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q: is there a command i can type ... to see what kind of hardware i have ?	try lspci
hi all, i have a question on 32bit vs 64 bit. in the ubuntu document, it recommends 64bit version, buy why the 32bit version is recommended in the download page?	go 64 bit
hey any idea about mint 10 as an os?	i have all ssorts of different distri running from suse to mint and all are running fine )
hi. i have a problem with my firefox. im on an ubuntu machine, and when im on a webpage, say msn.com, then when i open a new tab, the address bar does change to blank one but rahter keeps msn.com. anyone know how to fix this? it works fine when i run it from root (sudo firefox).	move your ~/.mozilla directory to ~/.mozilla_bak and see if that fixes it
after i log onto my computer there is a screen that is brown and says ubuntu, nautilus loads, other apps load and i want to what thtat screen is called so i can change the shit brown window ... anyone help?	you're looking for the splash screen
how do you search for an application?	just type the name in most cases
hi, what's the proper command to shut down the computer? halt doesn't do the job well...	sudo shutdown now
hi all - i would like to not show mounted hdds on my desktop! where to change that?	apps->nautilus->desktop->show_volumes
hello guy's! anybody can help me?	apt-get source coreutils
hey, i have metacity installed by am wondering why it doesn't seem to show as an option for a session in gdm. anyone know?	things changed. to run metacity i suggest installing 'fusion-icon' and loading it from there
i want to download vmware player, but the version in the repositort wont install... it says that it is not compatible with my hardware. i see some versions listed on the website and was wondering if i should aim for .rpm or .tar?	you can easily convert rpm to deb, though i suggest you download vmware server .tar's
hi guys, 'java -version' says 'java version '1.6.0_24'' and 'javac -version' says 'javac 1.7.0_07' .. how can i make java use 1.7 too?	have a look at 'update-java-alternatives' command
i really need an answer, guys! --> i want to put ubuntu 10.04 lts on an empty usb. what type/format should the usb be and what file system should i use?	use a fat32 file system. use ubuntbootin to put your ubuntu iso onto your usb flash drive.
i'm following the ubuntu wiki's guide to restoring grub after installing windows on a partition. when i run 'sudo grubinstall etc etc etc' i get an error: http://pastebin.com/umtup4gl	why sda1, and not /dev/sda ?
hi, im going to buy a notebook in the next few weeks and i want to install ubuntu on it. now im looking for a notebooks that will work with ubuntu. it should be a solid product mainly for browsing the web and office work. can anybody recommend a manufacturer or even a specific model?	dell has just startet shipping laptops with ubuntu
can someone try to connect to my website please and read me the line of text so i know it's working? i'm trying to host a simple one so i can do file sharing. please tell me if you can connect it's clean i promise: http://72.178.5.22/	'apache2 is up and running.'
anyone know if generic kernel works ok with nvidia drivers?	of course it does
does anyone know if it is possible to test cd/dvd burning from the live cd?	or any of the other cd burning packages
hey guys, i was wondering: if i post a log file output to pastebin, would someone be willing to look at it and explain a few things to me? i'm trying to determine if my computer has been compromised by some unauthorized user	aye, throw it up there, i'm sure someone will take a look
is netbook remix intended for all laptops or mainly netbooks?	netbooks but nobody is preventing you from using it on your regular laptop
hello; i am looking for rescue distro like 'systemrescuecd', which can be installed on hard disk (i have 2 gb 'boot' partiction for other system), are there others distros?	u can have a full linux distro with the size of 50mb refer to dsl (damn small linux) and puppy linux
how can i install kernel 3.2.6 ?	update ur computer by using update-manager
how can i 'listen' to a port? that is, see all the data being sent through it.	(thats a program)
hello. reading http://www.ubuntugeek.com/kernel-2-6-35-officially-available-for-ubuntu-10-04.html it says 'this kernel is now available in the git repository of ubuntu 10.04' and 'sudo apt-get dist-upgrade'. if its a dist-upgrade, isn't that 10.10 beta? i don't understand how it can remain 10.04 but with 2.6.35.4 kernel. can anyone help me understand this please? thanks.	a dist-upgrade does not always upgrade to the next release.
for burning cds/dvd's, is k3b still the best thing to use?	i use gnomebaker
how can i find out which ubuntu i have?	lsb_release -a
say is tvtime or another tv watching app included in the live cd?	have a read of http://wiki.ubuntu.com/seedmanagement
what is the bar at the bottom of gnumeric for (see here: http://img88.imageshack.us/done.php?l=img88/7595/gnubaret6.png)?	+b is ban
it does something else? on some other port?	'hostname' changes your computer's hostname. use it again immediately to reset to your normal hostname, please, or you might incur in problems.
how can i check if my internal speakers have been detected correctly? (asus f3sv)	sudo apt-get install beep && beep
