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56937 | 1 | 56941 | 2011-08-13T12:19:30.713 | 5 | 19618 | <p>I am trying to install the development version gimp2.7.2 on my Ubuntu 11.04 box.I was following <a href="http://www.gimpusers.com/tutorials/compiling-gimp-for-ubuntu">these instructions</a> for the same.I ran into an error at the step where I had to make babl. </p>
<pre><code>sudo make
make all-recursive
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56938 | 1 | 56939 | 2011-08-13T12:23:38.457 | 6 | 25436 | <p>There used to be lots of info on usb devices, coming form /proc/bus/usb/devices.</p>
<p>Then this was no longer auto mounted, so you had to mount it yourself (usbdevfs it was called, or something)</p>
<p>Now, in 11.04, even that doesn't work. How can I get some info on my device now?</p>
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56943 | 1 | null | 2011-08-13T12:57:34.683 | 1 | 666 | <p>I recently formatted my laptop. When booting, it said</p>
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56944 | 1 | 56946 | 2011-08-13T13:07:09.993 | 26 | 50407 | <p>I want to test if there is any output from the <code>diff</code> (test if files are same), if none <code>echo "Passed $x" else echo "Failed $x"</code>. I came up with some intermidiate step (save the output from diff to a file then read from file)</p>
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56945 | 1 | 56948 | 2011-08-13T13:10:37.537 | 7 | 10757 | <p>I am under the impression that if I include the line</p>
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56952 | 1 | null | 2011-08-13T14:13:18.200 | 3 | 791 | <p>Some critical keys (@) are in accessible on my Macbook running Natty. It's a 2006 danish keyboard model. Is there a way to edit the layout without resorting to Terminal? Alternatively where could the right layout be found? (it's not in keyboard prefs. i tried them all)</p>
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56956 | 1 | 56966 | 2011-08-13T14:33:31.533 | 4 | 86 | <p>I have a bunch of old ethernet PC cards that I am not too sure about (whether they are any good). I want to test them in my laptop to see if they still work (out of curiosity, and because I want to know if Linux supports this hardware).</p>
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56959 | 1 | 61012 | 2011-08-13T14:42:08.733 | 5 | 1945 | <p>I have two HP remotes, one is a huge remote for the TV tuner and media centre, and the other is a tiny remote for just controlling a media centre.</p>
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56960 | 1 | 56962 | 2011-08-13T14:44:05.270 | 2 | 1134 | <p>I have just purchased a Huawei E160 dongle on o2 which, I was told works on Ubuntu and other Linux operating systems however everytime i plug it in it loads as a drive and i cannot get to install the software from it?</p>
<p>There is an EXE file which will not open so how can I get it to work?
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56963 | 1 | 56970 | 2011-08-13T14:57:07.567 | 17 | 378 | <p>I've got a LoCo event coming up, and a local company (that uses and loves Ubuntu) has approached me (since I'm the organizer) with the following proposal: </p>
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56964 | 1 | 56965 | 2011-08-13T15:03:13.783 | 58 | 95839 | <p>I diff-ed 2 files and got </p>
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<p>Both files contained just "1". How is this different?</p>
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56969 | 1 | 56985 | 2011-08-13T15:34:25.400 | 5 | 6082 | <p>I asked <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/56937/babl-recreate-aclocal-m4-with-macros-from-libtool-2-4">this question</a> minutes ago. I am trying to install babl for gimp2.7 using <a href="http://www.gimpusers.com/tutorials/compiling-gimp-for-ubuntu" rel="nofollow noreferrer">this guide</a> However after I <c... | 6661 | -1 | 2017-04-13T12:23:08.843 | 2011-08-13T18:18:43.813 | Installed babl, but gimp2.7 still says No package 'babl' found | [
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56972 | 1 | 57009 | 2011-08-13T15:52:51.843 | 5 | 1375 | <p>I've switched a few boxes over to <a href="https://fedorahosted.org/sssd/" rel="nofollow">SSSD</a>, so they now authenticate against a central LDAP server, and cache the credentials when I'm offline. This works fine, and the Ubuntu packages installed fine.</p>
