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"message": "My friend gave me a vps and asked me to put a website on it. But I found it almost impossible to install any software:For example:<pre><code>root@ubuntu12:~# apt-get install nginxReading package lists... DoneBuilding dependency treeReading state information... DoneYou might want to run 'apt-get -f... | Unmet dependencies, and 'apt-get -f install' not work (Ubuntu 12.04) | askubuntu | 2016-08-10T03:43:12.640 |
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"message": "Tray icon (after installing plugin to have it) doesnt work at all. Right/left click don't have any result at all. I don't really need the controllers, just opening the player will be enough. Using Kubuntu 16.04.01",
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"message": "Try installing a newer version using t... | Quod Libet player tray not working | askubuntu | 2016-08-10T07:25:29.473 |
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"message": "For my internship I am currently setting up a cluster of laptops to run CFD applications using OpenFOAM. So far I've set it up installing SSH-client and NFS on both master and nodes. I've tested both ssh and my shared folder, and both works fine. I would however like to be able to install and modi... | Ways to install programs in large clusters | askubuntu | 2016-08-10T07:40:39.783 |
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"message": "I am new here.<br>Recently I tried to create custom distribution which has a single application running all the time. (kiosk mode)I would like to prevent unauthorized window closing from users.I tried:<pre><code>gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.keybindings close \"['<Alt>w']\"</code></pre>... | how to disable window close using key combination <Alt>F4? | askubuntu | 2016-08-10T11:10:47.650 |
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"message": "The setup is as follow:I'm on a private network 192.168.1.0/24I need to access a webpage on my browser from a server <code>hystrix</code> to which I don't have a direct connection. Usually, to access that page, I connect to another server (<code>bast01</code>) to which I have direct access via ssh... | How do I tunnel and browse the server webpage on my machine? | askubuntu | 2016-08-10T11:46:51.467 |
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"message": "I wanted to remove unity-settings-daemon because thats the only unity-package I have it besides unity-greeter. I run a gnome-shell, hence do not need unity.However, when I try to remove unity-settings-daemon, dpkg would also like to remove ubuntu-session. Is it safe to do it, or would I break my d... | Remove ubuntu-session | askubuntu | 2016-08-10T16:03:02.147 |
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"message": "When am trying to increase the root partition (/) on Ubuntu 16.04 using Gparted it failed and gave me this message.<pre><code># umount -v \"/\"umount: /: target is busy (In some cases useful info about processes that use the device is found by lsof(8) or fuser(1).)</code></pre>What ... | Failed to increase root partition size ( / ) with Gparted, Ubuntu 16.04 | askubuntu | 2016-08-10T20:55:03.447 |
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"message": "I have Ubuntu 14.04, videoplayer Totem, and when I play video in 3gp using this videoplayer or any other, I can't hear a sound! How to solve this problem??",
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"message": "The container format 3gp most commonly contains the following codecs (I have added links to samp... | How to play 3gp videos with sound? | askubuntu | 2016-08-10T22:51:33.423 |
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"message": "In reading <a href=\"http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/disable-the-mail-alert-by-crontab-command/\" rel=\"nofollow\">this link it says:<blockquote> The crontab command is used to maintain crontab files for individual users. By default the output of a command or a script (if any produced), will be emai... | What is the local email and what is the built in email service in Ubuntu 16? | askubuntu | 2016-08-11T06:29:26.277 |
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"message": "We are building an OpenStack cloud in my organization. My original plan was to work with a Ceph cluster as back-end for Cinder, Glance and Swift. But we have a Dell SC series SAN in the datacenter with up to 50TB of storage.My question: is it possible to create a Ceph cluster using the SAN or shou... | which storage scenario to choose with openstack? Ceph cluster, or SAN | askubuntu | 2016-08-11T10:45:23.487 |
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"message": "I have problem with ubuntu installation (version 14.04 lts). Have notebook dell inspiration 15 7559 and UEFI.15.6-inch (3840 x 2160) 282ppi IPS touchscreen, glossy finishWindows 10 Home2.6GHz Intel Core i7-6700HQ (3.5 GHz Turbo) 4 cores8 threadsNvidia GeForce GTX 960M with 4GB GDDR5 + Intel HD Gra... | Ubuntu 14.04 LTS installation completed but after click on restart button it doens't restart | askubuntu | 2016-08-11T14:15:30.657 |
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"message": "I was wondering if anyone have a suggestion or a solution to following issue.I have installed Ubuntu Touch on Meizu Pro5 which was Android originally as is described here: <a href=\"https://askubuntu.com/questions/767323/how-to-install-ubuntu-on-meizu-pro-5-that-was-originally-with-android\">How t... | Meizu Pro5 update fails (Android originally), no way to do ubuntu-device-flash | askubuntu | 2016-08-11T14:47:31.280 |
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"message": "I'm looking for other GUI alternative to <code>webhttrack</code> software with similar functionalities. Webhttrack is itself an alternative of the command line program <code>httrack</code>, but I'm not very happy using it. Is there any?httrack is from it's man page description:<blockquote> Copy w... | GUI alternative to WebHTTrack with similar functionality | askubuntu | 2016-08-11T14:58:21.770 |
