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Why have both /mnt and /media?
It seems to me that having both /mnt and /media is a little redundant. Is there any tangible difference between the two that I'm not aware of? Is there a standard that most people follow for where to mount things, e.g. use one for certain types of…
goric
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What is the terminal command to take a screenshot?
What command(s) can I use in the terminal that's equivalent to the PrtSc (Print Screen) button? I am running Ubuntu GNOME.
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How can I change the default audio device from command line?
Ubuntu's desktop gui is great for changing audio settings (System->Preferences->Sound), like the default input/output device and setting the volume. However, I would like to be able to do these things from the command-line. What tool is the gui…
paleozogt
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How do I change my timezone to UTC/GMT?
Currently when I execute the date command from bash I get the following displayed Thu May 17 12:21:00 IST 2012 Below is my timezone config based on executing dpkg-reconfigure tzdata Current default time zone: 'Europe/Dublin' Local time is now: Thu…
dmckenna
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What do the nomodeset, quiet and splash kernel parameters mean?
What do Kernel command line parameters (also also known as boot options) mean? When you go to Ubuntu (or better, GRUB) options, you have things like nomodeset , quiet and splash . What do these options mean? I am also interested in other parameters…
Star OS
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What is the "show desktop" keyboard shortcut?
I just upgraded to 11.10 from 11.04. Previously the shortcut to show the desktop was Super + D (same as in Windows), But now it is not working. What is the new shortcut?
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How to install Skype 4.3?
Note: The legacy Skype for Linux application (v4.*) is now discontinued and was removed from Canonical’s partner repositories, so this question and its answers are obsolete. Please refer to a newer answer of our canonical Skype installation question…
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How do I remove all files that match a pattern?
When I revert in Mercurial, it leaves several .orig files. I would like to be able to run a command to remove all of them. I have found some sources that say to run: rm **/*.orig But that gives me the message: rm: cannot remove `**/*.orig': No such…
JD Isaacks
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How to add a PPA on a server?
The server version of Ubuntu does not have the add-apt-repository command. How can I add a Personal Package Archive (PPA) to the server without this command?
Luis Alvarado
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What is the difference between `ssh -Y` (trusted X11 forwarding) and `ssh -X` (untrusted X11 forwarding)?
What is the difference between ssh -Y (trusted X11 forwarding) and ssh -X (untrusted X11 forwarding)? As far as I have understood it, it has something to do with security, but I did not grasp the difference and when to use which.
Martin Ueding
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What is the difference between Hibernate and Suspend
Logout, Restart and Shutdown are all self explanatory to me. What are the differences between Suspend and Hibernate on the shutdown menu?
Richard Holloway
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How to determine whether a process is running or not and make use it to make a conditional shell script?
How can I determine if a process is running or not and then have a bash script execute some stuff based on that condition? For example: if process abc is running, do this if it is not running, do that.
Nirmik
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Pip is not working: ImportError: No module named 'pip._internal'
Running pip or pip3 results with: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/myuser/.local/bin/pip", line 7, in <module> from pip._internal import main ImportError: No module named 'pip._internal' I had issues with this, and uninstalled pip3,…
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After modifying /etc/hosts which service needs to be restarted?
After modifying /etc/hosts , which service(s) need(s) to be restarted for the change to take effect?
Ashish Karpe
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How do I install svn?
I am trying to install svn and am running into issues. The command I am running is sudo apt-get install svn . When I run this, I get the error "Unable to locate package svn". Why is this? How do I fix it?
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