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hi. how do i remove software - in this case the 'songbird' program - that i installed from a tar ball instead of a .deb package? thanks. | look into the documentation in the tar ball - often it is make uninstall |
hello, every time during boot, i get an error message along the lines of 'kinit: no resume image, doing normal boot'. is this something i should be worried about? i have no problems with the installation, everything works, just kind of an annoying message. | at least that's always been my take on it o.o |
how do i change my hostname? | /etc/hostname |
wow, an s3 virge is a pretty bad video card. what else do you have. i doubt vesa supports that. | vesa works with intel 915. bit of useless info. |
anybody know how to disable apport? | look at /etc/default/apport and set enabled to 0 |
is there a set timeframe for lts releases? is it always three years after the previous (when the desktop support ends)? | the next one is probably 9.10 |
where does ubuntu keep its menu.lst for grub? it doesn't exist anywhere. | grub2 dosent use a menu.lst |
is there a deb package for the original xmms for ubuntu 9.04 or do i need to compile it?. | no, xmms is no longer supported upstream, so yes, if you really want it. |
what is the way to open a bug against ubuntu in general, when no specific package is known.... seems to be the base os. | i'll help you find the package it's in. what's the problem? |
does anyone know to which bug frogzoo was referring? or how to 'reregister schemes', as he put it? | perhaps https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gconf2/+bug/50150 |
alright now my system still refuses too boot, at the begining there is an error 'init: ureadahead process id (340) has terminated with status 5' any ideas? the sysboots, but it does not give me a gui it gives me a terminal similar to cntrl alt f2 | read yer syslog |
of course, bittorrent does tend to max out my network bandwidth, i was thinking i might be hitting some kind of threshold, buffer overflow, something like that | i know its all preference, but try out deluge, if you like utorrent style clients, deluge torrent is what your after, i personally hate transmission and doesnt ever seem to work right for me |
how can i publish a samba share in ubuntu so that windows pcs can access it | modify that then /etc/init.d/samba restart |
hello, i have a laptop i want to upgrade to 9.04, but i'm using a lot of third party software sources. will it update the software from the ubuntu repositories? also, what happens to these software sources on an upgrade? | you should disable those software sources before upgrading, and check on their sites if they provide packages for the newer release |
is there a way to use apt-get or aptitude list every file belonging to a package ? | dpkg -l packagename |
so, if i compile a program from the source and create a .deb file with checkinstall, will it work in other computers (same platfrom, of course)? | if the systems are configured the same, it should, which is why its good to build the package on a vbox'd plain system |
can somebody dcc a small text file so i can test my irssi setup? | alright |
hi ! i have installed ms office 2007 with wine on ubuntu 10. it is working fine. now i want to install the service pack 2 of ms office 2007, but i dont know how to ? because the latest time i had installed, ms office seems like i did not have installed service pack 2 . now i re-install the wine and i installed office 2... | why you use office 2007 anyway :) |
screenshots ? | i'm at work, i'll try that this evening |
hi, what is the best way to share stuff between vista and ubuntu (i mean on one computer)? | fatxx |
does minimal install cd let you choose what repository to use? | you can alwayus change the repos source in the package manager |
how do i set up an ftp server? | https://help.ubuntu.com/8.04/serverguide/c/ftp-server.html |
can anyone tell me if it's possible to disable ipv6 in the live cd without installing to hd? | it certainly should, just about everything is possible on the live cd, as long as ram doesn't fall short |
hallo, can i just copy my old .evolution folder from the old home directory into my new home from a fresh install and have all my evolution settings, emails, and contacts back? | so somewhere in ~/.gconf/apps/ |
can someone tell me what is twitter? where and all it can be used? | this is a support channel for the ubuntu operating system |
how can i kill a program from terminal? | see kill and pkill |
how to setup timeserver? | then edit /etc/ntp.conf |
i've done sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/swap bs=1m count=3000 - how can i undo this command ? | sudo rm /tmp/swap |
can i make you a question regarding wireless access point and p2p client software? when i turn on ktorrent client on my laptop connected to the net through an us-robotics access point, the web navigation became very bad... furthermore i tried to ping the wifi router and the amount of packet loss is huge.. like 90%. is ... | i think you need to change your firewall settings / port forwarding settings for torrent clients to work |
how can i installed multimedia support on lubuntu 10.04? on ubuntu i would just install ubuntu-restricted-extras, and there also also *buntu-restricted-extras packages for kubuntu and xubuntu. what do i need to get multimedia support on lubuntu? | so far there is no special package for it, go with ubuntu-restricted-extras |
how to hookup svn repo to checkin to /var/www? | http://svnbook.red-bean.com/ |