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"message": "I'm trying to install some GNOME Shell Extensions on Ubuntu 16.04 (64bit) from the web site extensions.gnome.org. I'm using Gnome 3.18 with LightDM.I verified that Firefox has the Gnome Shell Integration plugin enabled, and the extension page loads with the on/off slider correctly displayed.When I... | Why does GNOME Shell Extensions installation from website not work? | askubuntu | 2016-08-11T16:22:03.047 |
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"message": "When I install applications like Android Studio or programs like Oracle JDK in home directory by extracting tar archives, after running the <code>.sh</code> file, they make changes on home directory such as making configuration files and folders. I want to know that can they access other system fo... | Can apps installed by tar archive in home directory affect other system directories? | askubuntu | 2016-08-11T18:24:30.760 |
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"message": "Using <code>htop</code>, I found <code>/usr/sbin/apache2 -k start</code> to be using almost all the server's CPU and MEM resources. This causes MySQL to crash.Restarting apache will solve this for a few weeks, and the same problem will occur again.What may be the problem, and how can we solve it?"... | 100% Usage by /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start | askubuntu | 2016-08-11T22:41:59.797 |
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"message": "I made a specified config file which indicated my specified dynamic library path under <code>/etc/ld.so.conf.d/</code> and ran the <code>ldconfig</code> command.After that, one symbolic link to my specified dynamic library was automatically generated. I guess it was the normal behaviour for <code>... | ldconfig didn't remove a symlink when a library was deleted | askubuntu | 2016-08-12T09:03:30.790 |
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"message": "I have installed Wine on Kubuntu 16.04 (64-bit), but I am not able to install winasio, neither via playonlinux nor by compiling it. make returns the following message:<pre><code>make: *** No rule to make target \"asio.h\" necessary for \"all\". Stop. </code></pre>I have installed wine-development... | Installing winasio on Ubuntu 16.04 | askubuntu | 2016-08-12T12:03:15.943 |
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"message": "I use keepass to store some password. The folder containing the file foo.kdbx is shared via owncloud.I see that a file called foo_conflict-20160810-075402.kdbx was created.I exported the foo.kdbx and foo_conflict-20160810-075402.kdbx to the xml format and compared both using the tool <code>meld</c... | Keepass: Update in binary file foo.kdbx results in conflicts | askubuntu | 2016-08-12T12:08:14.890 |
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"message": "I have an Inspiron 3551 with Ubuntu. Today there was a notification asking for upgrade to 16.04 and I clicked for upgrade. Upgrade did not finish and the system went on hang. When I restarted the system it asked me to select from one of the 4 options. The first option *Ubuntu took me nowhere and t... | Upgrade to 16.04 causing huge problems | askubuntu | 2016-08-12T12:38:37.297 |
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"message": "I have a shell script with <code>set -x</code> to have verbose/debug output:<pre><code>#!/bin/bashset -xcommand1command2...</code></pre>The output looks like this:<pre><code>+ command1whatever output from command1+ command2whatever output from command2</code></pre>My problem is, the shell output (... | bash: set -x logs to file | askubuntu | 2016-08-12T12:43:41.153 |
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"message": "Hi have the following problem.I have a disk <code>/dev/sda1</code> mounted on <code>/</code>. The same disk contains a <code>/home</code> directory and I want to mount only that directory on a <code>/backup</code> mount-point because I have a third party script that require to read data in <code>/... | Mount only a part of a disk to a folder | askubuntu | 2016-08-12T14:07:22.017 |
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"message": "I recently changed boot mode from UEFI HardDisk to UEFI Pendrive, I didn't install anything from pendrive Now even after removing my pendrive I'm not able to boot to Ubuntu It takes me to Dell testing",
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"message": "Set default BIOS settings. For that, you have to op... | Ubuntu 16.04 not booting | askubuntu | 2016-08-12T14:54:01.123 |
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"message": "Today I decided to set up my own Ubuntu server using an HP laptop from 2011(HP Probook 4330s).I installed it using a usb stick and during setup I made an internet connection to my wifi. It seemed like the connection worked and I checked my router and it displayed a working wireless connection to t... | Ubuntu server 16.04.01 no internet connection | askubuntu | 2016-08-12T18:26:41.470 |
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"message": "Trying to watch the NBC Rio live stream of the olypmics on my laptop, and I get the message that I need Flash Player 19.0.0.245 or higher to watch it. How do I install the latest version on Ubuntu 14.04? I've tried the other answers, but none of them work.",
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"mess... | How do update to adobe flash 19.0.0.245 or higher | askubuntu | 2016-08-12T23:09:24.440 |
