Questions tagged [17.10]
Questions about 17.10 are off-topic on Ask Ubuntu. Ubuntu 17.10 (Artful Aardvark) is a non-LTS version released on October 19, 2017. It became End Of Life (EOL) on July 19 2018.
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Dual monitor setup only displays on iMac with retina on non-default resolution
I'm running Ubuntu 17.10 on an iMac retina (update: upgraded now to 18.04, nothing changed), with a Dell as second monitor.
The default resolution of the iMac (first monitor) is 3840x2160 (16:9). At ...
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Unable to access Virtual network editor - Workstation 14.1 Ubuntu 17.10 [closed]
I've just installed VMWare Workstation 14 on My PC with OS Ubuntu 17.10.
When attempting to run it via the vmware workstation (Edit > Virtual Network Editor), it asks me for a password and nothing ...
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Black second screen after 18.04 update
After update to 18.04 from 17.10, my second monitor seems to be detected (though weirdly as " Samsung Electric Company 19" " when it actually is Samsung SyncMaster 940N) but is black. It is set to ...
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How to change the application switcher on Ubuntu 18.04 and 17.10?
Recently, Ubuntu change the UI back to GNOME.
Back on 16.04, when the UI was Unity, in order to change the application switcher, I just needed to install Compiz Config System Manager (ccsm), select ...
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steam: missing libGL.so.1 and libdrm.so.2
I am attempting to install steam from the ubuntu repos on Xubuntu 17.10, and am running into a dependecy issue.
Steam requires these two 32bit libraries:
The following packages have unmet ...
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Upon boot resolv.conf is empty, but then eventually is populated; why?
I have a few 17.10 instances running in Amazon EC2 on a VPC. When I freshly reboot a server (unsure if it happens on a cold boot, I have not tested), the /etc/resolv.conf file shows as empty:
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Help with remote controlling
So I want to be able to connect to my laptop running Ubuntu Server 17.10 without having to log in to another session. I may be logging in with the same user, but if I am running something like a ...
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Remote Ubuntu Desktop 17.10, how to access it with ssh and GUI
As title says, I have a windows machine and a remote ubuntu that I access via ssh. It got the moment where I need to run some visualization software on it. How can I access the remote with a GUI (...
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How to change shortcut for Activities overview?
I have dual-booted Windows and Ubuntu 17.10. In Windows, the shortcut key for task view is Win+Tab. In Ubuntu 17.10, the shortcut key for the Dash menu ("Activities" overview) is the Super key. It's a ...
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How to enable snapping windows?
When I drag a window to the size, I no longer get an option to snap it to the side and make its width be half of the screen. How can I restore that behaviour?
Using Unity on Ubuntu 17.10.
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Unable to upgrade to 18.04 from 17.10: An unresolvable problem occurred while calculating the upgrade
I heard that waiting a few weeks after a new Ubuntu release is usually a good idea, and so I've only just gotten around to trying to install the update. Turns out that when I try and install the ...
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Ubuntu 17.10: Too many errors from stdin
I have a VM under Ubuntu 17.10 and I'm having some trouble: I'm getting the following message every time when I'm using nano / etc.:
Too many errors from stdin
I'd try google it, but can't find ...
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Why don't I have a Network Manager?
I recently built a PC and then installed Ubuntu 17.10 onto it with a USB. When I went to connect to a wifi, there was no Network manager tool, so how do I enable it? I really want to know how to turn ...
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Do work iptables across all users at the same time?
I'm running Lubuntu 17.10 and I have two accounts; lightning and scholar. When logged into the desktop as scholar I want to block traffic to-and-from https://www.facebook.com/ on scholar, even while ...
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Speaker volume control not working on Ubuntu 17.10
I have a dual boot machine with ubuntu 17.10 and the audio works flawlessly on Windows, while on Ubuntu it has these problems:
The volume control slide has no effect, either from the GUI in the top-...
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How to enable Tracker (Ubuntu search file indexing) in Git repo's on the hard drive? [U17.10]
I've noticed that Ubuntu 17.10 file indexing for search (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Tracker I believe) skips folders that contain git repo's. I'm guessing this is because most repo's have a large amount ...
