maifeeulasad/askubuntu-data · Datasets at Hugging Face

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Every time I turn on my computer, I see a message saying something like: <pre><code>Your battery may be old or broken. </code></pre> I am already aware that my battery is bad. How do I suppress this message?

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2014-12-16T01:47:45.980

2018-10-05T23:56:48.997

How to get the "Your battery is broken" message to go away?

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{ "accepted": true, "body": "Maybe <a href=\"http://linux.aldeby.org/get-rid-of-your-battery-may-be-broken-notification.html\">these</a> instructions will help you to get rid of that message.\n\nAdded instructions from the link, <kbd>Alt</kbd>+<kbd>F2</kbd>, then type in <code>gconf-editor</code>. \n\nNavigate to <code>/apps/gnome-power-manager/notify/low_capacity</code> and untick the value.\n\nOr a single command:\n\n<pre><code>gconftool --set /apps/gnome-power-manager/notify/low_capacity --type boolean false\n</code></pre>\n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": [], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creationDate": "2010-07-28T19:15:30.357", "id": "2", "lastActivityDate": "2012-07-30T13:51:42.147", "lastEditDate": "2012-07-30T13:51:42.147", "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": "235", "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "4", "parentId": "1", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "41" }

[ { "accepted": true, "body": "Maybe <a href=\"http://linux.aldeby.org/get-rid-of-your-battery-may-be-broken-notification.html\">these</a> instructions will help you to get rid of that message.\n\nAdded instructions from the link, <kbd>Alt</kbd>+<kbd>F2</kbd>, then type in <code>gconf-editor</code>....

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2010-07-28T19:21:50.653

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How can I set the Software Center to allow non-root users to install stuff from the Ubuntu repos without having to type in their password? I'm fully aware of the security implications, and I am willing to take the risk. Fedora 12 shipped with something like this. (By modifying the PolicyKit configuration, I believe)

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2014-02-18T13:33:55.917

2019-11-30T09:19:09.707

How can I set the Software Center to install software for non-root users?

[ "software-center", "software-installation", "policykit" ]

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{ "accepted": true, "body": "You can modify the PolicyKit permissions to allow the users to access the aptdaemon backend that Software Centre uses.\n\n<code>dpkg --listfiles aptdaemon</code> shows that <code>/usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.debian.apt.policy</code> is the file specifying the actions possible on the aptdaemon backend. \n\nLooking in that file, the <code>< action id=\"\"></code> tags specify the possible actions. You'd probably want <code>org.debian.apt.install-packages</code> to allow users to install new packages from the archive, and <code>org.debian.apt.update-cache</code> to allow users to update the package lists.\n\nSee <code>man pklocalauthority</code> which documents how to set local permissions on PolicyKit actions. Putting the following into <code>/etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/10-allow-users-to-install.pkla</code> will allow any user logged in to the local machine to install packages after typing their own password (even when they're not in the admin group) and to update the package cache without typing any password.\n\n<pre><code>[Untrusted Install]\nAction=org.debian.apt.install-or-remove-packages\nResultyAny=no\nResultInactive=no\nResultActive=auth_self\n\n[Untrusted Update]\nAction=org.debian.apt.update-cache\nResultAny=no\nResultInactive=no\nResultActive=yes\n</code></pre>\n", "commentCount": "3", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2011-11-13T12:55:00.797", "id": "88837", "postId": "258", "score": "0", "text": "Kubuntu's policies (at least in Natty and Oneiric) are in `/usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.kubuntu.qaptworker.policy`", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "6969" }, { "creationDate": "2011-11-13T13:49:55.057", "id": "88846", "postId": "258", "score": "0", "text": "Instructions for Kubuntu can be found in [my answer](http://askubuntu.com/q/3/6969#78806)", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "6969" }, { "creationDate": "2015-09-10T16:17:01.687", "id": "972481", "postId": "258", "score": "0", "text": "Life saver - cheers mate! I had to add `Identity=*` to get this to work, adapted from http://askubuntu.com/a/123260. Also, is there any way to get more policy kit log output in e.g. `/var/log/auth.log` (or any other log files) ? I only get `authentication fails` messages, but no reason why it failed...", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "21588" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creationDate": "2010-07-29T02:37:39.900", "id": "258", "lastActivityDate": "2017-07-29T07:13:03.333", "lastEditDate": "2017-07-29T07:13:03.333", "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": "527764", "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "188", "parentId": "3", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "37" }

[ { "accepted": null, "body": "I don't think it's currently possible to do so via the GUI, but the following should work, albeit be a little kludgy. YMMV. \n\nAdd the following line to /etc/sudoers (use <code>sudo visudo</code> to edit the file):\n\n<pre><code>%packageinstallers ALL = NOPASSWD: ...

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2010-07-28T19:23:40.273

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What are some alternatives to upgrading without using the standard upgrade system? Suppose for example that I wanted to upgrade an Ubuntu installation on a machine with a poor Internet connection. What would my options be? Could I just use a standard Ubuntu disk to upgrade this machine? If I already have a standard Ubuntu disk and want to use that, could I do a clean install without wiping data?

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2014-02-18T13:34:25.793

What are some alternatives to upgrading without using the standard upgrade system?

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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "You can use the alternative CD (instead of Ubuntu Desktop, Kubuntu Desktop, Server CD) which allows you to upgrade from CD.\n", "commentCount": "5", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2010-07-28T19:38:39.723", "id": "15", "postId": "18"...

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I have a ubuntu development server at work. It is an old rack server that is located somewhere in the company's dungeon, where nobody ever goes. The only way it can work is as a so-called headless server (i.e. with no monitor/keyboard connected and only accepting network connections). Obviously, if you just need terminal access ssh is more than enough. I, however, would also like to connect to the graphical interface from time to time. At the moment I am using the built in VNC functionality but I am pretty sure this is neither the most efficient nor the most secure way of approaching this issue. I have done a bit of research on the issue but failed to come to any definite conclusions. I read about trying to forward the X environment over ssh, which would at least solve my security concerns. Can anyone share their experiences in setting this up? Is there any other way that might be worth looking at? I almost exclusively connect to this server from a Windows machine. I don't know if that might be a problem for some of the methods suggested.

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2017-12-10T23:38:29.603

2018-07-23T14:20:08.313

How to graphically interface with a headless server?

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{ "accepted": true, "body": "Yes, X forwarding over ssh is a beautiful thing indeed. It allows you to use graphical applications on an app by app basis and have windows handled by your own desktop environment. You do not even need a desktop environment installed on the server.\n\nYou do need to set up some authentication things for it to work though. I believe you need xauth for that.\n\nIt's SO much faster than VNC as well. VNC was always rather laggy in my experience.\n\nEdit:\nI have no experience using this method via Windows, but I found <a href=\"http://www.math.umn.edu/systems_guide/putty_xwin32.html\">this tutorial</a> for you if you're interested.\n", "commentCount": "5", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2010-07-28T19:46:14.027", "id": "31", "postId": "12", "score": "2", "text": "\"ssh -X <server> <program>\" should set up everything (I've never needed to touch xauth myself, though it does need to be installed in order for the -X option on ssh to work).", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "96" }, { "creationDate": "2010-07-28T19:48:23.257", "id": "33", "postId": "12", "score": "0", "text": "@Suppressingfire: Oh thanks. I guess I should have included the command myself.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "10" }, { "creationDate": "2010-07-28T20:53:14.973", "id": "103", "postId": "12", "score": "2", "text": "Yes, X forwarding works with windows. I have used it with [Cygwin/X](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cygwin/X), on Windows XP. Not the fastest or prettiest, but does work.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "122" }, { "creationDate": "2010-08-07T09:55:42.813", "id": "1427", "postId": "12", "score": "0", "text": "ssh X11 forwarding also limits what services you have to enable on your server! I suspect most servers have ssh anyways. Enabling remote X11 (XDMCP) isn't really known for being secure.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "455" }, { "creationDate": "2016-02-23T04:42:06.873", "id": "1096640", "postId": "12", "score": "1", "text": "the tutorial link is now broken, mind someone who can update it?", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "104442" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2010-07-28T19:27:32.073", "id": "12", "lastActivityDate": "2010-07-28T20:08:33.083", "lastEditDate": "2010-07-28T20:08:33.083", "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": "10", "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "10", "parentId": "6", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "22" }

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I'm taking my be-stickered laptop to a coffee shop tonight for an Ubuntu Hour. I've let a bunch of local LUG people know about it. How can I ensure people come away from it feeling like the experience was valuable? Is there something you've done that was particularly successful? There is a <a href="http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Hour">wiki page</a> about Ubuntu Hours which is very helpful. I'm interested in collecting best practices from the community.

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2018-06-01T02:51:49.553

How do I run a successful Ubuntu Hour?

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{ "accepted": true, "body": "Try and make it as regular as possible, that way you'll get to meet people more often but others will be able to pop in if they know it's going to happen so that it doesn't have to be pre arranged. In Ireland we have 3 of them running, Dublin is on the last Wednesday of the month and people chose that date and it's worked out well. \n\nWhat we've found is by picking somewhere central to meet up, people can have a bite to eat, or drink and chat. Making it relaxed and not a formal event is key to making it fun and for it to happen again and again. \n\nIt's a fun way to explain/show people new features you've found in a casual way, so I've showed the Loco Directory and let people use my laptop if I was running the latest release.\n\nMake sure everyone is welcome, if there are new less technical people present and the topics are getting too technical, talk to them separately or perhaps suggest techy talk for another time.\n\nAbove all just have fun and chat about your community. Ubuntu hours are about your local area and the people in your community. \n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": [], "communityOwnedDate": "2010-09-06T20:08:09.927", "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2010-09-06T20:08:09.927", "id": "3764", "lastActivityDate": "2010-09-06T20:08:09.927", "lastEditDate": null, "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": null, "ownerDisplayName": "user1098", "ownerUserId": null, "parentId": "7", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "11" }

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2010-07-28T19:34:40.093

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I started with Ubuntu Karmic, and wanted to try KDE. So I installed <code>kubuntu-desktop</code>. Then I wanted to see how XFCE progressed, so I installed <code>xfce4</code>. I now have Kubuntu with an XFCE splash and login. How do I (safely) purge XFCE and just have the Kubuntu splash / login screen, or am I stuck with frank-en-buntu?

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2015-05-29T20:56:09.057

How do I go back to KDE splash / login after installing XFCE?

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{ "accepted": true, "body": "splash screen is configured by the alternatives system... you can get a list of available plymouth themes by doing: <code>update-alternatives --list default.plymouth</code>\n\nYou can then change the current plymouth theme by doing\n<code>sudo update-alternatives --set default.plymouth /lib/plymouth/themes/kubuntu-logo/kubuntu-logo.plymouth</code>\n\nThe alternative way of getting Kubuntu splash it to remove package xubuntu-plymouth-theme.\n\nTo change the login screen you can either run <code>sudo dpkg-reconfigure gdm</code> and choose kdm as mentioned in another comment or remove gdm which should set kdm as default display manager.\n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": [], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2010-07-29T01:43:35.427", "id": "240", "lastActivityDate": "2010-07-29T01:43:35.427", "lastEditDate": null, "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": null, "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "182", "parentId": "8", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "13" }

[ { "accepted": null, "body": "From a terminal:\n\n<pre><code>sudo apt-get remove xfce4\n</code></pre>\n", "commentCount": "5", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2010-07-28T19:39:05.823", "id": "17", "postId": "27", "score": "0", "text": "That will r...

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Update Manager is constantly offering me updates (e.g. security fixes, updates from PPAs). How can I tell my Ubuntu installation to automatically download and install updates whenever they become available?

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2014-07-22T19:53:14.377

2017-05-31T09:25:43.137

How do I enable automatic updates?

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{ "accepted": true, "body": "You can do this easily for security updates.\n\nFrom System Settings open Update Manager. Click the 'Settings...' button, then on the 'Updates' tab, select the radio button 'Install security updates without confirmation.'\n\nTo automatically install all updates, see the answer below.\n", "commentCount": "1", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2014-05-02T02:17:45.293", "id": "604483", "postId": "35", "score": "34", "text": "-1 Disappointing this has selected since this is not answering the question correctly and is showing a thing everybody who know Ubuntu a little bit and pays attention in dialogs knows this already. The most upvoted answer is the right one.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "195243" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creationDate": "2010-07-28T19:37:56.700", "id": "35", "lastActivityDate": "2016-01-31T14:40:22.893", "lastEditDate": "2016-01-31T14:40:22.893", "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": "172367", "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "69", "parentId": "9", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "29" }

[ { "accepted": null, "body": "Go to terminal, and enter:\n\n<pre><code>sudo dpkg-reconfigure unattended-upgrades\n</code></pre>\n\nSay \"yes\" to the prompt. You'll still be notified about \"normal\" updates, such as those that contain bugfixes, but security updates will be installed automatically....

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I have had significant problems with watching flash video in 64-bit Ubuntu. Does anyone know of a good way to get flash running on the platform?

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2017-07-17T07:52:27.090

How do I install Adobe Flash player?

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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<h3>For 11.04 and earlier:</h3>\nAre you installing it from the Ubuntu Software Center?\n<ol>\n<li>Go to Applications->Ubuntu Software Center.</li>\n<li>Click on Canonical Partners</li>\n<li>Click the Adobe Flash Plugin 11 and click install.</li>\n</ol>\nNote: this is the method I use on my 64-bit Ubuntu install and it has yet to fail me.\n<img src=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/XVwJE.png\" alt=\"enter image description here\" />\n", "commentCount": "1", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2010-07-29T09:41:54.170", "id": "254", "postId": "21", "score": "0", "text": "Same here: installed the default (but proprietary) 64bit plugin and I have no issue.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "23" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creationDate": "2010-07-28T19:31:36.527", "id": "21", "lastActivityDate": "2011-10-08T21:52:22.450", "lastEditDate": "2020-06-12T14:37:07.210", "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": "-1", "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "5", "parentId": "11", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "81" }

[ { "accepted": true, "body": "<h3>For 11.04 and earlier:</h3>\nAre you installing it from the Ubuntu Software Center?\n<ol>\n<li>Go to Applications->Ubuntu Software Center.</li>\n<li>Click on Canonical Partners</li>\n<li>Click the Adobe Flash Plugin 11 and click install.</li>\n</ol>\nNot...

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I'd like to have Ubuntu not check for updates as often. How do I accomplish this?

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2012-04-09T07:59:50.883

How can I make Ubuntu check for updates less often?

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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<h3>For 10.10 and earlier versions (and 11.04, in an Ubuntu Classic session)</h3>\nOpen Update Manager (System > Administration > Update Manager).\nOn the Updates tab, there's a drop down box for "Check for updates:", with options for Daily, every two days, weekly or every two weeks.\nOr you can turn it off and just check manually whenever you want.\n", "commentCount": "1", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2010-07-28T19:41:23.820", "id": "21", "postId": "31", "score": "0", "text": "I think you meant \"Software Sources\", not \"Update Manager\"", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "12" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creationDate": "2010-07-28T19:36:09.900", "id": "31", "lastActivityDate": "2012-02-16T23:29:58.980", "lastEditDate": "2020-06-12T14:37:07.210", "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": "-1", "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "77", "parentId": "14", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "24" }

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I've followed the steps outlined in this <a href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1493143" rel="noreferrer">HowTo</a>. Right after I log in to Gnome I can move the mouse back and forth but as soon as the task bar loads, the mouse becomes jailed in the screen its in (can't move between screens). This is my xorg.conf: <pre><code> Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Layout0" Screen 0 "DisplayLinkScreen" 0 0 Screen 1 "Screen0" LeftOf "DisplayLinkScreen" InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" Option "Xinerama" "0" #Could not get this to work it has to be disable EndSection Section "Files" ModulePath "/usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/drivers" ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers" ModulePath "/usr/local/lib" ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi" FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType" FontPath "built-ins" EndSection Section "Module" Load "dbe" Load "dri" Load "dri2" Load "extmod" Load "glx" Load "record" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "kbd" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "auto" Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" # Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "Monitor0" VendorName "Monitor Vendor" ModelName "Monitor Model" EndSection Section "Device" ### Available Driver options are:- ### Values: : integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False", ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz" ### [arg]: arg optional #Option "NoAccel" # [<bool>] #Option "SWcursor" # [<bool>] #Option "ColorKey" # #Option "CacheLines" # #Option "Dac6Bit" # [<bool>] #Option "DRI" # [<bool>] #Option "NoDDC" # [<bool>] #Option "ShowCache" # [<bool>] #Option "XvMCSurfaces" # #Option "PageFlip" # [<bool>] Identifier "Card0" Driver "intel" VendorName "Intel Corporation" BoardName "Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller" BusID "PCI:0:2:0" Option "DPMS" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Card0" Monitor "Monitor0" SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 1 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 4 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 8 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 15 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 16 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 EndSubSection EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "DisplayLinkMonitor" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "DisplayLinkDevice" Driver "displaylink" Option "fbdev" "/dev/fb0" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "DisplayLinkScreen" Device "DisplayLinkDevice" Monitor "DisplayLinkMonitor" SubSection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1920x1200" "1920x1080" "1680x1050" "1600x1200" "1440x900" "1366x768" "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1280x800" "1280x768" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection EndSection </code></pre> Any help would be appreciated. I'm so close to getting this to work!

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2012-07-14T10:58:08.943

2016-12-30T17:55:08.803

What might prevent mouse movements between xrandr screens?

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<a href="http://sagemath.org/download-linux.html" rel="nofollow">Sage's installation instructions</a> basically tell me to just untar it and run it from wherever I'd like. Not being experienced with the Linux way of where things should go in the filesystem, I'm kind of at a loss where I should best put it. Putting it somewhere in my home directory feels wrong. Where would you extract it to? <code>/opt</code>?

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Where should I install sagemath?

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{ "accepted": true, "body": "The Linux <a href=\"http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html\">Filesystem Hierarchy Standard</a> that is part of the Linux Standard Base recommends to use /opt. I have only had good experience with that. Many commercial packages go into opt as well and stay to their own folder in there. \n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": [], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creationDate": "2010-07-28T20:03:01.537", "id": "79", "lastActivityDate": "2013-03-29T04:16:14.047", "lastEditDate": "2013-03-29T04:16:14.047", "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": "65926", "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "103", "parentId": "16", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "14" }

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In the upper right panel there is by default a drop down menu where you can set your online status, interact with Ubuntu One, etc. It is placed right next to the drop down menu which lets you logout, reboot, shutdown etc. For me personally I have no use for the online status menu, so I usually remove it. The problem is that it seems to belong to the same panel applet as the actually wanted logout menu, since that menu too disappears. I believe we are talking about the "Indicator Applet Session". Is there some way I can hide or disable the online status menu, but still keep the neighboring logout menu? I am running Ubuntu 10.04.

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2010-10-24T13:16:15.010

Remove online status menu, but keep the logout menu?

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{ "accepted": true, "body": "Open the \"Ubuntu Software Center\" (under the Applications menu). Search for \"indicator-me\" and remove it. Log out and back in to see the change.\n\nThis will remove it for all users on your system. I don't believe there's a way to merely hide it for yourself.\n", "commentCount": "2", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2010-07-28T19:58:18.960", "id": "54", "postId": "65", "score": "0", "text": "Yes, removing the package indicator-me gave me exactly the panel I wanted. Thanks!", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "24" }, { "creationDate": "2010-08-01T17:02:43.353", "id": "629", "postId": "65", "score": "5", "text": "Just for completeness, if you want to remove the \"chat\" option from the applet, you need to remove the package indicator-messages.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "133" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2010-07-28T19:52:47.473", "id": "65", "lastActivityDate": "2010-07-28T19:52:47.473", "lastEditDate": null, "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": null, "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "12", "parentId": "24", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "9" }

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I'm using Hardy (server) on quite a few machines and I'd like to upgrade to the latest LTS. Is it safe to edit my <code>sources.list</code> file to just point to the new LTS, or should I do a succession of dist upgrades until I reach the latest LTS?

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Sane path to distribution upgrades

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{ "accepted": true, "body": "No. You should never just edit <code>sources.list</code>. Use the update-manager, or if you use command line, use <code>do-release-upgrade</code>. You can upgrade safely from LTS editions to other LTS editions, or otherwise, you need to step via each release. Only those pathways are supported, and prevent some issues that can otherwise occur with improper upgrades.\n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": [], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creationDate": "2010-07-28T19:40:21.497", "id": "39", "lastActivityDate": "2012-05-18T12:37:08.610", "lastEditDate": "2012-05-18T12:37:08.610", "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": "54298", "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "4", "parentId": "28", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "11" }

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We have installed Ubuntu desktop edition on our development server. Now that we have it in a data center we would like to strip it down to a server edition. Is there an easy way of doing so rather than just going in and uninstalling packages by hand?

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What is the easiest way to strip a desktop edition to a server edition?

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I set up a new VPS instance of Ubuntu and am wondering what the easiest way is to get up and running with a basic LAMP stack (i.e. which packages are required, which configuration options need to be tweaked, if any, etc.).

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What's the easiest way to set up a LAMP stack?

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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<pre><code>sudo apt-get update\nsudo apt-get install tasksel\nsudo tasksel install lamp-server\n</code></pre>\n\nIt will install all the basic LAMP stack for you, prompt for MySQL root password, etc.\n\nMore specifically it will install the following packages, and their dependencies.\n\n<pre><code>mysql-client-core-5.1 libwrap0 apache2 \nlibaprutil1-dbd-sqlite3 tcpd \nlibapache2-mod-php5 apache2.2-common \napache2-utils php5-common \nlibaprutil1-ldap libaprutil1 \nphp5-mysql mysql-server-core-5.1 \nlibdbi-perl libplrpc-perl mysql-server \napache2.2-bin libdbd-mysql-perl \nlibhtml-template-perl \nlibnet-daemon-perl libapr1 \nmysql-server-5.1 libmysqlclient16 \nssl-cert apache2-mpm-prefork \nmysql-common mysql-client-5.1 \n</code></pre>\n\nYou might also want to take a peek at the <a href=\"https://help.ubuntu.com/12.04/serverguide/lamp-overview.html\">Ubuntu Server Guide</a>.\n", "commentCount": "5", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2013-07-21T15:15:01.587", "id": "410096", "postId": "45", "score": "3", "text": "You might want to consider APT tasks rather than `tasksel` to do this. See this: [Should I use tasksel, tasks in APT or install regular metapackages?](http://askubuntu.com/q/252056/88802)", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "88802" }, { "creationDate": "2017-01-31T10:52:54.237", "id": "1366237", "postId": "45", "score": "0", "text": "@andol how to install phpmyadmin with this", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "638318" }, { "creationDate": "2019-01-27T10:20:56.717", "id": "1837875", "postId": "45", "score": "0", "text": "@andol `E: Package 'php5' has no installation candidate`,\n`E: Package 'libapache2-mod-php5' has no installation candidate`,\n`E: Unable to locate package libapache2-mod-auth-mysql` and \n`E: Package 'php5-mysql' has no installation candidate` How do I over come this?", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "386179" }, { "creationDate": "2020-05-12T21:07:07.127", "id": "2086729", "postId": "45", "score": "0", "text": "The [Ubuntu Server Guide](https://help.ubuntu.com/12.04/serverguide/lamp-overview.html) page returns a 404. Is there a valid URL for it?", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "640732" }, { "creationDate": "2020-06-02T10:11:50.683", "id": "2101333", "postId": "45", "score": "1", "text": "@MikeWaters https://ubuntu.com/server/docs/lamp-applications :)", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "513442" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creationDate": "2010-07-28T19:41:59.903", "id": "45", "lastActivityDate": "2016-03-30T00:31:07.880", "lastEditDate": "2016-03-30T00:31:07.880", "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": "24", "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "24", "parentId": "34", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "124" }

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We have installed Ubuntu desktop edition on our dev server. I was wondering if there is any noticeable performance loss compared to the server edition.

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What is the performance loss if you run Ubuntu desktop edition on a server machine?