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"message": "When building Audacity from source the configuration fails and prints this error: <pre><code>configure: error: Could not find wx-config: is wxWidgets installed?is wx-config in your path?</code></pre>I've read the build instructions in the readme, then downloaded all the needed dependencies. The di... | Could not find wx-config error when building Audacity from source | askubuntu | 2016-08-13T02:07:35.847 |
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"message": "I recently wanted to install sublime text, and found a way to download the installer (using a PPA), the installer runs and downloads the actual package through HTTPS, it stays running for about 15 minutes and then a \"Time out\" appears, I've tried to test downloading the package manually using wg... | Can't download files using HTTPS | askubuntu | 2016-08-13T05:32:26.253 |
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"message": "I suffer from problem a problem in Kate in Kubuntu 16.04. Kate has an option for detecting changes in opened files. And if change has been detected Kate asks whether to update contents of file in editor, when I switch the focus on Kate.The Problem is that since 16.04 it asks to reload even if anot... | Kate in Kubuntu 16.04 prompts every time there is a change in file | askubuntu | 2016-08-13T07:43:06.090 |
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"message": "I am running Landscape On-Premises (version 16.06) on Ubuntu Server 16.04. The activities and the event tabs are filling up with the same entries every day. I am not able to delete any entries from the web interface. Via ssh I deleted relevant log files in the /var/log directory of the server but ... | How to clear activities and event log in Canonical Landscape? | askubuntu | 2016-08-13T10:19:47.200 |
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"message": "I am running Landscape On-Premises (version 16.06) on Ubuntu Server 16.04. When I connect to the server via the web interface, everything is working as expected. Additionally I installed and configured the landscape-api package to manage the server via ssh. When I use landscape-api as described in... | How to use the Landscape API in Landscape On-Premises correctly? | askubuntu | 2016-08-13T10:37:44.750 |
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"message": "Recently my <code>syslog</code> is getting flooded with these messages, every couple of seconds:<pre><code>Aug 13 16:02:15 lati dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on wlan2 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 15 (xid=0x204c0015)Aug 13 16:02:15 lati dhclient: send_packet: No such device or addressAug 13 16:02:1... | Failed to send 300 byte long packet over wlan2 interface | askubuntu | 2016-08-13T13:11:30.803 |
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"message": "I've setup a postfix on Ubuntu 16.04 that appears to not work as it supposed.Receive works, I use mail and able to see gmail, yahoo emails just fine.YAHOO says:<pre><code>said: 553 5.7.1[BL21] Connections will not be accepted from xx.xx.xx.xx., because the ipis in Spamhaus's list;</code></pre>But ... | postfix, send to gmail, yahoo, not working | askubuntu | 2016-08-13T19:21:38.930 |
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"message": "All Linux household with a nice-ish GDI laser printer (FujiXerox Docuprint p115w wifi) gifted to me. No Linux drivers are available.How could I install a Windows VM and expose that to the network as a print server that works with Linux clients?",
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"message": "Methods... | Using Windows VM as a print server for Linux clients? | askubuntu | 2016-08-14T02:22:54.330 |
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"message": "After a botched upgrade from Ubuntu 14.04 to Ubuntu 16.04 I had to wipe my system and start all over. This time I decided to go with a much less CPU intensive desktop environment and installed Lubuntu 16.04-1.My problem: when I run Steam from the menu shortcut it acts like it is doing nothing. How... | Ubuntu 16.04 Steam only runs from terminal | askubuntu | 2016-08-14T03:51:03.823 |
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"message": "Hello is there any way to view the history of all the remote connections made by the built-in application called Desktop Sharing ?i would like to make sure myself that there was not connection made between me and anyone else.",
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"message": "If you are running the def... | Ubuntu Desktop Sharing History | askubuntu | 2016-08-14T07:40:48.667 |
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"message": "I was using the \"top \" command and I came across the nice value. I am aware of the priorities and how a nice value indicates the priority of a process. But I can't seem to figure out what the term \"niced\" or \"un-niced\" indicates.",
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"message": "Those terms simp... | What exactly is meant by a "niced" and an "un-niced" user process? | askubuntu | 2016-08-14T12:13:53.813 |
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"message": "I'm on Kubuntu 16.04, with kde 5.6.5, and window background color is not applying (always the default white)Here is a screenshot of Doplhin with the Breeze Dark theme, as you can see, some parts of the window stays to the default color. It happens on other applications too, like System Settings, a... | Color problem on Kubuntu 16.04 - themes aren't applied | askubuntu | 2016-08-14T18:48:40.570 |
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"message": "I just barely installed Kubuntu and installed steam for the first time. When I try and run it it closes after a few seconds. When I run it in the Konsole I get this message. <pre><code>Running Steam on ubuntu 16.04 32-bitSTEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically/bin/bash: /home/ryker/.local/share/Ste... | Steam starts to open for a few seconds, then closes | askubuntu | 2016-08-15T01:37:14.477 |