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56976 | 1 | null | 2011-08-13T16:21:36.010 | 2 | 1501 | <p>Yesterday I bought a new PC. I've carefully chosen the parts, looking for compatibility. But, after I installed 11.04, things are really not working as expected.</p>
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56977 | 1 | 56980 | 2011-08-13T16:58:31.793 | 1 | 296 | <p>I am living in Lebanon where it is rare to find an Ubuntu CD to buy, let alone find someone capable of installing it.</p>
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56984 | 1 | null | 2011-08-13T18:09:06.843 | 4 | 1428 | <p>Sound otherwise is fine but there is a crackling sound when I mute or unmute the sound, also when a video player stops or starts playing a movie, or when any application using sound stops or starts - there is always this annoying crackling sound, how do I fix it?</p>
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56988 | 1 | 57003 | 2011-08-13T18:27:20.010 | 2 | 1079 | <p>I just tried to install svn on the ubuntu but I'm getting the following error</p>
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dpkg: error processing libapache2-svn (--configure):</p>
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56993 | 1 | null | 2011-08-13T18:55:50.483 | 2 | 277 | <p>I've used with UbuntuOne on Ubuntu 10.04 (both 32- and 64-bit on different computers) and it worked very well until one month ago. Then I wanted to try to sync my contacts too, so I installed CouchDB from backport repository as described in the official guide for UbuntuOne; after that UbuntuOne doesn't sync or conne... | 23244 | 7035 | 2011-08-14T03:27:38.843 | 2011-08-14T03:27:53.600 | Ubuntu One can't connect after installing CouchDB | [
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56994 | 1 | null | 2011-08-13T19:29:50.547 | 4 | 318 | <p>The video continues to run with no problems but the interface becomes totally unresponsive, clicking or pressing keys does nothing, and when you try to close it several times a dialog pops up saying the program is unresponsive and if you want to 'Force Quit' it.</p>
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56996 | 1 | 57008 | 2011-08-13T20:07:38.397 | 1 | 427 | <p>I have a old intel o4 machine without graphics card. Still now I'm running Ubuntu 8.04 I would like to install Ubuntu 11.4 version. Would that require graphics card support?</p>
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57004 | 1 | 57006 | 2011-08-13T22:05:34.550 | 5 | 476 | <p>I'm running Ubuntu 11.04 on ThinkPad Edge 11" and no matter what X session or wm I use, P makes widgets blank out for a fraction of a second. After a quick search through gconf and XF86 symbol tables I can't find any place where it could be bound. I believe it may have something to do with low-level support for Win+... | 23246 | null | null | 2011-08-13T22:26:16.037 | Screen flickers in response to <Super>P, can't bind it to anything | [
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57014 | 1 | 57055 | 2011-08-14T00:53:47.440 | 1 | 1460 | <p>For some reason I can't start mysql or cups using upstart i.e. "service cups start" results in "start: Job failed to start". How can I debug this? I also tried resintalling using synaptic, but that failed also, since it tries to start process also. This is with 11.04</p>
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57016 | 1 | 57019 | 2011-08-14T01:08:49.300 | 6 | 3045 | <p>Is it possible to get Ubuntu to continuously resize a window and it's content? Looking in the <code>CompizConfig Settings Manager</code> under re-size window it has the options: Normal, Outline, Rectangle, Stretch neither of which do this.</p>
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57018 | 1 | null | 2011-08-14T01:14:27.437 | 1 | 1454 | <p>I'm running 11.04. I walked away from my computer for a few minutes while I had a terminal open. When I came back, the terminal was white. I tried to open Chrome, and it's screen was white too. Everything I tried to open was white. Even the shutdown menu.</p>
<p>What causes this and how can I fix it?</p>
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57025 | 1 | null | 2011-08-14T04:50:25.117 | 1 | 978 | <p>Just installed Ubuntu 11.04 on a brand new Fujitsu Lifebook T901. The touchscreen seems well-calibrated and recognizes touches, but it always moves the mouse to the upper left corner when clicked.</p>
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57028 | 1 | null | 2011-08-14T06:05:22.303 | 0 | 957 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/4109/how-do-i-increase-the-resize-margin-on-windows">How do I increase the resize margin on windows?</a> </p>
