A patch is usually a new correction to already issued software, correcting bugs or adding features.
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Fix shutdown on HP 530 (kernel 3.9.2 / ubuntu 13.04)
I needed to upgrade to kernel 3.9.3 to get Ubuntu fully working on my HP 530; Black screen after update to 13.04 (HP 530) - Solution available
However, the laptop doesn't shutdown anymore or hangs ...
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Brcmsmac, BCM4313 and lots of errors when in 802.11n mode
I try to use my built-in BCM 4313 card with a 802.11n wifi access point. For a few minutes everything is okay, but then connection becomes practically useless until reconnect. Pings are seconds in ...
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Is “patch --forward” broken?
I have a script that applies a patch to another file. Of course, if the script is run a second time, I do not want the patch reapplied.
The patch(1) command has the --forward (or -N) flag to handle ...
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Compiling patched Wine from git
I'm attempting to install SW:TOR on 12.10 and from what I've read I need to compile Wine with a patch in order to run it. These were the commands I used:
sudo apt-get install git
git clone ...
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How to I apply a patch to the kernel?
I am a bit of a linux noob, so be weary of my inept understanding certain aspects of the OS. Anyway, I just loaded ubuntu onto my desktop machine (Dual booted) and everything went fine. The only ...
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Patchlist for Ubuntu kernels
I am experiencing a known bug with OCFS2 and Linux 3.5 and I'm wondering how I can tell if the patch is in a specific Ubuntu kernel or not.
The exact patch is here: ...
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Problems with aireplay-ng
I'm trying to change the channel on monitoring mode interface mon0 but when I use it in aireplay-ng it says it's not on the same channel with AP. I've tried to change the channel with
iwconfig mon0 ...
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How to apply a python patch on installed library
I have a linux box with root access. I've django library installed as uncompressed python egg. Now I want to install this patch.
How can I do it?
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CK Kernel For Quantal Quetzal?
Are their any pre-compiled kernel packages for Ubuntu 12.10 that provide the CK patchset, or at least the BFS scheduler?
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How to apply a php bug patch
I want to uptake fix for this PHP Bug: https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=52043
I am not sure on how can I install this patch. Conceptually I understand I need to follow following steps:
get php code ...
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How to patch fglrx for installation on kernel 3.7rc7?
For a bug I need to check if a bug still occurs on upstream kernel 3.7rc7, and since the bug is related to fglrx I need to install a newer version as well that work with kernel 3.7. How do I do this ...
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Does the Ubuntu image I just downloaded already have all the latest patches and bug fixes included?
I downloaded 12.10 a day after it was released. It is a little buggy in my system - shows the errors such as a problem has occurred frequently. The developers probably have fixed most of the issues by ...
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How can I get GeoIP country analysis in rtorrent 0.9.2?
I'd like rtorrent to determine what country my peers are from. This should be possible using GeoIP, but the only patch I found covers its implementation in rtorrent version 0.8.9, instead of version ...
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convert quilt to native source package
I want to branch an open source package and develop a new branch of package alternatively.
The package is in quilt format and need to use dquilt for update but i don't want to use it for my branch ...
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How to fix VMware Workstation 9 installation on ubuntu 12.10?
I have opened this thread because I upgraded to ubuntu 12.10 beta (kernel 3.5) and I have a problem with VMware Workstation 9:
Unable to change virtual machine power state: Cannot find a valid peer ...
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How do I patch a kernel bug?
Sometimes I can't boot my laptop - it gets stuck here:
Then I have to do a hard-reset and it's fine. I checked the boot logs and this is what I think it's causing it (nevermind the timestamp ...
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can I locally patch the fglrx package that comes from the Ubuntu repositories?
I'm attempting to apt-get install fglrx while runnning a custom kernel, and the process is failing when it tries to compile the kernel module. I found a patch on the net that should take care of my ...
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Ubuntu - Patch Diff merge issue
i have two text files test1.txt and test2.txt with content as
test1.txt
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2
test2.txt
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what i have achieved with the txt files is a difference of both files in a third file as
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Have no Internet connection over Crosscable
I bought a Crosscable and wanted to configure my Server, like it's said in the Wiki.
But when I connect, I don't get wireless Internet and the Lan Adapter says I am connected, but I have no ...
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How to patch a driver? [closed]
Alright I'm running ubuntu 12.04 and need to patch my realtek wireless driver. I newish to ubuntu do not know how to patch so if someone can help me a little and tell me how to patch.
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How do i apply this patch/fix?
I need to fix this problem i have with my mouse when playing games and i don't know how to apply this patch. ...
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Running Ubuntu On My OCZ RevoDrive 2 - No such drivers exist?
Would anyone know if there are future plans or a possiblity of getting some drivers for my SSD; There is very little to no support from OCZ regarding linux drivers - Is there a coder out there that ...
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Can I patch the PPC 12.04 kernel to allow older ATI drivers to install?
Right now, with a PowerMac G5, the only way to install the graphics driver from the ATI binaries would be to patch the kernel, for my Radeon 9600 is only supported with the 9.3 installer, while the ...
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How to patch Apache mod-proxy 3.0.1 with 3.0.1-1.1? [closed]
The command $ sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-proxy-html and then $sudo service apache2 restart fires:
apache2: Syntax error on line 210 of /etc/apache2/apache2.conf: Syntax
error on line 1 of ...
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Is is possible to get a patch included in the current release? If so, how?
So a while back I reported a bug in Compiz's Place Window plugin. It's a fairly major regression for people affected by it: mainly those using Gnome-Fallback, judging by the reports.