why not using network manager?	because im not using gnome. (awesome)
sorry to ask my question again. does anyone have pointers for stable apt-get repositories for	repositories for unsupported old versions of ubuntu are located at http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/
how do i repatition my camera?	gparted
i have a netbook with no cd drive... can i use an sd card instead of a usb flash drive as the installation medium?	as long as the netbook wants to boot from sd its fine. however.. it might spam you with a lot of 'cant read' stuff.. you can safely ignore it or disable 'floppy disk emulation' in the bios.. either way it will install just fine
does anyone know if clonezilla has an irc channel?	maybe on irc.mozilla.org
i find this quite anoying... whenever you install something... lets say... eclipse... dependencies get installed aswell... altho, whenever you uninstall eclipse..., all the dependencies will stay untouched.... how can i remove a package and all its dependencies (where possible) ?	open synaptic. on the left, select status. the autoremovable packages are the left overs.
how do i get the uuid of a partition?	you can do this -- ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid/
hi! i am installing a wireless driver. i need to know the 'linux kernel source include path'. what is it?	/usr/src
i would liek to burn a video_ts folder to an iso from command line. suggestions?	mkisofs
what is the command for opening nautilus with sudo power??? i forgot	: gksudo nautilus
won't that just change the log output?	my fault -o filename
is there a version of ubuntu well suited for recording midi devices? rosegarden complains that the system timer is not right (and there's always that big delay.....)	ubuntu studio is for digital audio and video. i will admit that is about all i know about it
xthegoat121x: 2am here yeah night... did i leave my webcam on again!?	there is a link on the ubuntu.com website which was updated today - they have 'limited edition merchandice'
where can i get dektop apps like a calender thats built in to the dektop i know windows can do that	gnome has gdesklets to do what you want
heya - is there a web development irc channel that anybody can recommend?	i dont known any
i have a text file with three lines. first line is blank, second and third lines only have a two-digit number. i need to get the second line and third line read into a script variable as a time, with a ':' between each number. how can i do this?	timevar='$(sed -n 2p file):$(sed -n 3p file)'; seems to work here
how do i convert .rpms into .des?	alien
does anyone know how i can keep my cd rom from closing when i try to pull a disk out?	i think i saw something about that in the 8.10 release notes.
any one knows how to fix sleep and suspend functions on my laptop	detail
hi, can i ask questions about edgy here?	just ask ;)
l3top i just tried fn + monitor key (f7 on mine) but that didn't do anything. my monitor doesn't detect any signal.	may have to add another screen in xorg.conf
anyone know of an openoffice.org 2.0 beta repository for ubuntu?	maintenance work was being done on it earlier, no idea if it's ongoing.
how do i subscribe to ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com	www.ubuntu.com --> right hand side lists mailing lists
how can i listen to a shoutcast stream? xmms doesn't seem to acknowledge it as audio and totem yells at me.	have you tried a different stream?
guys, is there yahoo messenger for ubuntu?	try gaim, there isn't an official yahoo messenger for linux
so it can't be edited as user	has it even been fixed for intel? or can it be even?
hey, is openoffice.org re-gnomeized in hoary amd64? warty amd64 openoffice.org is ugly :(	cdrecord tells a lot annoying messages if you use it this way
hi, just installed xubuntu on a laptop with a partitioned hdd (partitioned in 2 parts) now it only sees the partion on which xubuntu's installed. i checked the dimensions and it didnt melt them together, the 2nd partition simply disappeared... help?	ubuntu won't mount the second partition unless you tell it to. look in nautilus. you should see an icon indicating an unmounted partition (30 gb media, or something like that.)
i have a folder in my trash and apparently i don't have the permissions to delete it. is there a way to empty the trash for a specific user in ternimal under sudo?	sudo rm -rf /home/username/.local/share/trash
what's the command for checking my ip? isn't it lpconfig?	lpconfig is for printers, afaik.
isn't there an su option that essentially makes you a root user?	sudo su or sudo -s
is there a gtk application for downloading cover art?	i believe if you don't use --convert-link, it won't modify them
how does one remove a service from startup?	update-rc.d -f gdm remove
little question, when i want to remove some default packages like bittorrent, i cant do it because it shows me a dependency on ubuntu-desktop (which i believe is very important package)	ubuntu-desktop is a metapackage, if you remove any of the default programs you lose it, but you will still have all the other individual packages.
the font is somewhere on the wiki... if i can only find it	thanks, at leats i know where to start looking
where could i ask my performance related question on ubuntu-server?	maybe run transmission with idle i/o priority? ionice -c 3 -p `pidof transmission`
