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linux-source-3.5.0 for ubuntu 12.04.2?

I have Ubuntu 12.04.2 with kernel 3.5.0 and need to recompile some modules, but i`m getting hard to find the correct sources. apt-get only has sources for 3.2.0? Where i can get the correct sources ...
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install kmymoney 4.8.1 on kubuntu 18.04

I have Kubuntu 18.04 and Kmymoney 5.0 installed. Now I discovered a bug. I can’t see the stock quotes which you can see here https://docs.kde.org/stable4/en/extragear-office/kmymoney/details....
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bash: complete: filenames: invalid option name?

When I try to source my .bashrc file after updating it with new environment variables, I get the following message: "bash: complete: filenames: invalid option name". As I'm new to Ubuntu, I'm not ...
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Getting server kernel source [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Where can I find the source code for the Ubuntu Kernel? I'm trying to get the kernel source for the version of the kernel running on the cluster that I have taken over ...
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how to add sources in video lenses? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How to write a simple scope for a Unity lens? Im pretty new to ubuntu and was attracted to the idea on 12.04 of the video lenses where to searches BBC iPlayer etc for videos ...
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How to download source code of package_name into specified directory ?

The following command downloads the source code of pure-ftp into the current directory. apt-get source pure-ftp How to download it into specified directory? I want to download the source code of ...
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source not reading symlink correctly?

My .bashrc file is a symlink to ~/Scripts/rc/bashrc. This works well for me, and has been for years. However, as of today, this is what I am seeing: bash-4.3$ source .bashrc bash: source: .bashrc: ...
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sh: 2: source: not found

I am having a problem with the installation of Armitage in Ubuntu 14.04 I have followed this link and everything is Okey http://www.darkoperator.com/installing-metasploit-in-ubunt/ But the last ...
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Malformed line in my sources list, how to resolve?

Before i start, i've tried the solution from this thread How do I remove a malformed line from my sources.list? but unfortunately, the steps performed in that thread are already covered for me. The ...
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Kernel source downloaded accidentally, and I want to delete it

Didn't see a solved thread before asking this, but if I'm stupid, pls point me to the one. So by accidentally I mean it was not what I expected it to download. I managed to setup closed NVIDIA driver ...
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Why does an older kernel source get installed?

I am running Ubuntu 14.04 kernel 3.19.0-39-generic and wonder why when installing the kernel sources version 3.13.0 of the kernel source actually gets installed..?! ~# uname -r 3.19.0-39-generic ~# ...
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How do I recompile my kernel without qt3?

So I'm trying to recompile my kernel (it doesn't have uinput support but nm that). I followed the instructions on How to install needed Qt packages to build kernel on 14.04? but when I run ~/...
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bin/sh: 1: source: not found

I am trying to install fpylll from a repository on Ubuntu 18.04 The fpylll instruction in README.rst says that after Automatic install you should do $ source ./activate but I get a notification: / ...
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How to uninstall app via source command?

I have installed a nautilus script called Hash Checker v4.0.8 (https://www.gnome-look.org/p/1007703/), but somehow it is not shown in the right-click menu anyway. It was placed on my Desktop and I can ...
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Videos requires to install plugins to play files of the following types: • MPEG-4 AAC decoder • H.264 (High Profile) decoder [duplicate]

i am unable to perform the task though i followed the instruction. how to handel Unable to locate package ubuntu-restricted-extras?
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How would I convert a cmake kde package to a deb source format

So I want to convert the package plank-player to Debian source to be easily compiled, the package uses CMake. Note I do not know what else to put in here so yay if your info ask
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How to download a source package from an ubuntu version and rebuild it for a previous ubuntu version

The python3-pychromecast source package does not exist from Ubuntu Xenial official Ubuntu repositories. I want to download the Ubuntu Bionic python3-pychromecast source package and rebuild it on ...
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Error when I try to source ~/.bashrc Ubuntu 18

while trying to update node js I think I somehow broke my bash configuration. When I try to execute source ~/.bashrc I get the following: I really hope you can help me.
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Kicking off another script from within a script

So I have this #!/bin/bash script that installs some stuff, and then at the end of the script I want it to run the next script in line. For instance, Script 1 installs LAMP, but at the end of that ...
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Using source command to replace bash string with field array

I've programmed in other languages but bash and unix in general are very new to me. I think a bash wizard might see an obvious solution, using the source command to read in a settings file - and ...
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Open core.img in GRUB2

I have GRUB2 installed to a flash drive. I want to try editing the main.c file to change the header title of GRUB. How can I mount core.img? The directory is: /media/youktec/GRUB/boot/grub/i386-pc/...
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how to concatenate path with variables from source file

I have a source file that contains some variables, for example, locate=$HOME and a shell script that contains . .foorc cat ${locate}/file.txt I get cat error with the "no such file" mention. ...
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Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file with apt-get update [duplicate]

Whenever I execute apt-get update on my ubuntu 14.04, I get this error ! W: Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/trusty/Release Unable to find expected entry 'universe/binary-amd64/...
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set -n not working in shell script when executing with source

this is the shell script.. #!/bin/bash set -n <<COMMENT1 tHIS IS A MULTILINE COMMENT MAN COMMENT1 <<COMMENT1 THII COMMENT1 : echo "this is ashok" echo "${LOGNAME}" when executing ...
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How to contribute binary .debs for others?

I routinely work with Armhf devices, however not all the packages I use exist in a form that apt-get can easily install. Therefore I spend a lot of time compiling from source packages that exist on ...
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How to make a project of Krusader

An example for my general question https://askubuntu.com/questions/485242/an-introduction-to-translating-and-debugging-source-code : I had installed the 'Qt 4 Designer' and I have downloaded the ...
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Compile latest blender on ubuntu 12.0464bit?

