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Preliminary As the maintainer for ffDiaporama is not maintaining the project, i decided to try out the development version which tends to be ahead of the stable version.  Select the Linux button from ffDiaporama Landing site ( http://ffdiaporama.tuxfamily.org/?page_id=3635 ) . We shall see this page. There is a script for Fedora, but i can't seem to get it to work. Hence, i downloaded the zip files found under the section "Other cases". Download the three files, Resource package – Source files package , Application package – Source files package, Texturemate extension – Source files package. Installing Qmake and other prequisites   Go for Qt5 Installation prerequisites:       sudo dnf groupinstall development-tools      sudo dnf install gcc-c++      sudo dnf install qt5-qtbase-devel qt5-qttools-devel qt5-qtsvg-devel qt5-qtbase qt5-qttools qt5-qtsvg qt5-qtimageformats qt5-qtmultimedia-devel qt5-qtmultimedia qt5-qtdeclarative-devel      sudo dnf i

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Safe Removal of Hdd/Thumbdrive Safely remove Hdd/Thumbdrive on Linux Mint Debian Edition Sometimes the eject option is not available to safely remove a external storage device, the way to do it manually is to issue the following command: udisks --detach /dev/sd* Installing Oracle VirtualBox Resolving gpg-keyserver error updating VirtualBox Advice: follow the instruction on https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads to update the repository list in your /etc/apt/sources.list NB: An error likely to surface when updating Oracle VirtualBox on Debian-based distribution (including Ubuntu):  "Error! Could not locate dkms.conf file. File: does not exist." 1) Simply delete the previous version folder in /var/lib/dkms/vboxhost/ for e.g. (/var/lib/dkms/vboxhost/5.X.XX) 2) issue the command "sudo /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup" and the error is gone. < Follow my blog with Bloglovin