hi, im running gnome on ubuntu 7.10, in the open file dialog, how can i get it to allow me to type in a location rather than browse to the file i want?	does ctrl+l do anything?
hi, how can i see, what ip address the devices in my network have?	nmap ?
what do i install to get flash to work in firefox?	install that and you will get flash
how can i continue a stopped process from the command line? after using kill -stop <pid>, is there something like -continue or -unstop?	sigcont
what was wrong with the ubuntu site? does anyone know what the issues were?	power cut, many other sites down too
hi. what is the best and most user-friendly (easy to install and gui) dvd-ripper?	dvd::rip is great, however quite complicated. handbrake isn't bad and ogmrip is the easiest (p.s. i love your artwork)
how to install codec (mp3 and video)??	hm?
can anyone help me with printing please?	what's the problem?
why can i not format my usb thumb drive to ntfs? the only options are ext2,3,4, linux-swap, and fat16 and fat32	i think you need btfsprogs and ntfs-3g from the repos
hey all... am setting up a 'transparent proxy' for both ip and dns via tor/vidalia/privoxy and think i finally have all but dns done. but i don't know a way to verify that applications are running through the proxy automatically. anyone know a trick to figure this out?	privoxy has a test url to check it.
how do i find out how many packages are in ubuntu?	run synaptic package manager, and check the tool bar/panel.
does anyone have any idea why /etc/default/console-setup wont hold its settings after ubuntu finishes booting? when the kernel spewed its usual memory crap at the beginning it changed to what i set it to but then the consoles reverted back to the ubuntu default. any idea what would cause this?	did you check if 'sudo dpkg-reconfigure console-setup' has the same behavior?
hi guys, is there an irc client that runs in the terminal?	lots of. irssi, bitchx, epic2, although you probably want to use irssi
i'm currently in 4 channels: #ubuntu, #unhack-oo,##unix and ##ufo... and this si the only one where people are actually talking	ubotu will be here shortly
where can i change the default runlevel so ubuntu will go to console and not x so i can just issue a startx to test my xorg.conf	sudo telinit 1 (i think, maybe 2) swutches to the single user moe. but you are better off booting into the reocovery mode
in terminal, what's mean 'sh' ?	shell
hey, any body in here know what could have caused this to happen during an update 'http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/2061/screenshot3k.png'?	you can try downloading the .deb package direct from packages.ubuntu.com and installing it by clicking on it.
i feel that my upgrade to hardy was only partial, but the update manager is giving me problems. how do i complete the update from the cli	sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
how to do to change the ubuntu boot splash?	see above
hey what does this mean? '_tkinter.tclerror: no display name and no $display environment variable'	you could try to fake it by typing `env display=:0 /path/to/your/app`
hi people, where do i go with a question about installer translation ?	if there's a bug, you can file it on launchpad
how can i tell what package provides a particular file?	dpkg -s /path/to/filename
if i specified a separate partition for the os and a separate partition for my home directory, how do i go about keeping my /home when i reinstall ubuntu?	never doe it myself, but i'd say just make a symlink to the /home partition. give me a moment and i'll find you something.
how do i search for a certain filename in the terminal?	try 'locate <filename>'
i tried to give ubuntu server a go but i felt like i was trying to work blindfolded with hands tied behind my back... is there a way to have an idea of its own surroundings from the terminal (for example listing the installed applications)?	help.ubuntu.com would also be helpful
ok, how do i find out which character coding terminal is using?	ubottu is dead right now
is there a way to get netflix on boxee in ubuntu, or is that not going to happen?	rather, in a virtual machine running windows on your ubuntu computer.
does anyone know the path to the terminal window application?	type 'which gnome-terminal' in a terminal
so ubuntu uses debian kernel, debian installer, and debian packages (albiet in a custom repository), so the basic advantage is that it standardizes packages?	and the three-past-releases security support
hi folks. where does synaptic / apt-get keep the cached files it downloads .... i have all the files, and rather than download them again, i thought id load them in manually	/var/apt/cache/ i think
my ubuntu keeps randomly freezing. is there any logs i could tail before it freezes to see if there is anything oging on?	maybe /var/log/messages ?
hi, is it possible to create a searchable pdf from an image file in ubuntu?	try the scribus channel, they have a lot of knowledge in the pdf realm
is there any performance benefit in using either azureus or azureus-gcj repository packages?	use azureus, not gcj
don't know who should be told - but with the update of claws-mail the other day, package claws-mail-feeds-reader is now broken (technically the package isn't broken, but the plugin is not compatible)	in hardy or intrepid?

