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Why does the snapd service use so much data?
I am on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. Updated the system to the latest. Recently I noticed something unusual on Ubuntu with my Internet connection. My limited Internet quota was used up quickly by something ...
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Audio players that access music library as file browser (and see folder structure)
I have a big music library. Nothing special there.
But I very much dislike the way usually music library is displayed in most recommended players, according to Artist/Album/Year/Genre tags, ignoring ...
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Ubuntu installed on Vmware cannot get access to internet
I installed Ubuntu 14.04 on Vmware, the host machine is Windows 7. However, I cannot get access to internet from Ubuntu. I am not clear how to identify the cause and fix it? Thank you for the help.
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SSH resets to default port on reboot
I changed my default SSH port on my home server (in the /etc/ssh/sshd_config file) to port 54747, then restarted the ssh and sshd services (never sure which one so I did both just to be safe). To test ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 won't resume after suspend (lid closed and then opened)
I just did a clean install of Ubuntu 20.04 on a Lenovo X1 Carbon (2nd Gen).
After closing the lid to suspend when reopened it is impossible to resume from suspend. I have to turn the laptop off and ...
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How to efficiently send text entered on the command line to the system clipboard without using the mouse?
Say I've typed the following long command into the command line
$ some very long command that I want to copy to the clipboard
How can I get this onto the system clipboard efficiently?
I'm using ...
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Is it possible to remove the default terminal and replace it with some other terminal (like terminator or terminology)?
Some non-default terminals have got extra features like splitting window etc.
We can always use those terminals without uninstalling the original one but is there a way to remove the original one?
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how to ping & use specific network card
i have 3 network cards , 1 Lan (wired) , 1 wireless network card & 1 is wireless usb
how do i ping from specific network card ?
& how do i use specific network card for specific ...
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What does "changes to it will not persist across an instance" actually mean in 50-cloud-init.yaml
In recent Ubuntu, netplan is the default way of configuring network adapters. I want a static IP on one of mine, and there are some guides on how to do that. Some point you to editing 50-cloud-init....
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How to burn a region free DVD from a DVD movie locked to a specific region?
A friend of mine have a DVD movie locked to a different region. Hopefully, I seem to have a region free DVD player in my laptop.
How can I burn a region free copy of his DVD movie so my friend can ...
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ImportError: No module named 'PyQt5.QtWebEngineWidgets'
I try to run a python script using PyQt5 QtWebEngineWidgets but it throws errors:
from PyQt5.QtWebEngineWidgets import (
ImportError: No module named 'PyQt5.QtWebEngineWidgets'
I think there is a ...
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How to successfully restart a network without reboot? [duplicate]
When I am using Ubuntu, sometimes the network goes down and there is no option to bring back the wired network. There is always option for wireless, but no option for wired network. In such case I try ...
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How to prevent access to a folder by other users?
I want to disallow reading of files in my home directory by other users. How should I accomplish this? Should I use encryption? If so, how do I do that?
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Is there a way to run a script every time I connect to a specifc wireless network?
There is a specific wireless network I connect to that requires me to use vpnc to access the internet. If I make a script to do this, is there a way to set it up so every time I connect to this ...
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How to configure two monitors on Ubuntu 16.04?
I'm a front-end developer and I work with a laptop running Ubuntu 16.04. Recently, I bought a Full HD monitor in order to better test my applications.
But the main thing I want to do, I hadn't ...
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How to install zlib libgcrypt using apt-get?
When I do dpkg -i
I see zlibc and libgcrypt11 in the installed applications' list.
But when I compile a c program having <zlib.c> or <gcrypt.c> it gives this error:
no such file or ...
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Boot Windows 7 iso from grub2
I want to do it because I want to install Windows 7 and my BIOS menu doesn't appear; it skips to grub2 menu at start, but that's another story... Is there a way to boot the Windows 7 installation iso ...
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What is "linux-tools" package? Is it needed for "average" desktop user?
What exactly is "linux-tools" set of packages?
It is released with every kernel version, but (from what I can see) it contains only a few diagnostic utilities (cpupower, pref, turbostat, ...
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How to automatically mount 2nd internal Hard Drive [duplicate]
(Just upgraded to 16.04; still getting things working...)
Right now, I have two hard drives.
I have the 2nd internal hard drive mount location symbolically linked, and I don't really want to change ...
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Why doesn't the 'su' command work in Ubuntu but does in other Linux distros? [duplicate]
When I type the su command in a terminal I get
su: Authentication failure
Why doesn't this work in Ubuntu? I have tried this command in another Linux distro (Parrot OS) and it does work.
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How to prevent Ubuntu Server sleep/hibernation
I'm running the latest Ubuntu Server (quite literally downloaded & installed yesterday) on a box under my desk. I've got trac installed and OpenSSH. Intermittently both become unavailable, as if ...
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Is apt full-upgrade safe?
I tend to obsessively want to upgrade everything I can, so I run the Software Updater GUI tool and also sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade and blindly install everything. It seems the ...
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How to set up a DLNA server on Ubuntu 14.04?
I've tried a few DLNA servers (including MiniDLNA, uShare, MediaTomb, Rygel), but none of these works as expected. The problem with MiniDLNA is that most of the shared content simply didn't appear on ...
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Detecting the name of a network device in bash?
I'm trying to drum up a hack that will output the name of active network devices on one's computer via bash. I'm making it for work. How do I go about doing this? I don't want to just plainly use "...
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Is there a way to check if a program is available in the repository by commandline?
When i find a interesting program i want to test and install in ubuntu i first check if it's available in the repository. For that i use the software center.
But does a possibility exist to check it ...
