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i hear linux is designed to be left on and not rebooted, is that still the case? is it bad to reboot? | i wouldn't worry about it. your computer will be obsolete before something wears out from continous running. might want to keep an eye on your hard drive temperature though.. |
how to extract .rar archive made of multiple parts? ubuntu default archiver doesn't recognize it as a valid file. | archive manager can do multi-part archives, but they need to be named correctly |
hi, was just wondering if there is a way to install ubuntu with only xserver all setup and maybe gnome but not all the programs that i dont need so i can install only things i want... is the best way to do that to in stall server edition and install xserver? tbh i dont even want gnome i use evilwm. :) | yep, boot from the alternate cd and install a commandline system, which is an option in the menu |
how do i change the meaning of an entry in the applications>programming menu? | right click on the applications places system menu: click on edit menus. find your app (i.e applications>programming>program i am looking for) double click on it, then tweak it the way you want it |
guys, anyone can help me with wireless between two ubuntu laptops? i followed this guide: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/wifidocs/shareethernetconnectionthroughwireless and i got the a wireless connection created on the server laptop. the other detected the connection. when i click on it, i am prompted to enter pass... | http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=376283 |
hi guys, can anyone tell me how to set up pgp to work with kmail? many thanks.... | installed kgpg? |
what is the difference between libre office and openoffice.org? | very little, really |
synaptic > 'dvd::rip' to download? | that has something to do with the size of the community, i think. no matter what software you want to install, someone somewhere will have a nice deb repository with it in. |
when using 8.04 i would type 'vim filename' at command line to open editor, but in 9.04 vim file name says 'vim not found'. is vim not included in 9.04, or was the vim command in 8.04 a link to vi? | sudo apt-get install vim will install it |
i can't start tilda due to a 'segmentation error' what's that and what can i do about it? | i have no idea how to fix that. you should try rebooting, doing sudo apt-get update, then sudo apt-get upgrade, then restarting tilda |
hey room: i had a power surge and now when i boot i get into busybox... i am wondering about recovering some data from my hd, or am i stuck with a new install? | boot a live disk and look. |
hello everyone, i was wondering if there was any way to prevent the execution/opening of a specific file extension on ubuntu under a limited user account, is there any? | proberly not. they could always drag/drop it onto some app and load it that way |
is there a good resource for finding the most compatible hardware for a custom built linux pc? are certain hw manufacturers more open source friendly than others? ie intel vs amd etc | http://www.ubuntu.com/certification |
in which files does pidgin store its configuration? | .purple |
i'm trying to install ubuntu 11.04 on my relatively fast, new laptop, but when i boot it from the cd (which the iso is correct), it freezes in the part where the white and orange dots below 'ubuntu' move around. any ideas? | how long did you/are you wait/waiting? |
are there any kinda system set up for people to support fsf download servers using p2p sharing? and if not, why not lol :p | for apt? |
my computer doesn't like to automount for some reason, and somebody on the forum earlier gave me a command that lets me see the names of attached devices so i can manually mount the devices, could somebody give me that command. i know there is a few different ones, but im looking for one in specific | cat /proc/partitions ;sudo fdisk -l ;blkid ???? |
i have two identical sata drives, each is 250 gb.. both are bootable. i run off one and other has data on it i want to merge over to my main drive. how can i check to see which files are dupes, and then merge the data onto one drive so that the other drive can be for network storage and backup? | check out 'rsync' |
hey i just reinatelled ubuntu, i installed pidgin but the thing i can't understand is that instead of going into the top right of the screen when i click on the close button, it really quit the application, i'm almost sure before i reinstalled it, that not do that | open pidgin's settings, and look for 'show notification icon' option. |
