INSTRUCTION
stringlengths 12
466
| RESPONSE
stringlengths 3
431
| SOURCE
stringclasses 1
value | METADATA
stringlengths 44
71
|
|---|---|---|---|
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 | ubuntu-dialogue | {"user_question": "Cr0w-", "user_answer": "DARKGuy"} |
Anyone know how I can list all processes in a tree structure? | 'pstree' | ubuntu-dialogue | {"user_question": "Riaal", "user_answer": "Jowi"} |
hey. a friend managed to somehow disrupt an ongoing upgrade from ubuntu 10.04 to (i think) 11.04. now, do-release-upgrade fails. | have you tried --fix-missing? | ubuntu-dialogue | {"user_question": "whyz", "user_answer": "tyler_d"} |
Hi! Is it possible to find out the package that has installed a specific file in the filesystem. Like 'equery belongs' does for gentoo? | dpkg -S /path/to/file | ubuntu-dialogue | {"user_question": "elHannos", "user_answer": "erUSUL"} |
what beginners guide to ubuntu do you all recommend? | http://doc.gwos.org/index.php/DapperGuide | ubuntu-dialogue | {"user_question": "Paradoxx", "user_answer": "Thunderpants"} |
how do i toggle the virtual desktops with the keyboard | dpkg -l foo | ubuntu-dialogue | {"user_question": "jivenix", "user_answer": "eyequeue"} |
hi, i have this line: /dev/hda7 /media/shared hfsplus defaults,user,noauto 0 0 in my /etc/fstab but it doesn't mount when i boot, i have to type in mount /media/shared manually anyone know what i'm doing wrong? | remove the noauto option (that's what it means) | ubuntu-dialogue | {"user_question": "teb", "user_answer": "micahcowan"} |
how do i get my ip | ifconfig | ubuntu-dialogue | {"user_question": "bigfuzzyjesus", "user_answer": "frogzoo"} |
trying to 'killall' in a shell script, but sometimes there is nothing to kill and it causes the script to exit because it things there is an error. Any ideas? | killall | echo $? | ubuntu-dialogue | {"user_question": "nakkor", "user_answer": "Holos"} |
please tell me why edgy wont play midi files | Do you have the timidity package installed? | ubuntu-dialogue | {"user_question": "kyja", "user_answer": "thirdalbum"} |
would it be possible to mount an ubuntu liveCD ISO and modify it from there? and then burn it? | http://www.atworkonline.it/~bibe/ubuntu/custom-livecd.htm | ubuntu-dialogue | {"user_question": "Ademan", "user_answer": "slacker_nl"} |
Is it possible to do an inverse find. Like say I want to find everything that ISN'T an mp3 in my music folder? | where $PATH is the path you want to search in | ubuntu-dialogue | {"user_question": "woodwizzle", "user_answer": "slacker_nl"} |
Anyone can help me with that ? | sudo apt-get install build-essential ? | ubuntu-dialogue | {"user_question": "joel_", "user_answer": "sharperguy"} |
How can I take multiple video files and combine them into a single continuous file? | cat file1 file2 > result | ubuntu-dialogue | {"user_question": "clearzen", "user_answer": "velko"} |
does anyone know how to get nvidia TwinView to work with XGL on edgy? | nno but if you figure it out you should let me know :p | ubuntu-dialogue | {"user_question": "FlimFlamMan", "user_answer": "clearzen"} |
anybody who knows how to compile things: http://paste.ubuntu-nl.org/20460 | also, use checkinstall instead of make install because it lets you uninstall it with dpkg | ubuntu-dialogue | {"user_question": "_axiom", "user_answer": "rukuartic"} |
Question - I have Ubuntu on a Windows domain. I somehow changed my default shell to something other than /bin/sh. My terminal prompt shows up as $ on my domain account now. I would like to change it back, but I am unsure of how because the chsh command will only change the setting for LOCAL users, not domain users. What can I do? | My guess is that your actuall problem is that you *did* set the login shell to /bin/sh, when what you wanted was /bin/bash. | ubuntu-dialogue | {"user_question": "roasted__", "user_answer": "Jordan_U"} |
