Questions tagged [13.10]
This non-LTS version of Ubuntu, code named Saucy Salamander, was released On 17 Oct, 2013 and reached End Of Life on July, 2014. Newer questions should be considered off-topic.
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Ubuntu desktop settings menu replaced with one from ubuntu touch?
Okay so I have a really weird issue, my settings menu in Ubuntu 13.10 (desktop) has been replaced with what appears to be the one from Ubuntu touch. It even has a button labeled "About this phone". ...
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Unable to connect via SSH: port 22 error
I have two machines connected via the Ethernet cable. One machine is running Mac OS X , the other Ubuntu (13.10).
I am currently able to connect to the Mac via SSH. However when I try login in on the ...
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How to patch rt kernel in ubuntu 13.10?
I have followed the steps given in the below link...
How can I install a realtime kernel?
.......after installing the kernel, system is not rebooting automatically.
Need help.
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Remote control for distribution upgrade
I've launched distribution upgrade (from 13.10 to 14.04) in Unity. Upgrade is running, but at the moment I don't have physical access to that machine (SSH is active)
How can I verify in shell status ...
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After upgrade to Ubuntu 13.10, Firefox sometimes crashes the computer
The previous Ubuntu was 12.04 when Firefox worked fine. The computer is an HP Pavilion DV4 laptop and now is upgraded to Ubuntu 13.10, Firefox v28.0,Canonical-1.0. Firefox may run for sometime then ...
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Wifi adaptor isn't recognized by Ubuntu 13.10
I have an Pavilion G6-1d80NR with a Realtek RTL8188CE WiFi card. I just recently installed Ubuntu 13.10 alongside Windows 7 and aside from having to tweak the nomodest setting from the Ubuntu setup ...
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Upgrade from Ubuntu Gnome 13.10 to Ubuntu 14.04
I'm currently running Ubuntu Gnome 13.10 but I'd like to upgrade to Ubuntu 14.04 with Unity instead of Gnome Shell. How can I go about this?
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On Xubuntu 13.10 AR8162 Wired internet disabled on Asus 1015e-ds03
I have an Asus 1015e-dso3 laptop. It came with Ubuntu 12.04 installed, and everything was fine, except that the laptop came very strangely partitioned. There was about 150gb worth of space that wasn't ...
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Upgrade manager doesn't finds ubuntu 14.04
I have 13.10 installed and would like to upgrade to 14.04. How would be this possible? If i do it like the manual says then i can update only to the devel version of ubuntu which i would like not.
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13.10 Samba installed. Cannot find it
I have freshly installed 13.10 on a laptop, I have done the obligatory web searches to find out all the things I need to install to actually make it useful.
One of those is to install Samba, which I ...
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Empathy won't connect to my Facebook account [duplicate]
When I try to connect Empathy to my Facebook account, the following error appears:
Rough translation: "Error connecting to the app. Sorry, but the app you are trying to access doesn't exist or was ...
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Clementine refuses to play m4a, wma and wav
I installed Clementine and I'm happy with it's user interface and certain features.
Unfortunately, it refuses to play wma, wav and m4a files.
As far as I know, I do have all the gstreamer plugins ...
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Ubuntu 13.10 can't boot into unity [duplicate]
I installed ubuntu 13.10 on my laptop but it won't boot into unity just command line and says running in low graphics mode. How do I fix this.
I have an HP 15-g029wm laptop with amd radeon hd 3330 ...
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I installed Ubuntu 13.10 "inside" Windows 7 but Windows automatically boots
I'm new to Ubuntu (and Linux in general), so bear with me.
I burned Ubuntu 13.10 to a DVD and "tried" Ubuntu. Then in the Ubuntu desktop, I selected the install icon for Ubuntu. I got a prompt that ...
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Can't find packages, Ubuntu 13.10
I'm trying to install wine 1.6 but the Terminal keeps saying it can't find the packages. And when I tried to add it to the repository it says i'm not using the correct PPA name.
sudo add-apt-...
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I have installed mysql on ubuntu 13.10, but don't seem to have rights to do anything?
This is possibly a problem that affects lots of users, I have have found similar posts, but none of the solutions have worked for me.
