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is it possible to use the Live CD as an install CD?
I think you can boot the livecd and install the ubuntu-express package to do that
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{"user_question": "Nomikos", "user_answer": "eruin"}
help on getting gdesklets to work i click on it will try to loads then it crasher what is wrong ?
is makes ubuntu look bad cus it runs inside another os,.. slower
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{"user_question": "pooltable", "user_answer": "liquidmeson"}
ALL I NEED TO KNOW IS HOW TO CHANGE MY EFF'ING PLACES TAB AT THE TOP I DONT NEED MORE PEOPLE MAKING FUN OF ME! OR MY NAME ON IRC
whatever you put in the left side pane in your file browser goes in there
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{"user_question": "snake", "user_answer": "maco"}
does anyone a way to track make install?
yeah... install 'checkinstall'
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{"user_question": "maxchee", "user_answer": "Zugot"}
where does 1.07 reside
run sudo apt-get --reinstall install firefox
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{"user_question": "tyler_", "user_answer": "HrdwrBoB"}
hi! i'm just updated to 10.10, yesterday the networking worked fine, but no the network-applet managger says 'no network devices available', anyone experiencing this?
I noticed my interface had no ip from dhcp, so yeah, I think there are some quirky things with 10.10
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{"user_question": "akoskm", "user_answer": "brad_"}
how can i mount my windows partition every time when my ubuntu starts! I had to manually mount it and only root can access it!
put it in /etc/fstab
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{"user_question": "kart_", "user_answer": "bob2"}
hi all. I just install the new and cool Ubuntu 10.10 and chrome but seem to be i cant watch youtube because of flash. Can you please help? I am using 64 bits version.
Look at http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/flash and read it there is a link to an explanation on what to do
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{"user_question": "duongthaiha", "user_answer": "SomeDay"}
does anyone know if there are any free dns servers out there? my ISPs dns seems to go out on a regular basis.....
4.2.2.2
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{"user_question": "gratuit", "user_answer": "DracosX"}
Hey, I'm unable to adjust my brightness in 11.04. Is there a brightness application? Using a toshiba A103 laptop, never been able to adjust using the function keys.
err, wait, power management
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{"user_question": "trevorpace", "user_answer": "tensorpudding"}
where in gnome 2.10 do i select what kind of things should appear on the desktop and what not (like Mounted drives, removable drives, SMB shares etc)
when you have started that program, go to Apps->Nautilus->Desktop
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{"user_question": "movi", "user_answer": "kent"}
is ther a way to have more than one sound playing at the same time i.e rythembox playing music but gaim still pinging
Yes, many ways. You could use a soundserver such as ESD, Polypaudio, ARtS, or JACK, or you could use the ALSA dmix plugin.
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{"user_question": "oris_wolfbane", "user_answer": "geppy"}
upgrade to hoarty asks me about upgrading new vesrion of /etc/udev/scripts/ide-devfs.sh. should i do it?
install new caused no problems for me.
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{"user_question": "LordGrunt", "user_answer": "zerovertex"}
how does one find out all the users on the system (I'm trying to figure out what user apache 2 is running under)
getent passwd , but ps aux | grep apache might show you the answer directly.
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{"user_question": "|MS|DjFlyBy", "user_answer": "Pici"}
how do I get a list of all installed packaged? google found me 'dpkg –get-selections' but that lists some as 'deinstall', what does this mean?
Try Synaptic
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{"user_question": "lahwran", "user_answer": "DMzda"}
Hey peep, anybody knows a good artist-site, who makes nice icons for Gnome ?
http://jimmac.musichall.cz
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{"user_question": "munki", "user_answer": "njs12345"}
does ubuntu support any repository for j2sdk1.4.2?
see the java-package package
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{"user_question": "amittp", "user_answer": "crimsun"}
greetings! just installed 10.10 on a virtualbox vm and trying to install ruby 1.9.2 from source. last few ubuntus I used `$ sudo apt-get build-dep ruby1.9` for some deps, which now just gives an 'E: Unable to find a source package for ruby1.9'. so, what changes have been made regarding this and what do I do now?
it's now ruby1.9.1
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{"user_question": "tbuehlmann", "user_answer": "glebihan"}
hi, if i want to file a bug for a 'base' program, should i use bugzilla or malone ?
