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hi anyone able to install gimp ? i am having problem installing at synaptic 404 file not found ? | theres numerous gimp plugin sites and packages not in the default repos - whatever that one does. may be another plugin can do that same |
frostwire is bad news , it dls all kinds of virus garbage on to your system that can then get into windows machines or partitions connected to your pc, varc , be careful | i think is better if i copy here my download music in the other pc |
does anyone in here think that they could help me out getting my radeon x1600 working? | we can try |
evening everyone, can someone help me with this wine problem, i can't start wine or even winecfg without x crashing... ?? | reinstall nvidia |
there shouldn't be any problem installing karmic beta now and then using dist-upgrade to get the finished version on thursday, right? | but you may not want to try upgrading on thursday, the servers will be nuts with people downloading, might want to wait a few days for the traffic to calm down |
i accidentally removed all the groups that my 'special' (first) account was part of..... now i cannot perform sudo operations correctly, anything i can do with this other than throw it out the window? | you can fix it from single user mode ( the recovery mode option at boot ) |
error: removing 'snd_intel8x0': resource temporarily unavailable | not really |
i know gnome store thumbnails locally somewhere in my home-directory, but i can't remember where. anyone? | in ~/.thumbnails |
i'm confused... gcc is installed on my ubuntu setup... (desktop, 6.10) but i can't seem to /compile/ anything without it bitterly complaining about underfined fn's and a zillion other things | you need 'build-essential' - you also need header files for the libraries you're trying to build with |
if i 'make uninstall'... what do i do after that? anything? | remove the directory if you want, but no, that should be it |
i'm trying to build a somewhat old program and i'm getting this error: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lm \n collect2: ld returned 1 exit status | you may need to compile the libcollect2 or whatever its called firt |
thanks for that bot help but that doesn't really say anything concerning the driver that i had downloaded from ati.com. it mentions doing it through terminal but doesn't say anything about the ati-driver-installer-8.40.4-x86.x86_64.run that i had downloaded. | because you aren't supposed to use the one from ati.com, use the one from the repos |
hi, i have installes 10.04 lts want to know if i have version 10.04.4 or dont | sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade to get the latest version of 10.04 |
can anyone help me out? im attempting to install ubuntu on a toshiba m45-s169 and the problem is on the wiki.. but i dont understand the solution, it says ' need to install with framebuffer off; video needs ati's proprietary driver, but using kernel module hangs the machine' | it means you will have to do alot of command line editing |
hello, how can i edit my boot loader? | /etc/default/grub, afterwards sudo update-grub |
hi all, anybody here to solve a problem with an ati graphic card x1300/1550 series please? the issue: after ubuntu's splash screen and before login, the screen becomes black. unfortunately i said yes to proprietary drivers install... i red all the suitable posts and the question is: reconfigure xserver-xorg through the... | sure, you have nothing to lose by trying it. |
if i uninstall compiz, will it mess the system up? | system -> preferenaces -> appearances. there should be a desktop effects tab, just turn 'em off |
is there tools to edit/merges pdf files into one ? | pdfedit |
i think thats the howto of the old 8.04 aproved encryption | uwe hermann ??\ |
what is a 'transitional package'? (for example 'adobe flash player plugin installer'.) | http://askubuntu.com/questions/20377/what-exact-purpose-have-transitional-packages |
i don't know if this is the case for server, but for xubuntu i just had to add vga=791 to the kernel line in /boot/grub/menu.lst | i think i'll have to install vesa-tng and nvidia drivers first |
sometimes when i run aptitude install it installs without asking me if it's ok and sometimes it asks me if what it is going to install is ok. can i force the question? or is it that it always asks when there are dependencies that will be isntalled to and not when it's only one package? | it only asks you if there is dependencies and/or downgrade/removals |
