Downloading a file is taking a file stored on a remote machine or attached device and transferring it to your computer to be stored.
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How do I download a YouTube video?
For a school project I need to download three youtube videos and save them to a CD. I am running Ubuntu 10.10; can anybody provide instructions on how to do this? I'm fairly new to Ubuntu so the more ...
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Ubuntu gnome 64- or 32-bit with i7? [duplicate]
so I'm sure my PC is 64 bit, but while downloading ubuntu gnome, I encountered this:
PC (Intel x86) desktop image
For almost all PCs. This includes most machines with Intel/AMD/etc type ...
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1answer
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Why can't I open anything I download from the internet?
Every time I try to download a program, it goes straight to archive manager. I don’t know what to use in order to open anything I download. What should I do?
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can't download ubuntu [closed]
I am unable to download ubuntu 13.04. the hosting site always claims the server is down and it has been like this since 10am GMT. any help guys? I really need this to install to my laptop as I prefer ...
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stuck with dpkg
I am using ubuntu 13.04.I was installing a program and it had to download a file from the internet.It was a huge one.I waited for 30 minutes but nothing turned up.so I thought to let go and I closed ...
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Direct file downloads based off file extension?
Is it possible to make it that whenever I download a file, it is redirected to a certain folder based on its file extension?
Eg, *.jpg, *.gif, *.png, etc, that it downloads to my pictures folder, ...
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Is there any linux alternative for “EMTP-RV”?
Is there any linux alternative for "EMTP-RV"?
- www.emtp.com
- www.emtp.org
If there is, from where can i download it?
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How to install ubuntu without a dvd?
Recently I downloaded ubuntu 13.04 (iso). Now after extracting the iso file and running wubi - it says downloading required files though I had already downloaded the iso file (794 MB). So what to do ...
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Download menu pops up after every new tab is opened
I recently installed Dropbox on Ubuntu, the install went perfectly fine and Dropbox is functioning normally. However, now every time I open a new tab in Firefox I am promoted with the download menu ...
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Resume Uget download started in windows in ubuntu
I have installed Uget both on Win 8 and Ubuntu. I started a download with win8 and paused it halfway. Is there a way to resume the same download in Ubuntu? I have access to the physical file in my ...
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Downloads folder restores automatically
over the last couple of days i've noticed that each time the downloads folder is modified, ie, any new file is downloaded, previously deleted folders are restored. And the restored folders are empty, ...
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How to preview contents of an online archive before download [closed]
How can I preview contents of an archive, (.zip, .tar, .rar etc) which is available in internet, before downloading it?
eg: UC browser in phone can preview .zip, .tar etc file
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Download ZIP file with curl command
How can I download ZIP file with curl command? I tried curl -sO, but error occurred. I want to download zip file from address:
http://github.com/ziyaddin/xampp/archive/master.zip
but can't. What must ...
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How long to install ubuntu 12.04?
I have started an install of Ubuntu 12.04 partitioned with windows XP home edition and am wondering how long it will take to complete? As I then need to plan whether to get my old laptop out for a bit ...
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Slow updates and software downloads: Due to newly released version? [duplicate]
I installed Ubuntu 12.10 and am greeted with an update requiring the download of 300MB update files. I commenced with this update but the download speed is painfully low (several bytes/sec). However, ...
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Downloading error “Could not retrieve the required disk image ”
When I try to download Ubuntu 12.04 using the Windows installer (Wubi) through a proxy server which requires proxy authentication, after I choose the Ubuntu installation size, username and password, ...
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CD Download help [closed]
OK. I downloaded the file onto my computer, ran it, and it says that I need to wait for the CD burner to load up and I have been waiting a whole day. What's wrong?
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Disable downloaded files in dash
How can I disable the downloaded files section from the Unity Dash? I have already excluded the downloads folder in my privacy settings but that doesn't help.
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How do I download Ubuntu using BitTorrent on Windows?
I am trying to download and install Ubuntu. I was told that downloading a torrent was a good option, as it can deal with interrupted downloads very well.
Where should I go to download an Ubuntu ...
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I want to download mmorpg games ubuntu as far as i know doesn't have software for it any help? [closed]
now i would like to download mmorpg games but they are all basically for windows how am I able to download it for ubuntu ?
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Scheduled download by transmission during nightly hours? (downloading just at a specified period of a day)
I want to limit transmission to work at 02:00 AM untill 08:00. How?
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How to increase browsing speed on pressing a keyboard shortcut
I have a download manager (wget) and a browser (friefox) running at the same. Some times the network bandwidth becomes bad, and browsing becomes hell. At that time, when the page loading, I pause ...
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Could not download content from storage [closed]
I reinstalled Ubuntu on my laptop from scratch to the latest version raring rail 13.04. But now Ubuntu One does not sync all the files in the cloud to my local machine. It says they are all in synch ...
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how to resume download in wget which is integrated with firefox via flashgot
I use wget as a downloader. It is an excellent, outstanding application. I integrated it with Firefox using Flashgot.
How can I resume a download which was stopped by a CTRL+C key press or a shutdown ...
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Install packages (VLC) via USB
I want to install VLC to my Ubuntu laptop, which has no connection to the internet. To work around this I want to download it to my Windows machine, copy it to a USB drive and install on my Ubuntu ...
