Remove or tell aptitude to ignore broken install

Sometimes, you find that an error (always) occured everytime install a package from sudo apt install.|

As i experienced, whenever I installed Mendeley Desktop, i got error dependency to python, although already installed 2to3 and other hack things. After all, the mendeley desktop installation shown error (python dependency), but the app is run smoothly. 

Whenever I run the apt --fix-broken install

sudo apt --fix-broken install

always remove the application and I need to install it again with showing the dependency error.

This little trick can help us to solve the problem by marking the app as proper installed (not broken one)

- use nano or gedit to edit the dpkg status

sudo nano /var/lib/dpkg/status

- search for your package application, I show you my problem, and you can relate it to yours

Package: mendeleydesktop

Status: install ok unpacked

Priority: extra

Section: science

Installed-Size: 441604

Maintainer: Mendeley Desktop Team <desktop@mendeley.com>

Architecture: amd64

Version: 1.19.8

Replaces: mendeleydesktop (<= 1.19.8)

Depends: libc6, python, gconf2, desktop-file-utils

Description: Mendeley Desktop (paper management and sharing software)

 Mendeley Desktop is free academic software for managing and sharing research

 papers.

 .

 With Mendeley Desktop you can organize, search and share your documents.

 .

 A Mendeley account is required. You can sign up in Mendeley Desktop or at

 www.mendeley.com.

Homepage: http://www.mendeley.com

- change the dpkg status to install ok installed  (the first yellowed text)

- remove the dependency that makes error (I removed python from my list)

- save and exit

- now you can try again to execute sudo apt --fix-broken install

I extracted and try this information from https://superuser.com/a/95532/1780812

Solved Error: configure DNS BIND for DKIM: opendkim-testkey: key not found

Problem

Whenever you try to install dkim and Postfix without cpanel, you have to face the error on configuring DNS record (BIND):

opendkim-testkey: key not found

or 

opendkim-testkey: unknown key

Solution

to cut long story short, to store the longer text on a DNS record (i.e Bind9 or Bind), we need to split the data into rows with brackets "( ... )" and quotes ("...") and store it sequentially on different lines. The notation makes me more confusing, just let's see in the example:

default._domainkey      IN      TXT     ("v=DKIM1; h=sha256; k=rsa;"
"p=HalfOfTheKeyHereHalfOfTheKeyHereHalfOfTheKeyHere"
"andAnotherHalfHereAnotherHalfHereAnotherHalfHereAnother")

this key is using 3 consecutive lines.

Testing

you can directly test the configuration from DKIM

opendkim-testkey -d your-domain-name -s default -vvv

this will show that the OK result.

Additional 

you can check the consistency of DNS using this command, please change your-domain-name with your appropriate domain name or as your settings on bind dns zones

named-checkzone default._domainkey.your-domain-name db.your-domain-name

 

Fresh install MySQL Server Ubuntu

Do following steps:

1. sudo apt-get remove --purge mysql*
2. sudo apt-get purge mysql*
3. sudo apt-get autoremove.
4. sudo apt-get autoclean.
5. sudo apt-get remove dbconfig-mysql.
6. sudo apt-get dist-upgrade. >> optional, it would consume a lot of bandwith
7. sudo apt-get install mysql-server.

input root password and do not forget

run your mysql-server (service mysql restart)

log into your mysql (mysql -u root -p) input your root password

NTPN tidak ada atau hilang

Untuk mendapatkan NTPN yang hilang atau tidak tercantum pada tanda terima:

- login ke https://rumahkonfirmasi.pajak.go.id/

- pilih Konfirmasi NTPN

- pilih pencarian berdasarkan kode billing

- masukkan kode billing pada kata kunci

- masukkan captcha pada kode keamanan

Klik cari, maka data NTPN akan ditampilkan

Install CANON PIXMA MP237 (MP230 series) UBUNTU 20.04

Prepare the multiarch-support

1. download the package 

   wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/g/glibc/multiarch-support_2.27-3ubuntu1.2_amd64.deb

    

2. install the package 

   sudo dpkg -i multiarch-support_2.27-3ubuntu1.2_amd64.deb

Prepare the libtiff4 (note: please be aware, you have to install libtiff4 not libtiff4-dev)

1. download appropriate libtiff4 from 

http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/t/tiff3/ (mine is: http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/t/tiff3/libtiff4_3.9.7-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb)

2. install the package 

sudo dpkg -i libtiff4_3.9.7-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb (replace with yours)

Prepare the libpng

1. add the repository: 

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:linuxuprising/libpng12

2. update:

sudo apt-get update

3. install the libpng12-0

sudo apt-get install libpng12-0

Install the MP237 driver

1. download driver from https://id.canon/en/support/0100469302/1?model=6220B, the file should be a tar.gz format

2. unpack the driver (replace the cnijfilter-mp230series-3.80-1-deb.tar.gz with your downloaded file)

tar -zxvf cnijfilter-mp230series-3.80-1-deb.tar.gz

3. go to the directory

cd cnijfilter-mp230series-3.80-1-deb.tar.gz

4. run the install file

sudo ./install

congratulation, your MP237 series is installing

Unusual Vlookup function of spreadsheet

 So far this function is only can be used on MS Excel and can not be applied to Google Spreadsheet which is has become my main daily tools for office activity.

