Ubuntu is a free open source operating system based on the Debian GNU/Linux distribution.
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Can't change root password in Ubuntu
I am trying to change the root password in my Ubuntu system but I am getting an error. I disabled password prompt when calling sudo. So I can execute root commands (eg. sudo apt-get install) without ...
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How to join a windows corporate network from ubuntu linux? [closed]
I'm working in a company with very strict computer and network usage rules and I thought that if I install ubuntu as dual boot OS, I'll somehow be able to circumvent the Windows based restrictions ...
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Why sudo su don't pass as root, but password is ok?
In Ubuntu I have one normal user root1. And till now when I want to be a root I do:
root1@host:/home/root1$ sudo su
[ sudo ] password for roo1:
type password
and I had:
root@host:/root:#
but now ...
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Want to rescue GRUB
I have ubuntu 12.04 and windows 8 installed on my system. The main boot manager is grub, also the ubuntu and windows are installed in separate partitions. I want to install windows 7 back in place of ...
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Why cannot print with Canon 1120 in Linux Mint 14 Quantal?
Trying to install this printer in Ubuntu 12.04 and 12.10, I have succeeded after following the steps described here. The same procedure worked in Linux Mint 14 for a time.
But now it stopped working.
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The server 127.0.0.1:3128 requires a username and password. The server says : cntlm for parent
I have just installed cntlm on my new Ubuntu 12.04. In configuration file etc/cntlm.conf, I inserted my network configure like below:
Username: myUsername
Domain : myDomain
Password: myPassword
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How do I share printer from ubuntu 9.10 to windows, to Mac OS X, and to other Ubuntu hosts?
I have a printer installed on an Ubuntu 9.10 desktop, and I wish to share the printer to a windows machine, a Mac OS X machine, and to some other Ubuntu hosts over the network. Two related questions ...
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Watermarking videos on Linux
I want to add watermarking on to my FLV videos. Previously I used to do that using FFmpeg's vhook option but due to some problems I had to upgrade it to the latest SVN revision. This version of FFmpeg ...
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Triple boot with Windows 8
while ago I bought a acer aspire e1 laptop with windows 8 on one partition, yesterday I installed ubuntu 12.10 and fedora 18 but when booting up I don't see ubuntu and fedora OS to select, it takes me ...
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Get Quotes database in Linux's fortunes app
I love the fortune app on Linux, enough so that I install it on every Linux box I build or SSH to (with permission, of course). One thing I would like to know is how I can incorporate quotes from ...
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How to remove a directory which looks corrupted
I am using Ubuntu 9.10. When I examine a directory, it shows as '?' for user/ownership.
How can I remove it?
-rw-r--r-- 1 hap497 hap497 1822 2010-01-28 22:48 IntSizeHash.h
d????????? ? ? ...
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Computer connects directly through modem but won't through router
I've get some problems that kept me from accessing internet on my computer for some time. So i spent the last 6 months using wireless connection on my laptop.
Yesterday, I bought a 20 meters ethernet ...
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Partitioning for Windows 8 installation error
This is my partition table. Here Windows 7 is the C:/ of windows 7 and others and softwares is E:/ and F:/ respectively. 18 GB ext4 is ubuntu 10.04 primary partition. The free 42 GB was my D:/ ...
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How to maintain multiple persistent vpnc connections on ubuntu
Mark Knowles' Blog has a good explanation on how to maintain a persistent vpnc connection. However, this doesn't work well for multiple vpnc connections (Connecting doesn't work for me, everything ...
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How to check who has been accessing my Linode server
I've been getting "Disk IO rate warning" emails from Linode - and it looks like it's happening every 7 days. I have a few websites being hosted there and I realise that there are some APIs that I ...
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Can't Start Ubuntu on Macbook Pro
I am attempting to load Ubuntu onto my Macbook Pro, Mid-2010, Version 6.2. I partitioned off 50 MB and am downloaded Ubuntu 11.10 onto a disk (ubuntu-12.04.2-desktop-amd64.iso). I loaded rEFIt to be ...
