Third Long Term Support (LTS) release of Ubuntu. Released April 2010. It was supported until 9th May, 2013 on Desktops and will be supported until April 2015 on Servers. Codenamed "Lucid Lynx". You should only use this tag if your question is hardware or version-specific.
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How do I upgrade from 10.04 or 11.10 to 12.04?
I am using Ubuntu 11.10.
Please outline the different ways I can upgrade to 12.04.
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Why is “No new release found” when upgrading 10.04 to 12.04 LTS?
I'm following the upgrade instructions on Ubuntu's website, but on launching the upgrade tool I get this response:
Checking for a new ubuntu release
No new release found
Am I doing something wrong? ...
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How do I increase the resize margin on windows?
It takes me about 5 tries to resize a window on my computer.
Is there a way to increase the resize margin on the edge of windows?
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Nothing happens when I connect my Iphone 3G to my laptop
Look at the video; the iPhone is supposed to appear as a photo collection of some sort but nothing happens with my iPhone! I have installed and upgraded all of the libimobiledevice versions.
I have ...
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Skipping intermediate Ubuntu OS upgrade to latest one,How do I upgrade from 9.04 to 10.04.2? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Can I skip over releases?
Is it possible to skip releases during an upgrade?
I'm currently runing Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty. I want to upgrade to 10.04.02, but whenever I use ...
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Remove nVidia driver and go back to Nouveau
I've installed nVidia driver successfully but I want to go back to Nouveau driver and eliminate any xorg.conf file created by nVidia config tools.
What is the proper way to do it? (not ending up with ...
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How do I install the Intel HD 3000 video driver?
how do I install a new video driver?
I need to install the Intel HD 3000 video driver in my PC which is running Ubuntu 10.04.
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Two ATI radeon cards on 10.04
I would like to use two different cards from ATI on my desktop.
One card is integrated with the mainboard and second is bought as a standalone VGA.
Does it have any possilibity to succeed?
Thanks,
...
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How do I troubleshoot booting into black screen? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
My computer boots to a black screen, what options do I have to fix it?
I installed Lucid Lynx over PXE onto this dell server seemingly successfully, but booting from the ...
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Boot screen in low graphics/text mode
My ubuntu boot screen shows up in a strange low resolution, almost text mode, instead the usual and sleek white "ubuntu" over dark background. It's not a big issue because when GDM loads everything ...
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How to configure TATA Photon+ EC1261 HUAWEI
I'm running ubuntu 10.04. I have a newly purchased TATA Photon+ Internet connection which supports Windows and Mac. On the Internet I found a article saying that it could be configured on Linux. I ...
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Can I update the kernel of my 10.04 LTS to the latest kernel?
I want to update the kernel version of my current 10.04 LTS to at least 2.6.37 (because the drivers for my eth0 and wlan0 interfaces are included in the said kernel).
If it is possible, how do I do ...
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Updating Ubuntu server from 8.10 to 10.04
I have a VPS that has Ubuntu 8.10 Server Edition installed on it and I would like to upgrade it to 10.04. What would be the correct way of doing this? I only have ssh access to it and a ...
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Smooth fullscreen 1080p playback
My computer has a PCI Express x16 socket on the motherboard. What is the minimum graphics card I need to get smooth fullscreen 1080p playback?
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How to upgrade Ubuntu from an ISO image
I'm using Ubuntu 10.04 now and want to Upgrade to Ubuntu 11.04. The problem is my net connection is very slow and I can not do a network upgrade from the "Updates Manager".
So, is there a way that I ...
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Which hard disk drive is which?
I want to know which hard disk drive corresponds to which device path. It's trivial to match the hard disk stats (brand, size) with the dev path, but I want more. I want to know which drive is which ...
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How do I re-install Network Manager without an internet connection?
I have only wireless connection, one computer with a connection and 4gb usb .
My second computer has no network connection, because I have deleted it from the software center. However, now I want to ...
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What does Package <package> has no installation candidate mean?
What does the above Error mean? What is an installation candidate?
I was trying to do
sudo apt-get install munin-memcached
and i get this message:
Reading package lists... Done
Building ...
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How to make hibernate/sleep work on laptops where default setup isn't working?
I have an Asus r1f laptop. For some reason, hibernate/sleep isn't working properly at all. Are there any other packages I can use or tweaks I can implement to get this working?
I've googled around ...
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Failed to fetch http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/maverick/Release [closed]
Get:1 http://dl.google.com stable Release.gpg [197B]
Hit http://archive.canonical.com maverick Release.gpg
Ign http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ maverick/partner ...
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Why isn't my monitor's native resolution appearing as an option? [closed]
I'm on a clean install of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. My monitor's native resolution is 1280x1024. However, in the Monitor Preferences application, I am only presented with 640x480 and 800x600 as options. My ...
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Skype doesn't find my audio input
Skype doesn't find my audio input. If I click on the "Microphone" no other suggestions appears, my web camera works.
In windows everything works.
This is my audio preferences.
audio settings.
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Can I install Unity on 10.04?
I don't have any problem with GNOME, it's actualy great, but wanna testing same thing new, how?
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Laptop immediately suspends when going onto battery power
I've got an MSI Wind, model U100 that's been running Ubuntu without trouble for a long while. After upgrading to 10.04 a few months ago, I've had this strange problem. As soon as I unplug the laptop ...
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Higher screen resolution in VirtualBox?
I've just installed Ubuntu 10.04 into VirtualBox on Windows 7.