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Broken Packages with wine
I know the question has been asked a lot but nothing I can find seems to be working. When I enter:
sudo apt-get install wine-stable
Here is what I get:
Reading package lists... Done
Building ...
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How to uninstall Atom on Ubuntu 17.10?
I am looking for a way to uninstall Atom on Ubuntu 17.10. Is there any script for it? I want to completely uninstall Atom from my machine.
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Get sources.list back to default for ubuntu 17.10
I had ubuntu 17.04 after the upgrade period ended. I could not upgrade to 17.10 because my sources.list was outdated and could not update because it was not maintaned anymore.
Therefore I replaced my ...
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Ubuntu distro upgrade getting disrupted (17.10 to 18.04 LTS 'Bionic Beaver')
I am currently using Ubuntu 17.10 and am trying to upgrade to the 18.04 LTS new version.
After clicking on the "Upgrade" option in the Software Updater I am presented with a release notes window ...
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Unable to upgrade from 17.10 to 18.04
When I run the command to upgrade to Ubuntu 18.04
/usr/lib/ubuntu-release-upgrader/check-new-release-gtk
I get the following error :
/usr/lib/ubuntu-release-upgrader/check-new-release-gtk:30: ...
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Applying gif as wallpaper
I want to know if there any way by which we can apply a .gif image on our desktop as wallpaper I am using Ubuntu 17:10. I tried applying the gif as wallpaper but it was not working as it is supposed ...
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How can I install CUDA 9.0 for Ubuntu 17.10 without changing the current nvidia drivers?
I have downloaded and installed CUDA several times, and every time it fails to pass the test samples deviceQuery and checkBandwidth. Also tensorflow is never listing the GPU between accessible devices,...
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Upgrade Issue: 17.10 to 18.04: Failure with Internet or network error
I have made several attempts to upgrade from 17.10 to 18.04 and yet both at the cache repository level and upgrade installation - the same failure is experienced blaming the internet connection. I ...
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Which version of Ubuntu Make should I use - from APT or from Snap?
Following the last question "how to install netbeans from umake?" I have the simply question:
which version of Ubuntu Make should I use - from APT or from Snap?
Note for close-voters: we have ...
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Screen flickering issue in Ubuntu 17.10
I'm using Ubuntu 17.10, my screen keeps on flickering and I can see frame drops. Restarting my PC doesn't solve the problem. I have a HP Pavilion ab032tx, dual booted with Windows 10.The problem does ...
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etc/apt/sources.list file for Ubuntu 17.10 [duplicate]
I am unable to upgrade to Ubuntu 18.04 as due to wrong links in sources.list file. I am able to update successfully as only some of the links are wrong. As Ubuntu 17.10 repositories are not yet moved ...
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How can I delete an image with Eye of Gnome / EOG?
I'm on Ubuntu 17.10 and I wonder how I can delete an image with Eye of Gnome / EOG, I press del keyboard button, but nothing happens. Also there is no option for delete on the menu:
My EOG version is:...
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Firefox 60 crashes on launch after Lubuntu 17.10.1 or 18.04 LTS installed
I did a new install of Lubuntu 17.10.1 on a 700 MHz Athlon Thunderbird PC with 768MB RAM. Firefox crashed when opened, so I ran software update and upgraded Firefox to 60.0.1 which did not solve the ...
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Make a Ubuntu Live USB without having it waste the whole USB?
Funny story, I actually succeeded in doing this a 9 months ago but I didn't write down the commands/procedure I used and have managed to completely forget it.
Does anyone know how I can go about ...
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Everything in Firefox scaled up except the Window title font
How can I get a reasonably scaled Firefox?
My Firefox looks like
Everything but the title seems to be scaled up. Regular gtk apps behaves nicely. Java applications has a similar title bar but can ...
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Weird iPhone entry in Connections
In Ubuntu 17.10, from some time to now I see a new weird iPhone entry in my top bar's status menu (see screenshot) My questions are:
1) Why did this show up? I don't own an iPhone nor have ever used ...
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Can't remove old kernels due to unmet dependencies
I'm trying to remove old kernels on Ubuntu 17.10, but am being hit with an unmet dependencies error. My current kernel is linux 4.13.0-38-generic.
