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i am having problems with beep media player it is not playing anything. I did get the codacs as instructed by the ubuntu unofficial guide. anyone else have the same experence and know what I should do?
and I hope you didn't use ubuntuguide that much
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{"user_question": "rob_newbie", "user_answer": "Seveaz"}
I need a program that can record what is happening on my screen. Actually I want it to record a running screensaver. Is that possible?
I've looked into that. I would try googling - its too complex a question for IRC. From what i found out its more than just apt-get'ing an app!
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{"user_question": "Jemt", "user_answer": "nicholaspaul"}
How do i set the ownership of my home folder to default?
sudo chown -R `whoami`:`whoami` /home/`whoami`
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{"user_question": "nicholaspaul", "user_answer": "Falstius"}
hey will gnome volume manager auto mount a hard drive i'm about to add to my computer? as that's gonna annoy me as it needs formatting...
probably not. you will need to add it to fstab .
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{"user_question": "transgress", "user_answer": "nicholaspaul"}
whats the application called to dual boot windows and ubuntu easily? with the windows boot manager
wubi
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{"user_question": "expiation", "user_answer": "bencahill"}
my /usr/src is showing like 4 different kernel sources, can i just remove all except for what im running?
yes but use aptitude to remove them
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{"user_question": "brokenbox", "user_answer": "transgress"}
Hey everyone. What package contains dhclient?
sorry.
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{"user_question": "ficusplanet", "user_answer": "Phuzion"}
hey, is it safe to update to Dapper Drake now, or should i wait till next month for the full version to be released ?
i've been running it for a copule of weeks now, runs fine for me
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{"user_question": "qatsi", "user_answer": "paradizelost"}
hi can anyone help me out please, trying to install something and I get this error: checking for C++ compiler default output file name... configure: error: C++ compiler cannot create executables
did you install build-essential?
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{"user_question": "jonah", "user_answer": "paradizelost"}
What package do I need to install in order to get PDO support for php5 in dapper?
try ubuntu+1
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{"user_question": "npmccallum", "user_answer": "paradizelost"}
Hi all! Are other people getting crashes and slowness in Evolution in Dapper flgiht 5?
upgrade to flight 7
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{"user_question": "rusty", "user_answer": "paradizelost"}
Hello All. A quick question. Can Kubuntu live cd be installed to hdd??
get the Kubuntu install CD
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{"user_question": "winslayer", "user_answer": "Razor-X"}
Hey everyone... I was hoping someone might be able to help me out here. I'm trying to run games and so far have had 0% success even with the Linux games I've downloaded like Enemy Territory. I tried reinstalling Windows on my NTFS partition, but setup says it's detecting system hardware but leaves the screen blank indefinately. I don't know what to do here... Can anyone please help me?
if you install Windows after linux , grub will be overwritten and your in a lot of trouble (it is fixable though, but still messy)
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{"user_question": "kaffeend", "user_answer": "kemik"}
Question. Why can't Ubuntu find 90% of the packages that are mentioned in the Ubuntu Guide?
you have the latest kernel
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{"user_question": "cefx", "user_answer": "topyli"}
hey guys is there a command to check the size of a directory?
you might want to add '-h' to that as well
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{"user_question": "sw0rdfish", "user_answer": "osse"}
Hi, what is the command to stop the X server?
ctrl + alt + Backspace
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{"user_question": "olivier", "user_answer": "grumbly"}
hello. Any body knows how to give java plugins for firfox without instaling the sun-j2re? I installed the kaffe pack but it doesn't have the plugins for the firefox.
have you tried gcj? I think that might work
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{"user_question": "jgomo", "user_answer": "wolfjb"}
is there a keyboard shortcut for switching between desktop workspaces?
ctrl-alt-arrow
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{"user_question": "builder", "user_answer": "Telep"}
sudo is driving me insane is there any way to install a nice minimal server install WITHOUT sudo?
sudo su -
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{"user_question": "nemik", "user_answer": "persi1"}
is there a .deb package of thudnerbird 1.0.6 available anywhere?
pitti from ubuntu-devel says that he has prepared one for hoary-security. it should be available shortly
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{"user_question": "lee", "user_answer": "jasoncohen"}
new to ubunto - I installed the php4 and mysql options, but it still does not seem to have php working with mysql yet. Is there any other modules that I need to install?
search again, it's in there
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{"user_question": "aford", "user_answer": "levander"}
Is Breezy still a big no-no or is it fair game for brave folks?
http://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2005-August/009741.html
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{"user_question": "Twiggy", "user_answer": "persia"}
hey. how do i tell breezy's hotplug to link the proprietary nvidia modules into a proper .ko and put in volatile?
