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where are ubuntu installation floppy images? | https://help.ubuntu.com/community/installation/withfloppies |
is it possible to automate that? | no, not scripting, just commandlining. something like 'eterm -e gaim' should work |
do you have a screenshot of your desktop? | gtk-theme is alphacube, i think. the wallpaper i got from gnome-look.org somewhere. |
anyone still on hoary???? | i will be for the next 20 mins or so :) |
i have an issue, i don't know how to get a second hard drive's permissions off of root... | http://paste.ubuntu.com/190463/ |
my compiz is close maybe a error and i wirte in a terminal compiz --replace and it works but when i close terminal compiz close again, how i can get compiz works and close terminal too?????? | alt-f2 compiz --replace |
hey all, i'm having an issue getting sound to work in virtualbox xp guest and my gutsy host. sounds works in both, just not at the same time. if i play a sound in the guest, it steals the sound and i'm unable to play sounds in the host. any ideas how to configure this to work? | but with other sound cards - onboard mostly - i've had to go the pulseaudio route. |
what permissions do you need on a directory in order to mkdir on it? write is insufficient, do you also need execute? | execute would be to enter the directory |
ok question, i have thunderbird installed and configured and when i click a mailto in firefox it automatically wants to open evolution. how do i change this to open composer for thunderbird? | , system - preferences - prefered applications |
what is the command line partitioning program that automatically comes up in the ubuntu server install? | try wicd then, it can use any interface name you like |
when i want to ask a question here and it is kind of long, is there an alternate method i should use to ask it besides sending it here? | ubuntuforums |
is it safe to mount something on top of /var/cache/apt/archives/ ? | sure... but make sure you keep the bare essentials there before you mount it |
so, does anyone know how i can specify options for modules to be applied at boot? | ubuntu users /etc/modules by default, ifaik. you can just use that if the functionality is the same |
can someone give me a link to a .deb file that's not in any ubuntu repositories? | try dropbox.com? |
i can't display any website in any browser in natty even though it can connect to the website. i'm using vodafone 3g usb tethering and in windows it works perfectly | i have noticed that no one appears to know the answer to your question; have you tried http://www.ubuntuforums.org ? |
is there a way to install packages for jaunty on hardy? | you may run into dependency hell this way however, so be forewarned |
is there any way to unmount my cdrom drive, and mount the ubuntu cd image from my hdd (my ubuntu cd is corrupt, i didn't check the burn for integrity, installer hangs) | i got a bit mixed up there |
hi to all. what is ubiquity? | yes it is. |
hi guys.. i have a flash mp3 player i want to use in ubuntu. i tried mount -t vfat /dev/sda <somedir> and mount -t ntfs, both dont work | flash is fat32 isn't it? |
hi there, when i connect to wirless router, the wirless connection icon is changed to volume icon in 10.04, why is that? how to chane to normal? thanks , note: my system is updated , no new updates for my system | a volume icon facing which way |
maybe? but file extensions do not matter with linux though. so i thought seeing as i was using the z switch it was compressed anyway | cat ? |
does anyone know what ubuntu uses for tab completion in bash? for example, if i write apt-get it knows my options are install, update, ect | /etc/bash_completion.d is where all the sources are for 'what to complete' |
where other than \user\share\fonts could i have hebrew fonts on my machine? | - /home/username/.fonts |
in the past i've used --vendor 555:0302 or whatever to load modules. it just depens on how that driver is written. if you can find the source your can probably find the command line arg | ever compiled x modules on your own? |
is it possible that xorg update caused usb wlan-stick to stop working? | see the forums |
anybody? if i have 8.04 server and i run do-release-upgrade, will it upgrade to 8.10 or to jaunty? | depending on what you are using the server for you might want to wait until the next lts release which you will be able to upgrade to directly |
what's a very light weight httpd server? | http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/wa-ltwebserv/index.html?ca=dgr-lnxw07lw-webservers&s_tact=105agx59&s_cmp=grsitelnxw07 presents an overview of options |
does wine run on the ppc version of ubuntu | no. windows binaries are x86 |
how do i downgrade from firefox 2.0 to 1.5? firefox 2.0 is using way too much of my cpu... | sudo apt-get install firefox/dapper |
hey everyone does anyone know of a program so that i can automatically send out email responses? i want to automatically send my ebay customers and email resopnse whenever i receive a paypal payment from them. thanks | create a filter with thunderbird or use afterbuy |
does anybody have any suggestions for working with csv files that doesn't include open office? any other software that i wasn't able to find? | what do you want to do with the csv? |
if i just create another user account on my machine and than used putty on my windows box could i ssh into the account on my nix box? | plus you can get putty on your ubuntu if you feel like |
