Overheating – What’s a suitable minimum and maximum temperature for a desktop system?

As a newbie to Ubuntu 15.10 and Linux, does it make sense for me to use the following apps, to reduce overheating and/or to monitor more closely my system temperature? TLP CPUFREQ Answer You can make use of xsensors which is available via Ubuntu software center. I also have Ubuntu Desktop 14.04 LTS installed on … Read more

Disable notifications for Minetime app

I have minetime (latest version) launching to run in background after startup in Xubuntu 18.04. I want to see my calendar, but I don’t need the notifications which display 10 minutes before the event. I can start a config to enable/disable notifications for some applications with xfce4-notifyd-config but minetime isn’t displayed there. The app isn’t … Read more

TextNow for Ubuntu?

I was wondering if there was a way to get TextNow (the app, not on textnow.com) on Ubuntu Like through terminal. I don’t want to download it wrong or anything, that is why I am asking you guys. Answer You can download the latest stable version of Google Chrome and then go to the Web … Read more

Bibliographic software (like EndNote) on Ubuntu?

I’ve been having terrible luck finding bibliographic software such as Endnote for Ubuntu. It feels like the only solution is to install VirtualMachine with Windows installed. But it would be horrible to have to switch to VirtualMachine every time I need to do text processing, as all my relevant analysis scripts, analysis output, my article … Read more

How do I know which programs use a particular file?

I found a file called kernel-4.2.5 in my Home directory and I want to delete it but I don’t know what harm that could cause. Is there a way of knowing if that file is being used because my kernel version is 4.4.0-31-generic. In addition, how do I find out all the installed programs on … Read more

Why is the PSPP program not present in the Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Focal Fossa repository?

The program for statistical analysis PSPP is very important for research, i concluded my post-graduation with it, using Ubuntu 19.10, but it’s not present in the Ubuntu 20.04 LTS repository, so we can install it easily. Why? Answer The PSPP package was dropped from Debian, and thence from Ubuntu, due to a licensing problem. See … Read more

Can’t locate LWP

After recent upgrade I can’t launch only one of my apps it always gives me this error: Can’t locate LWP/UserAgent/Cached.pm in @INC (you may need to install the LWP::UserAgent::Cached module) (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/local /lib/perl/5.18.2 /usr/local/share/perl/5.18.2 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share /perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.18 /usr/share/perl/5.18 /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at /usr/share/perl/5.18/WWW/YoutubeViewer.pm line 242. I followed as in instructed in the first … Read more