i've moved my harddisks to another computer, and done some partition changes, so obviously the uuid numbers have changed. i'm now trying to make hibernation work again, but when i run update-initramfs i get 'cryptsetup: warning: found more than one resume device candidate: <2 uuid's>'. blkid shows one of those numbers,... | `grep -r uuid /etc`? |
anyone give any advice on the ntfs-3g driver? is it stable enough to use it to mount my home directories with something fstab like /dev/sda1 /home/ ntfs-3g defaults 0 0 ? | i doubt if you find a work around for that. its just because the 2 filesstems are so different |
i'm having a problem with my touchpad (netbook, ubuntu 10.4 netbook remix): it seems that synaptics doesn't like my touchpad: http://ubuntu.pastebin.com/64te3nta (important part of /var/log/xorg.0.log) | your touchpad works or not ? the logs seems fine till line 50 |
i can browse through my windows network just fine, but how can i write to it? it says permission denied, but i'm the owner of the windows machine, can i tell it my username/password for the windows machine? | you can try to mount it to your system somehwere and then write to the place you mounted it |
i have a bunch of programs that are no longer needed and come up when i install something with apt to be autoremove. i don't want them to be removed, so is there someway to suppress the warning or keep them so to speak? | sudo apt-get install them or aptitude markauto them |
does anyone know when the ubuntu home server is comming out? because i just cannot get apache to work so i think im going to get windows home server | its also not an official derivitive |
is there any way to totally remove an app? do i just use purge? | sudo apt-get purge app should do it |
what's better? gnome or kde? i just read an article that has linus tovalds recommending kde, saying it's more efficient. is that true? | i prefer gnome |
hey how can i install gaim on jaunty? | pidgin is already installed. |
can anybody please name a good torrent client available in the repos? | azureus |
hi guys. i'm currently trying to install ubuntu from a burned cd, and i got it to boot up, but it's been on the ubuntu loading screen with the dots for close to half an hour now. it's not frozen, but is this normal? i've got no problem being patient but i just want to make sure nothing's wrong, or what to do. | could be a bad burn... i usually use the alternate installer so the full gui isn't necessary |
hi *. does anyone know how to check wthat is the model numbre of my sata hd? i can't find the file in /proc | dmesg should tell you |
is there a program in ubuntu where i can make a database of my cds/dvds, give them a number, and then search in the db after the file i want and have it tell med what number i`m after? | gtktalog |
i accidentally opened a mp4 file with real player and now i have to right click it and choose movieplayer if i want to open it that way (it automatically opened it that way before). if i try to open an mp4 from the firefox downloads list, it just tries to open it in realplayer as well. i selected movieplayer as the def... | set mplayer in the 'open with' tab in the properties window of a mp4 file |
does anybody here now how to make a command run at boot-time? | put it in /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh |
where can i find the bittorrent app launcher? | yea thats the default bittorent client (which sucks) |
hmm, did i want the desktop cd or the alternate cd? i'm just now reading about lvm support in the alternate cd. | it's not just you. |
anyone know of a good tutorial for creating firefox themes? | golly, no, haven't seen something like that. have you tried just dissecting the xml file of a decent theme and seeing what it's made out of |
is there a way to access my files in ubuntu from vista? | try explore2fs; i think there's a couple of others as well (they work in xp, dunno about vista) |
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. |
hello, do u know if ubuntu has an option like windows to change the languaje for the keyboard, holden two or some keys | http://mygeekopinions.blogspot.com/2011/05/how-to-change-keyboard-layout-in-ubuntu.html |
i have a relatively old videocard (nvidia riva tnt2, 32mb) in my system, but was able to run a 'quite decent' game of unreal tournament. how would i go about in ubuntu to install opengl drivers? or are they already installed? | i think the nvidia-glx package supports it yes |
hmm i have http://au.archive.ubuntu.com in my sources.list but it seems to be down can some one confirm please | can't connect there either |
when i installed ubuntu on my machine, i only used 65% of my hard-drive with main and swap partitions. today i used gparted to partition the rest of the drive, but it doesn't appear mounted. how can i mount that new partition permanently? | put it in fstab |
