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Compiling and running Snapper for Ubuntu
I am trying to get snapper working in my Mint 14. (The version from launchpad is old and not compatible with Ubuntu 12.10. The OpenSuSe's build project failed to build it, too). So I try my luck with ...
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Can grub2 detect processor architecture, and display options accordingly?
I have a bootable usb flash drive with grub2 handling booting of ISOs (mostly different spins of Ubuntu). I am editing the menu.cfg myself and have my own script to update grub because I don't want to ...
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Ubuntu Bash - Changing permissions to user files for automating Apache VirtualHost creation
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I currently have a small Ubuntu Server 12.04 machine (test environment) with about 3 non-root users created. Each user has their own public_html directory under their ...
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Trouble installing or booting into Ubuntu or Fedora using a live USB or DVD on a new Lenovo E31
I've tried a live USB with Ubuntu 12.04.1 (both i386 and AMD 64-bit) as well as 11.10, as well as Ubuntu 10.04 on a DVD and Fedora 17 on a live USB. In all cases, selecting the option to boot into ...
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Configuring File Associations in Ubuntu with Wine
Related to this question, I have Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS. I downloaded PlayOnLinux 4.1.9 (the Precise version) and used it to install Microsoft Office 2010 Pro. PlayOnLinux downloaded Wine 1.5.21 and ...
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Chromakey -video-editing in Unix?
My friends are recommending me to use OSx for video-editing but trying to use old good OSs such as Debian and Ubuntu. How can I do chromakey -video-editing in some Unix or Linux?
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Exynos 5 DVFS or turning off cores in Ubuntu - Scaling frequency for one of the cores only (dual core) (cpufreq)
I was wondering if there is possible to scale only one of the cpu cores in the A15 in Exynos 5 ? I have tried using e.g cpufreq-set -c 1 -f 500MHz, but both cores are set to the same frequency. When ...
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Writes to FrameBuffer /dev/fb0 do not seem to change graphics screen
In attempting to write directly to the graphics frame buffer /dev/fb0 , (Ubuntu 12.04) , the graphics screen does not change.
Has Ubuntu 12.04 invalidated the use of /dev/fb0 , or does it need to be ...
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No panels in Ubuntu? libcanberra-tk cannot open shared object file
I booted up Ubuntu and have a background but no panels. Everything else seems to work fine, I can get into terminal and run Firefox for instance. I can create folders on my desktop, etc.
I'm new to ...
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Recover Partially Formatted Hard Drive
I'm running Ubuntu 12.04, and recently tried to safely remove my external hard drive using the GUI, but the "Format" button was right next to the "Safely Remove" button. I stopped the format as soon ...
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LXC: How do I mount a folder from the host to the container?
I'm trying to mount a folder on the host to an LXC container.
The host has a folder /mnt/ssd/solr_data created (this is currently on the root filesystem, but later I'll mount an SSD drive there, so ...
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Installing prstat package command on Ubuntu Linux
I'm trying to run the prstat command on my Ubuntu server, but it doesn't seem to be installed, I have searched the web for the package name needed to install it but without any luck for some reason..
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Linux equivalent for Windows Startup
Is there any way to add an application/script to the Linux startup so every time the system is on it executes [i'm looking for some automated way, user should not add this by cron job or something ...
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resolution of attached widescreen
I wanted to connect my TV (Sony Bravia) to my Laptop. My laptop has a displayport and the TV a HDMI. So with the adapters, I'm able to connect those two, and that part works.
What doesn't work, is ...
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How can I forcibly remove a package from Ubuntu by hand?
I posted this on ServerFault and got some helpful-looking questions, but no answer in terms of what can I do. What, on a low level, can I do to completely exorcise a package that is jamming aptitude ...
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How to setup whatever.localhost.dev to resolve into 127.0.0.1 on Ubuntu 12.04?
I'm running Ubunut 12.04
I want *localhost.dev to point to 127.0.0.1.
