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Hi.... I'm new in Ubuntu and GNOMe... something I don't understand is that when I've used this command to uninstall my gnome sudo apt-get remove gnome* ...and then install it again using another command which I've also found in the internet... ...then reboot my laptop... I came up to a …

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How can i restore the backup in my portable harddisk in lunx based operation system runing on imb server system x3650 (oracle application and database runing) when my server get's crush. i don't have command on coding at lunix terminals, please let me know the coding if possible.

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Have downloaded and burned TAILS both as a DVD and a booting USB stick. Other than a marked sluggishness while 'setting the local time,' the system provides both PC look-alike and built-in TOR browser (anomymity.) I am curious to read what other user's experiences have been with this system - …

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I have mobile web services written in PHP. Ant it is running on Apache Linux. Suddenly since yesterday our server became too slow. We found the reason that there are many continuous connection is coming to our server. Which is engaging bandwidth and making server slow. We have asked hosting …

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In the script below second & third line are working but not the first and fourth. The reason is because I am replacing the whole line, I actually only need to replace what's to the right of the '=' sign. Any idea on how I can accomplish this in sed? …

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is there anyone interested in the idea of making a new operating system in the (Unix Like operating systems) category, if you are interested we can start brainstorming about how achieve that goal.

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Last week I bought a new [Lonovo G505 laptop](http://shop.lenovo.com/gb/en/laptops/essential/g-series/g505/) for the purpose of installing Linux. After removing Windows 8 I tried to install three different linux distributions, none of them worked. None had a compatible wifi device driver, and none of them could start the X server after installation was …

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im a student on attachement im failing to install linux on my machine .

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![b62b330b33236e12160db60d6c858d9d](/attachments/small/3/b62b330b33236e12160db60d6c858d9d.JPG "align-right") booted from a flash drive to go into the live cd mode , there , as soon as i double clicked a flash video , the screen went all jumbled up , and my pc hanged up. later i tried to check it in oracle virtual box , …

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Can Any body gives the answer of these questions? 1. Make subdirectories called work and play. 2. Delete the subdirectory called work. 3. Copy the file /etc/passwd into your home directory. 4. Move it into the subdirectory play. 5. Change into subdirectory play and create a symbolic link called terminal …

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I have found a strange problem in my Ubuntu 12.04 laptop. When the machine is started, everything is working fine. But if I press the Right Shift key, the keyboard starts to work abnormally as follows - 1. All the letter keys is displayed in uppercase even if the caps …

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Dear ALL, This forum helps me much..and I thank you to everyone who makes this forum useful, even enjoyable. i'd like to ask to all of you, HOW TO CONFIGURE NTP (TIME SERVER) on Red Hat Linux.? I've been trying to setting the NTP across my network, but I never …

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Occasionally, I like to try out new linux OS's on virtual box. At the moment I've kind of converged with a version of Ubuntu downgraded to XFCE with a custom icon set. It looks nice and is super fast too. But I've just stumbled across http://elementaryos.org/ It looks really nice …

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Hi All, I'm attempting to install Jre7 on my newly installed Ubunto OS. I've been looking [here](http://askubuntu.com/questions/56104/how-can-i-install-sun-oracles-proprietary-java-6-7-jre-or-jdk) and it is telling me to move the unzipped folder to /usr/lib but where is that? In the Terminal I tried finding it by changing directories but to no avail and I'm getting …

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How to see list of files and folder without using ls command in Linux (rhel6)

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I'm just trying to figure out how to get everything after the first two words in a line. Right now, I've got the opposite - the first two words themself: ^(\S+ \S+) I want the opposite of this. Thanks!

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Hi all, I'm trying to get Ubuntu to work but at boot up I get issues. I took a picture and I don't know how to procede.

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how do we install vlc media player in linux ubuntu(13.04) by using terminals?

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I'm getting `sed: -e expression #1, char 35: unterminated s' command` when I try and run the following script. Any ideas? #/bin/bash # # # This script is to be used to re-write a configuration file # replacing select values, SSID, IP, device name, gateway, # and frequency with the …

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Here is a code that creates two childern using fork. My question is how can we create mutiple grandchildern and great grandchildern at the same time . And the line 21 of code gives an unexpected output i.e instead on one parent id it gives three id's. Here is the …

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In the following script I need to know if the configuration files is for a 2.4 or a 5.2 radio. This info is found in the filename so I'm trying to use grep -l *2.4* to find out if it's a 2.4 config file or not. If it's not the …

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In fedora machine, I am handling segv signal, doing some cleanup and then generating core file using SignalHandler(){ // Do Cleanup // For generation of core file signal(a, SIG_DFL); kill(getpid(), a); } But When I run a multi threaded program, the core file seems to point to a place completely …

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I am trying to open gmemusage in a specific workspace using perl; however, gmem doesn't accept the -xrm parameter. Is ther another method that can use to accomplish this? #!/usr/bin/perl #use strict; $ENV{DISPLAY} = "$1:0.0"; #system('xlogo -xrm "*workspaceList: Two"'); #<--- This works system('gmemusage -xrm "*workspaceList: Two"'); #<--- This does not …

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Can someone tell me how to get the linux live cd on my usb, i already have virtual box installed..........Thanks

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I How can I get the output from grep into a variable? In the following program I've tried the SSID line two ways but I am not getting what I want. `SSID=$(grep) ${FILE} -o empty-ssid` Gives me this garrett@bedroom ~/Desktop/folder/project $ ./testScript.sh ../OLD-172.28.50.30-system.cfg Usage: grep [OPTION]... PATTERN [FILE]... Try 'grep …

