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what is the most common application that newcommers install? | : http://paste.ubuntu-nl.org/23578 |
hi. i'm currently using ubuntu but i'm on a windows network that i do not manage. i'm having problems pinging any other machines (windows or linux) by their hostname, and similarly they cannot ping my machine by my hostname. is there something i 'need to'or can do to make my ubuntu machine compliant with however window... | can you ping by ip# |
what's the recommended way to install adobe reader on 9.04? | i believe ubuntu comes out of the box with a reader, just doesn't have 'adobe' on it |
does anyone know where i can get a static ip for a desktop/server for free | you tried http://www.madasafish.com/features/static-ip.asp |
how can i use 'ls' to display size of the overall contents of a directory. | : man du |
can anyone tell me how i can stop the current directory being displayed at the command prompt? currently i have 'adam@adam:~/desktop$', but i would like 'adam@adam$' (or somthing like that) | edit .bashrc and find and remove /w |
hello everybody can i ask u something concerning my asoundrc file? | kaffeine and amarok use arts sound. |
yes printers can do that , if is dos not help you can have too install programs from hell (microsoft ) | i have none of these hellish programs installed. |
is there a way to mount nrg,iso,cue,bin.. images on gnome... like 'mount iso image' for kde (http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=11577) | check your etc.sources.list |
is there a smooth way to generate an xorg.conf in 10.04? having some annoying behaviour using two monitors when they are configured inside of gnome, so i thought the xorg.conf would be a better place to set this up | try « sudo xorg -configure :1 » |
how can i tell which version of ubuntu i have installed? | lsb _release -a |
hi, i want to batch convert a lot of movies to 320x240 on ubuntu server. what's the best way to do that? | http://www.linuxquestions.org/linux/answers/applications_gui_multimedia/batch_convert_mpeg_files_to_avi_0 |
if i do a dist-upgrade, why would it hold these packages back? linux-headers-generic linux-image-generic linux-restricted-modules-generic | but some of my peripherals have quit working as well after i rebooted... |
my keyboards both shift keys are not working for unknown reasons. may be my keyboard has expired. so i want to know how could i assign the role of shift key to someother key | try the keyboard in the console, see if it works properly there..its odd that both shift keys would go bad. |
is there a way to disable the joined/quit messages in xchat? | right click on the chan name and it's in one of those menus that pop up |
hi. ok to ask about dnsmasq here? | may help http://leaf.sourceforge.net/doc/buci-dnsmasq.html |
how to know how many files in the folder with the help of ls??? | ls | wc -l might work |
i have gnome and im using ubuntu how can i switch to kde | you can run a kde program under gnome and vice versa, just some of the 'desktop integration' stuff will break |
can anyone help with networking? | you are welcome ;) |
what kernel comes wtih ubuntu, and what is the command to see this in terminal? | $ uname -r |
does anyone know how to block outgoing connections to a specific ip or port using iptables? thanks | http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-iptables-6-how-to-block-outgoing-access-to-selectedspecific-ip-address.html |
where can i download the ubuntu iso? | use the current release, hoary |
what is the name of the package of the gnome networking configuration tool? | network-admin |
i have a somewhat weird problem. basically, on one of my laptops, i'm running gutsy/7.10. i went to upgrade to hardy heron, and it said i had 3rd party pkgs disabled. that's fine; i went into synaptic and checked the relevent repos. did an apt-get update/apt-get upgrade. then i restarted. i'm now in 'low-graphics' mode... | yesterday, i damaged one of those definitions, and the whole desktop went awry... just like you've described. |
hi everybody, there's something that stop me to change definitivly to ubuntu, it's itunes, ok i know that exists a lot of altetrnatives, i tried all of them. i tried to install itunes by wine and now by playonlinux (a frontend of wine), works but very very slowly, anyonw knows a way to do things working good? (sorry ba... | if you must have itunes that is |
hi, where can i get a postgresql 8.2 package for intrepid ? | you could look up the deb archive found through debian.org |