As we all know, the VLOOKUP function using syntax:

VLOOKUP(LOOKUP_KEY; VLOOKUP_REFERENCE; INDEX; ISSORTED)

Usually we use VLOOKUP function as seen below:                

the cell C5 would be formula to get the price of B4 refer to table F4:G7

using formula

=VLOOKUP(B4;F4:G7;2;0)

But, how if we need to refer the value from an interval value?

For example we need to state a stated remark based on a given value:

How to do that?

I know you will implement the nested if function such as:

=IF(AND(B3>=E4;B3<F4);G4;IF(AND(B3>=E5;B3<F5);G5;IF(AND(B3>=E6;B3<F6);G6;IF(AND(B3>=E7;B3<F7);G7;G8))))

But I proposed you a different way to get the value using VLOOKUP function below:

=VLOOKUP(B5;{0\"E";50\"D";70\"C";80\"B";90\"A"};2)

I challenge you to try this

Ubuntu 18.04 installation stucked at update-grub 66%

1. Press ctrl-alt-F2 to enter BusyBox Shell

2.  Do this things on your BusyBox Shell, kill the process id, change 21123 with displayed process id after you do ps

# ps | grep dmsetup | grep -v grep
21123   root   29466 S    dmsetup create -r osprober-linux-sdc9

# kill 21123

3. Back to installation windows by pressing ctrl-alt-F1

Wait a moment, your installation will continue

You can read the full explanation as I found it at https://jrs-s.net/2019/05/31/ubuntu-18-04-hung-at-update-grub-66/

CodeIgniter: The requested URL was not found

When you use router on your web application (bramus/code igniter/etc), sometimes you found that the url redirect showing error message:

Codeigniter “The requested URL was not found” error

Bramus “The requested URL was not found” error

Router “The requested URL was not found” error

the solutions is simple, you need to modify the php settings on apache2

1. set enable rewrite url >> sudo a2enmod rewrite
2. set AllowOveride All on the configuration >> edit apache2.conf
3. restart apache >> sudo systemctl restart apache2

your application run well afterthat

upgrade phpmyadmin version

sometimes the phpmyadmin stored in repository is not the updated version, so you need to upgrade manually, don't worry it so easy as you copy and paste a directory in a computer

1. download the most updated version from https://www.phpmyadmin.net/
2. backup the /usr/share/phpmyadmin into another directory
3. select all files inside /usr/share/phpmyadmin and delete them
4. extract the downloaded file into the /usr/share/phpmyadmin

that's all, and your phpmyadmin has updated, no need to restart the apache engine.

this solution is also applied and solved the phpmyadmin compatibility issue showing the error:

“Warning in ./libraries/sql.lib.php#613 count(): Parameter must be an array or an object that implements Countable”

phpmyAdmin and MySQL Server

This happened to me, when I installed mysql-server then install phpmyadmin, I face this problem when accessing the address localhost/phpmyadmin: "mysqli_real_connect(): (HY000/1698): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost'" and "#1698 - Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost'"

this happened because the new configuration of mysql-server and phpmyadmin, for security reason, do not allow root user to access remotely by default.

try this steps:

1. configure the mysql-server, add a new user "pma" (phpMyAdmin) or "pmauser"
1. login to your mysql console using terminal:
   mysql -u root -p
2. insert your root password
3. execute this commmand, change the 'yourpassword' to preferred one:
   Create user 'pmauser'@'%' identified by 'yourpassword';
4. make sure that your new user had been created:
   select host, user, authentication_string from mysql.user;
5. grant privilege to your new user, be aware that this command grants pmauser as superuser as root have: GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'pmauser'@'%';



2. configure the phpmyadmin config to use the created user
1. go to /etc/phpmyadmin
1. cd /etc/phpmyadmin
2. edit the config-db.php file
1. sudo gedit config-db.php
2. edit the user (pma/pmauser) and password as we created before
3. save the file



3. refresh the page and login

Totally uninstall and remove configuration MySQL Server Ubuntu 18.04

When you uninstall MySQL for any purpose and reinstall the MySQL Server, perhaps you want to fresh install for all the configuration, but you found that the configuration still remains.

Try this lists accordingly:

sudo service mysql stop  #or mysqld
sudo killall -9 mysql
sudo killall -9 mysqld
sudo apt-get remove --purge mysql-server mysql-client mysql-common

sudo deluser -f mysql
sudo rm -rf /var/lib/mysql
sudo apt-get purge mysql-server-core-5.7
sudo apt-get purge mysql-client-core-5.7
sudo rm -rf /var/log/mysql
sudo rm -rf /etc/mysql

sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo apt-get autoclean