how do i run a sh file | sh ./filename | ubuntu-dialogue | {"user_question": "looktj", "user_answer": "KenSentMe"} |
I am installing Ubuntu from the ALT CD using text mode, after Base Sytem installation system rebootet and now i have the Login screen. How do i go on to the installation of packages etc...?? i am confused | login, then sudo apt-get update and then sudo apt-get upgrade | ubuntu-dialogue | {"user_question": "Rea", "user_answer": "fyrestrtr"} |
The installer dies while trying to fsck one of the windows partitions, how do I keep it from doing the fsck? | try Hiren's boot disc, it has partition magic on it, set up your partitions then run the installer | ubuntu-dialogue | {"user_question": "nutshell42", "user_answer": "chaddy"} |
i know how to use find to find a buncha jpegs recursively in a folder, but how can I then delete those files? it tuturns a list and piping them to rm didn't seem to work | rm -rf `find $yoursearchstring` | ubuntu-dialogue | {"user_question": "woodwizzle", "user_answer": "chaddy"} |
does anyone know how some people get '# $Id: CHANGELOG 218 2006-08-11 14:40:20Z garrett $ #' to go at the top of their files whenever it's changed? | you've got to use a version control system like cvs or subversion | ubuntu-dialogue | {"user_question": "rob86_", "user_answer": "digitallotus"} |
hi all ... is there a way to have consoles individually remember their 'last commands' history, so that after a reboot, any automatically re-opened consoles retain their own command history ? | that is just systemwide history for any user | ubuntu-dialogue | {"user_question": "charlie5", "user_answer": "Hansel"} |
Been trying to configure ldap-auth, but 'getent passwd <userid>' returns no data from a known userid on my ldap server. Any help is appreciated. | grep passwd nsswitch.conf | ubuntu-dialogue | {"user_question": "g-unit", "user_answer": "trappist"} |
I'm using 3 monitors with Xinemara, And when I move windows, I'm getting 40-70% CPU usage from Xorg on a 3GHz C2D E6600 - is that normal? | 40 to 70 dosent surprise me on that | ubuntu-dialogue | {"user_question": "Latty", "user_answer": "Jack_Sparrow"} |
i can see it listed on the packages website, but aptitude does not see it | It is in universe repos. | ubuntu-dialogue | {"user_question": "preglow", "user_answer": "slytherin"} |
Are you guys planning on doing a security update for the Rails vulnerability? I installed it on my 6.06 LTS server through the repositories. | more than likely, since its a security issue | ubuntu-dialogue | {"user_question": "wonis", "user_answer": "frying_fish"} |
fsck question: How much hell am I going to be in for if I run fsck -y on a partition that has problems? 'Will it destroy my stuff' is my biggest question | could be. Usually not though. You may lose some files. Check in /lost+found | ubuntu-dialogue | {"user_question": "jcn_", "user_answer": "MarcN"} |
what is more 'standard'? lzma or xz? do they keep file permissions? | Torrents typically do checksums on each piece but the other week I had a corrupt ISO from a torrent, so you'd better double check just in case. | ubuntu-dialogue | {"user_question": "bencc", "user_answer": "Polah"} |
when updating a kernel do i *need* to install the headers as well? | or compile glibc | ubuntu-dialogue | {"user_question": "bofh80", "user_answer": "Tarandus"} |
Hey all, I want to convert video (ogm, mkv, avi) (with subs, It's anime) to DVD (for playing on a DVD player, not just burning the files to disk), any suggestions on what apps I could use? | try ffmepg or mplayer for conversion. for composing dvd, i dunnp | ubuntu-dialogue | {"user_question": "Lattyware", "user_answer": "|thunder"} |
`Allegro: GNOME3 doesn't work at all from what I've seen and heard. | FUD. Gnome3 does have some rough spots, but it's pretty good. | ubuntu-dialogue | {"user_question": "Polah", "user_answer": "coolpyrofreak"} |
