Questions tagged [ubuntu-10.10]
Ubuntu 10.10 (aka Maverick Meerkat) is the 13th release of the Ubuntu Linux distribution.
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I have a bootable Ubuntu 10.10 on an old flash drive. What is the best way to update to Ubuntu 14.xx?
I have no files I'm concerned about losing, but my flash drive is only 2GB. Can I update through Ubuntu itself, or do I need to go through Windows? Thanks!
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permission issue with docker and pipework
I have issue using Docker with pipework for more advanced networking settings:
pipework eth2 $(docker run -d hipache /usr/sbin/hipache) 50.19.169.157/24
sudo: pipework: command not found
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Ubuntu 13.10 on Acer V5-472 with HD 4000
I have an Acer V5-472 with intel HD4000 graphics chipset and a built-in 1366*768 display.
I have installed ubuntu 13.10 amd64 in legacy boot mode with an external monitor.
Installation showed no ...
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All partitions in Hard Disk are not displaying while Kubuntu and Ubuntu installations
Currently my system runs on Windows 8 Pro. I want to install either Ubuntu or Kubuntu alongside Windows. I have Ubuntu 10.10, 13.04, 13.10 and Kubuntu 9.10 disks. I would like to install Kubuntu than ...
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copy root.disk to another computer and change grub.cfg
I installed ubuntu 10.10 on a new laptop and copied the old root.disk of ubuntu 10.10 from old laptop to this new laptop, and booted it so I had to make changes to the grub menu using "e".
That is ...
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Curl with ipv6 not working by default
I am trying to curl ipv6 adresses, but without success.
If i try lets say:
curl https://google.com
I wait for a timeout and get network unreachable
If i force ipv4, everything is fine.
curl -...
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Remove all Ruby from Ubuntu
I’m trying to start a new project with RadiantCMS, but I’m having lots of problems, because in the server are 2 different Ruby installations.
The first one, was installed following this tutorial and ...
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Linux desktop slow, hard disk is lighting but cannot figure the reason from top, iostat and vmstat
I'm trying to figure out why sometimes HD lights and computer becomes very slow, but I cannot figure out the reason. Below is my iostat, vmstat and top -n 1. Any idea?
mladen@mladen-desktop:~$ iostat
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Unable to install packages with apt-get
I was trying to install vim and g++ but I couldn't. Presently I'm using Ubuntu 10.10. I tried all that I went through the net, but no use. This how it appears every time I do.
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Looking for Xubuntu 10.10
I am trying to find a 64 bit ISO of Xubuntu 10.10 .. .according to their site (http://xubuntu.org/news/10-10-release/) it should be released however, I am unable to find anywhere one iso..
Do you ...
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How to unzip files via an FTP connection?
I have connected to my remote server via FTP and I got a directory listing. I have few zip files in the list.
Is it possible to unzip the file (Ex: test.zip)?. If yes, what is the command?
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Linux: Creating hard links on a portable music player
Whenever I try to create a link on my 16GB Walkman to another file on the Walkman, I get the error "Operation not permitted". This happens whether I'm trying to create a hard or soft link, and whether ...
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Use computer as NAT router or proxy to share access by USB 3G dongle
I'm in a strange, fun situation with a dual boot Windows XP/Ubuntu Linux computer that is only connected to the internet via USB 3G dongle, and I need to connect another device that only has a ...
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Ubuntu 10.10 Software Center not responding
I am trying to open the Ubuntu 10.10 Software Center. It's not opening. What could be the issue?
If I try to run Software Center from the terminal I get the following error:
kush@kus:~$ software-...
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sudo must be setuid root error and recovery mode requires root passwd?
When I try to execute sudo su, I receive the following message:
sudo: must be setuid root
When I try to reboot in recovery mode, it asks:
Enter root password for maintenance
I'm using Ubuntu 10.10....
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Ubuntu VM pinging each other with Internet
I am using Ubuntu 11.10 and installed the Virtualbox from the Ubuntu Software Center.
Later on, I installed three (3) Windows XP Virtual Machines. I'm trying to get all of the three VMs to ping each ...