Ubuntu 12.04 comes with dnsmasq-base installed with network-manager. But there is no /etc/dnsmasq.conf.
So I installed the ...
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What does apt need to be healed of a bad setup?
I made a couple of earlier posts regarding a libssl-dev that, it seemed, was not removable. Some of the replies touched on that there was a problem with apt, and now that someone posted the command to ...
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What is the default font for Grub in Ubuntu and Fedora?
I was wondering what the name of the font is for the grub set by default after installation in Ubuntu and Fedora (they are different ones). Any help would be great!
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Starting Resque worker with script doesnt work, starting by hand does
I am trying to figure out why my process doesn't work if started via a script, but works fine if started by hand.
Here's the details:
script is a resque worker start script. The script location is ...
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Jingle CLI client / Jitsi replacement / VOIP
I am looking for a Jingle client for the command line.
Currently, I use Jitsi, but my dreams of not needing the GUI for more than just web-browsing are not realized due to my reliance on this ...
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Novice Ubuntu 12.04 user needs help! [closed]
I'm new to Unix/Linux and someone suggested I try Ubuntu. I like it but I can't figure a couple of things out and don't really have time to google up ways to solve the problem. Answers from a quick ...
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Find command incorrect results with days filter
I am trying to find all files modified before march 6 in a directory with thousands of files.
I executed the following commands in the PWD where I want to find files.
find -mtime +47 > ...
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What is the proper solution to a web server trying to write to a directory?
So, I have a box with a "deploy" user. This deploy user owns a code repository and wordpress is running on this box...
When wordpress attempts to do something like upload a plugin, it is using the ...
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How can I restore my linux?
I had an hard-drive with two partitions: one was 460GB NTFS and the other was 5GB ext3 Ubuntu 10.10.
I wanted to extend the Ubuntu partition, so I was going to shrink the NTFS partition by 15GB, but I ...
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How do I update my Debian kernel?
Essentially I have an Ubuntu laptop and a board running Debian. I have installed the same kernel module and a utility for managing it on each, using aptitude.
Unfortunately, the versions of the ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 Gnome 3 “freezes” randomly - not a normal freeze though
Since upgrading to 12.04, I've randomly experienced this strange phenomenon where my mouse mostly doesn't work and keyboard mostly does. I have not been able to identify a cause for this. Sometimes it ...
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Force directory to always be in cache
I've been testing out different methods to improve the time it takes to compile my entire c++ project. Currently it takes ~5 minutes. I experimented with distcc, ccache, and others. Recently, I ...
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Channeling audio
I am trying to get an audio setup that looks like:
INPUTS:
1 stream from mpg123 (CLI MP3 player)
1 Microphone Input
OUTPUT:
1 stream going to Jitsi (Jabber w/ voice) to be broadcast.
1 connection to ...
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Low battery freezes laptop
I have a laptop Lenovo G575. MS Windows works without any problems on it, but with Linux, it freezes during login or up to 10 minutes after power on. I have tried Ubuntu, Fedora 15 and 16, Fedora 16 ...
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Time synchronization of machines on LAN to GPS NTP server on the LAN UBUNTU 12.04
I have 4 computers on a LAN that need to have their system clocks closely synchronized within a ms or so if possible. I have just installed a GPS based time server (ESE-104A) on the LAN. At this ...
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Allowing write access to an SMB mounted drive
Following this guide I was able to get my Samba share to mount on my Ubuntu 12.04 system. I can navigate the folders just fine. However I cannot create a directory nor create a file. I get the ...
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delete file with name --help.tgz [duplicate]
I have file with name --help.tgz. I want to delete but don't know how.
I tried rm "--help.tgz", rm \-\-help.tgz and it did not work. How can I delete a file with such name?
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/nagios/cgi-bin/statusmap.cgi was not found on this server
I installed Nagios 3.4.4 on Ubuntu server 12.10. Installation was successful but now I'm not able to view maps and trends.When I try, I get the following error
/nagios/cgi-bin/statusmap.cgi was not ...
