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is there a symbol that can take the place of a space in terminal?	example. my\ name\ is\ coleys/
question: what group must a user be a member of in order to ssh into a machine?	fresh install
how did you restart alsa?	just type 'sudo /etc/init.d/alsa[press tab twice here] '
hey guys, is there a side panel option available in ubuntu, similar to taht in vista?	you could use conky
can somebody tell me how i can solve the error? http://pastebin.com/t2ag1j3j	nate_h: ya i concure error: zlib.h: no such file or directory missing -dev package maybe for zlib
anyone here have experience with wow + wine?	the wine app datebase has a large section on runnign wow in wine
whats a terminal command for logging off a user?	logout, i believe. you may also want to try exit.
how do i disconnect a wireless connection? in windows you rightclick and disconnect, what about in ubuntu ?	right click computer icon on your panel
when i change the resolution from nvidia x server settings to 1152x864 it works, but when i save the config in xorg.conf and reboot the system, the resolution come back to 1024x768	remove ~/.config/monitors.xml
i have really big problem, i burned the ubuntu files on a data-cd and rebooted my computer, i chooses boot from cd-rom but ubuntu didnt boot... do i need to burn the files on special way?	root account pass is disabled
what's the best download manager for ubuntu?	down them all - extension of firefox
hey, is there a way for me to select all the packages i want installed and instead of downloading them to get just the links to them so i could download them on another box?	use --simulate on the apt-get command, and save the list of packages. they're all available at packages.ubuntu.com, and then you can use aptoncd to create a repository-on-a-cd
hello. i'm trying to add a music directory to fstab so the notebook i'm building a guy will see his windows music as if it's his /home/user/music directory .. but there are spaces in the file names; can i use same syntax with fastab as cli? /media/windows\ hd/documents\ and\ settings/ etc etc?	no you can't
total newb question: how do i make ls report one page at a time?	ls \| more -- or even better, ls \| less
i (re)moved the /etc/apache2 directory because i want to reconfigure it. however, reinstalling the 'apache2' package (or a dpkg-reconfigure), does not seem to put a new /etc/apache2 directory into place. any ideas on this?	actually, just install apache2 after you purge the above
how stable is xgl?	xgl is alpha software, ymmv
if i want a user to only be able to use ssh forwarding/tunneling/proxying on my box would it be secure to simply create them an account but set their login shell as /bin/true?	yes, it should.
is there a way to view wikipedia offline on ubuntu/	dwnload an offline version from somwhere http://www.aboutonlinetips.com/download-wikipedia-on-computer-for-offline-access/
will the command rsync -av /source/dir dest/dir recursivly go through all the dirs in the source and maintain the structure on the dest?	its probably bad usability tn the parts of the developers
i'm trying to run a java app, but i get 'no java virtual machine could be found from your path variable'.... i have all the sun java stuff installed. what can i do to fix?	: set environments
hey guys. simple question. how can i uninstall shockwave flash plugin from firefox?	go into .mozilla/firefox/plugins and delete libflashplayer.so
recently bought a removable hard drive, formatted it but cannot write to it as owner is 'root' ... how do i change this to logged-in user? running 9.04	chown user /mnt/hardrive
hey all, how can i set my linksys router to forward everything up to the network its in(dhcp requests, logon info for domain, etc.)? i have 2 that do this quite well, but my third is a different model and tries to be a dhcp server. if i disable the dhcp server, then no one gets an ip, so i am trying to tell it to forward up to the network its in and be transparents to the packets from...	i don't think this is an ubuntu specific problem
anyone else using hoary had devices dissapear from 'places -> computer'?	yeah, they used to auto show when plugged in (two diff. usb drives) ... are you getting a hal error on gnome login?
is there a lean gnome irc app? i'm using xchat right now, and it seems quite complicated...	bitchx
where can i download the .deb packages if i don't have internet access? i need to bootstrap networking onto a box	via packages.ubuntu.com
if i download a package from http://packages.ubuntu.com/intrepid/firefox-3.0-branding with adept,synaptic or whatever package manager update it?	if there is a newer version in the repo's then yes, otherwise nope
anyone know how i can get info on network activity from a computer running ubuntu server?	yeah iptraf will show you that
anyone know how i can make my account an admin?	sudo nano /etc/sudoers
how do you run a process from the terminal and close the window without killing the process?	eg: vlc & exit
when was warty released? today?	linux-source-2.6.8.1
how do i make sure some module will be loaded on boot?	ass it to /etc/modules
should i risk restarting the system if aptitude says there's no broken packages even after update-manager failed?	does curl work in conjunction with wget?
what's the non-interactive equivalent of starting aptitude and doing uugg?	update & upgrade ?
hi. how do i make ssh server listen on non-default port?	sudo gedit /etc/ssh/sshd_config
