Questions tagged [8.04]

An old Long Term Support (LTS) release of Ubuntu. Codenamed "Hardy Heron". Released on 24th April 2008. Reached full End of Life (EOL) on 9th May, 2013.

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usb device name

I would like to know if the usb device name is randomly allotted at every reboot in an eeepc netbook with Ubuntu(hardy heron). What bugs me is that while I transmit some serial data over say ttyUSB0, ...
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Connecting with a BSNL Broadband Internet [closed]

I am unable to connect my broadband connection with Ubuntu. The connection works fine when I use Windows 7. However, when I use ubuntu I am not able to access the internet. I followed all the steps ...
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Manually installing Python 2.6?

Ubuntu 8.04 comes with Python 2.5 and no 2.6 package support in the apt-get ecosystem. Searching around I found http://www.saltycrane.com/blog/2008/10/installing-python-26-source-ubuntu-hardy/ and all ...
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How do I install and use python 2.6? [closed]

I use ubuntu 8.04 as I have to use gcc 4.2. I tried to download python 2.6 using apt-get, but the package is not available. Is there any way to use python 2.6 in ubuntu 8.04?
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How to configure domain name on school network [closed]

I'm trying to set up my server (running Ubuntu server 8.04) on my university network so that I can access it from anywhere on campus. Last year I had it plugged into my router and set my router's ...
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How do I fix a corrupted /var/lib/dpkg/status? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How do I rebuild a corrupt dpkg status file? I just discovered that /var/lib/dpkg/status is corrupted (details): $ sudo dpkg --audit dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/...
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Updating from libnet-z3950-perl to libnet-z3950-zoom-perl

I have a server running 8.04 with the libnet-z3950-perl package I got some issues with encoding and while trying to debug them on my local 10.10 installation I got the following error: # apt-get ...
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upstart on 8.04

My understanding is that upstart is installed on 8.04, but it's different than 10.04. I'm having trouble finding documentation on how to start/stop/check services from the command line for 8.04. I'...
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Where are panel launchers located?

I am moving from Ubuntu 8.04 to 10.4 (yeah... :)) and I would like to copy quite a few useful launchers I created over the years. Where are they located in 8.04?
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Can I log to a non-default shell?

I love fish. I have a nice Ubuntu 8.04 Server running some services. So I edited the /etc/passwd file, as I did in the past, to change my default shell from bash to fish. And ,yes, I made I typo (BTW: ...
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Automatic kernel reload after Update

I have been managing a Ubuntu Server 8.04 for quite some time now. On top of it I am running a VMWare Server Edition, which needs to recompile it's modules whenever a new kernel is installed. For that ...
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Web is very slow after upgrading to Ubuntu 10.04 [closed]

I have a DELL inspiron 1525 with was shipped with Ubuntu 8.04. It was working ok. I've decided to move to Ubuntu 10.04 last week. The install process was ok. Unfortunately, after the upgrade, my web ...
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Which Ubuntu version to use for my Python web app?

I'm building a security-intensive (stores credit card numbers, etc) using Python and Django with UWSGI (written in C), NGINX, and PIL (Python Imaging Library). I'm trying to work my way up in the ...

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