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Okular (on Ubuntu 9.10) prints multiple pages per sheet (n-up) very small
I'm trying to print a set of beamer slides with multiple slides per page (4-up or 6-up). When I select 4 pages or 6 pages per sheet in the Okular print dialog, the pages print quite small (perhaps ...
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Looking for a free enterprise-like chat server software [closed]
I'm on the lookout for a free, preferably Linux, alternative to Lync. I've currently installed Citadel (citadel.org) and am accessing the chat protocol via Pidgin, but unfortunately group chats over ...
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Acer Veriton Z290G display distorted in Ubuntu 12.04
I am running Windows 7 on the Acer Veriton Z290G. I successfully installed Ubuntu 12.04. The only problem I have is that the display is stretched out horizontally, so much that a small portion of the ...
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mySQL outfile & permissions under Ubuntu Linux
I know there are already several postings on the stackexchange sites about Linux permissions, but I can't find the answer to my problem.
I'm working on my own laptop (no web server or anything) with ...
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How to choose the best Linux distro depending on your hardware [closed]
I have a centrino 1.7 GHz with 512 RAM. It is an old computer.
I tried to google for something that could ease my chose for a good linux distro that would run smooth on that computer and still being ...
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Windows Error Recovery loop when other disks connected (UEFI)
After installing Windows 7 on a Crucial M4 SSD, I installed the rEFInd boot manager on the Crucial's ESP. I then connected an OCZ Vertex 4 SSD (and disconnected the Crucial) and installed Xubuntu on ...
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Installed SSH on Ubuntu computer, can't connect from computer over internet
I performed a sudo apt-get install ssh on my home PC running Ubuntu.
When I got to work, I tried to connect with just ssh x.x.x.x where that is my home IP address.
The connection is timing out over ...
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How to ssh my desktop(ubuntu) from outside network [duplicate]
I have set up simple ssh server by using openssh on my Ubuntu.
I tried to ssh it from my Mac, which successful. But my mac is in the same subnet, which behind same router at my home. my ubunut local ...
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VMware Player 5.0.2: Hide full screen menu?
I'm trying to find a way to permanently hide the VMware menu bar when running in full screen mode. For earlier versions one could add pref.vmplayer.fullscreen.nobar = “TRUE” in the preferences file, ...
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Partition invisible on Windows, not on Linux
I have Windows 7 64b installed and recently also installed Ubuntu 12.04
Problem: 2 of 4 Partitions on the same harddrive are not visible in Windows.
Here is some info:
$ df -T
Filesystem Type ...
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Hard drive missing from boot sequence
I have a laptop with Windows 8. I decided to install Ubuntu. It didn't offer me to install it with Win8, though according to the docs it should have, or at least if I had win7. I clicked Something ...
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Any way to change the bitrate threshold on WiFi cards in Ad-Hoc mode?
I am running Ubuntu and am using an Atheros chipset WiFi card to run some ad-hoc tests. I am running an iperf throughput test, digitizing the RF, attenuating the signal, going back to RF, and looking ...
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Ubuntu Server with win2k8 Server VM to Host IIS Site Issue
I have a ubuntu server(host), and a windows 2008 r2 server(client) virtual machine on it.
All my IIS based sites are located on the host machine, in a location which is shared with the client vm.
I ...
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How can I get the terminal in full resolution when running Ubuntu CLI in VirtualBox?
I've installed Ubuntu (latest version) with CLI only, inside VirtualBox running in Windows 7 x64. Switching to fullscreen (CTRL + F in my setup) works, but of course the terminal windows has a low ...
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VMWARE - I installed vmware tools but cannot find vmware-toolbox
I have a windows host and a linux (ubuntu) guest.
Versions:
HOST - Windows 7
GUEST - Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS
VMWARE TOOLS installed (output from vmware-toolbox-cmd -v): 9.2.0.15626 (build-799703)
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Unable to copy embedding link generated by Mathematica / Ubuntu
Mathematica offers export to a format they call Computed Document Format (CDF) - it is basically a player for the notebooks you work in that environment.