`module-assistant` then `dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-`uname -r``
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{"user_question": "rouven", "user_answer": "persia"}
Could someone please remind me where to report Universe bugs?
malone.
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{"user_question": "persia", "user_answer": "crimsun"}
is the sun j2re package still in ubuntu or was it removed temporarily ???
The repository where it is stored is not working correctly right now. It will probably get better, but no schedule at this point.
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{"user_question": "neighborlee", "user_answer": "persia"}
some unicode characters are not displayed properly...us there a package i can install to get them displayed?
That's usually a font problem. Add more fonts until you find one that has all the characters you need.
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{"user_question": "traveller", "user_answer": "persia"}
i have installed 5.10 and setup 'root' and 'user' accounts, logged in to gnome as 'user' and try to run synaptic. it asks me for a password, but none of them (root's and user's) doing nothing (no error messages on screen). what's wrong?
if you want to make the 'user' account be able to use sudo add that user to the admin group
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{"user_question": "brammator", "user_answer": "redguy"}
Is there a command that will activate and deactivate a connection like you would do in the networking app?
check the man pages for those
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{"user_question": "shammy", "user_answer": "apokryphos"}
Hm. Coming from a FBSD perspective on getting packages as source that you compile, is there a way I can get the source of a particular program (like Konsole) in that sense? So I can basically check out the source, edit something and do make install?
apt-get source <package> .. change what you need, then within the source root, 'debian/rules binary' will chew for a while, then spit out a .deb you can install like normal
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{"user_question": "Cin", "user_answer": "smo"}
Am I the only one having problems with XMMS? It freezes when I try to play a mp3 file
mie seg faults
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{"user_question": "Jemt", "user_answer": "mebaran151_"}
Hm, I am trying to share a folder on my laptop using Samba. I have given it a share-name and opened port 137-139 and 445 for incomming connection in my firewall. When I try to access the share on my stationary workstation (mount -t smbfs -o username=usr,password=psw //ip/share-name /media/net) I get 'Connection refused'. What is wrong?
run smbpasswd from console to add a user for samba
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{"user_question": "Jemt", "user_answer": "Xanadu"}
Greetings. Is MySQL 5 in repositories? If, what is it called? If not, where can I get a package containing all I need ? - Thanks ! :)
no it's not.
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{"user_question": "Jemt", "user_answer": "MagicFab"}
How can I make a shell script execute as early as possible then ?
maybe if you remove them from plugdev floppy you are half there. then use /etc/network/interfaces instead of network manager to configure network?
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{"user_question": "Jemt", "user_answer": "erUSUL"}
hi again! how do I configure my graphic card's TV-Out in Gnome?
Depends in what graqphics card you have?
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{"user_question": "RolandU", "user_answer": "BollocksMacenzie"}
Hi, I have 'headless' desktop at home which I want to connect to and see the desktop of using another system at home. How can I do this?
ssh?
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{"user_question": "carthik", "user_answer": "Hobbsee"}
the other day i received an auto-update of xorg-server, and when i rebooted, gdm couldn't start because of this error 'ee: no device detected - fatal error: no screens found'... i tried to restore my backup of xorg.conf, but nothing... and i already tried to reconfigure xorg-server (although i don't know if i did it right; the first time i did it with aticonfig) but it doesn't work... any idea of what i should do?
SkimO see the /topic
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{"user_question": "kq", "user_answer": "Hobbsee"}
this is really sad. i'm no longer in the admin group on my desktop and i can't get to the recovery grub menu because my computer boots to fast. lol. i just wanted to make sure that shift or esc were the keys to get to that menu.
shift if grub is hidden
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{"user_question": "enlace_quimico", "user_answer": "dr_willis"}
i can sucessfully log in and browse a samba share using smbclient but i can not mount a samba share to a mountpoint. I get wrong fs type
i don't know??