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"message": "I successfully burned several Blueray Disk with this command:<pre><code>growisofs -allow-limited-size -Z /dev/sr0 -r -speed=4 -J -V \"Backup 01\" /home/default/Documents/Backup/</code></pre>But when I tried to burn an BD50 dual layer, it stucked at 52.27% with this error:<pre><code>52.21% done, es... | Burning Blueray disk with growisofs stopped at 'WRITE@LBA=b02ea0h Error' | askubuntu | 2016-08-15T01:50:10.353 |
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"message": "Environment Setup DetailsWindows 10 ProfessionalOracle VirtualBox version 5.1.2r108956Ubuntu version 16.04.1 downloaded as ISO image name ubuntu-16.04.1-desktop-i386.isoConfigurations Explained (and attempted)I have tried almost all setting combinations with this Ubuntu VM via the VirtualBox confi... | Ubuntu 16.04 loads Rainbow on Oracle VirtualBox | askubuntu | 2016-08-15T04:58:26.107 |
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"message": "Ever since I did a \"clean\" install of Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (\"Xenial Xerus\") on my son's Lenovo G50-45, he cannot start (the new) Ubuntu Software...We launch the program from the Dash, the \"Ubuntu Software\" icon appears on the Launcher, then disappears; \"gnome-software\" is usually shown in Syst... | Can't start Ubuntu Software! | askubuntu | 2016-08-15T08:34:46.807 |
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"message": "I think the following two issues are related:1) ALT-rightclick, Super-rightclick etc. have no effect on the gnome panel.2) I cannot set certain shortcuts using System Settings -> Keyboard -> Shortcuts. For example, the ALT key is recognized as \"Level3 Shift\", and cannot be combined with any othe... | Shortcuts, ALT-rightclick not working on 16.04, Gnome 3.18 | askubuntu | 2016-08-15T09:47:27.677 |
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"message": "The cpu frequency scaling on my laptop (Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4810MQ CPU @ 2.80GHz) is not working as intended. After the initial installation of ubuntu 16.04 I have made no changes regarding power management or the cpu frequency scaling.Normally I am used to the ondemand governor. However, it seem... | CPU frequency scaling not working as intended on vanilla Ubuntu 16.04 | askubuntu | 2016-08-15T13:09:15.453 |
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"message": "Upgraded from win8.1 to win10. Then I installed oracle virtualbox and installed ubuntu 16.04 in that environment on a logical partition. I set up a dual boot on my wife's machine (same upgrade) and that's working OK for her limited usage. (The only wrinkle is that nothing I've read in 2 weeks of ... | ubuntu dual boot plus virtualbox | askubuntu | 2016-08-15T15:37:04.237 |
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"message": "After upgrading from 14.04 to 16.04, after the restart it switch from something that say \"clean something\" a black screen and the ubuntu loading, after 1 hour or something like that it switch to an endless ubuntu loading.",
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"message": "\"clean something\" is proba... | 14.04 to 16.04, startup problem | askubuntu | 2016-08-15T19:57:54.573 |
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"message": "I realize this question has been asked before, but i'm yet to find an answer that helps me, so I guess I'll have to ask it again. Hi! I'm a new Ubuntu user, first time in Linux switching from Windows, running Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial?) I have a laptop which of course, has built-in speakers and an audi... | Can't switch between headphones and speakers | askubuntu | 2016-08-16T01:20:32.757 |
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"message": "I was trying to install Rainlendar2 in the \"Try Ubuntu\" Desktop from a live USB for both the 32 & 64 bit computers. After downloading Rainlendar2 and extracting the folder/file, the Rainlendar2 icon does not appear on the desktop, although it is shown installed in Ubuntu Software Centre. I t... | Unable To Install Rainlendar2 For Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (32 & 64 Bit) | askubuntu | 2016-08-16T02:54:39.323 |
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"message": "I recently tried updating chrome and realized that I couldn't install or uninstall any software through Ubuntu Software Center. As soon as I try to open it , I get<a href=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/kXzVa.png\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\">this window. I clicked repair and then entered my password ... | I can't install or uninstall through Ubuntu software center | askubuntu | 2016-08-16T07:21:24.693 |
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"message": "I want to run an executable file as root by clicking an icon. I have the following desktop file (<code>test.desktop</code>) in place:<pre><code>[Desktop Entry]Version=1.0Name=Test Program Comment=Open test programExec=sudo taskset -c 7 /home/username/Desktop/folder1/test_program %fIcon=/home/... | How to execute a single launcher as root without password? | askubuntu | 2016-08-16T19:20:17.423 |
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"message": "Have just completed a fresh install of Lubuntu 14.04 on my iMac G5, but I can't seem to get any networking. Neither wireless or wired internet seems to work, the network manager can't find any available networks. Have already tried restarting the network manager applet, but to no avail. Any ideas?... | No Networking Lubuntu 14.04 on iMac G5 PowerPC | askubuntu | 2016-08-16T20:15:12.250 |