for anything in main, bugzilla
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{"user_question": "skora", "user_answer": "thoreauputic"}
what does it mean when someone has a dot followed by a filename, like '. build/envsetup.sh' ? is this equivalent to './build/envsetup.sh' ?
no, it's like 'source'
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{"user_question": "lwerdna", "user_answer": "jrib"}
hi! is it possible to upgrade warty to hoary with 'hoary live cd preview' ?
not to my knowledge
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{"user_question": "elephantum", "user_answer": "md-away"}
Hi, I'd like to change my unity settings so that I can move windows upwards past the top bar (I have a small screen and need to do this to see the bottom of some windows).
see if holding ALT while dragging the window will allow moving past top - compiz might prevent this...
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{"user_question": "katherinem13_", "user_answer": "zykotick9"}
come on guys ! Could anyone please try to add a printer on Breezy ? I need to know if the printing tool is only broken on my computer. It will take you 5 seconds.
sudo invoke-rc.d ntpdate start
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{"user_question": "julo", "user_answer": "Seveas"}
how do i create a text file in shell?
touch filename
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{"user_question": "lestus", "user_answer": "iceroot"}
how can you tell which package a file belongs to?
apt-cache search blah
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{"user_question": "ace2001ac", "user_answer": "bob2"}
How do I set the timezone (non-graphically)?
if it isn't you can always run base-config, that should allow you to set it
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{"user_question": "sal002", "user_answer": "farruinn"}
What vendor(s) would you consider if you were looking for a linux laptop? (dev workstation, light gaming)
For gaming? Alienware.
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{"user_question": "queuetue", "user_answer": "DarthFrog"}
Hey -- where can I find out what changes were made with the new kernel update in Hoary?
/usr/share/doc/<packagename>/changelog.Debian.gz
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{"user_question": "lewiz", "user_answer": "tritium"}
Have anybody solved a problem with nautilus and windows network browsing?
we see you just fine :)
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{"user_question": "envel", "user_answer": "topyli"}
does anyone know where i could get some mplayer debs or at least make totem work?
all th ethings you need are explained there
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{"user_question": "Smeven_lt", "user_answer": "thoreauputic"}
How can I change apache from trying to look for everything in /var/www/apache2-default instead of /var/www ??
look in /etc/apache2
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{"user_question": "caliber", "user_answer": "njs12345"}
does anyone know anything about configuring alsa?
alsaconf , alsamixer ?
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{"user_question": "ilanam", "user_answer": "icarus-c"}
with all the beryl hype, why compiz? is it just hype then?
have you ever looked at beryl?
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{"user_question": "mojo_", "user_answer": "cafuego_"}
I just upgraded to Maverick, and when I start my computer, on the bottom of my screen I keep getting windows that open then close very quickly. I think it says configuring or something on them. Has anyone experienced this?
/var/log/dist-upgrade
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{"user_question": "rypervenche", "user_answer": "hoosierpeschke"}
why does the open files dialog always show hidden files for me
You enable it. Right click the files listing.
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{"user_question": "fr500", "user_answer": "cafuego_"}
I've got a terribly old computer I'm running Ubuntu on, how can I get it to stop starting up X on boot. I'm used to init levels, but ubuntu does something different.
/etc/X11/default-*manager*
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{"user_question": "BaxterW", "user_answer": "deadcat"}
Hi everybody. CHMOD 644. Is that to deny 'group'+'other' write-access?
those values are additive
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{"user_question": "kresten", "user_answer": "tritium"}
how do i run .deb files?
type in console sudo dpkg -i packagename.deb
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{"user_question": "julle", "user_answer": "mark_"}
I'm not so good at this package thing, I read the man page for sources.list but I'm still getting an error, I want to install the software and I use syntaptic to add the repository 'deb http://download.librdf.org/binaries/ubuntu/hoary/' but it doesn't show up in the repo list and if I add it to source.list my self I get an error. nayone know the right syntax?
you need to add a path to that list
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{"user_question": "michelp", "user_answer": "Seveas"}
anyone know how to get to the login screen when your monitor does not support resolutions higher than 800x600? all i get at present is a black scree and the monitor light starts to flash...
CTRL+ALT+F1 will get you the first terminal.
