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Why ~/.bash_profile is not getting sourced when opening a terminal?

Problem I have an Ubuntu 11.04 Virtual Machine and I wanted to set up my Java development environment. I did as follows sudo apt-get install openjdk-6-jdk Added the following entries to ~/....
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Why isn't .profile sourced when opening a terminal?

Just installed Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS. According to .profile, # ~/.profile: executed by the command interpreter for login shells. # This file is not read by bash, if ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bash_login ...
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How to change the Ubuntu source code [duplicate]

I have heard that we can obtain the source code of Ubuntu and customize it as we wish. But where can I find the source code of Ubuntu, and what languages are used to write Ubuntu?
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How to update packages compiled from source? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Can I update software installed from source code directly I am about to install the Enlightenment desktop environment and it is a very long process. I want to know if once I ...
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bash: "command not found" when calling function defined in ~/.bashrc file in `bash -c` command while opening gnome-terminal tab

What I'm trying to do: Write a script to open 3 tabs. cd into a different folder in each tab (ie: run a unique command). get each tab to have a unique title I want this scripted so I can click ...
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sudo apt-get update giving error about duplicate

Getting an error about duplicate sources, how can I get around this?
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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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Configuration and compilation settings used for Ubuntu packages

I want to be able to recreate specific packages by compiling the source code of the package. To compile the source code one has to run the configuration process, followed by the compilation process. I ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 : Uninstall boost installed from source

I installed boost 1.54 libraries on ubuntu 12.04, and it seems to conflict with my installation of libboost-all-dev, so i want to uninstall boost 1.54 libraries completely. How to uninstall the one ...
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Why is apt source picking linux-signed-hwe instead of a real kernel?

I am running apt-get source linux-image-4.15.0-60-generic and get Picking 'linux-signed-hwe' as source package instead of 'linux-image-4.15.0-60-generic' And I don't get the real source code. Why ...
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How bad are duplicate entries in sources.list? [duplicate]

What is sources.list? Is it like 'registry?' How important is it it to keep it 'clean?' When I did sudo apt-get update the last lines to display were these: W: Duplicate sources.list entry http:/...
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How to build a source package?

I'm the lead developer of an open source software called GDevelop (https://github.com/4ian/GD): I'd like to distribute it on Ubuntu and benefit from the Launchpad platform to get it automatically ...
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How can I modify the kernel when I already have Ubuntu running on my machine?

Sorry if this is an extremely stupid question, but I'm brand new to Linux and I'd like to try to figure out how to modify my own system. From what little I know so far about Linux, I would imagine ...
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How to build ubuntuone-client so that it doesn't depend on nautilus and gnome

Basically I want to build ubuntuone-client so that it doesn't have nautilus and gnome related dependencies. Can this be done? if so how?
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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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"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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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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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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