Author Archives: Brennan

Cinnamon Crashes after Replacing Video Card

By | January 21, 2016

Symptom: After removing an AMD graphics card (to use onboard integrated graphics), Cinnamon crashes repeatedly after logging in. Cause: Cinnamon may still be referencing the old video drivers. Solution: Uninstall the proprietary AMD graphic card drivers. Troubleshooting Steps: List installed AMD packages -> dpkg -l *fglrx* Remove the installed AMD packages and drivers with sudo… Read More »

Open Source Gaming on the Raspberry Pi

By | January 18, 2016

The Raspberry Pi is an inexpensive computer about the size of a credit card that was designed to promote the teaching of computer science. In the spirit of openness, this post focuses on open source games whose code can be studied, analyzed, customized and perhaps even improved upon, by anyone. I’ll start off by explaining… Read More »

Apt – Unmet Dependencies and Root at 99%

By | January 1, 2016

Symptom: When attempting to install a new package using apt, an error message regarding unmet dependencies is displayed and suggests using apt-get -f install to fix the problem. However, sudo apt-get -f install throws an error about no disk space. Cause: Updates have failed due to low disk space and resulted in dependency problems. Solution:… Read More »

Drupal Installation and Troubleshooting

By | January 1, 2016

Drupal is a free and open-source content-management framework written in PHP and distributed under the GNU General Public License. In this post, you will learn how to install Drupal on a LAMP Ubuntu server. Installation Download the latest stable version of Drupal from their website Copy the downloaded file to the /var/www/html directory of your… Read More »