So, after playing around with lazyvim and getting quite frustrated with all sorts of weirdness due to mismatched versions and suchlike, I thought I’d dig into the fundamentals and build my own setup, install various plugins manually, maybe setup an LSP from scratch. This is not a beginner tutorial –…
This post series is to clarify some of the more advanced stuff about how apt works, specifically when dealing with multiple repositories and versions, that you might want to use apt-pinning to sort out. What is a repository? This is an important question, because answering it explains where a lot…
If you’re updating Nextcloud, it offers the alternative to run the upgrade via the command line: However, on most systems you’ll have to work a little harder than just On my system there are 2 main problems: This is the command I use: And a few of the other commonly-used…
Sometimes, when you’re updating software on your Linux machine, the person maintaining the package will have also updated the default configuration file that ships with the software. This is an issue if you have customised that configuration file on your system – the system doesn’t know whether it should keep…