Ubuntu 17.04 wifi not working and shown as unclaimed

I just installed Ubuntu 17.04 in dual boot alongside Windows 10, which was pre-installed. The dual boot is working well. I have a Lenovo ThinkPad E570. Though, no wifi is showing up in the “Network” settings. Under “Software & Updates” I was looking for my wifi under “Additional Drivers”, but it is not shown there … Read more

Install Citra-Emulator Ubuntu 17.04

I’m trying to install Citra Emulator. I downloaded and extracted it (tar.xz) and it gives me an “executable (application/x-executable)”. When I try to run it, nothing happens. I’ve also tried running it from terminal with ./citra I`m running Ubuntu 17.04, let me know if any more information is needed. Any help is appreciated Answer Make … Read more

How to remove this known missing dependency?

I have ubuntu 17.04 How to remove this known missing dependency? Screenshot of the problem Answer this is how I installed —–FOLLOW EXPLICITLY—— sudo apt purge spyder spyder3 sudo reboot now Re-open a terminal and continue————- sudo apt install python-rope python-sympy spyder sudo apt update sudo reboot now This is how I finally got spyder … Read more

How to find the proprietary drivers of my machine components?

I would like to know if there is a repository or a away to find out the proprietary drivers of my machine components. When i do sudo lshw in the terminal, i see: celicoo description: Notebook product: P65xRP (NULL) vendor: Notebook version: Not Applicable serial: Not Applicable width: 64 bits capabilities: smbios-3.0 dmi-3.0 smp vsyscall32 … Read more

shows block files while booting my laptop

I got my screen like below while booting up my laptop : /dev/sda1: clean, 273418/30531504 files, 5245319/122096128 blocks Now my question is what this indicates? I’m using Ubuntu 17.04. Answer Nothing harmful, it’s fsck checking your first partition to make sure it’s in consistent situation. Sometimes a forced power off or power failure might be … Read more

How to fix palm detection in Ubuntu 17.04

I have had this problem since Ubuntu 16.04. The palm detection simply does not work. I tried running commands mentioned in this article but to no effect. Output of xinput: ⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)] ⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)] ⎜ ↳ DLLC6B2:00 06CB:75BF Touchpad id=11 [slave … Read more

17.04: using matplotlib with GTK-based backend?

On a new 17.04 Ubuntu system, with python and python-matplotlib, I wanted to plot using the Matplotlib GTKAgg or GTKCairo backends. This works nicely in 16.04, but is broken in 17.04, as a result of the following: >>> import matplotlib.backends._backend_gdk ImportError: No module named _backend_gdk But the same command works perfectly in 16.04. Consequently import … Read more

External monitor with hdmi-vga adapter not working – Ubuntu 17.04

So, after many and many nights spent trying to fix this, i’ve came to the very last option: ask here. Let me explain my problem. I have an ASUS NT7000something laptop, witch has only an HDMI output. I managed to install Ubntu 16.10 last year, after a lot of trouble because of my graphic card … Read more

Installing gcc-7.2 via apt

how do I install gcc-7.2 via apt on zesty? Anything I found is either installing 7.0.1 or for installing gcc on Ubuntu 16.10 Answer The Ubuntu maintainers have some alpha-quality/unsupported gcc 7.2 packages that might work. Use at your own risk $ gcc-7 -v … gcc version 7.2.0 (Ubuntu 7.2.0-1ubuntu1~16.04) $ Install it (should work … Read more