Questions tagged [downloads]
Downloading a file is taking a file stored on a remote machine or attached device and transferring it to your computer to be stored.
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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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How can I change the monitor that downloads to desktop and 'save as' to desktop files are dropped
I generally save as or download to desktop for files that I am going to be working on. Since changing to Ubuntu 23.04, any document that I download or save to the desktop goes to the second monitor ...
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how to download programs for ubuntu [duplicate]
So I am trying to download program files outside of the app store for ubuntu and steam but i have no idea what file type i need to use or what i need to do to run a file.
i know what to do with ...
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Cannot open blender 2.79 on blender in ubuntu 20.04
Hello so i have installed blender 2.79 from https://www.blender.org/download/releases/2-79/ and extract it and i tried to open the blender program from the extracted file and it wont open it doesent ...
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Booting keeps on going forever. Unable to load the os on my laptop
A few days back, I was trying to download a zip file which is of size ~6GB. I tried downloading it using google-chrome and after downloading for about 60%, it failed. Later I also tried to download it ...
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I can't download Firefox in Ubuntu arm server 22.04.2 Lts version [duplicate]
While downloading Firefox in Ubuntu 22.04 Lts version I got this message,"your system is unable to reach snap store "
it also gave 3 options
1.retry
2.abort
3.skip
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Firefox unable to download or upload files
My firefox is not saving downloads. The download location is simply ~/Downloads and chrome for instance happily saves in there. Oddly, if I "download" a PDF from google drive, the firefox ...
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Having problem with all the browsers whilw using on ubuntu 22.04. (especially while attaching the files )
Recently I updated the system using sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade. Simultaneously all the browsers are not working properly. The main problem is while attaching the files or uploading a ...
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how do I fix youtube-dl: running it gives error message about incorrect syntax
I recently installed 22.04 completely from scratch. Just now I followed instructions to install youtube-dl, with wget (from github.com):
sudo wget https://yt-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl -O /usr/...
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Unable to Download Latest Version of DBX
I'm running 22.04.2 LTS, and I have a message in the Software Update tool it says I have a firmware upgrade to install: "Secure Boot dbx Configuration Update" (Version 77 -> 217).
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Be directly in file name when saving an image
Version: Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS
Hey there! Whenever I download an image using the Firefox Web Browser, I get presented with the following screen:
When I donwload something, I usually want to change the ...
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Upload speed very slow in Ubuntu 18.04.6 while download speed is normal
I bought a new 1GB/s server from OneProvider and installed Ubuntu 18.04.6 on it.
The upload speed from ssh or FTP is very good, but the download speed is about 100kb/s from ssh, FTP and I tried to ...
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Ubuntu latest version timer that does everything that i ask it to do in this Post description?
I'm looking for a timer that sounds every time that pass the time passes that I configure it to show me when it passes, after configuring it to show me. I want a timer that can count even seconds like ...
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transfer files from icloud and one drive to desktop running ubuntu
I cannot download file folders from iCloud drive and OneDrive to my computer. I can on Google Drive. Photos are fine and individual files but not file folders.
Is there a way without individually ...
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File manager doesn't show up after pressing show in folder
I'm using ubuntu 22.04
After I download a file. When I press the show in folder option from firefox nothing happens.
My default file manager is Nautilus.
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Download of Ubuntu 22.04 returns 0 byte .iso file
I'm trying to create an Ubuntu 22.04 USB installation drive. But the downloaded .iso file shows a size of 0 Bytes. The steps I followed to download the .iso file are given below;
I accessed the ...
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After downloading a file in firefox, the little "folder-button" to get to Download directly does not work in Ubuntu22.04
The file downloads, it is listed in the "Downloads-list" in Firefox (little arrow in the menu bar), but when clicking on the folder symbol next to the downloaded file, the Download folder ...
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How can I download installer for Second Life Firestorm Update 6.6.3.67470 with Ubuntu 22.10?
How can I download the installer for Firestorm Update 6.6.3.67470 from firestormviewer.org with Ubuntu 22.10?
Konqueror 21.12.3 & Firefox 108.0.1 (64) cannot. No file downloads.
Firestorm was ...
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Downloading large files from Telegram in terminal
Is it possible to download files around 35GB from Telegram in terminal?
cURL is appreciated.
Btw, I've tried to download random files using cURL with some headers like this
curl https://web.telegram....
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Can an alert noise be made when a download is completed using Firefox in Ubuntu 20.04?
When I click to download something on Ubuntu 20.04 using the Firefox browser, an arrow shows up in the browser showing the time required to download and says if the download has completed successfully ...
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XDM could not download the file as server sent an invalid response
I am using XDM (Xtreme Download Manager, a file downloader) for many years, specially for YT since it catch and download YT videos directly (without using another website to give DL of YT videos). ...
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How do I add extra download directories to AppArmor for Firefox running under snap?
I recently updated to Ubuntu 22.04.1 and went to a site where I occasionally download things from. I typically save files from this site to an sshfs mount shared from another system on my home network,...
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Firefox 107 cannot download any files from any websites
After the last snap refresh, the 107 version of Firefox was installed. Since then, i cannot download files.
I post a support request in Firefox: here and with the help provided, i was able to run the ...
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Firefox 107.0 download
I cannot reduce the size of the download window in Firefox. This started when the 107.0 version came out. Has anyone noticed this?
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How to tell Tor Browser where to save downloaded files
I managed to get Tor and Tor Browser installed in Ubuntu 20.04 and downloaded some files (so I thought), but the downloaded files were nowhere to be found when I searched for them in Files in my ...
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Shotwell imports some but not all my iPhone photos
Little old lady here who may be asking a dim question but please bear with me!
