Questions tagged [documentation]
For questions regarding written documentation such as manuals, help files, policies, instructions, or guides.
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How to help document Ubuntu?
I am a technical writer with plenty of open source experience and I would like to help document Ubuntu. Where is the best place to start?
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Who do I contact about a typo on documentation available through ubuntu.com
I recently downloaded the Ubuntu 24.04 Live Server iso. While the download started, I saw the 2024 Ubuntu CLI cheatsheet download was available. I noted that inside this document, the section for ...
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man-pages for idiots [duplicate]
I'm trying to get traceroute to work, all 30 hops " *** ". While working to figure it out I found the -y option as part of the update and installation.
man -y tells me I'm stupid and ...
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Why is the manual of apt incomplete? [duplicate]
I would like to see what are the command-line switches of apt list but after 30min of research I don't manage to find a lot of information about it...
I tried to type apt list --help, man apt and man ...
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Syscall documentation for int80
I am learning x86 assembly and I was wondering if someone could help me understand why the documentation is telling me a completely different thing to what I see in practice?
To invoke a system call I ...
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Where is the documentation for "apt source"?
Where does documentation for apt source live?
apt source --help doesn't print any usage information, nor does it mention the source subcommand.
The manpage apt(8) doesn't mention the existence of ...
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How do I view the manual page for Firefox snap
I'm using Firefox 113.02 on Ubuntu 22.04.
These commands produce nothing:
._. man firefox
No manual entry for firefox
._. find / -name "man" -xdev 2>/dev/null | grep firefox
I can see ...
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What do highlighted and red rows mean in EasyTag?
From the terrible documentation, it seems red/bold means "Automatic corrections" are applied: docs says "useless spaces in fields"? I'm not sure which spaces these are but all 240 ...
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Why is `man 3 printf` almost one year behind `glibc ver 2.35`?
glibc ver 2.35 was released 0n Feb 3, 2022, and added the %b and %B binary conversion specifiers. This is a long wished-for feature to display values as a string of "ones and zeros". I'd ...
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Any suggestions for dmenu in linux?
I downloaded linux and dmenu a while ago, and i would like to get deeper into dmenu. Does anyone know detailed instructions? I don't kinda understand how it works and i don't know how to run my own ...
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Nvidia drivers grayed-out in the Software & Updates: Unable to select
My system crashed and I had to re-install Ubuntu 22.04.
Now my Nvidia drivers grayed-out in the "Software & Updates" and I'm unable to select from the list of the other drivers as shown ...
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Jammy in KDE / Kubuntu does not seem to have a GUI to manually save sessions
In 20.04, I could turn on manual sessions in settings and use the launcher to leave, I was given an option to my save session. In Jammy / 22.04 with manual sessions turned on, I see no such option. ...
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How to install Ethernet driver on Ubuntu Server 20.04.4 LTS
I am very new to Linux. I just followed this YouTube video to create my personal nextcloud server.
I am stuck very early because the motherboard I am using is Asus B560m (with i5 11500) and Ubuntu ...
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Looking for Lubuntu 20.04 User Manual
I'm looking for the Lubuntu 20.04-specific manual, and I can't find it anywhere. Any help appreciated.
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Description of window properties modified by wmctrl
I found wmctrl allows for changing some "properties" of windows:
wmctrl -r <WIN> -b ( add | remove | toggle),prop1 [,prop2 ]
Add, remove, or toggle up to two window properties ...
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Installation guide txt file
Is there a standard, guideline, template, how to write this kind of files, for example:
Install-Linux-tar.txt
INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS
=================================================================...
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How do I find the source of a command line operation?
Suppose I’m able to type abc in the command line and it will run (so the shell doesn't say "abc: command not found").
How can I find out what abc is or does? Is it a script? Program? ...
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An error in the Ubuntu documentation, but nowhere to report it and no way to edit it
I have just wasted a lot of time trying to edit an error on this page - https://help.ubuntu.com/community/KVM/Installation - or at least tell someone about the error. But that all seems impossible. ...
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Is it possible to read Python GObject Introspection API documentation offline using already installed packages and files?
On my Ubuntu MATE 20.04 LTS system I see many packages named gir1.2....
For example I want to develop some new functionality on Python using gir1.2-gtk-3.0 and gir1.2-caja-2.0.
Such packages usually ...
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Do we have offline Python documentation browser in Ubuntu repositories to have one "point of service" to read and search the Python docs and APIs?
The question is in the title. As a use case one can imagine the situation about finding function basing on its known functionality.
I already know about Zeal which is packaged. It downloads ...
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Plymouth Docs for Creating Themes
I am trying to customize my bootsplash screen, using Plymouth themes. However, I cannot find any documentation for creating themes. Where can I find such documentation?
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Recommended change for Intel RST documentation
I'm not sure if this is the best platform to mention this, but the method for switching to AHCI described in the Intel RST documentation is unnecessarily complicated. Setting the registry keys is ...
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Is there a free Ubuntu Studio 20.10 instruction manual available?
Can someone provide a link for French (or English) Ubuntu Studio 20.10 Detailed Instruction Manual? (preferably a free .pdf).
I am new to Linux, coming from Windows (xp, 7, 10).
Ubuntu Studio is hard ...
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Installing Lubuntu: manual partitioning does not work
I'm trying to install Lubuntu on my laptop* from a USB, using the lubuntu-20.10-desktop-amd64.iso file downloaded from the (I believe) Chip website because the file at the Lubuntu website didn't load. ...
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Configure doc on ubuntu from .tex and install files
I am using a simulation software named Version5 and using it successfully. But I can not configure the doc of it. The docs are in a different directory as mentioned by the readme file.