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{ "accepted": true, "body": "As far as I know, there is no performance lost as far as overhead and whatnot. It mostly depends on what you have installed. You can turn desktop Ubuntu into server Ubuntu by installing the same security/monitoring/visualization programs. The server edition just comes with a better set of pre-installed packages suited to a secure, easily maintained server.\n\nEither way, I would recommend NOT installing X server and a desktop environment (GNOME, KDE, etc). This reduces boot time and memory/CPU usage.\n", "commentCount": "1", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2018-09-30T00:18:26.780", "id": "1773716", "postId": "68", "score": "1", "text": "Having GUI on servers increases attack vector, too.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "295286" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creationDate": "2010-07-28T19:54:05.897", "id": "68", "lastActivityDate": "2019-07-02T20:11:45.487", "lastEditDate": "2019-07-02T20:11:45.487", "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": "22949", "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "91", "parentId": "36", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "21" }

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<ul> <li>Does encrypting my home folder make my computer more secure?</li> <li>Do I have to enter my password more if my home folder is encrypted?</li> <li>What else should I know about encrypting my home folder?</li> </ul>

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When installing I'm given the option of encrypting my home folder -- what does this do?

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{ "accepted": true, "body": "Simply\n\n<ol>\n<li>Encrypting your home folder doesn't actually make your computer more secure - it simply makes all the files and folders in your home folder more secure from unauthorized viewing.\n<ul>\n<li>Your computer is still \"vulnerable\" in a security standpoint - but it becomes very difficult for your content to be stolen (unless the attacker has your password).</li>\n</ul></li>\n<li>You won't need to actually enter your password any more than you normally do - when you log in to your computer your files are seamlessly decrypted for just your session.</li>\n<li>There is a possibility (depending on your computers hardware) that this will affect the performance on your machine. If you're worried about performance more than security (and you're on an older machine) you may wish to disable this feature.</li>\n</ol>\n\nTechnically\n\nUbuntu uses \"eCryptfs\" which stores all the data in a directory (this case the home folders) as encrypted data. When a user is logged in that encrypted folder is mounted with second decryption mount (this is a temporary mount that works similar to tmpfs - it's created and run in RAM so the files are never stored in a decrypted state on the HD). The idea is - if your hard drive is stolen and the contents read those items aren't able to be read since Linux needs to be running with your authentication to create the successful mount and decryption ( The keys are SHA-512 encrypted data based of several user aspects - the keys are then stored in your encrypted key ring ). The end result is technically secure data (as long as your password isn't cracked or leaked).\n\nYou will not have to enter your password any more than usual. There is a slight increase of Disk I/O and CPU which (depending on your computer specs) may hinder performance - though it's quite seamless on most modern PCs\n", "commentCount": "14", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2010-07-28T20:00:33.260", "id": "57", "postId": "62", "score": "5", "text": "Marco, thank you for your answer, you seem to have an excellent grasp of home folder encryption. Just for the benefit of less technical users, can you spare me all the technical detail and answer the question as if I were asking as a computer-illiterate user?", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "56" }, { "creationDate": "2010-07-28T20:14:43.647", "id": "75", "postId": "62", "score": "2", "text": "I amended my answer to reflect a simpler viewpoint", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "41" }, { "creationDate": "2010-07-28T20:20:50.403", "id": "80", "postId": "62", "score": "1", "text": "Thank you! (There are some formatting quirks, though)", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "56" }, { "creationDate": "2010-07-28T20:23:52.983", "id": "82", "postId": "62", "score": "0", "text": "The second bullet is a sub-bullet of the first point I'll make that more obvious.\n\nThere that should make more sense.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "41" }, { "creationDate": "2010-07-29T01:50:37.440", "id": "184", "postId": "62", "score": "0", "text": "I guess I would say “it doesn't make your computer more secure, but it does make your data more secure”.\n\nThere are also some eCryptfs bugs you might hit, depending on your usage. Specifically, you will be unable to create files with extremely long filenames. You'll likely only hit this if a tool you use feels like creating files in a deep directory hierarchy with tremendously long (hundreds of characters) names.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "188" }, { "creationDate": "2010-07-29T05:15:24.280", "id": "218", "postId": "62", "score": "11", "text": "Also note that if you dual-boot, it makes accessing your Linux partition from your secondary OS much more difficult. In Windows, I had installed a simple driver to read my EXT3 partition, but now I'm locked out. Oy!", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "199" }, { "creationDate": "2010-07-29T09:50:58.147", "id": "257", "postId": "62", "score": "0", "text": "what happens if someone with your computer just does passwd yourusername, and then logs in as you?", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "224" }, { "creationDate": "2010-07-29T14:37:19.810", "id": "313", "postId": "62", "score": "2", "text": "plod: That's where the security stops. If someone has your password then it's game over.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "41" }, { "creationDate": "2010-07-29T14:38:16.950", "id": "315", "postId": "62", "score": "0", "text": "Jono: But your data is secure! I'm not sure of a way to cleanly and properly setup eCryptfs for windows and use the existing decryption keys in your keyring", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "41" }, { "creationDate": "2011-02-20T22:53:36.227", "id": "30162", "postId": "62", "score": "0", "text": "Might be a good idea to mention that it blocks hibernation - well the hibernation itself will work but not resume because the swap is encrypted too. More details at bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/432785", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "8973" }, { "creationDate": "2011-10-27T20:24:50.797", "id": "82705", "postId": "62", "score": "0", "text": "@papukaija ecryptfs for the home directory does not block hibernation. Encrypting swap does.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "23530" }, { "creationDate": "2011-10-27T20:40:15.143", "id": "82717", "postId": "62", "score": "0", "text": "It might make sense to add that it's harder to recover your files if you've encrypted them and you forget or lose the password and passphrase.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "19490" }, { "creationDate": "2012-01-09T05:23:00.960", "id": "107581", "postId": "62", "score": "0", "text": "I'm wondering if some answers can comment more on this: \"Your computer is still \"vulnerable\" in a security standpoint - but it becomes very difficult for your content to be stolen (unless the attacker has your password).\" I also see this echoed in two of the answers below. So why do people say that your computer is still \"vulnerable\"?", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "4460" }, { "creationDate": "2014-09-02T12:10:21.250", "id": "705314", "postId": "62", "score": "0", "text": "@Jay I'm guessing they mean your computer can still be compromised, as in stolen and with another account the computer can still be used. It's just a way to prevent others from accessing your data, not to make your computer exclusively work for you.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "235849" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2010-07-28T19:50:14.923", "id": "62", "lastActivityDate": "2010-07-28T20:24:57.367", "lastEditDate": "2010-07-28T20:24:57.367", "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": "41", "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "41", "parentId": "37", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "95" }

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I have a VPS set up with Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid running exim4 as the MTA. The machine name itself is something easily recognizable to us (in this case, 'Fermat'), but the machine itself is responsible for serving up one of our domains (i.e. <a href="http://www.example.com" rel="nofollow noreferrer">www.example.com</a>). When generating an email from exim, the email headers are reporting the server name (Fermat) instead of the domain name (example.com). Is there a way to 'force' exim to report the server name as example.com without changing the machine's host name?

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How to configure mail server to report a hostname distinct from server name

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How does one reset the gnome panel to the initial state? During use, gnome panel applets move and get replaced with the ones users like. After some time the panel becomes so cluttered that it requires a cleanup. The easiest way would be to reset the panel to the original state that it was in after install. Is there an easy way of doing that?

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2012-06-13T08:36:25.233

Resetting gnome panel

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I'm using Kubuntu (Karmic) and KATE is my favorite editor. I don't enable many plug-ins, but I really like the inline shell. The problem is, across re-starts, KATE seems to forget that I enabled this plug-in. I've checked across all sessions and the behavior is the same. Is there some easy way to fix this?

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2017-10-17T09:44:09.747

KATE keeps forgetting I have the shell plug-in enabled

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{ "accepted": true, "body": "This is a bug with Kate. But if you disable the session auto save, it loads the plugins. You can do this by changing the Application Startup Behavior to Start new session. Application Startup Behaviors can be changed from Settings > Configure Kate > Sessions. This is not a fix, just a walk-around.\n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": [], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creationDate": "2010-08-06T19:03:21.610", "id": "1454", "lastActivityDate": "2017-10-17T09:44:09.747", "lastEditDate": "2017-10-17T09:44:09.747", "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": "467998", "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "295", "parentId": "47", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "3" }

[ { "accepted": true, "body": "This is a bug with Kate. But if you disable the session auto save, it loads the plugins. You can do this by changing the Application Startup Behavior to Start new session. Application Startup Behaviors can be changed from Settings > Configure Kate > Sessions...

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2010-07-28T19:43:35.123

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Is there a way to change how long the libnotify notifications last? I've googled around for this for months and no still no luck. I'm actually starting to think that you can't change it. I can't even find anywhere in the API where developers can control this.

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2010-11-16T20:04:59.263

2017-07-10T19:44:33.437

How do I change how long notifications are displayed?

[ "notify-osd", "libnotify" ]

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1

CC BY-SA 2.5

[ { "creationDate": "2010-07-28T19:48:27.343", "id": "34", "postId": "50", "score": "0", "text": "Can you please rephrase the question as \"How do I change how long notifications are displayed?\"; \"Notification Display Time\" is pretty confusing, and not phrased as a question.", "userDisplayN...

{ "accepted": true, "body": "You can't do this normally. However, there is a patched version of notify-osd that supports it:<a href=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/1y1Xo.png\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\"><img src=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/1y1Xo.png\" alt=\"enter image description here\" /></a>\n<h1>From Ubuntu 16.04 onwards:</h1>\nYou'll need to add two PPA's:\n<pre><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:leolik/leolik\nsudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8\nsudo apt update\n</code></pre>\nThen install it like this:\n<pre><code>sudo apt-get upgrade\nsudo apt-get install notifyosdconfig\n</code></pre>\nThe configuration dialog should be in Applications->Accessories or <code>notifyosdconf</code> from the terminal. There's a setting for the standard notification duration as per screenshot above if you don't set it the <code>--expire-time</code> parameter.\n<h3>Example:</h3>\n<pre><code>notify-send --urgency=LOW --expire-time=1 --icon=face-laugh "test" "1 second"\n</code></pre>\n<h1>Older versions: (9.10-14.10)</h1>\nYou'll need to add two PPA's:\n<pre><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:leolik/leolik\nsudo add-apt-repository ppa:amandeepgrewal/notifyosdconfig\nsudo apt-get update\n</code></pre>\nThen install it like this:\n<pre><code>sudo apt-get upgrade\nsudo apt-get install notifyosdconfig\n</code></pre>\nThe configuration dialog should be in Applications->Accessories or <code>notifyosdconf</code> from the terminal. There's a setting for notification duration as per screenshot above.\n<h3>Example:</h3>\n<pre><code>notify-send --urgency=LOW --expire-time=1 --icon=face-laugh "test" "1 second"\n</code></pre>\n", "commentCount": "5", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2010-07-29T00:14:04.900", "id": "172", "postId": "89", "score": "0", "text": "those two ppa's are the same? after googling 'notifyosdconfig ppa' i think the second one you meant was `sudo add-apt-repository ppa:amandeepgrewal/notifyosdconfig`", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "91" }, { "creationDate": "2010-11-16T20:59:56.963", "id": "14035", "postId": "89", "score": "1", "text": "Just a note, though the above program works *beautifully*, you're still limited by a maximum time of 10 seconds. You can go *below* 10 seconds, but not above (which is what I was after when I started looking).", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "4236" }, { "creationDate": "2017-02-12T19:15:25.373", "id": "1376358", "postId": "89", "score": "0", "text": "does this override the default `notify-send` behaviour or is it a seperate command?", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "378854" }, { "creationDate": "2017-02-12T19:34:40.627", "id": "1376371", "postId": "89", "score": "0", "text": "Unfortunately, the repository doesnt provide the package anymore, saying `E: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/amandeepgrewal/notifyosdconfig/ubuntu/dists/xenial/main/binary-amd64/Packages 404 Not Found`", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "378854" }, { "creationDate": "2019-04-10T21:45:49.133", "id": "1877317", "postId": "89", "score": "0", "text": "Got E: Unable to locate package notifyosdconfig", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "368210" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creationDate": "2010-07-28T20:07:54.910", "id": "89", "lastActivityDate": "2017-07-10T19:44:33.437", "lastEditDate": "2020-06-12T14:37:07.210", "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": "-1", "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "35", "parentId": "50", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "14" }

[ { "accepted": null, "body": "The duration of the notification is, I believe, dependent on the length of the message.\n\nFrom the perspective of someone who was worked with it indirectly (by using the pynotify module in Python), I have discovered that specifying a duration for a message is not poss...

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For some reason, sometimes when I log in the top panel applets appear garbled. For instance the session applet is missing its icon, and the current username is repeated twice. This doesn't happen very often, but when it does the session applet is not responsive so I can't get to the log out menu option. Is there any other way to log off the current user other than using the (non working) session applet?

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null

2013-01-05T14:43:47.093

How to log out if the session applet is missing from the top panel?

[ "applet", "gnome", "session" ]

2

1

CC BY-SA 2.5

[ { "creationDate": "2010-07-31T21:12:18.653", "id": "557", "postId": "51", "score": "1", "text": "It might be worth trying to restart your gnome panel. Open a terminal (Ctrl+Alt+t, by default) and type `killall gnome-panel`, then hit enter. Then wait a few seconds and it should restart. If it doe...

{ "accepted": true, "body": "Press <kbd>Alt</kbd>+<kbd>F2</kbd>, type <code>gnome-session-save --logout</code>, then hit enter. If an application is blocking logout, try <code>gnome-session-save --force-logout</code>\n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": [], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creationDate": "2010-07-28T19:47:45.707", "id": "55", "lastActivityDate": "2013-01-05T14:43:39.673", "lastEditDate": "2013-01-05T14:43:39.673", "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": "77178", "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "35", "parentId": "51", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "10" }

[ { "accepted": true, "body": "Press <kbd>Alt</kbd>+<kbd>F2</kbd>, type <code>gnome-session-save --logout</code>, then hit enter. If an application is blocking logout, try <code>gnome-session-save --force-logout</code>\n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": [], "communityOwnedDate": null, ...

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2010-07-28T19:46:27.363

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I take photos from time to time, and if I take an exceptionally beautiful one, I'd like to submit it for inclusion in Ubuntu. Where do I send/upload it?

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2012-12-13T21:00:40.090

How do I submit wallpapers to be considered for inclusion in Ubuntu?

[ "desktop-background", "artwork", "photography" ]

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0

CC BY-SA 2.5

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{ "accepted": true, "body": "Add it to the Ubuntu Artwork pool, here: <a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/groups/ubuntu-artwork/\">http://www.flickr.com/groups/ubuntu-artwork/</a>\n\nA team of judges will select somewhere around 15 photos from this pool for the default wallpapers.\n", "commentCount": "1", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2015-10-17T10:43:18.653", "id": "1000309", "postId": "64", "score": "1", "text": "Too bad we need to create a Yahoo! account just for these submissions. It would be interesting to have something integrated with Launchpad, or better yet OpenID.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "207470" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2010-07-28T19:52:34.340", "id": "64", "lastActivityDate": "2010-07-28T19:52:34.340", "lastEditDate": null, "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": null, "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "35", "parentId": "53", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "19" }

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I recently deployed about a dozen Ubuntu (Karmic) desktops in a small office. Everything was going great, but storage became an issue. I then moved /home to an NFS mount which solved the immediate problem. Months later, I'm regretting this. The company is extremely disorganized with high turnover, people never stay at the same desk for long and now I have 12 machines that anyone needs to access at any given time. This gets crazy with conflicting UID/GID's as well. I'd like to just use LDAP and make the problem go away. The issue is, they want to be self sufficient, so I need some (easy) way for the office administrator to manage users. Preferably something GUI driven and simple/intuitive to use. What are my options?

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2019-01-07T15:42:05.817

Going from a shared NFS /home to a full LDAP solution

[ "ldap", "nfs", "gui" ]

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2

CC BY-SA 2.5

[ { "creationDate": "2010-07-28T19:56:10.570", "id": "49", "postId": "56", "score": "2", "text": "LDAP and nfs are two different issues. What about using LDAP for authentication and autofs to automatically mount the home directory via nfs?", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "4" }, { ...

{ "accepted": true, "body": "You can try eBox for the server, it has a very straightforward web interface, you can install it from the repositories, and has all the functionality you need. The whole process is documented in the Ubuntu Server Guide, check <a href=\"https://help.ubuntu.com/10.04/serverguide/C/ebox.html\" rel=\"noreferrer\">https://help.ubuntu.com/10.04/serverguide/C/ebox.html</a>.\n\nHowever you still would have to take care of the configuration in the client workstations.\n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": [], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2010-07-29T08:52:24.217", "id": "302", "lastActivityDate": "2010-07-29T10:05:39.980", "lastEditDate": "2010-07-29T10:05:39.980", "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": "215", "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "215", "parentId": "56", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "6" }

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2010-07-28T19:48:54.753

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There are currently 2 clocks on my panel: one in the "Indicator Applet" and one in the "Clock". The one in the "Indicator Applet" is redundant and isn't as good as the "Clock". Does anyone know how to get rid of the clock in the "Indicator Applet"?

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2016-06-25T21:04:42.683

Indicator Applet: How to get rid of the clock?

[ "applet", "indicator", "clock" ]

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2

CC BY-SA 3.0

[ { "creationDate": "2010-07-28T19:50:28.540", "id": "38", "postId": "58", "score": "0", "text": "Do you mean the calendar applet? I'm not aware of a clock in the Indicator Applet.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "5" }, { "creationDate": "2010-07-28T19:51:45.743", "id": "4...

{ "accepted": true, "body": "You must have somehow installed the new, under development Ubuntu clock. Go into Synaptic, and remove the package <code>indicator-datetime</code>. That should fix it.\n", "commentCount": "3", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2010-07-28T20:29:11.070", "id": "87", "postId": "73", "score": "0", "text": "Thanks, that worked. I wonder when I installed that though. Maybe it came with another package.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "88" }, { "creationDate": "2010-07-28T20:38:18.987", "id": "95", "postId": "73", "score": "0", "text": "Did you install Unity? Unity uses it, and so installs the package on install.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "35" }, { "creationDate": "2011-01-04T13:18:19.510", "id": "21520", "postId": "73", "score": "0", "text": "is it possible to install clock as an indicator-applet? the indicator-datetime is too minimal.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "378" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2010-07-28T19:57:45.980", "id": "73", "lastActivityDate": "2010-07-28T19:57:45.980", "lastEditDate": null, "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": null, "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "35", "parentId": "58", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "11" }

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I have added Empathy to the list of applications that open by default, and it's configured to auto-connect to MSN when started, but when I login to my laptop the wifi connection takes a few seconds to be ready. Before the net is up, Empathy has already started, tried to login to MSN and failed, and I can't get it to connect after that. This seems to be a bug in Empathy, but how can I get a fix for it, or if not possible, how can I delay its start until the network is up?

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2012-11-12T14:06:05.913

How can I make Empathy retry connecting when it has a network problem

[ "empathy", "startup" ]

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0

CC BY-SA 2.5

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{ "accepted": true, "body": "Apparently this is a known bug in Empathy, so I decided to launch Empathy from a script that checks if the network is up (connecting to <a href=\"http://www.google.com\" rel=\"noreferrer\">http://www.google.com</a>, internet's true heartbeat :) If the network is not working, it will sleep for 5 seconds and retry, until it tried 30 times\n\nThis is the script (named waitfornet.py)\n\n<pre><code>#!/usr/bin/python\n\nfrom urllib2 import urlopen, URLError\nfrom subprocess import Popen\nfrom time import sleep\nfrom sys import argv\n\nMAX_TRIES = 30\nDELAY = 5\n\nif len (argv) < 2:\n print ('Check for network connectivity and run a command once the net is up')\n print ('Tries up to %d times waiting %d seconds between each try' % (MAX_TRIES, DELAY))\n print ('\\nUSAGE: python waitfornet.py <command to run>')\nelse:\n while True:\n MAX_TRIES -= 1\n if MAX_TRIES < 0:\n raise ValueError ('Reached the max iteration count and the net is still down')\n\n try:\n data = urlopen('http://www.google.com')\n except URLError:\n # if there's a problem connecting to google, that must mean\n # that the net is still down, so sleep 5 seconds and try again\n print ('Internet is down... retrying...')\n sleep (DELAY)\n continue\n\n # if you got here it means that the urlopen succeded\n pid = Popen([argv[1], ' '.join(argv[1:])]).pid\n break\n</code></pre>\n\nand this is how I launch it from the \"Startup Applications\" menu:\n\n<pre><code>~/scripts/waitfornet.py empathy\n</code></pre>\n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": [], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2010-07-30T23:41:31.453", "id": "528", "lastActivityDate": "2010-07-30T23:41:31.453", "lastEditDate": null, "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": null, "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "94", "parentId": "61", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "6" }

[ { "accepted": null, "body": "It sounds like Empathy may need a patch to do this kind of thing internally. But you should be able to poke Empathy to do the right thing by disconnecting from your network and reconnect.\n\nI've seemingly had bugs with Empathy refusing the connect to a bunch of networ...

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I am running 8.04 desktop as a server and hosting my own web server, has anyone experienced any issues with upgrade from 8.04 to 10.04?

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2012-01-04T00:04:16.737

Upgrade experiences from 8.04 LTS to 10.04 LTS?

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2

CC BY-SA 3.0

[ { "creationDate": "2010-07-29T02:25:36.013", "id": "191", "postId": "66", "score": "3", "text": "I'd suggest you re-word the question as \"Has anyone experienced problems upgrading desktop from 8.04 LTS to 10.04 LTS?\" The question right now is a bit vague and technically I could answer \"No\" ...

{ "accepted": true, "body": "I have tested this myself on a VM. And as Andrew said, this was heavily tested before the release.\n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": [], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2010-07-28T19:59:47.393", "id": "75", "lastActivityDate": "2010-07-28T19:59:47.393", "lastEditDate": null, "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": null, "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "4", "parentId": "66", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "10" }

[ { "accepted": null, "body": "While I haven't, that is one thing that gets heavily tested in LTS releases prior to their release.\n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": [], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2010-07-28T19:56:49.913", "i...

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I have a lovely Vim colorscheme (<a href="http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2140">xoria256</a>) and it looks brilliant in GVim, but when I use normal <code>vim</code> in Terminal, the colorscheme is only partially supported -- for example, the default semi-transparent aubergine background color is used. How do I make Terminal faithfully render my Vim colorscheme?

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2014-02-21T10:46:02.213

2017-12-13T16:11:45.847

How do I enable full-color support in Vim?

[ "command-line", "vim", "colors" ]

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1

CC BY-SA 3.0

[ { "creationDate": "2010-11-25T16:32:50.020", "id": "15613", "postId": "67", "score": "4", "text": "Even the default color scheme looks better with 256 colors. If it wasn't for your question, I'd have never found it out. This should be the default.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "22...

