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How to install Docker and kubectl on Ubuntu 22.04 desktop

Sat, 18 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Since some time apt-key is deprecated and lot of Ubuntu 22.04 based systems throws the following warning:

Key is stored in legacy trusted.gpg keyring (/etc/apt/trusted.gpg), see the DEPRECATION section in apt-key(8) for details

You can easily fix this by properly installing Docker and Kubernetes apt archives public keys:

How to fix possible missing firmware warning during kernel update on Linux Mint

Wed, 18 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000

If you are running default kernel with your Ubuntu or Linux Mint installation, you probably won’t face this problem during kernel updates because all packages are coming from the official distribution sources. However, if you like to run the newest Linux kernels and update them using mainline kernel installer, you may get warning possible missing firmware during the installation.

Firefox audio crackling and popping on Linux Mint

Sat, 02 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000

This problem was bugging me for quite a while and today I finally decided to address it. There are lot of advices online to try to run Firefox in safe mode and see if that fixes the problem, so I tried that first but it didn’t help. Safe mode actually just turns off extensions, but in my case it didn’t help.

Run Docker as normal user on Ubuntu 20.04

Tue, 17 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0000

In lot of instructions how to run docker on Ubuntu 20.04 (same applies to Linux Mint Ulyana) you may find that after installing docker you have to add your user to docker group by the following command:

Add Google search engine to your Linux Mint

Sun, 26 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0000

I had a problem recently not being able to set Google as default search engine in Firefox of my Linux Mint installation. It is not that I like Google that much, it is actually opposite, but DuckDuckGo as default search engine doesn’t give me the satisfying search so it seems it is not possible to skip Google tracking and keep your privacy, at least not at this moment.

Add flag to Linux Mint application start command

Thu, 03 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Modern Linux desktop distributions contain really powerful settings possibilities, but it is very often difficult to find out how to configure something. You may want, for example, to add –disk-cache-dir flag to Chromium start command in order to configure cache directory, so how to do it?

Install Golang package on Ubuntu Linux

Thu, 03 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Official Golang documentation contains just tar.gz package to be downloaded and installed on Ubuntu Linux, but this is not quite comfortable way because Golang won’t be automatically updated after new release. Fortunatelly, there is trustable PPA that can be used.