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{"user_question": "jowi", "user_answer": "konki-is-on-brea"}
Does the grub that comes with ubuntu have splashimage support? It says it does, but when I try and load a splashimage with the grub config, I get a funky looking ascii lines thing. If I load it in the grub commandline before booting, I get it just fine.
err, that would mean it works, wouldn't it?
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{"user_question": "godzirra_", "user_answer": "Amaranth"}
anyone know if the D-link DWL-122 works under Ubuntu?
but i'm not 100%
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{"user_question": "hybrid_", "user_answer": "jowi"}
why emacs is not in ubuntu ?
21 is the version
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{"user_question": "Madeye", "user_answer": "azik"}
is there a way to get apt to ignore depends?
why would you want to do that?
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{"user_question": "tech", "user_answer": "rob^"}
question... i know it doesn't *really* matter, but if i have a storage drive, for consistency's sake with the 'Ubuntu Way,' should i put it at /media/storage or /mnt/storage?
/media/storage, officially (fhs) /mnt has no subfolders and is for temporary mounting
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{"user_question": "btsdev", "user_answer": "astro76"}
are there any linux commands to display how a hard disk is partitioned without actually opening a partioning program?
sudo fdisk -l /dev/hda
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{"user_question": "ben_60657", "user_answer": "bimberi"}
where would gaims actual program files be located if i installed it via synaptic?
in a terminal
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{"user_question": "Jeezis", "user_answer": "ketilkn"}
Anyone: How do we force-quit an app in Ubuntu?
applications > run application > xkill once it starts, the next thing you touch is dead
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{"user_question": "Harold_researchn", "user_answer": "nalioth"}
when i open synaptic i can see a sun-j2re1.5 but i don't see an sdk for it? where can i get that...do i have the wrong name?
You need to download it from Sun; then convert it according to the instructions on the wiki.
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{"user_question": "Netslayer", "user_answer": "cafuego"}
Trying to build a kernel from the linux-source-2.6.12 package but can't even get to configuration: http://pastebin.com/682136
you can have both versions installed without problems
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{"user_question": "farruinn", "user_answer": "hollywoodb"}
can anyone remind me of the piped command that was posted to upgrade firefox, please
just use the update manager
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{"user_question": "orac7000", "user_answer": "Burgundavia"}
what do i need to be able to run make menuconfig for building a new kernel
apt-get install libncurses5-dev
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{"user_question": "cohonen", "user_answer": "pcharky"}
I think that you can look for words in the main system dictionary using grep. does anyone know where the dictionary file is?
/usr/share/dict
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{"user_question": "eno__", "user_answer": "soothsayer"}
my laptop has a combination trackstick/touchpad, it seems to stutter occasionally, anyone have any experience with that?
it's under System -> Prefrences -> Mouse -> Motion (Tab)
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{"user_question": "ReleaseX", "user_answer": "windex"}
any music player for ubuntu that has adjustable fade in/out at pause, stop and song change?
clementine lets you define a face duration
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{"user_question": "delac", "user_answer": "elFidel"}
as root? is your user in group audio?
i have tryed everyting
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{"user_question": "eyequeue", "user_answer": "Rambo3"}
How do I list processes in order to kill one?
usually, I know I want the postfix program, so I do something like ps aux | grep postfix
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{"user_question": "Chadza", "user_answer": "Severian"}
how can i check how much disk space i have free through ssh?
df -h
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{"user_question": "titanium", "user_answer": "rob_p"}
what FPS is considered good?
Basically only has meaning if you baselined with it and then made changes and wanted to see the relative improvement, etc.
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{"user_question": "onkarshinde", "user_answer": "rob_p"}
i just did a fresh install.... but when i scroll my browser window....everything is so slow.... like i have some crappy video card.
Enable Additional Drivers in System --> Admin
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{"user_question": "noobie25", "user_answer": "red2kic"}
does anyone know if it's possible to set up some kind of host aliases? so on my local machine, i can alias 'hello.com' to '10.10.10.101', so all traffic from my box to hello.com goes to that local machine?
Map them in your /etc/hosts file.
