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348 | 1 | 450 | 2010-07-29T11:47:20.750 | 5 | 2540 | <p>When Ubuntu 10.4 was in alpha stage, there was pyjamas package, which didn't work. I posted a bug on launchpad and the only resolution, was removing this package altogether.</p>
<p>Does anyone know, how to easily install pyjamas on Ubuntu 10.4? I tried downloading debs from debian repositories, but there were some broken dependencies.</p>
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352 | 1 | 355 | 2010-07-29T12:09:07.897 | 13 | 13711 | <p>I've used <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/rdesktop/files/">rdesktop</a> in the past. Is there something better?</p>
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<p>Ideally at install time so I don't have to explain this to every user every time I set up a new machine.</p>
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358 | 1 | 368 | 2010-07-29T12:39:11.067 | 114 | 100717 | <p>Currently I use the character palette applet in gnome panel to put special characters into text.</p>
<p>This is okay, but I have to stop typing, select the character I want from the applet and then copy and paste.</p>
<p>Is there a way to simply type special characters with different key combinations? If so, how do I do it?</p>
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370 | 1 | 391 | 2010-07-29T13:28:12.877 | 5 | 8704 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/25609/remote-desktop-similar-to-teamviewer">Remote Desktop similar to Teamviewer?</a> </p>
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<p>I'm used to being able to help my parents through iChat screen sharing on OS X and Remote Assistance on Windows. Is there something that has the same workflow (no setup, works through NATs and firewalls) available for Ubuntu? I'd be very nervous about migrating them to Ubuntu without the ability to help them remotely.</p>
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374 | 1 | 385 | 2010-07-29T13:41:39.740 | 10 | 1645 | <p>I have all of them locked to the panel, but they keep moving around upon logging out and back in. So, for example, sometimes the Indicator Applet Session is farthest to the right, but sometimes the Clock/Calendar is, and occasionally the Notification Area is. This is a small issue, but annoying.</p>
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375 | 1 | 382 | 2010-07-29T13:45:04.600 | 6 | 2197 | <p>Currently, I can change themes and icons through the Appearance dialog, but this leaves things like the Skype, Dropbox, and Firestarter icons in the notification area unchanged. Where are these stored? How do I change them?</p>
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<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/25633/how-to-migrate-user-settings-and-data-to-new-machine">How to migrate user settings and data to new machine?</a> </p>
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395 | 1 | 396 | 2010-07-29T14:45:12.053 | 21 | 35008 | <p>How can I reset my keyboard layout after modifying it with <code>xkbcomp</code>?</p>
<p>Is there a way to do this without restarting X?</p>
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<p>Is it possible to greatly extend the usage time of a laptop or notebook running on battery by disabling various services and installing various packages?</p>
<p>What tricks or tips do people have for getting an extra hour or two out of their batteries?</p>
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405 | 1 | 491 | 2010-07-29T17:04:00.667 | 32 | 10646 | <p>When I insert a thumb drive, media card, or USB hard drive, to unmount it via the command line, I need to use:</p>
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In case it has changed, I am running 9.04. I've run most versions 5.10--9.04, and as far as I recall, it has always been this way.</p>
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406 | 1 | null | 2010-07-29T17:04:58.450 | 9 | 2323 | <p>My laptop's keyboard has keys that don't do anything when I press them. How would I enable the keys, and add functionality to them?</p>
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417 | 1 | 419 | 2010-07-29T17:36:52.767 | 49 | 91378 | <p>I want to have both KDE and Gnome shells on Ubuntu. Ubuntu only has Gnome installed by default. How do I install KDE?</p>
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422 | 1 | null | 2010-07-29T17:48:22.700 | 12 | 4505 | <p>What book would you recommend as a reference for Ubuntu server administration?</p>
<p>I'd like to not limit this to server-edition. I'm biased toward development environments that need to strike a balance somewhere between desktop & server.</p>
<p><em>One book per answer, please - vote answers up/down as you feel appropriate. If you feel the book is biased towards/good for particular tasks, please mention them.</em></p>
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426 | 1 | null | 2010-07-29T18:53:38.887 | 12 | 5831 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/64788/how-to-install-ms-internet-explorer-7-8-or-9">How to install MS Internet Explorer 7, 8 or 9?</a> </p>
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<p>Is it possible to get IE8 running in Ubuntu? It seems quite feasible to me, as I had gotten IE7 to run via Wine awhile back after reading a blog tutorial. However, for some reason that seems to be broken now, and I'd like to upgrade it anyway in order to test my web development endeavors more thoroughly.</p>
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427 | 1 | 430 | 2010-07-29T19:07:12.930 | 38 | 29014 | <p>There are several programs only available on Windows. </p>
<p>Wine can be a negative experience, so I want to run Windows inside Ubuntu using a virtual machine. It seems that Virtualbox is the standard way, but I don't have any experience with it.</p>
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442 | 1 | 448 | 2010-07-29T20:39:03.040 | 20 | 2904 | <p>I use Thunderbird instead of Evolution for my mail client, so I'd prefer if I could replace Evolution with Thunderbird in the messaging component of the Indicator applet. Does anyone know how to do this?</p>
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443 | 1 | 445 | 2010-07-29T20:48:56.153 | 53 | 147011 | <p>I want to install a package (DigiKam), but it has a lot of dependencies. If I decide I no longer need this software and uninstall it, will the now unnessary dependencies be removed?</p>
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447 | 1 | 2108 | 2010-07-29T21:00:09.010 | 435 | 708662 | <p>Is there a way I can see all the versions that are in the archives that I have configured in <strong>sources.list</strong>. I can see the last version of each archive with<code>apt-get policy</code>, but how can I see them all?</p>
<p>Is there any way that this can also include <em>PPA</em> and anything in <em>sources.list.d</em>?</p>
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454 | 1 | 777 | 2010-07-29T22:09:14.150 | 10 | 1529 | <p>I've been manually applying patches to Wine for use on my own machine, but I want to put it in a PPA for my friends and relations.</p>
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<p>This is fine for creating a package that will run on my local machine. However I now want to distribute this custom build to others via a PPA.</p>
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456 | 1 | null | 2010-07-29T23:01:14.360 | 11 | 9961 | <p>How do I make Evolution keep checking my emails and notifying in the indicator applet without keeping the main UI open?</p>
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<p>Thanks</p>
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460 | 1 | 559 | 2010-07-30T00:38:58.267 | 7 | 12928 | <p>I have a <strong>Xubuntu Lucid 10.04</strong> computer plugged in to my TV. I use the command line to administrate it.</p>
<p>Right now when I hit the power button it just opens a Logout screen.</p>
<p>How can I set it up so that I can <strong>shut it down by hitting the power button</strong>?
