Ask Ubuntu
Ask Ubuntu

Most Popular

more tags
1500 questions
214
votes
5 answers

How to Search for Files Recursively into Subdirectories

I am trying to look for all XML files in a particular directory and all sub-directories (recursively) inside it. ls -R *.xml is only listing files in the current directory. I am quite sure, the sub-folders themselves have several .xml files, but…
Shamim Hafiz - MSFT
  • 2,484
214
votes
3 answers

Whats the .local folder for in my Home Directory

What is the ~/.local folder good for and is it safe to remove the content within this folder?
Elitmiar
  • 2,745
214
votes
4 answers

How to make Gimp run as a single window?

Gimp is nice, but the one thing that drives me nuts is that everything floats around in front of each other, often hiding the main window and forcing me to minimize all open windows until I find the one floating window that I am looking for. I'd…
Torben Gundtofte-Bruun
  • 10,594
213
votes
14 answers

No more disk space: How can I find what is taking up the space?

I've run into a problem on one of my servers running 16.04: there is no disk space left. I have no idea what is taking up the space. Is there a command to list the current directory sizes, so I can traverse and end up in the directory taking up all…
Karl Morrison
  • 9,906
213
votes
13 answers

How can I update Visual Studio Code on Ubuntu?

I downloaded the .tar.gz version of VS Code for Ubuntu (64-bit) and have been able to run it smoothly for some time. Some extensions have been installed too. How can I efficiently update this VS Code installation? One thing I can think of is to just…
ramcrys
  • 2,231
  • 2
  • 11
  • 5
213
votes
11 answers

Annoying flickering in 16.04 LTS - Chrome

I've upgraded from 4.4.0 to 4.4.8 and then 4.5.2 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 64-bit, and it's still happening. At 4.5.2 it's even more frequent, and mainly in Chrome (haven't tried firefox or opera just yet). Every time I open a new web page. Any way to…
Mookey
  • 4,811
213
votes
16 answers

How do I open a text file in my terminal?

There is a file named RESULTS.txt and I want to open this file in my terminal. (I mean I want to see the file contents be displayed in the terminal and not in some text editor) How do I do that ?
Suhail Gupta
  • 323
213
votes
6 answers

dpkg error: "trying to overwrite file, which is also in..."

For example: $ sudo apt-get install curl Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these: The following packages have unmet dependencies: bsh :…
missingfaktor
  • 2,679
212
votes
7 answers

Where can I look up my update history?

Is there a place where I can look what updates I've installed?
vrcmr
  • 6,397
212
votes
11 answers

How do you set a default audio output device in Ubuntu?

Every time I boot up, I have to switch my audio output device to my "Line Out" headphones because for some reason my microphone defaults as a speaker. See this screenshot:
tiddlesticks
  • 2,223
  • 2
  • 10
  • 5
211
votes
6 answers

Any app on Ubuntu to open and/or convert HEIF pictures (.HEIC, High Efficiency Image File Format)?

A certain cellphone maker has changed the default format of taking pictures to HEIF (.HEIC, High Efficiency Image File Format), without asking the users (although there is still the option to use jpeg/jpg). Is there an app/program on Ubuntu that…
Filbuntu
  • 13,891
211
votes
7 answers

How to install Chrome browser properly via command line?

I am trying to install chrome browser via command line. I tried this: $ apt-cache search chrome browser The results show that the proper term is "chrome-browser," so I tried that: $ sudo apt-get install chrome-browser And then "Y" for the Y/n…
user33877
211
votes
6 answers

How to install many font files quickly and easily?

I need to install more than 100 fonts, so I was wondering if there is an easy way to do this task? I know you can opening every single one and pressing install font, but installing more then 100 fonts this way will be very time-consuming. In my…
Levan
  • 11,118
210
votes
7 answers

How to convert .mkv file into .mp4 file losslessly?

I need to convert a video file from Matroska container into mp4 container. Matroska file contains one h.264 video track and one AC3 sound track. It should be possible to do this losslessly, but how to do it with native Ubuntu tools? Transcoding is…
Seppo Erviälä
  • 5,825
210
votes
2 answers

29 packages can be updated - How?

I see the following message when I login: 29 packages can be updated. 6 updates are security updates. How can I perform the updates? I tried apt-get upgrade and some stuff was installed but the message still remains.
Gerve
  • 2,217
1 2 3
…
99 100