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A tool to measure signal strength of wireless

I want to know if there exists any command line option or GUI tool (Ubuntu 11.10) so that I can measure the strength of wireless signal at a given location. I have a house where the wireless is not easily accessible at all corners I want to know at…
Registered User
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clamav - ERROR: /var/log/clamav/freshclam.log is locked by another process?

I have installed clamav and I want to to update the files that it uses to identify viruses: $ sudo freshclam ERROR: /var/log/clamav/freshclam.log is locked by another process ERROR: Problem with internal logger (UpdateLogFile =…
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Converting mp4 to mp3

I have a video I need to convert to mp3 (from the command line - not GUI): video.mp4 I tried: ffmpeg -i -b 192 video.mp4 video.mp3 with no success. I get the following error: WARNING: library configuration mismatch Seems stream 0 codec frame rate…
aki
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How can I determine which fonts are installed from the command line, and what is the easiest way to install more?

There are many questions and answers regarding fonts on Ubuntu, but not so many dealing with Ubuntu for Embedded Linux, such as Beaglebone Black. I have not been able to locate any .ttf files in standard locations on my system, and I think that…
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How do you set the timezone for crontab?

I have set up ACPI wakeup so my laptop wakes up at a certain time each morning. The timezone for this is UTC. I want to set up my crontabs also using UTC so they fit with the wakeup alarm. How do you do it? I've tried editing /etc/default/cron to…
alj
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Get absolute path of files using 'find' command

Is there a way to get absolute path of a file that is being searched? For example: find .. -name "filename" It gives me results like ../filename but I want the full path. What I need is to find in the parent directory and its children, for a…
JorgeeFG
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How can I control HDD spin down time?

I have 2 HDDs in my PC. Ubuntu is turning off the secondary HDD very quickly after about 15 minutes, which is short for me. I need to control this time. How can I do it? I tried GNOME power management but did not find it useful.
user16295
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How to remove wine completely

How can I remove the wine folder and all the applications in that folder? I've tried via synaptic but it keeps showing up in the application menu.
peter
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How do I find out the name of the SSID I'm connected to from the command line?

Neither iwconfig nor iwlist seem to be able to do this for me.
John Baber-Lucero
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How do I install Adobe Flash player?

I have had significant problems with watching flash video in 64-bit Ubuntu. Does anyone know of a good way to get flash running on the platform?
Steven Oxley
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How to give snaps access to /somedir

I'm just getting my feet wet with snap. I've installed vlc and want to try to use it. All my media is installed under /store , an NFS mount. And snaps don't allow access to that directory. After googling I've come to understand that I can access…
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Systemd logs (`journalctl`) are too large and slow

My journalctl is keeping over 300 MB of logs as revealed by journalctl --disk-usage . Everything appears to be in order when I run journalctl --verify : $ journalctl --disk-usage Archived and active journals take up 328.0M on disk. $ journalctl…
WinEunuuchs2Unix
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Coolest looking terminal IRC client

I am looking for a IRC client for the terminal that has colors, user list and just generally looks awesome ;) Any recommendations? There are loads of IRC clients in the repositories and I don't want to download them all to find the best one.
Isaiah
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Can I smoothly upgrade from one LTS to next LTS release?

Question is about Ubuntu release process. Are migrations from n to n+1 releases expected? Assuming we have server with installed Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. Will it be smoothly upgradable to Ubuntu 16.04 LTS via apt-get upgrade ? Assumptions: scope is…
Grzegorz Wierzowiecki
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How do I disable 'Activities' hot corner in GNOME shell?

GNOME shell has the so-called feature "hot corner", that opens the dashboard if the mouse touches the top-left corner of a monitor screen. I want this disabled I used to have a GNOME shell extension, yet the repository is not found anymore: git…
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