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Thanks! I will try that as soon as I am home.

If you for any reason, be it security, be it speed, prefer not to use Ubuntu dash, you can create of course your own shortcut.

sudo apt-get install zenity

Store this script under e.g....

Dear Ubuntu experts,

The last two days I spend trying to figure out how to stream my webcam to my much larger television set which supports UPNP.

To get access to my webcam is easy of course,...

I would recommend this:


mkdir ~/temp
cd ~/temp
apt-get source crafty
sudo apt-get build-dep crafty -y
cd crafty*
make help
make linux-amd64 # this one or make linux

After a few years, I am still curious if there is a method for this, that I can recommend to my users....

:popcorn:

I do (also) arpings, and no, it doesn't have a firewall.

Dear forum members,

I do have a robot (Surveyor) which sets up an access point, designing to itself a static IP address. I do not know which IP address that is, but I assume it is 169.254.0.10....

Hi everybody who ever runs into this kind of problems... And I have seen many of these online referring then to acroread, then to skype, then to a flashplugin, then to anything else that depends on...

This is of course of no help.

If I have package dependency problems like e.g. this person here http://askubuntu.com/questions/76766/how-do-i-overcome-these-package-dependency-problems and I would...

Hi fantab. I thought my post was clear that I am WAY BEYOND that stage of trying to install acroread. Of course the universe/multiverse repositories are enabled. I know my way around launchpad,...

Dear people,

Yesterday I wanted to reinstall my 32-bits applications, skype and acroread.

I understood that 64-bits Oneiric (11.10) does now provide real 32-bits support, so I can install...

Thank you, that works indeed! The default icons become a little less responsive now. I have first to click on the clock, and then I can move to the left and see the pop-down menu for music, network,...

I can confirm this behavior.

In Unity no icon shows up, neither under the sound/loudspeaker icon (only Banshee does). So, if I accidently minimize spotify, there is no way to get it back. Only...

I know it has been three years, but that might be fun anyway.

My laptop averaging 32fps: http://global.phoronix-test-suite.com/index.php?k=profile&u=anon-18146-29808-27497

The thing is that it's easy to get the songs from an audio disc, be it real or virtual, in mp3 format. So, I can give her her music back. I strongly disagree with illegal practices surrounding music...

Thanks all for the answers, but burning to a real CD is what I wanted to avoid...

Dear all,

First, there are many solutions for mounting .iso files, from mount, to furiusisomount, to gCDEmu. What I am searching for however is something that emulates a CD/DVD writer.

This...

If you want to make sure everything compiles on your system use the source code that comes with the package and recompile it yourself.

First make sure you have actually the src repositories...

How to depict a screenshot in "Ubuntu Software Center" for applications provided by a (third-party) PPA on Launchpad?

Can I add an X-Ubuntu-... flag to my .desktop file, or is it some special...

I found this: https://help.ubuntu.com/10.04/serverguide/C/automatic-updates.html

However, automatic install of unintended updates is a bit too much. I just want to have an easy GUI that iterates...

The method I tell my user now is the following:


cd /etc/apt/sources.list.d/
sudo cp robot3d-team-ppa-robot3d-lucid.list robot3d-team-ppa-robot3d-maverick.list
sudo sed -i 's/lucid/maverick/g'...

For the people waiting for an answer...

Nothing needs to be done in debian/rules.

However, I need to add to scripts to my package, in my case: debian/robot3d.postinst


#!/bin/sh

set -e

Some little script I use:



vlc --qt-fullscreen-screennumber=2 --play-and-exit -f $FILE

Dear Ubuntu packagers,

For a while I am now providing Ubuntu packages for a robot simulator. The community is itself eager to provide its own replacements for the plugins that come with the...

Hi all, if anyone can help James, please do:

http://mentors.debian.net/cgi-bin/sponsor-pkglist?action=details;package=delta3d

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/452281

He needs a...