I have installed mysql on my ubuntu 13.10, however I do not seem ...
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Overheating - ATI HD6470M, Ubuntu 13.10
I'm trying Linux for the first time ever and experiencing a lot of overheating. In about 45min after I turn on my laptop I get to temps like 90ºC. I googled it and saw a lot of people with the same ...
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Pulseaudio resets volume control to 100% -- doesn't save volume
Running Ubuntu 13.10 and each time I login, my volume control is reset to 100%. Pulseaudio never saves its state.
I can run pacmd set-sink-volume 0 26000 on the cmd line to set it back to 40%, but it ...
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Mouse "jumps" while holding a mousebutton
i am very new to Ubuntu (13.10). I've just installed it yesterday and have some problems with my mouse. While holding a mousebutton it jumps all over the screen but holding a"mousebutton" using the ...
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Is there a man page for php pear from php-pear package?
I'm searching for man page documentation or alternatives for the php-pear package on Ubtunu 13.10. Concretely I'm stuck with the following issues (besides not finding the man page where I believe to ...
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Installing AMD Catalyst 14.3 on Ubuntu 13.10-64bit
I have followed these instructions:
http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Ubuntu_Saucy_Installation_Guide#Generate_a_new_.2Fetc.2FX11.2Fxorg.conf_file
I have not performed section 3.5 Generate a new /etc/...
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Ubuntu 13.10 to LG TV via HDMI
I am unable to connect a Ubuntu 13.10 box to a 55 LG LED 1080p 240 HZ smart tv (model #55LAS400) via HDMI. Sometimes I just get a green screen on the TV or other times it won't recognize the TV at all....
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running old msdos/windows program qa4 ver 4.0 on ubuntu 13.10
Looking for more info on this because I'm not sure how to qualify my qa4 v4.0 program (symantic). It runs on ms-dos, but also runs as a windows program in win3, 98, xp. It won't run under win7.
I ...
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Can't find or install package "libiberty"
I'm running a ./configure script to install a program on a newly installed 13.10 ubuntu.
I'm told that libiberty should come with binutils or gcc, but it is not being found.
There is no information ...
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Is there any kind of relationship between Windows and Ubuntu installation?
I've just experienced incredibly weird behavior in Ubuntu. I've written lately some questions here regarding my shitty tablet not working correctly in Ubuntu 13.10 . I've left it that way having it ...
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Windows 8 and Ubuntu OS installation possible on the same computer?
I have a simple question: "If I install Ubuntu 13.10 on my Windows 8 PC and lets say I need/want to go back to Windows 8, could I use recovery discs to remove Ubuntu and simply reinstall Windows"?
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Strange screen fragment when using emacs
I am being bothered by the strange screen fragment while using emacs.
Sometimes, when I edit something in emacs, the screen gets fragmented like this:
The lines are not correctly updated
Below is ...
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My hardware can handle OpenGL 3.2 but my system throws error related to the OpenGL version that my computer supports
I have the following hardware configuration -
NVIDIA Corporation GF108M [GeForce GT 525M]
Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller
According to NVIDIA's ...
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Is this drive in 'My Devices' necessary?
I have a 40 GB Volume in My Drives. It has folders like bin, boot, home, sys, root, etc stc. Can I delete the mentioned volume? So as to free up that much space? Or is it required to be there?
Any ...
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my wireless signal got ether weakend or no loger working after using Software updater on Ubuntu 13.10 how to fix this
I am new to both linux and ubuntu And giving them a try . after installing ubuntu 13.10. the wireless seems to work just fine. Then the "software updater" showed that there is some updates. and so i ...
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Cant boot into ubuntu install [duplicate]
So I am trying to install Ubuntu, I had it before but I removed it because i couldn't re install it, i thought it would work but it didn't. So I cant boot into the install anymore, it says:
SYSLINUX ...
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13.10, mount works only in read-only mode
No success mounting a device in read-write mode. After plugging it in, it is mounted.
$ sudo lsblk -o NAME,FSTYPE,SIZE,MOUNTPOINT,LABEL
NAME FSTYPE SIZE MOUNTPOINT LABEL
sda ...