i installed boxee from a .deb from boxee's website...how do i go about uninstalling that so i can install the newer beta version? | dpkg -l | grep ^ii | grep boxee -- that will give you the name of the .deb you originally installed. then, dpkg -r <name of deb> to remove |
who likes xfce? i installed it last night....it flies! :-) | i liked it for a bit, it sucks with the network-manager-applet though |
hello, i cant add an iso (not ubuntu iso) to usb creator assistant in ubu 11.04 | the usb creator in ubuntu only works for ubuntu isos - unetbootin perhaps? |
http://ubuntuguide.org/#limewire, it all works but then i can't open limewire, anybody knows what to do? | wiki.ubuntu.com/soundproblemshoary |
hello, i am unable to unlock my administration directory for an install using apt-get. i cannot kill the pid that has a lock on it either 'kill:(5134) - operation not permitted' | we wrap th 5 in the [] to tell grep not to give us back the color thingy |
how do i get infor on software raid mounts? | read about mdadm, md-raid.. |
whats selinux? | security enhanced linux, modifications that give you mandatory access control and restrictions |
anyone know how the backspace key works? | it *should* just work |
does anyone know of a good linux distro which could as a caching server for http, etc, and offer some 'auditing' as to monitor which user uses more adsl cap? | 'sudo dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig' or 'sudo fc-cache -f -v' |
hi - i'm learning through experimentation and so far i've setup apache and registered a domain name from godaddy and created a tiny test website in my www folder. i registered at zoneedit and am waiting for a response. i installed the ez-ipupdate package (but can't find it, if there is something to find in order to con... | do you want to pm? |
hi, ever since i installed gutsy about 6 weeks ago, i've never had so much trouble with my disk partitions. (1) after the initial install, the disks were all changed from /dev/hdan to /dev/sdan, but after any boot-up, they can be *anywhere*. (2) but what is upsetting me hourly, is that usb memory-stick mounts are total... | use uuids in the files instead of dev names, if you put usb stick a in first one day it's sdc or so, if you ut usb stick b in by itself next day, it becomes sdc instead, even if totally different size or filesystem. uuids make sure you have that specific device. |
hey ive installed ubuntu everything seems fine but how can i tell which if any drivers are incorrect etc like device manager in windows ???? | if it's working they're probably right, you could 'dmesg | less' if you fancy some complex reading though |
i'm looking to migrate to subversion 1.7, but cannot find any official packages ... why so far behind? | and i don't see 1.7 even in debian yet or the in-development release of ubuntu. you could try looking for a ppa if you really need it though. |
hi ubuntu. does anyone know of any application which would allow me to somehow move around a window that doesn't completely fit on my screen? i have had little enhancement with maximus, by the way. | alt+drag? :p |
i have a problem with my new laptop, and i was wondering if someone could help. this is not an install problem, i am very experienced with linux. the distro is working perfectly, the problem is with the leds on the system. under xp the wifi on/off light works perfectly, under linux it does not. if i cat /sys/bus/pci/dr... | i think that led is probably controlled by a bit in nvram ... you could have a look at madwifi to see how they do it - i don't now how to dump nvram from windows but you could compare a dump from windows to a dump in linux |
for grep, is there a symbol to represent not? | also in a regex, [^x] means not x |
in older versions of ubuntu there used to be a system app that would show the list of installed hardware. i can't find it in 9.04. i need to find out the driver that ubuntu is using for my webcam. | lsusb will tell you what your webcam is reported as, you can use lsmod and a clever grep to find the module, or driver it uses |
if i download a package from http://packages.ubuntu.com/intrepid/firefox-3.0-branding with adept,synaptic or whatever package manager update it? | if there is a newer version in the repo's then yes, otherwise nope |
is there something better than gdesklets? it is so buggy :/ | screenlets |
how to get libxine-extracodecs? | enable multiverse and universe than sudo apt-get install libxine-extracodecs |
how long does shipit take usually? i just recommended it for many friends | i got in ~1 month |
my gnome workspaces are gone from the panel, how can i readd them? | just right click the panel and add workspaces too it |
