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Fixing Open Office Issue – User Installation could not be completed

Encountered this issue while trying to run Open Office from a newly installed Ubuntu box:

This application could not be started.
User installation could not be completed.

To fix this issue you need to basically reset the config of LibreOffice. This can be done using the following command (Warning: This deletes all your settings and config wrt LibreOffice):

rm -rf ~/.config/libreoffice

Note: This issue can also occur when the permissions of the config folder is incorrect (root instead of user), use this command to fix that issue:

chown haas -r ~/.config/libreoffice

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How to Download Youtube Playlist Ubuntu

Download YouTube Playlist

Here is the simple step by step process of how to Download Youtube Playlist in Ubuntu. The following method makes it very easy to download entire playlists onto your system.

For this we use the command line tool youtube-dl.

To install youtube-dl use the following commands:
{adinserter 4}
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install youtube-dl

To download an entire channel use the command:

youtube-dl -citw ytuser:

To download all videos on a playlist use the below command followed by the playlist url:

youtube-dl -citw

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Fixing USB Keyboard & Mouse Boot Problems in Ubuntu

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USB Cables (Photo credit: incurable_hippie)

Sometimes on startup, Ubuntu does not recognize my USB Keyboard & Mouse. This problem is frustrating as Windows seems to recognize them.

It took me a while to recognize the root of the problem was with the USB 3.0 ports on the Motherboard. By moving the usb connections to the USB 2.0 ports on the motherboard this problem was solved.

Problem: USB Keyboard and Mouse dont work on boot up.
Solution: Move the connectors to the devices from a standard USB 3.0 port to standard USB 2.0 port(check with your motherboard manual for specifics)

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ssh-copy-id – Perform SSH Login Without Password

If you regularly ssh to same system, ssh-copy-id allows you to login to the system directly without having to type the password each time. ssh-copy-id is a small script which copies your ssh public-key to a remote host. It appends the key to your remote authorized_keys enabling you to login without having to type your password each time.

Use it by running the following command: ‘ssh-copy-id tech@192.168.1.1‘ where ‘tech’ is the username of the remote system and ‘192.168.1.1’ its IP address. The command will ask you for the remote machine‘s password(one last time).

$ ssh-copy-id tech@192.168.1.1
tech@192.168.1.1’s password:

Now try logging into the machine, with “ssh tech@192.168.1.1“. You should get the remote systems command prompt.

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Choqok – Patch for Twitter API 1.1


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With the recent move by Twitter to support only clients that use its API version 1.1, Choqok has stopped updating feeds in its latest official build. There is frantic work going on in the background to get the support up and running but till its available via official channels here is a quick way to get Choqok working again.

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