Hot answers tagged ubuntu-11.04
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This site mentions a way to do this:
sudo apt-get remove overlay-scrollbar
sudo su
echo "export LIBOVERLAY_SCROLLBAR=0" > /etc/X11/Xsession.d/80overlayscrollbars
A system restart required
It's also possible to run:
sudo -i
apt-get remove overlay-scrollbar
echo "export LIBOVERLAY_SCROLLBAR=0" > /etc/X11/Xsession.d/80overlayscrollbars
Scrollbars ...
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The easy way is to open Synaptic Package manager, scroll down to Liboverlay_scrollbar then mark it for complete removal and then Apply. Once Synaptic finishes, close it out and the old Gnome scrollbar will b be restored.
Edit: Command-line version:
sudo apt-get autoremove --purge 'liboverlay-scrollbar-*'
#single quotes avoid shell glob-expansion
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Method 1 – railsready
If you don't want to do everything manually, you can use the railsready script, which will install for you:
An updated system (Linux only)
Ruby 1.9.3 latest patch level (installed to /usr/local/bin/ruby) or RVM running 1.9.3 latest patch level
Imagemagick
libs needed to run Rails (sqlite, mysql, etc)
Bundler, Passenger, ...
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I had this on Ubuntu 10.04 installing the Mongo PHP-extension.
Did some research and tried this:
# pear search http
The value of config option cache_dir (/tmp/pear/cache) is not a directory and attempts to
create the directory failed.
When I created the directories by hand: mkdir -p /tmp/pear/cache the error "went away" and I was able to install: "pecl ...
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I was having the same problem, and I found a solution here in hnyman's post:
I solved the problem by getting into
the console mode (Ctrl-Alt-F1) and
logging into Ubuntu from that console,
then I manually created a mount point
for the cdrom and mounted the Guest
Additions cdrom, and finally did run
the Guest additions script. That
solved the ...
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@endolith: Yes, it only seems to affect fish. I had the same problem, the issue is caused by the sudo option "tty_tickets". Disabling this on your /etc/sudores will solve the problem.
The following will disable tty_tickets:
Defaults env_reset,!tty_tickets
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This page explains how to bring back the address bar. In short:
$ gconftool-2 --type=Boolean --set /apps/nautilus/preferences/always_use_location_entry true
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If you're only concerned with files under a home folder, run chmod o-rwx on the relevant directory; taking permission away on the folder blocks access.
The defaults come from /etc/useradd.conf, which is well documented in the comments. The specific value you'll need to change is DIR_MODE.
The default permissions for new files and directories during a ...
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I have not figured out a permanent solution myself, but once you have nautilus open, you can do
ctrl + l
you will get access to the address bar, and you can type the full file path in there.
Another option would be to type the following when opening nautilus itself, either through the run command (alt+f2) or from console.
nautilus path/to/folder
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You need unallocated disk space to install Ubuntu to.
Your "free" disk space is part of the Windows system drive C: and cannot be used to install Ubuntu.
Use a partitioning utility that can resize NTFS partitions and shrink your C partition to make space for the Linux partitions. Make sure you have a backup of all your data beforehand.
Alternatively, ...
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When Microsoft said "Do not make major changes to the computer's state after you put the computer in hibernation or on standby.", it meant it.
Changes to the computer's state include bootstrapping another operating system entirely and modifying what's on the hard disc. You've just witnessed what goes wrong when one does that: volumes become corrupt, files ...
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First off, your C: reporting 200GB of free space under Windows is the problem. That space is reserved for Windows.
You need an unused partition, or be prepared to split a partition to make space for this install.
If you are not sure how to repartition a drive, don't - it can lose all your data.
Simplest solution in that case would be to install it onto ...
5
It only contains up to that release point.
Any additional updates to the software contained within the distribution will be updated after you complete the installation.
What you are looking for is a distro that does rolling releases. Check out this question over at unix.stackexchange it's from 2010 but scanning through it, it's still fairly relevant.
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If you've only chmod'ed you root directory:
In linux, use chmod 755 to restore correct root directory access rights.
In Mac OS X, the sticky bit must be set, too. Use chmod +t / if you've already corrected the rights to 755. If not, you can do both at once using chmod 1755 /.