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How to tell what HDMI version my system supports - Ubuntu Linux (10.10)
Looking to see if the HDMI output of my machine (with an nVIDIA GeForce 460M card) is HDMI 1.3 compatible or not. Not sure what the command is to tell that.
Thanks in advance!
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Is it possible to have two package management systems (.deb and .rpm) on one system?
Is it possible to have more than one package management system on one system?
Example: RPM, deb and .txz on the same partition of Ubuntu.
If it isn't possible, why not?
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What are the dangers of using an out-of-support version of Ubuntu?
For my Home Theater PC, which also does a few other basic Linux tasks, I installed MythBuntu 10.10 back when it was the newest version (some time between October 2010 and April 2011, I don't remember ...
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Unable to connect to OpenVPN server
I'm trying to get a working setup of OpenVPN on my VM and authenticate into it from a client.
I'm not sure but it looks to me like it's socket related, as it's not set to LISTEN, and localhost seems ...
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Virtualbox Guest memory limitation with 64bit guest on 32bit host?
I use Ubuntu 10.10 (32bit) as the host operating system. However I have enabled PAE so I can see the full 8GB of memory installed on my machine.
I use VirtualBox 4.1.8 to create virtual machines ...
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Keyboard is behaving weird
When I try to type cle automatically the Edit-> Paste menu is opened in my terminal.
After that I am not able to enter anything in the terminal by keyboard.
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Sym-linking windows with linux
Is it possible to make a sym-link in linux that can be used by windows? I have a dual boot system of Ubuntu 10.10 and Windows 7 and I want to move my AppData folder to another drive. I was planning on ...
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Moving linux partition so to be next to free space
I had a triple boot windows 7, Ubuntu 10.10 and Ubuntu 11.10. I deleted the partition that the 11.10 was in and now I have free space on my ext4 partition. I want to use that space which is located ...
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Access WebPage Globally with domain name(Without registering)
I have an apache2 server running on an Ubuntu 10.10 server box back home. The machine serves up some documents and misc. file. I currently access it globally at http://X.X.X.X:<portnumber>/dir/...
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Installing Windows 7 in a PC where there is Ubuntu
I have Ubuntu 10.10 installed in my PC and I want to install Windows 7 in another drive, which partially contains some data, so that I can use both OSs in a dual boot scheme.
I have read on the web ...
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Force DHCP to assign the same ip always to the same client?
I'm behind a router with at least 1 client and at most 3 clients. My "main" client runs some services like Apache2 so I port forwarded in router configuration the incoming traffic to its IP address 10....
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How to have sudo remember the password across various entries
sudo asks for the user's password every so often when using bash. The answers to this explains how to change that time out.
I was wondering, however, whether it would be possible to sync this. I have ...
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How to know if the BIOS in my Macbook Pro is running in EFI mode or BIOS emulation mode when in Linux
I totally replaced OSX with Linux.
In Ubuntu 10.10, how can I tell which mode the BIOS is running in?
Is it better to have it running in EFI mode?
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Not working firefox web browser (zombie) in ubuntu 10.10
I use Firefox browser in Ubuntu 10.10, but now it doesn't work. When I try to open the browser, an error message is displayed with the following content
Close Firefox Firefox is already running but ...
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Right-click menu mask persisting on my screen
Somethign very strange has happened on my computer. I'm running the latest install of Ubuntu, and using the latest version of chrome, though this has happened on previous builds of both.
The right-...
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traceroute outputs only * * * [duplicate]
Am trying to traceroute to google.com but unfortunately this is the output I am getting -
I know that these * * *s mean that the packets are not reaching back, perhaps due to firewalls, but no matter ...
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Ubuntu Guest on Virtual Box keeps crashing
Hi I have a Windows 7 Host, with following specs
4GB RAM
i3 processor
500GB HD
(any other detail required? If so please ask.)
I have Virtual Box v3.2.12
I installed Ubuntu 10.10 on Virtual Box ...