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57030 | 1 | 57031 | 2011-08-14T08:38:49.240 | 6 | 2708 | <p>I have ubuntu 10.04 installed on my VPS. I'm trying to install mailman. The problem I'm having is that once the installation starts it prompts asking me to select the languages that I'd like to use, but nothing that I do seems to actually select anything, pressing enter restarts the configuration wizard. How do I fi... | 23263 | 186134 | 2015-10-26T23:32:05.043 | 2015-10-26T23:32:05.043 | How do you select languages when configuring mailman? | [
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57032 | 1 | 57033 | 2011-08-14T09:20:45.493 | 12 | 20811 | <p>As in the topic: I would like to remove files in a directory that have been modified in a particular date range. How can I do this ? </p>
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57035 | 1 | 61656 | 2011-08-14T10:03:30.857 | 13 | 5448 | <p>I just switched from the Konversation IRC client to the terminal based IRSSI. I'm starting IRSSI on a remote machine using GNU screen + SSH. I do not get any sound notification on new messages, which means that I've to check out IRSSI once in a while for new messages.</p>
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57036 | 1 | 57038 | 2011-08-14T10:22:14.120 | 0 | 406 | <p>Recently my friend 'installed' testdisk for me on my laptop and used it to show me some stuff with it. But now I would like to launch it again and I do not know how to do it. I have tried to go Ctrl+Alt+F1 and then go to Testdisk's directory and try 'sudo testdisk' but there is no such a command in the system. I hav... | 23006 | 25863 | 2012-06-18T17:58:07.713 | 2012-06-18T17:58:07.713 | How to run application that is located on file system but not installed? | [
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57037 | 1 | null | 2011-08-14T10:24:01.610 | 1 | 5210 | <p>How can I uninstall e16 from Ubuntu 10.04
I have Gnome and KDE installed too, which i want to keep
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57039 | 1 | null | 2011-08-14T10:43:21.743 | 3 | 1188 | <p>Whenever I try to play The Sims 3 using Wine 1.2 in Ubuntu Natty the Acer Aspire 4935G is just shutting down without any warning. According to appdb.winehq.org The Sims 3 should work almost perfectly fine (Gold status) on Ubuntu and as long as the laptop does not turn off everything does work fine. </p>
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57040 | 1 | 57045 | 2011-08-14T11:04:59.380 | 32 | 122862 | <p>I would like to know what is the difference between </p>
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57043 | 1 | 57047 | 2011-08-14T11:35:37.197 | 2 | 4045 | <p>I am deleting files from my filesystem because I am running out of space but I do not get any more free space after deleting them. I cannot locate these files and they are not in trash.
I do not know if that makes any difference but I have deleted some of these files being logged as root.</p>
<p>Any ideas ? </p>
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57044 | 1 | 57052 | 2011-08-14T11:42:06.630 | 0 | 422 | <p>I am able to view my share if I write the following</p>
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57049 | 1 | null | 2011-08-14T11:56:59.403 | 5 | 396 | <p>I'm having problems with loggin in on Ubuntu 11.04. I did an install on my laptop after I had Windows 7 installed (dual boot with <code>grub</code>). All went well, but when I am about to login on Ubuntu it gives a short flashing error. Which is unreadable because it flashes.</p>
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57056 | 1 | 57134 | 2011-08-14T13:45:45.980 | 11 | 27534 | <p>I've just installed and uninstalled ubuntn and win7 on my laptop for several times, and this happened: see the pictures below. </p>
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57057 | 1 | 57122 | 2011-08-14T13:50:30.203 | 5 | 1724 | <p>I was wondering if Gnome DO is themable, besides the 5 pre-installed themes.. I took a look at the projects' page and didn't discover anything. Do you know if there is any chance of unofficial theming or theming plugins? Have anyone tried to change the source code in order to change the theme?</p>
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57059 | 1 | null | 2011-08-14T14:04:54.700 | 1 | 8238 | <p>i wanted to install and use <a href="https://github.com/awilliam/asus-switcheroo" rel="nofollow">asus_switcheroo</a> but unfortunately the vgaswitcheroo folder is missing.