I know it has something to do with acpi or acpid.</p>
<p><em><strong>I want answers to be command-line only</strong> as I do not have any keyboard or mouse connected to that computer.</em></p>
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<h2>Edit:</h2>
<p>Isn't there a way to modify the <strong>default behavior</strong> of the <strong>xfce4 power manager when pushing the power button?</strong></p>
<p>Also instead of using the GUI to do so, can I do it by <strong>creating/modifying a configuration file?</strong></p>
<p>jbowtie had an interesting answer but I cannot find the xfce4-power-manager.xml file. If someone knows where to find that file or how to create it, I would be interested.</p>
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463 | 1 | 666 | 2010-07-30T01:10:19.680 | 10 | 2873 | <p>I have no trouble connecting to my FTP server by going to <strong>Places > Connect to server...</strong></p>
<p>I can then browse the FTP site to my heart's content with Nautilus for a few minutes.</p>
<p>After a few minutes of inactivity, if I try to bring up a folder on the site, Nautilus just displays a blank page.</p>
<p>The only remedy is to unmount the FTP site and reconnect.</p>
<p>This is quite annoying - is there some timeout issue at play here? Is there some way that I can prevent this from happening?</p>
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465 | 1 | 466 | 2010-07-30T01:47:53.943 | 15 | 5786 | <p>I read on <a href="http://www.neowin.net/news/ubuntu-implements-units-policy-will-switch-to-base-10-units-in-future-release">somewhere</a> that Ubuntu will no longer use the familiar file size units we all know by now (kB, MB, GB, TB) and switch to a different IEC standard (KiB, MiB, GiB, TiB). If this is true, I would like to know what's the reasoning behind this change, and the impact (if any) this change has, especially with multiplatform applications or applications run with Wine.</p>
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<p>The <a href="http://www.hackido.com/2009/01/install-sphinx-search-on-ubuntu.html">install from source</a> is super easy, but it would be nice to have it under package management.</p>
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474 | 1 | 476 | 2010-07-30T03:43:12.380 | 18 | 17824 | <p>I have a growing music collection which I manually keep in sync with an external USB drive. Sometimes I edit their ID3 tags, add or delete a file in either the hard drive or the USB drive, and I would like to keep those changes synchronized between both.</p>
<p>Does Ubuntu has something available that would help me with this scenario? Preferably something easy to use with a UI.</p>
<p><strong>Update</strong>: To clarify my question, changes may happen on both the local hard drive or the USB drive, so the sync process must be on both directions.</p>
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477 | 1 | 478 | 2010-07-30T04:46:26.137 | 9 | 10657 | <p>So I just got a nice little home server (not 100% a server, it's also destined to run a few GUI jobs, but, mostly) configured to my specs, and it came with Ubuntu 10.4 pre-installed by the guys who put it together (who aren't Ubuntu specialists, but do that for customers who don't want to purchase Windows).</p>
<p>Now, I'd like to check (and perhaps modify) exactly how they installed it (maybe it would be wiser to reinstall from scratch, but first I'd like to understand exactly how it's configured now, anyway).</p>
<p>In particular, how do I check if and how LVM is installed/configured? I'd prefer a command-line approach, but GUIs are fine too -- and pointers to docs and tutorials on the subject are welcome too.</p>
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481 | 1 | 482 | 2010-07-30T08:10:55.430 | 756 | 630725 | <p>Simple enough question: is there some shell command (or GUI method) I can use that, given the path to a file on my system, tells me what package put it there? Assuming the file did in fact come from a package, that is.</p>
<p>Bonus question: what if it's a file that isn't installed on my system? Is there, say, a website that will let me look up a file and see what packages, if any, provide it?</p>
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"text": "Like [in superuser](https://superuser.com/a/467513/500826) and [in unix.SE](https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/394607/209677), this is the best alternative. [Here](https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/191983/209677) the alternative if package is not installed. If you get _dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern_ [try this](https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/159001/how-to-find-the-package-that-installed-a-comand-if-dpkg-s-finds-no-path-beca/159002#159002) `dpkg -S \"$(readlink -fn \"$(which free)\")\"` (or a `dpkg -S command` but you'll other things).",
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493 | 1 | 10727 | 2010-07-30T14:21:24.097 | 8 | 1064 | <p>I tried to install the provider plugin for thunderbird, but it said my release was too old. I have the lastest release of thunderbird in the lucid archives.</p>
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500 | 1 | 503 | 2010-07-30T15:30:56.593 | 100 | 88867 | <p>My machine can't play encrypted DVDs on a fresh install. How do I add this capability? Another useful bit of information would be what programs are best for playing DVDs, once I'm able to do so. See the <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/198/what-video-players-do-you-recommend-for-ubuntu">similar question here</a>. Will I be able to play DVD movies from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dvd_region" rel="noreferrer">any region</a>?</p>
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"text": "I tried the commands in this answer but could only get some DVDs to play. City of God doesn't play in VLC on Ubuntu but does on same machine booted into Windows, with VLC. http://superuser.com/questions/199963/ubuntu-10-x-playing-all-dvd-videos-via-a-simple-gui-app-precise-instructions-re",
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"text": "@TheEpicstarlord, I'd try [the answer](https://askubuntu.com/a/892167/130) below which seems to be up to date for 16.04.",
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"text": "@TheEpicstarlord make sure the [universe section](https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=libdvdread4&searchon=names&suite=trusty§ion=all) of your main Ubuntu repositories [are enabled](https://askubuntu.com/questions/148638/how-do-i-enable-the-universe-repository).",
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"text": "@MichaelCrenshaw Will do: It's a brand new DVD (released this year)... I suspect there's some codec/DRM shenanigans obstructing my view. :)",
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501 | 1 | 510 | 2010-07-30T15:33:55.393 | 44 | 17636 | <p>I'd like to learn and use LaTeX on Ubuntu. What packages do I need? What is the best editor for LaTeX code on Ubuntu for a new LaTeX user? I'd also like the ability to see the code in one pane and the results in a second pane, if possible -- not necessarily WYSIWYG, though. </p>
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"text": "I recommend **TeXstudio**: is is based on Texmaker, but is open-source and has additional functions to make life easier.\nhttp://texstudio.sourceforge.net/",
