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which ubuntu package contains the file parskip.py? | dpkg -s parskip.sty |
hi all, how do i install dapper from the 6.06-1 live cd on a raid1 boot, root partition? | you might need the alternative cd, im not sure. let's see what the channel has to say. |
i can't find skype in synaptic package manager. can i use the feisty fawn version from the skype site for my gutsy gibbon installation? | or download it from skype's site |
i just formatted my 1tb hdd in ext4. ubuntu reads it perfectly but there is an automatically created file 'lost+found'. what is this and should i leave it or delete it? | it is rarely used but is probably worth leaving. |
hi , i am using amd athlon 64. i have installed ubuntu 10.04. how do i find the chipset details and install the appropriate drivers as the laptop gets heated upto 90 c | i think dmidecode will help you find relevant info |
is running a firewall necessary for a home user behind a linksys router? | real user name |
hello. ive got a problem with evolution. im using gmail. everytime i, for example, delete a mail, it doesnt get deleted in gmail. it does get deleted in evolution and does not appear again, however | meaning 'deleted messages' are purged |
how can i monitor network traffic? | gkrellm |
hi guys, i have a .tgz file but i cant seem to install it | tgz is an archive file, not something that gets installed |
what version of xfce will ubuntu 5.04 have? | 4.2.1.1 is already there |
can i please get some help? i'm having trouble finding my sound card. | did it ever work? |
hi, is it possible to replicate a sistem configuration on another? my problem is this: i've a pc with an hd already configured(/boot, /,/home on three partitions). i would like to remount ubuntu removing the actual hd, copying the /home on the new, but reinstalling all the previous sw packages on the new hd. can somebo... | aptoncd |
how can you grep for item a or item b? | egrep |
morning everyone. i'm writing a script on ubuntu system and i'd like tu use mail notification. however i gert `mail`-command not found. what package should i install so i'll have `mail` binary? | mailutils |
how do i check which is the file system of a partition from cli? | if you just type 'mount' with no arguments, it'll tell you the type of every mounted filesystem |
isn't left and right arrow with some other key supposed to have compiz switch viewports? | default is ctrl+alt+left arrow |
how do i see the list of open ports of my machine and what application is using that? | netstat -a |
so teach me something guys n gals - is there a command that will take a file (like a list of commands) and arrange each line alphabetically? | like the 'sort' command? |
xubuntu still uses grub 2 right? | it should be using grub2 yes. |
nobody? - is there a simple way to install all header files (-dev packages) of currently installed packages? | what about getting all those names from apt-cache search and piping it to apt-get install? |
have you tried it under different distros? | i only tried xubuntu becuase i that's what i use most of the time; so could it be just the kernel? |
hello again. i think my message went unnoticed. so 3 of the 4 usb ports aren't working. got some data here: http://pastebin.com/mccdna89 . any help ? | i think the output of dmesg might be more itneresting, after plugging a usb device |
hello. after updating cupsys last night i cannot print at least pdf files to an smb connected hp laserjet 1200 anymore. is this a known issue? | to find out the answer to that check out launchpad.net the bug recorder |
hi everyone is there any fast way to convert .wav files to ogg or mp3 in terminal? | ffmpeg, iirc |
i had attached my keyboard to my laptop and now when i remove it and even if i do xorg reconfigure stuff the kb of laptop changes back to normal but after few seconds it agains starts working like keyboard with a keypad half of the keys like 'k' key types digit number 2 ... what should i do | uhh, are you sure you're not holding the 'fn' key, or that it isn't stuck? the operating system doesn't decide whether that button is a k or a 2, that's a hardware thing. |
alsa shoudl work out of the box, what are you trying to do? | my soundcard does not work out of the box |
i am told, by an error message, that i must install libdvdcss v1.2 but when trying to install either of the two, 'libdvdcss' or 'libdvdcss2' aptitude can't find a canditate version.. | check your pm |
i'm using ubuntu 7.04 (kernel 2.6.20-15-generic). i need to edit /etc/wvdial.conf but its read-only. what do i need to do? | chmod u+w /etc/wvdial.conf |
hello all. i have a compaq laptop with the ati radeon express 200m card. if i boot (dapper) with a monitor or projector attached to the vga port, the port is live and clones the screen, which is what i want. if i boot with nothing connected to the vga port, the port is dead and nothing i do (fn-f4, for instance) seems ... | sounds like your pc turns off the vga port unless something isconnected...may be a bios option |
hi, the compiz update from yesterday broke my compiz, and i no longer have desktop effects. can anyone help? | you can reinstall your desktop apt-get install ubuntu-desktop or just uninstall and reinstall compiz |
does anyone know how i can get ssh to not respond with 'ssh-2.0-openssh_5.9p1 debian-5ubuntu1' | man sshd_config and see debianbanner |
so, dumb question, but where's the best place to dump compiled programs? | http://wiki.debian.org/filesystemhierarchystandard |
can i get the ati drivers with apt-get? | yes, they're called fglrx |