For both systems: Don't forget sudo if necessary.
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Your problem seems to be a bigger one. Try the following:
Restart your computer
Boot into Recovery Mode (select the "Recovery" option from the boot screen. If you're single-booting Ubuntu, you need to hold the Shift key to get to the GRUB menu)
At the prompt you see, select "Drop to root shell prompt"
At the command prompt (which should say ...
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Just use mount -t cifs to do it from command line. Consult manpage for mount to learn about additional options like user/password/explicit filename encoding/file ownership etc. You would unmount it using umount /home/myuser/windowsbox
In particular see the uid/gid options. This will let normal users access the share.
There's also smbfs as mount type but ...
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I suspect the CRAN mirrors do not yet have a line for 'natty'. Just make it
deb http://cran.xl-mirror.nl/bin/linux/ubuntu maverick/
for now and you should be fine. This would have been a good question for the r-sig-debian list which is for questions regarding R on Debian/Ubuntu.
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Sounds like a sync issue (which I thought they'd already patched).
Try this and see if it helps:
Grab the compiz settings manager like so:
sudo apt-get install compizconfig-settings-manager
Open it up and browse to the openGL plug-in.
Look for the "Sync to VBlank" option and uncheck it.
4
If the computer contains hardware that requires a driver to work properly, especially a hard drive controller or something to enable specific performance features of the platform, then yes, a specific operating system (that contains the necessary drivers) can work better on that hardware than other operating systems.
Back about 10 years ago when processor ...
4
awk is not in /bin, it's in /usr/bin. To find out where you have awk, you can run either of the following:
which -a awk
type awk
Then, change your shebang line accordingly:
#!/usr/bin/awk
… or, even better:
#!/usr/bin/env awk
The latter will just use the version of awk for the current environment, and is portable across different systems that have ...
4
I'm leaving my previous answer but it is inaccurate. There are ways to do what you want to do but it is as dangerous as teasing with fire one might say.
There is a software which is capable of editing registry files from command line of linux shell.
If you have a list of files that were created by particular software installation and at the same time the ...
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You can simply add your script to be executed to directory /etc/cron.daily - it will be executed once a day by anacron.
Excerpt from man 8 anacron:
Anacron can be used to execute commands periodically, with a frequency specified in days. Unlike cron(8), it does not assume that the machine is running continuously. Hence, it can be used on ...
3
You'd presumably want to start with installing ubuntu minimal and install the packages you need on top of that. You can then convert the install to a livecd with tools like remastersys
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Use the command, as root or sudo -
fdisk -l
the usb driver is probably labled /dev/sdb like the below -
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 5737 46080000 83 Linux
/dev/sdb2 5737 6375 5120000 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdb3 6375 22565 130048000 ...
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Debian (and thus Ubuntu) does not seem to have a package called "xapian-core" as you have noticed (at least not in every available version). Looking at http://packages.debian.org/sv/source/sid/xapian-core, it seems that the upstream source package named xapian-core is used to build the Debian packages:
libxapian-dev
libxapian22
libxapian22-dbg
xapian-doc
...
3
The default Ubuntu icon theme is Unity-icon-theme.
You can switch back to using the default theme using Ubuntu tweak. You can follow the instructions provided on Ask Ubuntu to install Ubuntu tweak.
How do I install Ubuntu tweak?
Move to Tweaks → Theme and change the Icon theme to unity-icon-theme.
Note: The screenshot provided may not resemble how ...
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From Why do i have to shift - right / left key to open and close folders in nautilus, eclipse, etc.?, dating from 2003 to 2009 :
I think it boils down to this root issue in GTK: "Please add common
keybindings for the TreeView". The reply from a developer:
The arrow keys are already being used in GtkTreeView to move the focus rectangle over ...
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Reason
The permissions are set very loose by default to allow users to share files with each others. It is safer in general to do this because most users are inexperienced and would find it easier to share their password than to set permissions. The more experienced user can change it rather easily so its just better to do it this way.
Fix
You can change ...
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Use a boot disk to save your home folder and configs if you'd like, then reload from scratch. It's not worth your time to try and fix it.
If you're absolutely determined to fix it, you can try uninstalling/reinstalling xorg, and move on from there.
Also, skip the biometrics and find a nursing home for Granny.
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