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Ubunu failed to login to desktop and shows black screen command [closed]
am a Mac user and i downloaded Virtual Box version 7, and SEED Ubuntu 16.04 works just fine, but after i logged out from system and came back again to login, it fails then it displays a black Screen ...
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How to add internet speed meter in ubuntu 22.04
I read so many articles and steps for doing it. I have a doubt that doing that steps will bring virus to my ubuntu.can you please guide me how to install internet speed meter in 100% secure way
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how to copy a file to another file in separate directories?
So I have created to vm's with the ubuntu 16.04 version. I'm trying to copy my public key into the authorized_keys file, how I have done this is with the command cp id_rsa.pub home/vagrant/.ssh/ I ...
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I removed ZSH and the HUD is disappeared
I uninstalled zsh on my Ubuntu 16.04 and I made the mistake of not changing the shell. I tried with:
chsh -s /bin/bash
to restore the default shell, because I cannot login in the root shell of the ...
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Launch a set of codes from a single bash file
I'm working on Ubuntu OS, I want to make a single bash file which runs this code correctly as it shows in the screenshots.
Please notice that :
I want to launch two terminals in a single terminal ...
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Is it possible to restore missing Documents directory in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Desktop computer?
I have been running a tool which is saved in the Documents directory of my desktop computer. Suddenly my computer became unresponsive. So I pressed Ctrl+Alt+Delete and then restarted the computer. ...
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Ubuntu 16.04 boots without console access or options
Machine:
An older dell optiplex. It has ubuntu 16.04 as the only OS installed on it. The machine uses UEFI.
Problem:
I upgraded packages via apt to get the latest version of a system library needed on ...
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Unable to perform tasks on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS terminal
I have this weird problem that whenever I type any command on the terminal, I am interrupted by ^[[2~^[[2~^[[2~ and on the other hand whenever I press Shift it copies data from browser or any texts ...
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How to correctly install LibreOffice using FlatPak to have libreoffice command in $PATH environment variable?
I have just removed deb-packages of LibreOffice from my Ubuntu 16.04 LTS system with
sudo apt purge --auto-remove $(dpkg -l | grep "^ii libreoffice" | awk '{print $2}')
To replace it with ...
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20.04 provides only 4 usable character screens (vs 6 on 16.04)
20.04 provides only 4 usable character screens (vs 6 on 16.04)
On 20.04 the login/GUI screen is on F2, F1 login/prompt to another GUI screen
and F7 is unusable, so I only have 4 character login ...
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Didn't type password into CLI with ChromeOS, now I can't do any commands in Ubuntu [duplicate]
I recently installed Ubuntu 16.04 with Chroot and CLI on ChromeOS. When I was prompted to answer a password, I hit Enter (without typing a password) and when I try to do commands it asks for a ...
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Cannot Install nor remove from ubuntu 16.04.7
After running a latest update and upgrade the PC doesn't allow to install nor update giving me error
[sudo] password for velukutty:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
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Updating Zoom in the terminal
Like many people around the world, my life has moved entirely online through videocalling platforms like Zoom.
Most of my software updates automatically through the terminal when I run
$ sudo apt-get ...
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can't pass sudo password [duplicate]
I can't do anything. Whenever I use "sudo", I receive "sorry, try again". I need to install gcc. Can anyone help me?
To run a command as administrator (user "root") use ...
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Show Raw Contents of update-alternatives
I'm wondering if there's a way to show the raw contents of sudo update-alternatives --config <resource>?
I've been doing quite a lot of troubleshooting getting some installs correct and I cannot ...
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I got 404 error when try to install chrome on ubuntu 16.04
when I ran this command to install google chrome browser on ubuntu 16.04:
$ wget https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb
I got this error:
https://dl.google.com/...
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Terminal command to gracefully shutdown Ubuntu
I am looking for a terminal command to gracefully shutdown Ubuntu. Right now I am using
sudo shutdown -h now
It seems however that this is the cause for some file system corruptions which can only ...
