So you finally got yourself an awesome movie or some other video that you’ve been longing to watch, however the problem is your laptop/ desktop cannot play it. You try switching between the different video players you have but none plays it….in fact you try the “all powerful” VLC player and it not only fails it actually says “Unfortunately there is no way to fix this!!!”

I was installing Android Studio on a 64-bit ubuntu 14.04 when I ran to the above error. I tried all tricks i knew (I got the JRE and JDK pre-requisites installed, unpacked the Android Studio installation, and from its “bin” directory issued “sh studio.sh” to complete the installation.) but failed. Luckily one user on stack overflow ran to the same problem and managed to get if fixed. Apparently unlike my ubuntu that didnt holla back as to what the cause is, this stack overflow user was on fedora and it “suggested that 32-bit libraries might be needed.” The answers from the community had identified the libraries and amma shared them too, they might come in handy next time. So to cut the long story short, installing the below libraries will sort out the issue. Open your terminal and paste the below command, run it.

It so happens that I’ll start learning Android in the next few days so i headed over to developer dot android and downloaded the android installed it on my 64bit laptop running Ubuntu 14.04 then boom! .. .. My machine goes off line, no WiFi and cannot connect to the Internet, so i figured hey, why not try wired LAN will solve the problem. Surprise…it doesn’t. Instead it throws me this message “The system network services are not compatible with this version” - Ubuntu 14.04…blah blah. So what next? GIYF, Google throws me a million results, long story short, here’s what worked for me.

Am taking a new Programming language. Like most people trying new stuff, I headed over to YouTube for some tutorials. I went searched for Derek Banas videos on python (someone recommended him). He then proceeded to mention he prefers using Pycharm and had a demo on how to install it, however he just covered the Windows and Mac installations and no mention of how to do it for the Linux users. Am running on Ubuntu 14.04 64bit. So I headed over to the Pycharm Website and downloaded it. Then came the installation, at first I tried the good old habit of “right click”, then “open with Ubuntu Software Center”….. When installing Brackets and Opera browser the above method had worked, but on this one, it failed. So I looked at the documentation on Pycharm site, wasn’t as clear as I hoped considering I’ve been on Ubuntu just for under 3 months now. I remembered a simple way I came across while installing Netbeans, I combined it with the steps on Pycharm site and it worked! Disclaimer: probably there a better way out there, but here are my few steps.

So, Ubuntu 16 is hitting the streets tomorrow, and unlike its predecessor 15.10, is will be a LTS(long term support) meaning Canonical will support it for the next 5 years. The question on your mind is “do I really need an upgrade right now?” A word of advice from omgubuntu goes like this….”If your current system is ticking along nicely ask yourself if you really need to rock the boat. If stability matters more than shiny new features, you can always wait a few months for the (inevitable) early kinks to get worked out and upgrade then.” Personally I’ve decided to take the advice and not upgrade right away. However I’ll grab me an ISO image and keep it for a rainy day. There are a few steps to take as you undertake the journey, these guys got you covered.~> [http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2016/04/how-to-upgrade-ubuntu-14-04-to-ubuntu-16-04-lts] GOODLUCK!

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