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    [ubuntu] Re: How to install eclipse

    Or if you prefer the latest version (I use debian and the version in stable is rather old) you can download it from the eclipse site and put in /opt.

    Regards,
    Panayiotis
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    [ubuntu] Re: lvm hard drive failure

    According to the man pages, it looks like the disk has to be unused before it can be removed. But, also, there is an option "--partial" that can be used to access the volume groups that are affected...
  3. [ubuntu] Re: How to override default program version (Java)

    If you install your java in /usr/local (e.g. /usr/local/bin) it should override the version in /usr/bin
  4. [ubuntu] Re: Sound output problem (cannot use only one speaker)

    I use /etc/asound.conf to define a device for virtual surround (upmix 2 channels to 6). You can try a modified version:


    pcm.all_to_left {
    type route
    slave.pcm front
    slave.channels...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Synaptic Sux! Is there any alternative?

    Yes he wouldn't be able to install or upgrade any packages, ever, not even manually. By setting APT::Periodic::Update-Package-Lists to a sufficiently large number or 0, he would be able to decrease...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Synaptic Sux! Is there any alternative?

    Edit /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/10periodic

    Here's what the various options mean:
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    [ubuntu] Re: Need a way to access files remotely!

    Actually, as far as I remember, sshfs does not require root access neither on the remote machine, nor the local machine (beyond adding the user to the fuse group on the latter).
    ...
  8. [ubuntu] Re: Installing a package from my Home folder

    Or you can install the package checkinstall from synaptic, and replace the third step with:

    3. sudo checkinstall

    It will now ask you to fill in some information about the package (optional...
  9. Thread: apache2 + ssl

    by panayk
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    [ubuntu] Re: apache2 + ssl

    Have you modified /etc/apache2/ports.conf accordingly?
  10. [all variants] Re: command to auto-resize document for printing

    Nevermind, just read the man pages, it's 'lp -o fitplot'
  11. [all variants] [SOLVED] command to auto-resize document for printing

    Hello,

    I am writing a script to automatically download and print some documents from a website. For the last step I am using the lpr command. However some of them are coming out the wrong size. Is...
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    [ubuntu] Re: How to install .deb file

    Is it yade-svn1294 or yade-svn1498?

    Anyway, why are you cd-ing to yade-svn1294_1_i386.deb? Just do:

    sudo dpkg -i yade-svn1294_1_i386.deb from the dir the .debs are in.
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    [ubuntu] Re: No sound after hibernate

    Have you found this?

    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/25896

    EDIT: Apparently this is fixed in 2.6.27-2.3
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    [all variants] Re: Fit 930.5mb into Cd-R?

    You can try to put the 7z file in a single zip archive ( no compression required), then use zipsplit

    EDIT:Ah, that doesn't do what I thought, sorry...
  15. [ubuntu] Re: Error removing file: Directory not empty

    To fix the permissions:



    Then try again to empty the trash bin.
  16. [all variants] Re: RAR created 110,548 files in my ~./ !!!!!!

    Agreed, the safest thing to do, if possible, is something like:


    find path expression -print0 | xargs -0 command
  17. [ubuntu] Re: CUPS print server - allowing it to share with Windows XP

    https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SettingUpSamba#Sharing%20CUPS%20Printers
  18. [ubuntu] Re: Trying to format media HDD from ext3 to ntfs - ntfs is not active??

    That's just a command to install the ntfsprogs package. Feel free to use synatpic if you prefer. If I remember correctly this will enable gparted to work with NTFS partitions just as it does in the...
  19. [ubuntu] Re: CUPS print server - allowing it to share with Windows XP

    Just found this:

    http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-mini/Debian-and-Windows-Shared-Printing.html
  20. [ubuntu] Re: Trying to format media HDD from ext3 to ntfs - ntfs is not active??

    sudo apt-get install ntfsprogs

    but I'm not sure it will work...
  21. [all variants] Re: RAR created 110,548 files in my ~./ !!!!!!

    $ seq 1 110548 | sed 's/^/ncaaplaybook.part./' | xargs touch
    $ time bash -c 'find ~ -name "ncaaplaybook.part.*" | xargs -n 100 rm'

    real 1m18.067s
    user 0m0.772s
    sys 0m5.012s

    $ seq 1 110548 |...
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    [all variants] Re: Help with the 'find' command

    The problem is that bash is doing command substitution before executing find, i.e. you are running dirname on the raw string "{}".

    How about this (not tried):


    find . -name *.mp3 -exec bash -c...
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    [all variants] Re: Deleting empty folders

    That wouldn't have the effect you expect, and could be dangerous.


    find -d ~/Music * -type d | xargs rmdir -p

    Bash would expand * to the non-hidden files/directories in your current directory...
  24. [all variants] Re: RAR created 110,548 files in my ~./ !!!!!!

    The files are in you home directory?

    find ~ -name 'ncaaplaybook.part.*' | xargs -n 100 rm

    The value after the -n parameter controls how many arguments to process per command execution. The more...
  25. Thread: Creating menus

    by panayk
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    Re: Creating menus

    Hmm, I think you have to create a .desktop file under /usr/share/applications/, (take a look in the files already there) whereas package.menu places a shortcut in the debian submenu (which is...
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