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57063 | 1 | 57064 | 2011-08-14T14:39:21.723 | 2 | 57035 | <p>While trying to mount my hard drive to copy all the necessary data from my broken drive to this one, I got an error saying: </p>
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<p>This is my <code>fdisk -l</code> if that helps.</p>
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57066 | 1 | 57069 | 2011-08-14T15:13:41.387 | 5 | 1599 | <p>A hard-drive with four partitions</p>
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57068 | 1 | 57179 | 2011-08-14T15:28:38.647 | 3 | 540 | <p>I've been using the new music streaming app in my iPod Touch for a couple days now. I synced my music folder with Ubuntu One and all my music is appearing in the app. However, after playing several hours of music, the app did not cache any song to play offline. Is there a way to set how many songs are cached? When a... | 529 | null | null | 2011-08-15T13:40:49.680 | Ubuntu One's iPhone music app does not cache songs. How do I configure it? | [
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57071 | 1 | null | 2011-08-14T16:29:10.523 | 1 | 3980 | <p>I'm using the latest version of Ubuntu 11.10, and although I've disabled the lock screen options and checked the power settings, my display turns off after around ten minutes. That wouldn't be so bad, except it does it when I'm watching movies and TV shows. Is that a bug, or is there some way that I can disable that... | 18812 | 235 | 2012-03-15T16:58:46.277 | 2013-03-15T18:06:02.660 | Is there a way to stop the display from turning off? | [
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57074 | 1 | 57078 | 2011-08-14T17:39:21.493 | 3 | 4261 | <p>I can't boot into the graphical interface. If I try to startx in the text mode. It outputs the following messages:</p>
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57077 | 1 | null | 2011-08-14T17:52:20.873 | 2 | 2149 | <p>When I create a launcher item for jvisualvm according to the regular procedure <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/13758/how-can-i-edit-create-new-launcher-items-in-unity-by-hand">described here</a>, it does not behave as expected. Instead of just starting the app, it starts the app as a <em>different</em> item... | 23288 | -1 | 2017-04-13T12:25:03.983 | 2012-10-01T13:58:16.680 | How can I create a launcher item for jvisualvm? | [
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57079 | 1 | 57189 | 2011-08-14T18:35:51.273 | 51 | 25394 | <p>Ok, I've used Ubuntu with GNOME for a while, but now I'm using XUbuntu. In Ubuntu, there used to be a keyboard preference which makes the numpad more sane, it was called something like "Make Shift+NumPad work like Windows".</p>
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57082 | 1 | 57084 | 2011-08-14T19:02:17.597 | 1 | 1277 | <p>I have a Creative Zen MX MP3 Player, and whenever I rip a CD in Banshee media player and then transfer the files over to my player, the metadata seems to not be there, or not displaying (E.G. No album art, no artist, no track title; just displays filename.) I have "Write metadata to files" ticked in the preferences ... | 15391 | 14356 | 2012-06-05T20:09:56.210 | 2012-06-05T20:09:56.210 | Is there a CD Ripper compatible with Creative Zen MX? | [
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57083 | 1 | null | 2011-08-14T19:08:48.510 | 0 | 173 | <p>I just installed 11.04 after running win7 with 11.04 for a while with no problems. The internet seemed fine because I was just downloading stuff with software update and things like that, but when I went to use firefox, and them chromium, all I get is 1. a page that says the page I'm looking for is unavailable, and... | 23290 | null | null | 2012-03-11T21:21:33.560 | Just installed 11.04, and web browsing is slow/nonexistent. Download speeds good | [
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57085 | 1 | 57087 | 2011-08-14T19:22:25.567 | 2 | 4853 | <p>ClipGrab released an update, which I am unable to update, I've downloaded the package but it's not deb and I'm having issues after extracting the file, not sure how to install it!
