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I see a pop up that says

Share Files over the Network

This feature cannot be enabled because the required packages are not installed on your system

Simple enough, but what packages do I need?

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mummey
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what worked for me was install Apache2. Just install a LAMP server (or just apache) --

sudo apt-get install apache2

Then it should work just fine.

In 16.04 the change is from

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to

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    He is not trying to share it via HTTP. He is trying to share it like in windows. In this case the answer by jrg is the correct one. – Luis Alvarado Oct 24 '11 at 00:56
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    Apparently apache2 is required for the Ubuntu's file sharing feature to work. – brianpeiris Sep 22 '13 at 03:45
  • Using 16.04 here. I have first installed samba (and dependencies using synaptic) to no effect. I then apache2, again delegating to synaptic; it then activated the network activities. I have edited the post above to display the change in the Personal File Sharing Preference dialogue window (pending moderator's approval) – XavierStuvw Oct 26 '19 at 11:48
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When you share files over the network in Ubuntu, you use samba - so you'll need to run sudo apt-get install samba and then try sharing the folder again.

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  • Not necessarily...I'd suggest NFS for a pure Linux environment. Though, AFAIK Samba is default choice of Ubuntu. – Bobby Feb 01 '11 at 21:41
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    Personally I would also install smbfs and system-config-samba packages the first makes it possible to create permanent mounts through fstab and the last is an admin config app for your own shares which will make it easier to setup and modify your own shares plus my own shares wouldn't show up on a vista machine until I had shared them using the Samba config. – Allan Feb 02 '11 at 12:09
  • @Allan True.

    @Bobby Yeah. Samba isn't necessarily the best way to do this, but it's the default choice.

     – jrg Feb 02 '11 at 12:16