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This website is nowadays mainly aimed at Linux Mint 22.x. However, as Mint 22.x has been built on Ubuntu 24.04.x, most how-tos are applicable for Ubuntu 24.04.x and its official derivatives ("Ubuntu flavours") as well.
This holds especially true for terminal commands. By a simple means you can make sure that you can use (nearly) all how-tos containing terminal commands, in Ubuntu 24.04.x and its flavours. Furthermore, you'll also be able to apply all how-tos containing the use of Synaptic or inxi.
This means consists out of the installation of a few missing applications, and out of a small modification of some terminal commands that you find in my how-tos.
Proceed like this:
1. Launch a terminal window.
(You can launch a terminal window like this: *Click*)
2. Use copy/paste to transfer the following blue line into the terminal:
sudo apt-get install gedit synaptic inxi
Press Enter. Note that your password remains entirely invisible, not even dots will show when you type it, that's normal.
Note: Ubuntu itself contains Gedit by default, but that's not the case for all of its flavours. That's why you see Gedit mentioned in the installation command.
3. Now whenever you see a command line in a how-to for editing a configuration file with text editor Xed, you simply replace the word xed by gedit.
An example makes it easier. Suppose that you read that you need to modify the configuration of bootloader Grub. The how-to will say:
xed admin:///etc/default/grub
In Ubuntu 24.04.x and its flavours you turn that into:
gedit admin:///etc/default/grub
That's all!
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