Questions tagged [ubuntu-12.04]
Ubuntu 12.04 (aka Precise Pangolin), is the sixteenth release(version) of Ubuntu from Canonical.
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Why Virtual Box won't give me option to create 64 bits guests?
My host is x64 bits Windows 8.1.
I downloaded the latest Virtual Box (4.3) and I'm trying to create a VM with a 64 bits Ubuntu OS (ubuntu-12.04.3-desktop-amd64).
When I go to New VM wizard, it doesn'...
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How to best clone a running system to a new harddisk using rsync?
I have a system running as a server that has a failing harddrive. While all important data is on a RAID and backed up and all that, I don't have an image of the system itself. There is no specific ...
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rsync slow copy from one disk to another
I got two drives of the same model which are connected using SATA.
When benchmarking read speeds using hdparm -t /dev/sdX, speeds of about 160MB/s are returned. When benchmarking write-speed using dd ...
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Import Google Chrome bookmarks from Windows into Mozilla Firefox in Ubuntu
I was a Windows user for last 5 years but wanted to switch into Ubuntu World. I saved too many (around 100) bookmarks into chrome while using Windows. Now I want to import those bookmarks into Ubuntu ...
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How to create a mirror (raid-1) of an already setup and running ubuntu 12.04 system?
I have a fully setup ubuntu 12.04 installed on a single drive and formatting it just to setup raid-1 is not an option
Unlike other answers like this one: Ubuntu 12.04 - Add RAID 1 Array on existing ...
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Bugzilla, no login required to view bugs [closed]
Bugzilla has to have a way to stop anyone random person to view the bugs, but I can't find it. This question is similar to How to prevent anonymous (users that are not logged in) BugZilla access? , ...
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How to disable a keyboard key in Linux (Ubuntu)?
my keyboard is damaged, the keyboard key [é] is always pressed and it prevents me from working.
On windows I found the software sharpkey to disable the [é] button but on Ubuntu I can't found no ...
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VirtualBox Ubuntu VM doesn't automatically sync time with host even with Guest Additions installed
I'm running a Ubuntu VM with VirtualBox and I have both the dkms and virtualbox-guest-additions packages installed. I read in this answer that the system clock should sync with the host automatically ...
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Why is my crontab not running
I have this cron
38 * * * * /bin/bash -l -c 'cd /var/rails/site/releases/20120705144335 && script/rails runner -e qa '\''Play.load_lists'\'''
I have this cron under the a different user so ...
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How do I make Ubuntu start fbterm in the tty on startup?
When I was testing openSUSE about a week ago, I noticed that tty1 (yes, just tty1) had the openSUSE background. I want to do the same in Ubuntu.
I found a way using fbsplash. I'm not too keen on that ...
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Unicode Composition in Sublime Text
I'm not able to use unicode composition (The ctrl+shift+u method) to enter unicode characters in Sublime Text 2 (v2.0.1, Build 2217) on Ubuntu 12.04 (Unity). To reproduce, just open up a tab and do ...
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Why is my .thunderbird folder so big?
I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 and I just found out my .thunderbird folder under my user home directory is 7.4 Gigabytes... However I'm pretty sure I'm using IMAP for all my email accounts, so why is it so ...
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install ubuntu on my windows 8 laptop
Is it possible to install ubuntu on my windows 8 laptop? dual boot is fine if it is doable
This is my laptop environment.
UPDATE:
I ended with installing vmware player
It works great for me. I have ...
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What is the standard ftp service of ubuntu server 12.04?
Stopped vsftpd, so it is not that. If i can still access via ftp (sftp in particular) how do i now what service is managing it?
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Minimize boot time on headless ubuntu
I am trying to remove as much processes as possible to minimize the boot time on a beaglebone running ubuntu minimal.
So i want to remove udev-fallback-graphics and all plymouth processes.
I tried '...
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sudo + x11 application does not work correctly
I couldn't get any program requiring x11 (e.g. gedit, nautilus) to work with sudo. Using gksudo would just fail silently, while on terminal I received the following error:
sudo nautilus
** (nautilus:...
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How to auto source a shell script?
How to make a shell script execute it's commands as source commands without having to use "source scriptname.sh" expression to launch the script? Basically what I want is to type ./scriptname.sh and ...
