Basic problem-solving, maintenance & terminal command stuff - Was: gedit output re Entry 60 error, software updater failure, &c.

[Chris]

On Sun, 2018-08-05 at 03:21 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Sat, 04 Aug 2018 23:20:54 +0000, djlafond via ubuntu-users wrote:
> > 
> > One last question: is there a book you can recommend that would be
> > a
> > good primer on this sort of basic problem-solving, maintenance &
> > terminal command stuff?
> In a Terminal run
> 
>   man bash
> 
> this isn't a joke, but also not my recommendation for a newbie, but
> you
> should be aware, that all UNIX alike operating systems provide
> manuals.
> 
> It's not to my taste, but perhaps it fits to your approach of
> learning:
> https://www.tldp.org/LDP/Bash-Beginners-Guide/html/
> 
Way back in the early 2000's I began running Linux with Mandrake. I
found this book http://tinyurl.com/y76vxdoq (Linux Complete) to be very
helpful. Of course the versions that may be mentioned are antiquated.

-- 
Chris
KeyID 0xE372A7DA98E6705C
31.11972; -97.90167 (Elev. 1092 ft)
20:46:51 up 11 days, 3:52, 1 user, load average: 0.86, 0.57, 0.56
Description:	Ubuntu 16.04.5 LTS, kernel 4.15.0-29-generic
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 181 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part
URL: <https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/attachments/20180804/a58adcd9/attachment.sig>