{ "accepted": true, "body": "GNOME Terminal supports 256 colors, but doesn't advertise its support. You can override vim's autodetection by putting the following:\n\n<pre class=\"lang-bsh prettyprint-override\"><code>if $COLORTERM == 'gnome-terminal'\n set t_Co=256\nendif\n</code></pre>\n\nin your ~/.vimrc.\n\nNote: if you use GNU screen, it will happily eat those 256-color codes and convert them to basic 16 colors. A better fix is to change TERM to xterm-256color before launching screen/vim.\n\nUpdate for 2017: if you have a sufficiently recent Vim (7.4.1799 or newer), and a sufficiently advanced terminal emulator (xterm, or gnome-terminal based on a sufficiently recent version of VTE), you can <code>:set termguicolors</code> and terminal vim will use full 24-bit colors as defined by your vim theme using <code>highlight guifg=#rrggbb guibg=#rrggbb</code>.\n", "commentCount": "10", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2010-07-29T11:08:33.543", "id": "269", "postId": "126", "score": "1", "text": "This didn't work, my terminal is still aubergine!", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "56" }, { "creationDate": "2010-07-30T11:48:46.667", "id": "422", "postId": "126", "score": "0", "text": "What can I say -- it works for me when I do `:set t_Co=256 | colorscheme xoria256`.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "136" }, { "creationDate": "2010-08-01T09:47:50.440", "id": "607", "postId": "126", "score": "1", "text": "You could test for the presence of gnome-terminal in your vimrc, then set the t_Co variable appropriately. \n\ne.g.:\n\n`if $COLORTERM == 'gnome-terminal'`\n` set t_Co = 256`\n`endif`\n\n(I'm not sure how to add multi-line blocks of code in comments, so add newlines before and after the set statement)", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "285" }, { "creationDate": "2011-03-02T20:49:33.243", "id": "31985", "postId": "126", "score": "3", "text": "Better to use gnome-256color for gnome-terminal and screen-256color for screen.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "11729" }, { "creationDate": "2011-03-28T12:31:12.497", "id": "36312", "postId": "126", "score": "0", "text": "Nice. I'd just about given up and just decided to go with the default, then I found this. Thanks!", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "6005" }, { "creationDate": "2013-04-04T17:47:03.480", "id": "348803", "postId": "126", "score": "0", "text": "It doesn't work for me... I think some themes designed for gVim need more than 256 colors... How do we enable FULL color support, like with gVim? When I set t_Co=256, some themes look better, but they are still not exactly on par with the gVim ones. It seems that with today's technology, have full color in a linux tty should be no problem. For example, as many color as there are in hex (e.g. #bf3ea2) there should also be at least that many in a tty.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "4377" }, { "creationDate": "2013-04-25T13:14:21.200", "id": "358657", "postId": "126", "score": "3", "text": "@trusktr google up CSApprox and CSExact vim extensions.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "136" }, { "creationDate": "2013-07-02T02:35:42.323", "id": "398994", "postId": "126", "score": "0", "text": "@MariusGedminas That's effing nice. Thanks. Too bad Linux console has only 16 colors.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "4377" }, { "creationDate": "2013-12-28T02:49:11.877", "id": "508012", "postId": "126", "score": "0", "text": "Setting t_Co=256 also seems to work for xterm.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "54716" }, { "creationDate": "2017-10-20T10:35:58.430", "id": "1547764", "postId": "126", "score": "0", "text": "@trusktr When you're using a terminal emulator in Linux you're not using anything like \"today's technology\".", "userDisplayName": "user12753", "userId": null } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creationDate": "2010-07-28T20:55:23.690", "id": "126", "lastActivityDate": "2017-12-13T16:10:32.613", "lastEditDate": "2017-12-13T16:10:32.613", "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": "507051", "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "136", "parentId": "67", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "80" }

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I work with multiple computers for various reasons. I want to keep those computers in sync configuration wise. I already have a VCS based setup that allows me to manually update configurations on multiple hosts. But i'm looking for a way to do this automatically. What I'm looking for is: <ul> <li>A way to sync configuration (vim, ssh, evolution)</li> <li>keeping certain directories in sync (like ~/Documents)</li> </ul> This is all user configuration and not system configuration. At times the workstation can be offline or behind a slow link, so being able to detect that and act accordingly is a plus.

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2010-08-11T12:24:36.597

Keeping multiple workstations in sync

[ "sync", "configuration", "user-data", "multiple-workstations" ]

5

0

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{ "accepted": true, "body": "If you don't have any confidential data in those files, you could use <a href=\"http://www.dropbox.com/\" rel=\"noreferrer\">Dropbox</a> to keep them automatically in sync across multiple machines. The Dropbox daemon will synchronize one folder, usually <code>~/Dropbox</code>, but you can include other files or directories in the synchronization by symlinking them into that folder. (I think Dropbox may also offer some other method to keep multiple folders in sync, but I can't find the directions right now)\n", "commentCount": "6", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2010-07-28T20:35:48.027", "id": "93", "postId": "85", "score": "0", "text": "You can symbolically link folders into `~/Dropbox` with `ln -s`, which achieves something similar.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "66" }, { "creationDate": "2010-07-28T20:56:39.130", "id": "108", "postId": "85", "score": "1", "text": "@lfaraone: yep, that's what I was saying about symlinking things into the Dropbox folder.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "104" }, { "creationDate": "2010-07-29T09:50:16.557", "id": "256", "postId": "85", "score": "0", "text": "Using dropbox or ubuntu one is an option, but it rules out certain servers which wouldn't be able to sync from such a location. I guess my only option is to continue with the VCS based solution", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "42" }, { "creationDate": "2010-07-30T06:18:21.187", "id": "414", "postId": "85", "score": "0", "text": "Even though I'm unable to use Dropbox or Ubuntu One in this case, this answer is the most useful one.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "42" }, { "creationDate": "2010-07-30T08:03:15.997", "id": "417", "postId": "85", "score": "0", "text": "@Ressu: thanks :-) but why exactly aren't you able to use Dropbox? Are your servers behind a firewall or something?", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "104" }, { "creationDate": "2010-07-30T08:45:44.490", "id": "418", "postId": "85", "score": "0", "text": "The reason is that I need those same files on certain servers and getting dropbox to run properly on those hosts without making it globally installed for everyone is a difficult task. Not to mention that I don't have root privileges on certain hosts. But your answer matches the given parameters of the question =)", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "42" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2010-07-28T20:06:17.270", "id": "85", "lastActivityDate": "2010-07-28T20:06:17.270", "lastEditDate": null, "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": null, "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "104", "parentId": "69", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "6" }

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I am using my machine with multiple accounts logged in at the same time. I am using KDM desktop manager and KDE desktop. Ever since I upgraded to Karmic, when using one user the second user, who is active on another virtual terminal, gets logged out automatically. I have looked through the logs and can't find anything that would cause this. What should I be looking into to figure it out? Is there some sort of feature that was turned on through the upgrades? (the machine has been through many releases..).

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How can I prevent myself from getting logged out automatically in a multi-user setup?

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{ "accepted": true, "body": "In the end I lived with this for a while and ended up upgrading Ubuntu to a newer version and it went away. So not sure what it was but probably a bug somewhere.. \n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": [], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creationDate": "2011-11-07T16:14:59.273", "id": "76791", "lastActivityDate": "2011-11-07T16:14:59.273", "lastEditDate": null, "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": null, "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "103", "parentId": "72", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "1" }

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What are the differences between <code>apt-get</code>, <code>aptitude</code>, and <code>synaptic</code>, and which one is the recommended choice for normal day-to-day package management? This is a basic question, but I think it'd be good information to have on the site, and besides I am relatively new to Ubuntu so I could use an expert explanation.

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What's the difference between package managers?

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{ "accepted": true, "body": "Probably the most popular package managers are apt-get, aptitude, synaptic, and Software Center. There are others (Linux Mint has its own, and there are some designed for KDE), but these are the ones you'll run into most often.\n\napt-get is a simple command-line tool. It's handy if you know the exact package name of what you want to install and don't want to spend time clicking through a GUI to get it.\n\naptitude is very similar to apt-get, and I've heard that it deals better with crazy dependency situations. Which one is really better is debatable.\n\nsynaptic is a low-level GUI. This is a good choice if you are a fairly advanced user but are not comfortable with command-line utilities.\n\nSoftware Center is a very high-level, new-user-friendly GUI. Software is nicely categorized so that, if you're not exactly sure what app you want, you can find what you need quickly. The Software Center also stands out in that it is the only package manager in this list that allows you to purchase commercial applications.\n\ndpkg is a lesser-used, low-level package manager standard for most Debian-based systems. In reality, apt-get, aptitude, synaptic, and the Ubuntu Software Center are all just front-ends to either dpkg or apt, which is in itself a front-end to dpkg.\n\nIn answer to your question, \"which one is the recommended choice for normal day-to-day package management\", I would say that Software Center is recommended for most uses. But as you gain more experience, you will find some of the features of lower-level package managers useful.\n", "commentCount": "11", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2010-08-03T20:33:30.773", "id": "738", "postId": "129", "score": "0", "text": "I have to wonder what the point is of Synaptic at this point. People who want libs use the command line, and people that want programs use Software Center?", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "324" }, { "creationDate": "2010-08-03T21:39:19.653", "id": "751", "postId": "129", "score": "0", "text": "To be honest, I rarely use Synaptic any more, and at the moment I can't think of any particular reason I would use Synaptic over one of the other tools (though I do from time to time). Good question.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "130" }, { "creationDate": "2010-08-04T21:20:49.237", "id": "891", "postId": "129", "score": "11", "text": "aptitude vs apt-get is not debatable, aptitude is an improvement over apt-get, and perfectly compatible with it.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "446" }, { "creationDate": "2010-08-05T02:26:16.297", "id": "948", "postId": "129", "score": "1", "text": "I don't have the knowledge to debate it, but I've seen others debate it. So to the best of my knowledge it's debatable. As for compatibility, I've heard that it's best not to use both. But again, I don't know. I'll leave that for another question. :-)", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "130" }, { "creationDate": "2010-08-08T22:42:32.477", "id": "1571", "postId": "129", "score": "0", "text": "Somehow this never occurred to me before, but I actually do use KDE (Kubuntu) primarily, so it'd be a nice bonus to have similar descriptions of the KDE package managers edited in. Not that this answer isn't great as is ;-)", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "104" }, { "creationDate": "2010-08-09T13:50:35.763", "id": "1640", "postId": "129", "score": "0", "text": "I've actually used Ubuntu for three years and never touched Kubuntu. So I don't know enough about her package managers to compare them. Perhaps you could write up a comparison and propose a new answer. (Hey, who ever said you can't have two good answers?) :-)", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "130" }, { "creationDate": "2010-08-16T04:21:42.183", "id": "2302", "postId": "129", "score": "0", "text": "@mac: completely missed your comment until now, but that's a good idea. I'll get on that.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "104" }, { "creationDate": "2010-08-23T21:31:10.720", "id": "2920", "postId": "129", "score": "0", "text": "Done ;-) If you'd like to edit the information on KDE package managers into your answer, I'll delete mine.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "104" }, { "creationDate": "2010-08-24T11:32:09.823", "id": "2947", "postId": "129", "score": "0", "text": "That's all right, I'll leave it in your answer. You deserve a few rep points for your effort. :-) Thanks!", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "130" }, { "creationDate": "2010-09-09T23:23:08.723", "id": "3951", "postId": "129", "score": "0", "text": "It isn't really Ubuntu related but Mint 9 has 'Software Manager' which is the equivalent to Ubuntu's 'Software Center'. Although it doesn't support application sharing, it does add 5 star ratings and reviews to make sorting the wheat from the chaff of software packages a lot easier. For a comparison see this http://www.linuxnov.com/ubuntu-10-10-alpha-2-software-center-vs-linux-mint-9-software-manager/", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "2139" }, { "creationDate": "2010-10-18T09:59:59.770", "id": "7938", "postId": "129", "score": "3", "text": "aptitude allows advanced package management features such as package holding which apt-get lacks.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "4303" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creationDate": "2010-07-28T20:59:19.793", "id": "129", "lastActivityDate": "2013-02-20T21:04:59.787", "lastEditDate": "2013-02-20T21:04:59.787", "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": "47437", "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "130", "parentId": "76", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "114" }

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I'd like to have a Gmail notification service in my Epiphany indicator applet, without leaving Evolution open in the background all the time. Right now I only get notifications if Evolution is open. Strangely, this is not the case with Google calendars in Evolution -- evolution can be closed yet I still get applet notifications through the clock/calendar applet.

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How can I get Gmail notification in my indicator applet (without leaving Evolution open)?

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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<a href=\"https://launchpad.net/gm-notify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Gmail Notifier</a> is probably the best option for what you are trying to accomplish.\n", "commentCount": "1", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2010-07-28T20:07:34.350", "id": "64", "postId": "84", "score": "3", "text": "Search \"Ubuntu Software Center\" for gm-notify to install.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "12" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creationDate": "2010-07-28T20:06:11.593", "id": "84", "lastActivityDate": "2015-06-25T18:33:00.143", "lastEditDate": "2015-06-25T18:33:00.143", "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": "367165", "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "9", "parentId": "80", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "14" }

[ { "accepted": true, "body": "<a href=\"https://launchpad.net/gm-notify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Gmail Notifier</a> is probably the best option for what you are trying to accomplish.\n", "commentCount": "1", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2010-07-28T20:07:34.350", "id": "64",...

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I have just installed a 10.04 LTS on my development server but the system that I need to run on it (Magento ecommerce) is not compatible with PHP 5.3 which ships with the newest version of Ubuntu. Is there a safe and upgrade-proof way of getting PHP 5.2 installed or will it be easier to use an older version of Ubuntu?

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How to rollback to PHP 5.2?

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{ "accepted": true, "body": "You can use my <a href=\"https://launchpad.net/~txwikinger/+archive/php5.2\" rel=\"nofollow\">ppa</a>, that I have created for this purpose. Please take notice of the pinning that is necessary. Also, aptitude will not recognize the pinning. You must use the aptitude specific method if you want to use it.\n\nNote - this is for 10.04 (lucid) only\n", "commentCount": "7", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2010-07-28T20:08:53.317", "id": "67", "postId": "88", "score": "1", "text": "Where *is* your PPA?", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "5" }, { "creationDate": "2010-07-28T20:10:35.933", "id": "70", "postId": "88", "score": "0", "text": "Sorry.. I am not so fast :D https://launchpad.net/~txwikinger/+archive/php5.2", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "4" }, { "creationDate": "2010-07-30T18:23:54.863", "id": "459", "postId": "88", "score": "0", "text": "Could you also explain what I should do with this ppa?", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "27" }, { "creationDate": "2010-07-30T20:09:08.663", "id": "473", "postId": "88", "score": "0", "text": "@silvo: you need to add the ppa to your sources lists, either by using your package manager or using add-apt-repository on the commandline. The details for the ppa are on the website of the ppa.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "4" }, { "creationDate": "2011-02-08T16:31:09.673", "id": "27654", "postId": "88", "score": "0", "text": "This is pretty much the perfect answer, thanks. For those unsure, to add the ppa to your sources do `sudo add-apt-repository ppa:txwikinger/php5.2` from the command line. Be sure to follow the ppa link in the post and apply txwikinger's pinning solution. Make sure you run `sudo apt-get update` before you try and install the packages!", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "317" }, { "creationDate": "2011-02-08T16:33:50.840", "id": "27656", "postId": "88", "score": "0", "text": "If you are uninstalling an existing PHP instance first, make sure you grab a list of the packages you have first `dpkg -l | grep php| awk '{print $2}' |tr \"\\n\" \" \"`", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "317" }, { "creationDate": "2011-02-08T17:56:06.443", "id": "27674", "postId": "88", "score": "0", "text": "Lastly, (I hope) php5-imagick isn't in that ppa so I couldn't install it. Worked around by grabbing php-pear (which is in the ppa) and using `sudo pecl install imagick`. (You'll need to install `libmagickwand-dev` if you don't have it for the module to compile)", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "317" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creationDate": "2010-07-28T20:07:41.433", "id": "88", "lastActivityDate": "2015-03-25T13:56:10.997", "lastEditDate": "2015-03-25T13:56:10.997", "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": "14356", "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "4", "parentId": "82", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "10" }

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Can you explain briefly the main concepts and command line tools used to manage file permissions?

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2020-06-28T14:36:08.560

How do file permissions work?

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{ "accepted": true, "body": "Each file has rights for three different categories:\n\n<ul>\n<li>the owner of the file,</li>\n<li>the group associated with the file, and</li>\n<li>everybody else.</li>\n</ul>\n\nRights mean the right to read the file, the right to write to the file, or the right to execute the file in case of a script or program.\n\nOn the CLI, you may\n\n<ul>\n<li>change the owner with <code>chown</code>, e.g. <code>chown guillermooo</code></li>\n<li>change the group with <code>chgrp</code>, e.g. <code>chgrp root</code></li>\n<li>change the rights with <code>chmod</code>, e.g. <code>chmod u+w filename.ext</code> (Adds writing permission for the owner of the file <code>filename.ext</code>)</li>\n</ul>\n\nIf you'd like to know more about each of these tools, open a terminal and type <code>man [tool]</code>, e.g. <code>man chmod</code>.\n", "commentCount": "3", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2010-08-03T21:59:12.340", "id": "757", "postId": "103", "score": "10", "text": "It's a little more tricky with directories - execute permission is required to access the directory's contents. This means (for example) to read or write a file you need execute access to the directory containing it as well as the appropriate permissions on the file itself. This almost never comes up, but that's why it is poorly documented/understood!", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "317" }, { "creationDate": "2010-08-04T20:24:14.217", "id": "861", "postId": "103", "score": "0", "text": "Huh. You're right. I'll edit it in tomorrow, when I'm less sleepy.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "20" }, { "creationDate": "2013-12-17T16:52:33.917", "id": "501660", "postId": "103", "score": "1", "text": "`chown guillermooo` shouldn't this be `chown guillermooo filename`?", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "209300" } ], "communityOwnedDate": "2016-10-26T12:36:39.927", "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2010-07-28T20:17:28.023", "id": "103", "lastActivityDate": "2010-07-28T20:17:28.023", "lastEditDate": null, "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": null, "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "20", "parentId": "83", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "30" }

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I'd like to create an Ubuntu live USB stick on a Mac to use to install Ubuntu on another machine. How do I accomplish this?

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2021-03-30T20:00:22.493

How do I create an Ubuntu live USB using a Mac?

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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "Taken from <a href=\"http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/create-a-usb-stick-on-mac-osx\">here</a>:\n\n<blockquote>\n We would encourage Mac users to download Ubuntu Desktop Edition by\n burning a CD. But if you prefer to use a USB stick, please follow the\n instr...

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I'd like to create an interactive media experience powered by Ubuntu, incorporating projected video, music, and assorted strange input devices. Has anyone used Ubuntu to orchestrate something like this? Can you recommend any specific software/hardware?

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2010-12-27T12:52:11.210

Ubuntu and Interactive Media Installations

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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<a href=\"http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=993376\" rel=\"noreferrer\">Here</a> are instructions for getting Ubuntu to detect a Wii remote, which could easily be hacked into an artistic prop or some inconspicuous object.\n\nYou could use <a href=\"http://www.lavrsen.dk/foswiki/bin/view/Motion/WebHome\" rel=\"noreferrer\">Motion</a> to detect the movement of people walking through your installation.\n\nI haven't used it personally, but <a href=\"http://negativeacknowledge.com/2010/06/automated-nerf-turret/\" rel=\"noreferrer\">here</a> is an interesting DIY project for an automated NERF turret, which detects a moving target, tracks it, shoots and plays sounds.\n", "commentCount": "1", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2010-08-02T10:07:35.277", "id": "661", "postId": "593", "score": "0", "text": "Awesome! This is exactly the kind of stuff I'm looking for.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "56" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2010-07-31T20:26:48.653", "id": "593", "lastActivityDate": "2010-07-31T20:26:48.653", "lastEditDate": null, "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": null, "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "7", "parentId": "93", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "5" }

[ { "accepted": null, "body": "Are you talking about setting a machine as a Media Center / DVR (Digital Video Recorder, aka PVR)?\n\nHere are three interesting solutions for this:\n\n<ol>\n<li>Mythbuntu:\n\nMythbuntu i...

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<blockquote> Possible Duplicate: <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/72679/is-there-any-sound-enhancers-equalizer">Is there any Sound enhancers/equalizer?</a> </blockquote> I often want to tweak the sound quality, but have found no other way than to install plugins for each piece of software. Unfortunately this is not available for all the apps I use, e.g. Spotify. Is there a way to install a system-wide equalizer on Ubuntu?

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2012-05-30T18:51:15.507

Is there a system-wide equalizer for PulseAudio or ALSA?

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I have messed up my Ruby dev environment on Ubuntu 10.04. What is the best possible way to remove these packages from my system? <ul> <li>Ruby</li> <li>All Gems</li> <li>RubyGems</li> </ul> To start fresh, I would like to re-install Ruby using <a href="http://rvm.beginrescueend.com/" rel="noreferrer">RVM</a>.

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2018-06-15T16:36:27.833

How can I completely remove Ruby + Rails + Gems?

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[ { "creationDate": "2010-07-28T20:13:36.550", "id": "71", "postId": "95", "score": "1", "text": "How did you install it? Did you use the the Ubuntu packages?", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "4" } ]

{ "accepted": true, "body": "If you're using Ubuntu Packages run <code>sudo apt-get purge <packages></code>\n\nSo that should be something like:\n\n<code>sudo apt-get purge ruby rubygems</code>\n\nFrom the <a href=\"http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/lucid/en/man8/apt-get.8.html\">apt-get man page</a>:\n\n<blockquote>\n<pre><code> purge\n purge is identical to remove except that packages are removed and purged (any configuration files are deleted too).\n</code></pre>\n</blockquote>\n", "commentCount": "1", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2020-08-16T04:08:18.493", "id": "2145795", "postId": "106", "score": "2", "text": "`sudo apt-get --purge autoremove packagename` (as per [this answer](https://askubuntu.com/a/380030)) worked better for me, as it also removed dependencies. One thing I'm not sure of is whether installed gems are also removed.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "463250" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2010-07-28T20:19:24.757", "id": "106", "lastActivityDate": "2010-10-05T17:19:46.957", "lastEditDate": "2010-10-05T17:19:46.957", "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": "41", "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "41", "parentId": "95", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "25" }

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I have been playing with package management by adding sources from older Ubuntu releases in order to get older versions of some software (e.g. PHP). Unfortunately at some point I must have overdid it as now every attempt to use apt-get or synaptic ends in an error message being displayed saying that there is no candidate available to install. I would like to start fresh - remove all the installed packages and added sources. Is there a quick way to do this, or do I need to reinstall the OS?

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2012-06-22T13:27:36.493

Is there a way to reset all packages/sources and start from scratch?

[ "package-management", "uninstall" ]

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CC BY-SA 2.5

[ { "creationDate": "2010-07-28T20:14:31.807", "id": "74", "postId": "96", "score": "4", "text": "This is called re-install, isn't it? :D", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "4" } ]

{ "accepted": true, "body": "You could always remove all packages (making a few exceptions for apt-get, etc.)\n\nThen run:\n\n<pre><code>sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop\n</code></pre>\n\nThis installs the desktop metapackage which has pretty much every other package as a dependency.\n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": [], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2010-07-28T21:29:44.520", "id": "153", "lastActivityDate": "2010-07-28T21:29:44.520", "lastEditDate": null, "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": null, "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "5", "parentId": "96", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "6" }

[ { "accepted": null, "body": "Remove all but the current release of Ubuntu you're running from <code>/etc/apt/sources.list</code>. Then <code>sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get dist-upgrade</code>. Let me know if you still have trouble. \n\nYou may have to reinstall. \n", "commentCount": "0"...

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I've been waiting for a couple years to be able to do an <pre class="lang-bsh prettyprint-override"><code>apt-get install haskell-platform </code></pre> on Ubuntu. Will a haskell platform-package be available on Ubuntu 10.10?

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2015-12-14T14:10:05.827

Will Haskell Platform be available in 10.10?

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{ "accepted": true, "body": "Yes, it's already <a href=\"https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/haskell-platform/\">packaged</a> and released in <code>maverick</code> (the development branch of Ubuntu): \n\n<pre><code>$ rmadison haskell-platform\nhaskell-platform | 2010.1.0.0.1 | maverick/universe | source, all\n</code></pre>\n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": [], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2010-07-28T20:18:45.790", "id": "105", "lastActivityDate": "2010-07-28T20:18:45.790", "lastEditDate": null, "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": null, "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "66", "parentId": "99", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "8" }

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I was playing music with my headphones plugged in. The music was coming out of the headphones, but I also noticed that my speakers were playing the same music. Why is this, and how can I fix it?

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2014-12-16T01:53:58.260

2018-02-11T21:49:24.877

Sound comes out of my speakers even when headphones are plugged in

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CC BY-SA 3.0

[ { "creationDate": "2010-10-25T05:47:24.437", "id": "9292", "postId": "100", "score": "0", "text": "Possibly related: http://askubuntu.com/questions/6993/internal-microphone-not-working", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "87" }, { "creationDate": "2012-09-23T03:23:37.800", "...

{ "accepted": true, "body": "This is probably an alsa issue. I had the same problem, but it got reported as a bug and fixed. \n\n<a href=\"https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/477226\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\">link to bug report</a>\n", "commentCount": "2", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2010-07-29T02:58:14.470", "id": "197", "postId": "137", "score": "0", "text": "+1: This is an ALSA bug. In addition to whatever workaround you can get, please file it - our audio maintainer is pretty good with these :)\n\nThe driver needs to have a correct mapping of all the various inputs your sound hardware has - one of which is a “you've got headphones plugged in” signal - and not all systems have correct mappings.\n\nRunning “ubuntu-bug” should get you the symptoms-based reporter, where you can get the relevant audio logs to a bug.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "188" }, { "creationDate": "2010-11-29T21:03:34.060", "id": "16206", "postId": "137", "score": "0", "text": "It has worked for me since the upgrade to 10.10 on hda intel platforms. the previous solution was to open sound preferences, which triggered a probe and changeover to headphones. in my opinion, not a bug...tradeoff for speed increase by not polling the interface", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "5768" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creationDate": "2010-07-28T21:09:48.617", "id": "137", "lastActivityDate": "2018-02-11T21:49:24.877", "lastEditDate": "2018-02-11T21:49:24.877", "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": "616827", "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "145", "parentId": "100", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "9" }

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I have reported a bug that occurs in Karmic on launchpad, and I have been asked to re-test it on lucid or maverick. How can I do this best?

