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How to specify a target mbox over IMAP with getmail?

Looking to use getmail6 with IMAP and mbox to archive gmail: nicholas@mordor:~$ nicholas@mordor:~$ getmail Configuration error: configuration file /home/nicholas/.config/getmail/getmail incorrect (...
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How to prevent Nautilus from automatically extracting ZIP files on open

Upgrading from 22.04 to 23.10 I noticed that now in nautilus when I double click on a zip file it will automatically extract it in the current folder. This is really bad when I can have a multiple-GB ...
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Get corrupted *.zip archives list

Sorry for my bad English. I have a folder with *.zip archives. And this folder contains corrupted archives. How can I get corrupted archives list? I need to check folder and remove corrupted *.zip ...
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How to get a valid set of data files for FlightGear so it can fully launch

I followed the instructions at StackExchange How to Install FlightGear and also at the FlightGear software developer site to install FlightGear: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:saiarcot895/flightgear ...
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archive ubuntu ftp server for specific package

I am looking for accessing server for archive.ubuntu.com for specific package like python in gz tarball. Typically a list of available files are shown and you can select file based on version you need ...
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tar command with and without --absolute-names option

I am currently using ubuntu 20.04 machine. I was trying to create compressed archives using tar command using the below command, sudo tar -caf /opt/archive.tar.bz2 /home/bob/databases/ my current ...
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Apt-mirror has finished downloading the archive. What now! where from here to use for offline installation?

Apt-mirror has finished downloading the archive. Where do I go from here for an offline installation? Apt-mirror: sudo apt install apt-mirror Create a Source list: sudo su Remove wrong ones from the ...
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carve bzip2 using foremost

i have a corrupted drive and need to recover the archive files from it. I already successfully used foremost to recover the pdf files. foremost -t pdf -i /dev/sda -o /tmp/foremost/pdf however i now ...
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I installed some software like Docker, Jenkins etc on my PC but it's not working, all it's showing is that Docker-Desktop depends on qemu-system-86

I've being trying to install it but this is what I've been getting as response ife@ife-HP-ProBook-6560b:~$ sudo apt-get install qemu-system-x86 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree ...
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compare 7z archive with local folder

How can I compare the local folder with a 7z archive? The content should be compared and verified with file differences. The archive is huge, extract and compare is not an option in this case.
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"Encrypt the file list" option greyed out when creating ZIP file

I am fairly new to Ubuntu and frankly not very tech savvy. I am using Archive Manager 43.0 on Ubuntu 22.10. I want to encrypt some sensitive files, and I would really like it if the name of the files ...
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What is the meaning of the term "archives" in apt? Why would apt download "archives"?

Why would apt try to download archives from archive.ubuntu.com? $ sudo apt upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade....
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Cannot open a zip file with Archive Manager

I have been FTPing a database dump from my ISP using Filezilla on an Ubuntu 20.4 VM, running under Windows Hyper-V. I then open the file using Archive Manager and extract it to a folder, ready for ...
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this error occurs when installing cisco packet tracer how can i solve it?

i was trying to install cisco packet tracer in my ubuntu laptop but every time i try to install this software i get this message below: E: The package packettracer needs to be reinstalled, but I can't ...
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Can I check the contents of encrypted archive without using password?

I need to create and encrypt archive with some files. Later archive contents must be checked by someone who doesn't know encryption password. I've done my research but couldn't find proper tool for ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 Archive Manager doesn't properly handle rar

I installed rar and compressed the sublime text folder (located in home/myUser/.config/sublime-text-3) into test.rar. The contents of that folder is: Backup Installed Packages Lib Local Log Packages ...
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How to install ZedFree on Ubuntu 22.04

I use Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS and I want to install ZedFree to open an encrypted ZED archive. I just get a download link from https://www.zedencrypt.com/download When the download is completed, I run: sudo ...
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can I make archive manager use 7z?

I'm on ubuntu 22.04 LTS, and having trouble extracting RAR 5 archives.GNOME Archive Manager shows no files.unrar-free doesn't work because it apparently supports RAR 2 only.p7zip doesn't work either, ...
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Error processing .dev archive since update. It's preventing other packages from updating as well

Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/desktop-file-utils_0.26-1ubuntu3_amd64.deb The following packages have been kept back: cryptsetup cryptsetup-bin cryptsetup-...
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How to recursively extract archives in separate folders, passwords for them in the format "pass.txt" contained with the archive in its folder

folder1/file.zip file1.zip-pass.txt folder2/file2.7z file2.7z-pass.txt folder3/file.001 file.002 file.00?-pass.txt if I structure the archives and their passwords like this, can I recursively extract ...
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ar x extracting error file format not recognized error [duplicate]

I got the error file format not recognized while executing this command: ar x *******.deb to extract the contents of a Debian package. How can I fix this? I use Ubuntu 22.04.
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How Best to Install a Configuration File Archive?

What tools exist for installing a configuration file archive in one go? That is, having first booted a fresh Ubuntu installation, being faced with its set of default configuration files, and having an ...
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az.archive.ubuntu.com is down. How can I get the updates? [duplicate]

When I run "sudo apt-get update" the request gets timed out, because az.archive.ubuntu.com is down. I checked whether it was just me, but it says that it is actually down. Should I just wait ...
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"Extract here" option doesn't work in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

Extraction for rar/tar/gz files is working fine from CLI. In GUI, when right-clicking a file in Files app (both single and multiple parts archives) and choosing extract here in drop-down menu presents ...
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which archive format is appendable, indexed, seekable and multi-volume

I am looking for a multi-volume, indexed, seekable and appendable archive format. multi-volume = split the TB-size archive into GB-chunks indexed = add complete index at the archive end with offset ...
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Fail to extract rar archive

I have a .rar archive. I can open it using Archive Manager. Files are ready to view individually. But it cant extract all of the files inside the archive. The archive consists of a hierarchy of ...
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How to find the archive type of an iso file?