how can i check how much disk space i have free through ssh? | df -h |
can a noob user get a bit of help? | typically running sudo apt-get update twice typically fixes that... but you can look at your /etc/apt/sources.list and delete any duplicates. |
hi everyone. i just installed ubuntu, and my first problem is that i can't right click or scroll with two fingers. can anyone help? | does it work with one finger? |
so where to get ubuntu ? | cdimages.ubuntu.com |
i have a folder with a space in it's name and want to use it for a command line, but it stops at the space, how do i use the folder with the command line? | type '\ ' for the space |
hey i'm in a really big mess here. does anyone know how to recover ntfs partitions from ubuntu or linux?] | too large an answer for irc i guess ... but basically (simplifying too much )windows has the gui included in the kernel (to make it faster) linux has not and many other details |
quick question, is there any reason that my xorg.conf file would revert or change on it's own? | driver updates, maybe? |
how do i compare two ascii files in ubuntu... i know there is a command, but i don't remember what it is | diff |
guys i got a pretty odd problem. i'm trying to use the restricted ati driver, but when i turn it on, it seems that the highest resolution is 1024x768. my default (and what i prefer it at) is 1280x1024. but when i try to use 'sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg -phigh' to reinstate the 1280x1024 resolution, it reverts ba... | you can edit /etc/x11/xorg.conf manually and add 'fglrx' as driver ;) you sure you're selecting the right driver in dpkg? |
very stupid question: how do i display kernel information from the command line? like what version i'm using? | uname -r |
anyone dual booting windows vista and ubuntu? | the installer will offer to split your hard disk between windows and ubuntu and install a boot manager so you can choose. |
anyone else not able to update from security.ubuntu.com right now? | yeah im haveing issues too |
how to add file contents with sudo? when i do sudo echo new_data > /etc/sysfile - redirect works not for root but for my user. so file cannot be opened | sudo bash -c 'echo new_data > /etc/sysfile' |
anyone having problem with restricted drivers? | yes, lots of people are :p |
hey i'm trying to setup my ubuntu machines to print onto my windows shared printer. i set it all up. i watch it send a 127k file when i'm printing a test page, on the windows machine that 127k file stops at 64k and the file size keeps increasing. it was 64k/50mb by the time i purged the queue. any ideas, it won't print... | it's been a looong time, but i got cups to work after researching in the forums |
i plenty of ram and set 2gb to swap when i installed. can i reduce swap, or is it wise to just leave things alone? | just moutn half the swap as /tmp or something via tmpfs. |
is it me or does ubuntu have piss poor support for multiple monitors and ati drivers | right. |
i just downloaded the rt2500 drivers using synaptic, and i can't figure out how to compile them, because the directory they are unpacked to is locked | sudo passwd root putyourpasshere & su <-- work from there |
where is pidgin config folder located? | /home/.purple |
what do i need to use to setup a proxy server locally, that patches connections through to another proxy server i have access to on the net? | read the link? |
do you know if your joystick is working? | yes, it is working in mupen64plus though it needs a bit config... that's why i need to know the numbers |
is there someone that knows how to change the home folder of a user ? | try cd ~username |
how do i run .deb files? | type in console sudo dpkg -i packagename.deb |
try making a usb flash drive installer perhaps? (it will install faster then from a cd also i find) | i am running the installer from an external hardisk |
how can i reinstall mysql-server package so it will create all it's /etc/mysql files? | if you're not sure, `dpkg -s /etc/mysql` will give you the packages you need to purge/reinstall |
your d drive is where ubuntu is? thats claled filesystem now and d:\ is only in winows ubutnu works differently | yea i know that, but i can't access my d drive, even though its called something else. |
i'm trying to run opera 32-bit on ubuntu gutsy 64-bit so i can use flash. i have three libraries which opera can't use because it is 32-bit. how do i grab the 32-bit libs? | you need to setup a 32bit chroot most likely |
anyone can ubuntu be installed to full disc on mac book pro....no osx on hd | just boot from cd and format like normal |
what light weight software would you recomend for cropping images? | eye of gnome will do that cropping for you easily. |
what sort of 'remote' folder? | on another machine/computer |
i'm not sure whether i should use 64bit, or 32bit with pae. my computer usage is general web browsing, web development using nusphere phped running under wine, local web services (lamp setup), some game playing, and cross compiling embedded linux installations. anyone have any suggestions/warnings? | either works gr8 ... but if you find 32bit slow use the 64bit if you have >3gb of ram |
so i installed a maxtor external hard drive. for some reason around this time i can login with my username/password, but in the terminal when i type 'su' and try to type the same password, it says auth failure | su is disabled for non-root users. use sudo |
could anyone tell me how to remove nginx? | sudo apt-get --purge remove nginx |
how can i find out what services are using tcp ports 8010, or 111 on my machine? | lsof -i should give you a list of connections and servers |
