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Compiling daemontools on ubuntu or debian
I am installing D.J.B.'s daemontools on an ubuntu 10.04 server (64 bit).
(This question is about daemontools, which is a free and open software for managing UNIX services. It is not about 'DAEMON ...
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ndiswrapper wireless driver does not connect to detected Wifi network
I am running Slacko Puppy v5.3.1 and am trying to use my Wifi dongle with it.
I have a Windows .inf file for the driver for my USB dongle. I used the Puppy network wizard to load the driver using ...
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/lib/modules/2.6.37.6/build missing in linux puppy? what should I do?
I am new to linux as of yesterday. I'm using linux puppy to try to get the most out of a 10 year old, slow laptop. I installed it fine, no problems there, but as soon as I try to use my usb dongle's ...
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IPCop v2.0.3 Install via USB
I have a SFF (Small Form Factor) PC that I am attempting to install IPCop v2.0.3 onto for use as a firewall in my home network. As it is SFF (Mini-ITX) it did not come with a disk drive and I do not ...
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How to manually uninstall urllib, urllib2, requests python packages?
I'm having a problem with urllib, urllib2 and requests, three python libraries.
I use Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS and python 2.6.5 (we can use with python) (but I had installed manually, after the problem, ...
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Black screen when installing Fedora 16
I have read many other threads here and elsewhere but found no solution...
I'm trying to install Fedora 16 x86-64. At random points during installation I get black screens that do not go away.
I ...
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Configurations needed to be done post GCC compilation and installation
I have compiled the latest GCC 4.7.0, on my Linux Mint 12, using gcc 4.6.1 (default).
Compiler compiled successfully, steps followed
./configure
make
make install
Binaries of gcc-4.7.0 are in ...
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Can't install software in Ubuntu, says last download was incomplete and must be fixed first [closed]
I am using Ubuntu. Yesterday I was installing the Adobe Flash plugin on my laptop, but the installation was interrupted and the plugin was not installed completely. But the software shows in the ...
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Where do I find Mandriva netinstall?
Where do I find Mandriva Linux netinstall for i386? Do they even have a Mandriva netinstall?
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error when i try to reboot freebsd on a virtual machine - vmware
this morning i start this topic with a problem in my virtual machine what i install and configureted in my laptop. Is a freebsd .iso version 8.2. Right now i want to reboot the system and is ...
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switching from user to root and revers (freebsd)
i want to make some modificaciones with root and then with my user, in fact i want to install sudo and he give me the error in the first step:
cd /usr/ports/security/sudo
make install clean
...
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Installing git “sudo: apt-get: command not found”
I am trying to install git. I run the following command:
sudo apt-get install git-core git-gui git-doc
But receive the following error:
sudo: apt-get: command not found
What should I do?
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reinstall debian
I have a Debian based server but I don't have physical access to it and it doesn't have a DVD-drive or similar. I only have root access. Is it possible to format and reinstall Debian just by using the ...
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Install newer version of application in $HOME without root access and linking to installed app
I am new to installing application from source and just learning the best practices to do so.
I have this linux box without root access with a quite old emacs, so I downloaded the latest version and ...
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How to install windows 7 after fedora 16
I have Fedora 16, but I want to play games, and I´m considering installing Windows 7.
I need to be able to dual boot these two OS. Is there something special I´m supposed to do, or it will work like ...
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Installing flash player for firefox
I would like to install flash player for Firefox on Linux.
I downloaded the .tar.gz, and there are some compiled shared libraries. I am not sure how to make them work, and I am looking for a hint.
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Installing GCC 4.5 on Fedora 16
The default GCC package available in the Fedora 16 repositories is gcc-4.6. I need to install gcc-4.5 on my system.
I downloaded the packages from the kijo repository, but when I try to install them ...
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How do I build Lynx with SSL on Mac OS X?
I'd like to build and install Lynx on Mac OS X. I've found out that building is as simple as running ./configure, but I'm having trouble building with SSL support. I've downloaded openSSL. How do I ...
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What should I do before dual-booting Windows 7 and Debian on EFI?
I'm about to purchase an Asus motherboard with EFI firmware and wanted to prepare myself for installing Windows and Debian once the hardware arrives. I was hoping that someone who has gone down this ...
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Invalid configuration `x86_64': machine `x86_64' not recognized
Compiling this: http://linux.softpedia.com/progDownload/Indexed-PDF-Creator-Download-1071.html
anisha@linux-dopx:~/tarBalls/ipdf-1.0.0> ./configure --build=x86_64
checking for a BSD-compatible ...
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Arch Linux: Newbie's problem just in the installation process(bug like)
I go through AIF (installation framework) till "Install packages". In that step, I get the error:
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files) and then follows the list of every single ...
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Back up particular package and its dependencies
It may sound like a silly question, but I'm new to Linux and eager to know if there is any way to do this. Okay, my question is: can we take a backup of a particular package and its dependencies?
For ...
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How to install Vinux on a mac?
I have no experience with linux, nore with installing any OS in any other way then just putting a CD-ROM in a computer and following instructions. To get some more insight into how operating systems ...
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Some keys on keyboard map to numbers instead
I'm running Leenux 5.1 from a USB stick using unetbootin. It works ok, except my keyboard is messed up -- pressing k results in a 2 instead (the 2 key also types a 2). How could this happen?
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How to clean a home directory to install from scratch a previously installed distro?
I am using linuxmint-10-KDE.
I have several partitions that I will reuse. One of them is /home.
This /home/nomikos has a lot of gnome related files that I want to delete before install the new ...
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Clang/LLVM Install Within Slackware?