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2011-07-10T18:38:05.810

How can I best retest a bug in a newer or development release?

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{ "accepted": true, "body": "For testing Maverick, <code>testdrive</code> is easiest. It'll automatically download the latest Maverick daily and run it in a Virtual Machine.\n\n<pre><code>sudo apt-get install testdrive virtualbox-ose\ntestdrive\n</code></pre>\n", "commentCount": "2", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2010-07-29T03:37:58.337", "id": "201", "postId": "114", "score": "3", "text": "Good answer for most bugs. However, if it's a bug that is specific to your hardware, testdrive will not help. In this case, use one of the test build ISOs as a live CD - see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/ISO .", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "192" }, { "creationDate": "2010-08-22T19:36:33.960", "id": "2835", "postId": "114", "score": "0", "text": "Yes.. this is a good point", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "4" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2010-07-28T20:34:12.337", "id": "114", "lastActivityDate": "2010-07-28T20:34:12.337", "lastEditDate": null, "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": null, "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "35", "parentId": "108", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "15" }

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I would like to secure my server and it seems that IPtables is one of the first steps. Unfortunately editing the rules in a terminal is a bit complicated and dangerous (those who ever did an <code>iptables -F</code> will know what I mean ;) ). Could you recommend any good graphical interfaces for managing my IPtables rules?

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2012-08-13T10:49:53.173

2020-08-29T02:55:21.177

GUI for iptables?

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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<a href=\"http://www.fs-security.com/\" rel=\"noreferrer\">Firestarter</a> has always worked well in my opinion. It supports a robust GUI and supports all options of iptables. \n\n<img src=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/pqg11.jpg\" alt=\"status\"><img src=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/DNwbs.jpg\" alt=\"events\">\n\n<pre><code>sudo apt-get install firestarter\n</code></pre>\n", "commentCount": "2", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2014-01-22T04:30:38.267", "id": "526111", "postId": "117", "score": "14", "text": "Firestarter is deemed abandoned software and has been removed from Ubuntu repositories as of 13.10 Saucy Salamander. For more info, https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Firestarter", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "24621" }, { "creationDate": "2016-01-20T22:31:17.217", "id": "1070383", "postId": "117", "score": "4", "text": "Unfortunately firestarter is abandoned. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Firestarter It seems that at present gufw, which is a GUI wrapper around ufw, which in turn is a CLI wrapper around iptables, is the closest thing.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "14355" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creationDate": "2010-07-28T20:37:15.557", "id": "117", "lastActivityDate": "2014-03-16T14:33:49.223", "lastEditDate": "2014-03-16T14:33:49.223", "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": "65926", "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "66", "parentId": "111", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "20" }

[ { "accepted": null, "body": "Try Firewall Builder.\n\n<pre><code>sudo apt-get install fwbuilder\n</code></pre>\n", "commentCount": "4", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2010-07-28T21:10:55.260", "id": "113", "postId": "115", "score": "0", "text": ...

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Of those identd daemons available in Ubuntu 10.04, can any of them be made to work with IPv6? If so, a nudge in the right direction regarding how to configure the IPv6 support would be nice.

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2013-09-27T22:37:19.157

Is there a identd-like package in Ubuntu that supports IPv6?

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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<code>oidentd</code> supports ipv6, but said support doesn't seem to be documented very well (or, y'know, at all...).\n\nAfter installing it, you'll need to edit <code>/etc/default/oidentd</code> and change this:\n\n<pre><code>OIDENT_OPTIONS=\"-mf\"\n</code></pre>\n\nto this:\n\n<pre><code>OIDENT_OPTIONS=\"-mf -a ::\"\n</code></pre>\n\nand restart it, then it should listen on all your interfaces (both IPv4 and IPv6).\n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": [], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2010-07-28T23:06:18.313", "id": "202", "lastActivityDate": "2010-07-28T23:06:18.313", "lastEditDate": null, "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": null, "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "57", "parentId": "112", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "6" }

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I've downloaded some nice themes, icon packages, and pointers from sites like gnome-look. Now what do I do? Where else can I get these kinds of things?

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2012-08-29T21:59:06.327

How do I get and install more themes, icons, and pointers?

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0

CC BY-SA 3.0

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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<h1>Installing new themes in Ubuntu 10.10 and below</h1>\n\nTo install the themes open the Theme Manager which can be accessed from System > Preferences > Appearances then just drag the theme/icons etc on to the window.\n\nOnce installed you can either directly use the theme or modify it to use individual components like icons, borders, etc in the Theme Manager.\n", "commentCount": "1", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2016-06-18T00:53:23.013", "id": "1184155", "postId": "119", "score": "0", "text": "It's somewhat amusing that the accepted answer now applies only to EOL releases.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "18612" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creationDate": "2010-07-28T20:41:40.197", "id": "119", "lastActivityDate": "2011-12-05T05:52:46.363", "lastEditDate": "2011-12-05T05:52:46.363", "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": "41", "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "84", "parentId": "116", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "10" }

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After upgrading my laptop from karmic to lucid, my fat32 partition won't mount automatically. I get the message: <pre><code>The disk drive for /osshare is not ready yet or not present Continue to wait; or Press S to skip mounting or M for manual recovery </code></pre> Funny thing is, if I skip, then <code>/osshare/</code> is mounted once I log in. I've a similar setup on my desktop, and it works fine. Fstab on desktop: <pre><code>UUID=4663-6853 /osshare vfat utf8,umask=007,gid=46 0 1 </code></pre> <code>/etc/fstab</code> on laptop: <pre><code>UUID=1234-5678 /osshare vfat utf8,auto,rw,user 0 0 </code></pre>

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2014-05-08T22:59:01.043

2015-11-19T08:12:26.277

How do I avoid the "S to Skip" message on boot?

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4

CC BY-SA 2.5

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{ "accepted": true, "body": "You should add the option <code>nobootwait</code> to your <code>/etc/fstab</code>. So that it looks like:\n\n<pre><code>UUID=1234-5678 /osshare vfat utf8,auto,rw,user,nobootwait 0 0 \n</code></pre>\n\nFrom <code>fstab(5)</code>:\n\n<blockquote>\n The <code>mountall(8)</code> program that mounts filesystem during boot also recognises additional options that the ordinary <code>mount(8)</code> tool does not.\n These are: <code>bootwait</code> which can be applied to remote filesystems\n mounted outside of <code>/usr</code> or <code>/var</code>, without which <code>mountall(8)</code> would not\n hold up the boot for these; <code>nobootwait</code> which can be applied to non-remote filesystems to explicitly instruct <code>mountall(8)</code> not to hold up\n the boot for them;\n</blockquote>\n", "commentCount": "3", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2011-05-15T19:43:55.557", "id": "47085", "postId": "589", "score": "0", "text": "Does not work here my cifs mount option list looks like: auto,nofail,nobootwait,credentials=/etc/mycred and the message still appears", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "1452" }, { "creationDate": "2012-02-10T22:21:53.037", "id": "119256", "postId": "589", "score": "7", "text": "Thanks! `nobootwait` is a good idea for extra EBS volumes mounted on EC2 instances, too.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "2273" }, { "creationDate": "2014-06-01T06:26:13.233", "id": "631293", "postId": "589", "score": "1", "text": "And if that doesn't work, just remove the entry for the offending disk from your fstab. Then at least you can start from scratch if there is a deeper problem. Obviously this is not appropriate for your `/boot` `/swap` or `/` partitions, though.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "182590" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creationDate": "2010-07-31T19:19:18.940", "id": "589", "lastActivityDate": "2012-10-06T00:41:04.327", "lastEditDate": "2012-10-06T00:41:04.327", "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": "53752", "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "236", "parentId": "120", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "78" }

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I'd like to get involved with Ubuntu QA by creating automated tests. Is there an ongoing effort to create these tests? Where can I learn more?

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2013-01-04T18:18:46.423

How do I get involved with testing and QA with Ubuntu?

[ "automation", "testing", "quality" ]

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CC BY-SA 3.0

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{ "accepted": true, "body": "The QA team does extensive automated testing - it's part of the requirements for hardware to get Ubuntu certified.\n\nThe project they use is <a href=\"https://edge.launchpad.net/checkbox\" rel=\"nofollow\">Checkbox</a>. Don't be fooled by the quite cut-down version shipped in the <code>checkbox-gtk</code> package - the full suite contains a huge range of tests.\n\nThe <a href=\"http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-qa\" rel=\"nofollow\">Ubuntu QA</a> mailing list is where you want to go for checkbox questions, or to discuss merge requests. This <a href=\"http://qa.ubuntu.com/automation/\" rel=\"nofollow\">link</a> discusses about the complete set of tools used by the QA team for automation.\n", "commentCount": "2", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2012-12-28T06:45:27.563", "id": "289076", "postId": "260", "score": "2", "text": "Please add this link too: http://qa.ubuntu.com/automation/", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "11932" }, { "creationDate": "2013-01-04T15:53:13.407", "id": "293519", "postId": "260", "score": "0", "text": "@saji89: you can go ahead and suggest an edit.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "2355" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creationDate": "2010-07-29T02:49:24.723", "id": "260", "lastActivityDate": "2013-01-04T18:18:46.423", "lastEditDate": "2013-01-04T18:18:46.423", "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": "11932", "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "188", "parentId": "127", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "13" }

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I will be going to University soon and am looking for a tablet/netbook on which I can use a stylus to write notes (Chinese characters mostly). I have only found 2 netbooks (with swivel screens and full keyboards) that might work for me. One is the ASUS Eee PC T101MT, and the other is a Gigabyte Touchnote. Does anyone know of tablets (keyboardless) that Ubuntu fully works on?

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2012-06-23T10:07:07.613

What are the multi-touch netbooks/tablets that work with Ubuntu?

[ "tablet", "ubuntu-netbook", "multi-touch" ]

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CC BY-SA 3.0

[ { "creationDate": "2010-07-28T21:40:51.793", "id": "128", "postId": "128", "score": "1", "text": "You should remove netbook from your question altogether. Not the word you're looking for.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "119" }, { "creationDate": "2010-07-28T22:25:46.227", ...

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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "Well Ubuntu is working on multitouch and it should be in either the next release or the release after. Synaptics is making it too but I dont know if thats ready yet. \n\nThe touch screens will work it will just move the mouse to the place you touch it just wont do anyt...

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2012-02-27T18:31:59.837

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Before I buy my next laptop, I'd like to make sure that it will work perfectly with Ubuntu. Is there a list of completely supported computers anywhere?

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2018-04-06T22:36:37.557

2022-03-03T16:11:12.660

Where can I find a list of computers guaranteed to work with Ubuntu?

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CC BY-SA 3.0

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{ "accepted": true, "body": "There is an ongoing QA effort for Laptops and Desktops in the Ubuntu Community - you can find that information here:\n\n<a href=\"https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/Laptop/OldReports\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\">Old Ubuntu Laptop Reports</a> and for everything 11.04 and onwards, <a href=\"http://laptop.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/laptop\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\">Laptop Testing Site</a>\n\nYou can find the reports for Lucid tested Laptops tests here: <a href=\"https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/Laptop/Lucid/Reports\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\">10.04 Lucid Laptop Tests</a>. The best course of action is to find a handful of laptops you're interested in then check the Reports on each.\n\nIf you feel compelled to help you can find more information at the <a href=\"https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/Laptop\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\">Laptop Testing</a> page.\n\nFinally there is a detailed list of compatible systems on the <a href=\"http://www.ubuntu.com/certification\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\">Ubuntu Certification</a> page.\n", "commentCount": "4", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2011-04-01T12:03:21.683", "id": "36962", "postId": "133", "score": "0", "text": "So.. when running a live CD (or after installation), I can run through a test suite. Is this the same test suite referred to at the laptop testing site? Are there plans to compile the results of those user tests into that database? I was initially expecting that they would be already integrated into it, but based on the very low number of test results, it seems that that is not (yet?) the case.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "3865" }, { "creationDate": "2011-04-01T12:11:56.443", "id": "36964", "postId": "133", "score": "0", "text": "@intuited I don't know those details - I would recommend asking a new question on this site to get an expert with knowledge of the testing procedure to weigh in", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "41" }, { "creationDate": "2011-04-01T15:23:36.630", "id": "36979", "postId": "133", "score": "0", "text": "[Done](http://askubuntu.com/questions/33013/will-livecd-test-results-be-aggregated-into-the-laptop-testing-tracker).", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "3865" }, { "creationDate": "2013-01-10T21:48:51.277", "id": "298696", "postId": "133", "score": "0", "text": "Well [Ubuntu Friendly](https://friendly.ubuntu.com/) is not too promising - Three notebooks rated by one user each...", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "134729" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creationDate": "2010-07-28T21:06:54.253", "id": "133", "lastActivityDate": "2019-11-07T12:35:57.367", "lastEditDate": "2019-11-07T12:35:57.367", "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": "349903", "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "41", "parentId": "131", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "43" }

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How do I create a desktop wallpaper slideshow with my own set of images? <ul> <li>With the images coming from a pictures folder, or pre-selected</li> <li>With the images displayed in order, or randomly</li> <li>With the images changing every few minutes, or after random periods of time</li> </ul>

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2012-08-22T08:47:23.883

2024-01-09T14:27:37.130

How do I create a desktop wallpaper slideshow?

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CC BY-SA 3.0

[ { "creationDate": "2018-09-22T19:03:36.537", "id": "1769654", "postId": "134", "score": "5", "text": "In 2018, Variety seems to me the best tool for this job: https://peterlevi.com/variety/", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "671005" } ]

{ "accepted": true, "body": "<h2>For 11.04 and previous versions</h2>\n\nThere's a program for creating wallpaper slideshows called CREBS. Check out this article about it: <a href=\"http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/05/crebs-the-ultimate-wallpaper-slideshow-application\" rel=\"noreferrer\">http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/05/crebs-the-ultimate-wallpaper-slideshow-application</a>\n\nA simpler app that has fewer features but is easier to use can be found here: <a href=\"http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Wallpaper+Slideshow?content=125178\" rel=\"noreferrer\">http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Wallpaper+Slideshow?content=125178</a>\n\n<img src=\"https://lh5.ggpht.com/_FJH0hYZmVtc/S_06k3BoUSI/AAAAAAAAH-A/f7UXF-GHagg/s1600-\" alt=\"alt text\">\n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": [], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creationDate": "2010-07-28T21:11:19.890", "id": "140", "lastActivityDate": "2012-09-28T03:06:04.100", "lastEditDate": "2017-03-09T18:04:14.220", "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": "-1", "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "35", "parentId": "134", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "63" }

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2010-07-28T21:12:20.670

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Does anyone know of a simple Image Editor, with functionality comparable to <a href="http://www.getpaint.net/screenshots.html">Paint.NET</a>, for Ubuntu? I've always found GIMP to be overkill and too complicated for what I want to do.

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2014-05-03T13:05:18.057

2022-11-26T22:34:56.027

Is there a Paint.NET alternative?

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[ { "creationDate": "2014-05-03T13:10:34.417", "id": "605599", "postId": "142", "score": "2", "text": "There are several image editing packages in the software centre. Select \"Graphics\" then \"Painting & Editing\" for a list. You may like Pinta - Quite basic but there are plenty of others", ...

{ "accepted": true, "body": "Yes, try <a href=\"http://apt.ubuntu.com/p/pinta\" rel=\"noreferrer\">Pinta</a><a href=\"http://apt.ubuntu.com/p/pinta\" rel=\"noreferrer\"><img src=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/GszVh.png\" alt=\"Install mypaint\"></a>\n\n<blockquote>\n Pinta is a drawing/editing program modeled after Paint.NET. It's goal is to provide a simplified alternative to GIMP for casual users. It is currently early in development.\n</blockquote>\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http://pinta-project.com/\" rel=\"noreferrer\">Homepage</a></li>\n<li><a href=\"https://launchpad.net/~moonlight-team/+archive/pinta/+packages\" rel=\"noreferrer\">PPA</a> </li>\n</ul>\n\n<img src=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/bBLKi.jpg\" alt=\"Pinta screenshot\">\n", "commentCount": "7", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2010-07-28T21:30:49.620", "id": "122", "postId": "144", "score": "1", "text": "The toolbars have almost the same button layout as the GIMP!", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "5" }, { "creationDate": "2010-10-03T04:18:09.513", "id": "5190", "postId": "144", "score": "3", "text": "As of maverick, it can be found in the official repository as well.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "570" }, { "creationDate": "2018-10-21T07:23:53.440", "id": "1785771", "postId": "144", "score": "7", "text": "it's useable but crashes very often.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "519758" }, { "creationDate": "2019-08-25T18:56:13.250", "id": "1949281", "postId": "144", "score": "5", "text": "For anyone reading this, do not use Pinta. Its usability is far behind Paint.NET and I have lost data multiple times because Pinta randomly crashes and makes the entire computer unresponsive, forcing a reboot.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "938003" }, { "creationDate": "2020-02-11T21:02:42.007", "id": "2031451", "postId": "144", "score": "4", "text": "Pinta crashes for me just about everytime I use it. Can't do simple things without crashing.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "70333" }, { "creationDate": "2020-08-03T16:48:20.263", "id": "2139387", "postId": "144", "score": "0", "text": "In my experience, Pinta can't handle higher resolution images, because it slows down extremely. Also, the latest version is from 2015, which indicates the development has stopped.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "233271" }, { "creationDate": "2022-12-08T20:42:52.863", "id": "2521161", "postId": "144", "score": "1", "text": "Pinta is being developed again. The apt repos have an old version. The Snap repos have the latest. I haven't tried it on 22.10, so I don't know if it still has issues.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "88" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creationDate": "2010-07-28T21:13:49.500", "id": "144", "lastActivityDate": "2019-10-20T17:35:47.297", "lastEditDate": "2019-10-20T17:35:47.297", "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": "816190", "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "56", "parentId": "142", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "66" }

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I know some other text editors like Notepad++ enable split pane to edit to files side by side. Is there any way I can add this functionality to Gedit?

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2022-04-28T21:09:44.177

Is there Split Pane support in Gedit?

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{ "accepted": true, "body": "In gedit, choose Documents > New Tab group or <kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>Alt</kbd> + <kbd>N</kbd> your gedit will split vertically. And you can drag tabs.\n", "commentCount": "1", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2015-12-11T12:50:01.053", "id": "1041620", "postId": "700893", "score": "7", "text": "But it still doesn't let you to have two views of the same file... That's annoying... I wanted split pane to avoid scrolling up and down to check declarations.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "12702" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creationDate": "2015-11-21T19:44:58.970", "id": "700893", "lastActivityDate": "2019-03-20T07:26:38.407", "lastEditDate": "2019-03-20T07:26:38.407", "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": "480481", "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "454850", "parentId": "152", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "32" }

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In the spirit of <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/80/how-can-i-get-gmail-notification-in-my-indicator-applet-without-leaving-evolutio">this</a> question... Is there an indicator applet that tells me when I've received an email through any IMAP service? If so, where can I get it?

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2017-04-12T07:23:19.023

2014-12-16T01:56:55.973

Is there a Gnome applet for IMAP mail accounts?

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{ "accepted": true, "body": "Use CloudSN (Cloud Services Notification). It supports gmail, google reader, pop3, imap, twitter, identi.ca\n\n<a href=\"http://chuchiperriman.github.com/cloud-services-notifications/\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\">http://chuchiperriman.github.com/cloud-services-notifications/</a> (PPA available)\n\nThe best part is that it supports multiple accounts and notify-osd.\n\n<img src=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/bYqJn.png\" alt=\"alt text\">\n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": [], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2010-08-07T14:39:40.133", "id": "1586", "lastActivityDate": "2010-08-07T14:39:40.133", "lastEditDate": null, "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": null, "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "289", "parentId": "154", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "3" }

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I would like to be able to demo a UEC cloud at a presentation. Is there a simple guide regarding the hardware I need, and how I need to configure the UEC in order to create a nice presentation?

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2012-10-19T13:05:41.910

Is there a simple guide for how to set up a demo cloud?

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CC BY-SA 3.0

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{ "accepted": true, "body": "These are the minimum requirements (for a one-machine setup) for setting up an Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud:\n\n<ul>\n<li>Machine: at least 1 (though 2 or 3 is highly recommended, to separate controllers and nodes)</li>\n<li>CPU: +2Ghz (dual core recommended)</li>\n<li>Memory: +2Gb ram</li>\n<li>Disk Space: 100Gb</li>\n</ul>\n\nNote that with those minimum specs, this will still be SLOW.\n\nYou can find a quick tutorial located at: <a href=\"http://www.ubuntu.com/cloud/private/deploy\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.ubuntu.com/cloud/private/deploy</a>\n\nAs well, there is a complete community guide at <a href=\"https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UEC\" rel=\"nofollow\">https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UEC</a>\n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": [], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2010-07-28T22:18:15.313", "id": "176", "lastActivityDate": "2010-07-28T22:18:15.313", "lastEditDate": null, "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": null, "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "154", "parentId": "158", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "4" }

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When you install certain updates (e.g. a new kernel) in Ubuntu Desktop, you get an indication that a reboot is required (in Lucid, the logout icon turns red). How can I check, from the command line, whether an Ubuntu server requires a reboot? I could grep for 'System restart required' in <code>/etc/motd</code>, but I'd like a solution that's more elegant. Also, I want a solution that works in older releases, e.g. Hardy (8.04 LTS).

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2021-10-22T04:01:59.887

How can I tell, from the command line, whether the machine requires a reboot?

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[ { "creationDate": "2010-11-18T11:45:34.837", "id": "341964", "postId": "164", "score": "0", "text": "If you are maintaining server you will soon also develop sense wether or not update require restart. Most updates needs no restart or only restart of service (witch it should do automatically).",...

{ "accepted": true, "body": "You can simply check if the file <code>/var/run/reboot-required</code> exists or not.\n\nFor example, any of these would tell you \"no such file\" or \"file not found\" if you do not need to reboot, otherwise (if you need to reboot) the file would exist and these commands would show information about the file:\n\n<pre><code>file /var/run/reboot-required\nstat /var/run/reboot-required\nls /var/run/reboot-required\n</code></pre>\n\nIn a bash script, you can use:\n\n<pre class=\"lang-bsh prettyprint-override\"><code>#!/bin/bash\nif [ -f /var/run/reboot-required ]; then\n echo 'reboot required'\nfi\n</code></pre>\n", "commentCount": "8", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2010-07-29T14:23:14.257", "id": "306", "postId": "171", "score": "1", "text": "This works, and it works on Hardy too. (Doesn't work on Dapper -- 6.06 -- which I still have on one machine. Tough.) Incidentally, the /var/run/reboot-required file is created by /usr/share/update-notifier/notify-reboot-required which is invoked from various packages' maintainer scripts.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "136" }, { "creationDate": "2010-07-29T14:27:42.297", "id": "308", "postId": "171", "score": "2", "text": "It would work on Dapper too if I installed the update-notifier package, except that it wants to pull down 120 megs' worth of GNOME stuff into my ancient server.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "136" }, { "creationDate": "2010-07-29T14:31:06.547", "id": "309", "postId": "171", "score": "0", "text": "Same deal on Debian lenny: *if* you have update-notifier installed, then (and only then) you can check for /var/run/reboot-required.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "136" }, { "creationDate": "2010-07-29T14:35:39.423", "id": "311", "postId": "171", "score": "10", "text": "Better install update-notifier-common, it doesn't depend on any GUI stuff (but doesn't exist for Dapper).", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "136" }, { "creationDate": "2010-07-29T14:37:46.470", "id": "314", "postId": "171", "score": "1", "text": "FWIW, update-notifier-common is not installed on Lucid server by default.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "136" }, { "creationDate": "2015-02-22T17:21:36.557", "id": "817129", "postId": "171", "score": "5", "text": "Thanks! and the file `/var/run/reboot-required.pkgs` will list the packages that require the reboot.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "6130" }, { "creationDate": "2018-01-05T21:52:49.513", "id": "1601560", "postId": "171", "score": "0", "text": "How about simply `cat /var/run/reboot-required 2> /dev/null || true`? It does appear to be a text file simply stating that, well, rebooting is required.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "779193" }, { "creationDate": "2018-08-21T15:14:25.243", "id": "1749680", "postId": "171", "score": "0", "text": "Also `test -f /var/run/reboot-required`. I'm using this with ansible like `ansible -a 'test ! -f /var/run/reboot-required' -i hosts all | awk '/FAILED/{print $1 \" requires reboot\"}'; (exit \"${PIPESTATUS[0]}\")`.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "250387" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creationDate": "2010-07-28T22:02:02.427", "id": "171", "lastActivityDate": "2017-12-13T16:14:32.827", "lastEditDate": "2017-12-13T16:14:32.827", "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": "507051", "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "154", "parentId": "164", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "354" }

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<blockquote> Possible Duplicate: <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/16446/how-to-get-my-software-into-ubuntu">How to get my software into Ubuntu?</a> </blockquote> I've created a Python application for Ubuntu. How do I package it and submit it for possible inclusion in the <code>universe</code> repository?