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517 | 1 | 518 | 2010-07-30T17:20:34.607 | 7 | 4758 | <p>and what schedule/sysadmin routine is recommended?</p>
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519 | 1 | 520 | 2010-07-30T18:30:26.597 | 56 | 193828 | <p>Does anyone know how to write a shell script to install a list of applications? It's a pain to have to install each application by hand every time I set up a new system.</p>
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It still asks me <code>Do you want to continue [Y/n]?</code>. Is there a way to have the script input <code>y</code> or for it not to prompt for input? </p>
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522 | 1 | 523 | 2010-07-30T19:18:52.450 | 11 | 479 | <p>Both my desktop and server installation are okay. Am I missing something important that would make an upgrade worth the hassle?</p>
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527 | 1 | 531 | 2010-07-30T22:30:31.043 | 9 | 2777 | <p>I've seen some folks have errors relating to files in <code>/var/lib/dpkg/updates</code>. All I can find about the directory is that the files in it are numbered <code>0000</code>, <code>0001</code> etc. and that the error messages often mention "trouble parsing one of the files".</p>
<p><code>/var/lib/dpkg/updates</code> folder is empty on my system, so I can't see what's in the files. I've not been able to find information about what is stored in this directory, only many forum posts and bug reports mentioning the directory. </p>
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529 | 1 | 532 | 2010-07-31T00:33:04.720 | 56 | 72417 | <p>I would like to set up an APT repository on a server that will provide a couple of packages.</p>
<p>Is there a way to set one up <em>without</em> installing any software on the server?</p>
<p>How do the files have to be organized?</p>
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<p><strong>Edit:</strong> I must be doing something wrong... can someone please help me? I have the repository at <a href="http://quickmediasolutions.com/apt/dists" rel="noreferrer">http://quickmediasolutions.com/apt/dists</a></p>
<p>I'm not sure where or what, but something's misconfigured. I only currently have one package and it's for all architectures.</p>
<p>Here's what's been added to my <code>/etc/apt/sources.list</code>:</p>
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533 | 1 | 548 | 2010-07-31T01:17:59.520 | 5 | 3454 | <p>Is installing the tree command line utility on Ubuntu server has security issues? It's not included by default on the server.</p>
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537 | 1 | 558 | 2010-07-31T01:54:21.163 | 2 | 6699 | <p>I just can't seem to get the .net 2.0 Framework installed using <code>wine</code> / <code>winetricks</code>.</p>
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540 | 1 | 541 | 2010-07-31T05:39:42.453 | 42 | 28762 | <p>at college we use Microsoft .NET for developing applications. I recently switched to Ubuntu and would like to know similar tools for making apps on/for ubuntu.</p>
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557 | 1 | 612 | 2010-07-31T13:07:23.380 | 4 | 4443 | <p>Ever since I reinstalled Ubuntu a few hours ago, I've experienced major visual artifacts with smaller font sizes in Firefox. The fonts end up looking like this: </p>
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<p>Or even like this:</p>
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<p>This only occurs in Firefox; other applications are unaffected. It also occurred on the LiveUSB I used for installation, making me suspect a hardware or driver issue. The output of lshw on my computer is here: <a href="http://pastebin.com/LnSt6veT" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://pastebin.com/LnSt6veT</a>.</p>
<p>Any idea what might be causing this, or how I can fix it? </p>
<p>... and "Use Google Chrome" is not a valid answer. ;)</p>
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561 | 1 | null | 2010-07-31T15:20:32.513 | 57 | 337595 | <p>I installed Firestarter, and configured my firewall.</p>
<p>But I'm in doubt : On boot, I sometimes see a [FAIL] marker, and to the left, I guess it was something like "start firewall". I can't be sure because the message is seen for less than a second, so I wanted to know if there is a way, without starting the whole firestarter software, to know if the firewall is on and working, or not.</p>
<p>Either a gadget, or better, some console instruction, the exact name of the firewall process/daemon, or bash script, will do.</p>
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564 | 1 | 587 | 2010-07-31T15:47:36.993 | 8 | 1357 | <p>I like to use Debootstrap for making sparse systems (usually a base for something embedded) or paravirtualized Xen guests.</p>
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565 | 1 | 573 | 2010-07-31T15:54:14.823 | 29 | 4536 | <p>When I first migrated from Windows to Ubuntu, by far the most daunting thing I had to do was use the command line.</p>
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571 | 1 | 572 | 2010-07-31T16:13:22.703 | 12 | 2106 | <p>Does anyone know of a PPA that has the development version of GIMP?
I would like to try out the new single window mode.</p>
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<p>This question exists because it has historical significance, but it is not considered a good, on-topic question for this site, so please do not use it as evidence that you can ask similar questions here.</p>
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<p>What free ebooks do you recommend to learn more about Ubuntu? </p>
<p><em>One book per answer, please - vote answers up/down as you feel appropriate. If you feel the book is biased towards/good for particular tasks, please mention them.</em></p>
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579 | 1 | null | 2010-07-31T17:33:24.360 | 28 | 1636 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/174292/how-can-i-move-all-the-window-controls-to-the-right">How can I move all the window controls to the right?</a> </p>
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<p>How can I move the window buttons to the right?</p>
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583 | 1 | 584 | 2010-07-31T17:54:37.707 | 3 | 2888 | <p>I have Windows 7. I want to run Ubuntu inside it and don't want to loose any data.. How can I do this?</p>
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"text": "+1 for virtualbox. Its free and in my experience works better under ubuntu than Wmware. Also virtualbox is used by the TestDrive project for used for testing latest Ubuntu development snapshots so its support under Ubuntu is better than Vmware.",
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594 | 1 | null | 2010-07-31T21:00:18.010 | 75 | 4394 | <p>Add blogs and websites that are useful in the quest to know/learn more about Ubuntu.</p>
<p><em>One blog per answer, please - you can vote answers up/down as you feel appropriate. If you feel the blog is biased towards or is good for particular tasks, please mention them.</em></p>
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601 | 1 | 602 | 2010-07-31T21:59:22.357 | 1696 | 1808126 | <p>I just added a PPA repository for the development version of the GIMP, but I get this error:</p>
<pre><code>$ apt-get update && apt-get upgrade
...
