard time installing Debian. You’ll be stuck at a screen that asks for network
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A few months ago, I bought a Dell XPS laptop with a 4K UHD screen. The screen resolution is 3840×2400 resolution with a 16:10 aspect ratio. When I was installing Ubuntu on it, everything looked so small. The desktop icons, applications, menus,
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youtube-dl is a versatile command line tool for downloading videos from YouTube and many other websites. I use it for making back up of my own YouTube videos. By default, you use youtube-dl for downloading videos. How about extracting only the audio
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Love it or hate it, it is difficult to avoid Java. Java is still a very popular programming language taught in the schools and used in the enterprises. If you want to use a Java-based tool or program in Java, you’ll need
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Clicked too many similar photos? Have saved the same photo in different folders? I know that feel. You click photos on camera, send it through WhatsApp. Now you back up the images and you have two copies of the photos from the
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