real quick . . . does anyone know where the music app 'amarok' stores it's sqlite database file? in the $home dir??? | i think its ~/.kde/config someplace |
do i need any special packages to play a .avi? | i believe that the easiest would be to install vlc that should install the codecs required |
how can i list stuff on the screen so it doesn't go all the way up without me pressing a button? | <cmd> | less |
that was absolutly damn trash what you've done | please adhere to the code of conduct in here |
where can i find icons? like i want the icons that show up when i put a shortcut up on my desktop | gnome-look.org |
i installed nvidia driver in live cd mode before i installed ubuntu 9.10, and now after installing it wont boot, it goes to a terminal and my screen is flashing. looking inside xorg.conf the driver is nvidia. could this be problem? what is the default/generic driver to put? | try vesa |
question. i tried to drop a couple apps on my left hand toolbar. they didn't stick but spaces were created. now theres spaces i can't seem to get rid of. anyone know how to remove them? | tried myunity for that? |
if i've updated to hoary, and am now using xorg, it's safe to remove xfree86, right? | did you upgrade to hoary? how stable is it? |
i have a dilemma where i need a name for my program | what kinda ? |
hi, guys. i just bought a new laptop and am going to dual boot. is it possible to put my /home file on its own partition? | http://www.linuxmint.com/wiki/index.php/how_to_partition |
hi guys. how do i check what network card i have on my laptop? | lspci |
quick question, i'm going to reformat in a couple of days(currently have 7.10, going to put either 7.10/8.04 and winxp pro on). what are the major differences between 8.04 and 7.10? also, does it normally go *.04, *.10 for version numbers(and why does it?) | the version number is the date. year.month |
i tried to use 'apachectl start' for my newly apache2 system. apachectl can not be found. does apache2 use something diffrenet? | but it should have started on install) |
i haven't upgraded dapper since before it went 'stable' -- apt-get dist-upgrade won't break anything will it? | sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade should bring you up to date |
easy question: how does one say ubuntu? 'oooh-boon-two'? 'ooh-bun-two'? | not out of the box. but you can install any package you'd like after you install the server edition. |
hi; i just installed ubuntu but what is my root password? | : root password is not set do sudo passwd root then add a password |
you can try '$ sudo apt-get upgrade &', followed by '$ disown', although it might need to be '$ sudo disown' | : so if i use sudo apt-get upgrade & disown, then i dont need to keep the connection after i run that command right? i dont mind to connect to it to execute a command |
how can i find out how/why my system may have rebooted itself, overnite whilst doing some downloads | if it's earlier than the first timestamp, try /var/log/syslog.0 |
which file shows the ubuntu version i am on ? | the command is: lsb_release -a |
hi everyone! does anybody know what packages i need to install to get full support for an additional language? i am using ubuntu 6.10 and would like to install spanish. | system - administration - language support, just select the language. |
hi , is there any good code editor that can fold and unfold code blocks? like in c, { } can fold | http://www.vim.org/htmldoc/usr_28.html |
why is there an unmount icon next to my dvd-drive? | so you can unmount it? and then eject it.. |
hi, i've added 'myvar=value' at the end of my ~/.bashrc file and logged out / logged in, but it's not taken in account when i run commands, but when i do 'myvar=value mycommand' it's taken in account, do you know why? | use `export myvar='value'` |
hello all, while trying to install a tar.gz file i get this error when using ./configure , ' ./configure: no such file or directory ' <-- linux noob | read the readme file |
has anyone using 64 bit flash ? | yes, works fine for me |
is there some sort of guide somewhere on dealing with kernel panics? | theres a bunch of pages on the ubuntu wiki, especially the kernel section |
i have a question: when i switch to the console (ctrl alt f1) and login, i am inside the console. when i press backspace now, there comes a loud beep. how can i turn this beep off? | go to system -> pref -> sounds the last tab, |
guys, i'm new to debian, is there a place to find bleeding edge debs? like gimp-devel branch? | it's not easy to find external bleeding edge debian packages. if you want the newest experimental packages, you should look at debian unstable |