The following packages have been kept back:
gimp gimp-data libgegl-0.0-0 libgimp2.0
</code></pre>
<p>Why and how can I solve it so that I can use the latest version instead of the one I have now?</p>
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"text": "As this is an accepted answer needs, it really needs updating to warn about using `dist-upgrade` on a stable system as many of the other answers below have pointed out. Personally I think there is a simpler/safer answer that needs promoted: [apt-get install <list of pkgs>](http://askubuntu.com/a/185402/8570)",
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"text": "Cas, should I just add that it could be dangerous to run a dist-upgrade on a stable system? Why exactly is that dangerous? (I honestly don't know apt all that well.)",
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"text": "There is a [Server Fault answer](http://serverfault.com/a/46749/82301) that explains dist-upgrade in a bit more detail. I think its just worth clarifying (not dangerous as such) that it may upgrade the entire system which may be beyond what the user expects/wants i.e. in the OP example they are wondering why gimp is being held back.",
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"text": "Please note that `sudo apt-get dist-upgrade` can also **remove** packages. Consequently, it's best always to inspect the list of changes that will be made before agreeing to them, when running `sudo apt-get dist-upgrade`.",
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"text": "I've extended the note warning that dist-upgrade is dangerous. I'm not very satisfied with what I've written. But I want a much more emphatic warning",
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"text": "i had to use `dist-upgrade` to resume a failed `release-upgrade` the `release-upgrade` failed because of a previously broken package and after fixing that problem the only way to resume the remaining package upgrade was via `dist-upgrade`",
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"text": "@EliahKagan May I add that even `apt-get upgrade` can remove packages? It will always do that when there would be a version conflict otherwise. Think of `llvm3.6` vs. `llvm3.6v5` (with the \"v5\" meaning that it was compiled with `gcc 5`). These two __cannot co-exist__, only either of both can be kept on the system. So yes `dist-upgrade` may remove some packages as well, but it's not only `dist-upgrade` that would do this; under certain circumstances, `upgrade` would, as well.",
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"text": "If you tried `dist-upgrade` and some packages are still \"kept back\", you can try diagnosing the issue with `sudo apt-get install <package>`; you may find that it is failing because some dependencies are unresolvable (which `dist-upgrade` alone apparently will not tell you)",
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"text": "The graphical tool that offers you to upgrade your computer software that appears every day there are new software available... does an `apt-get dist-upgrade` every single time. It has nothing to do with upgrading to a new version of the OS (i.e. going from 12.04 to 14.04). It is more a form of distinction between kernel upgrades and other upgrades. In any event, you always want to do a dist-upgrade unless you need to keep running with some old version of software.",
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"text": "There is less dangerous option, which does not need listing every package manually: `sudo apt-get --with-new-pkgs upgrade` from http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/38837/what-does-the-following-packages-have-been-kept-back-mean",
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"text": "I just attempted to upgrade from 14.04LTS to 16.04LTS. somehow i just got scared that i was lagging behind. so, if we can't upgrade smoothly, i wonder whats the point of keeping our systems. I wonder whether its advizeable tostay on LTS.",
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"text": "@mac9416, you said \"Think of it as upgrading from Ubuntu 12.04 to 14.04\". Do you mean this literally? Will `sudo apt-get dist-upgrade` change which release of Ubuntu I am using?",
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"text": "@dinosaur it was a confusing analogy, so I edited it out. `dist-upgrade` does not change the release, because your sources.list files do not change. [This answer](https://askubuntu.com/questions/194651/why-use-apt-get-upgrade-instead-of-apt-get-dist-upgrade) should help you out.",
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"text": "`apt-get install` will also mark packages as manually installed, you may not want that. They wont un-install when you remove the package that depends on them.",
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"text": "@syntaxerror Sorry, I just saw this. What you've described is precisely the situation where one must use `dist-upgrade`. *Running `apt-get upgrade` does not remove packages.* As [the `apt-get` manual page](http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/xenial/en/man8/apt-get.8.html) says in the description of the `upgrade` action: \"Packages currently installed with new versions available are retrieved and upgraded; under no circumstances are currently installed packages removed, or packages not already installed retrieved and installed.\" So `dist-upgrade` is *categorically* more powerful than `upgrade`.",
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"text": "FYI, I tried the \"cautious\" method, apt-get install, and because i'm explicitly teling it to install a certain package, apt feels justified to remove others... You do get a chance to say \"no, lets not go that way\". \nI got into this mess with an apt-get autoremove that removed a \"no longer necessary\" package and now two packages are \"kept back\" and upgrading either will remove 12-15 other packages. Odd.",
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"text": "@rew the plot thickens. [this comment](https://askubuntu.com/questions/601/the-following-packages-have-been-kept-back-why-and-how-do-i-solve-it/602?noredirect=1#comment1618662_185402) agrees apt-get install removes packages. I'm honestly stumped now which is the \"safer\" solution.",
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"text": "The first “cautious” option, will also mark packages as manually installed. This may have a detrimental affect when installing another package that depends on them. E.g. You did `apt install games` then one day `pingus` is held back, so you do the fix, then next week you do `apt remove games`. But `pingus` will not be removed, as it was manually installed.",
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"text": "@ctrl-alt-delor is there a scenario where that \"sticky\" package will cause other (truly damaging) package management issues? Or does it just add the inconvenience of having to run an additional `apt remove pingus` to force the removal of that package?",
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"text": "@mac9416 Probably not. Let me have a go at a scinario. What if it was a library, then it caused you to remove some library by mistake.",
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"text": "Installing the kept package helped me also with open-vm-tools. Thank you for the solution and explanation.",
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"text": "@ctrl-alt-delor I feel like that's solved by just keeping an eye on the list of packages to be removed when you manually uninstall (for example) pingus.",
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"text": "@mac9416 if you want to do the job of apt, then you can do this. However I am not a computer, so I let apt manage my dependencies.",
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"text": "@ctrl-alt-delor if you're upgrading \"kept-back\" packages, you're already dabbling in the role of \"human package manager\" by altering its default behavior.",