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{"user_question": "foxpaul", "user_answer": "rob_p"}
is there a lean Gnome IRC app? I'm using xchat right now, and it seems quite complicated...
BitchX
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{"user_question": "eth42", "user_answer": "|rockinnerd|"}
hi, what's the proper command to shut down the computer? halt doesn't do the job well...
sudo shutdown now
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{"user_question": "Tellmarch", "user_answer": "ablyss"}
hi. i've got an options dialog that is too big for my netbook screen, and it doesn't have a scrollbar. what can i do to see the lower part of it?
use Alt+click to move it
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{"user_question": "mortenmj", "user_answer": "Arteymis"}
it will read it if such exists - but it doesn't necessarily do
Thanks! I just switched from a nvidia card to an ATI card. I used to add a line that inverted my screen.
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{"user_question": "Myrtti", "user_answer": "oldIT781"}
I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 Server. I have a client using a Windows File Share where they save Access Database files. What would be the best approach to connect to the file share and run queries on the database? VPN to file share, grab database dump? Ugg. Wish they had a web server.
to me, vpn.
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{"user_question": "travisneids", "user_answer": "resno"}
if I'm funning a java app that requires a particular java lib, where do I put that lib (.jar) so I don't get a java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError?
You should be able to add any path to your $CLASSPATH variable, and it will pick up the new jar.
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{"user_question": "trappist", "user_answer": "andersbr"}
could anyone help me? I've just installed ubuntu on my laptop but I have never been asked to setup root password.... What can I do to use my root account?
read that page
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{"user_question": "opossumjack", "user_answer": "Seveas"}
Anyone an idea why my 5.04-Gnome comes in 640x480 only? I reconfigured xorg.conf and removed 640x480 but no changes. I've got a Matrox G550 and a TFT with 1280x1024
did you reboot x with ctrl+alt+backspace
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{"user_question": "allerbest", "user_answer": "anacron"}
hi, how can I enter a passprase when mounting an encrypted drive seeing what I type?
If you don't care for security, copy and paste your password into the password dialog
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{"user_question": "sumbuz", "user_answer": "Dcite"}
Whats the correct channel for an issue with NVidia Binary Driver and 10.10, i have a GTS250, which is apparently not supported
if i were i would try maybe the 10.04 version with a live cd and see if working
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{"user_question": "cragdor", "user_answer": "hi5"}
hey, can anyone give me a link to the project status page?
http://udu.wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDownUnder/BreezyGoals
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{"user_question": "EruditeH1rmit", "user_answer": "Burgundavia"}
I'm rebuilding my kubuntu installation, what was the procedure to get the various shady video codecs etc. installed?
w32codecs
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{"user_question": "Logi", "user_answer": "Kovecses"}
hi all! would anyone tell me how can I view files with .map extension?(with which software i mean)
tried http://www.mgmaps.com/cache/gMapMaker-setup.exe in wine?
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{"user_question": "laci_", "user_answer": "ActionParsnip"}
I just installed ubuntu and am getting used to the commands, I forgot to make a fat32 partition so I want to do one now, the fat32 part. will be called 'shareddrive' and I want it to be 40GB, may I ask what the command for that would be?
use qtparted
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{"user_question": "Chalma", "user_answer": "kyncani"}
hi... does anybody know whether the 2.6.23 kernel with CFS will be part of ubuntu 7.10?
no, it'll hold at .22
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{"user_question": "StFS", "user_answer": "nickrud"}
hi , i have ubuntu 9.04 on my box , and i want upgrade it to 10.10 via CD , is it possible ?
it is, but i would recommend going to 10.4 LTS
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{"user_question": "Guest68911", "user_answer": "lock"}
Google + man pages are not helping me at all. How on Earth do I grep for lines that DON'T start with 'somestring'?
man grep, see '-v'
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{"user_question": "markrian", "user_answer": "cafuego"}
how do i make more partitions with linux? (i left space during windows installation)
install gparted
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{"user_question": "anacron", "user_answer": "dArtagnan"}
How do I prevent a kernel module from being loaded at boot?
put it in /etc/hotplug/blacklist
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{"user_question": "joevandyk", "user_answer": "HrdwrBoB"}
so the DVD still doesn't play. It mounts but it won't play. Do I need to install something for it to play?
libdvdcss. See http://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats/PlayingDVDs
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{"user_question": "Gulfstream", "user_answer": "rww"}
how do i install subversion?
sudo apt-get install subversion
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{"user_question": "thesilentkiller", "user_answer": "madsen"}
is there a search option in Nautilus?