does anyone know is Alsa-something works with M-audio C400? | http://www.mentby.com/Group/alsa-list/m-audio-fasttrack-c400.html it appears so... perhaps with some work. | ubuntu-dialogue | {"user_question": "JaddVe", "user_answer": "L3top"} |
how can i view how much cpu a process is using? | top | ubuntu-dialogue | {"user_question": "Megaqwerty", "user_answer": "iter"} |
EDGY... do i update the repositories (breezy to edgy) to upgrade distro? | yes in /etc/apt/sources.list | ubuntu-dialogue | {"user_question": "tuskernini", "user_answer": "iter"} |
hi, is there a linux app that can read chm-files (you know, those windoze help files)? | gnochm | ubuntu-dialogue | {"user_question": "matjan", "user_answer": "iter"} |
Hi everyone ! :) Does somebody know where to find the list of universe components and their respective description on the web ? | packages.ubuntu.com | ubuntu-dialogue | {"user_question": "linovice", "user_answer": "Kyral_Laptop"} |
Anyone know how to set up Ubuntu so it automagically log in a specific user? | sudo gdmsetup | ubuntu-dialogue | {"user_question": "hellokthulu", "user_answer": "Casanova"} |
should i run update-grub or update-grub2 ? | so basically it doesn't matter | ubuntu-dialogue | {"user_question": "kermit", "user_answer": "karla"} |
does installing ubuntu from USB make any changes to the USB? | usb should be yntouched | ubuntu-dialogue | {"user_question": "peggysmouse", "user_answer": "dr_willis"} |
Where is the default make path? | /usr/bin/make | ubuntu-dialogue | {"user_question": "Nimwei", "user_answer": "OoberMick"} |
I just installed Ubuntu, but I can't figure out which package for the flash player to install to work with firefox. All seem to not work with youtube.com. Any pointers to documentation on this? | flashplugin-nonfree is the only Adobe/Macromedia Flash, the others are Free alternatives | ubuntu-dialogue | {"user_question": "BrokenPipe", "user_answer": "Warbo"} |
Could anyone tell me how long the upgrade from 10.10 to 11.04 will take? | 20 minutes | ubuntu-dialogue | {"user_question": "Polah", "user_answer": "gaara"} |
how do I figure which package contains a certain file? | http://packages.ubuntu.com | ubuntu-dialogue | {"user_question": "DexterF", "user_answer": "fdoving"} |
how do i resize desktop icons globally? the default size seems a bit large for me | change the Icon View Defaults setting in Edit->Prefs of a Nautilus window | ubuntu-dialogue | {"user_question": "neildarlow", "user_answer": "bimberi"} |
How could I find out wheather I use arts or alsa? I would like to set up Skype the best possible way. I have already read about dsp_hijacker, but now found a forum (http://forum.skype.com/index.php?showtopic=48195) and also a possible kopete integration with a different tip (http://extragear.kde.org/apps/kopete%20skype/) (I use kubuntu, but I think it doesn't make any difference here.) | cat /dev/sndstat | ubuntu-dialogue | {"user_question": "nagyv", "user_answer": "neildarlow"} |
Hi, my ubuntu has hostname, named 'hulahula'. But when my windows xp in the same lan try to ping by name, that is 'hulahula', it said unknown host. Ping with ubuntu ip address works fine. How do I make it work? | simplest solution is to configure and run samba | ubuntu-dialogue | {"user_question": "firstknight", "user_answer": "neildarlow"} |
argh, whenever a kernel is updated, it always sets my grub config to boot from (hd1,0) and not (hd0,0) like it should be.. (i can manually fix it, but i have to do this after every kernel update..) | among other things | ubuntu-dialogue | {"user_question": "excitatory", "user_answer": "travisat"} |
How do I figure out what kind of machine I am running on through a UNIX comand? | lspci -vv or lshw | ubuntu-dialogue | {"user_question": "Yuuki", "user_answer": "fyrestrtr"} |
hi, i'm new to linux but i'm also interested in running a linux server - file, http, hl2 and dc. Should i get ubuntu desktop or server? (i also want to play high end comp games eg, hl2) | if you need to play games, you should use the desktop version to install | ubuntu-dialogue | {"user_question": "chris449", "user_answer": "lamego"} |
