Questions tagged [11.10]
Codenamed "Oneiric Ocelot", this version was released on Oct 13, 2011 and is no longer supported since May 9, 2013. Questions about unsupported versions are likely to be closed as off-topic.
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Boot-repair won't install "unable to locate package"
My computer won't boot so I am trying to install boot-recovery using the instructions from https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Repair. The initial command runs fine:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:...
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How do I build a project with qmake-qt4?
I'm new user of Ubuntu, so excuse me if my question is very obvious.
I have a 32-bit Ubuntu 11.10 installed in VirtualBox, and I want to build a project using qmake-qt4, the problem is that I don't ...
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Adding extra options to right-click menu
Are there any more options that can be added to the right click menu in Ubuntu? e.g when right clicking in nautilus or desktop?
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How do I convert audiobooks from mp3 to m4b?
I've moved from Windows to Ubuntu and I have problems converting my new books (in mp3) to m4b. There are a lot of Windows applications which could do that, but what about Ubuntu?
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How do I change screen contrast?
The contrast on my laptop's screen is not enough for me.. Do you know how to change screen contrast in Ubuntu 11.10? I've tried xcalib and f.lux, but it isn't what I'm looking for.
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I can't get grub menu to show up during boot
After trying (and failing) to install better ATI drivers in 11.10, I've somehow lost my grub menu at boot time. The screen does change to the familiar purple colour, but instead of a list of boot ...
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How do i fix problem with Ubuntu 11.10 server and gitweb?
Hi and sorry for bad english first :(...
i have one ubuntu 11.10 server and i wanna make gitweb server. i refered to this site - http://www.snowfrog.net/2011/08/02/setting-up-gitweb-on-your-ubuntu-...
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Wrong keyboard layout on client PC when using synergy
I just installed ubuntu 11.10 in my new computer, the old one (still main computer) is ubuntu 10.04. Both PCs use "Spanish LAm" keyboard layout, the only difference is that the new PC keyboard has ...
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Loading KVM AMD module fails
I want to use QEMU+KVM on Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric but virt-manager warns that KVM is not loaded and performance will suffer.
The problem may depend on the fact that
sudo modprobe kvm-amd
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Are there any alternative programs to Proteus available?
I'm using Ubuntu 11.10 on my machine and I want to install some programs such as the windows program "proteus" and I can't install them on my machine.
I searched a lot and a lot for solution but have ...
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With external display, screen turns black after start from suspend Xubuntu 11.10
I work with a Thinkpad X220 and have Xubuntu 11.10 installed. Everything works fine, except for this;
When I suspend my laptop, while it is connected to my external monitor (either cloned screen or ...
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Problems with using themes in Geany
I'm trying to switch to the Geany editor for my web development but need to switch to a dark theme. In searching for some default themes I came across this excellent collection.
I've now installed ...
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Setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH before running an app from a terminal has no effect
I have several builds of an application on my system (a dev build and many older released builds). When I'm trying to run an older release, the system invariably picks up the dynamic libraries from ...
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How do I install ATI Radeon HD 3650 driver on my pc?
I need help on this.
I want to try using Ubuntu so I downloaded the 11.10 version over the net.
Well after the installation my desktop, I have run the the additional drivers. It installed about 70+...
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Deepin Software Centre unable to aunthenticate password
I am using Kubuntu 11.10. I tried installing Deepin Software Centre in it. Installation was successful but when I launched the application it asked for password. Every time I entered the password, it ...
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How to disable fancy visual effects in Gnome Shell?
I there!
I'm a new Ubuntu user and I began with version 11.10. I recently installed Gnome Shell (gnome-shell package in Ubuntu Software Center) after running with Ubuntu 2D. I thought it would be ...
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How Do I Use a Photos Directory as my Screensaver?
I just upgraded to version 11.10 and found how to enable xscreensaver. However, I'm very disappointed that I don't have the option to use my photos directory as a screen saver option.