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How can I open an application on a specific workspace using the terminal in UNIX? **** I cannot use any external addons like Devil's Pie ****

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I have prepared over a dozen USB thumb drives with various Linux distros only to have each of them fail to successfully boot. Some of the techniques I have used: - I have verified the integrity of the iso images that I have downloaded (pgp signatures, hashes, etc). - I …

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I am trying to install ossec on a centos 6.4 machine but only repo which have .rpm file are from atomicrepo but then installing it require to upgrade my mysql I am reluctant to do it so I have used mock to rebuild and manage to yum install later from …

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I use Linux & Rhythmbox to manage my iPod but that is blocking me from being able to use the .aax audio book file from audible.com The .aax files work well with iTunes but since I don't use iTunes anymore I'm kinda out of luck. I could manually place the …

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I have an old system with P4 processor, 1.12gb ram, 40 gb hdd (of which maybe 10 gb is in bad sectors) which was running Windows XP. I wanted to experiment with it. So, I installed Ubuntu 13.04 on it and completely removed windows xp. According to the [system requirements](https://help.ubuntu.com/13.04/serverguide/preparing-to-install.html) …

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I'm using LinuxMint 15. I'm getting the following errors when I tried to install the AMD CATALYS 13.1 Legacy driver. Any ideas what's wrong and what I can do? garrett@garrett-bedroom ~ $ cat /usr/share/ati/fglrx-install.log Detected a previous installation, /usr/share/ati/amd-uninstall.sh Dryrun uninstall succeeded continuing with installation. Check if system has the …

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Sorry for the painfully specific question. My company's policy dictates that we have to acquire dependencies from commercial sources. Does anyone know if RH has TKinter available for download anywhere on the site? I can not find it and unfortunately I cannot access their FTP site either.

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I've been trying all day to find a way to duel boot Windows 8 and Ubuntu. None of the google links I read seem to work on my computer. My computer has two internal hard drives, Widows 8 is installed on the first drive c:. The second hard drive has …

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Hi everyone I want to make an ad-hoc network so that I can share the Internet connection from my laptop with my mobile phone . I watched some videos about this but non of them works . Can anyone help me please ? Thanks in advance .

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I have a snippet of code that works when used in its own .sh file: #! /bin/bash LastFileUpdate=`find $dir -name $SearchString -type f -printf '%T@ %p\n' | sort -n | tail -n 1| awk '{print $1}'` echo $LastFileUpdate This code works on its own, but when I insert it into …

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hi...i want to learn cluster concept so any one guide me...i need pdf or other materials to learn cluster.

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Hi, I have my linux VPS with cpanel / cent OS. I want to use my server for Live TV streaming. For this i have install Flash Media Live encoder on my PC, then i need rtmp configurations on the linux end, i install nginx to configure rtmp but failed, …

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Please take a look at my fstab below. I'm trying to mount the HD stb onto /home/garrett/ but I don't know waht options I should choolse. Thanks for any and all replies. # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass> proc /proc …

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I just installed Ubuntu 13.04 on a clean 1.5 TB drive. I have a two drives connected to my machine: 1 runs Windows 7 and the other is now loaded with Ubuntu. Installation went fine as far as I could tell, followed prompts and left all settings alone, accepting whatever …

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Hello! So I decided I wanted to try some CGI... and it's not working out well at the moment, any help would be greatly appreciated! So essentially in my 000-default virtual host config file I have this: <VirtualHost *:80> ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost DocumentRoot /home/apott/www <Directory /> Options FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None </Directory> …

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From my Ubuntu Linux system I ran rsync copying all the directories and files from my Windows XP SP3 system to an removable USB disk. Then I upgraded from Windows XP SP3 to Windows 8 Pro and deleted many of the files which was backed up. Now I need to …

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I need to make a script run under my username each time the computer boots up. I have been told that the file I need is in the /etc/init.d/ directory but that's all I know. This script will not be service I shouldn't have to mess with all the 'S' …

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I am a Unix newbie trying to install Sqldeveloper on Ubuntu. I installed jave-7-openjdk. I ran the deb file and created the .sqldeveloper/ directory in my home folder. Next, I am supposed to run Sqldeveloper once from my termina. But when I sudo /opt/sqldeveloper/sqldeveloper.sh, it says command not found. Can …

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I am trying to replace a string with a part in it. It works in CYGWIN on Windows machine but when I try it in MAc it gives me error. WIN RESULT (works): $ cat lastVersion.txt 4.2.1.98/ $ sed -re 's/[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.([0-9]+).*/\1/' lastVersion.txt 98 MAC RESULT (does not work): ++ sed …

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Hi Can anyone explain me the following command. This may be a minor one, but, please do explain in detail. CHKTRANS=`echo ${0} | grep '/transforms/' | wc -l`

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Do have for Ubuntu any software for Windows Phone Lumia 720?

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Hey everyone I'm using Linux mint 14 , I have a problem with it the screen doesn't lock automatically after sometime passes without usig it . Also when I suspend the screen doesn't lock either . I want to make it lock after some time and when it suspend . …

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Hi I want to install stunnel in user mode. By user mode I mean that I have created a user using adduser xyz. Now when I run the ps -aef | grep stunnel .. it should show in xyz and not in root. One school of thought was to use …

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Hi, In Virtual Box I've installed Fedora 17 and setup LAMP development environment. I've set the static ip to access the localhost and the applicaions/projects. Now I would like to configure it as to access them using the static IP from the host machine (Windows 7 OS). How can I …

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please tell me the commands to install various files in linux

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