hi, does anyone know how to increase my refresh rate i'm using kde and xgl on nvidia graphics card? | where screen resoltuion option is there | ubuntu-dialogue | {"user_question": "chris449", "user_answer": "ubuntu"} |
? now that I have the web/mail server up how or what do I need to do to get postfix or the mail clint to get my mail? | to run a mail server you need smtp and pop3 support. or at least those are the most common protocols | ubuntu-dialogue | {"user_question": "steve_Laptop", "user_answer": "Gumby"} |
who has a good sources.list file ? | the wiki has an excellent one :P * | ubuntu-dialogue | {"user_question": "kulbir", "user_answer": "Frankenstein"} |
For Xchat is there a sysinfo script available? | xchat.org has many scripts | ubuntu-dialogue | {"user_question": "bigmarCus", "user_answer": "IAskew"} |
what are some common commands to get my internet connection back up? | the only one you need with wire in place is sudo dhclient | ubuntu-dialogue | {"user_question": "Kagar", "user_answer": "ompaul"} |
I don't suppose anyone can point me at what key combination I may have hit to inverse the colors on all things GTK? | seems tobe super-m and super-n here. | ubuntu-dialogue | {"user_question": "W9ZEB-Lars", "user_answer": "Dr_Willis"} |
Is it true that Edgy is coming out in October instead of December? | i read to day that its to be released in october | ubuntu-dialogue | {"user_question": "Montag_", "user_answer": "juztin"} |
can someone tell me how to get an IP address on eth0? I have had trouble upgrading and i think if i can get an ip up i can apt-get upgrade to fix ---- hopefully | try sudo dhclient eth0 | ubuntu-dialogue | {"user_question": "roger_", "user_answer": "Enselic"} |
Hi! Is it hard to setup squid? | http://www.visolve.com/squid/sqguide.php | ubuntu-dialogue | {"user_question": "Backeman", "user_answer": "lix"} |
Does anyone know a good email client that is comparable to Gmail's web interface? | I don't think such a thing exists...but Evolution and Thunderbird are good e-mail clients | ubuntu-dialogue | {"user_question": "godtvisken", "user_answer": "Emon"} |
For some reason, my Feisty shutdown menu suddenly doesn't include 'Shut Down'. I only get Log Out, Lock Screen, Switch User, Suspend, & Hibernate - Any suggestions? | no idea, but poweroff is the terminal command. | ubuntu-dialogue | {"user_question": "holotone", "user_answer": "Megaqwerty"} |
does anyone know of a good flowcharting program? | kivio ? | ubuntu-dialogue | {"user_question": "Megaqwerty", "user_answer": "pike_"} |
how do I cd (in the terminal) to a folder with spaces in it? | you know you can hit tab and it completes the thing for you | ubuntu-dialogue | {"user_question": "Megaqwerty", "user_answer": "compotatoj"} |
Can someone tell me about a program to backup my system to a DVD or two? | it's probably not in ubuntu | ubuntu-dialogue | {"user_question": "Megaqwerty", "user_answer": "t35t0r"} |
hello everyone! my computer takes about 2 minutes to star, so i guess theres something wrong with it. how can I fix it? | K3nto: when booting up, Ctrl+Alt+F6 and then Ctrl+Alt+F8 should bring up what's actually happening in the background. That way, you can pinpoint the problem. | ubuntu-dialogue | {"user_question": "filloy", "user_answer": "Megaqwerty"} |
uhm, how do i change my sources again, i cant find anything with apt-get as it is. | sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list | ubuntu-dialogue | {"user_question": "appe", "user_answer": "minimec_afk"} |