What do I ...
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How do I disable Ctrl+Alt+Left/Right?
I use GNOME Classic. There is no Ctrl+Alt+Left/Right shortcut in System Settings -> Keyboard -> Shortcuts.
It should be configured somewhere else. But where?
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Can I get sensible labels for lm-sensors output for "applesmc-isa-0300"?
2011 8,3 Macbook Pro running 64bit 11.10.
When I run sensors from the lm-sensors package, I get a lot of information, but no way to understand it:
coretemp-isa-0000
Adapter: ISA adapter
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11.10 very slow with Radeon HD 4290 onboard
I just changed to Ubuntu 11.10 and I have had a painful experience trying to configure the onboard VGA. I read a lot of articles here and in the web, looked everywhere, but I didn find a fix for it. ...
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When Ubuntu Server restarts eth0 Doesn't come back up
Every time I restart my Ubuntu Server 11.10 I can't ssh into it because ETH0 doesn't come up automatically. I never had this problem before upgrading to 11.10.
I have to login to the server and start ...
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how can I get the UbuntuOne panel icon starting in the background via my .bashrc
Trying to get an indicator working to show UbuntuOne progress, like the Dropbox one.
This helped: Is there any way to get an indicator for Ubuntu One?
Also this http://www.webupd8.org/2010/10/ubuntu-...
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MDADM Superblock Recovery
After a power cycle I found my RAID 5 Array no longer working. I tried various methods to reassemble the array but nothing has worked so far. I believe I need to recreate the superblocks and UUIDs ...
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How can I setup SSH so that it is restricted to my local network?
I'm trying to link my new laptop running 11.10 to my old laptop running 8.04 through my router using SSH.
This question is asked and answered on ubuntuforums here:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread....
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How to install asterisk 1.8 + freepbx 2.9 + nginx + php-fpm?
How I can install freepbx 2.9 with asterisk 1.8 on Ubuntu 11.10?
The matter is that most tutorials and guidelines on internet are not well written and I get error messages when I do amportal start.
An ...
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PHP-FPM Constantly Restarting Pools - Zombie's Everywhere!
After a recent incident in which I ran chown -R root:root on my entire /var directory on accident, I've been dealing with php-fpm issues. I've tried fixing permissions in a number of ways with no ...
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Can't install any update or software from Software Center [duplicate]
I tried to install updates and it's saying to get partial upgrade
When trying Partial Upgrade doesn't working again.
And when trying to install any software it doesn't installing.
Can someone help me?
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How to change color/transparency of all desktop panels?
In KDE 4.7, after making some personalization I made a layout which I really like.
But light panels color breaking the whole idea. It is too bright.
Changing color scheme doesn't help.
How could I ...
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Lost power during upgrade, how do I recover?
I was attempting to update my 11.10 install to 12.04beta. During the install step, I accidentally lost power to my laptop (the power cable came unplugged) and it shut down. Whenever I go to boot now, ...
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How to update Wine to the latest version? [duplicate]
I just formatted my laptop and got rid of Windows 7. Yay ;-)
Either way, Wine is version 1.3.28 here, and I need it to update (there are some bugfixes) for my game so I need a more recent version. ...
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How do I make the window border bigger?
I'm using Ubuntu 11.10 in a VirtualBox VM on a MacBook Pro with the default Unity UI. Positioning the mouse cursor over the 1-pixel wide border to resize a window is driving me absolutely nuts. Lots ...
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How can I repair my installation?
Does ubuntu 11.10 have a repair setup like windows that repairs the operating system files? Or do we have to do a whole new installation?
If not, is there a backup solution so I can re-install ...
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How do I add myself back as a sudo user?
I clean-installed Ubuntu 11.10 today, and then installed VirtualBox. This required me to add myself to the vboxusers group, and since 11.10 seems to no longer have a graphical app to add users to a ...