hi. been using lucid for a while. made a vm of precise for testing. in precise, add-apt-repository does not exist. should it be there by default or is there a utilities packge that needs installing? | sudo apt-get install python-software-properties |
how do i get mime support in dapper? | check out http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=122057 re: mime magic |
i know the architecture. i don't remember the version of ubuntu :d | lsb_release -a will show you release. but you have a 64-bit system running, not 32-bit, just for clarification. |
i'm @ the terminal and want to launch and executable, but return to the terminal and keep using it rather than locking it up ... i can't remember what that is called or how to do it =\ | i.e. somecommand & |
anyone know of a good oss cad program | qcad, perhaps. i can't testify to its quality, though |
ubuntu 'hardware drivers' is supposed to show your graphics card, right? | not really... it just detects if you need any 'non-free' drivers, as in proprietary, can't be included with ubuntu. |
ok, so no utilties that can analyze drive access and help determine what task might be chewing through my hd? | top might be able to show things sorted by reads/writes, but you'd have to check the manpage |
did anyone answer my question while i was gone? 'wich linux distro is the most windows compatible?' i got disconnected | linux can only write to ntfs partitions with captive: http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/ |
hey everyone! i have one of these multimedia keyboards. in gnome, the volume control wheel on the keyboard works great, but in enemy territory it does not function. could anyone help? | enemy territory is probably grabbing the keyboard in some way. |
what does the red line mean in irc? | just a reminder, if you left a channel to find that point again. so you won't miss anything |
hey guys....based in china at the moment and the repositories all seem to be in the us. what can i do to make them access the chinese repos? | take a look at apt-spy and have it find a closer repo for you. |
does anyone a way to track make install? | yeah... install 'checkinstall' |
does the standard ubuntu cd contain kubutu and xubuntu? | as machine pauses while booting you can type server then when it wakes up afterward you can do >>>sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop<<< |
ok let me try this again ... maybe im not making myself clear.... i have 8.04 running now with all available updates installed .... if i upgrade the os to 8.10 will i actually get anything new? or were all the updates already taken care of by the update manager within 8.04. if the only thing i am going to get from the ... | there's new stuff in 8.10 that won't be in 8.04 |
i have a question, would i get better vid card performance from nvidia by installing the binary drivers from their site? | missing in menu however is nvidia-settings, you might wish to add it |
gyaresu.. chinese? ni hao | using alien to install rpms in debian |
is there some way to get the xdcmp thing in ubuntu to run the gnome stuff but not the background? | just turn the background image to blank. |
something is spanking my hdd. anyone know of a 'top'-like programme for seeing what it is? | atop might give you some info.. |
hello, i want to install as many proprietary codecs and so on as possible to have an ubuntu computer that will never tell me i can't play this file or that dvd. is there a handy guide for that? | use video lan client :d all build inside |
does ntfs read write work in 6.06 ? | yes, use gparted |
hi all :) apt-get is telling me that 'it is not going to be installed' (packages include lsb-{core,graphics,cxx,desktop.printing}) does that mean i should not install them? | that just means their not going to be includeed in the update or w/e you can install them if you wish, but they are either not requried or not supported or they are restricted repositories |
** is there no way to boot from usb using a macbook?? i need to reinstall ubuntu but i dont have any cds left~~~! heeeelp | press alt while booting your macbook - should show all bootable devices |
hey guys, whats the package manager in ubuntu called? | synaptic or apt-get in the command line |
i just downloaded zimbra desktop. the install guide says to run installer as root. however the file name is zimbra desktop..with a space. do i just rename the file replacing thre space with an underscore? | : type the command like so 'zimbra\ desktop' with the backslash or put double quotes around it. |
i am considering swapping the motherboard in my ubuntu server. is there anything special to be aware of? i am not using onboard raid or anything else special, although obviously i'd need to redo my sensors.conf | is it to a board of the same type. |
