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instead of apt i tried using apt-get. that didn't help out.
so i tried to install all the develop components manually.
but what i did find out is that `apt install build-essential'
calls on...

This is happening since this October 2023.
Last time it worked fine was in June 2023
here's the log :





root@ubuntu:/mnt/Downloads/ubu2204/debian# apt install build-essential
Reading...

as an example and reply to

ksh vs bash: setting variable in piped loops are lost
https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=312017

This works in mksh 35b:

n=0
du | sort -n |&
while read...

pdksh 5.2.14 has been adapted to run on Ubuntu versions :

https://crashrecovery.org/pdksh/DEB/
[DIR] ubuntu1404/ 2017-12-18 03:34 -
[DIR] ubuntu1604/ 2017-12-21 19:27 -...

You made a good guess, the maintainer of that machine apparently installed a packettracer .. :



Welcome to Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS (GNU/Linux 5.4.0-65-generic x86_64)

* Documentation: ...

stock@bella:~/temp$ wget https://rmstock.files.wordpress.com/2021/07/letter-to-president-trump.pdf
--2021-07-16 15:26:08-- https://rmstock.files.wordpress.com/2021/07/letter-to-president-trump.pdf...

Not quite :



SEE ALSO
backend(1), classes.conf(5), cupsd.conf(5), filter(1), mime.convs(5),
mime.types(5), printers.conf(5), CUPS Implementation of IPP, CUPS
...

I installed the cups printing engine from 16.04 on bionic 18.04 :

cups : ftp://ftp0.crashrecovery.org/pub/linux/cups/DEB/ubuntu1804/
poppler :...

It seems cups printing has since 2016 become an Apple game :



SEE ALSO
backend(7), classes.conf(5), cups(1), cups-files.conf(5), cups-lpd(8),
cupsd.conf(5), cupsd-helper(8),...

I installed 18.04 and no doubt is a great improvement over 16.04.
I wanted to print, but cups had failed to automatically add the printers from my old cups server.
lpstat -t comes up empty. cups...

I created a new pdksh package for the ksh - Public domain Korn shell
for Ubuntu 16.04 from a old mandriva 2007.1 SRPM package, which one
should be able to compile without any problems on modern...

Create Joined and Sorted .srt Subtitles :

I created a straightforward solution for myself, which works. First both .srt files
Movie-english-parts.srt and Movie-spanish-parts.srt
need of be...

General instructions for building a .deb package are here
http://www.avidemux.org/admWiki/doku.php?id=build:install_2.6 .

The maintainer of avidemux has however embedded the creation of debian...

avidemux 2.6.12 together with the bare bones dts encoder dcenc
can create DTS audio from other input audio formats.
It can however not invent new audio channels. If your input
is stereo, you DTS...

On Ubuntu avidemux can be installed but you are stuck with an older
version : 2.5.4 which has limited capabilities. I created a set of
debian packages for both i386 and amd64 for version 2.6.12....

Instead of updating adobe.com with your recent flash version, or even starting
your browser and inserting about:plugins , the following script might be of help :



#!/bin/bash
...

Here's how to list your boot entries :



root@acer30u:/boot/grub# cat grub.cfg | grep "^menuentry "
1 menuentry 'Ubuntu' --class ubuntu --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os...

imageinfo-0.05 from http://wohlberg.net/public/software/photo/imageinfo/
has been adjusted to work together with lcms2
(liblcms2-2 2.5-0ubuntu4 Little CMS 2 color management library ).

With...

If someone buys a BMW and wants it tuned, he/she has to drive below 4000 rpms to his
favorate tune shop to install some mandatory hardware. I was surprised to see that a package like ffmpeg,
which...

To test your newly created audio cdda cd-rom disc I use xine,
as the number of audio apps which play directly from the physical cd-rom disc
is limited inside linux. Here's a screenshot of the...

download is at : http://crashrecovery.org/mp3-ripkit/cdrdao/ubuntu1404/ or at
ftp://ftp.crashrecovery.org/pub/linux/mp3-ripkit/cdrdao/ubuntu1404/

The installation not that hard todo, here's the...

HOWTO Create a slightly larger MP4 Video file from your MP3 Audio
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Create a picture in PNG format. As picture size use either...

Download is at http://www.crashrecovery.org/dovecot/ with the following braches (missing versions might show in due time) :

http://www.crashrecovery.org/dovecot/ubuntu1004/amd64/...

I run this old optiplex occasionally with Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS on there, which runs ok.
This morning update-manager reports :

25 packages can be updated.
23 updates are security updates.

where...

Here's a more readable installation log :

http://crashrecovery.org/mp3-ripkit/cdrdao/ubuntu1310/install-log-cdrdao.html