Stream Hotstar Videos (DRM Content) on Linux os with simple add-on

Installing hotstart-linux Chrome Extension

Hotstar is a great online resource to watch Movies, TV Shows, Live Cricket streaming in India. It allows you to watch videos from different languages, Hindi, Tamil, Bengali, on different platforms viz. Android, Windows, iOS, all for free! And even if you’re living in a country not supported by Hotstar, using a VPN such as ExpressVPN, gives you full access to their entire video repository.

how to download any stream videos from hotstar or any other website

METHODS TO DOWNLOAD HOT STAR VIDEOS OFFLINE

You can try this Free YouTube Downloader, as a free YouTube downloader, it can download videos from Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Vimeo and other 10,000+ online video sites.

You can use it to download videos in 3 easy steps:

1. Copy the URL of the video channel or playlist from the websites and click the paste button, the software starts to analyze the URL;

2. A new interface will pop up, it’s your choice to select the resolution and saving location. If you prefer the audio instead of whole video, you’d better click the “YouTube to MP3” to convert the video to MP3 directly.

dual boot windows with linux problems fixed

many of us want to run both windows and linux on same system. is this possible...?

why not? there are lot of solutions are available in internet...you can search and make your own installation...

while installing windows on linux with dual boot or linux on windows with dual boot we may face lot of issues such as memory management , disk partitions, grub or windows boot loader installation issues

here i found soluation for

Fix “Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/)” in Ubuntu

While using the apt-get command or the relatively new APT package management tool in Ubuntu Linux or its derivatives such as Linux Mint (which I actually use as my primary operating system for doing daily work), you might have encountered the error – “unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/) is another process using it” on the command line.
This error can be so annoying especially for new Linux (Ubuntu) users who may not know exactly the cause of the error.

UNABLE TO MOUNT NTFS WINDOWS FILE SYSTEM ON LINUX

In many cases you cant access your windows file system from linux (in dual boot or a fresh install on windows system). This is cause of improper shutdown of your windows or hibernet state of your windows or any other . due to this when you open file system disk it will show following disk error

Error mounting /dev/sdaXX at /media/shivashakthi/EDUCATION: Command-line `mount -t "ntfs" -o "uhelper=udisks2,nodev,nosuid,uid=1000,gid=1000" "/dev/sdaxx" "/media/shivashakthi/EDUCATION"' exited with non-zero exit status 14: The disk contains an unclean file system (0, 0).
Metadata kept in Windows cache, refused to mount.
Failed to mount '/dev/sda6': Operation not permitted
The NTFS partition is in an unsafe state. Please resume and shutdown
Windows fully (no hibernation or fast restarting), or mount the volume
read-only with the 'ro' mount option.
xx is your file system 1 or 2 or....like that

Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/) is another process using it?

I get this error when trying to use apt-get:

E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11 Resource temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/) is another process using it? 

then the solution for this kind of error listed below as per experts opinion

kali mint ubuntu locale problem and soluation

I am facing a problem as asked in this question, I have tried the proposed solution but facing the same issue

if you facing locale problem in linux distributions like as shown in below then follow the below  procedure to overcome the problem locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory

locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8

sudo locale-gen en_US.UTF-8 run failure on linux ubuntu kali deberian

LINUX SPECIAL-----UBUNTU ,KALI ,FEDORA,MINT

I am facing a problem as asked in this question, I have tried the proposed solution but facing the same issue

When I run locale,

locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8

When I run

sudo locale-gen en_US.UTF-8

I get this error

sudo: unable to resolve host ubuntu
/bin/bash: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_US.UTF-8)
Generating locales...
en_US.UTF-8... /usr/sbin/locale-gen: line 177: warning: setlocale: 
LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_US.UTF-8)
/usr/sbin/locale-gen: line 243: 
8925 Killed localedef $no_archive -i $input -c -f $charset $locale_alias
$locale failed
Generation complete.

