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FOSS Weekly #23.05: LibreOffice 7.5, New Fedora Spin, Fixing Common Ubuntu Issues and More

This edition is focused on solving common annoyances in Ubuntu these days.

,   and  Abhishek
5 min read

Never forget your root... else it will be really difficult to manage your Linux system 🤣

💬 In this week's issue:

  • Troubleshooting common issues in Ubuntu-based distros
  • New releases of ONLYOFFICE and LibreOffice
  • Nano guide
  • And more Linux news, open source applications, videos and memes

🗞 Linux News Round-up

Here is the selected news from the Linux world:

LibreOffice 7.5 Unveils Stunning New App Icons and Cool Features
LibreOffice 7.5 seems to have a new personality with its brand-new app icons and other improvements.
It's FOSS NewsSourav Rudra

🧠 What we’re thinking about

Open-source code runs on every computer on the planet—and keeps America’s critical infrastructure going. DARPA is worried about how well it can be trusted.

The US military wants to understand the most important software on Earth
Open-source code runs on every computer on the planet—and keeps America’s critical infrastructure going. DARPA is worried about how well it can be trusted
MIT Technology ReviewPatrick Howell O’Neill
🙏
Ken Thompson, the co-creator of UNIX, turns 80 on 4th February. While working at the famous Bell Labs, Thompson created B programming language and the grep command line tool, among several other things. In his mid-60s, Thompson helped develop the Go programming language at Google.

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✨Troubleshooting Common Ubuntu Issues

If you use Ubuntu-based distribution, you might have encountered "packages have been kept back" error in the terminal. Here's why you see it so frequently.

[Fixed] “following packages have been kept back” Error in Ubuntu
Seeing “The following packages have been kept back” Error while updating your system? Here’s how to handle this error in Ubuntu and other Linux distributions.
It's FOSSAbhishek Prakash

Another common issue is "Key is stored in legacy trusted.gpg keyring". Here's what you should know about it.

Fixing “Key is stored in legacy trusted.gpg keyring” Issue in Ubuntu
If you use a PPA or add an external repository in Ubuntu 22.04 and later versions, chances are that you will see a message like this: W: https://packagecloud.io/slacktechnologies/slack/debian/dists/jessie/InRelease: Key is stored in legacy trusted.gpg keyring (/etc/apt/trusted.gpg), see
It's FOSSAbhishek Prakash

One more common annoyance these days is the 'pending update of xyz' notification. Though I have written the troubleshooter for Firefox, it is valid for other (snap) apps like VS Code, Spotify etc.

Fixing the “Pending Update of Firefox snap” Error in Ubuntu
If you are using Ubuntu 22.04, you might have received this notification. It notifies you that the Firefox update is pending and asks you to close the app to avoid disruption. So, like a good obedient Ubuntu user, you close the Firefox browser when you have saved or finished
It's FOSSAbhishek Prakash

Yeah! Starting with Ubuntu 22.04, you'll have a difficult time with AppImage because of missing libraries.

Can’t Run AppImage on Ubuntu 22.04? Here’s How to Fix it
AppImage applications not running in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS even with the correct file permissions? You need to install the missing library and try again. Here’s how.
It's FOSSAbhishek Prakash

There are plenty more such troubleshooter articles. Feel free to explore them here.

🐧Linux learning resources

Nano is an excellent terminal-based text editor. Learning its basics will certainly help you in long run.

How to Use Nano Text Editor in Linux [With Cheat Sheet]
Though Nano is less complicated to use than Vim and Emacs, it doesn’t mean Nano cannot be overwhelming. Learn how to use the Nano text editor.
It's FOSSAbhishek Prakash

📹 What we are watching

I may not be a regular SUSE user, but I love their parody music videos 😎

📱Application highlights

A cross platform desktop reading app, based on the Readium Desktop toolkit.

GitHub - edrlab/thorium-reader: A cross platform desktop reading app, based on the Readium Desktop toolkit
A cross platform desktop reading app, based on the Readium Desktop toolkit - GitHub - edrlab/thorium-reader: A cross platform desktop reading app, based on the Readium Desktop toolkit
GitHubedrlab

Contour is a modern and actually fast, modal, virtual terminal emulator, for everyday use. It is aiming for power users with a modern feature mindset.

GitHub - contour-terminal/contour: Modern C++ Terminal Emulator
Modern C++ Terminal Emulator. Contribute to contour-terminal/contour development by creating an account on GitHub.
GitHubcontour-terminal

🤣 Linux Humor

Now, Pennywise, why would you say that?

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