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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 |
if i 'make uninstall'... what do i do after that? anything? | remove the directory if you want, but no, that should be it |
hey -- where can i find out what changes were made with the new kernel update in hoary? | /usr/share/doc/<packagename>/changelog.debian.gz |
whats the command for stopping x server please | log out, ctl-alt-f1, log in, type sudo invoke-rc.d gdm stop |
freidrichman: use synaptic and enable universe and such. | its not in the repos, i checked here. |
re nfs 'connection refused' issue - is there a better channel i should be pestering? (i'm new so pls mention network too) tia | ubotu sent you some information in a private message. did you receive it? |
doesn't openjdk run java applets in browsers? | you need icedtea for that |
can ui buttons (lke ok, etc) be resized? | under system->preferences->appearance, fonts tab, 'application font' |
what are the the gtk desklet things i see on desktops called? | gdesklets , or screenlets |
what is a good binary download for newsgroups, for ubuntu? | thunderbird |
hi, i am running apache web server on a vm with nat interface. i have added port forwarding in my router to 80. i am able to browse the site on local network. but not from internet. how to fix this? | it may be that apache only allowd 127.0.0.1 and not 0.0.0.0:80 or *:80 in /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default < this is in debian |
isn't postgresql's default setup supposed to allow local adminstration from any user? | not when i have installed it... you need to sudo su postgres. |
hey anyone know how to make glxgears spit out the frame rate nowadays? | or glxgears -printfps, if you don't want to type that much |
room: would you instll 64-bit in a virtualbox on a 64-bit system, or 32 bit? (i got 8gb ram to play with :) ) | if you're running a 64-bit host, you can use either 32 or 64 bit guests in virtualbox without much difference. |
anyone know how to stop frostwire from sucking up all my resources and freezing everytime i search/dl ? | yes, but it runs a lot faster and smoother |
hello. when i want to burn an .iso file in doesn't work. i wanted to create a file image with cd/dvd creator but when i'm copy the file and click 'write to disc' it'll open a dialog with 'from image' and 'file' and when i hit from image i don't get nothing | just right-click the actual iso file, select 'burn to disc' - no need to use the cd/dvd creator |
hey guys, i am getting this error : failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates/ubuntu/dists/natty/release unable to find expected entry 'restricted/binary-i386/packages' in release file (wrong sources.list entry or malformed file) | remove the ppa - it looks like it's dead |
how can i backup dvd chapters to individual avi files? | use the handbrake program. http://www.handbrake.fr/ |
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 |
how do i make grub recognise oss on multiple hdds? | installed before or after grub was? |
hi, if i copy some files via a cp -rvp /myfiles* /destination, how can i see the mbit/s of this copy command? is there a tool i can pipe the command through? | pv can measure the data through a pipe. but you will have to use a more convoluted command |
what command lists groups in existence? | thatll get just that column |
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. |
how to recognise which kde version is installed in my ubuntu? (karmic) is that kde 4.3 or 4.4? | i'm on karmic and i see: 4.3.2 |
i have a dual boot system and my dos operating system selection screen shows duplicate ubuntu selections. how can i fix this? | grub is the thing responsible for booting the kernel |
when i want add an user config in apache2, do i add in conf.d/ or httpd.conf? | its not in httpd |
hi all! i will ask a question that probably was made for about a thousand times.... i changed my apt-get sources.list from hoary to breezy and my system is working almost well, and it look like its upd to date.... do i need to do more to get a breezy from my hoary distro? | yes: http://tinyurl.com/dkllj |
anyone know how to install a new gnome splash image? | there might be a key in gconf-editor |
how to test if fglrx is installed and working properly? | type glxgears into a terminal |
how can you really protect your computer form someone going on to it with a live cd. i mean how can you stop that? | sleep next to it.. use a shotgun =).. or encrypt the harddrives and keep the shotgun to keep them from kidnapping you |
anyone know how to set a script to run at boot | you can put it in /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh |
what is the cmd to show your ip address from shell ? | ip a |
please help, ive installed ubuntu karmic, and everything worked perfectly. i updated through 'update manager' and after a restart, my cpu is being used constantly. it wasnt like that before the update. ive even reformated and reinstalled ubuntu thinking it was something i did, with the same results. any suggestions? | start ubuntu and press (and hold) the <shift>button at boot. then choose an olde kernel (not recovery) |