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{"user_question": "djp", "user_answer": "djg"}
hi, i'm new to ubuntu, is there way to upgrade firefox on ubuntu 4.10 to 1.0?
Use ubuntu-backports
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{"user_question": "sucho", "user_answer": "back_east"}
can someone recommend me a windows emulator aside from wine?
vmware is the only other choice I know of.
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{"user_question": "hyphen", "user_answer": "cjennings"}
is there a way to disable the joined/quit messages in xchat?
right click on the chan name and it's in one of those menus that pop up
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{"user_question": "gfxstyler", "user_answer": "jbroome"}
how can i install .ttf fonts in ubuntu?
dump them in ~/.fonts
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{"user_question": "gfxstyler", "user_answer": "thoreauputic"}
If you had to tell your mom what to do with the Ubuntu DL, what would you tell here?
wait for me to visit...
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{"user_question": "Mom", "user_answer": "djp"}
lol, ok, so I ask again. What is 'Array 6', i see it in the room title :)
Arrays are the names of the release candidates. Arrays of Hedghogs...
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{"user_question": "noddaba", "user_answer": "snowblink"}
No one got a clue what software i can use, synapse is silent as the grave when searching on 'tvcard'
apt-get install tvtime
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{"user_question": "dizzie", "user_answer": "lunitik"}
i was wondering how that 128 was working for you
heh :)
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{"user_question": "Burgundavia", "user_answer": "azriel0184"}
where did the proprietary driver dialogue go in 12.10? Can't find it
its under the software sources app - in a tab
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{"user_question": "scarleo", "user_answer": "dr_willis"}
Can someone help a newbie to get webcam working on a dell Vostro 2510.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Webcam
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{"user_question": "irving", "user_answer": "SaRy"}
hello expert, any i ddea why i get this in 10.04 when entering a command in bash? getcwd() failed: No such file or directory
Are you in a directory you deleted?
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{"user_question": "rotem925", "user_answer": "penguin42"}
how can i disable xserver (so im just left with a basic cmd line?)
sudo update-alternatives gdm remove
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{"user_question": "hayden", "user_answer": "wastrel"}
i wonder why i dont get OpenGL working on my Radeon9200, i installed the drivers from ATI, the module appears to be loaded (appears in lsmod) still it is in Mesa Indirect mode.. xorg.conf says its enabled. any ideas?
dunno about the ATI binary driver, but by the way, 9200 _should_ work accelerated with the default free driver also
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{"user_question": "equex", "user_answer": "mjr"}
Question: I'm establishing my system in Ubuntu, but need to get my hands on Lilypond. I'm not finding it through either apt-get or Synaptec, and I'm not sure (being a newb) how to go about installing it from the lilypond site (http://www.lilypond.org/web/download/)
follow the directions here
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{"user_question": "nwood", "user_answer": "iotc247"}
anyone here could help me 'recover' my wiki name in launchpad? (i'm only allowed DanDamian4, not sure why DanDamian it's taken)
maybe email a wiki admin (is there such an address on the wiki page?)
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{"user_question": "dand", "user_answer": "HappyFool"}
Hello, all! How do Ubuntu Developers like ReiserFS or Reiser4?
you just dont hear much about any of the ReiserFS's these days. BTRFS is the next big thing i guess.
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{"user_question": "Emmanuel_Chanel", "user_answer": "dr_willis"}
anyone by chance play neverwinter nights on thier ubuntu system? just wondering if it works well enough
yeah, my neverwinter works beautifully.
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{"user_question": "factotum", "user_answer": "SiliconViper"}
does anyone have the Hoary Preview? If would you send me your sources.list, I screwed up mine so I need the default
http://nermal.org/misc/sources.list
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{"user_question": "_phate_", "user_answer": "Nermal"}
I'm looking for a good app to do gnutella filesharing, does someon have a tip?
sudo apt-cache search gnutella
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{"user_question": "stefan_hb", "user_answer": "Quest-Master"}
hey guys, I just upgraded to 12.10 and want to remove the music suggestions under 'More suggestions'. How do I do this?
remove the unity-scope-musicstores package
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{"user_question": "fizk_", "user_answer": "k1l_"}
hi all. firstly hapy new year! ok, when is the next release of ubuntu and whats it called??
btw, releases are always planned for 04 (april) and 10 (oct)
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{"user_question": "jonsaint", "user_answer": "oCean"}
the next question would xfce support gaims flashing window feature? :)
have you seen gaim-guifications?