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-1

2017-04-13T12:23:56.577

2011-10-21T11:18:26.977

How do I put a package into the Ubuntu repositories?

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2011-11-02T03:27:14.960

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I'm currently install F# manually by downloading the binary distribution from Microsoft, downloading the Mono key, running the Mono installer, then fiddling with my path. Is there a PPA with F# packages that can make my life easier?

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2010-10-23T20:19:48.713

2010-11-16T01:24:26.210

Where can I find F# packages?

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0

CC BY-SA 2.5

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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "The F# license appears to be non-free as it only allows non-commercial use, so it wouldn't be legal to distribute this in a PPA. At best, there could be an fsharp-installer package created, which would automate those steps of downloading & installing it.\n", "comm...

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How do you burn a DVD-DL iso from the command line?

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2015-06-25T18:19:10.607

How to burn a dual layer dvd iso from the command line

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0

CC BY-SA 2.5

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I need to update firmware of my iPod Touch (iPhone) in Ubuntu and as I have jailbroken iPod Touch I need iTunes to install apps, but unfortunately haven't found any ways to do that in Ubuntu yet. I know that it is possible to use VirtualBox or Wine, but still in the most of the times iTunes doesn't want to work on Wine and for VirtualBox I need to install again that Windows from which I switched into Ubuntu just a few months ago and don't want to go back to it. What do Linux users who have iPod Touch(iPhone) do in this case? Any suggestions to solve the problem will be pleased. And finally,how long will it be before Apple develops iTunes for Linux OS?

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2015-12-14T14:07:40.410

2016-10-18T12:10:11.603

Firmware update for iPod Touch (iPhone)?

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{ "accepted": true, "body": "While some older versions of iTunes can currently be made to work with Wine (or Crossover), they cannot be used to update or sync newer iPods\n\nThe reason is that Wine lacks a handler for Windows USB device drivers, and the iPod acts as a custom USB device. This is the same reason that software that requires a special key dongle also doesn't (yet) work in Wine. There are some preliminary patches available for this, and you can read more history on the <a href=\"http://wiki.winehq.org/USB\">Wine wiki</a>, however don't expect anything to work.\n\nThe only iPods that currently work in Wine are really old iPods that act as simple USB mass storage devices. And even then you still need to find an older, working iTunes.\n\nBecause of this problem in Wine, to do the firmware upgrade you'll need to either setup a virtual machine with Virtualbox or VMware or, perhaps more simply, borrow someone else's computer.\n", "commentCount": "1", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2010-12-06T12:37:24.150", "id": "17322", "postId": "4975", "score": "0", "text": "Yes I have done this. I have installed VirtualBox and updated my ipod there in Windows.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "161" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2010-09-30T16:05:56.203", "id": "4975", "lastActivityDate": "2010-10-05T15:00:50.060", "lastEditDate": "2010-10-05T15:00:50.060", "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": "2558", "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "2558", "parentId": "182", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "9" }

[ { "accepted": null, "body": "Looking at the <a href=\"http://www.codeweavers.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">Crossover</a> <a href=\"http://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/browse/group/?app_parent=2350;\" rel=\"nofollow\">page for iTunes</a>, a couple of versions have been reported to work somewhat. Crossover c...

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How can I change the Login screen theme? Is there a graphical way or no?

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2019-09-06T13:34:08.463

How can I change the login screen theme in GDM?

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[ { "creationDate": "2012-05-31T15:36:10.817", "id": "173871", "postId": "193", "score": "3", "text": "You may be interested in this themeable alternative to GDM: http://askubuntu.com/questions/143192/how-can-i-replace-lightdm-with-mdm", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "14356" }, { ...

{ "accepted": true, "body": "Use this command in the terminal:\n\n<pre><code>sudo cp /usr/share/applications/gnome-appearance-properties.desktop /usr/share/gdm/autostart/LoginWindow\n</code></pre>\n\nLogout, and you will be prompted with the Appearance window. change the theme as you change it for the desktop, and login back, and type this command:\n\n<pre><code>sudo rm /usr/share/gdm/autostart/LoginWindow/gnome-appearance-properties.desktop\n</code></pre>\n\nThat's it.\n", "commentCount": "3", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2010-08-15T16:41:02.833", "id": "2255", "postId": "980", "score": "2", "text": "Instead of logging out, you can also use \"Switch User\".", "userDisplayName": "Roger Pate", "userId": null }, { "creationDate": "2012-06-10T16:03:46.813", "id": "180041", "postId": "980", "score": "1", "text": "Does not work with 11.10 or later as they use LightDM instead of GDM.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "43594" }, { "creationDate": "2017-11-08T22:17:08.577", "id": "1562599", "postId": "980", "score": "0", "text": "Does not work with Ubuntu 17.10 where GDM is default again. A working example can be found on https://didrocks.fr/2017/09/11/ubuntu-gnome-shell-in-artful-day-11/", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "17254" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2010-08-05T06:38:50.977", "id": "980", "lastActivityDate": "2011-01-10T23:47:12.933", "lastEditDate": "2011-01-10T23:47:12.933", "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": "114", "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "389", "parentId": "193", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "15" }

[ { "accepted": null, "body": "This depends on what you want to do with the login screen. You can configure some basic options in the Login Screen Settings app (<a href=\"https://imgur.com/HUygl.png\" rel=\"noreferrer\">System/Administration/Login Screen</a>) - whether a user should be automatically logged...

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<code>sudo apt-get upgrade</code> installs all updates, not just security updates. I know that I can use Update Manager to select only important security updates, but is there a way to do this from the command line?

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2023-09-28T08:00:50.680

How can I install just security updates from the command line?

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[ { "creationDate": "2010-07-28T22:52:59.960", "id": "148", "postId": "194", "score": "0", "text": "I assume you meant to refer to apt-get (dist-)upgrade?", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "24" }, { "creationDate": "2010-07-28T22:59:49.387", "id": "150", "postId": "194",...

{ "accepted": true, "body": "The package <a href=\"http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=unattended-upgrades\" rel=\"noreferrer\">unattended-upgrades</a> provides functionality to install security updates automatically.\n\nYou could use this, but instead of configuring the automatic part you could call it manually:\n\n<pre class=\"lang-sh prettyprint-override\"><code>sudo unattended-upgrade -d --dry-run\nsudo unattended-upgrade -d # Idem --debug\n</code></pre>\n\nIf you want to run it quietly instead:\n\n<pre><code>sudo unattended-upgrade\n</code></pre>\n\nNote: When you call unattended-upgrade you leave the \"s\" off the end (on newer versions there is a symlink to avoid this).\n\nThis assumes that the package is installed by default, which it probably is. If not, just do:\n\n<pre><code>sudo apt install unattended-upgrades\n</code></pre>\n\nSee also <a href=\"https://github.com/mvo5/unattended-upgrades/blob/master/README.md\" rel=\"noreferrer\"><code>/usr/share/doc/unattended-upgrades/README.md</code></a>.\n", "commentCount": "9", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2014-10-23T03:33:52.213", "id": "739654", "postId": "412", "score": "1", "text": "For disabling the automatic execution of `unattended-upgrade` you are probably needing to modify `/etc/cron.daily/apt`, but not sure it is \"correct\" to do so", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "18014" }, { "creationDate": "2015-04-22T02:41:42.533", "id": "861482", "postId": "412", "score": "0", "text": "side note: for Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS server, `unattended-upgrades` is not installed by default.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "91046" }, { "creationDate": "2016-03-20T09:00:03.097", "id": "1114497", "postId": "412", "score": "24", "text": "Since you're doing this from the command line, use `-v` for info messages or `-d` for debug messages. Otherwise the utility will be very silent, in which case you would need to check the logs in `/var/log/unattended-upgrades`. You can also use `--dry-run` to simulate but not actually upgrade anything. For more info and other options, use `--help` to get the help message.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "488346" }, { "creationDate": "2016-05-17T18:19:03.193", "id": "1156451", "postId": "412", "score": "0", "text": "i learned a few things about `unattended-upgrades` today. thanks!", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "7312" }, { "creationDate": "2017-05-14T21:12:33.377", "id": "1442182", "postId": "412", "score": "0", "text": "\"for monitoring how it goes\", it is just debug non-interactive messages right?", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "46437" }, { "creationDate": "2019-12-01T15:22:45.987", "id": "1997008", "postId": "412", "score": "0", "text": "For me, the README was gzipped, so to read it, I used `gzip -dc /usr/share/doc/unattended-upgrades/README.md.gz | less`.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "364151" }, { "creationDate": "2021-06-03T07:56:45.490", "id": "2293504", "postId": "412", "score": "1", "text": "@Gogowitsch: you'll be happy to know there's a purpose-built tool for this: `zless /usr/share/doc/unattended-upgrades/README.md.gz` (https://www.thegeekstuff.com/2009/05/zcat-zless-zgrep-zdiff-zcmp-zmore-gzip-file-operations-on-the-compressed-files/)", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "37574" }, { "creationDate": "2023-08-21T15:33:42.127", "id": "2596918", "postId": "412", "score": "0", "text": "I tried the command, it seems it's updating everything. For example, it's updating vim right now. How is vim related to security package?", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "591401" }, { "creationDate": "2023-10-17T19:13:06.740", "id": "2608980", "postId": "412", "score": "0", "text": "@sgon00 Vim recently had a security bug in it: https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6195-1", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "924073" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creationDate": "2010-07-29T17:28:14.807", "id": "412", "lastActivityDate": "2020-05-28T17:00:17.310", "lastEditDate": "2020-05-28T17:00:17.310", "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": "349837", "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "169", "parentId": "194", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "373" }

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<blockquote> Possible Duplicate: <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/42532/what-media-players-are-there">What Media Players Are there?</a> </blockquote> What video players do you recommend for ubuntu. Is there any video player that supports good playback of 720p videos in oldish hardware?

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What video players do you recommend?

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From <a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EnvironmentVariables#System-wide%20environment%20variables">System-wide environment variables</a>: <blockquote> <ul> <li>/etc/environment - This file is specifically meant for system-wide environment variable settings. It is not a script file, but rather consists of assignment expressions, one per line. Specifically, this file stores the system-wide locale and path settings. </li> </ul> </blockquote> I'm looking for an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augmented_Backus%E2%80%93Naur_Form">ABNF</a> and/or a more detailed description of behaviour, or anything that isn't forum hearsay really. If it's on Google, it's eluding me.

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2016-12-30T18:15:46.600

Where can I find documentation on the /etc/environment file format?

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{ "accepted": true, "body": "I'm not sure why this isn't made more clear, but <code>/etc/environment</code> isn't parsed by any single bit of code or any particular shell (or necessarily any shell at all) (try <code>grep -r \"/etc/environment\" /etc</code> and you'll see what I mean). <code>pam</code> in particular parses it directly, not putting it through a shell.\n\nBy convention, and I do mean convention, it's pure key-value pairs, with values optionally quoted. You can't put anything that tries to do e.g. variable expansion or command execution in there and expect it to work.\n\nI'd be surprised if you can find a strict, formal grammar definition anywhere.\n\nProbably the closest to an authoritative answer you can come is the <code>pam_env</code> docs: <a href=\"http://www.linux-pam.org/Linux-PAM-html/sag-pam_env.html\" rel=\"noreferrer\">http://www.linux-pam.org/Linux-PAM-html/sag-pam_env.html</a>\n", "commentCount": "1", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2018-06-18T12:06:42.267", "id": "1709325", "postId": "214", "score": "0", "text": "That's what \"it is not a script file\" is supposed to mean. But I guess a lot of people don't realise.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "87531" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creationDate": "2010-07-28T23:25:29.297", "id": "214", "lastActivityDate": "2014-11-27T23:04:51.553", "lastEditDate": "2014-11-27T23:04:51.553", "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": "57", "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "57", "parentId": "205", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "16" }

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For example: Avant Window Navigator, Docky, DockBarX and Cairo dock.

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2013-01-10T20:10:39.590

What are the advantages and disadvantages of different docks?

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[ { "creationDate": "2010-07-28T23:18:19.637", "id": "158", "postId": "209", "score": "4", "text": "This is a very subjective post, since different docks have different merits. Could it be made community wiki? Also the title could be changed to reflect that it's a post about the differences - rath...

{ "accepted": true, "body": "I personally use AWN replacing both panels because:\n\n<ul>\n<li>It has a tray area, so I can remove the panel (Docky didn't last time that I tried and was a no-go).</li>\n<li>Great performance (even in my netbook)</li>\n<li>Each applet is a different process, if one locks, AWN doesn't</li>\n<li>It's beautiful and highly customizable.</li>\n<li>Has a nice remember the milk applet, and loads of others (where loads > docky but loads < Cairo Dock).</li>\n<li>I can put it on the top or on the left of the screen (my petty favorites places).</li>\n<li>Last versions have Zeitgeist integration (icons display last and most used items)</li>\n<li>It works with python applets (fanboy disclaimer).</li>\n</ul>\n\nAnyway, I agree it's a highly subjective post and there is no such thing as a correct answer.\n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": [], "communityOwnedDate": "2010-12-02T15:33:44.720", "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2010-08-04T14:21:08.083", "id": "795", "lastActivityDate": "2010-12-02T11:45:05.140", "lastEditDate": "2010-12-02T11:45:05.140", "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": "211", "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "211", "parentId": "209", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "9" }

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I'm looking to install drivers for my "Brother HL-2170W" network printer. I can't seem to find the correct driver on the Brother site. Any help would be appreciated. I'm running on Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS x86_64.

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2010-12-18T03:37:20.747

Where can I find the Brother HL-2170W 64-bit printer driver?

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[ { "creationDate": "2010-07-29T01:19:57.263", "id": "180", "postId": "212", "score": "0", "text": "I don't have a detailed answer for you in the context of Ubuntu, never actually having dealt with its printing support (!), but on other systems with Brother brand printers, I've had excellent luck ...

{ "accepted": true, "body": "This guy at: <a href=\"http://mikebeach.org/2010/06/ubuntu-and-brother-hl-2170w/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://mikebeach.org/2010/06/ubuntu-and-brother-hl-2170w/</a>\nsays there is a problem in 10.04 with a fault in the cups drivers, at least for the HL-2170W. \n\nText worked okay but printing graphics took a long time. This was true for me. I followed his advice precisely and now my pdf files are printing great. I have only tested one page, probably should test a few more complex graphics but for now I'm a very happy camper. So I wanted to share the wealth.\n\nLots of other people on the ubuntu forums seem to be complaining about slow printing so I suspect that it is not only the HL-2170W printer driver that is bad. But step 8 in his instruction list will need to be changed, I think for printers other than HL-2170W.\n\nHope this helps.\n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": [], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2010-12-18T03:37:20.747", "id": "17994", "lastActivityDate": "2010-12-18T03:37:20.747", "lastEditDate": null, "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": null, "ownerDisplayName": "A Aman", "ownerUserId": null, "parentId": "212", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "3" }

[ { "accepted": null, "body": "I don't have any experience with this printer, but from what I've found it either \"just works\" when you plug it in using USB; if you'd like it to communicate over a network it needs to be configured and there is only software for Windows or Mac. This means you'll need to ei...

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Is there a command to list services that run on startup? I imagine it would involve parsing <code>/etc/init.d/</code>, and the various <code>/etc/rc.*</code> directories.

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Command to list services that start on startup?

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{ "accepted": true, "body": "You can simply use the <code>initctl list</code> shell command to list the contents of <code>/etc/init</code> rather than the suggested <code>dbus-send</code> command.\n", "commentCount": "3", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2019-08-15T19:12:56.293", "id": "1944310", "postId": "6649", "score": "12", "text": "Does this work in Ubuntu 18.04? I get \"initctl: command not found\" (in bash)", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "69348" }, { "creationDate": "2019-12-18T11:55:52.057", "id": "2005750", "postId": "6649", "score": "8", "text": "`initctl list` does not found on Ubuntu 19.10", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "1008966" }, { "creationDate": "2020-03-03T08:41:12.453", "id": "2040792", "postId": "6649", "score": "4", "text": "@RémyHosseinkhanBoucher For more recent version of Ubuntu https://askubuntu.com/a/1167921/988056", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "988056" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creationDate": "2010-10-13T02:04:43.850", "id": "6649", "lastActivityDate": "2014-01-10T21:33:07.120", "lastEditDate": "2014-01-10T21:33:07.120", "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": "23878", "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "3694", "parentId": "218", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "114" }

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What license does Ubuntu fall into (GPL, MIT, a mix)? Would it be legal to modify it and redistribute my modified version?

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2018-03-03T08:48:07.113

Under what license is Ubuntu? Can it be legally modified and distributed?

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{ "accepted": true, "body": "Ubuntu is under a mix of licenses, each individual package has its copy right file under /usr/share/doc/PACKAGE/copyright, e.g. /usr/share/doc/gnome-panel/copyright\nAll packages in main & universe are free software & can be modified & redistributed - restricted & multiverse packages fall under other licenses which may not allow this.\n\nSee <a href=\"http://www.ubuntu.com/project/about-ubuntu/licensing\">http://www.ubuntu.com/project/about-ubuntu/licensing</a> for more details\n", "commentCount": "3", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2010-07-29T00:36:44.950", "id": "173", "postId": "223", "score": "2", "text": "Also, both Ubuntu logo and the name are copyrighted by Canonical - there is a Trademark Policy one has to follow here: http://www.ubuntu.com/aboutus/trademarkpolicy", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "182" }, { "creationDate": "2010-11-03T00:48:44.977", "id": "11374", "postId": "223", "score": "3", "text": "trademarked ≠ copyrighted ;)", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "935" }, { "creationDate": "2016-06-12T08:19:45.977", "id": "1179173", "postId": "223", "score": "0", "text": "the link http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop says Ubuntu is open source. But note that anthing Open Source means its SOURCE is open! True that ubuntu is a combination of large amount of free and open source software but that DOES NOT make Ubuntu open source because even though those softwares are open source, the source code for UBUNTU is no where to be found!", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "246261" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2010-07-28T23:53:14.583", "id": "223", "lastActivityDate": "2010-07-28T23:53:14.583", "lastEditDate": null, "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": null, "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "129", "parentId": "219", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "25" }

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To update my server I use <code>apt-get upgrade</code>. But when there are kernel updates I always need to do <code>apt-get install linux-....</code> because <code>apt-get update</code> does not install them. Is there a way I can tell it to install those too? I tried -f but it does not work.

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2017-09-26T07:04:30.243

How to force installation of kernel updates when using apt-get upgrade?

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[ { "creationDate": "2010-07-28T23:53:18.813", "id": "166", "postId": "221", "score": "1", "text": "`apt-get upgrade` installs new kernels for me if there is one. What Ubuntu version are you using? The only thing I have up to check right now is 10.04...", "userDisplayName": null, "userId":...

{ "accepted": true, "body": "So, with regard to the comments: Sorry, you were right, I was completely mis-reading what apt-get was telling me (and I'm using the English version! :)).\n\nAfter a little research, what you probably want to use is <code>aptitude safe-upgrade</code>, which does install new kernels. Really! I double checked! :)\n\nYou should probably prefer <code>aptitude</code> in general to <code>apt-get</code> anyway, unless you specifically need something in <code>apt-get</code>.\n\n<pre><code>nknight@nkubuntu1004:~$ sudo aptitude safe-upgrade\nReading package lists... Done\nBuilding dependency tree \nReading state information... Done\nReading extended state information \nInitializing package states... Done\nResolving dependencies...\nResolving dependencies...\nThe following NEW packages will be installed:\n linux-headers-2.6.32-24{a} linux-headers-2.6.32-24-generic{a} linux-image-2.6.32-24-generic{a} \nThe following packages will be upgraded:\n apt apt-transport-https apt-utils base-files firefox firefox-branding firefox-gnome-support gdm google-chrome-stable \n icedtea-6-jre-cacao linux-generic linux-headers-generic linux-image-generic linux-libc-dev openjdk-6-jre openjdk-6-jre-headless \n openjdk-6-jre-lib software-center thunderbird ureadahead xulrunner-1.9.2 \n21 packages upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.\nNeed to get 129MB of archives. After unpacking 188MB will be used.\nDo you want to continue? [Y/n/?] \n</code></pre>\n", "commentCount": "3", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2010-07-29T10:48:35.493", "id": "261", "postId": "232", "score": "1", "text": "Also cite the man page: It is sometimes necessary to remove one package in order to upgrade another; this command is not able to upgrade packages in such situations. Use the full-upgrade command to upgrade as many packages as possible.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "154" }, { "creationDate": "2010-09-06T23:08:21.233", "id": "3771", "postId": "232", "score": "4", "text": "aptitude will be removed from the default installation of future versions of both debian and ubuntu. Apt-get is again the preferred tool for installing packages", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "1958" }, { "creationDate": "2013-11-04T05:49:36.273", "id": "473988", "postId": "232", "score": "0", "text": "Yes, I didn't find aptitude in `12.04`. So I installed aptitude and ran `aptitude safe-upgrade`, it's also doing the same thing as apt-get upgrade. No kernel version are installed!(but I could see new kernel version available in synaptic package manager(gui)).", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "3215" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2010-07-29T00:07:05.070", "id": "232", "lastActivityDate": "2010-07-29T00:07:05.070", "lastEditDate": null, "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": null, "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "57", "parentId": "221", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "20" }

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I have my hard drive partitioned with two partitions, so I can easily re-install Ubuntu and try out different versions without losing my home directory data. It is setup like this: <pre><code>20GB -> / (root) 180GB -> /home </code></pre> I do a lot of development work, so I have my <code>/var/www</code> folder symlinking to <code>/home/valorin/workspace</code>. But I want to do this with my MySQL data files as well, as I am getting annoyed that each time I reinstall my machine I need to do a full SQLdump and then restore all the DB's before I can do more work. What is the best way to do this without breaking MySQL?

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How to I move MySQL data files onto different partition?

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{ "accepted": true, "body": "Well, actually there is a potential Ubuntu specific answer to this question.\n\nAs mentioned by Gergoes link, this is basically about modifying /etc/mysql/my.cnf and set a new value for datadir = in the [mysqld] section. So far the unspecific part of the answer.\n\nAssuming you are running a somewhat modern version of Ubuntu you might very well have <a href=\"https://help.ubuntu.com/10.04/serverguide/C/apparmor.html\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\">AppArmor</a> installed by default, with a profile for /usr/sbin/mysqld in enforced mode. That default profile will most likely not accept your new datadir.\n\nLet us assume that your new datadir will be /home/data/mysql.\n\nIf you open the file /etc/apparmor.d/usr.sbin.mysqld you will among the rules find these two lines.\n\n<pre><code>/var/lib/mysql/ r,\n/var/lib/mysql/** rwk,\n</code></pre>\n\nAssuming our example above, they will have to be replaced or (probably preferable) complemented by these two lines.\n\n<pre><code>/home/data/mysql/ r,\n/home/data/mysql/** rwk,\n</code></pre>\n\nBefore we can startup our MySQL server, with its new datadir, we will also have to explicitly reload our new apparmor profile.\n\n<pre><code>$ sudo apparmor_parser -r /etc/apparmor.d/usr.sbin.mysqld\n</code></pre>\n", "commentCount": "3", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2011-05-07T21:47:06.890", "id": "45012", "postId": "411", "score": "0", "text": "This doesn't seem to work on Natty (11.4). I had to start MySQL using /usr/sbin/mysqld to have it read my changed data dir. Otherwise, it continued to read my old data dir. This could be an error on my side.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "15440" }, { "creationDate": "2013-06-04T12:36:15.540", "id": "382521", "postId": "411", "score": "0", "text": "The above failed to solve the problem for me on Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise). I found out that one needs to edit the file /etc/apparmor.d/tunables/alias to include a line \"alias /var/lib/mysql/ -> /home/data/mysql/,\" With this in place, I did not need any changes in any of the other AppArmor files. It worked immediately after restarting AppArmor with \"/etc/init.d/apparmor restart\" and MySQL with \"restart mysql\".", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "164281" }, { "creationDate": "2013-06-24T15:51:44.383", "id": "394134", "postId": "411", "score": "0", "text": "I think certain permissions need to be set on the new folder that is to be used. Anyone know what they are? I know the mysql installation creates a mysql user... and that by default, I can't access the contents of the /var/lib/mysql folder.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "99898" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creationDate": "2010-07-29T17:26:59.380", "id": "411", "lastActivityDate": "2016-12-30T18:11:53.453", "lastEditDate": "2016-12-30T18:11:53.453", "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": "134729", "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "24", "parentId": "224", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "29" }

[ { "accepted": null, "body": "This really isn't Ubuntu specific. Nevertheless, here is something that might help: <a href=\"http://developer.spikesource.com/wiki/index.php/How_to_change_the_mysql_database_location\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://developer.spikesource.com/wiki/index.php/How_to_change_the_mysql_d...

