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This version of Ubuntu, code-named "Natty Narwhal", was released on Apr 28, 2011 and reached End-of-Life Oct 28, 2012. Questions about unsupported versions are likely to be closed as off-topic.

Code name: Natty Narwhal

Ubuntu Flavors available under 11.04 (questions on all are allowed):

The 11.04 Ubuntu variants - Mythbuntu, Ubuntu Studio, Xubuntu and Lubuntu - are not commercially supported by Canonical.

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Ubuntu 11.04 reached its end-of-life on October 28, 2012.

Questions on are considered off-topic since it had reached the end of life.

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how to use sudo command to install .tar.gz?

Possible Duplicate: How to install a .tar.gz (or .tar.bz2) file? I am newbie to ubuntu. I would like someone to explain how to use sudo command to unzip & install .tar.gz file to me.
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Where is /var/log/messages?

Just installed natty, and cannot find /var/log/messages. Also, /var/log/daemon.log is missing. What happened? Why are they no longer present? And where I can find the same log information?
John Ianadus
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after upgrade gdb won't attach to process

I just recently upgraded from 10.04 to 11.04 and gdb won't allow me to attach to processes anymore I get the error Attaching to process 10144 Could not attach to process. If your uid matches the uid of the target process, check the setting…
Andrew Redd
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How can I restart Compiz from a TTY? (& Related, how can I set up a fallback WM?)

I'm testing Natty, and Compiz keeps crashing on me. However, it doesn't always give me the option to restart Compiz, and for some reason doesn't have a fallback window manager(WM) configured. Without a WM, all my programs are still running, but…
Jonathan
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How do I disable the blinking cursor in gnome-terminal?

I could have sworn that there was once a setting for this in the gnome-terminal "Profile". And then in some version of Ubuntu, that setting disappeared, and I had to use System ➜ Preferences ➜ Keyboard to uncheck "Cursor blinks in text…
Nemo
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Why is Xorg taking up so much memory and CPU?

I recently reinstalled Ubuntu 11.04 Natty after a massive hard drive failure. Now, for some reason, compiz and Xorg decide it's a fun idea to start eating up my RAM and CPU - GB by GB. Starts out at normal amounts, but quickly balloons to 1-2+GB and…
Philippe Fenderson
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how to stop apache2, mysql from starting automatically as computer starts?

My os is 11.04. I have apache2 & mysql installed. How to stop apache2, mysql from starting automatically as computer starts?
Rahul Prasad
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How can I change brightness through terminal

Now I can change it by Fn+ arrow right but now I need to do it via my shell script
RiaD
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How to fix black tooltips in Eclipse?

I am having a weird problem with Eclipse documentation tooltips. When I startup Eclipse the tooltip works as expected: But after I press the down button the tooltip turns black: and stays like that for the rest of the session. I am using Eclipse…
Smotko
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Bash auto complete for environment variables

The bash autocomplete feature does not seem to work with environment variables in 11.04. The current behavior is indicated below export SCRIPT=/home/user/script cd $SCRIPT/ results in a backslash (\) being added before $SCRIPT i.e. the prompt…
nilchat
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How do I turn off the alt-shift-uparrow keybinding in GNOME?

After upgrading from 10.10 to 11.04, the key sequence ALT-Shift-UpArrow now seems to have a window-manager level definition. It seems that this is a new unity key sequence. However, I'm using "Classic Ubuntu" on login - i.e. I'm using Gnome.…
George McNinch
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NVIDIA drivers not working after upgrade. Why can I only see terminal?

Tonight I upgraded to 11.04. Problems. Once I had finished the upgrade, I restarted my computer as it told me too. When I got past the ubuntu 11.04 (purple background orange dots), it simply went to the terminal and asked me to log in. I tried to…
Sixthlaw
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Is there a way to blacklist an individual application from using overlay-scrollbars?

I am having problems with some programs when using overlay-scrollbars, mainly Code::Blocks and Eclipse. I've found several ways of disabling the overlay scrollbars completely, for all applications, but I like them and I don't want to do this. Is…
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How do I switch to the Classic GNOME Desktop?

Possible Duplicate: How to revert to GNOME Classic? How can I setup the Natty Classic Desktop to be "really" classic? I want to have the menus in the application window and I want to have the normal Gnome Menu with Applications, Places and…
burli
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How to install dot provided by graphviz?

How can install the package? I have to do a test dot -Tpng -o But while installing it fails. $ uname -a Linux GoogleKnockOuter 2.6.38-8-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Mon Apr 11 03:31:24 UTC 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux $ sudo apt-get…
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