There's Places -> Search for Files
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{"user_question": "thesilentkiller", "user_answer": "bimberi"}
hey everyone! from Ubuntu live, how do I access my NTFS partitions?
- Yodea Ivrit?
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{"user_question": "Crembo", "user_answer": "zaphands"}
i installd linux/ubuntu for the first time yesterday and trying to learn som shit now. and i'm woundering if someone know how i can change the standard terminal in ubuntu/gnome...
prefered apps/terminal on the system/settings menu
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{"user_question": "mikul", "user_answer": "jk24"}
Ok, I just apt-got upgraded to breezy and not Xorg hates me. fixed font issue... anyone had that one?
everyone has said to wait before it goes final
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{"user_question": "SG1", "user_answer": "jasmuz"}
can i use a 'public' proxy server for improve my internet connection ???
There is only one situation in which using an open proxy server can improve your webbrowsing.
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{"user_question": "lenin", "user_answer": "Arafangion"}
What is the CLI command to query if a package is installed and what version is installed?
dpkg -l packagename
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{"user_question": "rever", "user_answer": "Arafangion"}
how to restore the functionality where if i click on a URL in GAIM for example, the URL is opened in firefox? Currently when I click, nothing happens. It used to work before.
it's in the settings/preferences
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{"user_question": "G|immer", "user_answer": "mattt"}
how do i add backports to my repository? is it just a case of adding 'backports' as a sections keyword?
www.ubuntuforums.org has the info
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{"user_question": "umberleigh", "user_answer": "Burgundavia"}
hi. i want to change my firewall front-end from guarddog to firestarter. can i just uninstall one and install the other, or do i need to worry about iptables stuff?
just use the one you want
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{"user_question": "umberleigh", "user_answer": "nalioth"}
anyone there that knows about DNS and dhcp can help me
me too i have same proplem setting it
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{"user_question": "wing`", "user_answer": "sksjda"}
Heloooooooooooo Guys !! Okéé I'm aa Programmer And I need a Tool That modify text files ! Like when i want to make changes ( Exemple I want to change all the return=0 with return=1 so i need a tool to change them all ) HELP HELP HELP
sed is your friend
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{"user_question": "breath", "user_answer": "muelli"}
configure: error: Could not find openssl's crypto library - i already installed openssl, what do i need to do to fix this? im trying to install rtorrent
libssl-dev ?
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{"user_question": "phixion", "user_answer": "hyphenated"}
Can someone tell me if the Dapper release will be on just a live CD with an installer or with the Breezy style of one install CD and one Live CD?
It's one install and one live cd.
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{"user_question": "sbartleylinux", "user_answer": "cafuego"}
Hello! Do you know a simple way to use notebook as a second screen? I've got it connected to my PC using LAN. On each machine I've got Ubuntu 10.10/Gnome desktop
Synergy?
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{"user_question": "kotu", "user_answer": "Znuff"}
Anyone know of a decent GTK app for disk management? (formatting etc)
gparted
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{"user_question": "retro83", "user_answer": "jasoncohen"}
Is there some way to archive old mail in Kmail?
mail files are just text, so use a compressor of your choice
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{"user_question": "bina", "user_answer": "Nalioth"}
hi all... accidentally I hide the menu bar in xchat, any clue how to show it again??
try ctrl+f9
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{"user_question": "phrix", "user_answer": "raskol"}
is there a command that I can use to burn an ISO to CD from the terminal?
cdrecord
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{"user_question": "bina", "user_answer": "JDahl"}
whats colony 5 mean?
the Colonies are snapshots of the development work (of breezy)
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{"user_question": "bina", "user_answer": "apokryphos"}
Hi, is it safe to resize an ntfs partition using the ubuntu installer?
ntfs writes are unsafe
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{"user_question": "bina", "user_answer": "eyequeue"}