hey, for developing server apps etc, what language would you suggest in linux? i'd use c# in windows | why not check the server os apps to see what they're written in |
fsck tells me my ext3 partition is clean, but how can i force verification? | fsck -f? |
i'm rebuilding my kubuntu installation, what was the procedure to get the various shady video codecs etc. installed? | w32codecs |
i just clicked on a google link that 'did a free virus scan'.. but that's not what the link said it was.. now the link says i've got all kinds of spyware.... what a joke! not possible.. http://antvirushelp.com/2009/1/_freescan.php?id=880461 | you can get this really good antivirus/antispyware disk from http://ubuntu.com |
you know how in windows if you click the scroll wheel down it gives you a nice wheel you can move up or down to scroll in firefox? is there a way to have that in linux? | just use the scroll wheel, mine works fine. (unless windows does something else) |
when i press backspace and there is nothing to erase my computer (the actual computer) makes a beep. is there any way to disable this? | system-preferences-sound-system beep |
i have 10.04 lts when comes next lts version, is it usually easy to dist-upgrade to it? | but with every upgrade, you run the risk of things breaking |
nautilus keeps freezing up my desktop. can anyone recommend an alternative file browser? | the terminal? midnight commander? |
anyway to upgrade office 2.4 to 3.0 in intrepid ? | there is even a repo for it |
i finally installed ubuntu on my ibm thinkpad, yippee...but... i chose the wrong keyboard lqyout, how can i change this ? | system -> preferences -> keyboard |
are the 12.04 us.archive.ubuntu repositories having issues today? | they were working earlier, why? |
i was looking at this post http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=11466#post11466 cause i can't install gftp could someone please help me ? i did unchecked 'universe' in sources list but i still get the same error msg | did you run apt-get update (or have you clicked the update button in the package manager) ? |
how do i force .exe files to not be executable and associate them with another application? wine makes them executable, and i don't like it | right click and select open with |
is there anything like dreamweaver that i can get on my linux machine here for free? | lookup bluefish |
which problems may i have using root all the time ? | you might accidentally do something and break your machine, and if you are connected to the internet as root (for example via irc), it's possible that a security vulnerability in the client you are using could get you hacked |
hey guys how do i change a users shell to prevent them from logging in at all | goto /etc/passwd and make the shell /bin/false |
hey, anyone know off the top of their head how to get the taskbar to group multiple instances of the same app? | right clic in the window list applet >preferences |
i've done a server install of ubuntu, then installed the xubuntu-desktop package. i'm having problems getting my ipod to be recognised ... what packages should i install / modules should i modprobe? | i got an ipod nano yesterday and was surprised when it worked perfectly in gnome |
- have you tried gimp? | : yea .. not is sufficient as cs |
hey all, i use 'last [user] -a' command to check the last login/logouts of a user.. but it only shows me the history back to the 2nd of june | see your wtmp.x files in /var/log. use last -f /var/log/wtmp.1 for example |
hello , how i restart apache and mysql service in ubuntu ? | sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart |
whats the command to see wireless internet cards? its like ifconfig but not | iwconfig |
after having switched from an nvidia card to an old ati card (which lacks fglrx driver support), i'm trying to get glx working. in my xorg log, i'm getting: 'failed to initialize glx extension (compatible nvidia x driver not found)', even after completely removing the nvidia binary drivers. anyone have any pointers? | /etc/x11/xorg.conf |
what's the ip of google.com? | for example 64.233.187.99 |
hi, how can i change the default boot kernel on clients? | using pxe?? |
if i am instaling windows and linux on the same drive should i install windows first then linux and everything should be ok? | yes windows first |
what is the name of winamp-look mp3 player for linux? | xmms i guess |
what are the most common terminal lines to check my hardware | lshw |
does anyone know a way to recursively list all files in a directory & all its subdirectories down to the deepest subdirectory ? | install tree |
hi all! simple question: how to check how old is the system (when it was installed)? | sudo head -c 15 /var/log/installer/syslog;echo |
greets. my daughter has been wanting an ipod and can now get one. however, i would like to know what mp3 players others are using with ubuntu | don't get an ipod it is not good ;p] |
i have downloaded and unpacked the mozilla thunderbird executable on my new ubuntu installation. how do i install the program. don't i just double click the thunderbird-bin file? any pointer in the right direction is appreciated. | thnderbird is in the repositories, you might try that. |
corrected: what does /tmp/orbit-username serve?? can i delete it? because after i issue netstat -lp i find a whole lot of entries from there. | well, it is in /tmp, so blowing em away won't hurt. just kill the ones from older sessions, to be safe |
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