Nothing out of the ordinary there, but after years of procrastination at failing to update my publication webpage, following a wreckage by the default web composer on Ubuntu (and yours truly obviously!), I took advantage of the extra energy gained by my altitude night at the 5th station to ask Claude to update this page, with it replying it preferred to start from scratch (and from my LaTeX vita files). The only drawback is that many of the links introduced in the earlier version were not retrieved by the AI, despite my repeated request. On the plus side, trawling for missing entries and unpublished arXiv oldies but goldies, as well as adding mountain pictures (from the ‘Og!) proved much easier than the manual-by-keyboard approach. And I got an extra bonus in updating my LaTeX publication file and by creating the corresponding bibTeX file, all now available on my github page.
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Gend’butu
Posted in Linux with tags Firefox, French police, Gendarmerie, Gendarmerie nationale, GendBuntu, Linux, Microsoft, Microsoft Windows XP, Ministère de l'Interieur, Ministry of Interior, Mozilla Firefox, proprietary software, ubuntu, Ubuntu 24.04, Windows on November 2, 2025 by xi'an
get up, clean up, don’t give up the files (and the termites)
Posted in Linux, pictures with tags Australia, Australian mammal, Bob Marley, disk space, Linux image, Linux kernel, marsupial, numbat, Peter Tosh, reggae, termites, ubuntu, Ubuntu 24.04 on September 7, 2025 by xi'an
As I was trying early July to upgrade my current version of Ubuntu (after a year of procrastination) to 24.04 (Noble Numbat!), I found there was no enough space on the partition element where the upgrade was to take place. I thus started removing superfluous applications, until removing a clock induced a massive removal of attached files and required reinstalling the missing theme to log in…
1924 sudo apt-get autoremove 1926 sudo apt-get autoclean 1929 sudo du -d 1 -h 1932 shutdown -r now 1934 apt-get install sddm-theme-breeze 1935 sudo apt-get install sddm-theme-breeze 1936 sudo apt-get install --reinstall plasma-desktop 1941 logout 1943 sudo apt list --installed | grep -i linux-image 1946 sudo du -h /var/lib/snapd/snaps 1947 sudo journalctl --disk-usage 1957 sudo apt remove linux-image-5.4.0-97-generic 1961 sudo apt remove linux-image-5.4.0-71-generic
I then realised older versions of the Linux kernel were store on that space and eating most of that precious space (as numbats are eating termites) and removed most of these versions with no visible damage. The same issue (of the missing breeze theme preventing regular login) occurred once again at the upgrade stage, with the same patch.
snap snap snap…
Posted in Linux with tags background, Firefox, Jackson Hole, Linux, package, SNAP, Tetons, Ubuntu 22.04, update on November 16, 2023 by xi'an
Every few weeks, I get a warning from Firefox (my default browser) that an update is not implemented. This is due to Ubuntu 22.0 adopting the snap technology for handling its packages and their updates. Supposedly helping with handling versions and dependences. This update can be done with the line command
sudo snap refresh firefoxwhich remains long enough in the history file for me to cut&paste it the next time the warning appears, but it is mildly annoying when all other updates are automatically handled by Discover.
technical steps
Posted in Books, Linux, Running, Travel with tags Beamer, Firefox, Garmin, KAUST, Kubuntu 22.04, laptop, LaTeX, road race, training, Ubuntu 22.04, upgrade, xcolor on June 11, 2023 by xi'an
After procrastinating as much as feasible, I switched at last to (K)Ubuntu 22.04, Jammy Jellyfish, after security updates stopped for the 20.04 version. While this proceeded mostly without hiccups, the upgrade stalled when upgrading Firefox, which I had foolishly left open. When I turned it off and completed the upgrade, this erased all of my Firefox personal profile… Rather than copying my latest backup, I recovered most of the Firefox profile by syncing from another computer, although that. This was (recklessly) the very day before I flew to KAUST and, upon arriving there, I found out the associated version of beamer (3.65) had an issue, with colours (xcolor). Problem that I brute forced by downloading all files of the latest version (3.70), since a direct upgrade of beamer did not seem feasible… I have now recovered most of my (updated) passwords and my favourite commands are again running. (As a coincidence, I also recently bought a Garmin watch for training, which definitely helps for faster sessions—with possibly side effects on my cycling trips as I am trying to raise my average speed—although I find the battery life ridiculously small.)
