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hello =) can you help me with installing skype at ubuntu 8.1 x64?

download the package at x32 and install it with dpkg install --force-all

hi im lucid right now and id like to have something like an 'open terminal here' option when i browse through folders using nautilus; any help?

sudo aptitude install nautilus-open-terminal i don't know why it's not installed by default

what's a good app for organizing pictures, besides digikam?

f-spot

hello. what are the advantages/disadvantages of 64-bit ubuntu? i have a 64 bit dual core processor (athlon64x2) and i'm thinking of going with the 64-bit version of blender

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/32bit_and_64bit

hello... i've got the most recent livecd for ubuntu; is it possible to install it without gnome nor any kind of graphical interface? (would be useful on good ol' pentium 90...)

the server install cd is for that, or the alternate cd

i would like to import my mail from mozilla-mail to evolution. do you now how to do that ?

in evolution file>import

how do i apply only security updates from aptitude?

you'd have to do some apt 'pinning' iir. been some time since debian... that was before i was gentoo...

why does gimp from the ubuntu repos only have xcf, bzip and gzip as formats to save images in? i don't have jpg, png, bmp or anything.

you need to 'export' an image in order to save it as png, gif, etc.

hello, i have a weird problem with a .xauthority file that keeps reverting on a seemingly random basis to root ownership, is there anyway to track not so much who changed a file but why a file was changed?

that would mean that x is writing to the file

how do i extract file 'foo.bar_1_2_3.tar.bz2?

tar xjf foo.bar_1_2_3.tar.bz

can someone please explain what this guy means when he says 'then i added ndiswrapper to /etc/modules' in this article: 'https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/ndiswrapper/+bug/32275' ?

echo ndiswrapper | sudo tee -a /etc/modules

hey can anyone tell me how to update my seamonkey

see the upgrading process, as it would update seamonkey

is there anyway i can make smartdimmer into an applet so i dont have to go to terminal to change the brightness allll the time

why not? :(

any im programs for linux that can connect to fb?

hold on

hi all... how can i ask linux to remount all the mount points as specified in /etc/fstab, without restarting my system?

mount -a

anyone have any experience with cell phone companies wireless broadband access cards??

but don't quote me on that

is there a media client for linux which can seek back and fourth in real media (.rm) streams? the realplayer client on windows can, but it doesn't seem possible for realplayer on linux..

mplayer includes the frontend

hey guys, how do i find out exactly the repo that i got a particular apt package from?

satate the original problem

hello.. i seem to have had a disk failure... now when i reboot, grub enters 'minimal' mode.. what does this mean about the disk? grub is still on the disk, right? so it's not totally broken?

can you read your hdd from a livecd?

how do i choose gcc 3.4, since the kernel is not compiled with gcc 4.0

as long as you have installed gcc-3.4 you can temporarily use 'export cc=/usr/bin/gcc-3.4'

is there a gui tool that controls which services load on boot?

bum

how do i figure out what /dev/ my cdrom drive is for use in the dd command?

/dev/sr0 is usually your cd/dvd

hi - is anybody from the philippines online?

there are philippines chat rooms on irc.efnet.org

does a default install support smp even if installed on a single-core system? (will modifying a vm running an ubuntu guest from 1 -> 2 cpus cause problems?)

it should not cause problems

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

how would i install a program (a simple apt-get) on my ubuntu machine downstairs through the laptop that i'm currently using?

something like this? for i in $(seq 1 254); do ping -c 1 192.168.0.$i; done <--- note: very very basic

how does one format and unformatted drive?

then run it

i have spent the last 4 hours trying to make me owner of a partition and it still says root is the owner. anyone able to help me?

have you tried sudo chown myusername:myusername /path/to/mountpoint/of/the/filesystem -r ?

hey guys i was just changing the color of my download speed in the little realtime chart in my system monitor and it worked fine. then for some reason it said my download or upload speed was zero when it wasnt so i closed the system monitor and reopened it. now i can only see my download speed, not my upload speed and i cant/dont know how to add the upload speed sensor. any help? thanks

sudo aptitude install ubuntu-restricted-extras

sudo apt-get install postgresql?