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"text": "@mac9416 this answer https://askubuntu.com/a/862799/10473 is better. Dabble as little as possible. The argument that I dabbled a little, so I dabble a lot, is not valid. If you are just trying to legitimise your own dabbling, by telling others to do like wise, then please realise that you are legitimate and loved. You can do what ever you want on your own system.",
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"text": "@ctrl-alt-delor, that does look like a better solution. I'll edit to point folks further down the page.",
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"text": "I wonder if some of those actions in ubuntu LTS would break the LTS guaranty.",
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"text": "First solution doesn't work at all, it just does nothing then says again \"following packages have been kept back...\"",
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"text": "I think something might have changed about the mechanism, because for me, dist-upgrade actually did nothing and it was the regular install command that asked me to remove the :i386 version of a package. Luckily, apt reports in detail what packages it affects and so I could successfully update the package that was being held back.",
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"text": "In my case even `dist-upgrade` didn't do anything (at least it didn't do any damage). I had to use **both** \"Cautious solution #1\" and \"Cautious solution #2\" in that sequence.",
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"text": "\"Unlike you, APT isn't always smart enough to know whether these additions and removals could wreak havoc.\" I've been using Ubuntu for 10+ years and I still don't know what 90% of the packages do when I update/upgrade, which is why I rely on the package manger. I have no idea what's using `libsmbclient` or `libfreerdp-client2-2:amd64` or `bamfdaemon` is doing. I've come to this answer many times and been frustrated by the warning of `dist-upgrade`, which I always considered to be safe.",
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"text": "@geneorama very fair criticism. 12+ years after writing this answer, I'm so far removed from APT internals that I'm not super confident in what's written there. Unless an APT developer can hop in and make authoritative edits (or someone w/ good references), I'm inclined to leave the answer as-is, especially since the \"warn about `dist-upgrade` comment has 208 upvotes. But I share your frustration with the aggressive warning having so little to support it.",
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"text": "@MichaelCrenshaw For the records, I appreciate your wonderful answer and follow up comments. Your first suggestion of installing the packages solved my \"kept back\" issue this time, but I know it hasn't in the past. I've installed R a dozen different ways, and I get this kept back thing often. I've also run dist-upgrade without obvious issue for about 10 years now. I still feel like a Linux Noob and I try to keep my important files in the cloud where they're safe from me.",
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"text": "`sudo apt-get install <list of packages kept back>` did it for me. Thanks!",
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613 | 1 | 616 | 2010-08-01T02:43:51.123 | 5 | 266 | <p>So I tried following the steps <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PackagingGuide/Complete" rel="nofollow">here</a> to create a package to upload to my PPA. I ran <code>dh_make</code> and edited the files. However, when my package gets generated by <code>debuild</code>, none of the programs files show up in the package.</p>
<p>Here is the output of <code>debuild</code>:</p>
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<p>...<br>
dpkg-source: warning: ignoring deletion of directory share<br>
dpkg-source: warning: ignoring deletion of directory share/pixmaps<br>
...</p>
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<p>Here is what the filesystem looks like:</p>
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<p>build_root<br>
- <i>packagename</i>_1.2.orig.tar.gz<br>
- <i>packagename</i>-1.2<br>
- debian<br>
- control<br>
...</p>
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<p>The application is written in Python, if that means anything.</p>
<hr>
<p><strong>Edit:</strong></p>
<p>Here is what the <code><i>packagename</i>_1.2.orig.tar.gz</code> looks like:</p>
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<p><i>packagename</i>-1.2<br>
- src<br>
- somefile.py<br>
- someotherfilefile.py<br>
- images<br>
- test.png</p>
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<hr>
<p>Unfortunately, I'm still struggling...</p>
<p>Here is my <code>debian/rules</code> file:</p>
<pre><code>#!/usr/bin/make -f
# -*- makefile -*-
# Uncomment this to turn on verbose mode.
#export DH_VERBOSE=1
%:
dh $@
override_dh_auto_build:
override_dh_auto_install:
</code></pre>
<p>...and here is my <code>package.install</code> file:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>src/myapp.server /usr/lib/bonobo/servers<br>
src/myapp /usr/lib/myapp<br>
images/test.png /usr/share/test</p>
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"text": "@umang: I posted the contents above. Still can't get it working.",
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"text": "@umang: Never mind. I fixed it. Thanks for your help!",
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"text": "Don't know whether this is what you did, but in `foo.install` you should start the second address with a forward slash. i.e. use `usr/share/foo` instead of `/usr/share/foo`. Glad I could help!",
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615 | 1 | 618 | 2010-08-01T05:00:24.883 | 72 | 59460 | <blockquote>
<p>At this time, <strong>Wubi does not work with Windows 8</strong> default boot-loader. Thus at this point Wubi would not work on a new Windows 8 machine.</p>
<p><sub>Citation fom <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WubiGuide">WubiGuide</a></sub></p>
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<h1>Question</h1>
<p>Recently I've learned of <a href="http://wubi-installer.org/">Wubi</a>, a way to install Ubuntu right from Windows.</p>
<p>Besides installing from Windows, I would like to know key differences between a regular "alongside Windows" or Dual-boot Ubuntu installation and one done with Wubi. Are there any disadvantages (for example a performance penalty) or incompatibilities I should look out for when using Wubi?</p>
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617 | 1 | 634 | 2010-08-01T06:01:47.583 | 2 | 636 | <p>I have a brand new ipod nano, and if I plug it in to my media center running Ubuntu 9.10, it gets mounted and I can see it in Nautilus.</p>
<p>Banshee, however, does not list it anywhere. Under preferences/extensions, I've checked that the ipod plugin is enabled.</p>
<p>Rhythmbox could see it okay. I found some forums suggesting uninstalling Rythmbox might help, but it hasn't.</p>
<p>Any other suggestions about why Banshee won't see it?
Is the ipod too new?
Thanks.</p>
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620 | 1 | 633 | 2010-08-01T07:12:03.567 | 3 | 1060 | <p>In trying to sort out <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/613/trouble-creating-a-package-for-my-ppa">this</a> issue, I have run into the following problem.</p>
<p>I have a Python script that gets installed to <code>/usr/lib/</code>. But I need to get this script into a build system so that I can get it working with my package.</p>
<p>Any help would be appreciated. Although I've worked a bit with Makefiles when writing C++ applications before, I've never created any kind of Makefile for Python files (nor do I even know where to start).</p>
<p>How would I go about setting up a build system for my app?</p>
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622 | 1 | 623 | 2010-08-01T08:21:36.507 | 55 | 80799 | <p>Back in the dark days when I used to run windows I used to use MindJet Mindmanager and I found it to be very good.
Since I have been using Ubuntu as my main operating system I have been trying to find a replacement mind map software to use but have not had any luck finding a good replacment.