does ubuntu have a text based browser | links |
hi im new to linux and want to know what i can use for word documents like in microsoft word | openoffice. |
where's ubuntu's /boot/grub/grub.conf | menu.lst |
can any1 help me with a simple msql issue, it sais error 1045 (28000): access denied for user 'dimitri'@'localhost' (using password: no), when i just type msql form the console, i installed from the repos, verson 5.0 | but you should try logging into mysql the first time as root, not your user name |
how do i make terminal on ubuntu not 'always on top'? | right click |
hello eveybody, is there anyone could help me with my keyboard ? it is an abnt2 portuguese-br, the only problem are the keys pipe/left slash and 'close {[' | sorry, i dont know anything about it |
hi, i would like to know how do i do a backup of my home? | tar it up to a different location |
ok, i've got a bit of an unusual problem. i had some trouble with my partitions recently, and just now recovered them. however, one of them, my home partition had a slightly larger filesystem (ext3) than it has a partition. i can mount it fine, and as far as i can tell, all the data is fine, but when i run e2fsck, it t... | use resize2fs to restore the partition to the original size |
i just moved from fedora distros to ubuntu and was just wondering what the ubuntu equiv to yum exists | you might want to check out http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/dapper |
i have the ubuntu 10.04 beta 2. when the 10.04 for-real version comes out, will i be able to upgrade within the beta or will i need to download yet another iso? | no more iso's.. apt-get will keep you upto date all the way to the final |
i suppose piii 700mhz 256mt is enough to run ubuntu smoothly enough? | you could try xubuntu-desktop |
is there a script in ubuntu which executes commands, at shutdown? | http://forum.ubuntuusers.de/topic/20161/next/ |
anyone knows of a good gtk based ftp client, besides gftp? | not sure about gtk based though |
any terminal utility that shows varous info about a file? | 'file foo'? |
is there a command to combine two .wav files into one? | cat file1 >> file2 , backup first, i am not sure it works or not |
the best way to use windows on my ubuntu is using vmware server? | i run windows in virtualbox on linux |
what is the correct way to run an arbitrary script as root after reboot ? | put it in init.d |
something123, working now? | it's the line between what you've read and what you haven't, if you switch windows |
anyone here know what program creates the /dev/dvd symlink dynamically? | udev does :) |
that you can load as module ? | loaded and ready to go |
hello i just tried installing beryl and there is something wrong with my xorg.conf settings right now. x-server cant start! i tried to sudo gedit /etc/x11/xorg.conf but it cant display it or something :p ? | use sudo nano /etc/x11/xorg.conf |
in a default install, are extended attributes enabled on the filesystem? | check in fstab, you need user_xattr in the option |
can somebody help me? i already have this problem longer time... all my videoplayers just show bluescreen, but i can hear the sound... what the heck is wrong? | that's cause the codecs might be missing |
i am trying to understand the details of what happens when i plug a usb drive in in ubuntu... the details of what makes it appear automatically for me to mount. | start with udev, i think. (and hal, though it's getting slowly removed.) in gnome, the mounting itself is handled by nautilus and gnome-volume-manager, but i think it is possible to make udev do it. |
i downloaded the ati driver, but how do i start the setup? (it's a .run file) | chmod +x whatever.run && ./whatever.run |
is there any kind of limitation with ubuntu or the kernel regarding the support of a resolution of 2500x1400? | that should be related to the xorg video driver |
but what happens if i install that package? will the packages from here http://packages.ubuntu.com/dapper/build-essential be installed? | yes, but replace dapper with a release that is actually supported. |
small question here: im on 9.04 with ext3. when 9.10 comes out and i upgrade, will it automatically make me ext4? | the home folder is enough, i highly doubt you put files anywhere else. |
hi, i'm searching for a program that holds program icons at the bottom of the desktop. it's like panel. i see almost all screenshots of the gnome. it's like this http://www.gnome-look.org/content/content-pre1/26448-1.jpg . but when the mouse comes over it, the icons are getting bigger. i can't find the name of it. anyo... | one of the desklets |
after i've been idle for a while, my monitors turn off, and when i get back only one monitor turns on again after touching the mouse. i have disabled screensaver. how can i disable the feature that turns my monitors off ? | oh, it's dpms |
what is the easiest mail server (configuration wise)? | postfix probly |
how can i switch to console from x in ubuntu 10.04? | f7 will get you back |
can anyone help me, i cant see to find my cdrom drive | should be in your computer. if youve installed it. ;d |
people, is there any program like macromedia dreamweaver, to design webpages under linux? i'm using ubuntu 6.10 | mozilla composer? |
what should i do if /dev/dsp is missing? | that has been a popular question recently for some reason :) |
can someone help me with my sd* issues | what is the issue? |
how to find to what package given file belogs ? | elsae install apt-file |
