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All-In-One System Update And Maintenance Tool For Ubuntu/LinuxMint
uCareSystem Center is a thin utility that robotizes the essential framework upkeep action, in other hand it will diminish framework overseer undertaking from numerous points of view and spare some great measure of time. It doesn’t have any GUI and offers absolutely summon line interface to play out the action.
There are a few utilities accessible in Ubuntu to perform framework support action. Each device has their own particular remarkable components and planned as needs be. You can mechanize this assignment by including a cron-work.
uCareSystem Center will naturally invigorate dispersion store, Updates the rundown of accessible bundles, uninstall bundles (outdated, stranded and old Linux Pieces) and Clears the recovered bundles to spare some circle space on framework.
uCareSystem Center Elements
Refresh bundle records (It will revive bundle file)
Downloads and introduce refreshes
Refresh bundles and framework libraries to most recent accessible variant
Evacuate unneeded, outdated and stranded bundles
Evacuate old parts (It keeps the present and past one for wellbeing reason)
Expel unused config records
Clean downloaded transitory bundles
Introduce uCareSystem Center In Ubuntu/LinuxMint
We can without much of a stretch introduce uCareSystem Center in Ubuntu/LinuxMint through PPA since engineer offering the possess PPA.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:utappia/stable sudo apt update sudo apt install ucaresystem-core We have effectively introduced uCareSystem Center bundle and going to check current plate space use with help of df - h summon before executing uCareSystem Center charge to know whether it will spare some circle space or not? df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on udev 979M 0 979M 0% /dev tmpfs 200M 6.4M 194M 4% /run /dev/sda1 38G 19G 17G 54% / tmpfs 999M 216K 999M 1% /dev/shm tmpfs 5.0M 4.0K 5.0M 1% /run/lock tmpfs 999M 0 999M 0% /sys/fs/cgroup tmpfs 200M 112K 200M 1% /run/user/1000 Simply run a ucaresystem-center charge in terminal and sitback reset it will take mind consequently and no human collaboration requires till the end. I could see that, it does the employment of course. Additionally thought that it was spared just about 2GB in / partition. Hope this helps
10 things to do first in Linux Mint 18-1 Cinnamon
Congratulations, you have installed a brand new Linux Mint 18.1 Serena, with the Cinnamon desktop! What’s best for you to do, first of all?
I’ve made a list of the things to do, which I’ve divided into three categories:
– 10 absolutely essential ones (part 1);
– the recommended ones (not essential, part 2);
– the maybe useful (part 3).
It’s quite a list, but it’ll give you a polished, nearly maintenance-free operating system that you’ll be able to enjoy for years to come! Plus it’s also a crash course in the use of Linux Mint.
Note: you’ll find only relatively safe tips and tweaks here, because I think that the stability and reliability of your operating system should never be endangered. This website is serious about Linux Mint, so my approach is conservative.
I try to mention it whenever some risk is unavoidable, so that you can always make a balanced decision.
Note: this web page is only meant for Linux Mint 18.1 with the Cinnamon desktop environment; the page for the Mate desktop is here and the page for the Xfce desktop is here.
Speed up your Mint
Speeding up your Linux Mint is fun! That way, you’ll get more performance out of your computer for free.
Note: are you using Ubuntu? There’s a separate page for speed tips for Ubuntu.
There are several tweaks to make Linux Mint 18.x run faster. Some are quite safe, some are risky. Here you’ll find only the safe ones.
I don’t like risky tweaks, because I think that stability and reliability are much more important than a little speed gain. That’s why I’ve collected a couple of speed tips, that you can apply safely and with which you can make your Mint run considerably faster in many cases.
Those tips are mainly how-to’s that can be found elsewhere on this website as well, but scattered all over the site. I’ve bundled them on this page, that only deals with speed gain.
Note: even though you can apply those tips safely, nothing in life is really for free…. You always pay some “price”. You disable a particular system service, a couple of nice visual effects or some feature.
Each tweak therefore has its own “price tag”. So you should consider before you apply a tip, whether you’re willing to pay the “price” for it.
Install Skype 5.0 in Ubuntu and Linux Mint
Good News for Linux Desktop Users from Skype point of view that the Skype 5.0 is now available (deb and RPM package). Some of the noticeable updates in Skype 5.0 are listed below :
- Enhancement in Calling : Skype Users can easily make a call to mobiles and land lines with Skype Credit. Linux Skype Users can make one to one video call and to other Skype users which are using Skype for Android, iOS, Mac and Window
- Linux Skype Users can now view the shared screen from the other Skype desktop clients (Windows 7.33 and above, Mac 7.46 and above)
- Linux Users can now easily set their online status as Away or Do Not Disturb
- From Unity launcher we can now view the number of unread conversations
In this article we will discuss how to install latest version of Skype 5.0 on Ubuntu 16.04 and Linux Mint 18.
Note : At this point of time Skype 5.0 beta version is available.
Below steps are tested on Ubuntu 16.04 and Linux Mint 18
Step:1 Download Skype Linux Debian Package
Download the Skype Linux Debian package from its official web site
https://www.skype.com/en/download-skype/skype-for-computer/
Skype Debian package will be downloaded in the Download folder under user’s home directory.
linuxtechi@linuxarena:~/Downloads$ ls -l skypeforlinux-64.deb -rw-rw-r-- 1 linuxtechi linuxtechi 50661108 Mar 23 18:24 skypeforlinux-64.deb linuxtechi@linuxarena:~/Downloads$
Step:2 Install downloaded skyforlinux Debian package
Open the terminal and go to the downloads folder and run the beneath dpkg command
linuxtechi@linuxarena:~$ cd ~/Downloads/ linuxtechi@linuxarena:~/Downloads$ sudo dpkg -i skypeforlinux-64.deb
In case you got any dependency error, then run the following apt command to resolve dependency issues and re-run dpkg command to install downloaded Debian package.
linuxtechi@linuxarena:~/Downloads$ sudo apt install -f
Step:3 Access Skype now either from GUI or command Line
If you are using Unity Desktop then search skypeforlinux from dash and in case you are using cinnamon desktop use the below
click on ‘Skype for Linux Beta’
Access Skype from the command line
Type the command “skypeforlinux”
linuxtechi@linuxarena:~$ skypeforlinux
Enter Your Skype ID
Enter Your Skype ID Password.
Click on “Sign in”
That’s all from this article. Hope you guys got an idea how to install latest version of Skype on Ubuntu and Linux Mint Desktop. If you like the article please share your feedback and comments