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How can I download an entire website?

I want to download a whole website (with sub-sites). Is there any tool for that?
UAdapter
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How to prevent my screen from either dimming or the screen-lock starting when watching YouTube?

My screen brightness used to dim after a few seconds to preserve battery. This is default in Ubuntu 12.04. However when watching video it should not dim. This works correctly when I watch videos using native applications like VLC. With in-browser…
Steven Roose
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MongoDB Install Fails on Ubuntu 22.04 - Depends on libssl1.1 but it is not installable

Here are the standard installation instructions from the website: wget -qO - https://www.mongodb.org/static/pgp/server-5.0.asc | sudo apt-key add - echo "deb [ arch=amd64,arm64 ] https://repo.mongodb.org/apt/ubuntu focal/mongodb-org/5.0 multiverse"…
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How do I create a completely unattended install of Ubuntu?

I need a CD or USB stick, that will install Ubuntu on a completely headless machine. Stick CD in and restart, no keyboard or screen should be involved. There are a few obstacles: The language selection menu when you first boot the CD. The fact that…
Elazar Leibovich
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How to run .sh file

Possible Duplicate: How do I run .sh files in Terminal? I want to download JDownloader from the internet for Linux. But the file is .sh and when I tell ubuntu to open the file it uses some text editor. I searched Ubuntu Software Store and there was…
Atladica
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How to launch application as root from Unity Launcher?

Mainly I am looking for a way to pin an application to the Unity launch bar, and run it as root. Currently, even if I start the application with sudo, and pin it after it starts, it will start as current user next time. Sad, but there is no context…
sorin
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Turn off error sound on Ubuntu 18.04

How do I turn off the Ubuntu error sound (especially on the terminal) in Ubuntu 18.04?
sam
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Firefox Middle Mouse Button Scroll

How can I get the middle mouse button to behave correctly in Ubuntu? Clicking the middle button does not show the arrow which allows me to scroll the page by moving the mouse. Information: Firefox 3.6.8 Mouse: Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer 3.0
The Pixel Developer
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How to change default user in WSL Ubuntu bash on Windows 10

I installed the WSL Bash on Windows 10 and set my user to e.g. 'abc' but now I want to change it to something else. How can I change the user name of the user I'm logged in as? When I open bash it automatically logs me in with my current user.
mlevit
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Is it possible to stop .sudo_as_admin_successful being created?

Every time I execute a command with sudo , a file called .sudo_as_admin_successful is created in my home directory. As far as I can tell, this exists for the sole purpose of disabling this message that bash prints on startup: To run a command as…
ash
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How do I enable full-color support in Vim?

I have a lovely Vim colorscheme ( xoria256 ) and it looks brilliant in GVim, but when I use normal vim in Terminal, the colorscheme is only partially supported -- for example, the default semi-transparent aubergine background color is used. How do I…
David Siegel
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How do I enable auto-login in LightDM?

I want user foo to auto-login using LightDM (which has been used by Ubuntu since version 11.10). How would I do that?
htorque
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What does "chmod +x " do and how do I use it?

I want to write the Ubuntu analogue of a "batch file" (a shell script). But I don't know how to use chmod +x filename command to make it so that the script can be run. Nor do I know where to use it.
user265696
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How to successfully restart a network without reboot over SSH?

In Ubuntu 14.04 neither sudo service networking restart nor sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart do anything any more. They also both exit with code 1. Something has obviously changed (or half changed) but I can't find what. This obviously causes…
SimonJGreen
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What does "No bootable medium found" mean in VirtualBox?

I have recently been trying to install VirtualBox, when this message came up: No bootable medium found! Can somebody please tell me what went wrong?
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