What i want is to compile latest blender from SVN. I am using this guide My issues are: How can i install it with the final .deb created file and how can i give this package to a ppa! So, when i ...
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Getting specific firefox source snapshots for installed firefox in lucid(or whichever)

I can get LATEST snapshots with bzr no problem. What I am trying to do is get source snapshots for the installed version of firefox on ubuntu distribution whatever. I googled around a bit and it all ...
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Download missing dependencies when building projects?

Bit of a noob question. Sometimes there are GitHub projects that I clone into my system and then try to build using some kind of a build tool. Most of the times, the dependencies will be listed in the ...
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'source' from alias does not work, but manual sourcing does

I have these lines saved on my .bash_aliases: alias sss='source ~/.bashrc' alias merc='source /usr/local/mermaid-bootload/environment-setup-cortexa7t2hf-neon-oe-linux-gnueabi' When I invoke merc, ...
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Command not found after setting source in bash script [duplicate]

Following the instructions here, and everything works fine manually. However, when I use the instructions in a bash script, I get rbenv command not found because the source ~/.bashrc didn't execute ...
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build latest Gnome from source Ubuntu 16.04

I am using Ubuntu Gnome 16.04 with gnome 3.20.4 I wanted to know if it possible to build the latest gnome from source on my Ubuntu, from git using the guide
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Error in getting source

I am new to the linux environment, I faced an issue while performing git clone, So I tried the solution mentioned in this link https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pycurl/+question/221185 But ...
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How can I view the history of a source file from apt-get source?

It seems I cannot find the answer to that one as easily as I have hoped. I have a package, and I suspect a change in one of the conf broke something in my tests. For example, how can I get see the ...
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Should I install the bcmwl-kernel-source or broadcom-sta-* packages for my Broadcom 4352 wi-fi adapter? [duplicate]

Should I install the bcmwl-kernel-source or broadcom-sta-* packages for my Broadcom 4352 wi-fi adaper? I currently have the bcmwl-kernel-source package installed and it works but if the broadcom-sta-* ...
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ubuntu kernel git for xenial gives wrong source version

I'm trying to pull kernel sources from this location: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/ubuntu-xenial.git/ And I'm expecting to see 4.4.0-21/22 related sources. What I'm getting is 4.4.8 version ...
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Edit Gimp source code for personal requirements

I wanna edit gimp source code for my personal specific requirements that are custom printing related, is there any way i can download edit and compile gimp code for windows and ubuntu...?
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"ERROR: Kernel configuration is invalid"

I have been stuck on this issue for two days now and couldnt find a fix for this. I installed a realtime kernel with sudo apt-get install linux-rt because KauNet (which is an ipfw extension) ...
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Duplicate source.list entry for Chrome [duplicate]

When ever i am updating using apt-get update or via Synaptic, there will be some errors. Can any one help me to solve the issue? I Google about it a lot, but didn't succeed. Errors are given below: ...
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Removing software compiled and from source? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: If i build a package from source. How can i uninstall or remove completely in Ubuntu? I downloaded the source and compiled ruby 1.9.2dev but getting lots of issues when i try ...
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How to "source ~/.bashrc" automatically when connect to remote

I need to create some aliases on remote Ubuntu and enable them on ssh-connection. So I defined aliases in ~/.bashrc file (on that remote Ubuntu). Now when I do ssh root@<Remote IP> source ~/....
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Where is the GIT (or other) repo for the Ubuntu (or Linux) man pages?

I don't know whether all of the man pages are under the same source control repository or not; specifically, I'm interested in the Vim man pages source. Where can I find the source control repository ...
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Source shell script in python

I have a shell script file and a python script file a shell script file(STEP0.sh) contains this: #!/bin/bash DIR="/sc/arion/projects/Variants/annotations/gnomAD" IN="/sc/arion/projects/...
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Permission denied extraction problem when running `apt source <some_package>`

I'm trying to get source files of some package, it gives that error: ~$ sudo apt source ros-kinetic-nav-core Reading package lists... Done Need to get 6.606 B of source archives. Get:1 http://...
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Where is Ubuntu Groovy kernel git

I can't find the 5.8 groovy kernel git at https://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/ Have the maintainers moved it anywhere? How can I find the kernel source git?
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How to use bionic-updates? [duplicate]

I have a dependency problem on 18.04, libglib2.0-0 is a bit too old (I need 2.56.3 but only 2.56.1-2ubuntu1 is available). When looking at the details of the package, I see that Paquet libglib2.0-0 (...
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E: Type 'wget' is not known on line 1 in source list [duplicate]

Hello most helpful humans. I have read endless other threads on this subject, and typed a myriad of commands in terminal, but have caused myself more trouble than benefit it seems. The problem is ...
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Aliases execution by script fails while manual alias execution succeeds without problem [duplicate]

I have executed a remote Bash script bash <(curl -s URL/script.sh | tr -d '\r') that does the following 3 actions: Downloads another script with a list of aliases (aliases.sh) to current dir. ...
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How to install programs using source code (e.g. wine staging 2.9)

Completely new to ubuntu, I am trying to install GOG Galaxy using wine and PlayOnLinux. I am having no luck so far but many people recommend using wine staging 2.8+. Using the terminal to install wine ...
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Where is the Python source? (needed in pyqtdeploy)

Apparently I need the python source (to use pyqtdeploy: Locations->Host Python Locations->Source Directory can't be empty). As pointed out in medigeek's answer in 'Where is Python source code?' I can ...
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