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Last updated on February 21, 2024 This article describes how to install LibreOffice 24.2 on Debian/Ubuntu-based Linux distributions, such as Linux Mint, MX Linux, Ubuntu, and derivatives. LibreOffice 24.2 was officially released on February 1, 2024The next release, LibreOffice 24.8, is set to be released in August 2024. Find more information on LibreOffice 24.2 & […]

Last updated on February 19, 2024 If you want to install and run Geekbench 4, 5 or Geekbench 6 on Linux, follow this tutorial. The following instructions can be used on: a local computer running any Linux distribution a remote Linux server (VPS, shared or dedicated hosting…) with access to the command line I mostly

“Map of the world being synchronized” generated by Midjourney. Credit: libre-software.net. License: CC BY-SA 4.0 Last updated on October 11, 2022 This small guide is about syncing fonts between two or more Linux devices, for example one laptop and one desktop computer, both running any Linux distribution. More specifically, I use this method to sync

Photo: janeb13 / Pixabay, Pixabay License Last updated on February 21, 2024 This how-to explains how to install Firefox on Linux, with or without replacing an existing Firefox installation. Firefox 123 was officially released on February 20, 2024.Firefox 124 will be released on March 19, 2024. More information on Firefox release dates (including beta, nightly and ESR

Last updated on October 10, 2022 This howto explains how to change the default program to open all files with a given extension on Linux Mint, Ubuntu, Debian, and most Linux distributions. It also details how to change the default application for a batch of filetypes, for example all audio files or all video files.

Photo: libre-software.net. License: CC BY-SA 4.0 Last updated on October 10, 2022 On Linux, DVD support is provided through the libdvdcss or libdvdcss2 packages. Some distributions already include these packages (Linux Mint, Kodi/XBMC), but most don’t. Distributions without pre-installed DVD playing capabilities are Debian, Ubuntu, SUSE Linux, Fedora, … DVD support through libdvdcss may also

Photo: libre-software.net. License: CC BY-SA 4.0 Last updated on October 10, 2022 This how-to is about installing VirtualBox on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). Provided instructions should also work on CentOS, AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux or Oracle Linux. It is possible to install VirtualBox from rpm packages, which can be downloaded on the VirtualBox Linux downloads