So far I have tried VYM, kdisset and Semantik. I have either found them not to be very good or have a nasty habit of crashing. </p>
<p>So I was wondering could anyone recommend good mind mapping software to use under Ubuntu?</p>
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631 | 1 | 19696 | 2010-08-01T13:26:04.877 | 10 | 9367 | <p>I was wondering what is the best way to start the guest session from the login screen (GDM).</p>
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<p>The problem with this method, is that when you log in as 'ubuntu-guest', you have to start up two gnome sessions: one for 'ubuntu-guest' and one for the actual guest account.</p>
<p>Please let me know if you have any other better ideas. Thanks!</p>
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635 | 1 | 36904 | 2010-08-01T15:50:54.087 | 52 | 29940 | <p>I have installed Ubuntu on my D: partition using Wubi. Is there any way in which I can remove my Windows from C: drive and move my existing Ubuntu installation to C: drive and make it a regular install.</p>
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641 | 1 | 643 | 2010-08-01T18:54:38.573 | 10 | 2721 | <p>I have a Brother HL-2040 plugged into my Ubuntu 10.04 machine and an HP DeskJet 6540 plugged into a Windows 7 machine on the same network. Out of the box the Windows machine does not see the Ubuntu-attached printer and the Ubuntu machine does not see the Windows-attached printer. </p>
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642 | 1 | 938 | 2010-08-01T19:18:44.717 | 55 | 39470 | <p>I am currently doing some experimental work and I have a lot of data to trawl though. I use Gnumeric, and it's very good, but often I feel there has to be something better.</p>
<p>Ideally I would like the maximum number of features with a minimal learning curve, but really I'd just like to know if there is something better than Gnumeric that I can use for manipulating and plotting data.</p>
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645 | 1 | 661 | 2010-08-01T19:46:45.070 | 258 | 668214 | <p>Is it possible to reset the connection of a USB device, without physically disconnecting/connecting from the PC? </p>
<p>Specifically, my device is a digital camera. I'm using <code>gphoto2</code>, but lately I get "device read errors", so I'd like to try to do a software-reset of the connection. </p>
<p>From what I can tell, there are no kernel modules being loaded for the camera. The only one that looks related is <code>usbhid</code>.</p>
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"text": "See my answer here https://askubuntu.com/a/988297/558070 that uses the same method of reset as this answer but also allows simplified listing of and searching for devices.",
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"text": "At least in Debian 10 and Ubuntu 20.04 there is no need to self-compile - /usr/bin/usbreset is part of the package usbutils. Note that this one uses device ID's instead Bus/Dev-number - simply call 'usbreset 0fe9:9010' in the above case.",
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647 | 1 | 7684 | 2010-08-01T20:17:40.567 | 28 | 13551 | <p>Does anyone know of a good way to set up some sort of parental controls so that one user account is subject to them, but not another?</p>
<p>A couple of friends of mine use Ubuntu and have kids (7 to 10 years old) who use the family computer. They'd like to have some blocking of adult sites. They're not going to supervise all the time, which I know might be ideal, but there we go. And they're not particularly technical, so they don't want to have to run scripts to turn the parental controls on and off regularly, but they can cope with having different accounts for different people. I haven't found a great way of doing this. I am pretty technical, so I'm happy to spend some time at the command line to set it up, but then it needs to just work.</p>
<p>Please don't just link to DansGuardian. If your answer doesn't address the different user account aspect, I will vote it down. If you want to talk about general parental controls that apply to all users then please start a new question - I'm sure that plenty of people would be interested in it, and I'll link to it from this question.</p>
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656 | 1 | 668 | 2010-08-02T00:21:36.603 | 29 | 63140 | <p>My <code>/usr</code> folder needs to get moved to a new partition. How can I do this without erasing the contents?</p>
<p>Can this be done while Ubuntu is running, or do I need to use the LiveCD for this?</p>
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"text": "Could I use this guide to do the opposite. I mean move the /usr folder to root partition?",
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"text": "@MarcoCeppi Could you expand on that? Maybe give a variant answer that uses `rsync` instead?",
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"text": "Replace cp command with `rsync -avz`. Rsync allows you to restart copies and should generally be used when moving between partitions, block devices, or machines.",
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"text": "Also I left off the `-f` when I did `sudo rm -r /mnt/usr` as an extra safeguard against **bad things**.",
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"text": "Do NOT use `cp`. It doesn't preserve HARD LINKS. This **will break** package upgrades in future. For example `/usr/bin/s2p` and `/usr/bin/psed` is the same file. Moving with `cp` will create 2 independent versions of that file. Do `rsync -aH` instead.",
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"text": "CAN SOMEONE POST A REAL EXAMPLE OF THIS? So many commands posted, but nobody isn't going into detail on how to do it, for example, how should a real case command look like? I've used rsync -avz, and it created \"usr\" folder on my new partition. Is that okay, or should contents of the folder be directly there, without the \"usr\" folder on the actual partition?",
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"text": "I did exactly as you told above, but after I reboot I just can't get something right. My SD card are mounted on `/usr` thats all right. But I don't have wifi and powermanager and so on. I don't think it is because `/etc/fstab` since I exchange the `/ mounted` and `/usr mounted` there is still the problem. Even when I don't mount just a `ln -s`, it also won't work. All I can do is to preserve the former `/usr` and `mount sd to /usr` **manually** after startup and that is annoying. Can you solve this? Thanks",
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"text": "@RonPiggott if you read the [fstab man page](http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man5/fstab.5.html) you'll learn that : `This field is used by fsck(8) to determine the order in which filesystem checks are done at boot time. The root filesystem should be specified with a fs_passno of 1. Other filesystems should have a fs_passno of 2.` So stick with 2 for your home partition",
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"text": "I can't delete original /usr folder, I deleted everything in it but `rm -rf /mnt/usr` gives me `rm: cannot remove '/mnt/usr/': Device or resource busy`, even after reboot :/",
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"text": "It's better to use find follow by cpio, such as `find . -depth -print0 | cpio --null -pvdm /usr_new/` because some partitions have block devices, binds, mounts, other kinda files. So with find you can manage what kinda files u will need to copy. Finally, do not forget to validate that previous to copy the files non of them are being used, this can be checked with `lsof /usr/`.",
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669 | 1 | 670 | 2010-08-02T13:43:37.763 | 25 | 12775 | <p>Having just written an answer about <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/656/how-to-move-usr-to-a-new-partition/668#668">moving /usr to a new partition</a> I was wondering about deleting files once a new partition has been mounted. To use the example from the question, is it possible to mount a new partition on <code>/usr</code> and then delete all the files under <code>/usr</code> on the root partition to free up space on the root partition.</p>
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671 | 1 | 1264 | 2010-08-02T14:10:35.763 | 8 | 2087 | <p>Recently I upgraded from 8.04 LTS to 10.04. </p>
<p>The previous version had some problems regarding screen settings. X only recognised 1024x768 as resolution of my monitor, mainly because the monitor was not identified correctly. </p>
<p>With 10.04 the monitor and its resolutions are identified correctly and the system chooses a better resolution. </p>
<p>But now the fonts seem blurry. They are hard to read. I tried a larger font size which improves the situation a bit. I also played around with <code>nvidia-settings</code>. If I choose 1024x768 again, the fonts look good.