q: is there a command i can type ... to see what kind of hardware i have ?

try lspci

hi all, i have a question on 32bit vs 64 bit. in the ubuntu document, it recommends 64bit version, buy why the 32bit version is recommended in the download page?

go 64 bit

hey any idea about mint 10 as an os?

i have all ssorts of different distri running from suse to mint and all are running fine )

hi. i have a problem with my firefox. im on an ubuntu machine, and when im on a webpage, say msn.com, then when i open a new tab, the address bar does change to blank one but rahter keeps msn.com. anyone know how to fix this? it works fine when i run it from root (sudo firefox).

move your ~/.mozilla directory to ~/.mozilla_bak and see if that fixes it

after i log onto my computer there is a screen that is brown and says ubuntu, nautilus loads, other apps load and i want to what thtat screen is called so i can change the shit brown window ... anyone help?

you're looking for the splash screen

how do you search for an application?

just type the name in most cases

hi, what's the proper command to shut down the computer? halt doesn't do the job well...

sudo shutdown now

hi all - i would like to not show mounted hdds on my desktop! where to change that?

apps->nautilus->desktop->show_volumes

hello guy's! anybody can help me?

apt-get source coreutils

hey, i have metacity installed by am wondering why it doesn't seem to show as an option for a session in gdm. anyone know?

things changed. to run metacity i suggest installing 'fusion-icon' and loading it from there

i want to download vmware player, but the version in the repositort wont install... it says that it is not compatible with my hardware. i see some versions listed on the website and was wondering if i should aim for .rpm or .tar?

you can easily convert rpm to deb, though i suggest you download vmware server .tar's

hi guys, 'java -version' says 'java version '1.6.0_24'' and 'javac -version' says 'javac 1.7.0_07' .. how can i make java use 1.7 too?

have a look at 'update-java-alternatives' command

i really need an answer, guys! --> i want to put ubuntu 10.04 lts on an empty usb. what type/format should the usb be and what file system should i use?

