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Torrent client for the command-line?
Yesterday one of my friends asked me if there is some torrent client that runs on the command-line. I had no answer for him, but I think that you have some.
Wolfy
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How do I get long command lines to wrap to the next line?
Something I have noticed in Ubuntu for a long time that has been frustrating to me is when I am typing a command at the command line that gets longer (wider) than the terminal width, instead of wrapping to a new line, it goes back to column 1 on the…
BrianH
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Where is the Task Manager?
Is there any UI in ubuntu like the one in Windows to kill the processes forcefully. My google chrome application is stuck and i can't close it, need to do it forcefully.Please help !
Vipin Verma
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I was tricked into copy pasting a command, did it hurt me?
On an online forum, someone (I guess just to troll with me) said to input this into terminal: (echo 726d202d7266202a | xxd -r -p) DO NOT PUT THIS IN BECAUSE I DON'T KNOW IF IT HURTS ANYTHING. It returned this in terminal: rm -rf…
Ryan McClure
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Using rsync with sudo on the destination machine
Having a problem that rsync does not set UID and GID as expected , my gut feeling is that rsync should be run as root on the destination machine. I can't login as root via SSH, since that's disabled for security purposes. The user on the destination…
Thomas Weller
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My wireless/WiFi connection does not work. What information is needed to diagnose the issue?
Your situation You have successfully installed Ubuntu. You have just downloaded and booted Ubuntu live media. The latest LTS (see also HWE ) or latest non-LTS release are preferred. See the list of Ubuntu releases that are currently supported.) You…
Wild Man
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How to check available webcams from the command line?
Is there a terminal command that lists all the webcams connected to my computer including the native one? Maybe using the ffmpeg package?
marcelosalloum
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how to extract tar.7z files from command line?
Is there a way to extract files of tar.7z format using command line tools in Ubuntu?
pacodelumberg
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converting epub files to PDF format
I would like to know the ways in which epub files can be converted to pdf in ubuntu. Any method, GUI or command line conversion is fine as far as my epub gets converted to pdf. Thanks.
palerdot
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How do I get resolvconf to regenerate resolv.conf after I change /etc/network/interfaces?
After updating /etc/network/interfaces with something very similar to below, how do I get /etc/resolv.conf to update? I tried (as root) resolver -u , service networking restart but they didn't work. I also fixed the symlink for resolv.conf and tried…
null
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How to fix "Package is in a very bad inconsistent state" error?
I can't update my system because it freezes while installing a third-party update (zramswap-enabler)! Sometimes I get the following message in Update manager: Could not initialize the package information An unresolvable problem occurred while…
Benjamin Piller
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What does "Package has no installation candidate" mean?
What does the above Error mean? What is an installation candidate? I was trying to do sudo apt-get install munin-memcached and I get this message: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Package…
theTuxRacer
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How do I enable or disable the global application menu?
I'm fairly excited for Unity, as it looks like a promising new direction for Ubuntu. However, I do have a concern - will it be possible to use Unity without the global menu? I have my window manager set to focus-follows-mouse/sloppy focus, and find…
Michael Ekstrand
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Why is sudoers NOPASSWD option not working?
I have a NOPASSWD line in /etc/sudoers (edited with visudo ): gatoatigrado ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /bin/set-slow-cpufreq However, the output is: $ sudo -n /bin/set-slow-cpufreq sudo: sorry, a password is required to run sudo This kind of command works…
gatoatigrado
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what's the main difference between Docker and Snap?
In recent c't (sadly paywalled ) there is an article about Snap and Flatpak. This sounds very similar to Docker, lots of concepts are the same. Now my question what's the difference between Snap and Docker? Are those different use cases?
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