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  • Starting with LineageOS on OnePlus 6

    Starting with LineageOS on OnePlus 6

    I was recently looking for a replacement for a Google based Android OS. Android is great OS but the idea of sharing all my user data with Google seems not reasonable to me. The first option for a replacement was Lineage OS.

    I was prepared to write detailed installations intructions here as blog post. But now after the process it seems LineageOS installation was so straight forward that no further details need to be provided. Just select the appropriate device and follow the instructions on these pages.

    After a fresh installation which does not include any Google services, you may wonder how to get the nessessary apps working. Lineage OS does not provide any app store as a default. You need to download one by searching with the browser app. I used Aptoide and found it was quite comprehensive.

    I was meant to write her more about using Lineage OS but actually right after installing it, I found something better.. Check out my next post about /e/ OS.

  • Installing SALOME-Meca on Windows 10

    Installing SALOME-Meca on Windows 10

    Cyprien Rusu has made very good job (as always) in guiding to install Salome-Meca on Windows platform. But that article is now more than one year old and there has become new downloads available on Code_Aster download page (for Windows).

    I am used to write these kind of short posts about my experiences in installing software so that them could help someone else (and myself too later whenever getting back to the situation).

    So here are my notes about installing Salome-Meca on Windows 10:

    Download page

    1. Go to the download page
    2. Download Salome-Meca 2018 win64 exe-file
    3. After dowloading completed, run the exe-file
    4. Click Next, Next and Install
    Setup window

    Everything should go as expected. The installation is similar to any other Windows software.

    But in my case, when I tried to launch teh software after the installation, I faced the following error:

    Error message: “VCOMP100.DLL was not found”
    After the error message, the program lauch was failed as shown in the console.

    How to get this fixed? Let’s look at the README for an advice. If you used the default installation path you should be able to find it from here (or similar location):

    There is the following note in README-file:

    This version was made as portable as possible. There is no dependecies, but on a fresh windows installation, if you notice an issue using the embeded python version, you may need to install the Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 SP1 Redistributable Package (x64) for Salome and also the Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 SP1 Redistributable Package (x64) for Code_Aster

    In my case, the problem was easily solved by installing Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 SP1 from here. After installing it, Salome launched successfully. Hope this helped you as well!

    Salome launched successfully on Windows 10.

    If you wish to find some further guidance for Salome-Meca in this blog, please drop me a line in the comments below.

  • The Most Essential Software to Install on Ubuntu

    The Most Essential Software to Install on Ubuntu

    Time to time you may want or need to refresh your linux desktop by re-installation or you are forced to switch from a hardware or an operating system to another. And when it happens you need to setup everything for the basic usage. Of course, on many distros you may have a software center or similar where to download the software from. But it seems that often the default versions of these software are not the latest stable version or does not exist at all.

    This is my check list for Ubuntu how to install the most necessary stuff for myself.

    Git

    sudo apt install git
    git config --global user.email "you@example.com"
    git config --global user.name "Your Name"

    Spotify

    sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv-keys BBEBDCB318AD50EC6865090613B00F1FD2C19886 0DF731E45CE24F27EEEB1450EFDC8610341D9410
    echo deb http://repository.spotify.com stable non-free | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/spotify.list
    sudo apt-get update
    sudo apt-get install spotify-client

    Sublime Text

    wget -qO - https://download.sublimetext.com/sublimehq-pub.gpg | sudo apt-key add -
    echo "deb https://download.sublimetext.com/ apt/stable/" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/sublime-text.list
    sudo apt update
    sudo apt install sublime-text

    Openshot

    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:openshot.developers/ppa
    sudo apt update && sudo apt install openshot-qt

    Freecad

    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:freecad-maintainers/freecad-stable
    sudo apt-get update
    sudo apt-get install freecad freecad-doc && apt-get upgrade

    Chrome

    wget -q -O - https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | sudo apt-key add -
    sudo sh -c 'echo "deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list'
    sudo apt-get update
    sudo apt-get install google-chrome-stable

    Nextcloud

    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nextcloud-devs/client
    sudo apt-get update
    sudo apt install nextcloud-client