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What PDF viewers are available for Ubuntu?
Every second e-mail I get suggests to download Adobe Acrobat reader, but adobe.com doesn’t provide a Linux version . Which PDF Viewer are there available for Ubuntu? I’m fine with partial solutions, a perfect match however would not only display PDF…
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How do I start/stop mysql server?
I tried to find in some articles describing how to correctly start & stop mysql server. I found this link: How to start/stop MySql server on Ubuntu 8.04 | Abhi's Blogging World I ran this command: /etc/init.d/mysql start but I see this error ERROR…
user471011
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How can I measure the execution time of a terminal process?
I'm trying to measure the execution time of a process that I call via the command line (i.e., I want to find out how long it takes to for the process to finish). Is there any command that I can add to the command calling the process that will…
user848635
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How do I stop Apache2 from automatically starting on boot?
How do I stop Apache2 from automatically starting on boot? I can't seem to find an option that disables the automatic start-up when I turn on the machine.
chip
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Ubuntu 16.04 ssh: sign_and_send_pubkey: signing failed: agent refused operation
I just upgraded my Ubuntu System from 15.10 to 16.04 by completely wiping the Ubuntu 15 partition from my system. After installing Ubuntu 16.04 I recreated my ssh keys as I forgot to back them up, but whenever I attempt to use ssh I get…
Lektonic
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How do I make my systemd service run via specific user and start on boot?
I just upgraded from Ubuntu server 14 to version 15. I had trouble getting my upstart script working after the upgrade, and read that systemd is the new default. I'm far from a linux expert, so please go easy on me :-) Here is what my upstart script…
void.pointer
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Can't format Ubuntu installation stick
I've made an USB installer stick from Windows with Ubuntu 16.04 LTS , now I'm trying to format it from Ubuntu. When I try to format I get this error : This partition cannot be modified because it contains a partition table; >please reinitialize…
Nephilim
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How to exclude multiple directories with rsync?
I am trying to backup my home directory using rsync, and I want to exclude some of the directories that contain junk. I want to specifically exclude /home/ben/.ccache and /home/ben/build . Unfortunately the documentation for rsync was information…
Freedom_Ben
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How do I enable the "Universe" repository?
How do I get to the Universe Repository in supported versions of Ubuntu?
Dr.C.Badrinathan
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Can I restart the KDE Plasma Desktop without logging out?
I'm just talking about the standard KDE desktop. After a while (many days) of running the task bar stops working properly. This is due to some sort of undiagnosed bug but that's really not my boggle at the moment. It's fixed as soon as I log out and…
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Uninstall GRUB and use Windows bootloader
I have Windows 8 pre-installed, and then I installed GRUB with Ubuntu. Ubuntu is not my thing, so now I want to remove it along with GRUB. From what I have learned, with UEFI, GRUB does not overwrite the windows bootloader in the EFI partition and…
mrolive
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How can I restart pulseaudio without having to logout?
Sometimes the pulseaudio service stops and it doesn't restart itself when I open an audio file with banshee or totem. How I can make pulseaudio start again without having to logout?
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How to understand the Ubuntu file system layout?
In Windows there’re perhaps only a couple of important folders (by important I mean important in my logical picture of the Windows file system) in the installation drive (in my case C:\ ). Namely Program Files and Windows . I simply stay away from…
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How do I kill processes in Ubuntu?
How do I kill all processes running by my own non-root account? I have some spinning smbd processes that I caused from my windows machine and so I telnetted into the linux server and I want to kill those spinning processes. I don't have authority to…
djangofan
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How to resize an image through the terminal?
I have Ubuntu 10.04. I have converted image through terminal using the following command: convert myfigure.png myfigure.jpg But I want to resize the height and width of the converted image. Is there any way to do this?
Md Kutubuddin Sardar
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