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In my laptop chrome ois not launching

I have ubuntu 22.04 lts in my machine. Suddenly my chrome is not launching. I tried reinstalling it but it didn't worked. I am getting following log in my terminal $ google-chrome [12718:12718:0216/...
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Help command documentation explanation

Running help cd gives: The variable CDPATH defines the search path for the directory containing DIR. Alternative directory names in CDPATH are separated by a colon (:). A null directory name is the ...
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XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is not owned by

Installing latest Ubuntu on HP Pavilion Desktop and erasing Windows 10 but the install has stalled on " Install libgtk2.0-0 (amd64). When I click on it, a small command screen comes up with: ...
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Confused using Deb-get [closed]

Is using deb-get the fastest way to install a app, eg I wanna install uTorrent, so would I preinstall from GitHub deb-get? Then afterwards would I download uTorrent official for Linux, then run sudo ...
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MD5/SHA Ubuntu Download verification

I would appreciate if someone could tell me how to download and verify the MD5,SHA file on the terminal.
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Install Canon printer LSB 2900B

0 I have been trying to install Canon Printer LBP2900B. I downloaded the driver, tried the generic driver, tried Synaptic package manager, downloaded all the updates from Canon, but none of these ...
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Errors during boot in 22.4.2

I dont know why but every time i boot in ubuntu This is the error message that I getting plzz help solve this And plzzz help me with my last question Too
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Unresponsive Dock Icons over Applications

I don't know how to explain, but I was trying a lot of extensions and then lastly tried an extension. Now my desktop looks like this. I have rebooted my PC and also turned extensions off, yet it looks ...
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Why my Ubuntu 22.04 is taking very long time to run "dpkg --configure -a command"?

sudo dpkg --configure -a this is the command which i have used to unlock the dpkg file. following was the lock error: E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'sudo dpkg --configure -a' to ...
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How to install gimp-help locally on Ubuntu 22.04?

What do I have to do to be able to view the help pages of GIMP on Ubuntu 22.04? I'm using the snap version of GIMP 2.10.30.
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Bios bug and TPM error problem [duplicate]

When i try to open my pc . It shows as following 0.962535] ina: Error Communicating to TPM chip 0.986438] ina: Error Communicating to TPM chip 1.010434] ina: Error Communicating to TPM chip 1.030507] ...
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How do I delete /.snapshots

/.snapshots causes problems in my system and I cant get rid of it it shows me error that I cant delete read only file and can anyone even tell my why is this dir 87gb
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how to use gem5 helper function

I am trying to run ARM power model explained in learning gem5 tutorials from: https://www.gem5.org/documentation/learning_gem5/part2/arm_power_modelling/ How can I use gem5 helper function that ...
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Searching for Commands

I am new here, so thanks for accepting me. Ok, so I have a really dum question, sorry, I am presently still learning. So what if, I had no idea of what commands are available for a specific task or ...
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ubunt20.04_Errors An error occurred. nal to see what is wrong.The error message was: 'Error: Broken Count > 0'

am haveing thise error now an body help me to solve it! An error occurred. Please run Package Manager from the right-click menu or apt-get in a terminal to see what is wrong. The error message was: '...
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Set up Postgres

I recently istalled PostgresSQL , but when I enter psql to the terminal, if gives me the error: psql: error: connection to server on socket "/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432" failed: No such file or ...
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Can we copy a sub directory to another sub directory?

I have to copy wordpress from the give path to htcdocs directory :-/var/www/html/wordpress and I have to copy this wordpress to /opt/lampp/htcdocs . Direct copy paste is not allowed. I tried different ...
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Ubuntu don't see my Vega 8 graph card

I am using Ubuntu 20.04 version and I have a ryzen5 3500u + vega 8 hardware, but I had freezes in the videos, then I found out that my video card was not visible, but it was visible in windows and I ...
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how to install adnet 802.11n wifi adapter driver?

i am a new user in ubuntu and i am unable to install my wifi adapter driver i.e of adnet 802.11n please help i had uninstalled my previous windows os
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/usr/bin/vlc: cannot execute binary file: Exec format error

I tried running vlc in root but got an error of "VLc can't run in root Sorry" Then i tried this command sed -i '/' /usr/bin/vlcs/geteuid/geteppid/' /usr/bin/vlc Then i tried running vlc ...
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I'm new at Ubuntu, and for my job I am asked to show this. How can I access to this information? [closed]

I'm supposed to send this information but I don't know how to do that. I tried pinging cabinet.skyeng.ru but it continues processing.
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Microphone noise cancellation in Ubuntu 20.04

I have tried almost every solution available on the Internet regarding microphone noise cancellation, but none of the solutions works for me. I'm using Ubuntu 20.04.
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What should I do to solve the issue? [duplicate]

I am getting the following error at the time of booting my laptop, I am unable to understand what is the problem in the system.
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I can't install anything

When I run sudo apt install lutris then I get this error message You might want to run 'apt --fix-broken install' to correct these. The following packages have unmet dependencies: libc6-dbg : Depends:...
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System not booting up after keeping it idle for few hourse

I recently updated my system to ubuntu 20.04. A few days back I encountered a problem that whenever I turn on my device it does not turn on battery instead I need to take the battery out and plug in ...
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AbiWord File says Error and file cannot convert