I would like to install the Clang/LLVM compiler suite within Slackware since I use it as my default C conpiler for my C programming assignments. I am currently building it within a build directory ...
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How to Select Tutorial Chapters in Uemacs
I finished installing uemacs 4.0.15.1 from github. I have some experience with GNU-emacs and I wanted to give this a try. I got stuck from the beginning. I opened (by pressing Esc+?) the uEmacs/PK 4.0 ...
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How to install kernel on debian with no internet connection
I'm trying to install a newer kernel version on my Debian (squeeze) machine as I need it to get my wireless card working. I have Debian on one partition of my hard drive, Fedora on the other. I'm ...
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Banshee Won't Update (Linux Mint 12)
Anyone else having problems getting the latest version of Banshee from apt-get? I'm adding the Banshee PPA, using apt-get update, and then trying apt-get upgrade and then to be totally sure, ...
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How to fix this error? make: *** [obj/local/armeabi/libgstaudioflinger.so] Error 1
I am trying to install this following framework from my Linux Fedora box to Android using there SDK/NDK. But after following all instruction its getting still failed to get build. Any idea how to fix ...
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LMDE does not boot directly after install, but boots from cd option “boot from local hard drive”
Just got a new (used) pc from my job.
Still a nice beast, Intel board with Core 2 quad CPU and 4G of RAM.
So I came to install Linux Mint Debian Edition on it.
The live CD works like a charm, and ...
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Missing IPsec package in Solaris 10
I'm running Solaris 10 v5/08. Running svcs -a | grep ipsec returns nothing, so I have reason to believe IPsec isn't installed (or isn't showing up for some other reason). How can I make sure it is ...
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How to install exactly the same packages on another computer in openSUSE?
Another computer can be as well virtual machine. I cannot make disk clone because of hardware differences and settings.
I have computer A, installed and running, I also have computer B. I will ...
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How to install Linux on the Lego Mindstorms NXT
Has anybody ever successfully installed Linux on the Lego Mindstorms NXT Intelligent Brick? I've found plenty of things on Google, but none of them worked.
I can't find the download for legOS, and the ...
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Can't Install/Update packages on newly installed CentOS
I installed CentOS6 and it is the first time. I tried to install/update packages.
But I coudn't.
Here is the output and it doesn't stop. How can I solve this?
[root@localhost suranga]# yum update
...
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How to install non-outdated nvidia drivers using apt-get?
I tried using apt-get install nvidia-current after installation
I got 280.13 version, which is not the latest version(290.10).
so how can i force apt-get to download the latest driver?
Edit:
I'm ...
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Cannot install Debian on QEmu-arm
I'm trying to run Debian 6 network install with this command:
sudo qemu-system-arm -M versatilepb -kernel ./vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-versatile -initrd ./initrd.gz -hda ./debianlxde.img -m 256 -append ...
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Why does Ubuntu recommend download the 32-bit version?
Why does Ubuntu recommend download the 32-bit version? On their 32bit_and_64bit Page they even say
Unless you have specific reasons to choose 32-bit, we recommend 64-bit
to utilise the full capacity ...
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apt-get : no installation candidate for libxul-dev
When I'm installing libxul-dev I end with this error message:
$ sudo apt-get install libxul-dev
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package ...
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How can I install hulahop
I cloned hulahop via git and I'd like to use it and try to run this example.
I have a problem to find out how to build and install it. I also tried to install it with apt-get but I don't have this ...
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Partitioning and installing Voyage Linux
I am trying to install Voyage Linux 0.8.0 (a distribution based off Debian) on a Soekris Net4801. I would like to have two partitions, one for the operating system and another one for data.
I have ...
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BackTrack 5 Grub/Grub2 installation [closed]
I've been trying to install some grub on my machine, running only Backtrack 5 (from Ubuntu 10.04 I think). It is newly installed. I managed to create a non-root user for it (it isn't trivial for a ...
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How can I find a Ubuntu package to use with Amazon EC2?
I'm looking to set up a new server on Amazon's EC2 and I wanted to use Ubuntu 11.04 is it is fairly new but not too new. I previously used 10.10 which I think is also very stable and time-tested.
My ...
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“Linux kernel source code directory” requested in Cisco VPN client install
I'm trying to install Cisco's vpn client, and it requests that I provide the directory containing linux kernel source code. Specifically, it reads:
In order to build the VPN kernel module, you ...
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What is the fastest way to install GCC on Wind River 3.02?
I am fairly new to installing things on a bare-bones Linux system and really do not want to just blindly install rpm after rpm of dependencies I think I might need...
I know that this version of ...
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Why do some packages use 'make install' while other use 'sudo make install'
I recently installed LAME encoder on my server to convert wav to mp3 and that worked with './configure, make, make install;
I then tried to install OGG encoder and that requires './configure, make, ...
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How to make apt-get accept new config files in an unattended install of debian from Repo
I am writing a script for a unattended install of a package that is in our repo, it is a software package with one of Debian's marked config files.
Is there any option that I can pass to ...
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What is the effect of deleting utility manufacturer partitions?
I am about to erase everything off of my hard drive and install Linux Mint I'm doing this on a Dell laptop, there is a Dell utility partition that I have never used... I have seen these on other ...
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Installing yum on CentOS 5
I have a CentOS vm that I'm currently working on. I tried to update yum and it broke, so I removed it. So I need to re-install it on my vm, can anybody tell me how to install yum on CentOS5?
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Installing a unix application?
I am trying to install depot_tools here are the instructions.
I downloaded the file from this:
svn co http://src.chromium.org/svn/trunk/tools/depot_tools
I wanted to install it in /usr/local so I ...