hey all, i want to convert video (ogm, mkv, avi) (with subs, it's anime) to dvd (for playing on a dvd player, not just burning the files to disk), any suggestions on what apps i could use? | try ffmepg or mplayer for conversion. for composing dvd, i dunnp |
how can i downgrade ubuntu karmic to jaunty? | you can't |
in xubuntu, does anyone know if i can modify the 'indicator plugin' in the panel. i want to get rid of the envelope. | just uninstall indicator-messages-gtk2 |
i just did a fresh install of 7.04 on a thinkpad t42 w/ ati 9600. /etc/x11/xorg.conf does not exist...any ideas? | remove and then install xserver-xorg |
hey guys, i just installed the virtualbox version from their website, but now i don't seem to have it installed at all, any ideas? | type sudo virtualbox |
hello, where do i set in rhythmbox that when the playlist is finished rhythmbox starts from the beggining ? | repeat.. looks like a circle with an arrow going around in the top icons |
i have an mpeg-1 stream in a riff file (from a videocd) - anyone know how i could re-wrap the stream in an mpeg container, without transcoding the stream? | ffmpeg -i riff_file -vcodec copy -acodec copy mpegfile.mpg should do the trick. |
anyone know a good place to ask general networking questions in realtime? i'm a ubuntu user struggling with fios. | not sure i can help with that. |
anyone know how long pastes at paste.ubuntu.com live? is it forever? | good question ... :) i dont know though... |
when i try to comile alltray on my 'breezy64' i get: checking for gcc... no | apt-get install build-essential |
i cant enable my normal effects anymore .... :( can anyone please help me? i would love to slide my applications into different desktops.... | if you've got nvidia or ati, you'll need to install or re-enable the restricted drivers in system>admin>restricted drivers manager |
anyone: how do we force-quit an app in ubuntu? | applications > run application > xkill once it starts, the next thing you touch is dead |
hi, just wondering, if i install ubuntu server with lvm, it means that i can always add a second drive later on to the lvm, and then make my two drives appear as one big partition right??? | as one logical volume yes |
hey guys, my ubuntu 12.04 is not booting. how can i recover it? i know what changes need to be made. but i want to know how to boot existing ubuntu from live cd | and mount your hard drive from livecd terminal |
can anybody tell me in which folder my mysql data is stored? i have an old backup folder with a data subfolder, from which i want to copy a database. now i need the location of my mysql folder in my filesystem | http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=411338 |
what can i use to convert .ogg to .avi/.mpg ?? ffmpeg doesn't do it | mencoder input_file.ogg -ovc lavc -nosound -o output_file.avi |
if you were aware of the incredible amount of support that bob2 does, you would step down right now | i am not impressed |
hey how do i mount a bin/cue/iso file to a virtual cd-rom? | i've heard 'bchunk' can handle bin/cue |
why doesn't 'unrar x -r *.rar' extract all the .rar-files on directory, it says 'extracting from (the first file)' but then 'no files to extract' | that's supposed to be *.rar -- sorry |
how do i remove all the files and directory of a directory but except one? | short way is to just move what you want to save to another directory and then delete everything. the long way would to use either a combination of a find or grep command and then pipe the result into rm |
hi, im new to linux. can any one tell how to mount windows partitions in ubuntu | search thee |
i reinstalled compizfusion last night, everything works but not the cube, it's not a cube it's a 2 sided object, my desktop is set to 4 desktops so i don't know what is going on with this, is there something else i'm missing, what am i doing wrong? | open ccsm and go to general>destop size> put in 4 1 1 as size |
hi, i have a question, is it possible to extract the crypto key of a luks device and then crack it with grid computing? | this channel is strictly for ubuntu support only ... (thats why i was asking you) |
im using ubuntu 10.10 and need to update my gtk+ version to 2.24 (its 2.22 now). how can i safely do this? | the best option is always a distro upgrade |
whats is the recomended hardware for hardy? | you need atleast 512 |
hey guys where is the root account's .bashrc file? | /root/.bashrc |
firefox leaked everywhere and now my system hangs and the hard drive clicks when i do anything, does anyone know a way i can clean up my system? | the problem you're describing is unreleated to firefox. |