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I'm presently running Firefox 3.6.8 on Ubuntu 9.04. My Firefox extensions include Ubuntu Firefox Modifications 0.9rc2. I've upgraded Firefox on this install a few times; as far as I can recall, some version of this extension was present when I initially installed Ubuntu 9.04. I have disabled it, mostly because I didn't know what it provided me, nor was I able to find out when I tried a bit. What does the extension do?

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What does the Ubuntu Firefox Modifications extension to firefox do?

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[ { "creationDate": "2012-04-29T17:51:19.017", "id": "152599", "postId": "226", "score": "4", "text": "This was also asked on superuser http://superuser.com/questions/65104/what-is-this-ubuntu-firefox-modifications-addon-in-ff-3-5-4-in-karmic", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "32580" ...

{ "accepted": true, "body": "The files here show some of the changes that Ubufox provides (custom branding, search preferences, etc.)\n\n<a href=\"http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~mozillateam/ubufox/trunk/view/head:/defaults/preferences/ubuntu-mods.js\">http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~mozillateam/ubufox/trunk/view/head:/defaults/preferences/ubuntu-mods.js</a>\n", "commentCount": "2", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2012-04-29T17:46:10.430", "id": "152593", "postId": "399", "score": "31", "text": "It must be really difficult to provide a description, and links to additional resources, and other details, within the extension itself. Open Firefox > Go to Addons > Ubuntu Firefox Modifications > Click \"more\" > Your description: \"Ubuntu Firefox Pack\". Powerful stuff.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "32580" }, { "creationDate": "2016-09-01T14:58:58.520", "id": "1242768", "postId": "399", "score": "1", "text": "@GerardRoche haha felt the same. Whats the worst? It is still the same in 2016. It's over 9000 now.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "321771" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creationDate": "2010-07-29T15:48:51.147", "id": "399", "lastActivityDate": "2011-09-12T21:46:34.883", "lastEditDate": "2011-09-12T21:46:34.883", "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": "235", "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "235", "parentId": "226", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "24" }

[ { "accepted": null, "body": "It enables Firefox addons to be installed through the package manager.\n", "commentCount": "1", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2010-07-29T11:25:50.003", "id": "276", "postId": "229", "score": "4", "text": "According ...

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I would like Ubuntu to automatically synchronize my system clock with a timeserver at startup. However, my PC isn't connected to the Internet until after I've logged in (plus 5 - 10 seconds for good measure). How can I set it to do this?

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2020-12-06T04:23:25.920

How to set Ubuntu to synchronize my clock with a time server?

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[ { "creationDate": "2011-02-27T09:30:16.023", "id": "31343", "postId": "228", "score": "2", "text": "There are already excellent answers here that explain how to install ntpd so that your computer continuously keeps itself in sync with internet time servers, but I just wanted to add that by defau...

{ "accepted": true, "body": "It's generally recommended to run a service that uses NTP (<a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Time_Protocol\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\">Network Time Protocol</a>) to regularly synchronize your computer's clock with a server. In recent versions of Ubuntu (at least since 18.10, or possibly earlier but I'm not sure), this is taken care of by the <code>systemd-timesyncd</code> service, which is installed and enabled by default, so there's no need to do anything special. If the service is available and active, running\n<pre><code>timedatectl status\n</code></pre>\nshould tell you so.\nFor older versions of Ubuntu, you can follow <a href=\"https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuTime#Time%20Synchronization%20using%20NTP\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\">instructions to set up an NTP daemon</a>. There are several choices available but the "standard" one is in the package <code>ntp</code>. According to the instructions at the linked page,\n<pre><code>sudo apt-get install ntp\n</code></pre>\nwill get everything set up to synchronize with Ubuntu's NTP server.\nIf you really do only want to synchronize the time once at startup and never again (until the next startup), see e.g. <a href=\"https://askubuntu.com/a/235/104\">mfisch's answer</a>. But again, this is not recommended and there's rarely any reason it would be beneficial.\n", "commentCount": "7", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2010-07-29T01:02:24.290", "id": "176", "postId": "236", "score": "3", "text": "I think in general he'd be better off just having ntpd always running and just having it fail to connect when he was not online, that is by no means harmful. With that said, my method should also work ;)", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "73" }, { "creationDate": "2010-07-29T01:35:03.170", "id": "181", "postId": "236", "score": "0", "text": "I'm okay with it running continuously.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "5" }, { "creationDate": "2010-07-29T02:01:26.227", "id": "187", "postId": "236", "score": "1", "text": "George, just do that. I was hoping to answer your \"real\" question since the most annoying thing in the world is asking a question like this and having all the responses be \"why do you want to do that?\"", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "73" }, { "creationDate": "2019-03-21T14:01:47.523", "id": "1866463", "postId": "236", "score": "1", "text": "For Ubuntu 18.04 the advice to install ntpd longer applies. By default systemd-timesyncd.service will synchronize the time.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "77013" }, { "creationDate": "2020-12-05T19:00:24.020", "id": "2205535", "postId": "236", "score": "0", "text": "@ernstkl I wish I have read this earlier. In Xubuntu 18.04 the \"Time and Date\" GUI shows that it is being set manually and an attempt to change it to being synchronized automatically yields \"NTP support is not installed\". But the `timedatectl` command shows that the `systemd-timesyncd` service is running and indeed the time is actually being synchronized. The GUI confused me so much.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "163647" }, { "creationDate": "2020-12-06T04:23:46.080", "id": "2205716", "postId": "236", "score": "0", "text": "I edited with an update so hopefully future visitors will be less confused.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "104" }, { "creationDate": "2021-04-01T13:39:41.167", "id": "2264458", "postId": "236", "score": "1", "text": "\"should tell you so\" what does this mean? I am having trouble with the wrong time (Universal time is of by 2 hours) and don't know how to get it to sync. For me it reads \"System clock synchronized: no \\n \n NTP service: active \" (Ubuntu 20.04 LTS)", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "800252" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creationDate": "2010-07-29T00:57:38.400", "id": "236", "lastActivityDate": "2020-12-06T04:23:25.920", "lastEditDate": "2020-12-06T04:23:25.920", "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": "104", "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "104", "parentId": "228", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "34" }

[ { "accepted": null, "body": "You can do this using at and ntpdate. at is probably already installed, but ntpdate may not be. (apt-get install ntpdate). \n\nFirst create a small script that runs ntpdate, lets call it update_time.sh.\n\n<pre>...

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I want to install adblock for Firefox and I see it is in Synaptic. Should I install it with Synaptic or the regular way with the Firefox add-on manager? Does it make any differences at all?

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Install adblock using synaptic or through firefox's addons menu?

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{ "accepted": true, "body": "The <a href=\"http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/xul-ext-adblock-plus\" rel=\"noreferrer\">version in the Ubuntu repositories</a> will only receive bug fixes during a release cycle, not new features. This version has been tested with your version of Firefox, and is fairly stable. \n\nIf you use the unpackaged version via <a href=\"https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1865\" rel=\"noreferrer\">Mozilla Addons</a> or <a href=\"http://adblockplus.org/en/installation\" rel=\"noreferrer\">elsewhere</a>, it'll receive all new updates by the maintainer of the addon. These may cause breakage, depending on the level of testing upstream puts their code through. In Adblock's case, I suspect the level of QA is high, so this is not a very pressing concern, but one to take into account nevertheless. \n\nFirefox will refuse to install a newer version of the addon if said version no longer supports your browser version, so you don't have to worry about that. \n\nThe main difference is that the Ubuntu-packaged version is feature-stable (its behavior does not change) as well as reliability-stable (it will work consistently) throughout the release, whereas you don't get those guarantees from using AdBlock's extention installed externally. \n\nIf you're installing it for more than one user, by all means, use the packaged version. But if it's just for you, I think the locally installed version is fine. \n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": [], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2010-07-29T03:53:52.750", "id": "268", "lastActivityDate": "2010-07-29T03:53:52.750", "lastEditDate": null, "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": null, "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "66", "parentId": "230", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "6" }

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What partitioning scheme do you recommend for a desktop? I've always created three or four primary partitions -- root, swap, home, and sometimes a separate boot partition. Ubuntu's default install offers LVMs. I've never had to add additional drives or space, so it never seemed like a big deal. Whenever I do a fresh install, though, I always think there might be a better way.

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What's your recommendation on drive partitioning schemes for a desktop and home server?

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[ { "creationDate": "2014-10-02T10:19:44.363", "id": "725820", "postId": "247", "score": "1", "text": "You may, for quick backups, include a backup partition (ext4) and use [**clonezilla**](http://clonezilla.org/downloads.php) for regular backups of the root directory (excluding home) before updat...

{ "accepted": true, "body": "<ol>\n<li><code>/</code> (i.e. the root filesystem)</li>\n<li><code>swap</code></li>\n<li><code>/home</code></li>\n</ol>\n\nThe biggest reason to do this is that you can do anything to your Ubuntu install and it won't affect your music/videos/whatever in your home. I especially enjoy this when a upgrade to a new Ubuntu version and the installation goes weird.\n", "commentCount": "8", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2010-07-29T03:33:27.023", "id": "200", "postId": "264", "score": "4", "text": "I think this is the best approach, as you can separate the OS install from your own data. However, the final answer will be \"whatever suits you best\".", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "192" }, { "creationDate": "2010-07-29T03:41:27.773", "id": "202", "postId": "264", "score": "0", "text": "I didn't consider upgrades, probably because I mainly use ubuntu for work where I don't have a bunch of my personal files that need to stay around.. I like your approach best.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "73" }, { "creationDate": "2010-07-29T08:50:26.623", "id": "249", "postId": "264", "score": "3", "text": "I also use this partitionning scheme. On your server I would also add a /backup one if some backups trategy is needed.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "217" }, { "creationDate": "2010-09-10T11:45:53.590", "id": "3988", "postId": "264", "score": "3", "text": "for desktop purpose I always use this solution.\n20-30% root /\n70-80% home /home\n1or2 GB swap", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "1076" }, { "creationDate": "2010-09-16T09:18:18.790", "id": "4295", "postId": "264", "score": "0", "text": "+1 This is extremely for all the reasons Bittink described. If you want a setup that plays nice with windows, make the home partition NTFS, set the partition to automount on boot and symlink whatever folders you use to your home directory.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "2139" }, { "creationDate": "2011-05-27T00:33:24.767", "id": "49845", "postId": "264", "score": "2", "text": "@Evan: is it even possible to mount an NTFS partition as /home? Wouldnt that be chaos since NTFS has no linux permitions? Arent those needed for /home?", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "11015" }, { "creationDate": "2011-05-29T23:31:19.617", "id": "50405", "postId": "264", "score": "0", "text": "@MestreLion Yes and No. I have an additional /Home partition because I don't usually like to carry over all of the excess application settings when I wipe the OS. What I do is, create a NTFS partition for all of my Home folders (docs, public, etc) and symlink them into the actual /home folder which exists on an ext3 fs. It's the most convenient and transparent way I've found yet to use a NTFS partition as /home, you just need to set the permissions correctly in fstab to allow all permissions for the NRFS drive or you'll eventually have some issues.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "2139" }, { "creationDate": "2013-09-04T02:00:20.017", "id": "435735", "postId": "264", "score": "0", "text": "Could anyone care to explain, why a separated partition for `/root`? root has 5% of the drive for itself guarantee, so I don't see why use separated `/root`. In fact, most people don't store stuff in `/root`.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "169736" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creationDate": "2010-07-29T03:26:16.583", "id": "264", "lastActivityDate": "2013-11-25T11:43:31.110", "lastEditDate": "2013-11-25T11:43:31.110", "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": "219070", "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "193", "parentId": "247", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "78" }

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Is there a way to easily turn on/off showing the boot messages (loading the services) when Ubuntu starts? Is it something in Grub2? I am running 10.04.

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How can I show or hide boot messages when Ubuntu starts?

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{ "accepted": true, "body": "You would need to edit the file <code>/etc/default/grub</code>. In this file you'll find an entry called <code>GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT</code>. This entry must be edited to control the display of the splash screen.\n\nThe presence of the word <code>splash</code> in this entry enables the splash screen, with condensed text output. Adding <code>quiet</code> as well, results in just the splash screen; which is the default for the desktop edition since 10.04 (Lucid Lynx). In order to enable the \"normal\" text start up, you would remove both of these.\n\nSo, the default for the desktop, (i.e. splash screen only):\n\n<pre><code>GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=\"quiet splash\" #Hide text and show splash\n</code></pre>\n\nFor the traditional, text display:\n\n<pre><code>GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT= #Show text but not the splash\n</code></pre>\n\nFor the splash, but the ability to show the boot messages by pressing <kbd>Esc</kbd>:\n\n<pre><code>GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=\"splash\"\n</code></pre>\n\nOr, finally, for just a (usually) black screen, try:\n\n<pre><code>GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=quiet #Don't show Ubuntu bootup text\nGRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=\"console=tty12\" #Don't show kernel text\n</code></pre>\n\nAfter editing the file, you need to run <code>update-grub</code>.\n\n<pre><code>sudo update-grub\n</code></pre>\n\nFor more details, see this: <a href=\"https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2\">https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2</a>\n", "commentCount": "4", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2014-03-31T12:00:44.120", "id": "577032", "postId": "289", "score": "1", "text": "How can you read that messages that are shown after you removed the `splash` from GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT? I can see the messages now when I start, but then X starts and they are gone.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "34298" }, { "creationDate": "2015-06-02T00:15:21.463", "id": "898312", "postId": "289", "score": "0", "text": "`GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT` and `GRUB_TIMEOUT` causes confusion don't understand why they keep two of these settings and displays the error `Warning: Setting GRUB_TIMEOUT to a non-zero value when GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT is set is no longer supported`", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "159975" }, { "creationDate": "2015-07-15T22:21:07.193", "id": "931413", "postId": "289", "score": "2", "text": "@rubo77 The dmesg command: http://superuser.com/questions/176165/where-linux-places-the-messages-of-boot", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "80" }, { "creationDate": "2023-09-22T00:47:31.753", "id": "2603557", "postId": "289", "score": "0", "text": "For anybody in 2023 with Ubuntu 22.04 that keeps getting circled back to this thread like me, set `GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT` to `\"quiet splash\"` and `GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX` to `\"console=ttyS0\"`. YMMV but this helps me achieve manufacturer logo and no grub output all the way from boot to login.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "1593154" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creationDate": "2010-07-29T06:57:05.150", "id": "289", "lastActivityDate": "2016-08-02T13:57:13.323", "lastEditDate": "2016-08-02T13:57:13.323", "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": "117388", "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "80", "parentId": "248", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "118" }

[ { "accepted": null, "body": "You didn't identify whether you are on a server system or desktop, so I'll address both.\n\nIf you add <code>splash</code> to <code>/etc/default/grub/</code> in <code>GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT</code>, Ubuntu will present you with a splash screen, either a simple text ...

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What is the best way to sync music with my iPhone 3G?

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2010-08-18T16:46:37.793

How can I sync music with my iPhone 3G?

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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "I'm not sure if it's the best way, but Rhythmbox with libimobiledevice (both installed by default in lucid) works for me. There are a couple of glitches to be aware of, however:\n\n<ul>\n<li>There's no full-library sync. You have to manually drag individual song...

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I have videos stored on one machine; I'd like to watch them on another machine. Both are running Ubuntu 10.04 64-bit. So far I've tried MediaTomb, MythTV, and python-coherence. None of the clients seem to see the servers and I definitely have connectivity between the client and server machines (so it's not a network issue).

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Is there a working uPnP client/server combo?

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[ { "creationDate": "2010-07-29T21:42:20.997", "id": "381", "postId": "253", "score": "0", "text": "I'm seeing lots of suggestions for servers, but no mention of a working client.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "115" }, { "creationDate": "2010-07-29T02:22:40.513", "id": "...

{ "accepted": true, "body": "Here's a working combination I found:\n\nMediaTomb as the server (package <code>mediatomb</code>). I think almost any of the available uPnP servers should work but this is the one that was working when I found a client.\n\nFor clients I used Totem (for video) and Rhythmbox (for audio). I had to install and enable plugins for each of these to be used as a client.\n\nThe \"Coherence DLNA/uPnP Client\" plugin for Totem is packaged in <code>totem-plugins-extra</code>. Once you have installed and enabled it, uPnP servers are shown in the sidebar, a fact that does not appear to be documented and is not easy to discover.\n\nfor audio, the \"DLNA/uPnP sharing and control support\" is packaged in <code>rhythmbox-plugin-coherence</code>. Once enabled, a \"Shared\" category appears on the left hand side (under Playlists) listing the uPnP servers.\n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": [], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2010-07-30T09:30:44.610", "id": "485", "lastActivityDate": "2010-07-30T09:30:44.610", "lastEditDate": null, "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": null, "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "115", "parentId": "253", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "4" }

[ { "accepted": null, "body": "If you can cope without using uPnP, I've used SSHFS and VLC Multicasting or Unicasting to achieve the same results.\n\nI used SSHFS by doing the following:\n\nsudo apt-get install sshfs vlc\nsshfs user@server/path/to/video_store /local/directory\n\nI then...

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SSD drives need to be "cleared/reset" after the drive fills up to maintain performance. This is done through the TRIM command for new SSD drives. Does Ubuntu support the TRIM command (through hdparm etc) for clearing/resetting of these drives?

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2012-10-25T04:49:03.413

Does Ubuntu have support for the TRIM command for use with SSD?

[ "kernel", "ssd", "trim" ]

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[ { "creationDate": "2010-07-29T02:36:32.117", "id": "193", "postId": "256", "score": "0", "text": "Good question, though note that the degree to which TRIM improves performance does vary amongst SSDs, for some it doesn't make as much difference as you'd think (though they mostly seem to be the sl...

{ "accepted": true, "body": "Looks like there is support for the TRIM functionality in the 10.10 and newer releases:\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https://askubuntu.com/questions/1400/how-do-i-optimize-the-os-for-ssds\">How do I optimize the OS for SSDs?</a></li>\n</ul>\n\nAlso, the TRIM stuff happens automatically - empty blocks are automatically released when they're no longer needed (eg, you delete a file), if the disk reports that it supports TRIM. You don't have to manually issue a hdparm command for this to work.\n", "commentCount": "3", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2010-07-29T03:29:17.613", "id": "198", "postId": "263", "score": "0", "text": "I thought you still had to use tools which \"sent\" the TRIM command to the SDD. It's good if it works as you specify. :)\n\nThis Anandtech article -> (http://www.anandtech.com/show/2738/10) specifies that for TRIM to work, both the OS and the SSD need TRIM support. I guess my question is about the OS/Linux support for TRIM when used with TRIM-aware SSD drives.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "170" }, { "creationDate": "2010-07-29T03:43:51.317", "id": "203", "postId": "263", "score": "3", "text": "The TRIM command needs to know which block(s) to free up, so it'd be dangerous issuing this without knowing exactly which blocks on the disk are not used.\n\nYes, both the OS and the disk need to have trim support. In Linux, this was added in kernel version 2.6.33, so will be included in Maverick. Both the disk driver the filesystem you're using need to support trim for this to properly work. If you're using ext4 as your filesystem on Maverick, you should be fine.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "192" }, { "creationDate": "2010-09-03T12:08:49.910", "id": "3553", "postId": "263", "score": "0", "text": "I wonder then whether it will be possible for existing SSDs to undergo a \"retrofitted TRIM\" in order to clean up the existing cruft accumulated prior to the OS supporting TRIM. Or would a reinstall be required?", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "1933" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creationDate": "2010-07-29T03:20:43.927", "id": "263", "lastActivityDate": "2012-10-25T04:49:03.413", "lastEditDate": "2017-04-13T12:23:07.557", "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": "-1", "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "192", "parentId": "256", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "24" }

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Whenever I install Ubuntu there are certain applications I automatically install, instead of using Ubuntu's default (VLC comes to mind). My question is about how some software is chosen over others to a . Is it by the community? Is there a committee?

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2012-06-18T18:24:00.190

How are applications selected as defaults?

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{ "accepted": true, "body": "Generally changes are proposed and debated by the community at the Ubuntu Development Summit. See, for example, the\n<a href=\"https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/desktop-maverick-desktop-application-selection\" rel=\"nofollow\">Maverick Desktop Application Selection</a> blueprint.\n\nThere are some rules; the application must be in the main repository (which means it will be officially supported) and it and its dependencies must fit on the install CD. Applications can be moved into main by going through the <a href=\"https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MainInclusionProcess\" rel=\"nofollow\">main inclusion process</a>.\n\nThe <a href=\"https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam\" rel=\"nofollow\">Ubuntu Desktop Team</a> is ultimately responsible for supporting and maintaining the default desktop applications. They conduct their weekly meetings openly on IRC and post the minutes to the ubuntu wiki.\n", "commentCount": "1", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2010-07-29T04:20:08.143", "id": "209", "postId": "275", "score": "0", "text": "Similarly, in Kubuntu the team makes such decisions either during the UDS or if necessary later in the development process in a meeting.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "4" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2010-07-29T04:16:46.023", "id": "275", "lastActivityDate": "2010-07-29T04:16:46.023", "lastEditDate": null, "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": null, "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "115", "parentId": "261", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "11" }

[ { "accepted": null, "body": "Well, first of all, only the applications that are included with the CD / ISO can be set as the default. And because there is little overlap between the included applications, there is little choice to be made as to the default.\n\nThe real underlying question is \"How...

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I know of bugs where there is a fix available, which has been posted upstream. However, the upstream maintainer hasn't responded to the patch, or applied it to the project's source code. Would it be suitable to submit the fix for inclusion in Ubuntu, and if so, would I go about doing this?

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2010-12-27T13:42:54.750

How do I get a patch applied to a package, when the upstream maintainer does not seem active?

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{ "accepted": true, "body": "The patch can be submitted in from of a bug report, or if a report of the issue already exists , as an comment at <a href=\"https://bugs.launchpad.net\" rel=\"nofollow\">launchpad</a>. Please make sure to mark the uploaded file as a patch (there is a checkbox for that), because this will make it easier for us to find patches.\n", "commentCount": "4", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2010-07-29T04:21:20.543", "id": "210", "postId": "274", "score": "0", "text": "I've already done that - I assume the bug folks are pretty busy, and this is a fairly low-priority package. Is it possible to help out by proposing some kind of patch to the package metadata myself?", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "192" }, { "creationDate": "2010-07-29T04:23:04.193", "id": "211", "postId": "274", "score": "0", "text": "Which package? Have you also tried forwarding the bug to Debian?", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "66" }, { "creationDate": "2010-07-29T04:26:31.680", "id": "212", "postId": "274", "score": "0", "text": "libmeanwhile1. How do I forward the bug to Debian?", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "192" }, { "creationDate": "2010-07-29T06:16:41.657", "id": "226", "postId": "274", "score": "1", "text": "Search for the bug on bugs.debian.org and if the bug already exists, then post your patch over there. Else, look to see whether the bug is Ubuntu only (look at patches.ubuntu.com and see if your patch has anything to do with ubuntu changes to that packages, ask someone on debian to test that package for you, use a VM, etc). If the bug affects debian also, report it using any of the tools available (`reportbug` package, email, etc) and add your patch there.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "203" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2010-07-29T04:16:40.470", "id": "274", "lastActivityDate": "2010-07-29T04:16:40.470", "lastEditDate": null, "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": null, "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "4", "parentId": "270", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "4" }

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I have a Dell XPS M1330 running Kubuntu 10.04. When I resume from suspend, <ol> <li>I get the blank lockscreen I set up, but I can't move my mouse, it's in the upper left hand corner of the screen. </li> <li>The computer takes some time, some toaster notifications flash (above the screensaver for a second, then hiding)</li> <li>I hear the "welcome back" tones. </li> <li>I can move my mouse and log in.</li> </ol> This whole process can take anywhere between 15 and 45 seconds. Is there a way to figure out what is causing this delay, and to hopefully resolve it?