use a fat32 file system. use ubuntbootin to put your ubuntu iso onto your usb flash drive.

i'm following the ubuntu wiki's guide to restoring grub after installing windows on a partition. when i run 'sudo grubinstall etc etc etc' i get an error: http://pastebin.com/umtup4gl

why sda1, and not /dev/sda ?

hi, im going to buy a notebook in the next few weeks and i want to install ubuntu on it. now im looking for a notebooks that will work with ubuntu. it should be a solid product mainly for browsing the web and office work. can anybody recommend a manufacturer or even a specific model?

dell has just startet shipping laptops with ubuntu

can someone try to connect to my website please and read me the line of text so i know it's working? i'm trying to host a simple one so i can do file sharing. please tell me if you can connect it's clean i promise: http://72.178.5.22/

'apache2 is up and running.'

anyone know if generic kernel works ok with nvidia drivers?

of course it does

does anyone know if it is possible to test cd/dvd burning from the live cd?

or any of the other cd burning packages

hey guys, i was wondering: if i post a log file output to pastebin, would someone be willing to look at it and explain a few things to me? i'm trying to determine if my computer has been compromised by some unauthorized user

aye, throw it up there, i'm sure someone will take a look

is netbook remix intended for all laptops or mainly netbooks?

netbooks but nobody is preventing you from using it on your regular laptop

hello; i am looking for rescue distro like 'systemrescuecd', which can be installed on hard disk (i have 2 gb 'boot' partiction for other system), are there others distros?

u can have a full linux distro with the size of 50mb refer to dsl (damn small linux) and puppy linux

how can i install kernel 3.2.6 ?

update ur computer by using update-manager

how can i 'listen' to a port? that is, see all the data being sent through it.

(thats a program)

hello. reading http://www.ubuntugeek.com/kernel-2-6-35-officially-available-for-ubuntu-10-04.html it says 'this kernel is now available in the git repository of ubuntu 10.04' and 'sudo apt-get dist-upgrade'. if its a dist-upgrade, isn't that 10.10 beta? i don't understand how it can remain 10.04 but with 2.6.35.4 kernel. can anyone help me understand this please? thanks.

a dist-upgrade does not always upgrade to the next release.

for burning cds/dvd's, is k3b still the best thing to use?

i use gnomebaker

how can i find out which ubuntu i have?

lsb_release -a

say is tvtime or another tv watching app included in the live cd?

have a read of http://wiki.ubuntu.com/seedmanagement

what is the bar at the bottom of gnumeric for (see here: http://img88.imageshack.us/done.php?l=img88/7595/gnubaret6.png)?

+b is ban

it does something else? on some other port?

'hostname' changes *your computer's* hostname. use it again immediately to reset to your normal hostname, please, or you might incur in problems.

how can i check if my internal speakers have been detected correctly? (asus f3sv)

sudo apt-get install beep && beep

why not using network manager?

because im not using gnome. (awesome)

sorry to ask my question again. does anyone have pointers for stable apt-get repositories for

repositories for unsupported old versions of ubuntu are located at http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/

how do i repatition my camera?

gparted

i have a netbook with no cd drive... can i use an sd card instead of a usb flash drive as the installation medium?

as long as the netbook wants to boot from sd its fine. however.. it might spam you with a lot of 'cant read' stuff.. you can safely ignore it or disable 'floppy disk emulation' in the bios.. either way it will install just fine

does anyone know if clonezilla has an irc channel?

maybe on irc.mozilla.org

i find this quite anoying... whenever you install something... lets say... eclipse... dependencies get installed aswell... altho, whenever you uninstall eclipse..., all the dependencies will stay untouched.... how can i remove a package and all its dependencies (where possible) ?

open synaptic. on the left, select status. the autoremovable packages are the left overs.

how do i get the uuid of a partition?

you can do this -- ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid/

hi! i am installing a wireless driver. i need to know the 'linux kernel source include path'. what is it?

