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I see a pop up that says

Share Files over the Network

This feature cannot be enabled because the required packages are not installed on your system

Simple enough, but what packages do I need?

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mummey
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what worked for me was install Apache2. Just install a LAMP server (or just apache) --

sudo apt-get install apache2

Then it should work just fine.

In 16.04 the change is from

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XavierStuvw
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Guthrie
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When you share files over the network in Ubuntu, you use samba - so you'll need to run sudo apt-get install samba and then try sharing the folder again.

jrg
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