I have been using AbiWord for the last few months working on a major project. I have gotten very far in my writing, but yesterday as soon as I pressed save my computer died. I did not think of it as a ...
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yelp cannot find GNOME help files

tl;dr The summary of all the following is roughly this: Remove or move the directory /usr/share/help/C/gnome-help. Run the command sudo apt reinstall gnome-user-docs gnome-getting-started-docs ...
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Ubuntu's equivalent for MacOS any app Help search

I switched from MacOS to Ubuntu this weekend . I'm used to a functionality I had with MacOS I want for all my apps in Ubuntu. For any app in MacOS, you can search through the different commands ...
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How to install the Offline help of LibreOffice in Flatpak

I have LibreOffice 6.2.2.2 installed as a Flatpak. Everything works fine but when I go to the menu Help -> LibreOffice Help I get the message: LibreOffice Help Not Installed How can I install the ...
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I can't open nautilus after executing rm -rf ~/.ddd/

I tried to install ddd from my schools site and it gave me this command to remove installed version of ddd: rm -rf ~/.ddd/ It wouldn't execute so i tried with sudo and it worked, but after that i ...
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MAC address display in terminal and command for requesting elaboration on output

I attempted to use the following command in my terminal (Ubuntu 18.04) ifconfig grep ether and received the following output message: SIOCSIFMTU: Operation not permitted So I was going to ask why ...
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Can I sell a modified version of Ubuntu?

Eu estava pensando em criar um sistema operacional com base ubuntu para vender com modificações e queria saber se preciso de uma permissão ou fazer contrato com a empresa para dar uma taxa para poder ...
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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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Ubuntu 16.04 not detecting HDMI

I'm a newbie. I've searched through forums and tried a bunch of solutions but nothing has worked. I installed the Intel graphics driver, latest version of nVidia, and updated my kernel. It's not the ...
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My files are gone after I upgraded to Ubuntu 17.10

I was using Ubuntu 16.04 then I downloaded Ubuntu 17.10, put it on a bootable flash drive and installed it. During the installation the system asked me if I want to Delete everything and reinstall the ...
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Why is the help option --help but no -h in some commands? [closed]

Most commands show the help with any of these two options: vi -h vi --help But some others only allow --help shred --help xrandr --help In these second commands, -h shows something like xrandr: ...
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xman and the types of documentations - help files - that are exclusive for xman

what is the difference of xman from man. And what kind of help files can be exclusively browsed with xman.
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built computer left on copyright info [duplicate]

I downloaded the Ubuntu 16.04 LTS iso file for Ubuntu desktop and put it on an USB drive after taking that USB drive and booting it leaves me at a screen looking at copyright info and a command prompt,...
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Help installing Chrome OS [closed]

I lost my windows 7 recovery disks and product key so I was stupid to install Ubuntu because I'm not tech savvy. I barely learned Sudo install apt-get and I can't get Microsoft word on Ubuntu for ...
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What does ./-* means and do?

I'm doing a hacking war game called Over The Wire, here it is: http://overthewire.org/wargames/bandit/bandit6.html Now I got stuck, I don't think it's possible to complete that section with only the ...
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Upgrading GCC from 4.8 to 4.9

I am trying to install the TrinityCore on my server. When upgrading the GCC to use CMake I ran into a problem: Here is the response I got: gcc-4.9 is already the newest version. 0 upgraded, 0 newly ...
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Problem installing Laravel on Ubuntu 15.04

I am a Ubuntu newbie. While installing Laravel using terminal, I came across this issue: roger@roger-P580:/etc/apache2/sites-available$ cd /var/www/laravel roger@roger-P580:/var/www/laravel$ ...
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Openshot Help saving

I’m a open shot beginner, I need help saving my open shot files to something i can use to upload to you tube (I didn’t know if that made sense) like mp4 or mpg. When I Try And put the .osp and upload ...
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How can I install Ubuntu 12.04 from a USB [duplicate]

I want to find out how one can install Ubuntu on a webbook using a usb. I tried to use an external CD drive, but its not detected by my webbook. I want to upgrade my Ubuntu to 12.04.
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I cannot open or mount a drive that locked with bitlocker

they says there is a application called dislocker can help, I tried, but it is not even installing in my Ubuntu 14.04, I don't that I followed the steps, but the erroro occures, I see there is no ...
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How do i clear my cache on firefox [duplicate]

I am trying to write and I have no idea how to I am a beginner and I'm not advanced THANK YOU. I tried using the terminal and entering the codes people suggested!
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Keeping Music on when moniter closed

How do I keep Pithos playing when I close my laptop? I have looked in to settings with the background, screen, brightness, pretty much with anything involving my screen. I have Edge Ubuntu 14, and a ...
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Randomly Got a green streak on my moniter, Can I fix it?

I am fairly new to this. So I will tell you whats wrong. So today I turned on my computer and right when I got to the Ubuntu start up page it has this weird green streak down the computer. It wasn't ...
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Quickly fails to package help pages

I have been working on making a program (jekyll-helper) using Quickly and a while ago I worked on adding some content to the default help pages. I tested out open the help pages in the program while ...
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