I am on Ubuntu 22.04.1 and update whenever suggested
I use Shotwell 0.30.14 – “Celle” for my photos
My iPhone is an 8 ...
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Files tries to search everytime I try to rename file when downloading
Recently when I have been trying to download a file from Firefox (and to my knowledge, other web browsers as well), everytime I try to rename a file, it tries to search my files instead, and doing ...
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When will Ubuntu 22.10 be released?
when i go to https://ubuntu.com/download/desktop i don't see the option to download Ubuntu 22.10
Am i trying the wrong link?
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How to install tools (gcc, GNU make, gdb etc.) "globally" on multipass
still new to multipass and I've encountered an issue. Each time I create a new instance on my vm I have to re-download tools as they don't exist there. Is there a way to download the tools to be ...
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How to set download directory for Opera using Terminal in Ubuntu. Opera settings offer to select a directory navigating, but then changes it
How to set the download directory for Opera using Terminal in Ubuntu. Inside Opera, in settings, a directory can be selected navigating, but Opera changes it instantly for another path/directory. ...
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My question is about Ubuntu on windows
After the initial installation of Ubuntu for Windows from Microsoft the store I discovered that it wasn't downloaded to my PC but installed directly by Microsoft on my computer. Which means all the ...
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How to download all videos of 1 account on Instagram
In the past I used to use youtube-dl to download all videos of an instagram channel but today I use that channel again and it doesn't work.
youtube-dl -i -f mp4 -o %(uploader_id)s-%(id)s.mp4 -a 1.txt
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downloading mongoDB with error "E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages."
I'm downloading mongoDB on Linux Ubuntu Version 22.04.1 LTS, facing download error
I tried 3 solution from stack overflow discussion https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51417708/unable-to-install-...
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Where to get Ubuntu 18.04.7 LTS
I'm planning to build Ubuntu Server 18.04.5 LTS on ESXi.
Where can I get the ISO file of Ubuntu 18.04.7 LTS?
I found the following link regarding 22.04.1 LTS, though.
https://jp.ubuntu.com/download
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"file has unexpected size" / "mirror sync in process" errors when running sudo apt update
I am trying to download Ubuntu on my Macbook pro (macOS Monterey) but when I run sudo apt update, I get the following error:
file has unexpected size (13205 != 1747700. Mirror sync in process ?
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Ubuntu 22.04 iso not downloading
I've tried numerous times to download the Ubuntu 22.04 iso file to both a Ubuntu 22.04 desktop and to a windows 10 notebook. The download begins normally but partway through it stops with the ...
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Is there a setting to make Firefox not directly download PDFs to Downloads when using "Open With"?
Ubuntu MATE 20.04
Possible culprits:
Email client: Thunderbird
PDF reader: Atril
Browser: Firefox v. 104.0
None are snaps.
For years I've been getting a .pdf copy of a newspaper via links emailed to ...
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Download a file without installing any non-default packages like wget or curl
Is there any built-in tool (e.g., found on a vanilla ubuntu Docker container, or found in a minimal Ubuntu Server install) that can download a file over HTTP? In other words, without having to execute ...
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Cannot find Downloads folder, documents missing from Documents folder after upgrade to 22.04 LTS
Also, I notice that the folder named "user" is no longer in the Home directory. I have an old backup, although it's lacking much of the recent downloads and documents.
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Chrome will not open 'some' pdf files Ubuntu 22.04
I am having an issue where Chrome will open 'most' PDF files, but some will only download.
I don't really have a problem downloading it, but when I do, the side of the download window is missing the ...
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Mate download links broken?
For some reason I can't download the newest Mate version. All links and options are not working or can't be found on Apache server. I have a reliable internet connection and my laptop is plugged in, I ...
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How to specify the download location in youtube-dl
How do I specify the location in my filesystem where I want to download a YouTube video with youtube-dl? I tried using the -P option in youtube-dl, but it didn't work.
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What is the huge Downloads file in my systems root directory and can it be shrunk or deleted/
I have a 43.0 GB file called Downloads in my systems root directory. It is not my Downloads folder in my user directory. It seems kind of big and I am wondering if I can make it smaller or at least ...
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How to Change Download Directory?
New user.
Is there a way for me to change where my downloads and software get saved/installed?
For example like Spotify, OBS, Blender, VSCode. I don't want those saved to the same drive as my OS, but ...
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Having two different Downloads [duplicate]
I'm trying to move or copy a file Bs_T.txt from Downloads C:\Users\Laptop\Downloads to repository with path /home/p/pand. When I try to find a file called Bs_t.txt with command readlink -f Bs_t.txt I ...
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I don't seem to be able to download images from within snap packages
I'm a fairly casual Linux user who's come back to Ubuntu for various reasons after using openSUSE for several years. A weird issue I've been running into is that, for some reason, anything that's ...
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Apps refuse to launch
I recently installed Ubuntu 22.04 via the iso file downloaded directly from the ubuntu site. I had it initially as a dual boot, or multi boot as I included the previous iteration of ubuntu included(16....
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No matter what I try to download I get the same errors [duplicate]
Every time I try to download something it gives these errors.
E: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/lubuntu-desktop/ppa/ubuntu/dists/bionic/InRelease 403 Forbidden [IP: 185.125.190.52 80] ...
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How can i change the default downloads folder in Ubuntu?
I have been learning coding and slight amounts of hacking by dual-booting windows and Kali Linux (Don't worry this is not about any of those oses). The only problem was that I had to reboot in Kali ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 download link
I am trying to download ubuntu 20.04 LTS .But here there is a download link to download only ubuntu 22.04 LTS. So where will be the download file for Ubuntu 20.04LTS.
