Mint 13

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Linux Mint (Ubuntu) – Helpful Console Commands

This entry was posted in Linux Mint Mint 13 Mint 17 on December 17, 2015 (updated on May 21, 2016)

Linux Mint (Ubuntu) – Helpful Console Commands —————————————————————— How to check my current version of Linux Mint?  cat /etc/linuxmint/info ——————————————————————

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Australian Tax Department (ATO) Linux Software Installation on Mint 13

This entry was posted in Linux Mint Mint 13 Mint 17 on December 5, 2014 (updated on December 5, 2014)

  I have been trying to get the Australian Tax Office (ATO) software to work on various flavours of Linux with mixed results.  For those struggling with the thought of having to find a PC install Windows, etc, etc, there is a Linux solution written in Java, and it seems to work relatively well. For […]

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Fix Plymouth Startup Screens & Themes (Linux Mint 13)

This entry was posted in Mint 13 on December 5, 2014 (updated on December 5, 2014)

  This applied for me running “Linux Mint 13” I had issues getting the plymouth themes to work on my laptop. I have a HP DV5-1007tx Pavilion laptop with a 1GB NVIDIA graphics card. My laptop’s resolution is set at 1280×800 @24 bit colour. After installing Mint 13 with the Mate desktop, I tried to […]

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How To Install Oracle (Sun) Java JDK & JRE in Ubuntu via PPA

This entry was posted in Mint 13 Mint 17 on December 5, 2014 (updated on December 5, 2014)

  All this needs to be performed from a Terminal Session, as superuser. Install Oracle Java 7 in Ubuntu via PPA This package provides Oracle Java JDK 7 (which includes Java JDK, JRE and the Java browser plugin). However, you can’t only install Oracle JRE – the PPA only provides the full Oracle JDK7 package. […]

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