Ubuntu/Linux – Helpful Reminders

Last Edit 10/26/2022

When using putty applications that use the ncurses display library may not show up as intended.

export NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS=1

The above can be used to indicate that we should use a character set more appropriate for drawing lines.

The following are useful when running “apt” update commands.

export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive

export NEEDRESTART_MODE=a

Addition: 10/26/2024
I am leaving this as a quick reminder to myself. Because I am a squirrel that tends to forget things. This – opinion stated here – is the fastest way I know of to go directly to root and bypass asking the root or current account passwords. This assumes the account you are using has sudo privilege’s of course.

sudo su - root

Reference:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8