Ubuntu/Linux – Helpful Reminders

Last Edit 8/24/2022

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

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