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I just installed Linux ( Ubuntu ) in my pc which is not connected to internet. So i obviously cant use software center to install softwares. I downloaded software packages of .tar.gz and .tar.xz format but i don't know how to install them. So can anyone out there can help …

Hai all, I have upgraded Linux mint 13 Mate (maya) to 14 (Naida) using terminal with commands everything run fine but is not updated. Give me the remedy for this solution. Thanks in Advance., Velmurugan.M, System Administrator.

I ran the command ifconfig and in addition to lo and eth0 I got this item that I have never seen before. Can anyone tell me what it is? virbr0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr da:1c:6c:2a:cb:80 inet addr:192.168.122.1 Bcast:192.168.122.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX …

HI there im new to ubuntu and im having a huge problem, i cant play mp4 on ubuntu and whenever i install synaptic package manager, it keeps on presenting me this error in the picture please help

I am in need to send a Alert(Pop up) box to remote users in my network. How can i do this? I have tried Zenity,Notofy-send and Xmessage it all works in local computer but not in remote pc. I am using Linux Os only. So please provide any package related …

I tried to run ./configure on a small program that the Linux book I'M reading instructed me to download and I got the error "no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH" I then tried to run atp-get install gcc, but then I got "unable to locate package gcc". Any dieas?

I have been trying to install Fedora on my laptop which came pre-installed with Windows 8.I need fedora coz i have a course on Unix shell programming dis semester.But i haven't succeeded coz the bios is kind of different from the earlier ones.can u guys suggest me some way i'd …

Anyone use this distribution? I have a big big problem with the keyboard -- it misses characters or irradically repeats random characters. I might press a key quickly once and the driver will repeat it 100 or more times. Other times it misses the key altogether.

We are planning to develop a small embedded product, which will be touch-screen and loaded with few applications which we will develop. Those applications will be contacting a database through wi-fi, and displaying data, and also update the database sometimes. The available flash or ROM memory will be limited, around …

Hi, I am new linux user, please tell me that Can we install .deb format on ubuntu 11.10 or 12.10 using sudo apt-get install??? other thing is that how to become super user in linux? Regards, M.Faisal

Is there a way I an compress a file in Linux for Windows? I recently sent a compressed folder to a Windows recipient and I don't think they were able to open the file.

Hey, I have some command, I'll call it "command". I need to do this: yes | command but without a pipe, there is a reason for this, because for the specific use, pipe before the command is not allowed, that's not the point. Is there an alternative I can use …

If I upgrade ubuntu 11.10 to 12.04 will it affects Virtual Box

***Hey y'all I have been trying to compile the kernel version 2.6.21.7 in fedora 14 32-bit which already has 2.6.35 version.Need multiple kernels for a project :) Yeah,so when i run the make oldconfig command,i get the issue that says ::: "Makefile:412: *** mixed implicit and normal rules. Stop." I …

I recently received a new 64-bit laptop and is my first endeavor into 64-bit computing. I installed all my usual packages through yum (I am using fedora 64 bit) and it downloaded all the 64-bit versions of the packages. I went to install an rpm packaged by years ago by …

Hi everyone I have uninstalled ubuntu from my laptop but it still appear in the grup what should I do , to get rid of it??

Hey all Im new so if this is in wrong place sorry, im trying to donwload 3DRAD to use for Virtual Sailor, when i click downlaod this comes up **Forbidden You don't have permission to access /getdownloadlink.php on this server. Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying …

how can i create a script to backup sub-directories using Tar & Gzip, define threshold, and SSH file to remote host

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hello everyone, i have an HP server with 96GB Memory but unfortunately 32GB was detected when i was installing Red Hat Linus OS, after some months i carried out maintenance work on the server and 96GB was detected by the system but my Red Hat Linux OS is not seeing …

Can you install and run Android Apps in Windows? If yes, demonstrate. If not, Why not?

I made a website in php4 that I want to swtich over for my database, I'm a linux newb, I just thought I would write a simple sed script to change the username and password used in mysql_connect: #!/bin/bash for f in * do sed 's/mysql_connect('localhost','user1','pass1')/mysql_connect('localhost','user2','pass2')/' <$f >$f done exit …

Just got a 16 GB PNY flash drive from Wal-Mart and formatted it to ext4. Any idea how I could put access security on the drive? I would prefer security to protect against other OSs as well. Thanks.

how to remove rich text module error on ubuntu. this error is related to ubuntu. this applicatio is develpoed in POWER BUILDER.

Hi, I am looking for a sles 11.0 iso image. Ifound 11.1, 11.2, 11.3 and 11.4 but not the one that I am looking for. Can anybody help me with a website where I can find this??