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How to set up keyboard layout switching and indication in Xubuntu?
I use 3 different languages (English, Czech and Russian) every day. I'd prefer to switch (preferably globally, I don't like per-window) between them with Left+Alt+Shift.
I'd also like to see the ...
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How to boot up in kubuntu-mobile?
On Ubuntu 12.04 Unity
I just did
sudo apt-get install kubuntu-full kubuntu-mobile plasma-mobile
The install finished with no problems and I see Kubuntu in lightdm as an option to boot into... but ...
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What rules to use for UFW?
I've decided to enable the UFW that comes with Ubuntu just to make my system even more secure (especially after watching a video of a person whose computer actually got infected!), and I've enabled ...
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Deja Dup`s "Back Up Now" button is not highlighted
I have setup my backup folder and put the Automatic backups switch to on. In the Overview tab I cant press the "Back Up Now" because it is grayed out.
I am using Ubuntu 11.10 and here is the content ...
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How do I reinstall grub2? [duplicate]
Having tried all day to reinstall grub and trawling the internet I have had no luck. I can no longer boot into ubuntu and have tried boot disk frin yannubuntu but the grub tabs are greyed out. Other ...
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How do I theme the xscreensaver unlock screen?
How can I replace ugly screensaver unlock screen in Xubuntu 11.10?
Standard xscreensaver is very ugly.
Is there any themes for unlock screen?
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How can I disable passwordless login?
I set my account to be allowed to log in without a password. I only wanted this temporarily, but I can't seem to change it back to how it was before.
How can I make it so that my password is ...
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How can I configure "mousekeys"?
Under 11.04, the option to control the pointer with the numpad was set in the Hardware/Keyboard settings page.
How can I turn on mousekeys or configure them in newer releases?
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How can I remove icons from the GNOME Shell panel?
I tried to use the gmenu-simple editor, but it said it can't find it. It's just for a good look.
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Download files from amazon cloud
I am trying to download music files from amazon as described in this question, but in both banshee's amazon mp3 or firefox I am taken to Amazon's page asking me to install it's outdated i386 installer....
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What Updated Web Cache Servers are available (Caching HTTP Proxy)
I am going to install Ubuntu 11.10 Server (And soon 12.04 Server) and wanted to know what Web Cache servers (Caching HTTP proxy) come with Ubuntu 11.10/12.04 to improve performance and reduce ...
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Can I stop apps from selecting "Recently Used" by default in file chooser dialogs?
In Ubuntu and Kubuntu 11.10 I see changes in behaviour of GTK file chooser dialog. When I try to open new file (second, third etc, not first in editor) dialog show "Recenty used" section. It is very ...
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Delete extra toolbar on top of the screen in GNOME fallback mode?
Clean install to 11.10, trying to keep Gnome Classic.
I've installed gnome-session-fallback and removed unity via software center, and this toolbar still won't go away.
Has anyone had any problems ...
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Install a list of packages only if they aren't already installed
I'm trying to automate my setup as much as possible.
To do this I have lists of packages that I want to install, for example: banshee wireshark audacity thunderbird thunderbird-lightning calibre ...
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Touchpad double-tap holding is not working
I used to be able to double-tap and hold on my touchpad to drag and drop things. Since I upgraded to oneric ocelot it only works 10% of the time. What program are they using to log the touchpad and ...
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Can't access CompizConfig Settings Manager or terminal after installing Atlantis transparent cube plugin
I installed the Atlantis transparent cube plugin and now all I have on my screen are folders and fish.
I can't:
open a terminal with Ctrl+Alt+T
open the run dialogue box with Alt+F2
get Ctrl+Alt+F1 ...
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Ubuntu 11.10 can't detect my video card (nvidia gtx 560)
I'm currently using Ubuntu 11.10 and it's a fresh install. I've already installed nvidia drivers through the terminal with sudo apt-get install nvidia-current, but Ubuntu still can't detect my current ...
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