can someone tell me the package that gives wisecracks when you make a mistake on the command line (e.g. bad password etc), something like cowsay	lol never heard of such a thing
i am about to upgrade to jaunty from intrepid when i get this message this computer is currently using the amd 'fglrx' graphics driver. no version of this driver is available that works with your hardware in ubuntu 9.04.	i would say so
i'm trying to apt-get install bcmwl-kernel-source from 9.10 but it's telling me to insert a cd for jaunty, even though i have my repo's set to use http:// repos. what's that about?	the cd is faster than the internet? you can disable that in software sources.
how to install and update new softwares in my home system .. which is not having internet .. i have install 10.04 desktop in home	but if the 10.4 cd you have is not newer than the one you installed, the point is moot
is there a way to install for example the latest version of wine via aptitude?	theres a unoffical repo that has the latest wine.
where should i turn to to report problem with launchpad.net????	file a bug at launchpad :)
from ubuntu-server, how do i install a window manager, preferably fluxbox or xfce?	i compiled fluxbos myself
any reason why a ndiswrapper driver wouldn't work with the network discovery thing that's on the panel by default?	wireless networking is such a mish-mash anything is possible!
do lower timings for ram help in linux?	by default, they are
i have a binary file for an application that has no installer and is not packaged, i'm moving it to my /usr/bin directory, is there a way to add it to my 'applications' menu in gnome?	you can add any item you want to your menu. right click on the menu and select edit
did i also miss something about mod_xslt not being in 11.10?	seems like it was removed due to lack of interest: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/oneiric/+source/modxslt/2005072700-3
hi guys! how is keymap configured in ubuntu? (linux?)	keyboard layout?
how do we work out what drivers are installed ? is it lcpi ?	lsmod
i went to firefox.com, clicked 'get firefox'. and got a tar.gz ... safe to install from there?	did you get my response?
how do i a complete update of my system ?	'sudo apt-get update ; sudo apt-get upgrade'
hi, linux noob here - just installed xubuntu on an old p3 machine. i added an adaptec 1205sa pci sata card so i can add a sata hdd. how do i get xubuntu to recognize this card so i can use the sata drive? tyty	after reboot you dont see if you run a lspci
i have a 400gb hd that's failing. i want to copy the contents over to a 500gb hd so it's a duplicate. can i use dd even though the sizes are not the same?	yes, if you don't mind wasting the surplus space. you'll have an exact copy of the filesystem (as opposed to partition)
i recently had some 'dark space' between my screens in my dual monitor setup. which means that the cursor didn't instantly jumped between the both screens. this happend automaticaly when i setup my screens in 'nvidia x server settings'. now this does not happen anymore and i want i back, anyone knows how to fix this?	if i recall correctl you can drag the monitors apart in nvidia settings
anyone have any idea why i can't switch between workspaces in jaunty?	you have only specified 1 workspace maybe?
how do i start gnome from terminal?	/etc/init.d/gdm start
hmm, i know it's kinda off topic, but would anyone know why the performance of https://launchpad.net/gl-cairo-simple degrades very quickly as the window size is increased. the default size has quite good performance, but when fullscreen it crawls and uses close to 100% cpu. also, is this typical for relatively simple constructions with cairo, or do you think something else is at fault (the opengl or sdl compnents?)? or could this be a p	i'd assume because as you increase the size of the window you increase the resolution, thus increasing the load on cpu/gu.
hey folks, i some how screwed up my emerald them and the only way i can get emerald to work right again is if i use 'emerald --replace' in the terminal, but then when i close that terminal window it goes back to not working, how can i fix this?	put & at the end of the command
can't really tell how long it will last but i wouldn't trust it with anything important anymore	can't run windows specific software on ubuntu
hi, what's the proper command to shut down the computer? halt doesn't do the job well...	sudo shutdown now
hi all, just upgraded my pc with new cpu/mb/memory and ubuntu 12.04 64bit is running like a champ. i checked with google, and it said everything should be good to go with no reinstall. can someone verify that or tell me it there's anything i still need to do please? thanks.	if nothing is broken, no need to fix anything :-)
so is ubuntu 7.10 supposed to be released at midnight tonight or what?	not at midnight
where should i put an alias? i put it in ~/.bashrc but have to run 'source .bashrc' to get it to run... thoughts?	if you add new stuff to .bashrc you would have to start a new shell or use source .bashrc to get them read.
hi, i want to buy a computer with an i5 cpu and a h55 intel chipset on the mb, is it compatible with the last linux kernels?	model name : intel(r) core(tm) i5 cpu 750 @ 2.67ghz
im struggling to get a java plugin for firefox on ubuntu, anyone know of any helpful resourses?	then run sudo update-java-alternatives -s java-6-sun
i'm using firefox 1.5 beta 2, and flash doesn't work. it plays sounds, but doesn't display anything, only black.	try a different flash package?