hmm.. the vesa driver makes x work, but vesa sucks ;-) the autodetection detects 'i815' but that doesn't work. any idea what i can try to know why x fails to load? | - lspci is your friend getting x to work is the one big hurdle to a new user if you get x working you are home free |
xchat n00b question, is there a way to quickly pick a name to respond to? | i haven't used xchat in a while (using irssi), but i think that ought to do it =/ |
just wondering, can i use a dvd as the installer for ubuntu 10.04 64bit? | i do believe so |
is there a nice gui tool for simple video editing and (video) dvd burning ? | i have created a ton of dvds using kino to edit dv stream and then encode to dvd mpeg and qdvdauthor to finish the job |
question: best software to run windows7 as a vm from ubuntu's 32 bit desktop? | check out virtualbox |
if x crashes and doesn't come back or hangs do 'ctrl+alt+f1' login to your account then do 'sudo /etc/init.d/gdm restart' | ctrl+alt+backspace is just as good isn't it? |
what's the command that 'refreshes' an open terminal to account for changes to $home/bin, .bashrc, etc? | source $home/bin or .bashrc |
is there a wiki for notify-osd where i can provoke one using command? | use 'notify-send' (i think from 'libnotify-bin') |
i am trying to run firefox, but when i try delete them it says, firefox i running. how do i find the id in terminal to kill? | killall firefox should also work |
i want to start dual-booting ubuntu, i have not installed it yet, and i am running windows xp. except, my only problem is i'm quite afraid that during the 'partition' step i will lose some of my data. how can i avoid this, or am i paranoid? | i have never lost any (and i have installed ubuntu many, many times). but if you don't back up your data, you will lose it some day :) |
hi. how much megabytes exactly (+- 50mb) does 11.04 desktop i386 standard installation takes after fresh install? | i have a fresh install sitting here - its using 2.8 gigs |
i have a sound blaster live! 5.1 sound card and a logitech x-530 5.1 speaker set... the sound is okay but i got an interference noise at the central speaker all the time. does anyone know what's happening? | creative.com (but sb drivers are included with ubuntu) |
which is the lightest de? | xcfe, openbox, flux, e17... |
how can i find more detailed info on my processor? i know about cat /proc/cpuinfo, basically i need to know what amd i got | sudo lshw |
dabar: i think my ubuntu is broken cuz i'm getting a bunch of unresolved dependency messages even when i excluded the net based repositories and try to dist-upgrade from the cdrom alone. | show me the cd line from /etc/apt/sources.list file, please |
is there a good frontend ftp client for ubuntu? | when you click on the 'connect to server' and then edit your details, you will have an icon on your desktop that represents the connection |
how can i tell which deb provided a file on my hard drive? | man dpkg for details |
hey i finally managed to make my wlan card work with an ndiswrapper and a windows driver, now i have to run 'sudo modprobe ndiswrapper' everytime before it works, where could i put that so that it happens on every startup?! | i know of a file /etc/rc.local where you can put commands that are tun on boot |
we have a centralized samba share for mounting all the /var/cache/apt/archives of all the ubuntu machines. this allows less downloads when doing updates. we also have the repositories download from a centralized location. so we update the main machine, and then the other machines update from the local network. | why samba instead of http? |
not to interrupt, but does anyone know much about dual monitors? i'm having an interesting problem i can't search the internet for because i'm not sure how to phrase it. | standard trick, try to reset the monitor with build in factory reset? |
how do i change the default bittorrent client from vuzu back to transmission | you can associate .torrent files with transmission |
hi, here is my problem: the '1' key doesnt work (the one below esc), but shift+'1' does work, im 100% shure it is ubuntu thing, cause on other pc and on this pc on win it works normal, any ideas? | go to the console and see if it works there.. |
i have a folder that i need to give access to user www, group www, but i need to edit the files with my user. the best way is to add my user to the group www and make the folder part of the group www? | and make the folder group-writable |
is there any web interface for ubuntu repositories? | packages.ubuntu.com |
last night i set up gnupg. gnupg responded: 'the key 1024d/7c52bc42 was successfully validated.' what does the letter 'd' mean? | that you are using dsa as algorithm |
what is the linux euqivalent of ipconfig? | ifconfig |
how can i view a txt file in non-wrapped mode | in nano. nano should have wrapping off by default |
hi. google earth 5 does not run. could give you a logfile - could anyone help me? | i have it working fine but you must use the workaround |
would someone mind looking at this pastebin of my /var/log/syslog, could this be my problem? server running insanely slow, but not sure what this message means. | you have a severe hardware problem with your /dev/sda disk which is about to die. |
how i can turn off my pc from terminal | shutdown -h now ? |
is samba necessary in order to view files from a wind7 machine using a ubuntu machine? | the package you need for this is smbfs, not samba |
did you download breezy while running hoary? | yeah, replace all instances of hoary in sources.list with breezy, apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade |
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