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    [ubuntu] Re: Considering 11.10 Upgrade

    In my case, it rendered my system unbootable and I had to fully re-install. I'm not sure at what extent it will affect your settings (think it should not change them if they were done at user level),...
  2. Thread: updates

    by Ancanus
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    [ubuntu] Re: updates

    For a CLI solution, you can do:


    aptitude show package-name
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    [ubuntu] Re: Problem using Gparted

    You need root permissions:



    gksudo gparted
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    [ubuntu] Re: Illegal option -n in my shell script

    If using sh:




    #!/bin/sh

    echo "Finding your external IP address..."
    echo "Your IP is:"
    wget -qO - http://www.whatismyip.org
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    Re: HOW TO: Install cisco vpn client

    The following blog has all the necessary shell commands for installing Cisco VPN Client on Natty Narwhal (Kernel: 2.6.38-11-generic).

    It's in german, but the installation commands are in universal...
  6. Re: Question: Motives on Switching to Libreoffice?

    Its "obsolete" because some (most) of its developers forked and started working on LibreOffice.
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    Re: How to: Cisco VPN using VPNC Ubuntu 9.04

    Does your configuration use certificates?
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    [ubuntu] Re: too many unecessary problems

    How did you "upgrade to lucid" ?
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    [SOLVED] Re: Temporary Nautilus as Root

    @pennstatebadboy:

    Did you try mc4man's solution?
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    [ubuntu] Re: Old laptop lost password and username

    Just boot in recovery mode and change the password using the passwd command. Here is a relevant link.
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    [ubuntu] Re: Odd text in Firefox with Google.co.uk

    This is either an encoding issue or a font misrepresentation.

    Does View -> Character Encoding -> Unicode do anything for you?

    Otherwise, I believe Google is using Arial as a font. Do you have...
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    [ubuntu] Re: wget earth image problem

    Perhaps they are blocking wget?

    Try



    wget -U Mozilla/5.0 http://static.die.net/earth/mercator/1600.jpg
  13. [ubuntu] Re: 10.04 to 10.10 upgrade caused whine in power supply fan

    Should be



    acpi -V
  14. [ubuntu] Re: missing my sound preferences and volume control

    Hm.

    How about



    sudo apt-get install gnome-volume-control
  15. [ubuntu] Re: missing my sound preferences and volume control

    Before you get into that, try



    sudo aptitude install gnome-volume-control
  16. [ubuntu] Re: HELP!!!! Deleted important doc need to recover it!!

    As noted in the documentation, you would use zip to recover ODT files.



    sudo foremost -t zip -i /dev/YOUR_DRIVE -o OUTPUT_FOLDER
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    [SOLVED] Re: aircrack-ng install

    It is a universe package, so make sure your sources are set correctly:

    System -> Administration -> Software Sources
  18. [ubuntu] Re: HELP!!!! Deleted important doc need to recover it!!

    Please take a look at the Ubuntu Data Recovery documentation.

    For future references, you might want to make use of a sync application to keep copies of your files in case something happens.
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    [SOLVED] Re: Gedit Show Tab Bar not working

    It seems to me that your current GTK+ installation is not compatible with the one gedit expects. Are you maintaining your own version?



    $ apt-cache policy libgtk2.0-0
    libgtk2.0-0:
    ...
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    [SOLVED] Re: Gedit Show Tab Bar not working

    I tried to reproduce your issue, but the tabs do disappear for me.

    Does running gedit from the terminal produce any valuable outputs when you perform your routine?



    ~$ apt-cache policy gedit...
  21. [ubuntu] Re: Ubuntu Stuck At "checking state of battery" screen. URGENT.

    What happens if you try to boot without a xorg.conf file?
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    [SOLVED] Re: C++ double to string

    gcc does not link to C++ libraries, therefore it is unable to find std::out.

    Either compile with g++ as bryangwilliam suggested, or include a flag with gcc to point to the C++ libraries.
  23. Thread: GParted?

    by Ancanus
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    [ubuntu] Re: GParted?

    I'm pretty sure that if you boot to RAM, you can unmount the hard drives and gpart them. Just elaborating on the 'only way' remark. =)
  24. [ubuntu] Re: Screen gets complete dim after about 10 minutes

    Also check Power Management in

    Systems -> Preferences.
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    [ubuntu] Re: Which version shoul I use?

    I would recommend using the latest version (sticking to 32-bit, for now) and whenever you find an application that is misbehaving, reporting a bug against it.
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