could u help me with my webcam?????????? | if nobody answers you it's not because they don't like you. it's because they don't know. try waiting 1/2 hour and try again. maybe somebody new will have arrived |
hi all. quick question from a linux noob...? | in your case, the command to enter is cd 'media/freeagent drive'. if you put quotes around the entire path you can have spaces. |
hi, until recently, my wireless card would connect to all networks. recently it stopped connecting to the network i need it to connect to but will connect to others. any suggestions? | sorry, i don't know your hardware. does your computer vendor support ubuntu configurations? |
i want to apache to serve files from some place other than /var/www - need i create a symbolic link? | but leaving it alone and putting some symlinks in that dir works just fine too |
i need help with my ubuntu. i can not open java applet like this >> http://supremosforever.tripod.com . any ideas? thanks | you probably have a java plugin that's not compatible |
hi all i have a problem: after updating to jaunty my firefox 3.5 has unusual and a kinda blurry font.. how can i fix that, i tried to reinstall it from both the official and the ppa sources.. | http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=7094387 |
hello all. does anyone know why mplayer goes black after a few minutes? i have the video output set on x11. | perhaps its the screensaver? |
erm, how do edit existing mount points? | they are in /etc/fstab |
hi guys, i'm sharing windows xp's files, but i can't access 'program files'. how do i enter the username/password | there may be some xp setting to remove the lock on it. but ive never found it. - i have shared direcories inside the 'program files' directory |
hmm 'configure: error: *** sdl not found!' what package would that be? | libsdl*-dev |
hmm, 'universe' is debian testing main, right? then what is 'multiverse'? | 'universe' is 'stuff in debian that ubuntu doesn't want to officially support' |
how do i uninstall a deb package that i've installed with 'dpkg -i package.deb' ? | dpkg -r name |
i'm trying to use sed in a bash script to read to the nth line of a file: sed -n 'linenum{p;q;}' filenum. but i can't find a way to use a variable as the line number, any suggestions? | sed -n '$linenum..' file |
guys is there a program in linux that detects what kind of cpu one has? | cat /proc/cpuinfo |
where does virtualbox store it's vhds? in the home folder? | /home/username/.virtualbox |
hi, just burnned a live cd 5.04 and tried to boot. it goes until menu that ask language. then keyboard stop working. i tried many boot options but same result. went through forums but found nothing. can any body help. | try burning the cd as slow as possible. my fc4 disks all failed checksum and wouldn't install glibc (which is kinda important) when i burned them at 24x. |
how do i disable agpgart backend drivers for 2.6 kernels, the ubuntu way? i could just delete the .ko files (assuming i could find them), but i'm wondering if there's a better way... | blacklist them |
after sudo apt-get install apache2, where is the htdocs? | /var/www |
i have an amd64, do you guys think that should i use i386 or x86-64 architecture? | i recomend x86, amd64 has problems with flash, codecs and some other stuff but no real advantage, also seems buggier |
how do i know which version of gdm is on my comp | apt-cache policy gdm |
is there a way tu run and edit c# code in ubuntu | mono |
seriously? none of the people i helped out today want to bother spending 10 seconds checking if their window buttons highlight on mouse hover for me? i'd get annoyed if i wasn't so handsome and witty and charming and so on | mine don't do anything but i'm on 10.04 |
how can i find the most recently modified file in a directory (recursively)? | find ./ -printf '%a@ %p\n' | sort -n | tail |
how can i change apache from trying to look for everything in /var/www/apache2-default instead of /var/www ?? | look in /etc/apache2 |
how do i install opera from a .deb file? | but if you really must... sudo dpkg -i file.deb |
does anyone have dvd playback working on ubuntu? if so, where did you get libdvdcss from? | looked here? http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd/deb/ -- that's from /usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/examples/install-css.sh |
hi, is there an application that change the mouse behaviour depending on which application window has the focus ? | maybe imwheel depending on what you want exactly |
is there a command to show all disks... (hard drive cd floppy usb firewire...) | fdisk -l |
anyone? is there a site with a searchable list of packages available for ubuntu? | packages.ubuntu.com |
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