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"message": "I installed apache as follows on my Ubuntu 16.04 machine:<pre><code>$ sudo apt-get update$ sudo apt-get install apache2</code></pre>It served my test pages fine. Now I tested a reboot of the machine, and I can't reach the server. I try:<pre><code>$ service apache2 status</code></pre>and get:<pre><... | Get Apache2 to restart after reboot, ubuntu 16.04 | askubuntu | 2016-08-16T20:28:44.073 |
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"message": "My hard drive is a mess and I want to reformat it and do a fresh install of 16.04. My problem is I only have access to the HDD via 16.04 on a USB stick and although I can navigate to the various folders, nothing I do allows me to copy to an external hard drive. The folders are not encrypted. I als... | I want to copy the data folders from a previous ubuntu(14.04) partition | askubuntu | 2016-08-16T22:17:03.560 |
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"message": "I created a USB startup drive and tested that the drive works on my old computer lenovo t430s. I was able to boot from USB without any problem. On my new computer t460p, I was able to see the USB drive device from the boot menu and if I select to boot from it. It does not do anything. It does not ... | Cannot boot from Ubuntu 16.04 (desktop version) USB startup drive on Lenovo T460p with Windows 10 | askubuntu | 2016-08-17T05:23:15.233 |
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"message": "I'm a windows user and I wanna learn linux so to get a feel of the OS I tried to install Ubuntu along my windows 10. Now this windows 10 wasn't pre-installed. When I try to boot using an USB I get the first orange+purplish screen with the human and keyboard icon And then I get a black screen with ... | Stuck While Installing Ubuntu along side Windows 10 | askubuntu | 2016-08-17T06:51:23.763 |
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"message": "My network map:<a href=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/Jglia.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\"><br>(Click image to enlarge)I am unsure about which Ubuntu OS would suit these tasks better.For the Primary Domain controller and backup domain controller, I am planning to have Samba file and print server o... | Which OS would be better for these computers: Ubuntu server or normal Ubuntu? | askubuntu | 2016-08-17T08:29:56.487 |
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"message": "i'm using ASUS K501U with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Gnome-shell 3.10.4,The screen brightness works only from settings,i tried that, but it disabled all my fn keys:<pre><code>In the terminal:sudo gedit /etc/default/grubChangeGRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=\"quiet splash\"toGRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=\"quiet... | Screen brightness keys not working (fn + f5/f6) | askubuntu | 2016-08-17T10:29:03.297 |
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"message": "in our company. We would like to have 2 different subnet masks. 192.168.2.0/24 and 192.168.3.0/24. Could it be possible for the both subnet to communicate in a network? Need help. Thanks.For example:Lan 1:Ip range:192.168.2.xsubnet:255.255.255.0Lan 2:Ip range:192.168.3.xsubnet:255.255.255.0Could b... | networking problem | askubuntu | 2016-08-17T10:50:18.030 |
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"message": "I'm in the process of buying a new laptop for my university studies in computer science and software engineering.I'm planning to dual boot Windows 10 and Ubuntu 16.04 because I'd like to play games and use Ubuntu for my studies. In my config, I have a 1TB (5400rpm) hard drive and a 512GB m.2 SSD.I... | Most intelligent way of setting up partitions on SSD and HDD when dual booting | askubuntu | 2016-08-17T12:58:06.700 |
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"message": "Can you help me run FL Studio 12 on ubuntu 16.04 lts?Recently I have bought a copy of it. I tried running it through PlayOnLinux and Wine, but it always keeps giving me an error called \"QuickFontCache.dll is missing.\" just before finishing instalation.I went to the image-line forum and nothing.I... | FL Studio on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS | askubuntu | 2016-08-17T14:54:58.977 |
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"message": "I got notifications saying to re-start Nautilus and so on for Dropbox to work, and of course lots of problems opening windows, tabs closing when they should come to the front, etc. My solution was to remove Dropbox from the Start Up menu. But I still want to use it, of course.My instruction from @... | Continued problems with 16.04.1 with Dropbox and Nautilus | askubuntu | 2016-08-18T02:22:29.027 |
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"message": "Home-made PC, reasonably new CPU and motherboard. Previously I had a Geforce GTX 750 Ti. With the GTX 750 Ti, I was able to install 14.04. The open source drivers worked just fine. Installing the Nvidia proprietary driver was also fine. The 750 also worked great on Win 7 and Win 10.I've replaced t... | Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty on Nvidia Titan X Pascal: cannot install | askubuntu | 2016-08-18T02:58:26.210 |
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"message": "It says \"New Steam library folder must be on a filesystem mounted with execute permissions.\" when i try to select my HDD. How can i give exec permission to my HDD?The steps were like that:1 Installed Steam for Linux from the site.2 Tried to change the install location from my SSD to HDD.3 Wasnt ... | I want to give my HDD execute permission, to be able to set it as Steam install location | askubuntu | 2016-08-18T03:01:03.220 |
