Tag Archives: ubuntu

x/ubuntu 20 beta first looks

x/ubuntu 20 beta first looks

  • seems to need a UEFI bios
  • vscode & android studio listed as recommended apps

ubuntu – cmdtest yarn v node yarn

ubuntu – cmdtest yarn v node yarn (https://yarnpkg.com/en/)

to run node yarn instead of cmdtest yarn you will need to use npm

# npm install -g yarn

and then specify full path to node yarn

$ /usr/local/bin/yarn
yarn install v1.16.0
[1/4] Resolving packages...
[2/4] Fetching packages...

error electron-builder@20.39.0: 
The engine "node" is incompatible with this module. 
Expected version ">=8.12.0". Got "8.10.0"

error Found incompatible module.

info Visit https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/cli/install 
for documentation about this command.

good luck

which version of xubuntu should i use 16, 17 or 18

Which version of xubuntu should i use 16 LTS, 17.04, 17.10 or 18 LTS ?

If you want at least a year of the support then the answer is still xubuntu 16 LTS since 17.04 is already end of life (and is broken) and 17.10 (was broken) and only has 6 months left

howto downgrade ed/x/ubuntu 16 php 7.0 to php 5.6

howto downgrade ed/x/ubuntu 16 php 7.0 to php 5.6

install a clean ed/x/ubuntu from ISO but do not add php then

add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php
aptitude update
aptitude install php5.6

# verify php
php -v

# verify apache
a2query -m

thanks to