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using ubuntu-server in full screen mode - VirtualBox
I have installed ubuntu-server 11.10 in virtual box. but unfortunately the screen is small. I installed VirtualBox guest additions to see it full screen(like what I do for windows). Now it is ...
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Installing Huawei ec156 modem on ubuntu 10.10
I have Tata Photon Data Card. It is using Huawei EC156 modem. I am using ubuntu 10.10.
It is not getting detected. I tried with network connections also. But no success. Is there any way out?
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Data recovery after sudo rm -rf /* on ext4
I sent the following command to my friend:
sudo rm -rf /*
He launched it. Does someone know how to recover data after deleting from ext4 on Ubuntu 10.10?
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Ubuntu 10.10: The Update Manager Will Not Authenticate
I'm running Ubuntu 10.10. The update manager came up the other day. However, when I hit the "Authenticate" button, nothing happens --- I've let it sit for about 5 min?
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Firefox 8.0 will not automatically log into sites between sessions
I'm using Firefox 8.0 on Ubuntu 10.10
When I close and restart my browser I am not automatically logged into web sites where I have selected the option to do so.
Edit > Preferences > Privacy is set ...
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Connect to Ubuntu Share From Fedora 16
I am having some trouble connecting to an Ubuntu 10.10 server.
I am using Fedora 16.
Some things that I have tried
The server and all of its shares can be seen on the windows computer.
I can ping ...
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Mistakenly ran "sudo apt-get remove python" (system is not working in normal mode, is there any solution?)
By mistake I ran the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python
After this my PC is no longer working properly.
It shows graphics problem during restarting and every time it starts in Grub ...
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wireless is disabled by hardware switch
I am using Ubuntu 11.10, Every thing was working perfectly fine.
After an update is installed my wireless network is stoped working. I am using HP ProBook 4530s
The network indicator on right top ...
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Adverse consequences of using kill -9 for Skype termination
I currently shut Skype down by using ps ax | grep skype and then issuing kill -9 on the PIDs. There are three PIDs to be killed.
What are the adverse consequences for Ubuntu that result from killing ...
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Skype close application bug on Ubuntu
Closing Skype on Ubuntu does not work. I am running Ubuntu 10.10 and Skype 2.2.0.35.
When I try to use Skype on subsequent occasions, it says Skype is still running. I have to kill it the hard way.
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Changing the Keymap in Ubuntu
Is it possible, using Ubuntu Linux, to change the meanings of the keyboards keys? I needed the right shift key to act as the home key and the right ctrl key to act as the end key. How to do this ...
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Photoshop CS5 on Ubuntu 10.10 no longer opens after installing Internet Explorer 8
I installed Photoshop CS5 in Ubuntu 10.10 using Wine - it was working fine.
Later I tried to install Internet Explorer 8 with Wine. After this, Photoshop is no longer able to load; if I click the ...
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NVIDIA CUDA and linux
This Lenovo Z570 laptop comes with NVIDIA GEforce GT520M with optimus technology.
I'm trying to install CUDA on Ubuntu 10.10. I downloaded a dev driver from the NVIDIA site.
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How do I get Windows 7 to see Ubuntu 10.10 shares?
My Windows 7 computer can't see the folders I shared on Ubuntu laptop. The other way around works fine and I can open files shared in Windows from Ubuntu.
I have already tried to install and ...
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New mail alert in Thunderbird
I successfully configured Mozilla Thunderbird 3.1.15 in my Ubuntu 10.10.
I want some addon for popping up the new mails alerts, some thing like New Mail alert in a separate dialog box as we can set ...
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Microsoft 2010 Information Worker Demonstration Virtual Machine on VirtualBox?
Since I'm looking to improve my Sharepoint knowledge, I downloaded the 2010 Information Worker Demonstration and Evaluation Virtual Machine (SP1) from Microsoft
https://www.microsoft.com/download/en/...
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How does one use "Mail" or other keyboard keys for copying or pasting in Gnome?
I'm trying to assign some of those extra keys that come with the keyboard to something useful. I know how to change their default behavior, and how to assign them to a shell script via the System -> ...
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