getting along pretty decent with my new 8.04 install, but i'm catching hell setting up samba shares using any guis. system>administration>file sharing (or similiar) doesn't exist and the nautilus sharing dialog fails citing file permissions in /var/lib/samba/usershares, but i'm in the sambasharing group. help? another ... | did you try system-config-samba |
how do i check the available user groups of my machine? | 'cat /etc/group' and 'sudo adduser <username> <groupname>' |
i have an entry in crontab that was created by ubuntu upon installation, and it has the dow set to 7. i thought it only went from 0(sun) to 6(mon) ? | 0 and 7 are both sunday (`man 5 crontab` is the manpage that covers this) because it works out better that way (sunday first and monday first both make sense numerically) |
is there a way to force apt-get or aptitude to reinstall and force overwrites of existing files? | with sudo of course |
hi, how to check hardware raid 1 configuration working fine or not in ubuntu 10.04, pls help me. | 'the date of the last password change, expressed as the number of days since jan 1, 1970' |
is there a nameserver command in ubuntu? | look, i've just joined and i'm not sure what you're at, but i have dnsmasq installed, it's a tiny dns 'proxy' server that caches dns queries, it's very easy to configure and helps for times when your isp's dns isn't quite in its right mood |
clean install edgy, but 104 sec boot (dapper @ ~80) what might be broken? http://www.leotec.se/edgy/edgy-20061029-5.png | 'fraid i don't know much more than that |
when installing a new version of ubuntu (e.g. 10.04) is there a way to list my installed software from 9.10 and feed it into 10.04 so i don't have do this manually | easiest thing to do is just upgrade. |
okay, silly question. how do i run a graphical program so that it can have sudo privs to edit a system file? (specifically i want to edit a config file that's owned by root) | actually, it should be: gksudo 'gedit /path/to/file' |
hey what is the package name for libcurl? | libcurlz-dev |
does anyone know of a good usenet download program that supports video streaming? | you can open the rar and double click the content, it will be opened to temp whil it is played |
how can i set the message that pops on screen after people login to tty or ssh? | audacity |
any bluetooth guru here? | just ask |
hey all, in a bash script i got grep to output a line like this: 'pts=0.1860, frame_time=33 ms, bitrate=9100 kbps'. now i need to store the number 33 in a variable, how do i extract the number 33 from this line? | not sure this is the proper channel for questions on bash programming |
guys, what's the command line to view a .png or .jpg files? | eog <file> |
maybe that error has nothing to do with your executable (some say that error is caused by the bluez-alsa package) just out of curiosity, what app are you trying to run? | sdrsharp |
humanrage^: are you following a tutorial? | im using wine |
okay, i have an application running as user:group drostie:drostie. i am a member of the group wireshark. how the hell do i run something as drostie:wireshark? | sg (never used it) |
how to play swf files in ubuntu? i am not able to play it in mplayer or vlc or in totem | use a web browser to view .swf |
does anyone know if there is a free software development programming tool like labview for ubuntu. | there are plenty of ide's. |
is it possible to get a iso for 11.10? i'd like to give it a spin running form a usb drive | i hear it's a hybrid iso/usb - so you should be able to just cat/dd it to usb now. |
is there some way to archive old mail in kmail? | mail files are just text, so use a compressor of your choice |
does anyone know when the ubuntu home server is comming out? because i just cannot get apache to work so i think im going to get windows home server | its also not an official derivitive |
how do i set the time of my server via command line | date |
i have a sound problem with my new acer aspire 5920. installed newest ubuntu and there is no sound at all and no errors (as far as i know). anyone familiar with this? | give me a few, and i'll look to see if i can find anything bud. |
anyone know why a usb mouse would continually just stop working? | ... have you looked at the output from dmesg? |
hi all, does anybody how to make a program have executable rights | 'chmod 755 yourfile' |
could somebody please help me lame process a whole directory? | for i in *.wav ; do lame -i $i ; done |
whats a good replacement for gaim? gaim keeps having some sort of segmentation fault even when i completely remove it then reinstall it. | centericq |
can you get a version history for a given package? | you may want to lookup the changelogs in /usr/share/doc/<package-name>/changelog.gz |
how to activate the universe and multiverse repositories? | system -> administration -> software sources basically, but see ubotu's message |
how do i copy stoff to a samba share via terminal? | smbclient |
to be more specific, i am running ratpoison and not gnome-session. ifup eth0 doesn't work like it did in older versions | for now, you should be able to test with 'sudo ip link set eth0 up' and then 'sudo dhclient eth0', assuming that your network is using dhcp |
what is the program to do screen captures under gnome? | i don't remember the name, but you can justt press printscreen button on keyboard |
whats more popular, and comes standard with most commonly used distros? gnome/gtk or kde/qt? | suse used to hand out kde - but they stopped doing that... so... gnome it is! |
