Fixing Houdini startup error on Linux

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After installing Houdini, you may come across this error. This error appears in the Terminal; if you open it from the application launcher, you maybe be getting this error, but it does not show in any way. The solution to this error is to set the environment variable of LD_PRELOAD, as given below. You can … Read more

How do I search for an available Python package using pip?

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If you search for packages using pip, you may encounter this error. This is because, after December 2020, the pip search functionality was discontinued due to an unmanageable load on PyPi’s XMLRPC API service. The alternative to this is installing the pip_search package using pip. Pip search is similar to the pip search command; it … Read more

Finding all files with a certain extension in Linux?

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The example above uses the find command to search files in the tmp folder for Python files that have the extension .py. To get a list of all the files with the same extension inside the current directory, look for all the Python extension files for this example. In the above example, the. Denotes the … Read more

NVIDIA drivers on RHEL 8

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This article will cover installing and setting up official Nvidia drivers on Red Hat Enterprise Linux; this method has been tried and tested on RHEL 8. It works best on the default kernel that ships with RHEL 8. If you have a custom Kernel or modified setup, you might need extra steps. The additional steps … Read more

How to install OBS Studio on Fedora

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We need to add the RPM Fusion Free repository to install OBS Studio. Let’s do that by entering the command below and adding the RPM Fusion Free repository. Then we can run the command below to install OBS Studio. We can then open OBS Studio by going into our Application Launcher.