what's similar to getright in linux ?\	d4x or wget
glgo: error while loading shared libraries: libsdl_ttf-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: no such file or directory	sudo apt-get install libsdl-ttf2.0-0
can someone please help me? networking has stopped on my pc, it should just dhcp from router	is it a fresh install or did you just update?
has anyone gotten 'g' wireless to work at all?	sure, it works here.
anyone know of a good alarm clock i could install on ubuntu?	the package alarm-clock is a gtk based application that should do everything you need
i feel slightly silly for asking, but how does one switch from playback to capture in alsamixer?	otherwise, man alsamixer will tell you.
is there a way to remove livecd from the system running livecd ?	tried an ubuntu live usb?
does pulse audio slow down the processing if you're using alsa?	generally, unless you have multiple sound cards, you should only run one at a time
i have no sounds, someone can help me please :(	double click your volume control and make sure that your pcm is up
hi, i have a problem that when transfering files from my server (an old fit-pc 1-0) the transfers are at first as fast as one would expect (about 11-12 mb/sec) but then after a while drops a lot - down to about 1 mb/sec. i am using vsftp to transfer over a local network to another ubuntu machine connecting with gftp. any ideas what might be wrong? soe buffer filling up or..?	have a look at http://gettys.wordpress.com/2010/12/03/introducing-the-criminal-mastermind-bufferbloat/
i already installed but when i restore windows installation is already on in windows but i cant reinstall that work but installer for wubi was destroy how can i force to reinstall it without lost grub and all my installation	not relay...
how do i install a .tar.gz file?	i have a good doc for this
what is ubuntu's equivalent to windows image viewer? gpicview doesn't fit, since it cannot be used in order to print pictures	or you can install gthumb
does anyone know how i can do a printscreen? i am quite new to ubuntu :)	applications-->accessories-->print screen
reading up on iptables...if i wanted to block port 113, would this command do it?	do drop instead of reject if you don't want to respond to that port at all.
i have a laptop with 160g drive, i just attached a 160g usb drive, qparted only shows /dev/sdb, is that the usb one?	you can type sudo fdisk -l at the terminal to list partitions
other than thunderbird and evolution, is there another imap email client that supports imaps ?	claws
hello, i have 6.10 and for example i don't find x-chat using synaptic..where can i find a full software sources.list? i don't like the original one..not to much soft..(sorry my english)	you can get a basic one with lots of stuff in http://www.ubuntuguide.org
does ubuntu come with a builtin c compiler?	apt-get install gcc i think would do it.
anyone happen to know where i might find a karmic repo?	http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/releases/
where did the proprietary driver dialogue go in 12.10? can't find it	its under the software sources app - in a tab
hey guys, how can i update my ubuntu to 11.10? i got 10.4 right now but i want the new one with all the new theme and all that, i've tried sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade as someone suggested in here but i didn't get all that	by default lts releases will only upgrade to other lts releases. 1) there is some method to change that. 2) your current update method will not update you to a new version.
how do you add respotitorys to ubuntu?	i went to that ubuntu guide and added the sources they said to add. :p and have plenty to play with
is there a program that will let me print a file to pdf?	open office exports to pdf
hey i deleted teh trash can i con from try...how do i revivie it ?	do what i said - it is easier
how do i encode in h263 using ffmpeg... in spite of installing all missing codecs its showing 'incorrect parameters' though i use standard qcif resolution	isnt' the ffmpeg in ubuntu crippled or did they resolve that?
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=21663	i'm looking at it, if i'm winning i will respond with a positive note
hey, i got the sound-juicer doesn't do mp3s problem fixed. is anyone interested in the solution?	mp3 has some patent issues.
why does update manager update google-chrome?....i didn't add a repo for it, but installed it as a .deb myself.	i don't think it's possible to use compiz wallpaper + have desktop icons... i wish there was a way, but i've never seen one
where is ubuntu netbook remix iso's?	there is no unr anymore, the standard ubuntu iso is suitable for netbooks too
what is the variable which keeps locations for libraries? it seems the variable got changed, since no lib is found on /usr/local/lib anymore...	try running ldconfig , that rebuilds lib relationships. see /etc/ld.so.conf*
right! so i've ascertained that my wireless card is working but i can't get an ip address from my bt home hub / thomson speedtouch 7g wireless router. any clues?	iwconfig indicates what device is your wifi (i.e ath0, eth1, wlan0 ??)
hi, hoping someone can help. what is necessary to create a vpn connection to my home network?	fist you need an outside ip
hello, is there a 'teacher' program like openteacher that is special made for ubuntu?	check out edubuntu
damnit! i just hit an apt-get update. the first two servers it checked were non-canonical/ubuntu repositories. i saw things working and almost jumped out of my chair :(	200gb