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Does encrypting my whole Lubuntu slow running programs down?
During the installation of Lubuntu I chose to encrypt my whole HDD (not just the /home folder). Now it feels like my system has slowed down a lot. Especially the startup time of programs increased.
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How to unpack libc6 source on Hardy using debian/rules?
How do I unpack the libc6 source code on Hardy without building everything?
I run
apt-get source libc6
and I get
$ ls -1d glibc-2.7/*
glibc-2.7/debian
glibc-2.7/glibc-2.7.tar.bz2
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How to attach elisp function source code in Emacs?
I could use M-x find-function to find the source code of some elisp functions if the function is not written in C code.
But since I am using a Debian binary package of Emacs , some of the source ...
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Use /etc/aliases for outgoing mail relayed by postfix with local domain
I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 with postfix configured as satellite system that relays outgoing mail to Gmail. For sake of example, my registered domain is example.com I want root cronjobs' error output to be ...
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grub2 ubuntu 12.04.2 flashing screen
Okay, so I've been searching a bit and either by my lack of understanding (I know just enough to be about as dangerous as a fluffy kitten) or because I am just not searching for the right stuff (maybe ...
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Install Sublime Text 2 on Ubuntu
I installed Linux in Ubuntu (via VMWare).
I'm trying to install Sublime Text 2 on Ubuntu, so I entered these lines:
tar xf Sublime\ Text\ 2.0.1\ x64.tar.bz2
sudo mv Sublime\ Text\ 2 /opt/
sudo ln -s ...
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issues booting Ubuntu [Firmware Bug ] : ACPI _BQC method, cannot determine initial brightness
I am running into an issue booting Linux on a new machine. I started with Ubuntu Server edition. I completed the initial setup via an ISO image, however when the machine restarted and went to load ...
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Local port forwarding automatically configured on boot?
I have software which needs to run as a non-root user, but needs to listen on port 80 and 443.
With iptables, this isn't all that difficult:
sudo iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i eth0 -p tcp ...
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How to get grub Ubuntu 12.04 to boot from secondary boot partition and use new seperate root
On a remote Ubuntu server I performed a series of upgrades/changes to go from a desktop-install Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick to a server-install of 12.04 LTS Precise
This all went well except a few hickups ...
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Can I put 2 disks into a raid-0 array without reformating the FS?
We have an existing /dev/sda disk, we are adding an identical /dev/sdb
I want to place these two disks in a raid-0 array.
Can I do that without reformating /dev/sda?
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sybase and iconv
I inherited an old Ubuntu 6.10 server running php 5.1.6 which is using sybase to connect to MSSQL. A user submitted some text containing an en-dash and crashed one of my script. It turns out sybase ...
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uploading from Netbeans to remote CentOS server failed
I have a php web application on Netbeans on my Ubuntu , and server is CentOS on a virtualBox .
Suddenly uploading to server stopped and I'm getting these errors for non-root user :
Failed:
file ...
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Ctrl + c will not kill process
I have looked for answers and so far have found nothing to answer my question. I am currently logging in to my Ubuntu server and upon running a process I can not run any of the interrupts on it. Here ...
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Postfix address resolver + loopback to root problem
Ubuntu Linux 12.04.1 With LAMP stack.
The goal is to setup a web server that can send mail via the PHP mail() function, which uses localhost. The mail must then be relayed to an ISP domain ...
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Run service after logging in on an X session
I am using Ubuntu 12.04. I want to automatically start a service after login with LightDM. This service is not meant to start on boot, but after X is initialized.
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Get diff changes between original files installed with apt and current files
I installed php5-fpm package using apt; then I made some changes to the PHP configuration files.
Now I would get the diffs between the original files versions (the ones of the package installed) and ...
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Transfer 150GB of files from an old MacBook Pro with Ubuntu 13.04 Live DVD
My girlfriend's old MacBook Pro 2009 (5,4) stopped working. I have tried several times to reinstall OS X, but could not do so. There appears to be something really really wrong with the OS.
Since she ...