i have a friend who had one partition with ubuntu and one with windows xp, and he just removed the ubuntu-partition and got error in grub becuse grub read from the ubuntu-partition he just removed, what is the easiest solution if he only wants to run windows? | run 'fixmbr' from the recovery console on the xp install disk |
anyone know any online rpgs that will work on linux ubuntu??/ | go try ikariam |
do you guys know of a program that can import *.pst files that were originally from microsoft outlook? | that was easily found by me by typing 'apt-cache search outlook'. learning to search repositories is very important. |
a portscan shows my port 443 is open, how/where can i see what application is using it? (ubuntu 10.04 lts) | sudo nmap -ss should show what service is running on it |
hi, this might be dumb, but wheres my trash can in feist? | you're supposed to... but if you don't, right click on the panel and add it |
going to do a dual boot win7and ubuntu 9.10 to a blank disk.. is it better to have win or ubuntu installed first? | probably better to have win installed first. |
hey guys, web developper here. spent the last 10 years working with osx, considering switching to ubuntu (on same macbookpro machine). any tips/recommendation ? | look up everything, compatibility varies from mac to mac |
something akin to 'yum provides xxx.h' is what i'm looking for | usage: iniitially you must 'sudo apt-file update', then just do 'apt-file search name_of_file_i_looking_for' |
hi. where must i copy a .so file so epiphany finds it? | did you install mozilla-plugin-gnash? |
wow is gnome 3 hard toget used to why when i try to add my current user to vboxusers by sudo usermod -a -g vboxusers cjae and select something under vbox it tells me that i am not under vboxusers and how do i see this info? | then check the output of 'groups' |
hi, i've got a dvd full of mp3s, and some of them are corrupt. i've tried dd-ing them to create an image, but that doesn't seem to work. is there any chance of recovering my tracks? | best of luck. |
i remember reading that ubuntu was going to put them all online, but i can't find it | http://manpages.ubuntu.com/ |
how would i use 'cp' to make a copy of all of the files in the current directory and append '.bak'? | 'for file in * ; do cp $file $file.bak ; done' but that won't work for files with spaces... |
there is a mac-style menu where you can make your icons zoom and rotate, like for a quicklist or something.. what is that named please? | isn't that a beryl thing? |
mozilla firefox makes me want to start smoking again....can anyone suggest an alternative, more stable browser? i'm using hardy. | try epiphany |
hi! i have edgy installed on my system and want to install feisty (no dist-upgrade!). is it required to uninstall grub or will it be overridden? | a fresh install will overwrite it |
i admit that this is strictly a gnome 2.8 question, but how can i put a panel applet of some kind in the far right corner of the top panel with a warty installation? | make sure the other applets aren't locked, if they are, right click on them and then select unlock. then middle click on the applet you want to move and drag it to the corner |
whats the 'burnfree' option for in gnomebaker? | it turns the support for buffer underrun free writing on. |
hi guys, how do i a do a fix for my notebook : ubuntu 9.04 has the same sound problem as 8.10 and it can be fixed by creating a new file /etc/modprobe.d/options.conf containing the line ' options snd-hda-intel model=mobile ' | i had sound problems, video problems, etc with ubuntu. i switched to mint and it literally fixed everything. |
i need ndiswrapper but don't have a network connection on the laptop i need it on, is there any way to get it? | use a cable like cat5 to get it hooked to a pc that has access to the internet |
will pulseaudio be in 9.14? | i'd imagine it will be pulse in 10.04 |
hey guys where i do find my keyboard settings .. i have just atached new keyboard but the media keys are not working properly | system -> preferences -> keyboard shortcuts |
from a terminal how can i kill x? i just found out that alt-sysreq k will kill x, how can do that remotely say from ssh? | sudo service gdm stop |
this is the best hash check. its a right click list of different hash md5 sha etc. check it out works with xp or win7 http://code.kliu.org/hashcheck/ | what if you want to view the properties of a large file? |
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