i'd like to use the kernel .config file the default ubuntu kernel uses, to change it only a bit. where can i find that config file? | /boot/ |
is there a command to get a list of my executible dirs? | echo $path |
does anybody use a usb modem? if yes, does he use a ueagle chipset modem (like sagem f@st 800)? i ask that, because i want to know if these instructions work flawlessly: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/usbadslmodem/ueagle-atm | from what i understand, all modems are iffy under any linux lol |
does daemon tools work on ubuntu? | ignore the first thing ubottu said. you can mount iso's with the mount command |
hello, is there a command line utility i can run to probe my video card? i'm not sure what is in this pc. i'm trying to get to a higher resolution than 800x600 | lspci, xrandr... |
is there a free text editor with ftp support available for ubuntu - something like pspad or htmlkit | search for filezilla in software centre |
what is the command for downloading from the web by cli? | wget or curl |
i have ubuntu 9.10 aand installed ps3 media server, followed the steps and when i double click pms.sh and say run i don't see anything happening......can someone pls try and help me | run it from the terminal, look for error messages, not 'double clicking' on it |
is it possible in ubuntu to create a vcd from an .avi file? | yeas, i think...with ffmpeg |
i know about the dailies, but they seem to be for the regular install-to-disk pre-release builds. just wanted to see if someone would suggest which livecd would be best to download | the livecds are built by hand |
i'm having a 'low graphic mode' issue when booting 12.10 w/out monitor. is there any way to get ubuntu to remember the last corret configuration? | i had similar problem and adding this to my /etc/rc.local helped: sleep 1 && service lightdm restart |
hello. real quick question about wine. i have a windows tool that reads a cd rom drive. how do i tell wine where my /media/cdrom0 is? | if you have wine on your apps menu you can configure what it sees as optical etc |
does anyone know how to completly remove a package using apt-get? | --purge remove |
why doesn't % tar zxvf jre-7u7linux-i586.tar.gz work? i get a bash: fg: %: no such job error | you are entering a % ? thats not part of the command... |
what is the command to download a file through ssh? | scp |
is it possible to change the default font ubuntu uses in firefox? | go .. edit - preferences - contect |
anyone know of a message box application that can be given a message from a command prompt and pop up on the screen? like ./messagebox 'hello' | zenity |
how do i reboot into a command prompt with no x?? (not recovery mode, at least runlevel 3 recquired) | ctrl+alt+f1, then login, sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop |
is there a way to check the current version of software that is in repositories with apt? | apt-cache policy package |
can someone tell me the command | i'm gonna pm you |
why will gedit make a <filename>~ file after i edit files? | because the default behavior is to save backup copies, check edit>preferences, editor tab, filesaving to change that |
i'm attempting to configure evolution for gmail, following one of the many guides. i'm told to chose smtp as my server type but i don't see it as an option. how do i remedy this? | im not sure many people here actually use evolution |
under which package would i find the watch command? | it's in the procps package |
hi, i have a ~/path/script.sh file and i would like to be able to call it like script.sh from wherever i am (like nano, mysq, gedit, etc). how can i do it? | edit ~/.bashrc = > export path=$path:/path/to/script or `sudo cp script.sh /usr/local/bin` |
just updated to intrepid - now when i choose a folder from the places menu, it opens in eye of the gnome instead - any ideas? | ... > right click folder > open property's > open tab 'open with' ... |
hello. i have a custom built computer with a ati radeon 4870x2, and the integrated card is a radeon 3300. on ubuntu 9.10 x64, the 4870x2 worked perfectly. i did a clean install of 10.04 and now the 4870x2 won't work with my tv anymore. what's worse is that while the integrated card works, ubuntu seems to think that it ... | could you pastebin the output of 'lspci'? |
hey does anyone know of an rss reader for the gnome panel? | check yassr |
i'm thinking of trying to study python over the summer. i notice that python 2.5 is installed by default, but python 3.1 is available in the repository. is there any reason not to install python 3.1? | nothing will break if you install it. |