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How to download an MP3 track from a YouTube video [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to download a youtube video via terminal
There are several Q&A threads that explain how to download youtube videos using the terminal.
However, I would also ...
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Which download manager is capable of 'throttle' and 'pause & resume' a running instance of download from a script
When downloading big files it necessary to pause the download many times. A big file can be downloaded by using wget. First start download, then kill wget, then resume download by wget -c.
I want to ...
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How do I download and install Handbrake?
I'm new at Ubuntu so I don't know very well how to use the terminal in order to download and install programs that aren't in the software center. I've tried without success downloading and installing ...
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Wubi “could not retrieve the required disk image”
I tried to download Ubuntu 12.04 through Windows Installer (Wubi), but I get this error message:
An error occurred: Could not retrieve the required disk image For more information, please see the ...
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12.04.2 i386 gets downloaded instead of 13.04 amd64
I've been trying to download the latest release from the website, but even though I'm selecting 13.04 64-bit as my option, the download begins for 12.04.2 32-bit. Any ideas as why this is happening?
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What version do I download for my Mac?
I am trying to get it on my mac, so do I download the windows version onto a USB and then upload it from there because I can't find a mac version.
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dod cac reader setup ubuntu 12.04
I read that I need to download cackey from forge.mil but the download isn't there any more. How can I get my CAC reader working now? Is there a sudo apt-get command for it? Does someone have a copy ...
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How to verify that the ISO I downloaded is bootable before I burn it?
How can I check to make sure that the iso I downloaded is bootable, before I burn it?
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I can't access pages on my web server
I'm having a little issue with running a web server on 12.10. I installed xampp which went smoothly and then I installed wordpress which was also without problem. Now when I go to the site on my local ...
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Installing Ubuntu, on a Windows 8 laptop, without a CD. Can it be done? And what is the normal time for download? [duplicate]
I have a Aspire laptop, Windows 8 pre-installed with 8 GB of ram. I have tried to download via thumb drive but it won't download. So I wanted to know there were any other ways to download it without a ...
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Some trouble with installing pip into 13.04.
Just trying install pip like guide says:
pip install SomePackage==1.0
[...]
Successfully installed SomePackage
But allways got this message:
Downloading/unpacking SomePackage==1.0
...
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How can I resume a download with wget?
I use wget with Flashgot in Firefox to download. I can't resume download if i pause(by ctrl+c). Because, i don't know the commandline arguments of wget to manually add it in a terminal.
So i did ...
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Download/Save Persona files
I love the new features of LibreOffice 4, especially the ability to have a persona installed on it. My favorite is this one.
Anyways, I have a midline internet connection and I was wondering if ...
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Is there some application to download files from popular file hosting websites?
I was wondering if there are some applications for downloading files from some popular hosting websites, automating the procedure of waiting and fetching links and downloading files, once we give the ...
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Is there any way to automatically download torrents?
I want to be able to set up downloads of weekly TV shows so the .torrent is automatically downloaded to my computer, ie. I just tell the program that I want (for example) Adventure Time to download as ...
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I can't get Ubuntu to download
I haven't used Ubuntu for a few years so I thought I'd give it a try once more. I donated and then tried to download only to have it keep trying to connect - never allowing me to actually get the ...
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How can i avoid downloading packages every-time I install my Ubuntu? [duplicate]
Every time i install Ubuntu on a computer I have to download the applications/packages
with total size of 1.5~2GB and it took lots of my network bandwidth & time!!
How can I avoid downloading the ...
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How can I force apt to optimize the dependency tree for minimal download size?
Some background information:
As you may know, in a Debian package, there may be alternative dependencies, written in the CONTROL file as Depends: apache2|something-else, for example. How does apt ...
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How to download apps and install them on another machine [duplicate]
I would like to install a program on another Ubuntu machine that does not have internet access. Is there a place that i can download Debian files, or can i copy some files out of my file system or ...
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Ubuntu freeze during every download
Since one week my Ubuntu 12.04 freeze during every download, the mouse pointer become very slow and it's hard to open or close a window, and I just have to cancel my download and after that all works ...
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Is it possible to tell Chromium to always “keep” PDFs?
I download a lot of PDFs in Chromium and always get a warning telling me that "files of this type can harm [my] computer", which forces me to manually confirm every download. I've enabled the "always ...
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Wubi cannot retrieve the required disk image file [duplicate]
I have already downloaded the ubuntu-12.04-wubi-amd64.tar.xz file...i have no internet connection. When I run wubi, I'm getting this message: could not retrieve the required disk image file.
i used ...
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External download manager for firefox and chrome
Is there an external download manager for ubuntu 12.10 that will easily integrate with chrome and firefox and has pause and resume functionality and other features that kick ass?
I loved orbit ...
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Can't remove 2 entries in the download window
I started downloads of several files in Firefox.
While downloading, there was no free space left on my hard disk.
I got some error messages (with wording like "not enough free space" and "cancelled ...
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How to download Ubuntu over an unreliable connection
I am trying to download the 64-bit Ubuntu 12.10 ISO over an extremely unreliable connection. By unreliable, I mean that every time I finish downloading the ISO and compare the MD5 hashes, I end up ...