A patch ...
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How do I remotely patch openSSH to allow handshake obfuscation?
I believe that my Chinese ISP has started detecting and bandwidth-limiting SSH connections. I'm not using the default SSH port so I suspect that they are using deep packet filtering to detect the ...
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How to patch libgphoto2 for preview pictures in Shotwell while importing? [closed]
Under some circumstances, Shotwell shows no photo thumbnails while importing.
I was trying to download some pictures from my camera (Canon EOS 400D) with Shotwell and the program didn't show any ...
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where/how to find the last linux-image patched with apparmor (Kernel needs AppArmor 2.4 compatibility patch.)
where/how to find the last linux-image patched with apparmor (Kernel needs AppArmor 2.4 compatibility patch.)
without patvhing myself the kernel?
thanks
answer:
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Does Ubuntu update the installation media?
When Ubuntu publishes a patch to packages, do they update the install media?
If I download a "live CD", will it be pre-patched?
What about SRU (stable release updates)?
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How can I compile and install that patched libata-eh.c file?
I received a patched file. ( /drivers/ata/libata-eh.c ) from kernel mailing lists. and I have to compile and install it. But I'm not an expert user really. Can anybody explain it simply ?
Thanks.
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Where to obtain Ubuntu Supplied Third-Party Device Drivers Patches to apply them to vanilla kernels?
For testing purposes I usually download the ubuntu kernel available from git and build it for my PC. But usually the stable version of Ubuntu kernel is not always in sync with the latest stable ...
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Why do software patches have to be accepted by a developer?
In open source projects, why do software patches have to be accepted by a developer? Couldn't contributors just release their own patches and allow people to add the patch if they choose to. I'm ...
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Can't install “Patch”
I'm trying to apply a patch to a package and I don't seem to have patch installed, but when I type
sudo apt-get install patch it gives me this message:
Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot - Release amd64 ...
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manually editing patches and debdiffs
I have a few debdiffs that were created, however, I'd like to apply a small change to all of them. The process of creating the debdiffs from scratch would be easy but very time-consuming.
Is ...
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How to install specific Ubuntu packages, with exact version?
I want to setup a new virtual machine with some specified packages (name and version), that are provided.
For example apache2 in version 2.2.20-1ubuntu1 with all dependencies. Even if there is a new ...
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Patching Kernel 3.1.5
I recently installed kernel 3.1.5 (upgraded from kernel 3.1.4) and now my wireless doesnt work. After some investigating, I found that the iwlagn module no longer exists. Apparently this is a ...
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Onlive using wine the raw input
I've been doing a great deal of searching for the past few days for this.
I used to be able to play onlive games with wine. (With a few tweaks here and there. (I think.))
But the problem now is that ...
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Is it possible to make my system not suspend when playing music and video?
My friend wanted to know if it is possible to get a patch that would allow him to set his computer to not suspend when he is using a video or music player, to include being on youtube? I wouldnt mind ...
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What is the way to submit a patch to fix all the damage that LP: #600941 causes?
What is the best way to submit a patch to fix all the damage that LP: #600941 causes?
I ask because LP: #600941 was put into every version of Ubuntu still supported at this time. Should I pick a ...
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Is there a reiser4 patched kernel available somwhere?
I'd like to experiment with this filesystem. I don't want to argue the why and wherefores I was just wondering if a pre patched kernel was available anywhere?
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Error after upgrading Bugzilla from 4.0 to 4.0.2
I had a good working new installation of Bugzilla 4.0.
I have upgraded to version 4.0.2 using the patch.
Everything went ok until I had to clear the shutdownhtml field in the Params page
...
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ipod not mounting
Tried to connect my iPod, but got this message:
Error mounting: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb2,
missing codepage or helper program, or other error
In some ...
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GUI for patch command
Is there any GUI available for patch command? I need it because sometime I need to see the actual file before applying patch to it and it is very cumbersome to open patch file and then open the ...
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How to maintain a patched upstream package
I'm looking for the best way to maintain a patched version of an upstream ubuntu package. Here's the situation:
We have our own server running reprepro, which would host the modified package. Our ...
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How to fix a build when trying to patch the original file?
I'm trying to create a package of Bugzilla 4 in a Launchpad PPA. Keep getting a malformed patch and have redid the patch from ground up numerous times without any success. One of the logs can be seen ...
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How do I find patches in debian packages?
How are the patches in debian/patches obtained?
Is this
diff -Nurp folder/original folder1/new
enough?
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How do I fix Bug#534190 (where python interactive help runs a module speech dispatcher) [closed]
I am trying to teach myself python. When I run the interactive help from the python console in gedit and ask it to list all modules it runs the configuration for the speech dispatcher. I googled and ...
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Why is bzip2 needed in the kernel patch instructions?
This was from here.
Extract the patch
tar -xvzf /usr/src/web100-2.5.22-200810130047.tar.gz
bzip2 web100/ web100-2.6.27-2.5.22-200810130047.patch
Test the patch
bzip2 -dc /usr/src/linux/web100/ ...
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How to build and compile a bzr branch for testing
When I pull down a bzr branch using
bzr branch lp:ubuntu/<package name>
I get one set of source files. However, when i go
apt-get source <package name>
I get another. The command
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How to build and test Ubiquity
I've written a patch for Ubiquity and I'd like to test it before I submit it, but I'm not sure how to go about this given the nature of Ubiquity (only used during installation). Is there a way I can ...