Hello, I have a problem with sound in ubuntu. Each time a hear a cd or an mp3 file and then go to sites as youtube or google video, the sounds from those sites won't play. I have to restart the computer and for them to have sound. Does anyone knows either how to fix it or how to restablish the sound without rebooting? Thanks | I use to have a similar problem flash stuff would have no sound if another app was using sound at the same time , I didn'T need to restart the comp, I just needed to close the broswer and restart it with nothing else using the sounds card | ubuntu-dialogue | {"user_question": "ricard1", "user_answer": "Pelo"} |
how can I make opera my default browser? | System > Preferences > Preferred Applications | ubuntu-dialogue | {"user_question": "nightattack", "user_answer": "cdubya"} |
can you run them in a terminal? | they don't run in terminal either. you run them simply by typign the name of the shell script without the .sh extension, am i correct? | ubuntu-dialogue | {"user_question": "orbin", "user_answer": "RichardUK"} |
hi how do I stop the screen from going to sleep when I am watching stuff on MPlayer? | you might wanna use totem (or a different xine front end), it supports DVD menus where mplayer doesn't, but you can probably configure it in it's options. | ubuntu-dialogue | {"user_question": "m4rk", "user_answer": "Ignite_"} |
how do I get gnome network manager to manage my wifi connection? | read through the wifi howto yet? | ubuntu-dialogue | {"user_question": "m4rk", "user_answer": "stefg"} |
nlite? never heard of it | its under the 'customize' button where you set your theme/appearance settings | ubuntu-dialogue | {"user_question": "m4rk", "user_answer": "Dr_Willis"} |
you meant dcordes? | gqview | ubuntu-dialogue | {"user_question": "dcordes", "user_answer": "nolimitsoya"} |
How do I update the environment variables from the command line. Tried env-update - must be a Gentoo thing. | source /etc/profile ? | ubuntu-dialogue | {"user_question": "timhaughton", "user_answer": "thoreauputic"} |
Question: My desktop shows the SDA1 harddrive(windows). How do i get rid of it? (without unmounting) | /apps/nautilus/desktop/volumes_visible in gconf-editor | ubuntu-dialogue | {"user_question": "nu", "user_answer": "jrib"} |
hi, is there an official archive with discontinued ubuntu versions? | old-releases.ubuntu.com | ubuntu-dialogue | {"user_question": "yunosh", "user_answer": "Flannel"} |
is there a way to use apt-cache search but for packages you have installed only? | apt-cache search xxxxxxxx installed | ubuntu-dialogue | {"user_question": "cpk1", "user_answer": "VanessaE"} |
I just clicked on a google link that 'did a free virus scan'.. but that's not what the link said it was.. now the link says I've got all kinds of spyware.... what a joke! Not possible.. http://antvirushelp.com/2009/1/_freescan.php?id=880461 | you can get this really good antivirus/antispyware disk from http://ubuntu.com | ubuntu-dialogue | {"user_question": "Scunizi", "user_answer": "cwraig"} |
@ANYONE with linux java 32bit installed:: can anyone send me 'libjavaplugin_oji.so' (should be found trough search), or put it on rapidshare.de for ex.? please. (it's the java plugin for mozilla 32bit, i need the one for 32bit to wrap with nspluginwrapper). i just need this one very file for my amd64. | Check the private messages. | ubuntu-dialogue | {"user_question": "gh0st", "user_answer": "kliklik"} |
cant you select your session when you logi in | i do that, but if i select 'normal gnome session', i get no window-decoration and the hotkeys don't work. | ubuntu-dialogue | {"user_question": "tweek", "user_answer": "daunt"} |
how can i have whole man pages ? not only from console, pdf prefable :) , i couldnt find it in google | I haven't found any pdf's but you can find man pages on line all over | ubuntu-dialogue | {"user_question": "eilker", "user_answer": "kitche"} |
when a fullscreen app crashes, mouse gets stuck. how can it be fixed? | try ctrl-alt-f1 and kill the app from there or try ctrl-alt-backspace to restart X | ubuntu-dialogue | {"user_question": "tuna", "user_answer": "jrib"} |