has anyone successfully updated Clipgrab 3.1.0.2 using the source code? I'm so confused!</p>
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57086 | 1 | 57128 | 2011-08-14T19:33:14.510 | 7 | 6188 | <p>I use vim a lot and it occurs to me that most of the time I don't even really need a GUI, since I'll only use my computer to take notes in VIM. The problem is, though, is that colors don't show up correctly on tty (i.e. when I press <kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>Alt</kbd>+<kbd>F1</kbd>, <kbd>F2</kbd>, etc). I found a plugin ... | 6699 | -1 | 2017-03-20T10:18:10.917 | 2013-04-07T13:46:28.440 | How can I get colors in TTY working correctly? | [
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57089 | 1 | 57094 | 2011-08-14T20:07:25.153 | 28 | 22819 | <p>According to <a href="http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Ubuntu-11-10-Thunderbird-is-go-1322298.html">this</a>, The default email client for Ubuntu 11.10 will be Thunderbird instead of Evolution. I've used Evolution since Ubuntu 9.10; I've always used the default applications because I thought they were recommen... | 9701 | 169736 | 2014-04-04T02:59:46.053 | 2018-05-09T05:26:34.703 | Why did Thunderbird replace Evolution in 11.10? | [
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57098 | 1 | 57110 | 2011-08-14T20:57:31.580 | 3 | 5380 | <p>I couple of versions of Ubuntu ago I setup a program to start automatically when the computer turns on. It is of no use to me at this point, and I want to disable it now. The problem is, I can't figure out how I did it. I've looked in:</p>
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57099 | 1 | 57100 | 2011-08-14T21:06:39.333 | 2 | 339 | <p>In Windows 7 the <code>Computer</code> area has drives sorted by <code>Type</code> which list the size remaining and a progress bar to represent the size currently in use.</p>
<p>Is there a way to customize Ubuntu 11.04 to do the same? (No previous modifications made)</p>
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57101 | 1 | null | 2011-08-14T21:20:11.380 | 8 | 9629 | <p>When I try to install any software from ubuntu software center it comes with error:</p>
<pre><code>An unhandled error occured
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57102 | 1 | 57106 | 2011-08-14T21:21:15.747 | 4 | 933 | <p>I have a directory that contains around 100 subdirectories. I want to take all the files from this directories and add them to the first directories then delete them all. Is this possible?</p>
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57105 | 1 | null | 2011-08-14T21:30:38.110 | 1 | 55 | <p>I installed this webserver log analyzer with Synaptic, and now cannot find it. It will not run from terminal. I have AbyssX1 running on my box and would like to see my visitor statistics.</p>
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57107 | 1 | null | 2011-08-14T22:07:14.777 | 5 | 58683 | <p>I'm failing with mounting XP share, receiving message: </p>
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57111 | 1 | null | 2011-08-14T22:37:04.590 | 2 | 1915 | <p>After installing additional driver of My nVidia GeForce 8600gt in Ubuntu 11.04, it is not working. The Ubuntu loading dots show full but its not starting.</p>
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57119 | 1 | 57124 | 2011-08-14T23:58:52.920 | 2 | 872 | <p>So I wanted to try to build 2.6.39-4. I followed the procedure at <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam/GitKernelBuild" rel="nofollow">ubuntu wiki "GitKernelBuild" page</a>.</p>
<p>In short, download the tar.bz2, extract, copy my old config, make oldconfig, and then</p>
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57126 | 1 | null | 2011-08-15T01:31:01.670 | 11 | 1782 | <p>I can't find the answer to this anywhere: Does a module installed via APT conflict with one installed via CPAN?</p>
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57129 | 1 | 57142 | 2011-08-15T02:13:28.813 | 8 | 44854 | <p>I have a netbook and a server, to both of which I installed the identical Ubuntu 10.04 LTS distribution. On the server, I had the foresight to install and enable the SSH server before disconnecting the monitor and keyboard and mouse. I then ssh'ed in and enabled the VNC server as well. Now I want the full server exp... | 13916 | 235 | 2011-08-16T22:04:50.487 | 2018-09-20T15:25:13.223 | How do I start the GUI (Window Manager?) over VNC? | [
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57132 | 1 | 57147 | 2011-08-15T03:20:19.707 | 4 | 1119 | <p>Can anyone explain me why <code>w</code> shows me a wrong number of users currently logged in?</p>
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57133 | 1 | null | 2011-08-15T04:20:05.517 | 4 | 552 | <pre><code>uptime
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<p>Everything has gotten pretty slow-ish so I suspect that this is not normal?</p>
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57140 | 1 | null | 2011-08-15T05:26:11.883 | 3 | 1735 | <p>Sometimes the wireless connection is disconnected and turned off the computer must do to correct it.</p>
<p>A full update was done to try and fix this, and I searched many forums for this problem but i found nothing.</p>
<p>Here is my wireless information:</p>
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57143 | 1 | null | 2011-08-15T05:39:24.653 | 2 | 1274 | <p>Is there a Korean→English dictionary installed on Ubuntu?</p>
<p>If there are several ones, which one could be considered the most complete?</p>
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57144 | 1 | 57814 | 2011-08-15T05:48:33.857 | 12 | 7213 | <p>How can I easily archive my gmail account emails in Evolution? I would like a solution easily as gmail archive. After lot of googling the only solution that I found is manually sending to the All Email Folder :/.</p>
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57150 | 1 | 115544 | 2011-08-15T08:28:14.010 | 1 | 129 | <p>In Maverick the topmost tray used to be shown only on the primary monitor, and I liked that better.</p>
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57153 | 1 | 57180 | 2011-08-15T09:03:43.833 | 4 | 398 | <p>Is there a way I can have all the programmes I use everyday auto start in the correct workspaces?</p>
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57154 | 1 | 57295 | 2011-08-15T09:08:27.093 | 3 | 5105 | <p>I have 11.04 installed.</p>
<p>It is joined to a domain. I am able to ping some of my computers by their name, but some I can't.