quick question: i ahve a server install curently and would like to ionstall xubuntu over it, any simple way to do this? | apt-get install xubuntu-desktop |
where does ubuntu keep its menu.lst for grub? it doesn't exist anywhere. | grub2 dosent use a menu.lst |
hi, how can i launch upgrade to 10.04 please? | sudo update-manager -d |
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 |
can somone give me a hand, if i switch to driver 'nvidia' from 'nv' i dont get high resolutions. 0-o | system --> administration --> restricted drivers manager |
does ubuntu 8.10 desktop edition currently utilize dual cores properly without the need of extra packages? | it also lists each core in the process window and i can be converting videos into ogg format at 100% on one core and browsing the web on the other |
thats because the 4 means its world readable. | i have run linux for a long time, and find that having / and /home is all i need |
hello all, while trying to install a tar.gz file i get this error when using ./configure , ' ./configure: no such file or directory ' <-- linux noob | read the readme file |
hiiiiiiiii can anyone tell me how to find my internal ip (eth1 nic)? ifconfig shows no ip | can you give us the output of: ifconfig eth1 (in a pastebin) |
now when i do decide to update my breezy 5.10 to dapper will it overwrite any of my work files? | your user files will not be altered if you upgrade. |
meh. debian ate my swap. debian's fstab doesn't seem to use uuids. if i remove the swap uuid from fstab in ubuntu, will it find the swap partition? | reset it in fstab |
i have a monitor connected to a server, i want to be able to control whats on it via ssh. i was thinking best solution would probably be using screen or tmux. would any body have other opinions? and if that is the way to go, can i configure either to drop into a screen/tmux session at startup automaticly? | i run tmux on servers i maintain. just setup an alias to 'autossh -t tmux a' once tmux is running and that's about it |
does lucid consume more memory than karmic after startup? | yes, but it shouldn't matter unless karmic is already swapping. (eg: 128 mb) |
does anyone know of a program that using traceroute, ping and other such utilities can determine which from a list of hosts/servers/mirrors is closest to you? | netselect |
how can i print a file from the command line if the printer is already set up in cups? | baobad |
hey, does anyone know how i can create a file of size x? | like for a 10mb file: dd if=/dev/zero of=myfile bs=1024 count=10240 ? |
gentlemen: does ubuntu use gnome or kde? | by default it uses gnome |
does anyone here have a pci-e video card working with the ati drivers? just out of interest? | not on hoary, hoary kernels don't support it out of the box |
it seems that the finding of youtube flash files in the /tmp folder does not work in ubuntu 10.10, even with hidden files shown. is this right or am i doing it wrong? | could use youtube-dl |
hi everyone, how do i run a script in a terminal in the background ? i don't need to see scrolling text | screen is a good way to do things like that. run screen, start your script, press ctrl-a ctrl-d to put the screen in the background. type screen -r to resume the screen into the foreground |
what are you exactly trying to do? | i wanna play a movie with default settings |
is it possible to dual-boot ubuntu with mac os x lion on a macintosh computer? | https://help.ubuntu.com/community/macbook |
gnome has an option to start a guest session. can't we trigger the same thing from gdm? | gimp can import it if it's in rgb. if it's cmyk, you might have to find some hoops to jump through |
you can do that with pulseaudio | okay, how? |
i don't think you can.. i think vmware sets up a virtual disc image.. | so i need to install another windows from it? |
hello, is there a open source c++ interpreter? | http://root.cern.ch/drupal/content/cint |
problem: i broke sudo, now i can't get root to fix it! | reboot into rescue mode |
where can i download the latest dapper ? | linuxtracker.org |
how should i do if i want to modify a keyboard layout in gnome? i want to change the third level of '.' to '氓' in the international dvorak layout | xmodmap? |
can someone give me a hand? when i try to start firefox i see it open on my task bar really quickly then it goes away and just won't open | reboot or killall firefox |
hey guys, does anybody know if its possible to restore my ubuntu for 2 days ago? | next time type in 'beye' and press <tab> to autocomplete ;) |
excuse me, is it possible to download ubuntu netbook remix already or it will be shipped with new computers only (or neither, but it's not out yet)? | i've heard taht it won't be downloadable |
i know gnome store thumbnails locally somewhere in my home-directory, but i can't remember where. anyone? | in ~/.thumbnails |
so, is there any way to automate the install process if i'm going headless on all the machines i'm installing? | i would imagine pxe boot, theres probably a wiki guide on that |
hey, is there any quick way to disable pidgin's integration with ubuntu gnome? | that works through dbus so probably disable dbus in pidgin would work |
what do i search for in add/remove to get virtual box..... | go to the sun website, and get it there |
is there anyone using wine in ubuntu here? :( | what are you trying to run? |