how do i check the idletime on my system. I am trying to write a script that will shutdown my computer if it has been idle for X number of minutes | /usr/bin/w | ubuntu-dialogue | {"user_question": "wasauce", "user_answer": "evilghost"} |
how do i enable ssh in ubuntu (dapper drake) | apt-get install openssh-server ? | ubuntu-dialogue | {"user_question": "Ross", "user_answer": "POVaddct"} |
hi... can anyone tell me the package that contains the development man pages? | they are in the manpages-dev package | ubuntu-dialogue | {"user_question": "rwanderley", "user_answer": "hyphenated"} |
vmware player is not in my reps. wtf ? | https://help.ubuntu.com/community/VMware | ubuntu-dialogue | {"user_question": "|thunder", "user_answer": "ejer"} |
Sup all, Im guessing this is a no, but is there a way to comtrol grub with a USB keyboard ? | you may need to turn on usb keyborad support is BIOS setup | ubuntu-dialogue | {"user_question": "|thunder", "user_answer": "enyc"} |
no, you can't cut the branch you are sitting on, you can't repair a car engine while driving | Well, I figured there might be a way to at least destabilize it enough that my live usb would work again. | ubuntu-dialogue | {"user_question": "MonkeyDust", "user_answer": "Outis"} |
i need help.. is there a way to make ubuntu change hardware drivers?? ... i change a disk from one computer to other... | Most drives don't require special drivers | ubuntu-dialogue | {"user_question": "NewUser", "user_answer": "Polah"} |
hello guys am not a ubuntu nor a linux user as yet but long time ago i;ve tried to use rh and at that time rh requires me to mount -umount drives in order to use esp with floopies now does ubuntu requires this or its literally has become the genuine plug and play .. | you still need to mount floppies, but other media like cdroms and usb drives should automatically mount | ubuntu-dialogue | {"user_question": "krangg", "user_answer": "longwave"} |
anyone know how to make numlock turn on on boot? | numlockx | ubuntu-dialogue | {"user_question": "fiction", "user_answer": "eck"} |
hmm, when i select to instal azureus, why does it wanna install mozilla-browser when i got switftfox and firefox? and gjc java when i got sun java 1.5 ect? ;/ | try Rufus (its Azureus like without the java overhead) | ubuntu-dialogue | {"user_question": "FuriousRage", "user_answer": "rob"} |
how can i make my screen resolution to 1440X900 | indeed you cannot | ubuntu-dialogue | {"user_question": "kidbuntu", "user_answer": "Frogzoo"} |
is there an alacarte menu editor on edgy? | Right click on 'Applications' and choose 'Edit Menus' | ubuntu-dialogue | {"user_question": "kidbuntu", "user_answer": "Amaranth"} |
how do i tell what dapper verison i have? | cat /etc/issue | ubuntu-dialogue | {"user_question": "thejusticecow", "user_answer": "AAA"} |
hi! what's the command to see the current permissions on a file? | use 'ls -l' or 'stat' | ubuntu-dialogue | {"user_question": "typhoid", "user_answer": "jrib"} |
How do I force to stop a service running in /etc/init.d/ ? | 'sudo invoke-rc.d servicename stop' | ubuntu-dialogue | {"user_question": "nietzsky", "user_answer": "longwave"} |
My system has 4 gig of ram. Yet its only seeing 3 gig in ubuntu. It sees all 4 in Windows 2003. Do I have to do something special to the see the remaining gig of memory?! | you need a kernel that supports that much ram. not sure which one that would be. | ubuntu-dialogue | {"user_question": "ManiacKY", "user_answer": "trappist"} |
what should i use .. aptitude or apt-get | I prefer aptitude because it remembers dependencies that get installed, so you can easily remove them all when you remove the parent package | ubuntu-dialogue | {"user_question": "r000t", "user_answer": "jrib"} |
How to change or off screen-saver in Xubuntu 6.06? | try settings manager | ubuntu-dialogue | {"user_question": "Luc1", "user_answer": "dyrne"} |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.