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Tab autocomplete in bash does not work for directories but does work for programs Ubuntu 16.04
I'm getting the same message each time I try and [TAB] to autocomplete into a directory:
test being the directory within var/www/html
# hitting [TAB] after typing 'test'
$ ll test-bash: cannot create ...
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Error configuring static routing using cli
I'm trying to add a static route on my Ubuntu Desktop 16.04 machine with the cli, but with no success. I'm using the classic ip route command: ip route add x.x.x.0/24 via y.y.y.y dev eno1 (hid the ...
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Grant all users access to a folder (including new files)
I've got a task running to take files from a share on one server and move them to a share on another server. However, I receive permissions errors when trying to move .new files in the source share ...
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set correct version of ubuntu
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my system thinks it's supposed to download packages for bionic even though I am still on xenial. I can't upgrade from xenial to bionic, because I should first upgrade all available packages. ...
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How to permanently disable proxies from terminal in Ubuntu 16.04?
I tried to unset the proxies using unset all_proxy && unset ALL_PROXY && unset socks_proxy && unset http_proxy && unset https_proxy && unset ftp_proxy command, ...
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Upload newly installed graphics drivers from command line, and switch afterwards
Using Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.
I have installed the nvidia driver recommended by [1] using the nvidia graphics ppa [2] but the computer freezes if I log out of my profile;
not even a Ctrl+Alt+Function key ...
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“dev/sda1: clean, …” This message appears after I reboot the pc
After rebooting my Ubuntu, I get this message:
/dev/sda4: clean, 693755/24805376 files, 11233563/99206912 blocks
I reached Command Line by pressing Ctrl + Alt + F2 or F3, I tried:
sudo apt-get ...
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Windows 10 Ubuntu WSL freezes randomly
I have installed Ubuntu Windows-Subsystem-for-Linux through Microsoft Store on my Windows 10 laptop, but it freezes randomly, for example when I run a command such as ls -l, gcc -o or even when the ...
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Attempting to Decrypt an AES-256-CBC Encrypted File but Decryption Password isn't known
I am trying to decrypt a password protected file that was encrypted using AES-256-CBC, but the password to decrypt the file has been forgotten.
In this simulation, I do know the password is a ...
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Error: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg exited unexpectedly on apt-get install with no error
I'm attempting to install unzip on Ubuntu 16.04.2. It takes a long time on the line (Reading database... with the percentage updating
I keep receiving the following output:
Reading package lists... ...
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usermod -d /home (user) makes a login loop on the user
I am using Ubuntu 16.04
I am in the root user and typed the command:
usermod -d /home test
I believe this changes the default location of test's home directory to /home. But then when I log into ...
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Puppeteer on Ubuntu 16.04 doesn't work
Is it possible to run Puppeteer on Ubuntu Server 16.04? I get this error.
(node:23213) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Error: Failed to launch the browser process!
/root/bin/node_modules/puppeteer/...
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Trying to setup Ceph
I am trying to set up Ceph on my Ubuntu server for my Dissertation work.
I'm trying to set things up so that the Ceph user can access all the Ceph nodes without needing a password, however my ...
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16.04: Terminal doesn't open by clicking on icon, ctrl-alt-t, or gnome-terminal in xterm [duplicate]
Hi I am a beginner in using Ubuntu (16.04) and I recently installed new libraries for python3 Tensorflow, pandas, and a couple others. However, I lost the ability to open terminal using Ctrl+Alt+T, ...
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Something is wrong with the locks on my PC at work
I'm using Ubuntu 16.04. Whenever I try to run most of the programs I get an error related to locks. Even when I open a terminal window I get an error related to locking.
For example, when I open a ...
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MAN pages are not displaying properly
man ls command output
My man pages are not displaying properly in Ubunut 16.04
The command line arguments are not displaying, instead of them comma is being displayed as shown in attached image above....
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Keyboard interrupt stops working after a while
Sometimes, after a while running processes and different commands in a terminal tab, the tab stops reacting to Ctrl+C. It simply prints ^C but does not interrupt.