Those I can't are our NAS machines (Readynas Netgear). I can ping them only by IP from my Ubuntu machine. But I can ping them regularly by host name, from any other windows machine.</p>
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57155 | 1 | 57160 | 2011-08-15T09:20:17.303 | 11 | 54324 | <p>I'm having trouble configuring and starting ISC DHCP server on my machine. I'm running Ubuntu 11.10 desktop edition. I installed ISC DHCP by running</p>
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57156 | 1 | 57157 | 2011-08-15T09:38:08.613 | 2 | 1078 | <p>How to upgrade LibreOffice from 3.3.2 to 3.4.2 Final (2011-08-01) on 10.10</p>
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57159 | 1 | 58734 | 2011-08-15T10:07:40.880 | 3 | 29222 | <p>I have booted my ubuntu 11.04 on my other PC ( I have put my disk into it and booted it) and now don't know why, when I put it back to my lappy I get this error
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57162 | 1 | 57217 | 2011-08-15T10:40:42.123 | 4 | 1011 | <p>I've been using Synapse for a while now. The <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/16293/synapse-doesnt-remember-anything">earlier bug</a> regrading the lacking ability to remember recurrent launches was fixed.</p>
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57163 | 1 | 60104 | 2011-08-15T10:54:51.353 | 16 | 40386 | <p>Firefox 5.0 has the option to "switch to tab" if the requested URL or search terms point to an already open URL (great thing by the way).</p>
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57164 | 1 | 57330 | 2011-08-15T10:58:00.277 | 1 | 329 | <p>This problem seems centered around me, it has happened twice!</p>
<h2>Description of the Problem</h2>
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<p>So when I boot my computer I get no grub just a flashing monitor.</p>
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"body": "<p>not really sure what you mean by a \"corrupted\" partition, but as it seems to me, you simply lost your bootloader (grub)</p>\n\n<p>to get it reinstalled please follow the answer in this post:</p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https://askubuntu.com/questions/13212/how-do-i-restore-grub-after-i-ran... | [
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57168 | 1 | 57171 | 2011-08-15T11:32:26.097 | 0 | 12459 | <p>I have worked in a file for 4 months. All of a sudden when i open that file this morning its not getting opened. And i have noticed the size got decreased to 128KB to 1KB. Not only my system, recently we are facing this problem in many systems. Data is getting corrupted and we cant able to open the file. What may be... | 5691 | null | null | 2016-01-02T12:36:29.460 | How to restore openoffice file? | [
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"body": "<p>Check your open office backup folder</p>\n\n<pre><code>/home/<user name>/.openoffice.org/3/user\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>Sources:<br>\n<a href=\"http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=16040\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/for... | [
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57169 | 1 | 58846 | 2011-08-15T11:42:18.070 | 4 | 1707 | <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/pj9Xh.jpg" alt="kubuntu search and launch"></p>
<p>How do I change the default icons (boxed, see arrow) or How do I remove them? I have tried unlocking and customizing the page, but haven't had much success. </p>
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"body": "<p>Actually you can just delete (by clicking the minus sign that's displayed when you hover over an icon there) or drag icons from the launch area below as shown here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VCX6S-ndKA\nOr you can simply click on the star to have an icon added to your favorites above.... | [
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57173 | 1 | null | 2011-08-15T12:13:53.017 | 1 | 115 | <p>I am using natty unity. I am facing 1 intermittent problem. Sometimes, my application windows does not open completely. For example, please refer following image.