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"message": "I'm using ddclient on multiple machines without any problems (Ubuntu 12.04 & 14.04), but one machine randomly returns 127.0.0.1I'm using the same configuration for all machines (except hostname naturally)<pre><code># Configuration file for ddclient generated by debconf## /etc/ddclient.confprot... | ddlient returning 127.0.0.1 instead of external IP | askubuntu | 2016-08-18T08:20:45.783 |
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"message": "I want to install ubuntu on my phone. According to official website procedure, when I write this command, it shows some error:<pre><code>$ sudo apt-get install ubuntu-device-flashReading package lists... DoneBuilding dependency tree Reading state information... DoneSome packages could not b... | Cannot install ubuntu on my phone: "Depends: click-ubuntu-policy but it is not installable" | askubuntu | 2016-08-18T08:29:30.893 |
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"message": "What I'm trying to do is install a .deb software.I tried launching it with software install and received the error:<blockquote> Sorry, this did not work no filename_to_app results to show</blockquote>So I thought my issue is related to this thread:<a href=\"https://askubuntu.com/questions/7615... | no filename_to_app results to show | askubuntu | 2016-08-18T08:53:31.930 |
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"message": "Suppose we got a passage on a web page:Traditionally, keyboard shortcuts are written like so: Alt + F1. This means that you should press the Alt and F1 keys simultaneously. This is normally best achieved by holding down the modifier key (such as Ctrl or Alt or the Super(windows logo) key) and then... | How can I select specific words from a webpage by keyboard command on Ubuntu? | askubuntu | 2016-08-18T11:37:54.223 |
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"message": "I added a few new PHP version to my server according do this tutorial: <a href=\"https://www.23systems.net/2016/01/installing-php-5-6-x-7-0-x-ubuntu-14-04-virtualmin-5-0gpl-using-ppa/\" rel=\"nofollow\">https://www.23systems.net/2016/01/installing-php-5-6-x-7-0-x-ubuntu-14-04-virtualmin-5-0gpl-usi... | Installed new PHP version, not working | askubuntu | 2016-08-18T12:56:53.623 |
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"message": "I want a script that will set up my tools, but also keep the virtual environment intact for my prompt. But, as heemayl points out below, a shell script, when executed, runs in a subshell and all parameters and environment goes out of scope once the execution completes. Now I am thinking, the best ... | How to activate a virtualenv within bash script resulting in activated prompt | askubuntu | 2016-08-18T18:54:03.497 |
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"message": "OBS crashes (segfault) when I tap the trackpad while the mouse is over the OBS window. Using the mouse does not cause this crash.The guy on this <a href=\"https://obsproject.com/forum/threads/issues-with-mouse-and-crashing.2699/\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\">forum post ran into issues with OBS, sp... | OBS application crashes on trackpad tap events | askubuntu | 2016-08-19T05:15:08.313 |
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"message": "I'm trying to install Oracle JRE/JDK using the instructions given here <a href=\"http://www.wikihow.com/Install-Oracle-Java-JRE-on-Ubuntu-Linux\" rel=\"nofollow\">Install Oracle Java JRE on UbuntuI need it as Android Studio recommends it.Anyway, when I type in <code>file /sbin/init</code> in the ... | Why can't I execute the command `file /sbin/init`? | askubuntu | 2016-08-19T05:42:21.697 |
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"message": "Im using 'bash' shell and executing below 'awk' command on a file with records of file separated with number of different chars like Brackets, Colons, Parentheses as below sample record<pre><code>...(field#13[field#14:]]:filed#18[filed#19)[...</code></pre>However when I'm escaping \"][\" with sing... | Why do Brackets "][" need double escape "\\" to prevent interpretation by the shell? | askubuntu | 2016-08-19T06:14:31.680 |
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"message": "When my computer is installed with a single system Windows 10, the boot loader is UEFI Bios and it is featured with a lot of functions such as changing the default GPU while booting. After I have Ubuntu installed, the boot loaded changes to grub. I am just wondering how can I switch between these ... | How can I switch the boot loader from grub to UEFI bios after the installation of Ubuntu? | askubuntu | 2016-08-19T08:09:13.837 |
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"message": "I'm trying to set up multiples instances of MySQL following the Configuring Multiple MySQL Instances Using systemd section of <a href=\"http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/server-management-using-systemd.html#systemd-multiple-mysql-instances\" rel=\"nofollow\">this manual page.It seems pretty s... | Ubuntu 16, Mysql 2.7, and multiple instances through systemd | askubuntu | 2016-08-19T18:21:46.153 |
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"message": "I have a server with a monitor. No GUI installed. When I remotely connect using SSH, I want to launch a program (e.g. glances, htop), but I want it to show its output on the monitor that's connected to the server, not in the SSH session.",
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"message": "The easiest wa... | Run a program remotely using SSH, but show output on connected monitor | askubuntu | 2016-08-20T10:29:55.670 |
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"message": "I have a 931 GB hard drive with 3 logical volumes. One for ubuntu(100 GB), One is for swap(4 GB), and the third one(891 GB) is empty as shown in the pics. The question is, how can I make a new partition from the empty logical volume (named data)? <a href=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/5Tn28.png\" rel... | How to make a new partition from an empty volume? | askubuntu | 2016-08-20T11:10:07.643 |