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With VMware Workstation, how can I SSH from the host to a guest with NAT?
My host is Windows 7 with VMware Workstation 10. I am running an Ubuntu 12.04 guest that is connected to an NAT network. How can I set up the network so that I can SSH from the host to the guest? I ...
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Can only ssh into Ubuntu 12.04 alpha machine when logged into console
I recently installed the latest Ubuntu 12.04 64bit alpha (2?) onto a VMware virtual machine in order to check things out.
One strange thing I've encountered is that I can only successfully ssh into ...
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How to route specific traffic through OpenVPN?
I'm running a server at home with rtorrent and apache2. I would like to route my rtorrent traffic via OpenVPN and since im kinda new to OpenVPN and iptables i would like to have a user friendly guide.
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How to save shell history from emacs and use it in terminal?
I use emacs for almost everything, but when I run shell M-x shell and then exit from emacs, the history is not saved, I've tried (savehist-mode 1) for this purpose but it doesn't seem to work, is ...
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How to boot windows after uninstalling ubuntu?
I am using windows 8 system and I tried to install ubuntu by making a separate partion. But after deleting the partitions created for Ubuntu, it is still trying to load ubuntu and not windows.
If I ...
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Printer Add button not enabled in ubuntu 12.04
I am trying to set-up a network printer on my system.
Navigated to System Setting>>Printing and viola the Add button out there is disabled.
When i troubleshooted using Help it said that the CUPS ...
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How do I install vlc-srpos-plugin on Ubuntu?
I'm trying to install vlc-srpos-plugin (a VLC plugin that remembers your video position) on Ubuntu.
I've downloaded and extracted libsrpos_plugin-*.tar.gz (for Linux or Unix systems)
The ...
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How to force Firefox to load Google in non-HTTPS
When I type http://www.google.co.uk in the URL bar Firefox rewrites it as https://www.google.co.uk. This is a problem for me as HTTPS is blocked on my network for content filtering purposes.
Until a ...
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Accidentaly rsync --delete, /usr is affected, any way to check and reinstall missing component?
I was working on a ubuntu 12.04 server, testing to restore a backup (how ironic, I didn t done the "real" backup).
Tried a rsync with --delete flag on /, I ctrl+c almost immediately, but rsync ...
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How to Delete Multiple Files Inside Multiple Zip Files?
Currently I am doing the following command to delete a file inside a zip file on my server:
zip -d file.zip .exe
But I have so many zip file that needs to delete all files with an .exe file ...
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How do I burn ubuntu iso image to DVD on Windows 7
I downloaded ubuntu 12.04 LTS from this site, and I am trying to follow the instructions about how to burn the iso image to DVD according to this page but I don't see the image on desktop as shown on ...
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How to disable EMACS - Prelude colors? (terminal)
I've used PRELUDE to work better in terminal, but I'd love to work with my default Terminal theme(colors).
Zenburn-theme comes default with Prelude but It just work great the first time i run emacs ...
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Windows 8 and ubuntu 12.04 dual boot
I currently have windows 8 installed on my machine and i'm planning to install Ubuntu 12.04 alongside it.
My question is, if i install Ubuntu will it replace the boot entry of windows 8 (i guess so)?
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Remove Windows 8 and keep Ubuntu installed using Wubi
My laptop came with Windows 7 installed. I updated it to Windows 8. I have installed Ubuntu using Wubi. Now I want to remove Windows 8 and use only Ubuntu. Is it possible to remove Windows 8 without ...
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How to switch PHP 5.5 instead PHP 5.4 in Bitnami
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Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS
Release: 12.04
Codename: precise
Bitnami used in AWS
I want to install PHP 5.5, so I do next step:
php -v
PHP 5.4.26 (...
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bandwidth control during youtube upload
I am having a slow internet connection and I am looking for some solution so that I can divide the 1/5th of available bandwidth to me for youtube uploads while at the same time working with other ...
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External Hard Disk Connectivity in Ubuntu
I have connected an external hard disk to an Ubuntu Desktop instance running on VMware workstation on my Win 7.
I connected the hard disk using the VM -> Removable Devices and connected the hard disk....