Also some resolutions with specific refresh rates seem better. Another thing I tried was to change hinting settings. However the best variant was already chosen.</p>
<p>So I've run out of ideas for a solution. Do you have any hints? </p>
<p>My graphics card is nVidia Corporation C68 GeForce 7050 PV / nForce 630a (rev a2).</p>
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<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/166542/copy-to-and-move-to-context-menu-options-in-nautilus">“Copy to” and “Move to” context menu options in Nautilus</a> </p>
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<p>In Gnome (version 2.30.2), when I right click on a file, one of the options is "Move to -> [Home folder, Desktop]". Is it possible to add other directories to the list of options?</p>
<p>The only information I've been able to find is this:</p>
<p><a href="http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/24730/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/24730/</a></p>
<p>From that I get the impression that it is not possible.</p>
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676 | 1 | 1074 | 2010-08-02T16:21:33.370 | 7 | 3539 | <p>I'd like to have a Samba server that appears as a Primary Domain Controller (PDC) to a bunch of windows lab computers. But instead of having the users have accounts with passwords stored on this Samba PDC, I'd like to have all the account information stored on our functioning LDAP server.</p>
<p>So, when a user logs into a Windows lab machine, they can do so with their LDAP username and password. If I have to change their password, I just have to do it in the LDAP server. The next time they log into this "proxy PDC," they'll be able to use their new LDAP password.</p>
<p>I have a functioning LDAP server and a server that I can use to create the Samba PDC. I've played around with Samba before, but I've always had to have a local Linux account for each user that I wanted to access samba and I had to create a corresponding Samba account for each of those users. Those are the steps that I'd like to avoid if possible.</p>
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678 | 1 | 682 | 2010-08-02T18:41:50.013 | 5 | 891 | <p>I realized a second strange thing after upgrading from 8.04 LTS to 10.04. My (GNOME) panel contains the clock applet. This applet shows current date and time. The time is not upgraded after I start a GNOME session. When I remove the applet and insert it again, it works fine. But at some point it stops again. Has anyone seen this? Is there a workaround? Several other people seem to have the same problem, but as far as I saw it they had no solution.</p>
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684 | 1 | null | 2010-08-02T22:27:41.180 | 30 | 811 | <p>There has been a couple questions here regarding alternatives to certain programs, and I'm sure as more people start using Ubuntu, and join this site, there will be more people looking for alternatives to programs they used in their previous operating system.</p>
<p>Therefore I figured I start a thread to list different sites that list alternatives to programs.</p>
<p>(Please just post one link per answer).</p>
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691 | 1 | 696 | 2010-08-03T02:28:47.357 | 10 | 1731 | <p>At <a href="https://login.ubuntu.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">login.ubuntu.com</a> it says Ubuntu Single Sign On.
What are its uses?
How is it useful?</p>
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692 | 1 | 729 | 2010-08-03T02:31:20.487 | 56 | 3543 | <p>I would like to know what kinds of contributions someone can make to Ubuntu. Such as Programmer, User, Proofreader, etc.</p>
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"text": "I think this question should be Community-Wiki. Please read [What are Community Wiki Posts?](http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/11740/what-are-community-wiki-posts) for more information.",
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693 | 1 | 698 | 2010-08-03T02:37:36.320 | 6 | 297 | <p>I heard 10.10 will have windicators, what are they? How will they look?</p>
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694 | 1 | 695 | 2010-08-03T02:40:41.277 | 11 | 605 | <p>Are there any legal reasons for that?</p>
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701 | 1 | 1564 | 2010-08-03T04:37:34.237 | 8 | 696 | <p>I have two different mice (one is always used on the system, the other is wireless and moves between systems as needed). Unfortunately, the wireless one is much more sensitive than the wired mouse, and the mouse settings panel doesn't seem to have a way to set different settings for different mice.</p>
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703 | 1 | 1040 | 2010-08-03T06:09:18.890 | 6 | 965 | <p>We know you can either click on the show desktop icon or use <kbd>CTRL</kbd>+<kbd>ALT</kbd>+<kbd>D</kbd> to ask Ubuntu to show the desktop. Unfortunately, this does not always show the desktop in one action. </p>
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<p>This is very annoying, as when you show the desktop it generally to quickly click on a shortcut.</p>
<p>To understand what I'm talking about, open 7 windows, minimize some, bring some to the front, maximize one, then show the desktop. Then do that on Windows. You'll see the difference.</p>
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704 | 1 | null | 2010-08-03T06:14:17.070 | 9 | 1278 | <p>When you drag and drop a folder with nautilus, you must carefully set both windows on non overlapping areas of your screen, otherwise selecting one folder will bring the windows to the front, hiding the second one.</p>
<p>On Windows, doing so will stick the explorer.exe windows to the back and let you drag and drop the folder. I suppose it detect a long click to decide whether or not bring the window to the front.</p>
<p>Is that possible with Ubuntu?</p>
<p>Now I know that Nautilus now has split panels by pressing F3, but that not handy. Most of the time, you open a folder, THEN decide to copy. With split panel, you must decide, THEN split the panel and go to the right folder.</p>
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713 | 1 | 715 | 2010-08-03T12:40:07.830 | 11 | 3987 | <p>I heard it is Python</p>
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721 | 1 | 786 | 2010-08-03T13:41:29.850 | 6 | 959 | <p>Today, after about 20 minutes of logging in my Ubuntu 10.4, I notice the CPU and hard disk usage going up. top revealed that root was running emacs23.</p>
<p>It is basically the same behavior described at <a href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1098516" rel="nofollow">Ubuntu Forums</a></p>
<p>but there is no answer there. Any clue about this? </p>
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732 | 1 | 736 | 2010-08-03T19:32:42.420 | 41 | 53155 | <p>I have a couple of cron jobs that sometimes produce error output and would like to get a notification in my "real" email account, since I don't use my user's mailbox in my Ubuntu laptop, but cron (or is it postfix maybe) keeps trying to email the local root account.</p>
<p>I know I can add the <strong>MAILTO</strong> variable to the crontab:</p>
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MAILTO=redacted@gmail.com
# m h dom mon dow command
*/5 * * * * /home/ricardo/mrtg/cfg/run.sh
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<p>But it doesn't seem to pay any attention to it</p>
<p>I also tried adding my email to the <code>/etc/aliases</code> file and running <code>newaliases</code></p>
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# See man 5 aliases for format
postmaster: root
root: redacted@gmail.com
ricardo: redacted@gmail.com
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<p>still, whenever cron wants to send an email it's still sending it to <code>root@my.domain.com</code>:</p>
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Aug 3 16:25:01 ricardo-laptop postfix/pickup[2002]: D985B310: uid=0 from=<root>
Aug 3 16:25:01 ricardo-laptop postfix/cleanup[4117]: D985B310: message-id=<20100803192501.D985B310@ricardo-laptop>
Aug 3 16:25:01 ricardo-laptop postfix/qmgr[2003]: D985B310: from=<root@144-68-247-190.fibertel.com.ar>, size=762, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Aug 3 16:25:03 ricardo-laptop postfix/smtp[4120]: D985B310: to=<root@144-68-247-190.fibertel.com.ar>, orig_to=<root>, relay=smtp.gmail.com[74.125.157.109]:25, delay=1.5, delays=0.38/0.02/0.9/0.18, dsn=5.7.0, status=bounced (host smtp.gmail.com[74.125.157.109] said: 530 5.7.0 Must issue a STARTTLS command first. d1sm12275173anc.19 (in reply to MAIL FROM command))
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<p>Any suggestions? I'm running Ubuntu 10.04, with everything up-to-date</p>
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"text": "Here is my postfix.cfg: http://cl1p.net/postfix/ I tried removing the smarthost option, but it only changed Gmail's error message, since my ip doesn't resolve correctly. Keep in mind that this is isn't a server, it's just my personal laptop and the only emails I need to deliver are the cron alerts, to my own gmail account. \nThanks.",
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737 | 1 | 739 | 2010-08-03T20:07:43.160 | 11 | 1379 | <p>I created a package and uploaded it to my PPA. After it got built, I went to install it, but was faced with this message:</p>
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Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
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Need to get 17.7kB of archives.
