To check the type of audio stream in a video file on Linux, open a terminal use ffprobe. $ ffprobe aaa.avi <enter> This lists out the properties of audio file.
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How to restore or reinstall package uninstalled on android using adb
To reinstall an existing uninstalled package on a Samsung Android phone, connect the device to the computer in developer mode and start up ADB. List all uninstalled packages and check the package name that is to be reinstalled, for example, gallery3d, in the adb window, enter:pm list packages -u | grep "gallery" <enter> To install … Continue reading How to restore or reinstall package uninstalled on android using adb
How to run latest India income tax utility for the Financial Year 2021-22 (AY 2022-23) in Linux
The India income tax department has launched a new tax portal and has also created new income tax utilities to enable income tax returns filers to file their tax returns. Past years' utilities could be run on Linux or any other operating system because they were written in Java. However, this time, the utilities are … Continue reading How to run latest India income tax utility for the Financial Year 2021-22 (AY 2022-23) in Linux
How to merge PDF files in Linux
Merging PDFs in Ubuntu Linux or Linux Mint was real easy using the pdfunite command in a terminal. To merge PDF files in Linux open a terminal window enter the following command:$ pdfunite file1.pdf file2.pdf file3.pdf combined.pdf <enter> where file1.pdf, file2.pdf and file3.pdf are the individual pdf files that will be merged and combined.pdf is … Continue reading How to merge PDF files in Linux
How to install wine stable from winehq on Linux Mint 20 or Ubuntu
The wine package in the Ubuntu Linux repository is version 5, but running applications from it, cannot connect to the internet. It was found that upgrading to wine version in the winehq repository solved this error. To install wine from winehq, open a terminal window and enter the following commands: $ sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386 … Continue reading How to install wine stable from winehq on Linux Mint 20 or Ubuntu
How to add 8 gb swap file instead of the 1 gb swap partition created by Xubuntu Linux on install
When using Android Studio or any other disk intensive applications, on Ubuntu-based distros, it is difficult to squeeze performance due to less RAM. 8gb RAM if using Android Studio and if Firefox web browser is also being used, the system will freeze or hang. To prevent this, increase the swap size. Unfortunately, Ubuntu-based distros only … Continue reading How to add 8 gb swap file instead of the 1 gb swap partition created by Xubuntu Linux on install
How to run India income tax Java utilities on Linux Mint 20 or Ubuntu 20.04 LTS or Fedora 32
From Ubuntu 20.04 LTS or LinuxMint 20, the Java 8 SDK or Java 8 Runtime Environment is in the repository, but the openjfx libraries are not of version 8 but of version 11. To overcome error, you can use the Zulu Java runtime for version 8 with JavaFX. Also, these steps can work on Fedora … Continue reading How to run India income tax Java utilities on Linux Mint 20 or Ubuntu 20.04 LTS or Fedora 32
Error running Income Tax India ITR utility on Fedora 32 Linux
India income tax returns filing utilities are created using Java 8 SDK and use Java FX. These can only be run using Java 8 as Java FX was bundled with it. Newer versions of Java from Oracle do not bundle Java Fx anymore. Therefore, when running the Java income tax utilities, the following error (in … Continue reading Error running Income Tax India ITR utility on Fedora 32 Linux
Enable login sound in Linux Mint on the XFCE desktop environment
It is strange that Linux Mint has such great sound effects in Cinnamon and they can all be heard, but they do not work on the Linux Mint XFCE desktop. Fret not. The effects are there, but the sounds have to be enabled. This applies to the XFCE desktop in any Linux distribution. To enable … Continue reading Enable login sound in Linux Mint on the XFCE desktop environment
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