<img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/PCwgB.png" alt="enter image description here" /></p>
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57174 | 1 | null | 2011-08-15T12:34:42.117 | 5 | 607 | <p>I am using ubuntu on my notebook with 4Gb RAM and 300Gb HDD and my layout is:</p>
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57176 | 1 | 57185 | 2011-08-15T13:14:43.807 | 4 | 11731 | <p>From: <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/56691/wine-games-resolution-sound-problems">Wine games resolution/sound problems</a></p>
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57186 | 1 | null | 2011-08-15T14:16:31.693 | 1 | 1550 | <p>I switched in my BIOS (on an old Gigabyte GA-MA74GM-S2H, rev. 1.1, Bios F1) the SATA settings from "Native IDE" to "AHCI" and was surprised that GRUB2 was not able to boot my kernel anymore. It stated:</p>
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57188 | 1 | 57288 | 2011-08-15T14:45:35.817 | 1 | 440 | <p>I have installed the <a href="http://live.gnome.org/Gedit/Plugins/BetterPythonConsole" rel="nofollow">Better Python Console</a>-Plugin for gedit and I am happy with it when I view python code. But I would like to be able to execute some different languages source codes when I have opened it in gedit.</p>
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57191 | 1 | null | 2011-08-15T15:12:06.057 | 2 | 585 | <p>When connected to Ubuntu one via an internet browser, how do I move files between my different folders in Ubuntu One?</p>
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57192 | 1 | null | 2011-08-15T15:21:39.097 | 0 | 156 | <p>How I've installed
On Ubuntu 11.10 I've added the Google to my Software Sources, then used the following commands(not 100% accurate) sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install google-chrome-unstable</p>
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57193 | 1 | 57349 | 2011-08-15T15:24:13.007 | 1 | 4878 | <p>Compiz bails when I try to run it:</p>
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57196 | 1 | 57210 | 2011-08-15T15:51:06.940 | 4 | 1613 | <p>I have an Acer Aspire 5930</p>
<p>There are two buttons, which I can't use now: <kbd>$</kbd> and <kbd>€</kbd></p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/dc5ME.png" alt="enter image description here" /><br />
When I press those buttons <em>nothing</em> happens.<br />
How can I use it?</p>
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57198 | 1 | 57221 | 2011-08-15T16:10:07.567 | 0 | 647 | <p>How can i make grub2 to see my ubuntu from hd and fedora 15 from usb flash,
using burg and natty , cannot find a solution in any forum.
Would appreciate any hints, Harry</p>
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57199 | 1 | 57205 | 2011-08-15T16:20:51.857 | 1 | 1351 | <p>I've looked at the man page and documentation on fusecompress and I got a little confused. It looks like it mounts the compressed filesystem as I want, but not on the drive I want it. It seems to me that it just creates a temp mounting folder for compression.</p>
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57201 | 1 | null | 2011-08-15T16:35:07.373 | 1 | 4049 | <p>My computer for some reason is no longer booting into the GUI. It sends me straight to the command line. How do I get it to launch the GUI and how do I get it to launch the GUI by default on startup? I'm using Lucid Lynx.</p>
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57206 | 1 | null | 2011-08-15T17:15:43.590 | 4 | 837 | <p>I'm using Hughesnet for internet and I have a daily 200 mb limit on downloads. How can I exit Ubuntu One and be sure that I'm no longer syncing or downloading anything. I have unlimited downloads between 1 am and 6 am cst, I only want to sync or download during these hours. </p>
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57207 | 1 | null | 2011-08-15T17:23:07.537 | 2 | 387 | <p>I would like to rebind C-n and C-p in all my applications to send Up and Down.
