I just updated to Ubuntu 16.04 and tried to make a Skype call. It said that “Skype can’t connect”. The error message looks like this: To fix this you need to remove Skype completely from your system including your settings. 1) Remove the skype and it’s settings sudo apt-get remove –purge skype skype:i386 2) Remove … Read more
I just upgraded one of my Ubuntu Servers to Ubuntu 16.04. The media wiki installation shopped working because it now comes with PHP 7. I tried upgrading mediawiki to the latest version but this didn’t seem to work either. I can’t seem to find out if Mediawiki support PHP 7. So, I thought I would … Read more
I have just started to upgrade some servers to Ubuntu 16.04. It looked good until I rebooted to the server and the Apache2 service didn’t start up properly. I view the logs in systemd. Using the command: systemctl status apache2.service ● apache2.service – LSB: Apache2 web server Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/apache2; bad; vendor preset: enabled) Drop-In: … Read more
There are two ways of move the Unity menu from the side to the bottom. You can either move the launcher to the bottom using a single command line statement or dconf. The best way is just to cut and paste this command into a terminal gsettings set com.canonical.Unity.Launcher launcher-position Bottom This setting will … Read more
I am running Firefox on Ubuntu and the default paper size was US Letter. I wanted to set the default paper size to A4. There isn’t a graphically interface to do this. So you have to: Visit about:config Search letter You should have a result with a value of na_letter. Double click to modify and … Read more