E: Package ‘oracle-java8-installer’ has no installation candidate

I just went through the same process and I fixed the problem by manually installing java 8 on my ubuntu 18.04 machine. Hopefully my answer will help you. Download the latest JAVA 8 SE development kit from here: https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/java-archive-javase8-2177648.html Open your terminal. Type $mkdir /opt/jdk. Untar Java in your new folder $tar -zxf jdk-8u5-linux-x64.tar.gz -C /opt/jdk. … Read more

How to run docker with experimental functions on Ubuntu 16.04

To turn on experimental docker functions create following file by: sudo nano /etc/docker/daemon.json and add below content to it { “experimental”: true } and save file (by CTRL+X and Enter ) and exit. In terminal type: sudo service docker restart To check that experimental funcions are ON, type in terminal: docker version And you should … Read more

How to fix “module ‘platform’ has no attribute ‘linux_distribution'” when installing new packages with Python3.8?

It looks like at least on my Ubuntu 16.04, pip is shared for all Python versions in /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip. This is what I did to get it working again: sudo apt remove python3-pip sudo python3.8 -m easy_install pip You might want to install the python 3.5 version of pip again with sudo python3.5 -m easy_install pip.

python GDAL 2.1 installation on Ubuntu 16.04

What worked for me is this: https://gis.stackexchange.com/a/193828/66527 Below, I copy that answer: You can download GDAL 2.1 for Windows from GIS Internals. There is an installer and a portable version that doesn’t require installation. GDAL 2.1 is available for Ubuntu 16.04 from the UbuntuGIS-Stable PPA sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:ubuntugis/ppa sudo apt update sudo apt upgrade … Read more