where can i get date/parse.pm? | cpan |
quick question... gnucash is available through apt in ubuntu, right? i'd like to install ubuntu for a friend who loves gnucash but using the ubuntu live cd, i didn't see gnucash was available when i tried, 'apt-cache search gnucash' or in synaptic (sp?) | theres also multiverse |
what is the command toi install the dhcp3-client in ubuntu server ed ? | sudo apt-get install dhcp3-client then after it installs the file is in /etc/init.d with the same name. to start it manually, do sudo /etc/init.d/dhcp3-client start |
help! i have updated to edgy, need to reinstall nvidia drivers, have found a turorial about envy, this seems to work, until i get error message that i appear to be runnung xserver, how do i stop xserver? | sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop |
anyone know why amixer (or alsa in general) is still trying to connect to pulseaudio, after i uninstalled pulseaudio? =o | /usr/share/alsa/pulse.conf |
where can i get a list of software in ubuntu 7, like the xorg version it has, kernel version, etc? | packages.ubuntu.com |
hi! i spilled my keyboard with coffee, i've cleaned it, but 'x' key doesnt work - how can i set in ubuntu a shortcut for that letter? for example: ''c' + alt = 'x''? | http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3177953/how-to-bind-key-to-another-key-in-ubuntu |
hey guys, i forgot how to change my icon themes.. i know its somewhere in system but i cant remember where.. any help? | then customize |
anyone know why rhythmbox is giving me an end of stream error? | well that could have something to do with it |
hi, i am new to ubuntu. my cpu is intel 64bits. where can i find intel 64bits version of ubuntu? i can only find 32bit and amd64 versions. thanks. | cryptsetup is installed on the live cd, but on a default desktop install, i think it is only included if you have an encrypted home dir. |
i have just upgraded to 11.04 and on unity there are no toolbars anywhere, i just see a desktop. moving the mouse to the edges of the screen doesn't do anything. i am using an nvidia 8600m gt. is this a known problem? | try changing to gnome classic |
does anyone know the terminal command for ipconfig /all? | try ifconfig |
hey how can i disable audio? as far as i know, this computer doesn't have a sound card. but when mplayer starts it tries to get to the card and will just keep trying, and any browser plugin for movies i tried always errors out - which i think is related to trying to get at audio. | sorry, start mplayer with the '-ao null' option |
how would i display only broken packages in synaptic? | synaptic -> bottom left corner, the custom button -> broken |
when i change menu.lst do i need to run update-grub? | its dynamic |
is there a mail client that will talk to a microsoft exchange server? | evolution will i believe |
how to open rar files in ubuntu? | insall unrar |
does warty use standard /dev devices, or udev? | udev |
hey everybody, does anybody know anything about the package 'landscape-client'? i looked it up on the ubuntu package search and didn't get anything conclusive | description: placeholder for the landscape client this package is currently empty, but will be updated to contain a client for the landscape system. landscape is a web-based tool for managing ubuntu systems. |
uhm can anyone recomend me a sound control program? | alsamixer |
is there a 'do not disturb' quick link to disable notifications if i am busy? | in gnome shell, sure, but the ubuntu notifications are already non-intrusive. |
[gutsy gnome] english help wanted: what are the english names of the 3 tabs in the gnome sound preferences dialog? (gnome main menu system > preferences > sound) is it 'devices', ?, 'system bell'? | devices sounds syste beep |
what i can use to delete all folder named cvs? | find . -name cvs -print0 | xargs -0 rm -rf |
hey, can somebody recommend a tool for creating rss-feeds (for podcasting)? is there one in the standard repositories? | we use wordpress and podpress for our ubuntu podcast - http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/ |
a few hours ago someone said that if you upgraded from 9.04 instead of doing a fresh install it would be more 'buggy'- i am not having any problems that i know of but i went ahead and dloaded the iso--since i did the upgrade would i be better off to do a install from the cd or should i be ok? | if it ain't broke, don't break it :) i'd say ou're probably fine :) |
grub boot too fast.. how to have the menu? | but can you see the menu? if yes, hit any key to cancel the countdown timer. if no, press shift to make menu visible on boot |
whats the command to kill a process? xkillall processname? | kill -9 pid works for sure though |
hello is there a way to disable daemons on startup? | system services |
what is the syntax to search from the / dir through the whole device for any and every .wav file ? | find / -name '*.wav' |
hey how can i get java applets to work in ubuntu? i have java 7 sdk installed already | the sdk is for developers, and that's going too far |
hi. new to ubuntu. i can't work out how to make new applications available on the desktop. i've just added idle, and it starts just fine from the 'new application has just been installed' box but i can't work out what file that's starting -- searching the file system for 'idle' doesn't turn up anything that works. can anyone help? | not sure what it's called in regular ubuntu. |