For my iso image I used the tgz format, but there can also be an iso with xz, 7z, tar zip, etc. compression. How do I know?
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Nautilus/Caja Script to "Extract Here" Selected RAR/Archive(s) via Engrampa, File-Roller or Command?

I'm looking to create a file manager script to use in Caja (I used "Nautilus Script" in the title so people would understand what I was trying to accomplish) that will extract the selected ...
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Extracting winrar unlimited file size till disk is full

When using the default archive manager () and trying to extract small files (< 1mB) the files keep getting bigger and bigger until the disk is full. What I mean by this is it keeps extracting and ...
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"The package linux-headers-5.11.0-37 needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find an archive for it."

I recently tried to install an upgrade but I keep getting the following error: The package linux-headers-5.11.0-37 needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find an archive for it." How do I fix this?
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it's not work: sudo apt update

Hit:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal InRelease Hit:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates InRelease Hit:3 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security InRelease Reading package ...
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Are there OVAL files for EOL releases?

Has Ubuntu stopped publishing OVAL files for EOL releases, or are they archived somewhere but still accessible? Here is the official Ubuntu information about OVAL data: https://ubuntu.com/security/...
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Can I copy a file to two drives at the same time from a single read? (Copy one-to-two in single operation, preferably in rsync)

I frequently need to back up a source disk to multiple target disks. At the moment the workflow is rsync from source to target1 then dd clone target1 to target2. It would be lovely if I could rsync ...
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No "other options" menu in Archive Manager [duplicate]

I'm on 20.04 and I'm trying to password protect a compressed file with Archive Manager and was told that there should be an "Other Options" menu at the bottom to set a password. But when I ...
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I am trying to upgrade from the command line my ubuntu to 20.04

I have gone thru all the steps but I can't seem to download some archives. Unable to fetch some archives". I have changed server, run --fix-missing ..still won't download the "Plasma&...
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vlc cannot play video files inside rar

I have a .rar file and it contains some video files. When I open the rar and then try to open the video files from there directly it fires up vlc but vlc throws this error VLC is unable to open the ...
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Can I directly split the project archive in kdenlive?

I created a huge project in Kdenlive. Now, I wanted to archive it and then move the archive onto a Samba share with almost 50 GB free space, because I'm running low on free disk space on my main PC (9....
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Merge multiple RAR parts (file.part01.rar, file.part02.rar, etc.) to file.rar

If one has multi-part zip files (a.z01, a.z02, a.zip), one can merge the split files into the original zip file by running zip -F a.zip --out output.zip But I couldn't find an equivalent for split rar ...
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Extracting .so files from an archive

I am trying to extact an archive to install an application and it contains .so files and I cannot figure out how to extract them. I have attached screenshots of the files with the particular type as ...
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extracting RAR files on Ubuntu 20.10,Ubuntu LTS also on Fedora 33 not working

I decided to leave Windows and jump in to the Linux, but when I install Ubuntu LTS 20.04 and want to extract RAR, with Archive Manager it stays in (Extracting files from "site.rar [86mg] ") ...
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How can I pxe install ubuntu server offline without archive mirror? [duplicate]

I am trying to install ubuntu 18.04 server on a segregated network not connected to the internet, I will connect to a public network later to download packages. When installing, Ubuntu forces me to ...
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tgz file extracted folders has no files

When I tried extracting a tgz file using archive manager, the extracted folders has no files. I tried other softwares like 7zip also. But that also is not returning the same error. Can you suggest a ...
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Error on update can't get it fixed Err:8 & after the first part of post got this Err:7

Results of sudo apt update : Err:8 http://archiver.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal InRelease Temporary failure resolving 'archiver.ubuntu.com' Fetched 433 kB in 20s (21.6 kB/s) ...
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xubuntu core doesnt let me zip large files

im running xubuntu-core (xfce 4.14) on a remote VPS. I had to install the thunar-archive-plugin in order to get any zip functionality. Apparently xubuntu-core doesn't come with it by default? Anyways. ...
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Change window size when opening pdf from archive manager

On Ubuntu 20.04, when I open a pdf file directly from the archive manager when it is part of a zip file, the document viewer always displays that pdf file in a small window. I would like it to open by ...
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"An error occurred while extracting files." using Archive Manager

I get this error while extracting files with Archive Manager: An error occurred while extracting files I am using Ubuntu 20.04. How can I solve it?
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How to remove a false-installation which has no archive for it without re-install?

I'm very new here and not an advanced Ubuntu user, so please have mercy with my possible incompetence. I tried to remove stremio after a failure installation: sudo apt-get remove stremio Output was: ...
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How to make files invisible when listing files inside zip files?

Because when i executed unzip -l mantap.zip it still showed below: Archive: mantap.zip Length Date Time Name --------- ---------- ----- ---- 116 2020-10-01 06:04 mantap.cpp -...
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Unable to install any package can't find archive [duplicate]

Linux ubuntu20 5.4.0-47-generic #51-Ubuntu SMP Fri Sep 4 19:50:52 UTC 2020 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux If I run synaptic I get E: The package openprinting-gutenprint needs to be reinstalled, but I ...
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Need to try to install a specific package version -- however apt-cache madison, apt-cache policy only seem to list the latest version

Other SE posts, for example this, show how you can install a specific package version. However, I'm unsure what exactly the naming convention / syntax used for the version I want is. I need to install ...
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