anyone can help me? thanks! | what did you download it with? |
what's the default player for internet radio? i added a bunch and i don't remember what it originally came with. | streamtuner |
is there any way to set up a guest login in lucid that works from the login screen? | 'sudo adduser guest' :) |
how do i recognize which version of ubuntu i am running? | check your sources.list file |
anyone have experence with the mx5000tools? when i perform a ./configure i get 'configure: error: you need pbm.h from the netpbm package.' netpbm & libnetpbm10 are both installed. | try installing libnetpbm10-dev |
i made a packaging request on launchpad, but it hasn't gone anywhere for about a year. is there anything i can do to get my favourite program packaged for ubuntu and added to the repositories? | i think launchpad supports votes.. |
where can i disable the finger daemon in lucid? | no finger daemon is installed/enabled by default |
is there a way for me to tile the windows on my ubuntu gnome desktop? | but i don't recall how to do that. something simple like setting an environment variable such as title i think. |
hi all. i have a question about partitioning: currently there are 3 partitions on my hdd. 1. windows (80gb) 2. linux swap (2gb) 3. linux (ubuntu) ... i want to remove windows completely to have more space for my linux partiton. is there any possibilty to merge the 80gb with the linux partition? | you need to run it from a livecd |
how much will it cost to buy telephonic support from canonical right now to fix the problem their updates have caused? | what is your problem? |
anyone know a way to pull like 100 files at a time out of directory and move them to another directory? | for foo in $(ls |head -100); do mv '$foo' /some/path; done |
when i used windows, i enjoyed composing simple music using anvilstudios (a midi sequencer.) what is a good alternative to this application? is there an alternative to midi in the linux worid? i tried seq24/jack/zyn, but found that combo too complex and i could not figure out how to save the sequence to a midi file. | however, they aren't trivially easy to setu p. i couldn't figure it out. :-\ |
uh oh, i installed a x server update from the update manager and now x doesn't start. | /topic |
sorry, did anyone answer my question about ldp printing? | man lpadmin should help |
hey, is it me or bug #423694 && #421347 are dups? | ubottu doesn't report bugs here. |
where can i find the text files that store my networking configurations? | /etc/network |
is there away to open terminal using a keystroke | depends on the system, usually in preferences;keyboard shortcuts. |
i¬m going to a friends today to install ubuntu on his new laptop, ive never used a 64bit before so i`m just making sure :) if i installed ubuntu-restricted-extras will it install 64bit java/flash/w64codecs? | checkout medibuntu.org |
during update laptop was turned off. now i can't start ubuntu. 'ubuntu is running in low-graphic mode'. how can i login to shell and try to fix problem in shell? | try to boot into recovery mode, should get a shell that way |
i am looking for an app that can bring up to terminal sessions and echo the commands on both terminal sessions | screen |
which imap-server is most painless with ubuntu? | probably dovecot. https://help.ubuntu.com/6.06/ubuntu/serverguide/c/email-services.html |
what the heck... i cannot do a dashletterr... it comes out dashare... why? | most likely spelling correction in your client. i believe xchat corrects 'r' and 'u' by default? |
is there a wiki for notify-osd where i can provoke one using command? | use 'notify-send' (i think from 'libnotify-bin') |
hi, how can i add the bottom menu (in picture) to my linux : http://www.linuxmint-art.org/content/content-pre1/92774-1.jpg | you'd need a dock such as awn. its the avant-window-navigator package in the repos. |
is there any other source to download ubuntu 12.04 lts other than ubuntu.com ? it's not getting downloaded ... :( | here: http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/alternative-downloads |
hi, do you know some way to record the sound output with gtk-recordmydektop? | i never record audio with it so im not sure. but i assume ticking the checkbox serves that function. |
hi folks, is there anyway to check what version a package is in apt before installing it? | apt-cache showpkg foobar |
lol never been called a cracka before... is that good? | high in fiber. |
does kvm easy to use? | opinions differ. ;) i do have to say that virtualbox is highly polished. :) |
is there a way i can find out what type of ram i have through terminal? | dunno if you can, but try 'sudo lshw' |
hi all, i'm running 12.04 and would like to know if it is possible to add a program to the unity bar on the left side, the program has to be started from the shell (it's name is 'ding', a dictionary) so when i start it it appears in the bar but after closing it i cant's start it again... | probably with gnome-extensions (ppa), but it was very broken when i tried to use any gnome-extension |
is there a better utility i can use to connect to wireless networks than networkmanager? nm doesn't work too well for me on networks without any security | there relly is no better or best, just use what you like |
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