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{"user_question": "rriche", "user_answer": "farruinn"}
The torrents doesn't work either
leave it running, it'll connect eventually. Ubuntu's tracker isn't the best.
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{"user_question": "Yaron-Heb", "user_answer": "rww"}
How can I place icons for programms on a desktop? I have tried to search for them, and right-click menu doesn't have any send to -> Desktop entry
I think you can simply create a Launcher (right click desktop and find something about that there), or right click a running app in the left panel and 'Keep in Launcher'.
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{"user_question": "bs0d", "user_answer": "theadmin"}
what's the best place for periodic news about ubuntu? i guess i'm hoping for something like the gentoo weekly newsletter
search for ubuntu-traffic on the ubuntu website
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{"user_question": "muehlbucks", "user_answer": "Seveas"}
Is it possible to tunnel PPTP VPN over SSH? I have a laptop that is sometimes in a wireless network that only allows Port 80 & 443 outbound so I setup my sshd server on my debian box to run over 443. I've been able to ssh to my box like this and I've been able to forward ports over this tunnel (3389 RDP, 5222 Jabber, etc...) but I'm not sure how to tunnel VPN over SSH, what ports does it use?. The reason I need to VPN is so I can vpn i
pptp runs on 1723
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{"user_question": "gteppel", "user_answer": "bintrue"}
if i install kde-base/core with ubuntu, will it truly be the same as kubuntu? i'm a kde user, but i would like to give gnome a try.
see www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/installingKDE
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{"user_question": "someguy32", "user_answer": "apokryphos"}
one quick question: will there be a way to upgrade to hoary from a existing warty-installation?
yes. There is documents about that on the ubuntu wiki (check the ubuntu homepage)
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{"user_question": "Blaubaer", "user_answer": "kent"}
at the point of partitioning when installing ubuntu, how do i tell where what partition gets mounted?
debian has screenshots of every single step of the install process - perhaps Ubuntu has similar screenshots?
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{"user_question": "Blaubaer", "user_answer": "JDahl"}
how can i assign my computer a static IP in ubuntu?
might see this http://www.jonathanmoeller.com/screed/?p=2305
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{"user_question": "hydrozii", "user_answer": "sacarlson"}
hi, I'm following a gvim tutorial, what it means 'Goto normal mode and press \ll'??
to enter commands, you need to enter the normal mode. just press Esc key when in the insert/editing mode to enter the normal mode
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{"user_question": "ramrebol_", "user_answer": "rigved"}
Hi all. How can I find out to which package a system file belongs? For example, I'm interested in knowing which package is responsible for installing the /usr/include/usb.h file.
dpkg -S file
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{"user_question": "CountDown", "user_answer": "bob2"}
Can anyone suggest help as to why using ATI drivers causes my system to freeze when, and only when, i open *any* webbrowser and access a webpage?
Try installing the memtest86+ package, and rebooting, and choosing Memtest86 from the Grub menu.
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{"user_question": "ubuntudave", "user_answer": "paulproteus"}
I have a laptop with a Pentium 3 600 Mhz, 4mb video and 64mb ram (i can extend the ram to 256) - Will Breezy even run on it? :P
sure... but i'd recommend that you use a window manger other than gnome... try blackbox
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{"user_question": "allan", "user_answer": "bwlang"}
where can I get Hoary?
in your /etc/apt/sources.list change warty to hoary
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{"user_question": "itga_", "user_answer": "_jon_"}
i need to do some kernel dev, and and would like to start of with the Ubuntu kernel's many default modules enabled
the kernel compile link will tell you how to download the ubuntu kernel source. you can continue from there to do your kernel dev work.
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{"user_question": "xaashi", "user_answer": "rigved"}
Hi, what is tcl-dev called in Ubuntu?
apt-cache search tcl
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{"user_question": "trygve", "user_answer": "stuNNed"}
is there an ubuntu bootsplash howto somewhere ?
ubuntuforum search splashy
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{"user_question": "sobersabre", "user_answer": "Goshawk"}
can anyone recommend a wireless pcmcia card for hoary?
atheros based card.