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Why does my Kubuntu session take considerable time before responding after resume?

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[ { "creationDate": "2010-07-29T04:34:26.790", "id": "213", "postId": "276", "score": "0", "text": "Is this only happening with the Dell or with other hardware too?", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "4" }, { "creationDate": "2010-07-29T04:51:07.020", "id": "216", "postId...

{ "accepted": true, "body": "Depending on the speed of your drive, 'paging in' the contents of running application's memory from disk can take a considerable amount of time when the system wakes up.\n\nThis also depends on what the kernel has 'paged out' (to swap) prior to going into the suspended state. You'll probably also notice that even once you can move the mouse around, going back to certain applications produces another slight pause while the drive activity light comes on for a few moments. \n\nI see the same behavior on my netbook, more prominently when I have 30+ tabs open in Chrome prior to suspending. \n", "commentCount": "2", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2010-07-29T13:53:08.870", "id": "294", "postId": "316", "score": "0", "text": "Cool. Anything I can do about it?", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "66" }, { "creationDate": "2010-07-29T15:01:07.223", "id": "320", "postId": "316", "score": "0", "text": "You can try setting /proc/sys/vm/swappiness to 0, which may make paging back applications a little easier once the system has fully woken up. This just affects running application responsiveness once that happens, however, not really the speed at which the system finally becomes responsive as a whole.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "50" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2010-07-29T09:35:05.340", "id": "316", "lastActivityDate": "2010-07-29T09:35:05.340", "lastEditDate": null, "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": null, "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "50", "parentId": "276", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "4" }

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Using lucid Kubunu Network Release, every time I reboot some of my favourites are missing. Do I have to log out in order to save them? How can I do that without logging out?

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2010-08-05T18:27:18.623

2010-08-12T21:10:43.560

How can I save my favourites in KNR search and launch page?

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[ { "creationDate": "2010-07-29T14:53:01.643", "id": "317", "postId": "277", "score": "1", "text": "What application are you using?", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "66" }, { "creationDate": "2010-08-04T17:57:17.967", "id": "829", "postId": "277", "score": "0", ...

{ "accepted": true, "body": "I think the favourites in Kickoff and S&L are separate lists. Click the gold star on the ones you find on the S&L page to put them in the Favourites section. If they're not staying put, report a bug.\n", "commentCount": "1", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2010-08-12T21:57:28.903", "id": "2003", "postId": "2089", "score": "0", "text": "Yeah. I think it is a bug. I will report it.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "4" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2010-08-12T21:10:43.560", "id": "2089", "lastActivityDate": "2010-08-12T21:10:43.560", "lastEditDate": null, "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": null, "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "1158", "parentId": "277", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "3" }

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(This might not be an Ubuntu-specific question?) When I installed 9.10, I opted to encrypt my home folder using ecryptfs, but then I discovered this locked me out of my ext3 partition when I tried to access it from Windows on my dual-boot machine (using some free ext2/3 driver that I got somewhere, not even sure which one). Is there a way to mount an encrypted home folder in Windows?

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How do I access an encrypted home folder from a dual-boot machine?

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[ { "creationDate": "2010-07-29T05:51:14.063", "id": "220", "postId": "278", "score": "0", "text": "Did you encrypt the actual /home partition using say dm-crypt/LUKS or did you have your user created with the actual home directory encrypted (say /home/jono/) with ecryptfs? In simpler terms, did y...

{ "accepted": true, "body": "Unfortunately, it looks like no Windows support for ecryptfs is planned: <a href=\"https://answers.launchpad.net/ecryptfs/+question/63520\" rel=\"nofollow\">\nIs there a windows port of this available or in the works? </a>\n", "commentCount": "1", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2010-07-31T13:11:54.447", "id": "525", "postId": "288", "score": "1", "text": "That's such a shame to hear!", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "199" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creationDate": "2010-07-29T06:50:26.690", "id": "288", "lastActivityDate": "2015-06-25T18:18:03.673", "lastEditDate": "2015-06-25T18:18:03.673", "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": "367165", "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "192", "parentId": "278", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "8" }

[ { "accepted": null, "body": "If you use something like <a href=\"http://www.truecrypt.org/\" rel=\"nofollow\">TrueCrypt</a> you can access your drives from both Windows and Linux as long as you know the password. If you formatted it as ext2/3 you will need a ext2/3 driver to access it from Windows.\n...

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In the past, I've gone hog wild customizing my Ubuntu installation, only to be unable to upgrade it once the time came. So how does one go about customizing their install without running into issues upgrading? Is it possible to do so without relying solely on the Ubuntu repositories for software?

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2012-08-13T11:09:42.080

What guidelines should one follow when customizing their install in order to maintain an upgrade path?

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[ { "creationDate": "2010-07-29T05:51:02.630", "id": "219", "postId": "279", "score": "2", "text": "Can you tell us why you were unable to upgrade?", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "5" }, { "creationDate": "2010-07-29T06:26:11.233", "id": "231", "postId": "279", "sc...

{ "accepted": true, "body": "One important factor in making upgrades run smooth is not to do anything which confuses the package manager. That is, you shouldn't yourself touch areas of the system which the package manager expect to be its domain. A few concrete examples.\n\nIf you compile/install programs yourself using the ./configure; make; make install method, don't put them directly under <code>/usr</code>. It is better to use <code>/usr/local</code> or <code>/opt</code>, alternatively (even better) to roll your own deb packages.\n\nWhen you remove packages you can either do a normal removal or an explicit purge. Unless you purge the package the package manager might leave files behind under <code>/etc</code>, <code>/var</code> and so on. Do not delete these files yourself, as the package manager expects them to be there. Instead use your package manager to explicitly purge the remains of the package.\n\nUsing deb package from third party repositories should theoretically be safe, assuming they are carefully built etc. Yet, to be on the safe side you might want to consider removing those packages and/or repositories before you perform an upgrade to a new Ubuntu release. \n\n<hr>\n\nOk, let me see if I can add some more meat to this answer...\n\nFirst of all, everything you do in your home directory is perfectly safe in regards to the package manager. It will never touch anything under <code>/home</code>.\n\n(Of course, you can still cause yourself plenty of confusion by doing bad thing to your home directory. Luckily that is usually be recovered from by removing the broken configuration files from your home directory, and let them be re-created from default at the next use. Do note that the automatic re-creation of default config only goes for your personal configuration files, not the system wide stuff under <code>/etc</code>)\n\nIn the role of a (power) desktop user I guess the most common system wide creativity will be installing extra applications, libraries, emacs modes, etc? Again, the really important part is to always put none deb package stuff under <code>/usr/local</code> instead of under <code>/usr</code>; to use <code>/usr/local/bin</code> instead of <code>/usr/bin</code>, to use <code>/usr/local/share/emacs/23.1</code> instead of <code>/usr/share/emacs/23.1</code> and so on.\n\nOnce you start playing around with server daemons you will soon be confronted by the system wide configuration under <code>/etc</code>. While you generally can modify files under <code>/etc</code>, you should \"never\" actually remove a file or a directory there, unless it was you who created it yourself. Likewise should you be careful about yourself creating new files in there, in case they would later on collide with a configuration file the package manager want to create. That being said, there are definitely files which you can (and should) be created under <code>/etc</code>. On of the more common examples is defining your Apache VirtualHosts under <code>/etc/apache2/sites-available</code>.\n\nThere might be times when you want create files or directories under <code>/var</code>. While it is a completely different place than <code>/etc</code>, still consider the same rules about being careful and doing things on individual consideration.\n\nIn case you want to know more, it won't hurt you to take a peek at the <a href=\"http://www.pathname.com/fhs/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS)</a> or in the <a href=\"http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Debian Policy Manual</a>. While it might be completely overkill in answering your original question, it is still a good read.\n", "commentCount": "6", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2010-07-29T06:29:18.480", "id": "232", "postId": "281", "score": "0", "text": "`That is, you shouldn't yourself touch areas of the system which the package manager expect to be its domain.` Beyond your examples, how can I determine which areas these are?", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "80" }, { "creationDate": "2010-07-29T06:48:43.370", "id": "235", "postId": "281", "score": "0", "text": "Primarily using your Ubuntu machine as a desktop or as a server?", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "24" }, { "creationDate": "2010-07-29T07:01:12.050", "id": "236", "postId": "281", "score": "0", "text": "Primarily as a desktop, though I'm a developer. So, I would be interested in knowing what issues are faced in both environments. If you have to pick one over the other (e.g. to keep things relatively short), I'd say desktop.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "80" }, { "creationDate": "2010-07-29T13:33:24.097", "id": "290", "postId": "281", "score": "1", "text": "If I am not installing something from source system-wide, I generally create a ~/local/ directory and put those things there. Generally, if stuff hasn't radically changed during an upgrade, all of that stuff will still work without further intervention from me.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "243" }, { "creationDate": "2010-07-29T15:33:32.377", "id": "327", "postId": "281", "score": "0", "text": "This is especially tedious for developers, who need versions of libraries not yet packaged. Great care should be taken to install these things in /usr/local and adjust linking accordingly / etc.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "50" }, { "creationDate": "2010-07-29T18:48:53.513", "id": "352", "postId": "281", "score": "0", "text": "Thanks for the pointers and great info everyone. If there's any other reading that may be useful for this, feel free to share.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "80" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creationDate": "2010-07-29T06:07:32.940", "id": "281", "lastActivityDate": "2012-08-13T11:09:42.080", "lastEditDate": "2012-08-13T11:09:42.080", "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": "59676", "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "24", "parentId": "279", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "5" }

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I have a dual screen setup. I have a notebook LCD and a 17" monitor plugged into the VGA port on the notebook. I have a GeForce 8400M GS video card with the NVidia 195.36.24 kernel module installed. I also have Compiz installed and enabled. Here is the problem: when I try to view a webpage that uses the Flash player, the control is empty. For controls that play sound, I can actually hear the sound, but I can't see anything. It works fine on the primary (LCD) monitor. I'm using Ubuntu 10.04 64-bit.

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2015-12-15T15:09:00.387

Help getting the Flash player working on second screen?

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[ { "creationDate": "2010-07-29T06:05:42.570", "id": "223", "postId": "280", "score": "0", "text": "Does the open-source nvidia driver work on your system? You can try this out with the 'xserver-xorg-video-nouveau' package.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "192" }, { "creationD...

{ "accepted": true, "body": "Run nvidia-settings and make sure that you are using Twin-View rather than Xinerama or a \"Separate X screen\". If that doesn't solve your problem, check and see if disabling flash hardware acceleration solves the problem (keep in mind that flash has little to no benefit from linux hw-accel as of this post).\n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": [], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2010-08-05T00:10:26.750", "id": "928", "lastActivityDate": "2010-08-05T00:10:26.750", "lastEditDate": null, "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": null, "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "514", "parentId": "280", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "3" }

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I've been running UNR on my eee 1000 pretty much since it came out over a year ago (I was using easy-peasy before that), but I'm curious about the new Kubuntu netbook edition. Ultimately, KDE is better looking, and has some really friendly software, but I'm worried about performance - that display has got to be a processor hog (and by association, battery!), no? How much does Kubuntu netbook edition impact battery life?

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2015-01-08T05:39:31.340

Netbook Edition battery life - Ubuntu vs. Kubuntu?

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{ "accepted": true, "body": "Kubuntu Netbook Edition, running on my Asus eeePC 1000H is flat out unusable. The interface is so slow, I can sit and wait for 30 seconds for a button to press, or the task switcher to come up.\nI've switched off all graphic enhancements, and I still can't see me using this thing. Makes the whole battery issue moot. Next up: Jolicloud!\n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": [], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2010-08-29T23:13:47.467", "id": "3296", "lastActivityDate": "2010-08-29T23:13:47.467", "lastEditDate": null, "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": null, "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "199", "parentId": "282", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "3" }

[ { "accepted": null, "body": "The battery life should be relatively the same for each of them. Sure there will be a difference but it will be negligible.\n\nThe bigger issue here, I think, is your concern over the importance of battery life.\n\nWhich is more valuable:\n\n<ul>\n<li>the ba...

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I manage a private network which has no internet connectivity due to the security policy of the customer. This network has a single Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Server installation (soon to be several more) and I've been trying to customise it with software - however, I'm having to manually install packages with dpkg because of the lack of internet connectivity. Does this prevent me from upgrading to a newer version of Ubuntu Server (LTS) when it becomes available, since the packags I've installed aren't ont he current distribution CD, they're unlikely to be on the newer releases also.

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2012-06-25T22:39:45.940

Does installing packages manually with dpkg prevent a future upgrade path?

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[ { "creationDate": "2010-07-29T06:25:39.267", "id": "230", "postId": "283", "score": "3", "text": "Side note: Since there are several more Ubuntu servers to come, perhaps you might want to consider a local repository?", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "24" }, { "creationDate": ...

{ "accepted": true, "body": "No. Installing packages from the official repositories using dpkg will not give you any problems down the road.\n\nIn fact, from a technical point of view, installing a package via dpkg is no different than if you had run <code>sudo apt-get install</code> <code>package</code>. The same things happen.\n\nThe only problem with installing packages with dpkg is that you will have to make sure that the dependencies are installed in the right order. If not, you could wind up with a corrupted package database.\n\nI know this happens from personal experience...\n", "commentCount": "5", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2010-07-29T14:25:55.873", "id": "307", "postId": "286", "score": "0", "text": "What do you mean by installed in the right order?\n\nIf a lib has 3 dependencies, a, b and c, then they would need to be installed in a specific order? Why?", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "119" }, { "creationDate": "2010-07-29T16:14:18.553", "id": "332", "postId": "286", "score": "0", "text": "@JCL: Because some of the dependencies are likely dependent on each other.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "5" }, { "creationDate": "2010-08-12T07:58:51.903", "id": "1910", "postId": "286", "score": "2", "text": "The package database would not be corrupted... but it would indicate that a package is only unpacked (and not configured) because of missing dependencies. Corrupted would mean broken and that dpkg would no longer work. In the case you mention, it does still work and you can complete the installation by using dpkg to install the missing dependencies (or even `apt-get -f install`).", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "904" }, { "creationDate": "2010-08-12T19:18:55.513", "id": "1979", "postId": "286", "score": "0", "text": "@Rap: Yes, it would. That has actually happened to me. And yes, dpkg did not work after.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "5" }, { "creationDate": "2010-08-19T16:37:59.380", "id": "2643", "postId": "286", "score": "2", "text": "I'm afraid the problem you had was unrelated to the specific operations that you describe. Something else must have happened. Unexpected power failure, filesystem corruption or whatever but installing packages in the bad order does not corrupt the dpkg database. I am a dpkg maintainer and we would have seen lots of related bugreports if that was really the case.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "904" } ], "communityOwnedDate": "2010-07-29T06:18:48.003", "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2010-07-29T06:18:48.003", "id": "286", "lastActivityDate": "2010-07-29T06:18:48.003", "lastEditDate": null, "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": null, "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "5", "parentId": "283", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "17" }

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I'm using the System Monitor panel applet to show me graphs of current ram usage and network traffic. However, I want something like iStat Menu's text version of this. If I hover over my current app, it shows that instant's traffic, but does not update. Is there something that will display a number (not graph) of real-time network traffic?

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Panel applet to show current network traffic in text?

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[ { "creationDate": "2010-07-29T07:28:25.370", "id": "237", "postId": "287", "score": "0", "text": "You must be doing something wrong. When I hover over it, the tooltip updates.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "5" } ]

{ "accepted": true, "body": "At least for network traffic, you can use <a href=\"http://projects.gnome.org/netspeed/\" rel=\"nofollow\">GNOME Netspeed Applet</a>\n\n<pre><code>sudo apt-get install netspeed\n</code></pre>\n\nI couldn't find anything for memory usage to be reported in this manner on gnome-panel, though it seems like it should be an option of the default system-monitor applet.\n", "commentCount": "2", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2010-07-29T07:34:49.037", "id": "238", "postId": "290", "score": "0", "text": "+1 I was about to suggest this as well.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "67" }, { "creationDate": "2010-07-29T09:01:58.483", "id": "252", "postId": "290", "score": "0", "text": "that's exactly what i was looking for, only network traffic. sorry if the question was confusing.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "91" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creationDate": "2010-07-29T07:25:09.717", "id": "290", "lastActivityDate": "2015-06-25T18:16:48.113", "lastEditDate": "2015-06-25T18:16:48.113", "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": "367165", "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "26", "parentId": "287", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "9" }

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If I'm editing two files with vim, changing to the other file ( :bnext, :bprev ) seems to drop the undo history from the open file - hitting the 'u' key reports "Already at oldest change". For example: <ol> <li><code>vim testfile1 testfile2</code></li> <li>add some stuff to testfile1</li> <li><code>:w</code></li> <li><code>:bn</code></li> <li><code>:bp</code></li> <li><code>u</code></li> <li>eep! can't undo!</li> </ol> Is there any way to keep this history for non-visible buffers?

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2012-09-19T15:26:29.533

How do I get vim to keep its undo history?

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[ { "creationDate": "2010-07-29T08:32:23.313", "id": "244", "postId": "292", "score": "0", "text": "should this be in superuser or stackoverflow instead?", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "42" }, { "creationDate": "2010-07-29T08:45:09.337", "id": "247", "postId": "292", ...

{ "accepted": true, "body": "Looks like this will do it:\n\n<pre><code>:set hidden\n</code></pre>\n\n(in .vimrc)\n", "commentCount": "1", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2023-05-22T04:49:33.813", "id": "2574246", "postId": "309", "score": "0", "text": "What is `set hidden`?: https://vimtricks.com/p/what-is-set-hidden/", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "553829" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2010-07-29T09:11:16.433", "id": "309", "lastActivityDate": "2010-07-29T09:11:16.433", "lastEditDate": null, "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": null, "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "192", "parentId": "292", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "22" }

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I have a bash script that runs as a cron to backup files on the server. <pre><code>#!/bin/bash FILE=/path/to/backup_$(date +%Y%m%d).tar tar -cf $FILE /backup/this /and/that /and/someotherfiles gzip $FILE </code></pre> When I run the script directly using: <pre><code>sudo bash ./backup-files.sh </code></pre> It gzips the file, but last night when the cron ran it left it as a tar. Would the cron have saved a log somewhere that'd point to why this may be the case?

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2010-10-15T16:20:29.697

Backup bash script is not gzipping its tarball

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{ "accepted": true, "body": "Is the partition where backup is located at its limits?\n\nYour script has created the tarball, but gzip didn't have any space left to compress it.\n\n(you can combine both commands with -z flag for tar)\n\nWoops, I forgot one thing: add -v flag to your tar command. It will display what it does. \n", "commentCount": "1", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2010-07-29T08:49:53.910", "id": "248", "postId": "300", "score": "0", "text": "There's plenty of HDD space available. I'll try removing the gzip line and adding the -z flag though, thanks.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "166" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2010-07-29T08:43:35.190", "id": "300", "lastActivityDate": "2010-07-29T08:52:28.430", "lastEditDate": "2010-07-29T08:52:28.430", "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": "217", "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "217", "parentId": "297", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "6" }

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F-spot is great, but does not have video support. Picasa is arguably even better, but although mov support is possible, avi and mpeg support is unavailable. Is there a photo management app that can also work with videos ? Thanks

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2012-08-11T21:43:16.963

Photo management with video support

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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<a href=\"http://www.digikam.org/\" rel=\"nofollow\">DigiKam</a>, unfortunately is a KDE app. It will handle videos but its not intended for that purpose. Also you should notice that it might be a bit to much for photo management, but i haven't found an app that can handle photos and videos in an efficient way.\n\nPersonally I have given up for now, and I'm using different apps for photos and videos. It's also worth noting that Shotwell is going to have video support, eventually.\n", "commentCount": "1", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2010-08-05T06:16:32.143", "id": "971", "postId": "379", "score": "0", "text": "Thanks, but I'm not really convinced by digiKam... I'm trying Picasa in Wine and Lightroom in virtualbox at the moment, and will choose after trying all three for a while. The simplest would be if f-spot just copied my videos to my computer when I import, though, I don't need anything more than that.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "38" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2010-07-29T14:00:13.767", "id": "379", "lastActivityDate": "2010-07-29T14:00:13.767", "lastEditDate": null, "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": null, "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "22", "parentId": "304", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "2" }

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What are the advantages of using Shotwell? What are the disadvantages?

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Why was F-Spot replaced with Shotwell in Ubuntu 10.10?

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{ "accepted": true, "body": "The specification for this decision is <a href=\"https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/desktop-maverick-shotwell\" rel=\"nofollow\">here</a>\n\n<a href=\"http://ubuntudevelopers.blip.tv/file/2876109/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Here (Sorry, this show has been removed from Blip.)</a> is a video clip where we discussed Shotwell (and other apps) at the Ubuntu Developer Summit.\n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": [], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creationDate": "2010-07-29T11:18:47.677", "id": "340", "lastActivityDate": "2015-06-25T18:15:41.827", "lastEditDate": "2015-06-25T18:15:41.827", "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": "367165", "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "235", "parentId": "305", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "11" }

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I've added many PPAs using the <code>add-apt-repository</code> command. Is there a simple way to remove these PPAs? I've checked in <code>/etc/apt/sources.list</code> for the appropriate deb lines but they aren't there. This is on a server system so a command line solution would be great!

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2022-12-19T14:20:30.680

How can PPAs be removed?

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[ { "creationDate": "2010-07-29T12:42:45.503", "id": "284", "postId": "307", "score": "13", "text": "There is a bug on Launchpad (https://bugs.launchpad.net/software-properties/+bug/446216) requesting a --remove argument for the add-apt-repository command. I've submitted a merge request (https://c...