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"message": "I have a VPS somewhere running Ubuntu server 15.10 What I want to do is turn it into a VPN so that i can use it like any other VPN. I have searched online but found no tutorials on how to do so. Does anyone here know how I can turn my VPS into a VPN?",
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"message": "Y... | Make a VPN with my Ubuntu 15.10 VPS? | askubuntu | 2016-08-20T13:59:40.937 |
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"message": "I´m running Ubuntu 16.04 LTS on an Acer Aspire S7.Somehow, I managed to toggle on auto-accenting. That is, when I type ´ then s I get ś.¨i = ï~a = ã`u = ù ... etc.I just toggled this on today accidentally, but I can´t figure out how to turn it off! It´s super annoying to hit the space after the p... | How to turn off auto-accent (e.g. 'e creates é) | askubuntu | 2016-08-20T22:01:26.947 |
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"message": "This is somehow a follow up of this question:<a href=\"https://askubuntu.com/questions/86113/how-can-i-detect-the-bpm-beats-per-minute-of-a-song\">How can I detect the BPM (beats per minute) of a song?But now instead of detecting them in songs, I want to generate them. I am looking for an applicat... | Where can I find a metronome for music practice? | askubuntu | 2016-08-20T22:42:20.903 |
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"message": "So I'm migrating servers and need to match the ufw rules on the old server running 9.04 to the new one running 14.04. So on the 2nd column after typing <code>ufw status</code> where it says <code>ALLOW</code>, I'm noticing in 9.04 it just says the word ALLOW, and when attempting to set the same ru... | ufw configuration in Ubuntu 9.04 vs 14.04 | askubuntu | 2016-08-21T00:21:22.853 |
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"message": "I have tried to run Age of Empires 2 with wine using the virtual desktop feature to emulate a higher resolution screen. The game runs and the virtual desktop is indeed working, but it is running in a window and I can't find a way to make the virtual desktop fullscreen! This is a problem because th... | How to run the Wine virtual desktop fullscreen? | askubuntu | 2016-08-21T05:15:55.020 |
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"message": "Maybe I'm asking how to open an executable? I'm really not sure as their documentation seems sub-par. <a href=\"http://www.chemcraftprog.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\">See website for details- I've download the tarball and extracted, but there is no install script and I'm left absolutely confused. I'd ap... | How do I install ChemCraft on Ubuntu? | askubuntu | 2016-08-21T05:37:23.493 |
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"message": "I am trying to install a \"toolbox\" for a laser device (<a href=\"http://sicktoolbox.sourceforge.net/docs/sicktoolbox-quickstart.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://sicktoolbox.sourceforge.net/docs/sicktoolbox-quickstart.pdf)and I am getting this message when I try to build it (command in section 5.2):... | build with g++ fails: what does error: declaration of ‘.... throw ....’ has a different exception specifier ... mean | askubuntu | 2016-08-21T08:22:34.310 |
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"message": "A month ago I reinstalled my Ubuntu 14.04 and replaced it with Ubuntu 16.04.1(clean install). Some days later there was a kernel update and my computer became totally unbootable ('no boot device'). I tried BOOT-REPAIR from live media and reinstalled GRUB2 but boot menu appeared very ugly and hardl... | unbootable Windows 10 (dual boot U 16.04.1 and W10) | askubuntu | 2016-08-21T09:14:33.110 |
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"message": "I have an existing, live, Ubuntu server... supporting many services, that is working fine - but is installed on ageing hardware. I'd like to retain an (almost) identical configuration - on new hardware - but to adopt ZFS and RAID-Z in place of the existing software RAID and EXT-3 solution on the ... | Migrate from software-RAID & EXT3 to RAID-Z on new hardware? | askubuntu | 2016-08-21T10:54:22.177 |
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"message": "I would like to know how to remove Xubuntu 14.04 completely from the Computer without using the command line. I want it free of Xubuntu so that I can return this in the shop and buy a new one. The pre-installed OS is FreeDOS.",
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"message": "Boot to your live install ... | How do I remove Xubuntu 14.04 without the command line | askubuntu | 2016-08-21T12:05:21.417 |
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"message": "After the update today (announced as hardware update), my beloved wacom is not recognized anymore (well, the pen is somehow recognized, but in the settings section it says there is no wacom tablet connected). I am using a hp envy dv6 computer with Intel® Core™ i7-3630QM CPU @ 2.40GHz × 8, a geforc... | Ubuntu 14.04 is not recognizing my Wacom cintiq 13HD anymore after latest update | askubuntu | 2016-08-21T16:46:22.593 |
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"message": "What is the quickest way to quickly disable the standby feature when closing the lid? I very much like this behaviour but especially when playing music, I would like to close my lid without switching my machine into standby. However, I do not want to permanently disable this feature but just tempo... | How can I quickly disable standby lid off in Ubuntu Unity 16.04? | askubuntu | 2016-08-21T18:22:49.457 |
