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Steam not opening in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

I have never used Ubuntu or any other Linux OS before last Friday. For all I know, I might have installed Ubuntu wrong and be missing a component. I would prefer if you use simplest terminology possible, but I'm OK with doing a bit of googling if…
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How can I install a package without installing some dependencies?

I'm trying to install the package LaTeXila, and the output looks like this: $ sudo apt-get install latexila --no-install-recommends Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following extra packages…
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How to Display Hidden Characters in vim?

How can I configure vim to display hidden characters like tabs or spaces ONLY while those characters are typed? I do not want tabs and/or space replaced with special characters like ">" or "_" when the file is written.
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How to disable wireless from command line

How do you disable the wireless Internet from the command line? I tried sudo ifconfig eth1 down but network-manager seems to ignore this and keeps trying to reactivate it. What's worse is the network-manager widget doesn't let you disable it either…
Cerin
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How to `touch` files recursively?

I need to change the timestamp of about 5000 files. Typing touch file1.txt , touch file2.txt will take me forever. Is there a way to do something in the lines of touch -R * ?
Unamata Sanatarai
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Terminal autocomplete doesn't work properly

If I start typing a command like apt-g after hitting tab , the shell completes the command to apt-get , but for the second part of the command like install , if I enter some characters like insta , hitting tab , doesn't complete it to install .…
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Making Ctrl+C copy text in gnome-terminal?

Is it possible for me to make Ctrl + C perform a copy command if there is highlighted text in the terminal? Otherwise, it should retain its normal behavior. (If there is a terminal that can do this other than gnome-terminal, that's probably fine…
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How to do: underline, bold, italic, strikethrough, color, background, and size in Gnome Terminal?

How to do: underline, bold, italic, strikethrough, and color in Gnome Terminal? Bold Italic u̲n̲d̲e̲r̲l̲i̲n̲e̲ s̶t̶r̶i̶k̶e̶ ̶i̶t̶ ̶l̶i̶k̶̶e̶ ̶i̶t̶s̶ ̶h̶o̶t Color background font < (its mono if you couldn't tell) size
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Error message 'source: not found' when running a script

I am creating a little automated setup script that will modify /etc/profile and $HOME/.profile if some paths are not exported. Then, I'd like to reload these automatically. I have read that source does this, so I fired up my terminal and entered:…
Yanick Rochon
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How to save AlsaMixer settings

Hello I have tried out the program "EarCandy", now I had/have a lot of problems. At first I did not get any sound and now it is very low volume. PS Earcandy is now deleted from my hard disk. When I open the Alsamixer with: alsamixer I see that the…
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How can I find duplicate photos?

What can I use to find duplicate photos, including photos that have been resized?
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Terminal command with sudo takes a long time

I noticed that the terminal recently becomes too slow when I execute a command that needs my password. It takes some seconds to display [sudo] password for ... I'm using Dell XPS developer edition (i7,8G RAM) with Ubuntu 13.04 64bit.
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How to inspect outgoing HTTP requests of a single application?

My application is sending HTTP requests to some server and I want to see the actual data that it is sending out. Some specifics I would like to see: Request method (GET/POST/PUT, etc.) Content-type Body What is the best and simple way to accomplish…
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Gconf, Dconf, Gsettings and the relationship between them

I'm trying to understand how Gconf, Dconf and Gsettings works and what the relationship is between them. All I know is: Gconf - XML based database (backend system). The older one. Dconf - BLOB based database (backend system). The newer one.…
idgar
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What is dconf, what is its function, and how do I use it?

Mark Shuttleworth recently blogged about the decision to include the Qt libraries in the 11.10 release, with a followup from Jono Bacon. Mark states that the biggest challenge to integrating apps written in Qt into the larger Ubuntu system is Qt's…
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