is there a symbol that can take the place of a space in terminal?

example. my\ name\ is\ coleys/

question: what group must a user be a member of in order to ssh into a machine?

fresh install

how did you restart alsa?

just type 'sudo /etc/init.d/alsa[press tab twice here] '

hey guys, is there a side panel option available in ubuntu, similar to taht in vista?

you could use conky

can somebody tell me how i can solve the error? http://pastebin.com/t2ag1j3j

nate_h: ya i concure error: zlib.h: no such file or directory missing -dev package maybe for zlib

anyone here have experience with wow + wine?

the wine app datebase has a large section on runnign wow in wine

whats a terminal command for logging off a user?

logout, i believe. you may also want to try exit.

how do i disconnect a wireless connection? in windows you rightclick and disconnect, what about in ubuntu ?

right click computer icon on your panel

when i change the resolution from nvidia x server settings to 1152x864 it works, but when i save the config in xorg.conf and reboot the system, the resolution come back to 1024x768

remove ~/.config/monitors.xml

i have really big problem, i burned the ubuntu files on a data-cd and rebooted my computer, i chooses boot from cd-rom but ubuntu didnt boot... do i need to burn the files on special way?

root account pass is disabled

what's the best download manager for ubuntu?

down them all - extension of firefox

hey, is there a way for me to select all the packages i want installed and instead of downloading them to get just the links to them so i could download them on another box?

use --simulate on the apt-get command, and save the list of packages. they're all available at packages.ubuntu.com, and then you can use aptoncd to create a repository-on-a-cd

hello. i'm trying to add a music directory to fstab so the notebook i'm building a guy will see his windows music as if it's his /home/user/music directory .. but there are spaces in the file names; can i use same syntax with fastab as cli? /media/windows\ hd/documents\ and\ settings/ etc etc?

no you can't

total newb question: how do i make ls report one page at a time?

ls | more -- or even better, ls | less

i (re)moved the /etc/apache2 directory because i want to reconfigure it. however, reinstalling the 'apache2' package (or a dpkg-reconfigure), does not seem to put a new /etc/apache2 directory into place. any ideas on this?