- i did that part :)

know of any good guitar sound effects programs for ubuntu?

creox, ecamegapedal, tapiir

anyone know if theres a way to navigate tabs in gnome-terminal?

gnome-termional sesttings for keyboard -> shows the keys to do it

dpkg had a problem installing some perl libxml bindings, and now trys to install them every time i run apt, and fails. how do i clear them out?

did you try sudo apt-get purge [name of bindings] ?

i installed a wm after installing ubuntu without xorg. now how do i start xorg? :)

just install lightdm; it will start automatically at boot

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?

magicmax: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=50794

any viable alternatives? trucrypt is the strongest, most private i have used.

hey, is there any good torrent client under linux (something like ?torrent)?

ther's several good ones, utorrent works great via wine, transmission, ktorrent, etc

how can i tell if ubuntu 7.10 will work with my wireless care?

try the live cd

where is the log (verbose) of the boot sequence??? what is the log called???

if you've booted recently, you'll see what you're looking for.

hi all. does anyone know where gnome stores the entries for the main menu? like, what text file are they listed in? if any.

apps have. .desktop files to define their menu entries

if an error just occured on your computer which log file will you check, in the log view?

/var/log/syslog

what is a good program for writing cds on ubuntu?

and colorful too. kinda trippy, actually.

im trying to unrar some parts (47 of them) to single one, but proces seems to go over and over again

u neen unrar free uninstall un rar and reinstall unrara free

simple question, if i had a previous install of ubuntu on my hardrive and would like to overwrite this with a new install of ubuntu. if i formated the drive and then proceeded to install the new version of ubuntu, would that replace the old mbr?

if you completely rewrite the harddrive, yes, if you add a partition, no

doesn't apt-get install prompt you with the hard drive space it will consume before installing? you have to answer yes or no

you can test beforehand with -s (or --simulate)

how do i create a tarball from the terminal?

and see man tar

how do you get manpages for common c library functions like connect, bind, fprintf, etc?

sudo apt-get install manpages-dev

why do i keep getting this error when i try to run update manager on 10.10 : w:failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/meerkat/stable/ubuntu/dists/maverick/main/source/sources.gz 404 not found

you can remove them under synaptic packagemanager under repositories

in synaptics, under warty, i was able to configure the repositories without opening the /etc/apt, but under hoary i am unable to do it

others have the same issue

is there a way i can get alt+f2 to work for the run dialog while i have gnome-panel turned off?

might be able to set hot keys in admin menus

hi all, any ideas on how to change the default app that opens when i plug my ipod in? right now its rhythmbox - but ideally it'd be banshee

system>preferences> preferred applications

i have an ipod and i want my 8.1.4 ubuntu to open banshee instead of gtkpod, how do i do that?

system > preferences > preferred applications should help.

how can i list all the open ports in iptables?

you can list all of your iptables rules by 'sudo iptables -l' if you don't have a rule to block a port than it is open.

what program could i use in order to get a list with all the files that a given process modifies/creates/deletes ?¿

strace

hey guys noob question, i have moc installed which needs to be run from terminal, i wnat to make a shortcut i have the command set to gnome-terminal mocp which doesnt work

: im looking for ya

what exactly is /bin/echo for? if it's removed it still works , both in sh and bash...

if you remove it and reboot it will no longer work.

quick question, i am new to ubuntu can i install the netbook remix interface on my 9.04 64bit? i am new to linux.

theoretically (i've not tried this) 'sudo apt-get install ubuntu-netbook-remix' will give the unr interface to any ubuntu. good luck (again -- i haven't tried this, use at own risk)

can someone do me a favor

this is not the place to solicit help in getting un-banned in other channels

i'm trying to figure out the name of the vnc server installed in ubuntu by default. i've tried googling vinagre, the client, and ps ax with various greps. no luck. anybody know?

vino

what's the best java plug-in for ff???

official one

i just downloaded dvd+rw-tools 7 from here : http://ftp.dk.debian.org/debian/pool/main/d/dvd+rw-tools/dvd+rw-tools_7.0-4_i386.deb.... can i install that on dapper ?

you can install it... might not work... and it might break stuff... so i wouldn't

what is the cli equivalent of synaptic's 'remove completely' (i.e. config files too)

sudo apt-get --purge remove <package>

does anyone know why oneirics lightdm wont start my desktop? i have a nvidia and primary gpu and ati as secondary for xen hvm pcipassthru

sure xfce works nicely now here

how does awstats prevent *any* outside user from accessing it and viewing the page at /awstats/awstats.pl?

protect it with .htaccess or like

how can i run terminal as root? when i do 'su' and type my password 'su: authentication failure', when i 'sudo cmd' my password is accepted

sudo -i

what's the recommended way to start a process and have it not terminate when exiting the shell? i've used screen in the past :/

nohup <command> &

is it possible to have ubuntu 11.04 64bit and 32bit and gparted all on one usb stick? i have 11.04 on the stick now, but i'd like to have access to all three on one stick.

pendrive has a linux multiloader

where do i find gcc's include files like stdio.h, stdlib.h?