Unfortunately the only options showing for screen resolution are 640x480 and 800x600 and the monitor is showing as 'Unknown'.
How ...
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How do I run PulseAudio in a headless server installation?
PulseAudio is the standard audio server in desktop installations. However in a server installation audio services and thus PulseAudio are not provided.
How do I install and make use of PulseAudio in ...
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How do I encrypt my home partition?
With Ubuntu 9.10 I did not have any encrypted partitions set up, I have since installed a fresh Ubuntu 10.04.
I have 3 partitions: OS root (/), home and swap. How do I enable encryption on my ...
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Re-mapping keyboard keys
I am using a keyboard with the "fn" key. This is on a laptop.
So my FN + Up/down/left/right keys are mapped to brightness/volume. I would much rather them be mounted to page up/down, home/end. And ...
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A fresh install and clean up?
I started with Ubuntu around 3 years ago and have been a dedicated user ever since. During that time I tried out lots of apps, themes, etc. And, I've updated every version as it has come along so now ...
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How to update gcc to the latest version(in this case 4.7) in Ubuntu 10.04?
I have Ubuntu 10.04 32-bit with gcc 4.4.3 currently installed on it. I want to upgrade it to gcc/g++ 4.7 (I am looking for C++ 0x support)
How to update using Ubuntu Package Manager:
apt-get ...
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Disable wireless on startup
I use Ubuntu 10.04 and I see, that every time when I start it enables Wireless Connectivity.
I know, that there is a topic about it on Ubuntu forums, but I think I will get old before I get an answer ...
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How to change the format of the date & time displayed in top panel?
By default date and time is displayed by the clock applet on the top right of the gnome desktop in Ubuntu. For me this displays something like "Tue Aug 3, 19:45". I would like to change it to make the ...
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How to upgrade VirtualBox to the latest version?
I am currently using VirtualBox 3.2. I would like to upgrade it to latest version without losing any operating systems in it. How can I achieve this?
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How do I get the Wubi installer to use a pre-downloaded ISO?
I have this iso file ubuntu-10.04-desktop-i386.iso and then I downloaded the corresponding wubi installer for this version. Place them inside the same directory in Windows, but instead of making use ...
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How do I fix “Ubuntu is running in low-graphics mode?” [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to fix “The system is running in low-graphics mode” error?
First off, I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 on a 30gb partition, the rest of my hdd is for a vista partition. The ...
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Can't set 1280x1024 with Nvidia Geforce 8400 GS
I've just installed 10.04 LTS using the Windows installer. The system hangs during boot; the splash screen is frozen and it accepts neither Ctrl+Alt+F2 nor Ctrl+Alt+Del, only a hard reset. (I'm a ...
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Joining MP3 files losslessly
I have a bunch of MP3 files and I have their paths grouped in a text file. Is it possible to join the relevant MP3 files based on the paths in the text file?
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Additional file system and mount at boot time?
I am new to ubuntu, and I would need you guys help.
I installed Ubuntu Server 10.04 64-bit, and I would like to know:
What are the commands to add an additional file system and make sure it mount at ...
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How can I customize/disable notification bubbles?
Is there a way you can disable or customize the notification bubbles on Lucid?
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How do I avoid the “S to Skip” message on boot?
After upgrading my laptop from karmic to lucid, my fat32 partition won't mount automatically. I get the message:
The disk drive for /osshare is not ready yet or not present
Continue to wait; or Press ...
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Reinstall Ubuntu with encrypted home directory?
I have Ubuntu 10.04 installed with encrypted home directory. /home is on a aseparate partition. Can I just boot from 10.10 cd, reformat '/' and install as usual? I think it should work if I use the ...
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Visual corruption affecting several panel applets
This happens occasionally, and I never know how to fix it without deleting the panel and adding a new one. Any help would be appreciated.
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Why can't my machine resolve local windows hostnames?
When I ping any local windows hostname from my Ubuntu machine I get "unable to resolve host", but when I ping from a windows machine it works fine. Why would this be?
OS: Ubuntu 10.04
Samba & ...
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Hide 'Your profile could not be opened correctly'
I have a small public internet cafe, with Ubuntu 10.04 and 10.10. I'm using
Google Chrome 7.0.517.44 (64615), with AutoScroll - Version: 2.7.5; AdBlock is removed because of high CPU loads, and ...
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How to update from 10.04 to 10.10?
What is the simplest method to completely upgrade your existing 10.04 install to get the updates and packages from the 10.10 distribution? Disregarding the fact that you get the latest packages, I ...
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How do I disable the boot splash screen? [duplicate]
I'd like to be able to disable the Ubuntu splash screen that I see on boot with the indicator meter of progress, and replace that with a text-only readout of the boot up process (such as you can get ...
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What webcam can I buy that works out of the box with Ubuntu?
I need to set up a video conference, yet I have no webcam. I'm looking to buy something that works out of the box with Ubuntu 10.04, and as many possible conferencing apps as possible. Can anyone ...
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GPG error while updating
I met this error while updating.I read questions and answers about this problem , but the point is signing key. It doesn't return signing key!
Get:1 http://archive.canonical.com lucid Release.gpg ...
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Change boot order for Wubi
I've setup Ubuntu via Wubi recently for a friend and he came back with a complaint: On reboots the Windows partition is always selected by default, figured this was just a need to update Grub but ...
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How can I install 10.10's Light Themes in 10.04?
As the title of the question says, how can I install the version of the light themes from Maverick in 10.04.2 64 bit? I've followed these instructions but I don't see any difference after restarting, ...