/usr/src

i would liek to burn a video_ts folder to an iso from command line. suggestions?

mkisofs

what is the command for opening nautilus with sudo power??? i forgot

: gksudo nautilus

won't that just change the log output?

my fault -o filename

is there a version of ubuntu well suited for recording midi devices? rosegarden complains that the system timer is not right (and there's always that big delay.....)

ubuntu studio is for digital audio and video. i will admit that is about all i know about it

xthegoat121x: 2am here yeah night... did i leave my webcam on again!?

there is a link on the ubuntu.com website which was updated today - they have 'limited edition merchandice'

where can i get dektop apps like a calender thats built in to the dektop i know windows can do that

gnome has gdesklets to do what you want

heya - is there a web development irc channel that anybody can recommend?

i dont known any

i have a text file with three lines. first line is blank, second and third lines only have a two-digit number. i need to get the second line and third line read into a script variable as a time, with a ':' between each number. how can i do this?

timevar='$(sed -n 2p file):$(sed -n 3p file)'; seems to work here

how do i convert .rpms into .des?

alien

does anyone know how i can keep my cd rom from closing when i try to pull a disk out?

i think i saw something about that in the 8.10 release notes.

any one knows how to fix sleep and suspend functions on my laptop

detail

hi, can i ask questions about edgy here?

just ask ;)

l3top i just tried fn + monitor key (f7 on mine) but that didn't do anything. my monitor doesn't detect any signal.

may have to add another screen in xorg.conf

anyone know of an openoffice.org 2.0 beta repository for ubuntu?

maintenance work was being done on it earlier, no idea if it's ongoing.

how do i subscribe to ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com

www.ubuntu.com --> right hand side lists mailing lists

how can i listen to a shoutcast stream? xmms doesn't seem to acknowledge it as audio and totem yells at me.

have you tried a different stream?

guys, is there yahoo messenger for ubuntu?

try gaim, there isn't an official yahoo messenger for linux

so it can't be edited as user

has it even been fixed for intel? or can it be even?

hey, is openoffice.org re-gnomeized in hoary amd64? warty amd64 openoffice.org is ugly :(

cdrecord tells a lot annoying messages if you use it this way

hi, just installed xubuntu on a laptop with a partitioned hdd (partitioned in 2 parts) now it only sees the partion on which xubuntu's installed. i checked the dimensions and it didnt melt them together, the 2nd partition simply disappeared... help?

ubuntu won't mount the second partition unless you tell it to. look in nautilus. you should see an icon indicating an unmounted partition (30 gb media, or something like that.)

i have a folder in my trash and apparently i don't have the permissions to delete it. is there a way to empty the trash for a specific user in ternimal under sudo?

sudo rm -rf /home/username/.local/share/trash

what's the command for checking my ip? isn't it lpconfig?

lpconfig is for printers, afaik.

isn't there an su option that essentially makes you a root user?

sudo su or sudo -s

is there a gtk application for downloading cover art?

i believe if you don't use --convert-link, it won't modify them

how does one remove a service from startup?

update-rc.d -f gdm remove

little question, when i want to remove some default packages like bittorrent, i cant do it because it shows me a dependency on ubuntu-desktop (which i believe is very important package)

ubuntu-desktop is a metapackage, if you remove any of the default programs you lose it, but you will still have all the other individual packages.

the font is somewhere on the wiki... if i can only find it

thanks, at leats i know where to start looking

where could i ask my performance related question on ubuntu-server?

maybe run transmission with idle i/o priority? ionice -c 3 -p `pidof transmission`

hi, im running gnome on ubuntu 7.10, in the open file dialog, how can i get it to allow me to type in a location rather than browse to the file i want?

does ctrl+l do anything?

hi, how can i see, what ip address the devices in my network have?

nmap ?

what do i install to get flash to work in firefox?

install that and you will get flash

how can i continue a stopped process from the command line? after using kill -stop <pid>, is there something like -continue or -unstop?

sigcont

what was wrong with the ubuntu site? does anyone know what the issues were?

power cut, many other sites down too

hi. what is the best and most user-friendly (easy to install and gui) dvd-ripper?