is there any application that can convert html to pdf? | you can 'print to pdf' with the right setup |
how to obtain the version number of the installed dbus? | dbus-daemon --version |
hello all. can someone here help me get my sound card working? it's an onboard and i have read the manual pages but nothing seems to be working | please don't tell others how to assign a root password, it's unsafe and unsupported |
can i install quake3 via apt-get? or do i have to use the installer? | update-alternatives --config usplash-artwork.so && dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-$(uname -r) |
anyone know of a <512mb bootable distro that i can use to securely erase partitions? | darik's boot and nuke |
is there a command in shell to do simple math ? | or 'bc -l' if you need decimals |
there is some info here on vmware player problems http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1735951 | i solved it by installing libview2 package |
hi all, does anybody how to make a program have executable rights | 'chmod 755 yourfile' |
is there a way to monitor what's being loaded on boot-up without having to hit a key combination? i'm running ubuntu 9.04 | in /boot/grub/menu.lst, remove quiet from the kernel options |
hey faileas what does the flashplugin-nonfree do? | adds flash support |
is there any way to lower the default distance for snapping to corners for wobbly windows? | check in ccsm |
hey, i just enabled compiz and everything is working except the cube. whenever i try to enable the cube, when i click on another desktop in the lower right corner nothing happens | do you have rotate cube enabled? |
hey guys. so im running ubuntu 10.04 (love it) and need to have a certain app (sip phone) run everytime i log in. how can i do this, is there a gui? thanks | - preferences -> start up applications |
checked with my isp... ubuntu.com seemes to be the problem. right now i can't reach ubuntu.com even with firefox - no wonder apt-get update fails. can anybody confirm please?`otherwise i have to check with my isp again | i'm downloading stuff from security.ubuntu.com right now; www.ubuntu.com is working too |
is there any free program that can be used to play windows games on ubuntu? | wine |
got a quick question, im trying to make a launcher for my trash icon, where do i find the trash icon in ubuntu? | right click on the bottom panel scroll to add to the panel |
this is slightly ot, but does anyhow know how, in thunderbird, to change the contents of the 'so-and-so said:' line that prefaces the quoted text of a usenet post one replies to? | yes i did it once... it involved an about:config like thing in thunderbird. i found it on the mozilla forums somewhere |
hi! when doing switching to firefox in gnome, firefox gets maximized, and i have to press f11 twice every time to get it back to normal. how to work around this? please help! :( | then use resize from window menu (top left hand corner of the window) |
i have a question: i backed up my windos partition to my external usb hd. then reformated the entire laptop hd and installed ubuntu. now i want to switch back and restore all of my files. how do i copy the partition over from the removable hd to my normal hd, which is now ntfs formatted | that lets you browse dd's help file. |
hi all, a large copy operation (>200g) with nautilus got interrupted near the end. what is the best way to resume the copy without re-copying everything? | shell, rsync |
how can i create a text file that has all the data from all the text files in a certain directory and all it's children directory, recursively, without specifying all the file names? | use find and cat |
how do i make more partitions with linux? (i left space during windows installation) | install gparted |
can anyone recomend a nice bittorrent client? | if you have ubuntu 5.04 you already have one. but you can consider trying azureus.sf.net |
what is the name of that one music player with the dog emblem,.. | amarok? |
guys would you say kde is more advanced and for advanced users mor ethen unity? | not so much for advanced users, for users who want control over the whole configuration of their desktop |
hello people. i have had a mac for about one year now and have previously been using ubuntu. i have stopped using ubuntu because the sudden problems it caused were eating away my time. they were hardware problems, from my other pc. i want to try out ubuntu on my mac, see how it goes there. but i do not want to damage a... | get a real computer. |
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