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How To Fix Ubuntu Linux OS Broken Upgrade and Boot Failure

Post last modified:October 26, 2019
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Post author:Manikandan

During the Ubuntu Linux OS upgrade or update process, if your system powered off because of power failure or you shutdown the power due to the system unresponsiveness, then you will face problems like boot failure, blank screen and broken Ubuntu OS. In this tutorial we will see how to fix these type of problems during Ubuntu update. Using this method you can fix the broken update without losing your data and without reinstalling your OS.

Power on your system and in the Grub boot menu select Ubuntu, if it go to the Ubuntu login screen, then press (CTRL+ALT+F1). It will open tty1 (teletypewriters) virtual terminal console. If it will not work try (CTRL+ALT+F2), (CTRL+ALT+F3), (CTRL+ALT+F4), (CTRL+ALT+F5), (CTRL+ALT+F6) and (CTRL+ALT+F7). By default in Ubuntu linux OS, there are 7 ttys.

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How to install Transitions DJ on Ubuntu – DJ Mixing Software

Post last modified:October 24, 2019
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Post author:Manikandan

Transitions DJ is a free DJ Mixing software for Windows, Mac OS, Linux, chrome and web. Using this you can bring live DJing and mixtape production in your system. Some of the important features are direct sound cloud access and iTunes library access. You can also access files from your local system and crowd sourced database of song structure containing beats, bars, and phrases. Some other features are tempo synchronization and adjustment. Not only this you can also do Recording, cross fading, looping and cue points adjustments. It also comes with 3-band EQ with kill switches and you can zoom the wave forms and it is colored by sound frequency to easily identify.

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How to install MakeMKV on Ubuntu – MKV Converter

Post last modified:October 23, 2019
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Post author:Manikandan

MakeMKV is a free MKV video maker for Linux, Windows and MacOS. Using this you can convert your favorite videos from DVD and Blu-ray discs to MKV aka Matroska Video format. The conversion process is pretty fast and it preserves all all video and audio tracks, chapters information, track language and audio type like meta details in the video. It is easy to use MKV converter for your needs.

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How to install Leo Editor on Ubuntu – IDE, PIM and outliner

Post last modified:October 22, 2019
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Post author:Manikandan

Leo Editor is a free integrated development environment, product information management and outliner for Linux and Windows. It is written in Python and source is available in github. Using this you can organize and study computer code easily. It supports plugins and using this you can extent its features. It fully supports Python scripting and outlines with IPython, Vim and Emacs. You can compose your scripts and programs from outlines using outline-oriented directives.

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How to install Hedgewars on Ubuntu – open source turn-based strategy game

Post last modified:October 21, 2019
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Post author:Manikandan

Hedgewars is a free open source turn-based strategy game for Windows, macOS, Linux, FreeBSD and iOS. It is released under GNU General Public Licence version 2 licence. This game is simple, just control your hedgehogs and use available weapons and tools to attack the opponent hedgehogs. It comes with more than 57 weapons, single player and multiplayer mode, 24 single missions, randomly generated maps and training missions. In this turn-based strategy game, each turn is time limited. This game is really fun and addictive.

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How to install Stellarium on Ubuntu – Planetarium software

Post last modified:October 19, 2019
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Post author:Manikandan

Stellarium is a free open source planetarium software for Linux, Mac OS, Windows and web. Using this you can see the realistic sky design in 3D system on your computer. It is released under open source GNU General Public License version 2. It comes with a catalogue of over 177 million stars and 1 million deep-sky objects. It also comes with images of nebulae, realistic Milky Way, atmosphere, sunrise and sunset. And complete set of our planets and their satellites with clear details. Some other features are plugin support, eclipse and supernovae and iridium flares simulation and lot more.

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OpenTyrian Shooter Game – How to install OpenTyrian on Ubuntu

Post last modified:October 18, 2019
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Post author:Manikandan

OpenTyrian is a free and open source port of the famous arcade style DOS game Tyrian. Tyrian is a vertical shooter game by Eclipse Software and published by Epic MegaGames. OpenTyrian is available for Android, , BlackBerry, Mac OS X, Linux and many more platforms. In this game you are playing as Trent Hawkins, a skilled fighter-pilot and your job in game is to fight Microsol and save the world. You can play this game in story mode, single player mode, two player mode and networked multiplayer mode.

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How to install Bomber Bombing Game on Ubuntu

Post last modified:October 17, 2019
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Post author:Manikandan

Bomber is a free open source arcade type bombing game for Linux. It is released under GNU General Public License (GPL), Version 2 license. The game simple, just bomb on all the enemy buildings using bomber aircraft and destroy it. If you destroy all of it then you advance to the next level. It is a single player game with two build in games themes. It also comes with configurable shortcuts. Game levels are based on speed of the bomber plane and the height of the buildings. Its really simple fun and additive.

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How to install qimgv image viewer on Ubuntu

Post last modified:October 16, 2019
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Post author:Manikandan

qimgv is a free and open source Qt5 based image viewer for Linux and Windows. Using qimgv image viewer, you can edit the image and it is also provides video support via libmpv and webm. Some of the important features are ability to run shell scripts, fully configurable setting menu, you can easily copy and move images to different places, configurable shortcut keys and dark theme support. This is easy to use image viewer.

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How to install OnionShare on Ubuntu – Secure and Anonymous File Sharing

Post last modified:October 15, 2019
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Post author:Manikandan

OnionShare is a free and open source file sharing tool for Linux, mac OS and Windows. Using this you can share files privately and anonymously by turning your computer into a secure file server that works only on Tor. Using this you can share any size of your own computer files without any third party file hosting or file sharing services and You host the files on your own computer.

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