actually, just install apache2 after you purge the above

how stable is xgl?

xgl is alpha software, ymmv

if i want a user to only be able to use ssh forwarding/tunneling/proxying on my box would it be secure to simply create them an account but set their login shell as /bin/true?

yes, it should.

is there a way to view wikipedia offline on ubuntu/

dwnload an offline version from somwhere http://www.aboutonlinetips.com/download-wikipedia-on-computer-for-offline-access/

will the command rsync -av /source/dir dest/dir recursivly go through all the dirs in the source and maintain the structure on the dest?

its probably bad usability tn the parts of the developers

i'm trying to run a java app, but i get 'no java virtual machine could be found from your path variable'.... i have all the sun java stuff installed. what can i do to fix?

: set environments

hey guys. simple question. how can i uninstall shockwave flash plugin from firefox?

go into .mozilla/firefox/plugins and delete libflashplayer.so

recently bought a removable hard drive, formatted it but cannot write to it as owner is 'root' ... how do i change this to logged-in user? running 9.04

chown user /mnt/hardrive

hey all, how can i set my linksys router to forward everything up to the network its in(dhcp requests, logon info for domain, etc.)? i have 2 that do this quite well, but my third is a different model and tries to be a dhcp server. if i disable the dhcp server, then no one gets an ip, so i am trying to tell it to forward up to the network its in and be transparents to the packets from...

i don't think this is an ubuntu specific problem

anyone else using hoary had devices dissapear from 'places -> computer'?

yeah, they used to auto show when plugged in (two diff. usb drives) ... are you getting a hal error on gnome login?

is there a lean gnome irc app? i'm using xchat right now, and it seems quite complicated...

bitchx

where can i download the .deb packages if i don't have internet access? i need to bootstrap networking onto a box

via packages.ubuntu.com

if i download a package from http://packages.ubuntu.com/intrepid/firefox-3.0-branding with adept,synaptic or whatever package manager update it?

if there is a newer version in the repo's then yes, otherwise nope

anyone know how i can get info on network activity from a computer running ubuntu server?

yeah iptraf will show you that

anyone know how i can make my account an admin?

sudo nano /etc/sudoers

how do you run a process from the terminal and close the window without killing the process?

eg: vlc & exit

when was warty released? today?

linux-source-2.6.8.1

how do i make sure some module will be loaded on boot?

ass it to /etc/modules

should i risk restarting the system if aptitude says there's no broken packages even after update-manager failed?

does curl work in conjunction with wget?

what's the non-interactive equivalent of starting aptitude and doing uugg?

update & upgrade ?

hi. how do i make ssh server listen on non-default port?

sudo gedit /etc/ssh/sshd_config

can someone tell me the package that gives wisecracks when you make a mistake on the command line (e.g. bad password etc), something like cowsay

lol never heard of such a thing

i am about to upgrade to jaunty from intrepid when i get this message this computer is currently using the amd 'fglrx' graphics driver. no version of this driver is available that works with your hardware in ubuntu 9.04.

i would say so

i'm trying to apt-get install bcmwl-kernel-source from 9.10 but it's telling me to insert a cd for jaunty, even though i have my repo's set to use http:// repos. what's that about?

the cd is faster than the internet? you can disable that in software sources.

how to install and update new softwares in my home system .. which is not having internet .. i have install 10.04 desktop in home

but if the 10.4 cd you have is not newer than the one you installed, the point is moot

is there a way to install for example the latest version of wine via aptitude?

theres a unoffical repo that has the latest wine.

where should i turn to to report problem with launchpad.net????

file a bug at launchpad :)

from ubuntu-server, how do i install a window manager, preferably fluxbox or xfce?

i compiled fluxbos myself

any reason why a ndiswrapper driver wouldn't work with the network discovery thing that's on the panel by default?

wireless networking is such a mish-mash anything is possible!

do lower timings for ram help in linux?

by default, they are

i have a binary file for an application that has no installer and is not packaged, i'm moving it to my /usr/bin directory, is there a way to add it to my 'applications' menu in gnome?

you can add any item you want to your menu. right click on the menu and select edit

did i also miss something about mod_xslt not being in 11.10?

seems like it was removed due to lack of interest: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/oneiric/+source/modxslt/2005072700-3

hi guys! how is keymap configured in ubuntu? (linux?)

keyboard layout?

how do we work out what drivers are installed ? is it lcpi ?

lsmod

i went to firefox.com, clicked 'get firefox'. and got a tar.gz ... safe to install from there?

did you get my response?

how do i a complete update of my system ?