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How to change grub timeout in Ubuntu 20.04
Answers to a very old question suggest to edit
/etc/default/grub
That file has the following contents:
GRUB_DEFAULT=0
GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE=hidden
GRUB_TIMEOUT=0
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`lsb_release -i -s 2>...
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Airplay sink no longer visible in pulseaudio
I'm trying to send audio over airplay (RAOP) from Ubuntu 14.04. The pulseaudio-module-raop in Ubuntu used to support my 2nd-gen Airport Express, but it no longer appears in my list of pulseaudio ...
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How do I reinstall Windows 7 while keeping my dual boot configuration? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I install Windows 7 after I've installed Ubuntu?
I have dual-boot Ubuntu 12.04 and windows 7 32 bit and I want to format my windows 7 partition to put windows 7 64 ...
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Printers Always Print Pages In Reverse Order
I have used Ubuntu for many years and this has always been a problem for me on every printer I encounter (HP, Lexmark, and Samsung, among others). Whenever I print, the fidelity is fine but instead ...
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How do I stop virbr0 interface being created?
Whenever I start my laptop(HP) , 'Network Connections' shows it being connected (though it is actually not) . When I go to 'edit connections' option , it shows virbr0 . I have to delete it every time ....
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A tabbed PDF reader that saves and restores the last session?
I'm on Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS, and I'm searching for a PDF reader with tabs, and one that will save my sessions upon closing and re-opening. Foxit Reader on Windows does this--if you close the program and ...
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How to save/overwrite an annotated file with Evince?
I am using the pre-installed Document Viewer (Evince) to annotate pdf-files. There does not seem to be a "Save" option and under "Save a Copy" I need to click through the folder to find the pdf ...
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What does the name after '@' at terminal prompt mean?
I noticed that when in terminal the prompt is generally in the format username@users: or I have even seen username@(none):. I get that the first part is the logged in person's user name, but what is ...
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Files are read-only after copying over samba
I used to copy files from one system to another system via samba. How ever I am getting the file only in read only mode. What i am doing now is i used to change the file permission after transferring ...
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Is there an easy way to edit gtk-recordMyDesktop videos?
gtk-recordMyDesktop outputs .ogv files that seem perfectly fine - they work well in Totem and VLC. However, if I try to edit them in openshot or kdenlive, the editor either crashes (kdenlive) or won't ...
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How to run a web browser as a screensaver
I would like to set up a custom application (a separate profile of Firefox browser in my case) to be fired instead of screensaver. I am using Gnome desktop environment. Technically it doesn't have to ...
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ubuntu gnome 17.04 boot failure in VirtualBox after installing guest additions
My VirtualBox Ubuntu Gnome 17.04 installation is suddenly not booting anymore. A screenshot of what I get at boot is attached, it just stays like this. The only thing that I did the last time before ...
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Why is my GID environment variable empty?
I try echo $GID but get nothing. However, I can get 1000 by using id -g, what's the differences between them ?
id -u => 1000
id -g => 1000
echo $UID => 1000
echo $GID =>
The ...
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How to create a link to a folder in Ubuntu 18.04 using GUI [duplicate]
If my memory is not playing me up this could be done with old versions of Ubuntu but I can't find a way of doing it with 18.04.
Is there a way of doing it?
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How do I reorder buttons in the window-list (taskbar) via drag and drop?
I switched from GNOME2 to XFCE and miss the feature to re-arrange the window buttons in the taskbar (window list).
How can I make it working?
I use Xubuntu 12.10.
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Could not find valid key in user session keyring for sig specified in mount option after upgrade from 16.04 to 18.04
About a month ago I updated my 16.04 LTS server to 18.04.1 LTS. The upgrade went fine. However, since the upgrade, whenever a user logs in, there is a message displayed in dmesg or on the local ...
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IntelliJ crashing since latest update
This morning IntelliJ got updated from version 2023.3 to 2024.1 and since then it doesn't work anymore. I am using Ubuntu 22.04.
When I try to run it, it opens for a few seconds, and then ALL ...
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Architecture diagram explaining the Ubuntu Cloud Infrastructure with MAAS / Openstack architecture?
I'm interested in Ubuntu Cloud Infrastructure with MAAS (based on Openstack from what I understand) but cannot find any architecture diagram which gives an overview of how MAAS works.
The case is ...
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How to install AMDGPU-PRO drivers in 16.10?
AMD has drivers up listed for 14.04 and 16.04. Trying to install the 16.04 drivers on 16.10 gives me
ln: failed to create symbolic link '/usr/bin/amdgpu-pro-uninstall':
File exists
Is there any way ...
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What is the relationship between .gconf, .gnome2, .cache, .local, and other dot-file hierarchies in my home directory?
According to this answer, .local .cache and .config are, by convention, configuration storage locations adopted by Gnome and Ubuntu.
Are .gnome .gnome2 and .gconf therefore legacy configuration ...
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Screen does not turn off when inactive
Recently I have noticed that the brightness and lock settings to turn off the screen after a period of inactivity are being ignored.
I have my settings at 1 minute and to lock the screen when the ...
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Difference between GTK theme and GNOME shell theme?
I'm using GNOME Shell and I'd like to know what a GTK theme changes that a GNOME shell theme doesn't.
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apt-get asks me to insert CD, why? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
I can’t update 12.04 LTS
I tried to install several package before and it happened before, actually Iþm getting this for
sudo apt-get install libvte-dev
and this is the tail....
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Ubuntu 20.04 error on install gimp : Depends: libgimp2.0 (>= 2.10.18) but it is not going to be installed [duplicate]
I have this issue when I search to install Gimp:
$ sudo apt-get install gimp
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not ...
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How to install Rhythmbox Spotify plugin?
Is there an easy way to install the Spotify plugin for Rhythmbox in Ubuntu 12.04?
I can only find links to recompile Rhythmbox completely and the instructions aren't very clear.
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