How to fix the ADB Binary found adb is obsolete and has serious performance problems with Android Emulator error in Android Studio for Linux

The default Android SDK installed with Android Studio already has the adb application installed and it is the latest. The error ADB Binary found at /home/user/ adb is obsolete and has serious performance problems with Android Emulator appears only if from Android Studio, menu option, Tools -> SDK Manager -> SDK Tools, the Android SDK … Continue reading How to fix the ADB Binary found adb is obsolete and has serious performance problems with Android Emulator error in Android Studio for Linux →

One more way to speed Android Studio in Linux

At times, Android Studio just slows down while indexing files on the Linux file system. To overcome this problem, some files like Thumbs.db or thumbs.db can be prevented from being taken up for indexing. To do so, start Android Studio and select the File->Settings -> File Types. Then at the end of the list of … Continue reading One more way to speed Android Studio in Linux →

How to speed Android Studio in Linux by changed VM Options

After installing Android Studio 4.1 on Linux, one of the biggest issue was speed of Android Studio at startup. To improve speed vmoptions64 or vmoptions needs to contain the setof lines in blue below. You can change the file using a text editor as follows by opening a terminal window: $ mousepad ~/.AndroidStudio4.0/config/studio64.vmoptions <enter> or … Continue reading How to speed Android Studio in Linux by changed VM Options →

How to change GPU mode for Android 10 Google Play API Pixel 3 AVD in Android Studio for Linux

If you install the AVD with Google Play Store, you cannot modify the GPU from Automatic or Hardware to any other value. It appears greyed in the AVD settings. Some of us do not have graphics cards on our systems and therefore, this setting has to be changed in order to enable Android Studio AVDs … Continue reading How to change GPU mode for Android 10 Google Play API Pixel 3 AVD in Android Studio for Linux →

How to install Epson L365 Ink Tank printer driver on Ubuntu Linux 20.04 LTS

Several attempts to install the Epson L365 ink tank printer on the Ubuntu 20.04 LTS computer were futile as the L series printers never showed up on the list of printers in Settings -> Printers and Add printer. Even though Epson was available for selection, it only showed the dot matrix printers in the list … Continue reading How to install Epson L365 Ink Tank printer driver on Ubuntu Linux 20.04 LTS →

How to use India income tax Java utilities on Linux

Upon download and execution of the income tax India utilities for the ITRs for Java, the following error is display when the utility is run using Java 11 on Linux. "Error: JavaFX runtime components are missing, and are required to run this application" This is error basically indicates that to run the income tax java … Continue reading How to use India income tax Java utilities on Linux →

How to shred a file on Linux leaving no remnants

Sometimes we have files on our hard disks that we would like to remove for good. If you have set up full disk encryption when you installed Linux on your computer, you will have an encrypted hard disk which is pretty much useless to anyone without the password that only you know. However, sometimes, to … Continue reading How to shred a file on Linux leaving no remnants →

How to save an email in the .eml format

To save an email in the .eml format, follow the steps below: Login to the email accountIf Conversation view is enabled, then disable it. In GMail, this is in the Settings optionDownload the email as .eml format. Once above steps are done, the email is available in the .eml format. In some email services, this … Continue reading How to save an email in the .eml format →

Extract audio stream from a video file using ffmpeg

To extract the audio stream from a video file using ffmpeg, open a terminal window and enter the following command: $ ffmpeg -i file.avi -vn -ab 256k -ar 48000 -y file.mp3 <enter> Note that the values 256 and 48000 in the above example can be changed per convenience.

How to find serial number of computer in Linux using dmidecode

To find the serial number of the computer, open a terminal window and install dmidecode using apt-get as below:$ sudo apt-get install dmidecode <enter> Thereafter, enter the following command to get the serial number:$ sudo dmidecode | grep -i serial <enter> Now you will see the serial number of the computer. The serial number is … Continue reading How to find serial number of computer in Linux using dmidecode →