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"message": "I have a Mac Book Pro mid 2015 and I was using it with Windows 10 installed with Bootcamp. I have tried to install Ubuntu 16.04. I have resized my Mac partition to open space for Ubuntu and instaled it by following below two tutorials:<a href=\"https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MacBookPro12-1/Wily... | Mac OS X Windows and Ubuntu On Mac Book Pro Mid 2015 | askubuntu | 2016-08-21T21:02:11.177 |
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"message": "in the past I have dual booted Windows and Ubuntu however it was always a huge mess that I felt I had no control over. How does the MBR know which OS to boot from if they're on different drives? I have two SSD's. One which contains Windows 10, and right now the other one contains NO OS at the mome... | best way to dual boot Ubuntu with windows 10? | askubuntu | 2016-08-22T04:06:03.103 |
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"message": "im using ubuntu 14.04 and last time i have problems of upgrading the system.i was searching for a solution and found this one: sudo apt-get -y purge i was using it and in the end it says that i cannot delete any old kernels because it depends on linux-image-3.13.0-93-generic. So, i understood i ha... | Problem with upgrading system | askubuntu | 2016-08-22T06:40:03.337 |
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"message": "I have ubuntu 14.04.1 running with 3.13.0-93-generic kernel after a recent upgrade. UEFI is enabled from the begining. However I can see that some modules (e.g. virtualbox, DKMS) are not working and asking for disabling UEFI. My question is, if I disable UEFI from BIOS what will happen to the boot... | Disabling UEFI on a running Ubuntu system | askubuntu | 2016-08-22T08:23:16.950 |
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"message": "So I was just wondering about this and I couldn't find a sure answer online and I need to be sure. I have some libraries in my project like OpenCV. And the question is: after I build the release version of my project, will it run on Ubuntu computers that don't have qt or OpenCV libraries installed... | QT Creator release build | askubuntu | 2016-08-22T11:28:40.027 |
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"message": "I intended to create universal installer for distributing my qt5-based application on different Linux distributions. Currently I support building installation .deb packages than can be used on Ubuntu systems. But they can not be installed on plenty of Linux systems (e. g. RPM-based systems). But r... | Getting application dependencies for creating snap package | askubuntu | 2016-08-22T14:30:51.413 |
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"message": "<code>Xenial 16.04</code> arrived with preinstalled <code>snapd</code> package along with classic <code>apt/deb</code> packaging system. I've also observed these terms <code>snap</code>, <code>snappy</code>, <code>Ubuntu core</code> and <code>snappy Ubuntu core</code> appeals interchangeably. Is t... | Is there Comprehensive view on snap related and Ubuntu evolution? | askubuntu | 2016-08-22T17:21:44.763 |
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"message": "When I'm trying to update my system (Linux Ubuntu 16.04 LTS) through <code>Software Updater</code>, I receive the following error message:<pre><code>Failed to download repository informationCheck your Internet connection.</code></pre>First I thought it might be the server where it's trying to down... | Failed to download repository information (Software Updater) | askubuntu | 2016-08-22T17:38:14.837 |
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"message": "The default user in Ubuntu is \"ubuntu\" with no password. How can I change the name? I tried editing casper.conf, but it doesn't change anything. I heard someone say you have to recompile initrd.gz, but never explained how.Thanks in advance for anyone who knows how to do this.",
"role": "user... | How to change live ISO username | askubuntu | 2016-08-22T23:36:21.703 |
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"message": "My scenario is the following, need to create a network interface in Ubuntu using pptp (or other like OpenVpn or l2pt) without interfering with other interfaces, pptp would only be used with a command like this:<pre><code>wget http://ipinfo.io/ip -qO - --bind-address 10.200.21.3 </code></pre>(Where... | Create network interface using pptp vpn | askubuntu | 2016-08-24T03:23:45.863 |
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"message": "upgrading Ubuntu 14.04 to 16.04.1. Prompted with Replace the customized configuration file '/etc/default/rcS'?I am not sure what to do, keep or replace..? Thanks!",
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"message": "The <a href=\"http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/precise/man5/rcS.5.html\" rel=\"nofollo... | Replace the customized configuration file..? | askubuntu | 2016-08-24T04:23:52.573 |
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"message": "HP laserjet 1007/1008,HP laserjet 1020 printers we are unable to install on Ubuntu 14.04.It gets installed automatically i.e Plug & play & can be seen in printers but print is not going.",
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},
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"message": "Open a Terminal window and type: <blockquote> sudo apt... | HP Laserjet printer Installation issue | askubuntu | 2016-08-24T06:08:54.153 |
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"message": "The screen resolution of my monitor is 1920x1080 (since it could run at 1080p in Windows 7), but however it runs at 1024x768 in my Ubuntu 12.04.The output for <code>lspci | grep -i vga</code> is<pre><code>00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Device 1912 (rev 06)</code></pre>and the... | Cannot change screen resolution in ubuntu 12.04 | askubuntu | 2016-08-24T06:43:21.353 |
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