/usr/include but why...?

how do i sign stuff in ooo? pgp/gpg (i get confused) - that sorta thing?

your pm should have thte info

whats on the gutsy-dvd-i386.iso that isnt on ubuntu-7.10-desktop-i386.iso?

at least the alternative and desktop installers

ps -a | grep getty is getty running?

i think so

i wanna make firefix to make a pdf file when printing but the only printer device i get listed in firefox is postscript/default. in texteditor i can print to pdf :(

print a ps and then ps2pdf

in ubuntu, where is '~/gcc-3.4'?

i think you need to install it , gcc4 come by default

is that posible to use windows fonts in linux ?! is yes , how ?!

(for your font question)

hello, the splash screen shown during ubuntu boot, is it stored inside the initrd image? and, what is the more correct way of disabling it?

edit /etc/adduser.conf i think

http://www.google.com/search?q=site:ubuntuforums.org+sleep+ubuntu+terminal

thanks man, or on apci or pm-suspend. good night and thanks

if you use openbox instead of metacity in gnome, you can scroll through desktops with the wheel just so long as you're over the desktop

hmm, that's not a bad idea, actually. i'll go find out if fluxbox has the necessary bits and bobs, that's what i ran for the last n years :)

is there a way to kick the fan speed up to max with some utility?

all i am aware of is monitoring what the speeds are with lm-sensors, not sure of any fan-speed controller software on linux

q: i am trying to install ubuntu 7 from dvd on a computer where i have windows 7. on ubuntu.com it says there should appear install ubunto alongside windows 7, however that option does not appear. when i go to something else only one partition appears (having as size the total amount of space on the harddrive), however when i browse from cd on ubuntu all partitions appear. what's wrong and how can i fixt this?

i would say that s a bug , try to retart the pc and go at it again,

how can i tell which version of php is installed when i apt-get libapache-mod-php4 ?

dpkg -l php4 should tell you

anyone know a mail client i could use for an exchange 5.5 server? evolution doesnt support that version

yea it's either that for us, or imap :( blows because there is no calendar integrate when running linux :(

how do you swap backends?

just install totem-xine and will replace the other totem, which is called totem or totem-gstreamer, i don't actually remember

can i alter my default font size, without altering the resolution?

preferences > appearence > fonts tab

what is this about feisty having built in virtualization?

the kernel -- if the cpu supports that -- exposes features that allow to recreate a superuser mode 'virtual cpu' in userland.

i have just modified './etc/x11/xorg.cong' in the terminal. what is the command to save it?

for nano press ctrl o and for vi+vim press esc then :w

how big should ubuntu be after install?

for a standard ubuntu install, everything normally takes up about 2 gigs of space

hi, has anybody got a dell xps m1330?

wireless is a bit shaky in general still with linux, but it's going to change for the better soon

firefox in karmic crashes very often here.. is this a known issue?

there are some bug reports for it.

how can i get rhythmbox to play online radios?

go to your repositorys and enable multiverse

how do i make a udev device? i keep losing /dev/hda* devices.. should i really be using the /.dev ones?

there's a nice article on udev at http://www.redhat.com/magazine/

hi. how do i remove software - in this case the 'songbird' program - that i installed from a tar ball instead of a .deb package? thanks.

look into the documentation in the tar ball - often it is make uninstall

quick question: is there a gui for to me to change what services startup under different run levels?

just don't install stuff you don't want to run, is the simple answer

is the 11.04 64-bit not working properly since it is not recommended on ubuntu.com?

may not be that, may be just the status of testing and confirmation

anyone know the official irc channel for tuxpaint?

tux4kids

how do i create a symbolic link ??

ln --help

how can i get rid of the cdrom icons of the mounted devices on the desktop?

gconf-editor, search volumes icon.

hi, i dont have network-manager, how to make auto connect for eth0 everytime?

/etc/network/interfaces is only going to be read on boot or when you restart networking

hi, i'm with the ubuntu 5.04, i want to install svn but i'm not able to find it with the apt-get

apt-get install subversion ?

need some adive...my brother, who is in iraq and has no internet access, has been having issues with windows vista and i have convinced him to give ubunut a try. i'm downloading the repositories to dvd for him, but of course he'll want dvd and mp3 playback. he has never used linux before and i'd like to set hime up with a automatix-type program to install those capabilities. any pointers?

if its feisty you are sending him then all he needs to do is include the medibuntu repository and the apt-get install the codecs and dvdcss

hello, i have got script which i want to run after every start of system ...how to achieve this?

sysvinit.