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{"user_question": "P229", "user_answer": "goldfish"}
how can i login to my cups admin tool? localhost:631 my root username and password do not work
you have to unlock the admin function. /etc/cups/cupsd.conf
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{"user_question": "difeta", "user_answer": "Xappe"}
hey all! How can i find out what package provides the file gl.h?
install 'apt-file'
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{"user_question": "difeta", "user_answer": "jobezone"}
where can i find the alsalib development files in ubuntu?
apt-cache search alsa | grep dev ?
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{"user_question": "flodin", "user_answer": "Chipzz"}
I'm going to try an install of ubuntu to see what it's like. Given a hard drive that's got ample room to spare, what would be a sensible size for a partition for root, assuming /home is somewhere else and already exists?
the full install takes about 1.5 gb
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{"user_question": "username", "user_answer": "pybe"}
When I plug in my mp3 player, Rhythmbox automatically runs. This is very irritating. How can I disable this?
removable media options under system>preferences
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{"user_question": "flankk", "user_answer": "spades"}
woha - mplayer is not in the package tree?!
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=9850&highlight=mplayer might need to update the urls for latest codecs and stuff
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{"user_question": "jinx_", "user_answer": "spades"}
Speaking of Open Office - does anyone know if there are debs for OO 1.1.4 somewhere out there already?
yer right, i'm seeing things
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{"user_question": "Alquimista", "user_answer": "subterrific"}
i need to know what ubuntu USB install really means: does it make you use linux from the usb acting like a system, or is it a CD replacement that allows you to install linux as if you're doing it from a CD?
you can use it from the usb itself, or you can just install from the usb. your call
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{"user_question": "distant2", "user_answer": "rigved"}
oh that reminds me is there an apt-get option to search what's available if you don't know the exact name (i realize it's easy in synaptic but wondered if it was command line friendly as well)
or 'sudo apt-cache search namehere' and you can just guess the name, or the first few letters and use the * command
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{"user_question": "helio7", "user_answer": "DAC1138"}
If I do 'update-manager -d' will that upgrade me to the RC or the final ?
final
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{"user_question": "joebodo", "user_answer": "cupis"}
Greetings, I am having a problem after upgrading from 10.04 to 10.10rc. Everything seemed to go fine, rebooted after update, boots fine.. comes to login, i log in just fine, then i hear ubuntu sound, see purple background, but no gnome menu's show up. i can see and move the mouse cursor. I can ctl-alt-f1 to a command prompt and navigate via command prompt just fine.. just no gnome2 gui.
see if it happens with a new user
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{"user_question": "Maka", "user_answer": "jrib"}
Ever since I did an update/upgrade yesterday evening (Hoary), my X locks up while loading the desktop. Any idea what might be horked?
what kernel you using
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{"user_question": "kaha", "user_answer": "SiRrUs"}
Which bit of software is supposed to create /dev/scd0 ? udev? hotplug?
udev.
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{"user_question": "Babbage", "user_answer": "crimsun"}
how can I get Rhythmbox to play online radios?
go to your repositorys and enable multiverse
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{"user_question": "cg0def", "user_answer": "dakam"}
http://packages.debian.org i know that a similar page exists for ubuntu, but i can't remember url
packages.ubuntu.com
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{"user_question": "ezsquirt", "user_answer": "crimsun"}
is there anyway I can stop DHCP from overwriting my resolv.conf?
but the whole point of dhcp is that you don't have to set that stuff manually
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{"user_question": "snowblink", "user_answer": "tga"}
does anyone know if the vesa drivers support any 3d accel?
im pretty sure they dont
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{"user_question": "raven3x7", "user_answer": "AndyR"}
what is macros for?
i imagine it's for the same thing
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{"user_question": "geargolem", "user_answer": "HappyFool"}
when i try to comile alltray on my 'breezy64' i get: checking for gcc... no
apt-get install build-essential
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{"user_question": "brrrt", "user_answer": "kbrooks"}
does it give a x scp/ssh/sftp client in the packets?
no, that would be pointless, but nautilus can do sftp.
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{"user_question": "qpid", "user_answer": "bob2"}
hi all. can anyone point to somewhere with examples of ubuntu xorg.conf and fstab files? i don't have access to my hoary box to get them
see my xorg.conf in http://paste.ubuntulinux.nl/724
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{"user_question": "catfox", "user_answer": "edi"}