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Skype can be installed in several ways on Linux Mint. Also, here are two easy ways to install the latest version of Skype on Linux Mint. Introduction On Linux Mint, when you search for Skype in the software manager, two versions are available for installation: a Flatpak package from the FlatHub (1) a Debian package from the official Linux Mint repositories (2) In Linux Mint 18.3 Software Manager, the Debian package and the Flatpak package have the same name. So to tell them apart, you have to look at the package details. But, from Linux Mint 19, no more problem! Their names differ, making them clearly identifiable. Debian format is the basic format for installing software on Linux Mint. The Flatpak format is a more recent format. It has several advantages: Installing a Flatpak package will not necessarily require you to have an administrator account. She is agnostic to the cast and her condition. Indeed, the libraries necessary for its operation are included in the package. and the in...

VirtualBox is software for creating virtual machines (VMs) and experimenting with operating systems just like on a real machine, but keeping your own intact ... So here's how to prepare a VirtualBox VM to install Ubuntu on. And we will also see how to properly install the Guest Additions ... (Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack) on the Ubuntu VM. Create Ubuntu virtual machine in VirtualBox In VirtualBox, creating a virtual machine is relatively straightforward. Rather clear explanations guide you through each step of the creation. But some adjustments may sometimes be necessary depending on the OS installed. To start creating the Ubuntu VM in VirtualBox, click New. Step 1: Name the virtual machine In the window that opens, give the virtual machine a name. If the name chosen corresponds to the operating system (OS) to be installed, then VirtualBox will automatically select the correct Type and Version for you. Otherwise, you will have to do it manually. Step 2: Allocate RAM to the ...

Creating a Bootable USB Flash Drive in Linux Mint from an ISO image file is easy. Plus, no need to download or install anything, Linux Mint offers several basic utilities for this. Introduction For a new installation of Linux Mint or to install a new OS, you need a bootable device, for example a USB stick. Therefore, most operating systems are available as ISO Image files intended for the creation of this device. But simply extracting the contents of an ISO image to a device will not make it bootable. To do this, you have to use a utility that formats the key in a special way. And, Linux Mint comes with basic tools to do this: mintstick (USB key creator) The Gnome Disks utility And the command line However, once your USB drive becomes bootable using one of these possibilities, it will no longer be able to serve as a storage device. Indeed it structures and totally modified. But this is not final! And it will always be possible to completely reformat it so that it can store documents ag...

If you want to reinstall a new OS, change it, test a version a version with a live-CD,… you need a bootable device. Also, here are several easy ways to create a Bootable USB drive in Ubuntu from an ISO image file. In addition, in principle, no need to install additional packages (except perhaps on variants), the distribution already includes everything you need ... Introduction Most operating systems provide ISO image files for their installation that can be downloaded from their websites. On the other hand, if you simply copy the files contained in the ISO image to the USB drive, you will not be able to boot from it. For this, it is necessary to copy the ISO image in a special way to the USB stick. Ubuntu offers several basic utilities for this. However, the solutions presented below will make your USB drive unusable as a traditional storage device. Also to recover this functioning, it will be necessary to format it completely and recreate a standard partition structure. Also, the con...

Although I recommend using the software repositories to install your programs on Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint or others, sometimes it is necessary to download a DEB file to install software not present on a repository. So here are several methods (among many others) for installing software from a DEB file already downloaded on your machine. Prerequisites the account used must be administrator Install software from a DEB file with GDebi Gdebi is software for installing software in Debian formats. It can be used from the command line or through a graphical interface. It has the advantage of having automatic dependency management: if they are available on the repositories of your distribution, it will download and install them automatically. otherwise it will tell you which ones are missing and then you will have to install them manually ... It is available from the repositories of Debian and its derivatives. Linux Mint even integrates it from the base ... However, in Ubuntu 20.04, it no lo...

On most Linux distributions, the keypad lock (Num Lock or Num Lock key) is inactive on the login screen and must be enabled manually. But, here's how to turn on Num Lock on startup in Linux Mint by default. Prerequisites to modify this preference In Linux Mint, it is possible to activate this key at startup by default by modifying, through the graphical interface, the preferences of the login window. But before you can do this, you must first install an additional package numlockx. Numlockx is a utility that allows you to activate the keypad lock at the initialization of an X11 session (graphical session) or by using a command line. It is available from the repositories for Ubuntu and therefore is also available for Linux Mint. To install it, open a terminal and run the following command: sudo apt install numlockx If you prefer to install it with the GUI, look in the numlockx software manager and install it. Enable Num Lock on Boot in Linux Mint To modify the parameters of the conn...