I am running Ubuntu Cloud Image on OpenStack cloud

 

SOLUTIONS 

The problem is due to this bug. The cloud images only support "en_US.UTF-8" so you have to make sure that the host server (the install of Ubuntu Server which you use to SSH into the cloud install) is configured to use "en_US.UTF-8"

To do this generate the "en_US.UTF-8" on the Ubuntu server install:

$ sudo locale-gen en_US.UTF-8
Generating locales...
  en_US.UTF-8... done
Generation complete.

$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales
Generating locales...
  en_US.UTF-8... done
Generation complete.

Use the newly generated locale on the Ubuntu Server install by editing /etc/default/locale to contain only this line:

LANG=en_US.UTF-8

Reboot and then access the cloud install.

install network meter on gnome panel using terminal commands in linux

To add the Netspeed Unity Indicator use the following commands:

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:fixnix/netspeed 
sudo apt-get update 
sudo apt-get install indicator-netspeed-unity

install skype in linux using command line (terminal)

command line way

Open Terminal & copy paste the following commands
sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://archive.canonical.com/ $(lsb_release -sc) partner"
sudo apt-get update 
sudo apt-get install skype

DISABLE fsck or disk checking permently at boot time in linux

How to disable fsck on reboot in linux

In Linux, when a filesystem is mounted for certain times, or its last fsck was more than certain days ago, system will perform fsck on it when server reboot. The fsck process can take a few minutes to hours to finish, depending on the filesystem size.

If we want fast reboot, we can disable the fsck check, although it's not recommended to do so.
There’s several ways of accomplishing this. I will list all the methods beneath, just pick the one that fits the situation/you.

1. Filesystem tunable
2. Grub boot parameter
3. Placing command files on your root device
4. Update /etc/fstab
5. Active reboot without FSCK

Filesystem tunable

Use the tune2fs command to tell your filesystem to have a max count of mounts before a check to 0 to disable it.

# tune2fs -c 0 /dev/sda2 

To list the current settings:

$ tune2fs /dev/sda2 | egrep -i 'mount count|check'
Mount count:                        1
Maximum mount count:        21
Last checked:                     Sat Mar 24 16:15:33 2012
Check interval:                    15552000 (6 months)
Next check after:                 Thu Sep 20 16:15:33 2012

the output is self-explained, for my system, /dev/sda2 will be checked after it's mounted for 21 times, or after Sep 20 16:15:33 2012.

To disable fsck check on /dev/sda2

$ tune2fs -c 0 -i 0 /dev/sda2
tune2fs 1.41.12 (17-May-2010)
Setting maximal mount count to -1
Setting interval between checks to 0 seconds.

check it again:

$ tune2fs /dev/sda2 | egrep -i 'mount count|check'
Mount count:                        1
Maximum mount count:        -1
Last checked:                     Sat Mar 24 16:15:33 2012
Check interval:                    0 (<none>)

Grub boot parameter

Add the following at the end of your grub boot linux line.

fastboot

This can be done by editing “grub.conf” or by editing the boot command via the grub menu at boot.

Placing command files on your root device 

 

To disable the filesystem check on boot.

# touch /fastboot

To enable a filesystem check on boot.

# touch /forcefsck

update /etc/fstab

in /etc/fstab, the last column is used by fsck to determine the order of performing file system check at reboot time. For root file system /, it should be 1, for other file systems, it should be 2. If we want to disable the fsck check for certain file system, we can specify 0 in the last column.

$ grep nofsck /etc/fstab
/dev/sda2        /mnt/nofsck        ext4        defaults        0  0

Active reboot without FSCK

 

  # shutdown -rf

Parameter reference: 

-r     Reboot after shutdown.
-f     Skip fsck on reboot.

the -f flags tells system to skip fsck for all filesystems during the reboot. Unlike the fstab and tune2fs methods, it only takes effect during current reboot, will not disable fsck permanently.


we can activate an automatic root filesystem check on every start/stop by changing the entry

/dev/mmcblk0p2 / ext4 defaults,noatime 0 1

(last digit changed from 0 (skip check) to 1 (check this with highest prio)) in file

/etc/fstab

and also changing in

 /etc/default/rcS

the last entry to

# automatically repair filesystems with inconsistencies during boot
 FSCKFIX=yes

or

Code:

gksudo gedit /etc/default/rcS

Make:

Code:

FSCKFIX=yes