UbuntuBoy1's questions

After first Linux installation I did not bother myself too much with partitions. When I wanted to install a brand new Linux I dived deeper.

Feedback whether my general understanding is correct/wrong is highly appreciated.

• / - root partition, anything that does not have its own partition is stored here. Space: not exceeding 2GBs

• /home - home partition, all directories of all users of your system go here, requires biggest space for the OS and installed apps. Space: OS size + installed apps (50-1000GBs?)

• /boot - GRUB menu is here. Space: up to 1GB

My OS: Linux Ubuntu 18.04

The problem: I have two Zoom accounts - one is work-related, one is private. I have to re-log about 20 times a day. You can imagine my frustration. I was hoping that Zoom would enable some easy account switch, but no.

What I did: Google search with "Zoom shortcuts" hoping that perhaps there is a key combination for account switching. ..No luck there.

What I need: I need an application that would consist of 3 tasks:

1. logging out - THIS IS WHAT I FIRST NEED HELP WITH - THE 2) AND 3) DO NOT HAVE TO BE ANSWERED HERE, THEY ARE JUST A GENERAL INFORMATION
2. choosing an account
3. logging in with choosen account

Because there is no way that I could ask anybody to write such a program for free, the only way would be to build it from scratch. Difficult to a non-programmer. My "general scheme" what would I, as a script author, would have to choose:

1. Programming language

A big unknown, especially since so far I've been only capable of "writing" .sh scripts that were such basic as:

#!/bin/sh -e

TERMINAL COMMAND

exit 0

Q: What is your suggestion?

2. Way of logging out

The zoom log out - also not easy, requires commanding the application to "find" the log out button and press it. Precisely speaking: we are talking about the "switch account" button. This is the first thing that I would start from, thus I am not asking how to develop the program any further right now.

Q: Any helpful ideas are welcome - do you think you could share some materials that you think I should read in this area?

Final words: please bare in mind my lack of coding skills while writing your answer. Guidance appreciated.

OS: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

Steps according to https://wiki.winehq.org/Ubuntu:

1. sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
2. wget -nc https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/winehq.key
3. sudo apt-key add winehq.key Until here: everything is fine.
4. sudo add-apt-repository 'deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/ bionic main' Output:

sudo apt install --install-recommends winehq-stable [sudo] password for XXXX: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies:
winehq-stable : Depends: wine-stable (= 6.0.0~focal-1) E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages**

Suggested by other users:

1.Run Synaptic -> fix broken packages -> did not work

2.Run Synaptic -> find all wine dependencies -> delete all -> repeat installation process -> did not work

Help!

Big problem: my computer used a lot of cooler work, so I checked the processes by: terminal -> Top .. and the process Xorg uses about 40% of my CPU. Enough! Discovered: xorg is a display server (whatever it means)

I can not shut it down by killall PROCESSNAME/killall PROCESSID, probably there is a reason for that.

Question: Is it necessary to have it? If no -> how can I disable it? If yes -> how can I make it use less of my CPU?

Linux: Ubuntu 20.04

Web browser: Firefox

Yesterday I was trying to use a website that most likely required Java. I was not sure if it was even installed, and - forgive my ignorance - I didnt even run "java -version" command in my Terminal.

I auomatically assumed it is not installed and did the following:

1. Went on https://www.java.com/en/download/
2. Downloaded from the link saying Linux x64
3. Followed instructions: -- gained root privilages by typing "sudo -i" -- changed directory to /usr/ -- created folder "java": -- moved my downloaded "java" to that folder -- changed directory to /usr/java -- tar zxvf jre-8u281-linux-x64.tar.gz -- Checked if my Java was installed correctly:

• Terminal: java -version
• Output: openjdk version "11.0.9" 2020-10-20 OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 11.0.9+11-Ubuntu-0ubuntu1.20.04) OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 11.0.9+11-Ubuntu-0ubuntu1.20.04, mixed mode, sharing)
• Checked my Java version by going on https://www.whatismybrowser.com/detect/is-java-installed
• Output: No Java is disabled or not installed in this browser

Additional info:

1. In about:config the "javascript.enabled" is set to "true"
2. I tried disabling ALL firefox add-ons that could interfere with Java functionality and restarted the browser/PC - did not change anything.

Question: Has anybody been in a similar situation and perhaps could help?

New Linux user here, thus please hold your laugh.

Due to users suggestions I removed the previous post and re-wrote a new one correctly

Ubuntu version: Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS

I installed windows and two Linux distributions on my PC. I use Windows for specific apps, one Linux Ubuntu for other apps and other Ubuntu for internet. The "not booting or working properly linux" Linux few days ago prompted an error: "0 MB disk space left". This day it even no longer booted properly, saying there is no space for that at all so I am writing this post from the "still booting and working properly linux" Ubuntu.

*After more thorough analysis it turned out, that even thou every single OS is installed on a separate partition with enough disk space somehow - as I browsed the partitions - it turns out that one of the Linuxes has been installed inside the folder created for other Linux.

This is the directory that I have found while browsing the system partition of my working system:

/media/$user/(broken-linux partition-uuid)/home/(broken-linux $user)

The /home folder of the "not booting or working properly linux" is available within the disk space of "working linux".

I have no idea how did this happen, but I suspect that this is the "culprit". Do I have to remove both linux distributions, delete partitions and re-install them again properly or there is some way to fix it without so much work? I was suggested running live USB of linux installation and run gparted from there as I could resize any partition from there, but the one that has no space - sda7 - doesn't enable me to increase the size:

Forgive me if might appear highly dumb. I would like to make DNS that my PC takes advantage of even more secure. ATM I am using Cloudflare. I was suggested "bind9¨.

Now, as I understand its a software that enables me to host my own DNS server.

My question would then have to be: am I thinking correctly that in order to have my own DNS server I would need to buy an actual hardware, install bind9, configure and use it as my custom DNS. IS it more or less how it works? Sounds like hell of a task and would probably require the server to run all the time..

Help appreciated

Program name: Vuze - its a torrent client. What is needed: installing vuze program.

What I did so far according to one of the users - which actually enabled me to at least run the program.

The work: Terminal -> tar -xjvf VuzeInstaller.tar.bz2

Output: folder with content of package got extracted into Downloads

The work: Terminal -> cd vuze

Output: navigated to vuze folder

The work: Terminal -> ./vuze

Output: the program got opened!

Kyodake - you helped me already!

Conclusion: The program got opened, but the situation is far from resting on the laurels!

Question:

Now that the program at least works - what do I have to do further to install it so it appears on list of available apps and I can run it without going through this entire process?

My idea: STEP 1: According to a tutorial - the installed programs are usually stored in

/bin/

/usr/bin/

/sbin/

/usr/sbin/

STEP 2: Move the entire Vuze folder into e.g. /usr/bin/

But..what next?