'sudo apt-get update ; sudo apt-get upgrade'

hi, linux noob here - just installed xubuntu on an old p3 machine. i added an adaptec 1205sa pci sata card so i can add a sata hdd. how do i get xubuntu to recognize this card so i can use the sata drive? tyty

after reboot you dont see if you run a lspci

i have a 400gb hd that's failing. i want to copy the contents over to a 500gb hd so it's a duplicate. can i use dd even though the sizes are not the same?

yes, if you don't mind wasting the surplus space. you'll have an exact copy of the filesystem (as opposed to partition)

i recently had some 'dark space' between my screens in my dual monitor setup. which means that the cursor didn't instantly jumped between the both screens. this happend automaticaly when i setup my screens in 'nvidia x server settings'. now this does not happen anymore and i want i back, anyone knows how to fix this?

if i recall correctl you can drag the monitors apart in nvidia settings

anyone have any idea why i can't switch between workspaces in jaunty?

you have only specified 1 workspace maybe?

how do i start gnome from terminal?

/etc/init.d/gdm start

hmm, i know it's kinda off topic, but would anyone know why the performance of https://launchpad.net/gl-cairo-simple degrades very quickly as the window size is increased. the default size has quite good performance, but when fullscreen it crawls and uses close to 100% cpu. also, is this typical for relatively simple constructions with cairo, or do you think something else is at fault (the opengl or sdl compnents?)? or could this be a p

i'd assume because as you increase the size of the window you increase the resolution, thus increasing the load on cpu/gu.

hey folks, i some how screwed up my emerald them and the only way i can get emerald to work right again is if i use 'emerald --replace' in the terminal, but then when i close that terminal window it goes back to not working, how can i fix this?

put & at the end of the command

can't really tell how long it will last but i wouldn't trust it with anything important anymore

can't run windows specific software on ubuntu

hi, what's the proper command to shut down the computer? halt doesn't do the job well...

sudo shutdown now

hi all, just upgraded my pc with new cpu/mb/memory and ubuntu 12.04 64bit is running like a champ. i checked with google, and it said everything should be good to go with no reinstall. can someone verify that or tell me it there's anything i still need to do please? thanks.

if nothing is broken, no need to fix anything :-)

so is ubuntu 7.10 supposed to be released at midnight tonight or what?

not at midnight

where should i put an alias? i put it in ~/.bashrc but have to run 'source .bashrc' to get it to run... thoughts?

if you add new stuff to .bashrc you would have to start a new shell or use source .bashrc to get them read.

hi, i want to buy a computer with an i5 cpu and a h55 intel chipset on the mb, is it compatible with the last linux kernels?

model name : intel(r) core(tm) i5 cpu 750 @ 2.67ghz

im struggling to get a java plugin for firefox on ubuntu, anyone know of any helpful resourses?

then run sudo update-java-alternatives -s java-6-sun

i'm using firefox 1.5 beta 2, and flash doesn't work. it plays sounds, but doesn't display anything, only black.

try a different flash package?

what's similar to getright in linux ?\

d4x or wget

glgo: error while loading shared libraries: libsdl_ttf-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: no such file or directory

sudo apt-get install libsdl-ttf2.0-0

can someone please help me? networking has stopped on my pc, it should just dhcp from router

is it a fresh install or did you just update?

has anyone gotten 'g' wireless to work at all?

sure, it works here.

anyone know of a good alarm clock i could install on ubuntu?

the package alarm-clock is a gtk based application that should do everything you need

i feel slightly silly for asking, but how does one switch from playback to capture in alsamixer?

otherwise, man alsamixer will tell you.

is there a way to remove livecd from the system running livecd ?