My output from dpkg -l | grep linux-image | awk '{...
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upgraded from 17.10 to Ubuntu 18.04 but kernel didn't change how to fix
A few days back, I upgraded my system to 18.04. After upgrading, I diduname -r
it shows, Linux 4.13.0-36-generic but I am expecting it to be 4.15.
Also after the update, bootloader still shows ...
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Cannot install ANYTHING at all
So, I'm new to linux I'm using Lubuntu 17.10. When I try to install a package either in a terminal or software centre. I tried everything even re-installing and that didn't help!
When I try to ...
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'Error: Read-only file system', even with root privileges in Bash shell
I have Ubuntu 17.10 with gnome installed on it. Something I did (removing a folder from /usr/share/gnome-shell) made me unable to use GNOME. So, I booted into recovery mode with root privileges. I ...
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Putty segmentation fault
I have just installed PuTTY with sudo apt-get install putty command.
When I try to run it, I immediately receive Segmentation fault (core dumped) error.
How can I fix this?
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Display list of shortcuts in Ubuntu 17.10 gnome
How do i see list of shortcut keys in ubuntu 17.10 gnome? When I was using 17.04 unity, just pressing the super key for 2-3 seconds displayed the shortcuts list. Is there any similar feature in 17.10 ...
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switch between nvidia and intel gpu without reboot
So, I was able to switch from nvidia to intel and back using nvidia-prime on my system (Ubuntu 17.10) - just logout and login again - but now it seems to require a reboot between switches (If I just ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 boot loop after upgrade from 17.10
I'm running this as a dual boot on my Dell Inspiron 15 7557. I'm having a challenge after upgrading from 17.10 to 18.04. The package download and installation process was successful (through update ...
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Upgrade from non-LTS to LTS or install a fresh LTS? [closed]
At the moment I have 17.10 installed. Now I wonder which is safer, more stable and clean:
To upgrade from 17.10 to 18.04
Install a fresh 18.04
If they are the same, I prefer to do the upgrade as it ...
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gnome-shell using most of CPU in VirtualBox [closed]
I just installed Ubuntu 17.10.1 on VirtualBox an hour ago, and everything seems to lag.
I allocated the system 4GB of RAM and 128MB of VRAM.
I'm not sure if it's because of the fact that it only has ...
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It takes long to boot
I was using Ubuntu 17.10 for months and recently I upgraded to Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. My problem is that my laptop takes long to boot, it is between 4 or 5 minutes, but before it used to take 20 seconds (I ...
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Upgrade from 17.10 to 18.04 crashes when extracting bionic
Hi everyone,
So over the past month I've tried many times to upgrade from Ubuntu 17.10 to 18.04. Every time I try to do an update it crashes, it always crashes on the line extracting bionic.tar.gz.
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Upgrading Ubuntu 17.10 to 18.04 failed and won't boot [duplicate]
When I tried to update Ubuntu 17.10 to 18.04, the installation failed and stopped the update. Now it won't boot. How can I fix Ubuntu and save my files that are on the computer?
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Black Screen on lubuntu 17.10 after display resolution change, a half solution
I have installed lubuntu 17.10 on an old computer to do little things only (athlon XP SSE 1 and radeon 9100). After installing all is good but a change in display resolution gives me a black screen ...
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Chrome freeze on 2 of my 3 monitors, What can I do?
Ubuntu 17.10
Chrome: Version 66.0.3359.139 (Official Build) (64-bit)
After an update the last week Chrome freeze on 2 of my 3 monitors, an important thing, those 2 monitors are connected on a ...
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How to create Guest Session in ubuntu 17.10
I have to share my pc with unknown people , and I recently upgraded my ubuntu os to 17.10 version in which guest session is missing . Is there an option to re-enable the guest session or I need to do ...
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Missing dependency 'already at newest version'
I have Ubuntu 17.10 and until yesterday I was able to run the Digiwage QT wallet without any problems. The wallet is just an implementation of the well-know QT wallet used for loads of ...
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login page not showing text and labels ubuntu 18.04
I recently upgraded from ubuntu 17.10 to ubuntu 18.04. now every time I want to log in, all labels are missing. log in button has no label, username is not showing and etc. how can I fix this?