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| Out of apparently nowhere, I now find that the Firefox app (running as a snap on Ubuntu) is very distorted when launched. And it experiences further strangeness (like imprints of previous content) as … | 
| I want to extract the IP and Port from a variable. I have tried to use this:  ADDR=1.2.3.4:12345  IP=${ADDR##:}  PORT=${ADDR%:}    However, this assigns the entire address to both variables.  How can I … | 
| I’m using this command to read continuous data from named pipes:  { while :; do dd iflag=fullblock iflag=nonblock bs=65536 count=1 2> /dev/null | redis-cli -x PUBLISH myChannel ; done } < myFifo    … | 
| I’ve found that VLC uses ~17% CPU for x264 FHD videos, ~28% for HEVC FHD videos, and ~80% for HEVC 4k videos.  sudo lshw -c video    produces..    *-display                          description: VGA … | 
| I just wanted to install yt-dlp with: sudo apt install yt-dlp. But I get this message:  Reading package lists… Done  Building dependency tree         Reading state information… Done    No apt package &… | 
| I have some files in a directory:  a.csv b.csv c.csv    I wanted to write a bash script to add a filename at the end of each line of its file, like:  a.csv  line1 ,a  line2, a  line, a    b.csv  line1, b  line2, … | 
| When I try to create a virtual machine for either Ubuntu 22.04.2 or 22.10 from the ISO image using Parallels 17.1.6 on a MacBook Air (2020, Intel, 16GB) running macOS Big Sur (11.7.3), the … | 
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| Is there a simple command to display the total aggregate size (disk usage) of all files in a directory (folder)?    I have tried these, and they don’t do what I want:  ls -l, which only displays the … | 
| I want to login as root, but when I enter     sudo -s  and enter password, this message is shown: “you are not in sudoers file”, and when I enter     su  and enter password, this is shown: “authentication … | 
| I’ve recently installed Ubuntu on Oracle’s Virtualbox.  Now I want to install the guest additions.    I started up my Ubuntu guest OS, clicked “Devices” and chose “Install Guest Additions”. Nothing … | 
| On Docker’s documentation pages, all example commands are shown without sudo, like this one:    docker ps  On Ubuntu, the binary is called docker.io. It also does not work without sudo:    sudo docker.io … | 
| I dual boot Ubuntu and Windows 7.  I was browsing on FireFox in Ubuntu and all of a sudden I get some error message, so I rebooted.    Now when I try to boot into Ubuntu I get this message:    fsck from … | 
| I am trying to boot Ubuntu on my computer.  When I boot Ubuntu, it boots to a black screen.  How can I fix this?  Table of Contents:    If you are trying to install Ubuntu  If you have a dual boot system  … | 
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| Tried everything and can’t find the answer anywhere. I installed Ubuntu 22.04 as single OS on a new HP15-dy2. Boots fine and everything works. Only problem is that Ubuntu does not reboot, not from the … | 
| Once the small program is compiled, I run it by double clicking the executable in Nautilus.  When I have a second but completely different windowed app and double click on it while the first windowed … | 
| I’ve installed MySQL Workbench on Ubuntu 22.04 following the directions here. I’m able to connect to my database server and run queries just fine. However, when I access the Performance Dashboard, … |