One way to use them is to embed it on a web ...
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How enter in folder with one command?
I work a lot in two folders:
/home/valter/Dropbox/Development/git/valter
/home/valter/Dropbox/Development/git/company
I would like to create command like:
$valter
and enter in ...
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Linux command line to turn off proxy
Can you show me the command line to turn off proxy when I am using the command line terminal in Ubuntu?
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Sencha command not found in Ubuntu
I want to create a project using Sencha touch. My OS is Ubuntu. I installed Sencha in Ubuntu, downloaded sencha-touch-2.1.0-gpl and extracted it. I followed instructions in the documentation using ...
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How to get file ubuntu to virtual box installed windows 7
My original os is ubuntu 12.0.4 , i installed oracle virtual box in it . Then i installed windws 7 . now i need to get a file from ubuntu to windows 7 . how can i get file from ubuntu to windows
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How do I verify the authenticity of a linux system executable?
I'm aware of md5sum and gpg but I have no idea if there are recorded checksums for whatever current version of ubuntu is installed.
Do these get recorded somewhere? Specifically I'm suspicious that ...
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Reinstalling Mysql On Ubuntu 10.10(Stuck with bad repositories)
I recently configured NDB-cluster with mysql and Mysql just crashed
ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2)
tried re-installing ...
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Multi-monitor RDP client for Linux?
Perhaps what I'm after doesn't exist.
Is there a good remote desktop client for Linux that properly supports multiple monitors? I'm not talking about VNC, but Windows-style RDP.
I fired up Vinagre ...
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Custom settings in gnome-screensaver .desktop files
I'm trying to run a xscreensaver application through gnome-screensaver engine with some custom options.
Since gnome-screensaver doesn't offer a simple GUI that would help to tweak a particular ...
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Ubuntu 10.04 recognizing USB 2.0 external HD as USB 1.1
When I connect the USB 2.0 drive I see this:
usb 1-4.3: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 5
so I know it's getting seen as USB 1.1. usb-devices shows that it really is USB 2.0 ...
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backing up ntfs disk using rsync on ubuntu
For a long time I was using windows. I have a separate drive I use to keep copies of my media files, photos etc. on, which I periodically backup to an external drive. In Windows I used SyncToy to do ...
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Deamon to start Deluge from Network Namespace
I would like to modify my existing Upstart job for my Deluge Daemon to start from a particular network namespace.
My current init script looks like this:
# deluged - Deluge daemon
#
# The daemon ...
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Adding highlight to ubuntu terminal
My current terminal looks like this:
I know that I can change the font colour and the background colour, but I wanted to know if I can make the words be highlighted according to what they are ...
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Ubuntu init.d script not being called on startup
I've got a script in ubuntu 9.04 in init.d that I've set to run on start on with update-rc.d using update-rc.d init_test defaults 99. All of the symlinks are there and the permissions appear to be ...
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VirtualBox virtual machine use on a processor without virtualisation
I am trying to mount a VirtualBox virtual machine on an Intel B980 processor which seems not to have the virtualisation feature.
I have tried to modify the configuration XML into:
<CPU ...
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Connecting ssh from ubuntu
I want to connect to ssh from ubuntu terminal but I don't know how. I have searched it on google but I don't understand. I have an ip adress, username and password. If someone can explain to me how ...
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How to get the Three.js import/export scripts into Blender on Ubuntu?
I have been working with 3D primitives in Three.js, but now I want to import some models. I plan on using Blender, which I have just downloaded with:
sudo apt-get install blender
However, I was ...
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mariadb-server install broken after Ubuntu upgrade to 13.04
After I upgraded to Ubuntu 13.04, I couldn't install mariadb-server:
mariadb-server-5.5 : Depends: mariadb-client-5.5 (>= 5.5.30-mariadb1~quantal) but it is not going to be installed
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Ubuntu cant login as super user Authentication failure,for a previously accessed password
i cant login as super user using su command ,previously it was successful and i am sure that password is correct,previosly there was an issue by changing file permission of www folder and i follow ...
