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I tried to amount my DVD and found this error message: pascal@pascal-Lenovo-ideapad-330-15AST:~$ sudo mount -t auto /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom mount: /media/cdrom: can't read superblock on /dev/sr0. My computer infos. are like this: pascal@pascal-Lenovo-ideapad-330-15AST:~$ inxi -Fxzd System: Host: pas...

I downloaded Mint 20.2 Mate ISO, and on my way to copy it on a USB, but how can I install new Linux without losing my works and files in Mint 19?

I took a risk and continued the instructions of the upgrading and I had a bad installation time, some errors occurred, and after the restart I have Mint 20 without complete "Menu" or maybe complete functions. Finally, I restored my Mint 19. @zcot inquiry (I don't see the box pink): pascal@...

I'm trying to upgrade my Mint 19.3 Mate to Mint 20 by following this link https://linuxmint-user-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/upgrade-to-mint-20.html I checked my architecture version and it's 64 like what it needed for this upgrading: pascal@pascal-Lenovo-ideapad-330-15AST:~$ dpkg --print-archite...

Hi, everyone! I learned some of Lazarus Free Pascal under Mint and programmed or converted some traditional BASIC games into visual programming style, and I like to share the two games I programmed with you. You will find the source code files and also .exe files for games. I uploaded 'em on "G...

but I didn't understand why to uninstall it while we will install it again in next upgrading? Because it has done its job. The next upgrade to Mint 20.2 will not need it because this was a one time change. It won't hurt to leave the package installed, but I just don't like superfluous packages. No ...

Useful answer, thanks! Then, you can uninstall the usrmerge package because it's no longer needed after it has done its work. I did a reboot, just to be sure, and then uninstalled it in Synaptic. Btw., I used usrmerge on three Mint 20.0 installations when upgrading to 20.1, and had no issues. But b...

Useful answer, thanks!

I was reading Mint instruction for upgrading Linux and found that they mentioned the "usrmerge" command.

Is it necessary to install this command?
If it's yes, how to use it?

Where I can find trusted repositories and PPA's for applications and games to feed my Mint with some useful applications and enjoyable games?

Thanks!

I'm curious to be sure of the ideal behaviour after installing new package or program. I noticed in some sites providing installing command instruction for programs that they use a cleaning command after installing. Which appropriate cleaning command to be used after installing? apt autoclean or apt...

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I'm trying to make the big image of all of this. Isolated to repository installs (including PPAs) and a given distribution it's relatively organized. I.e., dpkg -L <package> for packages installed from the repositories, apt-cache depends <package> for package dependencies, same with rdepends for it...

Programs in Linux are all over the place and, as a beginner, I find it frustrating and confusing. In the sense MS-Windows is definitely better organized, more methodically. The programs themselves go in Program Files, their configuration in the Registry, each user's particular data in user/applicat...

dpkg -L <packagename> comes in handy. We have problem, "dpkg" for Debian packages, but in general, there are more than one way to install programs in Linux, we want to control the situation, we have packages, dependencies, installing by "apt", "dpkg", "make...inst...

Thanks! Also.... "which" command is your friend also in terminal window. typing without quotes "which thunderbird" and pressing enter shows that mind is store at /usr/bin/thunderbird ( as in the thing that arguably..executable although technically not Linux-language accurate I t...

Thanks!

Hi everyone! I have an important question, I was Windows user and any application I setup in Windows, I found it often in a directory called "Program Files". My question is where I can find the directory of the installed applications and also there are many ways in Linux to install applica...

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