Other tabs do handle interrupt ...
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Postgresql drop role command not working
drop role command not working in my postgresql 11. I can't delete the role named 'ckdev' .
Role name | Attributes | Member of
-----------+------------...
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-bash: syntax error near unexpected token '('
I am trying to run this command:
java -jar -XX:-TieredCompilation node_modules/google-closure-compiler/compiler.jar --flagfile="/tmp/499a750e-98bc-4afa-b333-fb08fa71351e" --js=/home/ubuntu/santa-...
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Make command doesn't execute but Makefile.am existed
I have been using Ubuntu (16.04) for only a week at most and I am still learning (with lots of confusion) on using the terminal.
So right now I am following a tutorial for TensorFlow YOLO tutorial on ...
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curl in bash script adds ? at end of the file name
I'm on Ubuntu 16.04, and I have a bash script with a curl command, for example:
#!/bin/bash
curl https://www.example.com/file.txt > ./file.txt
The file should be downloaded with the name file.txt ...
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what is the script-able equivalent to the user command "apt list --installed"?
I can do these commands nicely on the command line of my Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial) installation:
apt list --installed
apt list --installed | grep grep
Stdout receives the results and also this line:
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How to prevent terminal title changing after ssh
I use one of the many solutions to set the terminal title:
Function in .bashrc:
function set-title() {
if [[ -z "$ORIG" ]]; then
ORIG=$PS1
fi
TITLE="\[\e]2;$*\a\]"
PS1=${ORIG}${TITLE}
}
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python installed in another directory
I am using ubuntu 16.04. Ubuntu 16.04 comes with python2 and python3.5 and I wanted python3.7 so I followed some instructions from a site and installed python3.7 manually by compiling its files and ...
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How do I reload the boot set up for my Ubuntu install? bless?
How do I reload the boot set up for my Ubuntu install?
Macbook Pro 2009
OS X El Capitan
Ubuntu 16.04
This computer was booting to Ubuntu, but stopped after a user was added in OS X.
Now it only ...
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mv Command Deleted Files In Source Directory and Target Directory
I ran the mv command to move two files, let's call them file_name_1, file_name_2.
The command I used was:
mv file_name* /u/projects/lib
My assumption was that this would move both files into the lib ...
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Trying to install BetterDiscord and this happens
So I'm on Discord and somebody was mentioning installing BetterDiscord on their Win10 PC. So I check if it can be installed on my Ubuntu 16.04 computer.
I was following this tutorial: https://www....
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Suddenly Unable to Launch Terminal
I am using Ubuntu 16.04 and everything had been working fine with the terminal until very recently but now the shortcut (CTRL+ALT+T) and clicking on the terminal from the application menu do nothing. ...
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Terminal does not open in Ubuntu 16.04 with CTRL-ALT-T
I am using Ubuntu 16.04, and for some unknown reason I am not able to open a terminal with CTRL + ALT + T. When I press these keys, nothing happens.
I also tried to start a terminal from Dash, but ...
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vncserver won't run in a shell script executed with sudo
I have a shell script that installs several programs with sudo apt-get then opens vncserver, then installs more stuff.
This works:
#!/bin/sh
vncserver
>./my_script.sh
But this does not work:
#!...
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UBUNTU 16.04.6 not showing Dashboard, sidebars and menu bars
I am a regular user of Ubuntu 16.04.6. Recently, I was trying to install python3.6 and set this as default. But due some other package I had to remove this version. I uninstalled python3.6 and set ...
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apt-get reports "dpkg: cycle found while processing triggers"
In my other question about how to Suppress command line questions during package installation I found an answer. Unfortunately I'm already stuck with the next problem.
The apt-get command (to be more ...
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Surpress command line questions during package installation
I have an Ubuntu 16.04 based appliance in which packages from the public repository are installed. But not directly using the public repository. Instead an update server is used which downloads the ...
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