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What is the correct way to install proprietary ATI Catalyst Video Drivers (fglrx) directly from AMD?
I am planning on doing a fresh install of Ubuntu and want to know what is the correct way to install ATI Catalyst Video Driver? There are multiple valid answers for this question spanning over several versions of Ubuntu. For your convenience an…
stephenmyall
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Bash history handling with multiple terminals
I use mainly Terminator, and it's usually opened with 3 split terminal windows. I also use Gnome terminal for various reasons. I'm wondering how is bash history handled in this case as I sometimes miss previously issued commands when I run history…
zetah
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Wifi doesn't work after suspend after 16.04 upgrade
This particular version of the "doesn't work after suspend" came after upgrading to 16.04. It seems that the upgrade includes a Wicd applet (added to Metacity Classic Gnome task bar alongside regular network icon), but doesn't seem to work after a…
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Could not load 'vboxdrv' after upgrade to Ubuntu 16.04 (and I want to keep secure boot)
I upgrade from Ubuntu 15.10 to 16.04 and since then VirtualBox 5.0.18 isn't starting my VMs anymore. It complains that 'vboxdrv' isn't loaded. So I try to load it and get the following error: $ sudo modprobe vboxdrv modprobe: ERROR: could not insert…
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What are zombie processes?
With commands like top and the gui based System Monitor I can see that at the moment I have several zombie processes. What are zombie processes? Do they affect the performance of the system or the application they are zombie to. Do they use too much…
Jesper
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Best way to cache apt downloads on a LAN?
I have multiple Ubuntu machines at home and a pretty slow internet connection, and sometimes multiple machines need to be updated at once (especially during new Ubuntu releases.) Is there a way where only one of my machines needs to download the…
Ken Simon
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How to open a folder (with GUI) from terminal?
I want to place a link/shortcut/launcher in my unity panel (ubuntu 12.10). I followed this tutorial on handytutorial.com to create a custom launcher and drag it to the panel. I just need to know which command do I have to input. Is this possible?
Tiago
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How to fix missing GPG keys?
I have just installed Ubuntu 12.04 and I added some repo, and when I did apt-get update , I got missing gpg key. Following command seems to doesn't work for me: apt-get update 2> /tmp/keymissing; for key in $(grep "NO_PUBKEY" /tmp/keymissing |sed…
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How do I use 'chmod' on an NTFS (or FAT32) partition?
I have a script that I need to execute on an NTFS partition. The script's permission is set to 600. I attempted to modify the permissions by running chmod 755 script.sh , which doesn't report a failure or anything - but it also doesn't change the…
Nathan Osman
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Is Logitech's Unifying receiver supported?
Logitech has a Unifying receiver that you can add several devices using the same USB device. Is this supported in Ubuntu and if so do I have to additionally configure something so that when adding a new wireless device it gets recognized by the same…
Luis Alvarado
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Download files from a list
How can I download files (that are listed in a text file) using wget or some other automatic way? Sample file list: www.example.com/1.pdf www.example.com/2.pdf www.example.com/3.pdf
Sourav
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Process 'niceness' vs. 'priority'
When running top , I can see this (shortened) example output: PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 4586 ipc-adm+ 20 0 1303900 605152 92844 S 30,6 29,3 3:52.88 firefox 3985 ipc-adm+ 20 0 258588 124508 63072 S 12,2 6,0 0:40.04 compiz…
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Missing date & time applet from top Unity panel
I like Unity very much. Recently, I installed Compiz manager and Nautilus Elementary also then tried to Play. During some of my playing around, Unity's clock applet has vanished. I want to make it show the time again. How can I do this?
Dev
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How do I configure my DNS settings in Ubuntu server?
According to this page it appears to be simple. However, /etc/bind does not exist on the default installation of Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS server. So, without installing any further software, how can configure DNS and remove dnsmasq on ubuntu server? I am…
Asta-Risky
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