Resolve the perl warning 'setting locale failed' problem on Ubuntu Linux

Ubuntu: resolve the “perl: warning: Setting locale failed” problem

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A broken pearl (generated by Midjourney). Credit: libre-software.net. License: CC BY-SA 4.0 Last updated on October 11, 2022 Are you running Ubuntu 18.04, 20.04 or 22.04 desktop or server edition, and getting warning or errors when installing software via apt-get or aptitude? Here is a typical error message: perl: warning: Setting locale failed.perl: warning: Please […]

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How to install Mozilla Firefox on Linux (Ubuntu, Linux Mint or any Linux distribution)

How to Install Firefox on Linux Mint, Ubuntu, Debian or any other Linux distribution

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Photo: janeb13 / Pixabay, Pixabay License Last updated on July 28, 2024 This how-to explains how to install Firefox on Linux, with or without replacing an existing Firefox installation. Firefox 128 was officially released on July 09, 2024.Firefox 129 will be released on August 6, 2024. More information on Firefox release dates (including beta, nightly and ESR

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Multimedia, codecs, MP3, DVD support on RHEL, CentOS, AlmaLinux, Oracle Linux

Multimedia, codecs, MP3 & DVD support on RHEL, CentOS, AlmaLinux, Oracle Linux …

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Linux users desesperately looking for multimedia support (generated by Midjourney). Credit: libre-software.net. License: CC BY-SA 4.0 Last updated on October 10, 2022 This tutorial details how to install full multimedia support, media codecs, MP3 & DVD support on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and its derivatives CentOS, AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux or Oracle Linux. Note: if

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Reasons not to use Hotmail (Picture of a blue mailbox with flames inside)

10 reasons not to use Hotmail

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Photo: libre-software.net. License: CC BY-SA 4.0 Did you ever try to explain to a friend why he or she shouldn’t use Hotmail? There are many good reasons to avoid Microsoft’s services, but these reasons are not so easy to explain in a clear and unambiguous way. This article details 10 technical and ethical reasons about

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DVD support (with libdvdcss) and media codecs on Linux

Install DVD support (libdvdcss) on Debian or Ubuntu

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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

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Install VirtualBox on RHEL, CentOS, AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux or Oracle Linux

Install VirtualBox on RHEL, CentOS, AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux or Oracle Linux

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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

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