Some of my users are getting the following error message: 500 Internal Server Error - The size of the response header is too large. Contact your ISA server administrator. (12216) Internet Security and Acceleration Server Could this be from a cookie that is too big?

other day i got a email saying they want a internview on postion "Linux Systems Programmer". the problem is that i have not used Linux for about 4 to 5 yrs. and forgot most of the stuff. can some one tell me important topics in linux programming? that way i …

I installed Linux Mint 14 alongside Win7 using [this](http://www.linuxbsdos.com/2012/06/06/how-to-dual-boot-linux-mint-13-cinnamonmate-and-windows-7/) tutorial. When I choose Mint in the boot menu, it doesn't boot into Linux. Instead, I get a GRUB4DOS command line. It says something like this: GRUB4DOS 0.4.5b 2011-11-27, Mem: 630K/3177M/766M, End: 35560D [ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For …

I was thinking of throwing out windows from a little laptop with an i386 processor and putting linux on, to make better use of the hardware. I'm not sure how the process works, seeing as there is no disk drive, and I'm not sure which distribution of linux would be …

Hi, Do any one know **how to successfully run mapreduce process of chukwa in hadoop**.Also I couldn't read my adaptor from initial adaptors file.So I dynamically added adaptors for collecting files.I have collected some files dynamically but now that also causing some problem as follows: 2013-01-09 01:20:01,533 INFO listen thread …

Hie all l have an Hp Proliant ML110 G5 and l have installed Unix ScoServer 6 but it is not giving the GUI when i press CTL+ALT+f2, so l can l in the command line configure that so that l can get the GUI for either a standard crt monitor …

**i am using ubuntu software in my laptop and wrongly used dell factory restoring application and removed all of my data can i get my data back **

My laptop recently got a bsod (bad pool caller) while uninstalling hotspot shield which is a vpn app. Then, after rebooting, windows will startup normally, then get the same bsod. After using driver verifier in safe mode (verifier.exe), and rebooting, windows won't boot. This isn't the issue (so i don't …

#!/bin/bash LOGFILE=/var/log/backup.log backup_source="/home" backup_dest="/home/sean" date=`date '+%d-%B-%Y'` hostname=$(hostname -s) filename="$hostname-$date.tgz" echo "Backing Up your Linux System" tar cvpzf $backup_dest/$filename $backup_source LOGFILE="log-$date.log" log(){ message="$@" echo $message echo $message >>$LOGFILE } log "$LOGFILE" log | tee install.log echo "Backup finished" echo "$LOGFILE" hie I'm trying append teh files i have backed up into …

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Hi, I need to grep lines that contain three words from files in the same directory And next to the greped line I need to have the file that the line came from. Example: The directory is: /var/logs The files in the directory are: XSLog2012.05.14-15.40.48.txt XSLog2012.05.14-15.49.01.txt XSLog2012.05.14-15.57.11.txt XSLog2012.05.14-16.05.07.txt XSLog2012.05.14-16.11.41.txt XSLog2012.05.14-16.18.26.txt …

Hi all. I've recently installed Linux Mint 14 Nadia but wanted to keep the dual boot with XP whilst I tested it out. Now I am happy with it I want to remove Windows XP from my system. I've been googling how to do this but I can't find any …

We have a simple query and insert using C code linking to mysql db. The issue now on itself the script works fine. But when we put to run as a cron job the select query gives empty results and when we run back on the db there is results. …

I am switching our file server from Windows to Linux (Ubuntu Server 12.04) and am using Samba. I was able to successfully set up all the folders needed with the same name that was on Windows. However, there are two folders on the Windows share that is being used by …

how to Implement a Virtual Machine (VM) of Windows on Linux platform and also instal all features of windows on it. for the user it should look alike windows but actually performing his applications on linux platform

So Im using our university servers through an ssh connection. I have a bunch of files in a directory which I would like to run through a perl script. So I thought this simple script I concocted should do the trick. I have used similar script on my home computer …

how to Implement a Virtual Machine (VM) of Linux on Windows platform and also instal all features of Linux on it. for the user it should look alike Linux but actually performing his applications on windows platform

l recently installed Ubuntu 12 and on first start on Firefox everytime l type google.com on the address bar l am redireted to some funny websites. The websites seem random and this only happens when l type google.com if l type for example daniweb.com it works fine. l am new …

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Hi, I installed Gentoo Linux, build the kernel with "genkernel", and copy the image file into the /boot folder, also I installed grub. It all works fine. What confusing me is that now I cannot find the kernel and grub under the /boot folder, the folder is empty. I did …

Hi, Does anyone know about free linux servers that can be used to practice KDB+/q? I have cygwin installed on my machine, but am not able to extract the free KDB+ version onto it. Please suggest.

Hi everyone . I'm studying network engineering and security , its my forth year . I have taken a network programming cousre , and I will take Unix system programming course soon . I love programming , and I love networks . I have taken network course , network protocols …

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Hello everyone. I want to share with you a story about ***amasing student***. I knew one girl, she had Windows XP installed on her computer. One day her PC didn't work and she worried about that. She tried to turn it on, it turned and then it didn't show anything. …