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How to fix "Package is in a very bad inconsistent state" error?

I can't update my system because it freezes while installing a third-party update (zramswap-enabler)! Sometimes I get the following message in Update manager: Could not initialize the package information An unresolvable problem occurred while…
Benjamin Piller
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Mount an external drive at boot time only if it is plugged in

I've got an entry for an external harddrive in my fstab: UUID="680C0FE30C0FAAE0" /jgdata ntfs noatime,rw But sometimes this drive isn't plugged in at boot time. This leaves me half way through a boot, with a prompt to "Continue Waiting,…
Jeremy
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Keyboard shortcut to move windows between monitors?

I remember there used to be a setting under Compiz that set a keyboard shortcut for moving applications between physical (but combined as a single xscreen) screens, similar to moving between logical screens, like Ctrl-Alt-Shift-← / → / ↑ / ↓. Any…
Andrew Bolster
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How to restart samba server?

Sorry this is a little embarassing but I'm trying to set up my own server for the first time. I found great tutorial online. http://www.intac.net/build-your-own-server/ I'm stuck at the 2nd to last line of step 4. Apparently there is no samba…
user784637
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Using rsync with sudo on the destination machine

Having a problem that rsync does not set UID and GID as expected, my gut feeling is that rsync should be run as root on the destination machine. I can't login as root via SSH, since that's disabled for security purposes. The user on the destination…
Thomas Weller
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Creating a symlink from one folder to another with different names?

I have two folders, one of which is my webserver root. I want to link it to my project folder so that I can keep things up-to-date with Git. If I try to do this: ln -s /home/user/project /var/www/html The system creates a folder called project…
user991710
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How do I check whether a module is installed in Python, and install it if needed?

In terminal, after I start Python, how will I know what are the modules present in python? Suppose I need to learn the modules NumPy and SciPy. How will I install it if it is not installed? How will I know if it is already installed?
sigdelsanjog
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Ubuntu 14.10 does not install in virtualbox

I'm currently running Windows 8.1 x64 (a problem in itself that I can't change sadly ;-P) with the latest version of VirtualBox (4.3.18 r96516). I managed to get the server version up and running with no issues but I cannot get the desktop version…
MVit
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Configure proxy for APT?

I need to configure proxy. There wasn't apt.conf file in /etc/apt/ so I've created it using nano. But I don't understand what I need to write there. I've written http_proxy = http://lgn:pwd@192.168.1.254:8080/ there and then restarted networking.…
lapots
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How to install OTF fonts?

I know how to install TrueType fonts (by copying them to /usr/share/fonts/truetype and doing sudo fc-cache -f) but what about OTF formats? I didn't find a suitable folder to copy them to.
Behzadsh
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How do I change the default text editor?

How can I change my default text editor from gedit to Emacs?
Olivier Lalonde
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How to enable the hibernate option in Ubuntu 20.04?

I tried different options to enable hibernation in Ubuntu 20.04 but nothing is working. How can I enable the hibernate option in Ubuntu 20.04?
Rajesh
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Where is the suspend/hibernate button in GNOME Shell?

In 17.04 I could suspend\hibernate from the power off menu button. I can't find how to do this in Ubuntu 17.10 GNOME Shell.
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installing pip3 (for python3) on ubuntu 16.04 LTS using a proxy

I have tried entering: sudo apt install python3-pip The error I get is: $ sudo apt install python3-pip Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following additional packages will be…
Abisdad
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Reload bash's .profile without logging out and back in again

Is it possible to coerce bash to reload the .profile file without logging out and back in again?
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