{ "accepted": true, "body": "There are a number of options:\n<ol>\n<li>Use the <code>--remove</code> flag, similar to how the PPA was added:\n<pre><code>sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:whatever/ppa\n</code></pre>\n</li>\n<li>You can also remove PPAs by deleting the <code>.list</code> files from <code>/etc/apt/sources.list.d</code> directory.\n</li>\n<li>As a safer alternative, you can install ppa-purge:\n<pre><code>sudo apt-get install ppa-purge\n</code></pre>\nAnd then remove the PPA, downgrading gracefully packages it provided to packages provided by official repositories:\n<pre><code>sudo ppa-purge ppa:whatever/ppa\n</code></pre>\nNote that this will uninstall packages provided by the PPA, but not those provided by the official repositories. If you want to remove them, you should tell it to apt:\n<pre><code>sudo apt-get purge package_name\n</code></pre>\n</li>\n<li>Last but not least, you can also disable or remove PPAs from the "Software Sources" section in Ubuntu Settings with a few clicks of your mouse (no terminal needed).\n</li>\n</ol>\n", "commentCount": "30", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2010-08-11T14:00:07.613", "id": "1855", "postId": "310", "score": "33", "text": "This will remove the PPA from the repository list but if the package is a newer version of one in the standard repos, you have to manually downgrade the package afterwards. ppa-purge (see other answer) does that for you.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "275" }, { "creationDate": "2013-02-18T14:12:07.163", "id": "321625", "postId": "310", "score": "31", "text": "I get `add-apt-repository: error: no such option: --remove` :-/", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "9063" }, { "creationDate": "2013-06-20T23:55:43.603", "id": "392109", "postId": "310", "score": "8", "text": "it should be `sudo apt-add-repository --remove ppa:repo_name/subdirectory`", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "36661" }, { "creationDate": "2014-03-04T18:13:51.030", "id": "557250", "postId": "310", "score": "1", "text": "`-r` would do instead of `--remove`", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "4345" }, { "creationDate": "2014-04-30T21:54:35.957", "id": "603479", "postId": "310", "score": "8", "text": "Similarly, I get `add-apt-repository: error: no such option: --remove` and `add-apt-repository: error: no such option: -r`", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "171245" }, { "creationDate": "2014-05-12T11:03:41.920", "id": "613489", "postId": "310", "score": "0", "text": "On one PC I do have a --remove flag, on another (same Mint version distro) I don't have teh remove flag!?", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "18045" }, { "creationDate": "2014-05-14T11:42:11.737", "id": "615217", "postId": "310", "score": "1", "text": "I just get \"Cannot add PPA: 'ppa:whatever/ppa'.\nPlease check that the PPA name or format is correct.\n\". How to deal with it?", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "170070" }, { "creationDate": "2014-08-12T05:35:26.550", "id": "689258", "postId": "310", "score": "4", "text": "The answer above should be amended with the information provided below in case the `--remove` flag doesn't work. Specifically, remove the entry in the `/etc/apt/sources.list.d` directory", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "314793" }, { "creationDate": "2015-03-31T19:15:04.717", "id": "843480", "postId": "310", "score": "1", "text": "I go to /etc/apt/sources.list.d and then run rm ppaName, and it is solve my issue. Thanks.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "123260" }, { "creationDate": "2015-05-27T04:05:42.713", "id": "893725", "postId": "310", "score": "0", "text": "People keep using the accepted answer and in cases where the user did not install or upgrade packages from the Third Party Repository disabling it is enought; but in most cases where people have already installed or updated any packages the instructions followed as their are writen will disable the Repository before being able to rollback the packages resulting in the output of : Could not find package list for PPA.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "9868" }, { "creationDate": "2015-07-06T02:31:19.757", "id": "924350", "postId": "310", "score": "1", "text": "why is ppa-purge \"safer\"?", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "29270" }, { "creationDate": "2015-07-10T17:50:24.977", "id": "927840", "postId": "310", "score": "1", "text": "@chtfn It removes packages only aviable on a PPA and downgrades packages to the aviables in Ubuntu Official repository. http://www.webupd8.org/2009/12/remove-ppa-repositories-via-command.html", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "9868" }, { "creationDate": "2015-07-12T12:17:53.600", "id": "928781", "postId": "310", "score": "1", "text": "@xangua So why does this make it \"safer\" than simply removing the ppa? What issues could arise after only removing a ppa? No security updates on the packages that come from the PPA?", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "29270" }, { "creationDate": "2015-07-31T10:48:55.527", "id": "941629", "postId": "310", "score": "2", "text": "@chtfn I think that's the problem yeah, they'll become outdated. Depends on the package of course, but it could definitely be a problem.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "128319" }, { "creationDate": "2016-09-10T23:37:24.833", "id": "1250767", "postId": "310", "score": "1", "text": "Please consider removing this answer, updating it or adding a disclaimer in bold that it has become outdated in recent distributions.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "278141" }, { "creationDate": "2016-09-14T21:25:58.180", "id": "1253929", "postId": "310", "score": "0", "text": "Even if you don't remove it as @anol suggests, add a note to say how to determine which is the best course of action. If it depends on the Ubuntu version, or what the package is, please say so, and tell us how to find out. It seems Ubuntu's package management is more complicated than I thought, and it's making my head spin.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "135088" }, { "creationDate": "2016-11-27T19:37:29.187", "id": "1314394", "postId": "310", "score": "0", "text": "**E: Unable to locate package ppa-purge**", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "59740" }, { "creationDate": "2016-12-12T22:00:51.423", "id": "1326114", "postId": "310", "score": "0", "text": "Wil `sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:whatever/ppa` remove only repository or an app too? I don't want to downgrade, just to remove KDE backports-landing so I next time don't update beta KDE.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "383584" }, { "creationDate": "2016-12-22T11:13:49.657", "id": "1333059", "postId": "310", "score": "2", "text": "@Hrvoje T `add-apt-repository` does not uninstall the app, it only removes the repo so that future updates will not be retrieved/installed. (As with most commands, you can read the manual page by typing `man <command>`, in this case: `man add-apt-repository`.)", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "398713" }, { "creationDate": "2017-10-10T18:26:53.100", "id": "1541775", "postId": "310", "score": "3", "text": "What do I do if my repo starts with `https://`instead of `ppa:`?", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "329227" }, { "creationDate": "2018-01-10T08:36:03.523", "id": "1604693", "postId": "310", "score": "0", "text": "Cannot access PPA (https://launchpad.net/api/1.0/~ondrej/+archive/php5) to get PPA information, please check your internet connection.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "132052" }, { "creationDate": "2018-02-14T18:04:24.587", "id": "1628556", "postId": "310", "score": "0", "text": "I had to follow https://askubuntu.com/a/628772/132098 to get rid of other PPA traces within my Ubuntu installation.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "132098" }, { "creationDate": "2018-11-04T16:37:33.687", "id": "1793522", "postId": "310", "score": "0", "text": "The `--remove` option isn't available in Ubuntu 14.04", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "167553" }, { "creationDate": "2019-11-19T14:48:24.267", "id": "1990437", "postId": "310", "score": "0", "text": "@Francisco yes, the option was added in software-properties version [0.76](https://bugs.launchpad.net/software-properties/+bug/446216/comments/13)", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "21005" }, { "creationDate": "2019-11-19T15:07:43.367", "id": "1990444", "postId": "310", "score": "0", "text": "@AaronFranke you could use my branch of ppa-purge for that. It has several bug fixes and improvements to the ppa-purge available from Universe distribution component. Currently I have not managed to package it or create PPA, but maybe someday there may be one [here](https://launchpad.net/~jarnos/+archive/ubuntu/ppa-purge). At the moment you can find the git repository via the link there. In the repository you can find ppa-purge script that you could copy to /usr/local/bin/ and in the debian subdirectory you can find the bash completion file, too, which makes using the command easier.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "21005" }, { "creationDate": "2019-11-21T12:38:36.367", "id": "1991655", "postId": "310", "score": "0", "text": "@AaronFranke or you could copy the script to /usr/local/sbin as ppa-purge has traditionally been installed under sbin, which is logical as it is for administration and requires superuser privileges.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "21005" }, { "creationDate": "2020-06-23T15:26:56.657", "id": "2116184", "postId": "310", "score": "0", "text": "For myself, I had a PPA in `/etc/apt/sources.list.d/` that no longer existed and so this error was coming up. I had to remove that (actually, replace it with an updated repo for `ffmpeg` that I needed) and then `sudo apt-get update` worked just fine.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "268299" }, { "creationDate": "2020-09-09T21:00:14.383", "id": "2158694", "postId": "310", "score": "0", "text": "I had to include the https:// in front of the ppa to remove it successfully", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "433891" }, { "creationDate": "2020-10-24T21:42:16.987", "id": "2183641", "postId": "310", "score": "0", "text": "It's not clear to me exactly how to specify the repositories to remove. for instance, in /var/lib/apt/lists I have `deb.nodesource.com_node%5f12.x_dists_bionic_main_binary-amd64_Packages`, how do I translate this into a `ppa:x/y`?", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "82144" }, { "creationDate": "2021-01-01T15:27:30.880", "id": "2218101", "postId": "310", "score": "0", "text": "@Michael You can not translate it; It is not a PPA. However, I suppose you could remove the source and remove/downgrade the respective packages by using my improved version of ppa-purge available as PPA [here](https://launchpad.net/~jarnos/+archive/ubuntu/ppa-purge). You can use tab completion to select the repository easily.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "21005" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creationDate": "2010-07-29T09:17:12.850", "id": "310", "lastActivityDate": "2020-06-23T17:16:46.630", "lastEditDate": "2020-06-23T17:16:46.630", "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": "268299", "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "221", "parentId": "307", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "2031" }

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A quick Google found <a href="http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-upgrade-ubuntu-9.10-karmic-koala-to-10.04-lucid-lynx-desktop-and-server" rel="noreferrer">this page</a> about how to upgrade but my question is how do I make sure all configurations remain intact (Samba, Apache, SVN) and also, is it worth it to upgrade? Will 9.10 continue to have bugfixes/security updates and the like released to it via the package managers?

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Upgrading Ubuntu Server 9.10 to 10.04

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{ "accepted": true, "body": "As part of the package upgrade process, if you have modified a configuration file you will be asked if you wish to keep the modified file, or install the new version, and have the opportunity to view the differences.\n\nThis wiki page shows the support periods of all the Ubuntu versions - <a href=\"https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases\" rel=\"noreferrer\">wiki</a>\n\nStandard releases, e.g. 9.10, are supported for 18 months. LTS releases are supported for 3 years on the desktop and 5 years as server. Upgrading to 10.04 has the advantage of this being LTS.\n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": [], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2010-07-29T09:41:58.413", "id": "318", "lastActivityDate": "2010-07-29T10:51:41.213", "lastEditDate": "2010-07-29T10:51:41.213", "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": "47", "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "47", "parentId": "312", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "10" }

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In an effort to keep things consistent, I've been slowly but surely replacing CentOS and *BSD servers with Ubuntu Lucid. I've come across a few that I'll have problems migrating, in particular several Trixbox CE servers that are based on CentOS. We'd like to bring everything we have under one management roof, either by using Landscape or something similar that we nail together in house. Is there something like Trixbox that will work on Ubuntu? Either Asterisk or Freeswitch, preferably pre-packaged by a vendor in .deb format? I dug through Launchpad PPA's in hopes of finding a port of either, but I did not find anything. Any suggestions?

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2011-03-14T00:43:55.523

Is there something like Trixbox CE for Ubuntu Server?

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{ "accepted": true, "body": "As trixbox is open source, it should be possible to port the management interface to Ubuntu?\n\nOr <a href=\"http://www.freepbx.org/\" rel=\"nofollow\">FreePBX</a> (I think Trixbox actually uses the FreePBX admin tools).\n\nSeems like <a href=\"http://www.freepbx.org/support/documentation/installation\" rel=\"nofollow\">FreePBX installation page mentions Ubuntu</a>. (There is also more to be found on Google...)\n\n<a href=\"http://nicegear.co.nz/blog/freeswitch-and-freepbx-v3-running-on-ubuntu-on-an-alix-board/\" rel=\"nofollow\">FreePBX also works with FreeSwitch</a> on an embeded system with Ubuntu 10.04.\n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": [], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2010-09-02T19:48:48.923", "id": "3495", "lastActivityDate": "2010-09-02T19:58:22.080", "lastEditDate": "2010-09-02T19:58:22.080", "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": "935", "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "935", "parentId": "315", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "3" }

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I really would like to create a package for php 5.3.3 and then make a ppa for it (I would like the php-fpm support but inside the newest release), however this question goes further than this. I would like to be hand walked through the whole process of compiling and packaging for ubuntu as I do have an intrest in the whole MOTU project but I feel a little bit out of my depth at the moment.

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2010-07-29T17:31:16.067

How do i create my own php 5.3.3 package/ppa?

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{ "accepted": true, "body": "Regarding creating your own packages, you might want to take a look at the <a href=\"https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PackagingGuide/\" rel=\"noreferrer\">PackagingGuide</a>. A good start is probably the <a href=\"https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PackagingGuide/HandsOn\" rel=\"noreferrer\">Hands-On session</a>. See also the Launchpad PPA documentation <a href=\"https://help.launchpad.net/Packaging/PPA/BuildingASourcePackage\" rel=\"noreferrer\">Building a source package</a> and <a href=\"https://help.launchpad.net/Packaging/PPA/Uploading\" rel=\"noreferrer\">Uploading a package to a PPA</a>.\n\nIn your case, the easiest/best thing to do is to base your package of the current Ubuntu PHP source package.\n\nA complete walk through might be none trivial. How about if you start experimenting some, and then ask more specific questions?\n\nIf you are interested in MOTO work you might also want to consider joining the mailing list <a href=\"https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-motu\" rel=\"noreferrer\">ubuntu-motu</a> as well as the IRC channel #ubuntu-motu (freenode).\n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": [], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2010-07-29T10:06:52.537", "id": "323", "lastActivityDate": "2010-07-29T11:11:07.923", "lastEditDate": "2010-07-29T11:11:07.923", "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": "24", "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "24", "parentId": "320", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "6" }

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I have the last version of Chrome 5.0.xx. and my Ubuntu is also of the last version 10.04. What I usually do is to open two instances of Chrome and divide the screen into two parts. In one part my son watches cartoons in Youtube and in the other part I just read some news. So, sometimes, when I close some pages of the news I have being read the video which was being played in youtube crashes and immediately stops. I need to refresh youtube page and see the video again. What is the problem? How to solve it

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2011-02-08T03:13:37.070

Strange behavior of flash in Google Chrome

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[ { "creationDate": "2010-07-29T10:20:49.827", "id": "259", "postId": "324", "score": "3", "text": "Same problems here.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "221" }, { "creationDate": "2010-07-29T12:25:17.770", "id": "282", "postId": "324", "score": "1", "text": "I ...

{ "accepted": true, "body": "The problem is most likely caused by the flash plugin crashing. Chrome is protected through separation from crashing itself, but the effect is visible the way you described. Since Flash player is proprietary software, there is no way to directly fix the problem. Although there are numerous workarounds floating around the internet. None of these workarounds are complete fixes and only fix specific issues.\n\nMore generic solution is to utilize the HTML5 feature of chrome. Various websites allow one to enable the HTML5 features. Youtube can be HTML5 enabled here: <a href=\"http://youtube.com/html5\">http://youtube.com/html5</a>\n\nThere are also HTML5 enabling extensions for chrome that convert embedded videos to HTML5 elements where applicable and so reduce the amount of flash elements in websites.\n", "commentCount": "1", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2010-07-29T22:22:50.597", "id": "385", "postId": "441", "score": "1", "text": "Ya... this happens to me too. In fact, it just happened again a couple minutes ago. One of the downsides of using proprietary software :(", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "5" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2010-07-29T20:00:03.260", "id": "441", "lastActivityDate": "2010-07-29T20:00:03.260", "lastEditDate": null, "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": null, "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "42", "parentId": "324", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "6" }

[ { "accepted": true, "body": "The problem is most likely caused by the flash plugin crashing. Chrome is protected through separation from crashing itself, but the effect is visible the way you described. Since Flash player is proprietary software, there is no way to directly fix the problem. Although ther...

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To be honest I didn't like how keyrings work in Ubuntu and removed them completely. Is my action safe and won't it harm any part of the system?

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Is it safe to remove completely keyrings from Ubuntu?

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{ "accepted": true, "body": "Keyrings are only made to store passwords so that you don't have to always type them. It will do no harm to delete them except for the hassle of typing them all again.\n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": [], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2010-07-29T10:45:40.987", "id": "330", "lastActivityDate": "2010-07-29T10:45:40.987", "lastEditDate": null, "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": null, "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "154", "parentId": "326", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "6" }

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<blockquote> This question is not deleted because it has historical significance, but it is not considered a good, on-topic question for this site, so please do not use it as evidence that you can ask similar questions here. More information: <a href="https://askubuntu.com/faq">https://askubuntu.com/faq</a> </blockquote> The title says for itself. There are a lot of interesting new features in Ubuntu. For example, after migrating into Ubuntu the most interesting feature for me was Centralized application installation via Synaptic (users do not need to search for an application, download it from somewhere, install it, and if it is pirated software to search keygens and stuffs like that). What else could be added to the list?

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What do windows' users like most after migrating into Ubuntu?

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{ "accepted": true, "body": "Personally:\n\nIt's free.\n\nWay faster on my machine than Windows ever was.\n\nFinding, installing and most importantly uninstalling software, is so much easier.\n\nNo pesky pre-installed trial software.\n\nI don't have to worry about viruses.\n\nI know that if I had the knowhow I could do pretty much anything I wanted.\n\nAlso, it looks pretty.\n", "commentCount": "4", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2010-07-29T22:21:37.743", "id": "384", "postId": "366", "score": "2", "text": "+1 I couldn't have said it better if I tried.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "5" }, { "creationDate": "2010-08-07T22:13:36.753", "id": "1489", "postId": "366", "score": "1", "text": "+1 Great for breathing life into a older laptop, perfect for the \"Hey I need to look that up real quick\" situation.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "360" }, { "creationDate": "2010-08-30T14:08:04.523", "id": "3317", "postId": "366", "score": "0", "text": "+1 for not worrying about viruses.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "1380" }, { "creationDate": "2010-08-30T17:25:33.300", "id": "3324", "postId": "366", "score": "2", "text": "+1 since these are my exact reasons. Was gonna leave a response but this is exactly it.\n\nElaboration on the performance... The entire OS does not become unresponsive when trying to access a network share.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "1151" } ], "communityOwnedDate": "2010-07-30T15:44:51.183", "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2010-07-29T13:07:55.670", "id": "366", "lastActivityDate": "2010-07-29T13:07:55.670", "lastEditDate": null, "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": null, "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "7", "parentId": "327", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "29" }

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I have no root access on this machine. I would like to know if there is a way I can download Ubuntu packages and install them as non-root? Probably in my <code>~/bin</code> or <code>~/usr/share</code> or something like that? Would that work?

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How can I install a package without root access?

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[ { "creationDate": "2014-04-03T09:50:45.750", "id": "579355", "postId": "339", "score": "2", "text": "Hopefully, they will support it soon.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "264875" }, { "creationDate": "2016-05-27T22:26:05.810", "id": "1164111", "postId": "339", "...

{ "accepted": true, "body": "Apt doesn't support it directly, but there are ways to do it:\n<h2><code>.deb</code> Approach</h2>\n<pre class=\"lang-bash prettyprint-override\"><code>apt-get download package_name # replace `package_name` with the name of the package.\n\ndpkg -x package.deb dir\n</code></pre>\nIf the <code>deb</code> isn't in the Ubuntu repositories, <code>apt-get download package_name</code> won't work, but you may be able to download it from a web site.\nThis will extract the <code>.deb</code> package to <code>dir/</code>. Then you can export the <code>PATH</code> where the binary is. As long as all dependencies of the binary are installed, it should run as normal.\n<h2><code>schroot</code> Approach</h2>\nAnother approach is to use <code>schroot</code> to create a non-root chroot. This is a somewhat <a href=\"https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DebootstrapChroot\" rel=\"noreferrer\">involved process</a>, but one you should be able find community help for as many developers set up chroot environments for compiling code.\n<h2><code>apt-get source</code> Approach</h2>\nFinally, you could use the <code>apt-get source</code> command to fetch the source of the package and configure it to install locally. Usually this looks something like:\n<pre><code>apt-get source package\ncd package\n./configure --prefix=$HOME\nmake\nmake install\n</code></pre>\nThe disadvantage to this approach is that you need the development environment available for this approach to work at all, and you might find yourself compiling dozens of packages in order to resolve all the dependencies.\n<h2>Historical Approach</h2>\nIt used to be possible to install <code>package.deb</code> with <code>dpkg</code> into one's home directory.\n<pre><code>dpkg -i package.deb --force-not-root --root=$HOME\n</code></pre>\nThe disadvantage to using <code>dpkg</code> like this is that error messages are likely to be cryptic; dpkg doesn't automatically resolve dependencies or create the directory structure it expects.\n", "commentCount": "14", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2013-01-14T22:25:03.357", "id": "301109", "postId": "350", "score": "2", "text": "If you have root access but just don't want to install a particular package globally, you could use `sudo apt-get build-dep package` to install everything required to *build* a package (after getting its source with `apt-get source`).", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "111511" }, { "creationDate": "2013-02-27T14:44:57.900", "id": "327258", "postId": "350", "score": "0", "text": "the instructions to create a chroot seem to require root privileges ...\nIs there a way to use chroot without needing such privileges ?", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "56440" }, { "creationDate": "2014-03-19T22:45:43.483", "id": "568814", "postId": "350", "score": "0", "text": "@josinalvo, check for schroot", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "26246" }, { "creationDate": "2014-08-08T13:13:01.970", "id": "686530", "postId": "350", "score": "0", "text": "You could also build a deb package that installs somewhere beside the usual system directories, but that would be extremely eccentric. Though occasionally done, usually by corporate entities like Google.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "15729" }, { "creationDate": "2014-09-16T18:30:50.147", "id": "714589", "postId": "350", "score": "27", "text": "This answer was written back in 2010. Have there been any changes to how this is done since then?", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "234374" }, { "creationDate": "2014-10-24T16:19:10.773", "id": "740787", "postId": "350", "score": "0", "text": "I just tried using method 2 (dpkg -i) and I'm getting the following error. Any ideas?\ndpkg: error: unable to access dpkg status area: No such file or directory", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "341956" }, { "creationDate": "2016-04-19T13:37:32.297", "id": "1133468", "postId": "350", "score": "44", "text": "Even with --force-not-root, I get \"dpkg: error: requested operation requires superuser privilege\"", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "340225" }, { "creationDate": "2017-06-13T17:54:35.253", "id": "1462152", "postId": "350", "score": "18", "text": "Folks, `--force-not-root --root=$HOME`, or variations thereof will not work. Debian binary packages are not designed to be installed in the home directory, period. Or, to put this another way,. \"The following example will install package.deb into your home directory.\". No, it won't.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "15729" }, { "creationDate": "2017-06-22T10:12:08.370", "id": "1467968", "postId": "350", "score": "4", "text": "Sadly this won't work. I tried `--force-not-root --root=/your/custom/path`", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "95493" }, { "creationDate": "2018-07-05T15:44:12.463", "id": "1719801", "postId": "350", "score": "0", "text": "@krasnaya, there are a few files/directories you'll need to create within your intended install dir: `touch status`, `mkdir updates`, and there may be one or two more. Use the error messages that appear to guide you.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "117018" }, { "creationDate": "2020-06-03T16:48:36.107", "id": "2102391", "postId": "350", "score": "0", "text": "`dpkg -x <package.deb> <dir>` this worked for me. \nthings i learned that once you ran this command don't export <dir> but instead export path where binary files of that package are present e.g. I exported this path `/path/to/dir/usr/bin/` with this command `export PATH=\"/path/to/dir/usr/bin:$PATH\"`", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "1081144" }, { "creationDate": "2022-04-04T16:41:56.350", "id": "2430302", "postId": "350", "score": "1", "text": "Note that some binary packages such as bison have binaries that include hard-coded paths to files such as /usr/share/bison/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4. For such packages, a non-root working installation is impossible using dpkg -x and the only way to install non-root is by building from source.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "1083283" }, { "creationDate": "2022-12-06T02:01:48.697", "id": "2520269", "postId": "350", "score": "0", "text": "how does it know where the package is after I download i.e. how does `dpkg -x package.deb dir` work?", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "230288" }, { "creationDate": "2023-08-30T22:57:21.240", "id": "2598838", "postId": "350", "score": "0", "text": "@CharlieParker, `dpkg -x package.deb <dir>` just extracts the package, and the system doesn't know where it is. That's why you have to `export PATH=$PATH:<dir>`.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "1394565" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creationDate": "2010-07-29T11:56:05.223", "id": "350", "lastActivityDate": "2023-12-12T17:20:20.330", "lastEditDate": "2023-12-12T17:20:20.330", "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": "1749671", "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "115", "parentId": "339", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "186" }

[ { "accepted": null, "body": "I assume you want to install <a href=\"http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/editors/jedit\">jedit</a>. First you have to find the package and download it. I just take the <a href=\"http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/universe/j/jedit/jedit_4.3.1.dfsg-0ubuntu1_all.deb\">deb file...

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I once tested Mac OS X and something that called my atention was Automator, a software to visually create scripts to automatize tasks on the desktop. Is there any Linux alternative for this software?

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Alternative for Mac OS X Automator?

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[ { "creationDate": "2020-01-02T00:57:34.430", "id": "2011910", "postId": "343", "score": "0", "text": "There seem to be a lot of answers suggesting tools for automating inputs to GUIs, for instance as one would see in test automation. This is not what the question is asking about. Please have som...

{ "accepted": true, "body": "There is Gnu Xnee, which enables you to record and replay actions on the desktop. You can install it from the software center.\n\n\"GNU Xnee is a suite of programs that can record, replay and\ndistribute user actions under the X11 environment. Think of it as a\nrobot that can imitate the job you just did.\"\n", "commentCount": "2", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2010-08-10T14:23:50.220", "id": "1753", "postId": "346", "score": "0", "text": "Or click here: http://apt.ubuntu.com/p/xnee", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "455" }, { "creationDate": "2010-11-13T17:25:12.827", "id": "13596", "postId": "346", "score": "1", "text": "how to launch xnee, I'v installed xnee as sell as Gnee. from terminal Gnee shows error and xnee isn't a command", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "2910" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2010-07-29T11:45:24.403", "id": "346", "lastActivityDate": "2011-02-05T15:11:46.450", "lastEditDate": "2011-02-05T15:11:46.450", "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": "5149", "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "47", "parentId": "343", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "15" }

[ { "accepted": true, "body": "There is Gnu Xnee, which enables you to record and replay actions on the desktop. You can install it from the software center.\n\n\"GNU Xnee is a suite of programs that can record, replay and\ndistribute user actions under the X11 environment. Think of it as a\nrobot t...

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