tried an ubuntu live usb?

does pulse audio slow down the processing if you're using alsa?

generally, unless you have multiple sound cards, you should only run one at a time

i have no sounds, someone can help me please :(

double click your volume control and make sure that your pcm is up

hi, i have a problem that when transfering files from my server (an old fit-pc 1-0) the transfers are at first as fast as one would expect (about 11-12 mb/sec) but then after a while drops a lot - down to about 1 mb/sec. i am using vsftp to transfer over a local network to another ubuntu machine connecting with gftp. any ideas what might be wrong? soe buffer filling up or..?

have a look at http://gettys.wordpress.com/2010/12/03/introducing-the-criminal-mastermind-bufferbloat/

i already installed but when i restore windows installation is already on in windows but i cant reinstall that work but installer for wubi was destroy how can i force to reinstall it without lost grub and all my installation

not relay...

how do i install a .tar.gz file?

i have a good doc for this

what is ubuntu's equivalent to windows image viewer? gpicview doesn't fit, since it cannot be used in order to print pictures

or you can install gthumb

does anyone know how i can do a printscreen? i am quite new to ubuntu :)

applications-->accessories-->print screen

reading up on iptables...if i wanted to block port 113, would this command do it?

do drop instead of reject if you don't want to respond to that port at all.

i have a laptop with 160g drive, i just attached a 160g usb drive, qparted only shows /dev/sdb, is that the usb one?

you can type sudo fdisk -l at the terminal to list partitions

other than thunderbird and evolution, is there another imap email client that supports imaps ?

claws

hello, i have 6.10 and for example i don't find x-chat using synaptic..where can i find a full software sources.list? i don't like the original one..not to much soft..(sorry my english)

you can get a basic one with lots of stuff in http://www.ubuntuguide.org

does ubuntu come with a builtin c compiler?

apt-get install gcc i think would do it.

anyone happen to know where i might find a karmic repo?

http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/releases/

where did the proprietary driver dialogue go in 12.10? can't find it

its under the software sources app - in a tab

hey guys, how can i update my ubuntu to 11.10? i got 10.4 right now but i want the new one with all the new theme and all that, i've tried sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade as someone suggested in here but i didn't get all that

by default lts releases will only upgrade to other lts releases. 1) there is some method to change that. 2) your current update method will not update you to a new version.

how do you add respotitorys to ubuntu?

i went to that ubuntu guide and added the sources they said to add. :p and have plenty to play with

is there a program that will let me print a file to pdf?

open office exports to pdf

hey i deleted teh trash can i con from try...how do i revivie it ?

do what i said - it is easier

how do i encode in h263 using ffmpeg... in spite of installing all missing codecs its showing 'incorrect parameters' though i use standard qcif resolution

isnt' the ffmpeg in ubuntu crippled or did they resolve that?

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=21663

i'm looking at it, if i'm winning i will respond with a positive note

hey, i got the sound-juicer doesn't do mp3s problem fixed. is anyone interested in the solution?

mp3 has some patent issues.

why does update manager update google-chrome?....i didn't add a repo for it, but installed it as a .deb myself.

i don't think it's possible to use compiz wallpaper + have desktop icons... i wish there was a way, but i've never seen one

where is ubuntu netbook remix iso's?

there is no unr anymore, the standard ubuntu iso is suitable for netbooks too

what is the variable which keeps locations for libraries? it seems the variable got changed, since no lib is found on /usr/local/lib anymore...

try running ldconfig , that rebuilds lib relationships. see /etc/ld.so.conf*

right! so i've ascertained that my wireless card is working but i can't get an ip address from my bt home hub / thomson speedtouch 7g wireless router. any clues?

iwconfig indicates what device is your wifi (i.e ath0, eth1, wlan0 ??)

hi, hoping someone can help. what is necessary to create a vpn connection to my home network?

fist you need an outside ip

hello, is there a 'teacher' program like openteacher that is special made for ubuntu?

check out edubuntu

damnit! i just hit an apt-get update. the first two servers it checked were non-canonical/ubuntu repositories. i saw things working and almost jumped out of my chair :(

200gb