dvd::rip is great, however quite complicated. handbrake isn't bad and ogmrip is the easiest (p.s. i love your artwork)

how to install codec (mp3 and video)??

hm?

can anyone help me with printing please?

what's the problem?

why can i not format my usb thumb drive to ntfs? the only options are ext2,3,4, linux-swap, and fat16 and fat32

i think you need btfsprogs and ntfs-3g from the repos

hey all... am setting up a 'transparent proxy' for both ip and dns via tor/vidalia/privoxy and think i finally have all but dns done. but i don't know a way to verify that applications are running through the proxy automatically. anyone know a trick to figure this out?

privoxy has a test url to check it.

how do i find out how many packages are in ubuntu?

run synaptic package manager, and check the tool bar/panel.

does anyone have any idea why /etc/default/console-setup wont hold its settings after ubuntu finishes booting? when the kernel spewed its usual memory crap at the beginning it changed to what i set it to but then the consoles reverted back to the ubuntu default. any idea what would cause this?

did you check if 'sudo dpkg-reconfigure console-setup' has the same behavior?

hi guys, is there an irc client that runs in the terminal?

lots of. irssi, bitchx, epic2, although you probably want to use irssi

i'm currently in 4 channels: #ubuntu, #unhack-oo,##unix and ##ufo... and this si the only one where people are actually talking

ubotu will be here shortly

where can i change the default runlevel so ubuntu will go to console and not x so i can just issue a startx to test my xorg.conf

sudo telinit 1 (i think, maybe 2) swutches to the single user moe. but you are better off booting into the reocovery mode

in terminal, what's mean 'sh' ?

shell

hey, any body in here know what could have caused this to happen during an update 'http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/2061/screenshot3k.png'?

you can try downloading the .deb package direct from packages.ubuntu.com and installing it by clicking on it.

i feel that my upgrade to hardy was only partial, but the update manager is giving me problems. how do i complete the update from the cli

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

how to do to change the ubuntu boot splash?

see above

hey what does this mean? '_tkinter.tclerror: no display name and no $display environment variable'

you could try to fake it by typing `env display=:0 /path/to/your/app`

hi people, where do i go with a question about installer translation ?

if there's a bug, you can file it on launchpad

how can i tell what package provides a particular file?

dpkg -s /path/to/filename

if i specified a separate partition for the os and a separate partition for my home directory, how do i go about keeping my /home when i reinstall ubuntu?

never doe it myself, but i'd say just make a symlink to the /home partition. give me a moment and i'll find you something.

how do i search for a certain filename in the terminal?

try 'locate <filename>'

i tried to give ubuntu server a go but i felt like i was trying to work blindfolded with hands tied behind my back... is there a way to have an idea of its own surroundings from the terminal (for example listing the installed applications)?

help.ubuntu.com would also be helpful

ok, how do i find out which character coding terminal is using?

ubottu is dead right now

is there a way to get netflix on boxee in ubuntu, or is that not going to happen?

rather, in a virtual machine running windows on your ubuntu computer.

does anyone know the path to the terminal window application?

type 'which gnome-terminal' in a terminal

so ubuntu uses debian kernel, debian installer, and debian packages (albiet in a custom repository), so the basic advantage is that it standardizes packages?

and the three-past-releases security support

hi folks. where does synaptic / apt-get keep the cached files it downloads .... i have all the files, and rather than download them again, i thought id load them in manually

/var/apt/cache/ i think

my ubuntu keeps randomly freezing. is there any logs i could tail before it freezes to see if there is anything oging on?

maybe /var/log/messages ?

hi, is it possible to create a searchable pdf from an image file in ubuntu?

try the scribus channel, they have a lot of knowledge in the pdf realm

is there any performance benefit in using either azureus or azureus-gcj repository packages?

use azureus, not gcj

don't know who should be told - but with the update of claws-mail the other day, package claws-mail-feeds-reader is now broken (technically the package isn't broken, but the plugin is not compatible)

in hardy or intrepid?