The directory ...
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Manual for latest Lubuntu 32bit LTS version
I have an older netbook and after some research decided to try Lubuntu on it.
It's a 32bit unit so the latest Lubuntu LTS version I found was 18.04.
I'm looking for an overall user manual, such as the ...
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What do I have to read to understand the manual and help documentation?
What do I have to read to understand the manual and help documentation, etc.? I've had ubuntu on and off in total for some years, but I have never learnt anything, and never been able to solve a ...
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Installation guide server in portuguese?
Quero instalar o Ubuntu server 18.04 em um PC antigo de arquitetura 32 Bits, gostaria de saber se há uma documentação em Português.
Grato
English translation:
I want to install Ubuntu server 18.04 on ...
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How do I determine all components controlling CPU frequency?
Two requests please:
Can someone tell me how I can determine all the components that are
a) installed and b) actively controlling CPU frequency on an
installation?
And separately, can someone tell me ...
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Access the Ubuntu Server Guide from command line
Ubuntu Server has a great guide online: https://ubuntu.com/server/docs
Is there a way I could have that documentation directly from my command line without accessing the web? Something equivalent to ...
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How to view installed Java documentation?
I installed the openjdk-11-doc package but I can't find an easy way to access it. Using dpkg -L I can see that it's installed in /usr/share/doc/openjdk-11-jre-headless/api/index.html but there must be ...
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Location and Nature of "*-doc" Documentation?
While installing software using apt, I am often offered "software-doc" as a recommended adjunct to install. Presumably this provides some documentation for the software. For example, when installing ...
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What does -y mean in an apt-get upgrade command, and where can I find a reference on command flags? [duplicate]
I have seen commands like this:
sudo apt-get upgrade -y
I would like to know the meaning of the -y flag and a reference for Linux command line flags in general.
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problem with GUI documentation programs
The problem is within a program that their documentation is in a html file. Let's say Tex maker or wxMaxima. When I click the tag "Help" it show me the documentation through the browser, not in a ...
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Manually installing Ubuntu on an older desktop
I have been trying to install Ubuntu on an older machine, dell dimension e521 with upgraded bios, but the ubuntu-18.04.2-desktop-amd64.iso will not install due to the APIC problem. Unfortunately there ...
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redownload all documentation for a package with APT
I've recently installed a fingerprint system for kubuntu, of which part replaces a critical system component(I forget which, but it's important, so I can't use apt reinstall). I used to have one of my ...
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How to reinstall man pages after deleting them
So I wanted to free up disk space from documentation and followed the instructions in this answer. Basically I did create a file /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg.d/01_nodoc which specifies the desired filters:
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How does Ubiquity determine the required disk space before installation?
This question intends to demystify Ubiquity the desktop installer for Ubuntu, on how the required disk space before installation is being determined.
From this dated post Determining size of the ...
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Changes to the Ubuntu Server installer?
I messed up my Ubuntu 18.04.1 installation and decided to reinstall, which meant creating a new USB since I couldn't find the old one. To my surprise, the installer looked completely different than ...
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No examples are shown in Welcome screen of qtcreator
So I installed qtcreator package on ubuntu 18.10.
I found out that to get the examples, I also needed the qtbase5-examples and the qtbase5-doc-html package.
But there are still no examples shown in ...
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How to find out what is in an Ubuntu package [duplicate]
When viewing a package on the Ubuntu repositories (e.g. launchpad), there is usually only a sentence or two describing the package contents. Is there a place online to see more detail about package ...
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Is the Lubuntu recommended email software Trojita, Sylpheed, or something else?
My Lubuntu setup, upgraded today from 16 to 18.04.1 LTS, has Sylpheed 3.5.1, but the Lubuntu Manual says trojita is the default.
I have noticed the Sylpheed documentation is missing graphics, which ...
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eeschema.html open by wrong App - KompoZer
This may not be a problem with KiCad or even the Documents, but I need a place to start. When using the help menu to open the Eeschema or KiCad Manuals they open in the editor KompoZer that had been ...
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What do these bash comments do
I am learning bash. Nothing special, just tinkering around with my own scripts. It's great fun.
Looking at options to document your bash scripts, I came across this.
What is the significance of ...
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Where to find current technical documentation for Ubuntu? [closed]
My question is: is there a document (or collection of documents), that describes (in sufficient detail to work with it) the design decisions that are specific for Ubuntu and thus distinguish Ubuntu ...
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command usage and meaning
I immediately while i was reading a plasmapy document, preformed
(plasma_store -m 1000000000 -s /tmp/plasma) command and now I don't know
what exactly it do on my system. Exactualy I read the ...
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Installing Octave Documentation on Ubuntu 16.04
I'd like to have on-disk documentation, as there are many times when I must be off the net. I have Ubuntu 16.04 and Octave 4.0.0. When I click the Documentation tab I get "The info file /usr/share/...
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How to make KHelpCenter show info-pages, man-pages and information from ScrollKeeper database and make full text search?
I have Ubuntu 18.04 LTS installed.
I want to search for documentation and read it off-line (as it is included to the installed packages).
Yelp does not work for this purpose.
So I tried to use ...
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How to run full text search on help pages offline (from Yelp / gnome-help or something other)?
I have both Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS installed.
I want to search for documentation and read it off-line (as it is included to the installed packages in /usr/share/help and other ...
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As a Xubuntu user, where can I find GTK3 FileChooserDialog shortcut key documentation?
Ever since browsers on Xubuntu started using GTK3 instead of GTK2, and when saving a file, I feel myself pretty lost in the FileChooserDialog.
By roaming the web, I found a few solutions to things ...
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