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network manager says "device not managed"

I used to be able to share my network connection by editing the Auto Eth0 to share with other computers in the Ipv4 section and now I upgraded my laptop to 11.10 . Now are there no wired connections in the network manager. When I click my…
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How to install Android Studio on Ubuntu?

Please tell me the full process of installing Android Studio and its necessary dependencies.
aminul haque
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Repeat a command every x interval of time in terminal?

How can I repeat a command every interval of time , so that it will allow me to run commands for checking or monitoring directories ? There is no need for a script, i need just a simple command to be executed in terminal.
user239745
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Screen Share Not working in Ubuntu 22.04 (In all platforms zoom, teams, google meet, anydesk , etc.,)

Ubuntu 22.04 has a bug which is we can't share our screen on any platforms.
Arun Raja
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Opening the file browser from terminal

What's the command to open the file browser? I want it so that I can assign a keyboard shortcut to open a specific folder.
Jon Doe
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How to remove the password from a PDF?

I have a password protected PDF file. I know the password but in order to share the file, I have to remove the password from the PDF and share an unprotected copy. How can I do this in Ubuntu with or without the GUI?
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How to remove a repository?

Please let me know how to remove certain repositories in Ubuntu 11.04. I am getting the following errors while updating. sudo apt-get update Err http://ppa.launchpad.net natty/main Sources 404 Not Found Err…
samarasa
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How to see Login history?

Is it possible to see the login history, i mean to see if someone has used the computer in my absence and when he used it . if it is possible, where can i get the log ? if not, is there a program that logs all the logins and their time ?
Dzero
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"autoreconf: not found" error during making qemu-1.4.0

I was ./configure'd the qemu-1.4.0 and during make it cause: (cd /home/amin/Simulate/qemu-1.4.0/pixman; autoreconf -v --install) /bin/sh: 1: autoreconf: not found make: *** [/home/amin/Simulate/qemu-1.4.0/pixman/configure] Error 127 Now, I can't…
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How to install psql without Postgres?

I need the psql command line tools, but I don't need the actual Postgres RDBMS. This is to work with a package which supports a psql interface. Is it possible to install just psql? (Ubuntu 16.04)
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How to grep for tabs without using literal tabs and why does \t not work?

When I search for tabs in a file with (e)grep I use the litteral tab (^v + ). I can not utilize \t as a replacement for tabs in regular expressions. With e.g. sed this expression works very well. So is there any possibility to use a…
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How to permanently switch Caps Lock and Esc

How can I permanently switch the Caps Lock and Esc key functions in Saucy? I can use this command to do it temporarily (until reboot): /usr/bin/setxkbmap -option "caps:swapescape" I tried adding that command as a Startup Application, but it doesn't…
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E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages

I am using Ubuntu 13.04 which I installed few days back. I am trying to install nodejs and npm. I tried to install from command line first and then uninstalled it. Then something broke. sudo apt-get install -f nodejs npm Reading package lists...…
John Qualis
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What is the difference between "systemctl start" and "systemctl enable"?

I installed MariaDB server to my machine. While setting up, I was met with the problem of whether I should have it enabled all the time, as the documentation I follow suggests with these steps: sudo yum install mariadb mariadb-server sudo systemctl…
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Error :: You must put some 'source' URIs in your sources.list

I'm trying to install PIL a python module on ubuntu I first need to install a package called python-imaging using the following command sudo apt-get build-dep python-imaging When I try and do this I get the error E: You must put some 'source'…
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