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<p>Why is it warning me about the packages not being verified?</p>
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Any recommendations? There are loads of IRC clients in the repositories and I don't want to download them all to find the best one.</p>
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745 | 1 | 762 | 2010-08-03T22:37:21.717 | 7 | 4389 | <p>I am having some trouble creating a package for a shared library.</p>
<p>I ran <code>dh_make</code> and edited the files. However, when I go to build the package, I get the following:</p>
<pre>
******@******-laptop:~/Documents/temp/jsoncpp/jsoncpp-0.5.0$ debuild
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -D -us -uc
dpkg-buildpackage: set CFLAGS to default value: -g -O2
dpkg-buildpackage: set CPPFLAGS to default value:
dpkg-buildpackage: set LDFLAGS to default value: -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions
dpkg-buildpackage: set FFLAGS to default value: -g -O2
dpkg-buildpackage: set CXXFLAGS to default value: -g -O2
dpkg-buildpackage: source package jsoncpp
dpkg-buildpackage: source version 0.5.0-1
dpkg-buildpackage: source changed by ******
dpkg-buildpackage: host architecture amd64
fakeroot debian/rules clean
dh clean
dh_testdir
dh_auto_clean
dh_clean
dpkg-source -b jsoncpp-0.5.0
dpkg-source: info: using source format `1.0'
dpkg-source: info: building jsoncpp using existing jsoncpp_0.5.0.orig.tar.gz
dpkg-source: info: building jsoncpp in jsoncpp_0.5.0-1.diff.gz
dpkg-source: info: building jsoncpp in jsoncpp_0.5.0-1.dsc
debian/rules build
dh build
dh_testdir
dh_auto_configure
dh_auto_build
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/******/Documents/temp/jsoncpp/jsoncpp-0.5.0'
test -d obj || mkdir obj
g++ -I ./include -c -o obj/json_reader.o src/lib_json/json_reader.cpp
g++ -I ./include -c -o obj/json_writer.o src/lib_json/json_writer.cpp
g++ -I ./include -c -o obj/json_value.o src/lib_json/json_value.cpp
ar -r libjsoncpp.a obj/json_reader.o obj/json_writer.o obj/json_value.o
ar: creating libjsoncpp.a
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/******/Documents/temp/jsoncpp/jsoncpp-0.5.0'
dh_auto_test
fakeroot debian/rules binary
dh binary
dh_testroot
dh_prep
dh_installdirs
dh_auto_install
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/******/Documents/temp/jsoncpp/jsoncpp-0.5.0'
sudo cp -r include/json --target-directory=/usr/include
ERROR: ld.so: object 'libfakeroot-sysv.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.
cp libjsoncpp.a /usr/lib/libjsoncpp.a
cp: cannot create regular file `/usr/lib/libjsoncpp.a': Permission denied
make[1]: *** [install] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/******/Documents/temp/jsoncpp/jsoncpp-0.5.0'
dh_auto_install: make -j1 install DESTDIR=/home/******/Documents/temp/jsoncpp/jsoncpp-0.5.0/debian/tmp returned exit code 2
make: *** [binary] Error 29
dpkg-buildpackage: error: fakeroot debian/rules binary gave error exit status 2
debuild: fatal error at line 1340:
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -D -us -uc failed
</pre>
<p>The problem seems to be here:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>ERROR: ld.so: object 'libfakeroot-sysv.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.<br>
cp libjsoncpp.a /usr/lib/libjsoncpp.a<br>
cp: cannot create regular file `/usr/lib/libjsoncpp.a': Permission denied</p>
</blockquote>
<p>...but I haven't the faintest idea what the problem is.</p>
<p>The makefile is <a href="http://pastebin.com/K6frvDeR" rel="nofollow">here</a> if needed.</p>
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748 | 1 | 803 | 2010-08-03T22:55:54.740 | 16 | 7493 | <p>I'm trying to make a new gtk theme using the murrine engine, using Humanity (default in ubuntu 9.10) as a template.</p>
<p>You can grab the code in <a href="http://github.com/tutuca/themes" rel="noreferrer">http://github.com/tutuca/themes</a> </p>
<p>However, I found cumbersome the process of creating a new theme with it. There is no central starting point. </p>
<p>The documentation of both, the engine options (gtkrc's and stuff), and general theming practices (the format of the index.theme files, folders, bla bla) is scarce, How to's and tutorials are often old or subject to lots of opinionated debate and results confusing (to me, having a web developer background, at least :-).</p>
<p>So... I wanted to ask to the fellows gtk themers and artist out there:</p>
<p>Which tools you use to create a new theme, and how does your average workflow looks like?</p>
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