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 5.0.3 in the winehq repository solved this error. To install wine version 5.0.3 from winehq, open a terminal window and enter the following commands: $ sudo … Continue reading How to install wine 5.0.3 stable from winehq on Linux Mint 20 or Ubuntu
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Select and set up a Crucial M2.2280 NVMe PCIe SSD
Android Studio works quite slow with a normal SATA Hard Disk Drive (HDD), on a computer. To overcome this, there are a few solutions, including waiting for the good folks at Google to release another efficient version, or if you are seriously into Android development, then you can augment the hardware of your computer by … Continue reading Select and set up a Crucial M2.2280 NVMe PCIe SSD
How to sync Google Contacts into Thunderbird 78.3.2 address book or above using CardBook extension
If you use Thunderbird ver 78.3.2, gContactSync extension will not work anymore. To fetch Google Contacts into Thunderbird, use the CardBook extension.
How to change the price retrieval source for stock quote in GnuCash
Recently, I wanted to change the stock quote source for the stocks in GnuCash. To do so, follow the steps below: To retrieve the stock quotes for National Stock Exchange or Bombay Stock Exchange in India, use Yahoo as JSON as the source.To find the stock quote and abbreviation, visit the Yahoo Finance at https://in.finance.yahoo.com … Continue reading How to change the price retrieval source for stock quote in GnuCash
How to configure and run Wine on Fedora Linux
To configure Wine on Fedora Linux, connect to the Internet, then open a terminal window and enter:$ winecfg <enter> After wine is configured, any Windows application that is compatible with it can be installed by entering the below command:$ wine program.exe <enter> where program.exe is the program file to install. Run the program from the … Continue reading How to configure and run Wine on Fedora Linux
Kotlin tutorial – Kotlin from scratch
Learning Kotlin is fun, but where to get started? One the of the best tutorials for newbies is at https://code.tutsplus.com/series/kotlin-from-scratch--cms-1209. Learn from scratch. To practice, download IntelliJ IDEA and work on Kotlin code anytime in it.
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
How to delete Budget in Gnucash
Gnucash allows the creation of Budgets. To delete a Budget in Gnucash, start Gnucash, open the budget using Actions -> Open Budget, then to delete the budget opened, select Edit -> Delete Budget. That's it, the budget is deleted.
Install VirtualBox on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS to run Windows 10 Insider Preview
VirtualBox package in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS does not successfully install Windows 10 Insider Preview. To install, you need to install VirtualBox from the Oracle website at this link: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads As instructed on that site: Open a terminal window and add the following line to the /etc/apt/sources.list file: $ sudo vi /etc/apt/sources.list <enter> deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian xenial … Continue reading Install VirtualBox on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS to run Windows 10 Insider Preview
Clipgrab to download videos from online streaming sites
Use Clipgrap from https://clipgrab.org/ to download videos for offline viewing from sites like youtube.com. It supports a heap of other sites too. The list is at https://clipgrab.org/faqs/supported-sites
