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I have a folder structure: /mnt/data/mydata/mydata/several-files-and-folders-here I would like it to instead be: /mnt/data/mydata/several-files-and-folders-here I tried mv but it complains the folder …
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I have been hunting for an answer to this for a long time, and although I’ve seen proposed solutions, none of them works. I can see all packages ready for update with this command: apt list –…
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I have gimp 2.10.30 on Ubuntu 22.04. Whenever I try to open an image outside my home folder it says Error opening directory ‘<directory>’: permission denied. When I right click on the image and …
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I’m looking at how Ubuntu selects a default editor, and I notice that to set the default editor for editing crontabs, I use select-editor while to set the default editor for visudo I use update-…
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I’m part of a lab that has a shared scientific computing enviornment. My system administrator just told everyone in the lab that one of the nodes I am using is about to crash because /tmp is full. I …
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I am on Kubuntu 22.10. After upgrading to 5.19.0.35 (the other day) the system doesn’t detect the sound card any more I can see the soundcard at Device-2: $ inxi -A Audio: Device-1: Intel 200 Series …
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I am using Galculator 2.1.4, a scientific calculator that came with Lubuntu (with LXQt desktop). Galculator shows small numbers in decimal scientific notation (1e-05) which I don’t like. For numbers …
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I am wondering what sudo apt-get update does? What does it update?
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When I log into my web server via SSH I see the information: 88 packages can be updated. 80 updates are security updates I tried apt-get update then apt-get upgrade but each time I log in I still …
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Occasionally, when I’m installing stuff, I get an error like the following: Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the …
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I am running an HP pavilion dv6000 dual boot win7 and Ubuntu 12.04. (well, up until today). After a reboot, the boot process drops to the BusyBox shell and I end up at the prompt: BusyBox v1.18.5 (…
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Whenever I open a .sh file, it opens it in gedit instead of the terminal. I can’t find any option similar to Right Click → Open With → Other Application… → Terminal. How do I open this file in the …
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I’m used to extracting tarballs with a -xfz flag, which handles gzip and bzip2 archives. Recently I’ve run into a .tar.xz file and I would like to uncompress it in one step using tar, how can I do …
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I’ve added many PPAs using the add-apt-repository command. Is there a simple way to remove these PPAs? I’ve checked in /etc/apt/sources.list for the appropriate deb lines but they aren’t there. This …
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I installed a GTX 970, but I have no video so I can’t see. I guess I could SSH into my machine, but I do not know how to use the “Additional Drivers” while logged in on ssh?
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I have set up an ovs bridge in order to take advantage of libvirt’s virtual network with vlan support. As recommended, the host network interface is configured on an ovs port, rather than directly on …
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From what I understand, the gpg-agent is older than us warning happens when the gpg-agent version doesn’t match the gpg version, often because there are two gpg-agents installed (and sharing the …
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