Cannot install wine32 in Ubuntu 16.10

I have upgraded from Ubuntu 16.04. Wine was installed in my system but after upgrade it was returning the following error. it looks like wine32 is missing, you should install it. as root, please execute “apt-get install wine32” So I purge wine and reinstall using following steps 1. sudo apt install wine-stable 2. WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX=~/.wine32 … Read more

ls: cannot open directory: Permission denied

I can’t open a directory with username even after taking ownership & giving it all permissions: sudo mkdir /path/to/the/directory/ sudo chown -R username:username /path/to/the/directory/ sudo chmod -R 777 /path/to/the/directory/ I get: $sudo ls -al /path/to/the/directory/ total 0 drwxrwxrwx 1 username username 0 nov 16 15:13 . drwx—— 1 root root 208 nov 16 15:13 .. … Read more

nfs error ‘no locks available’ after update to 16.10

I use vagrnat with virtualbox vm and nfs synced folders to run django app and after update to 16.10 vagrant up fails on provision step with error: Executed: /bin/bash -l -c “cd /home/vagrant/proj >/dev/null && /home/vagrant/venv/bin/python manage.py collectstatic –noinput” Copying ‘/home/vagrant/venv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/django/contrib/admin/static/admin/img/LICENSE’ … OSError: [Errno 37] No locks available I tried to reinstall nfs-kernel-server, nfs-common, liblockfile1, … Read more

Eclipse IDE missing icons and menus

I’ve an issue with Eclipse Neon, my daily development platform. After the upgrade to 16.10 my Eclipse shows less icons than it normally does. Most of the tool bar icons are missing and also perspective selector is missing, that usually it is on the right corner of the window. Could someone please help me? I … Read more

How to install Scratch 2 on Ubuntu 16.10. or 17.04 (64bit)?

I need to install Adobe Air on Ubuntu 16.10/17.04 with offline Scratch 2. Air is many years unsupported on Linux, so there are several workarounds. One which worked for me up to Ubuntu 16.04 (using Air binary installer): # install i386 necessary libraries $ sudo apt-get install libgtk2.0-0:i386 libstdc++6:i386 libxml2:i386 libxslt1.1:i386 libcanberra-gtk-module:i386 gtk2-engines-murrine:i386 libqt4-qt3support:i386 libgnome-keyring0:i386 … Read more

Twitter media cannot be played from Firefox

I just installed Ubuntu 16.10 but it cannot play some videos from Twitter in Firefox. Instead, I get a message, something like This media cannot be reproduced. If I open the Firefox console, I see this message: The video on this page can’t be played. Your system may not have the required video codecs for: … Read more

How to show hidden files in Nautilus 3.20.3 Ubuntu 16.10?

How to show hidden files in Nautilus 3.20.3 Ubuntu 16.10? Answer You can either use the keyboard shortcut provided in @cl-netbox’s answer below (not copying that, because he was faster and also deserves your appreciation), or you can again set it with two mouse clicks. Gnome devs just decided to move the menus into some … Read more