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Black Screen with "Input signal out of range" message, after AMD graphic driver installation [13.10]
I recently installed Ubuntu 13.10 64bit alongside Windows 7 64bit, and both ran fine. Then I installed AMD graphic driver for my video card radeon R9 270 following the 3rd(manual) procedure given in ...
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Using russian layout shortcuts Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V do not work [closed]
I've read many online resources, but got nothing.
Shortcuts like Ctrl+c | Ctrl+v | Ctrl+x don't work in most of applications when I switch to Russian layout, but when I switch back to English (US) ...
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When starting up, Ubuntu shows only a blinking cursor. Why?
I've seen this asked multiple times here on AskUbuntu, but there are so many solutions and so diverse, that I don't know which one to try. I'm afraid I'll break something because I'm not very ...
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Nemo '/Home' folder freezes
I have Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy, and I just installed Cinnamon 2.0 desktop. When I try to open files /Home is not responding and freezes.
I can access specific folders like ~/Picture and ~/Music from '...
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Ubuntu 13.10 and Microsoft Wireless Notebook presenter 8000
I've tried pairing my mouse Microsoft Wireless Notebook presenter 8000 on my HP pavilion dv9000 laptop but I just can't hit "pair" button! (it is actually a "continue" button)
I've tried this ...
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Alternative of CCleaner in Ubuntu 13.10 [duplicate]
Is there any alternative software of CCleaner in Ubuntu 13.10. My laptop is running very slow, and Firefox also running slow and unresponsive.
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touchpad not working (at all) in Ubuntu 13.10
I am new to Linux. I don't know why my touch pad is not working at all. But the mouse is working perfectly well. Please help
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How to mount problematic internal hard disk using ubuntu 13.10 [duplicate]
I have a laptop with windows 7. One day i cannot access windows. So I'M trying to use Ubuntu 13.10 live USB ("try only" version) to retrieve important files in the internal hard disk.
when I try to ...
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Dual Boot problems 13.10
my windows 8.1 loads up fine if I turn on secure boot but for me to load up ubuntu I have to change my settings to legacy mode and the reason I installed it this way was because it wouldnt display the ...
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Can't Connect To A Wifi on 13.10
So few days ago i got a new Laptop with Ubuntu 13.10 installed on it. It works fine when i connect with wired ethernet, it even sees the wi-fi just when i double click it, it tries to connect and then ...
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When partitioning with Gparted how do I create a 1 gigabyte partition?
I'm using Lubuntu 13.10 amd64bit. I have Gparted installed, but how can I make a 1 gigabyte partition? It says MiB.
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Setting up my new 3G usb modem "D-Link DWP 156 in ubuntu 13.10
This USB modem has official support for Linux OS(Ubuntu 10.04 or above). I have tried all the methods shown on various sites but Nothing worked.
In the terminal I typed isusb and the output is as ...
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Getting sound to play on my new machine on Ubuntu 13.10
So I've been struggling with this for a bit now, and it's getting a bit frustrating.
Some preliminary information: I've just built this computer from parts. Checking the available audio (not sure if ...
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Terraria running in wine fails on startup
I am running wine 1.6.1 on Ubuntu 13.10.
I installed a clean 32 bit .wine prefix, with wine set to act as Win 7 (I have tried XP as well). Then installed xna40 (XNA Framework 4.0) and dotnet40 (MS.NET ...
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Three OS in one system
I have been using Ubuntu and Windows, which are installed side by side for about 2 and a half year by now(although I hardly open Windows) and I've had my Ups and Downs.
But now I'm trying to install ...
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Error when installing Ubuntu 13.10 black screen/white flashing dash
Yesterday I've tried to install Ubuntu on my windows 7 desktop pc. I've burned the iso on a dvd, and installed the help boot. Then it asked to reboot, after that it took me to the ubuntu purple screen ...
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13.10 graphics tablet recognized but not working
i'm using genius i608x tablet and in 13.10 it is recognized by name with lsusb also gimp recognizes the tablet but the mouse pointer is not moving. I can click on stuff so I guess the buttons are ...
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Ubuntu keeps enabling panning and tracking for dual monitor setup
I have two monitors connected to my box (nvidia graphics with proprietary driver). Everything was fine until I updated to saucy (not using default ubuntu desktop but xfce).
After the update the ...