My brain is just stuck with this shortcuts, and I am tired of always seeing new windows and printing dialogs popping up.</p>
<p>I was thinking about xmodmap, but it looks like it can redefine only one keysim not a combination.</p>
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57211 | 1 | 57332 | 2011-08-15T17:40:12.587 | 1 | 328 | <p>I want to upgrade my HP DV6000's wireless card with a BCM4321, but I already have problems getting my BCM4311 to work. Is the BCM4321 card supported? How would I set it up?</p>
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57212 | 1 | 57218 | 2011-08-15T18:15:27.723 | 6 | 4007 | <p>I just downloaded some materials, but the extensions are not recognized by Ubuntu. </p>
<p>I have a bunch of files names <code>name.iso.001</code>, <code>name.iso.002</code> and so on.</p>
<p>How I can extract or mount it?</p>
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57216 | 1 | 63627 | 2011-08-15T18:25:03.003 | 1 | 833 | <p>In order to get webgl working on ubuntu I had to change some setting which somehow forced hardware acceleration to be turned on for a window. Unfortunately now all opengl viewports are always on top like an overlay and causes other annoying "overlay" glitches.</p>
<p>In any case I'm afraid I really can't remember w... | 17596 | null | null | 2011-09-29T20:10:19.507 | OpenGL windows always on top | [
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57220 | 1 | 122641 | 2011-08-15T18:33:00.363 | 17 | 61551 | <p>I cannot seem to get my VM to run at startup.</p>
<p>I tried the "startup applications" and update-rc.d with no luck.</p>
<pre><code>sudo update-rc.d startvms defaults 99 10
</code></pre>
<p>This created all the appropriate symbolic links for the different run levels but the VM still does not start.</p>
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"body": "<p><a href=\"http://www.spodesabode.com/discussion/310/virtualbox-vm-on-boot-with-ubuntu/\">THIS</a> <strong>is</strong> what finally worked!</p>\n\n<h1>1) Create the startup script file</h1>\n\n<p>in /etc/init.d - <code>sudo nano /etc/init.d/StartVM</code>.</p>\n\n<p>Copy Paste the fol... | [
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57223 | 1 | null | 2011-08-15T19:28:58.657 | 6 | 1189 | <p>I'm using a Thinkpad W510 and constantly change locations. I'm using disper and auto-disper to change screen profiles (undocked; laptop screen + external screen; two external screens). </p>
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57224 | 1 | 57241 | 2011-08-15T19:29:24.667 | 3 | 2985 | <p>I'm using Ubuntu 11.04. Today I suddenly started to get "low disk space" warnings. When I checked, I saw that free space on my Ubuntu partition is decreased like 2 or 3 gigabytes. I didn't install anything recently and I don't keep my files in my Ubuntu partition.</p>
<p>What could be the reason for this?</p>
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"body": "<p>I found this to be a problem for me caused by log files building up.</p>\n\n<p><code>logrotate</code> is run as part of <code>cron.daily</code> which by default runs at 6:25 which is quite possible that your machine is never on at this time.</p>\n\n<p>So I would start by checking <co... | [
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57226 | 1 | 57234 | 2011-08-15T19:49:30.497 | 5 | 241 | <p>Quite often I find myself on <strong>edge.launchpad.net</strong> instead of the 'usual' launchpad. It looks exactly the same as traditional launchpad, so I wonder if there is any difference. This happens usually when I go to launchpad by clicking a link on a third party website.
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57228 | 1 | 58243 | 2011-08-15T20:00:18.487 | 4 | 536 | <p>Im trying to swap caps with control in last ubuntu xfce4 windows manager. I googled alot of variants, and fastest was <code>/usr/bin/setxkbmap -option "ctrl:nocaps"</code>
but it auto swapped back after a minute or so. </p>
<p>And iI don't know which program swapped it back. Any advice ? </p>
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57236 | 1 | 662572 | 2011-08-15T20:33:47.193 | 49 | 103245 | <p>Brightness adjustment keys <<kbd>Fn</kbd> + <kbd>⇑</kbd>/<kbd>⇓</kbd>> have no effect (although they are recognized by the environment), and I can't change the brightness using GUI tools as well. This seems like a problem in Linux itself, not the desktop environment.</p>
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"body": "<p>I have a lenovo ideapad z400.</p>\n\n<p>I tried all the TIPS listed above, no success. </p>\n\n<p>So I found a different one that worked very well :</p>\n\n<p>Put the following line in /etc/default/grub </p>\n\n<pre><code>GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=\"acpi_backlight=vendor acpi_osi=Linux resu... | [
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