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"Failure to download extra data files" after installing ttf-mscorefonts-installer
After fresh install 12.04 I && updating apt and system restart, I always get this annoying message after reboot :
Failure to download extra data files
The following packages requested additional data downloads after
package installation, but the…
armanke13
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How to install Ubuntu on VirtualBox?
I would like to know if anyone can help me with installing Ubuntu on VirtualBox
Chris
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How is Ubuntu different from Debian?
Ubuntu is a derivative of Debian. It uses the same package format.
In what ways is Ubuntu different from Debian?
Nathan Osman
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python-is-python3 package in Ubuntu 20.04 - what is it and what does it actually do?
Having used Ubuntu 18.04 for a handful of years now, and reading that Python 2 has been removed from Ubuntu 20.04, I was looking forward to using the commands python or pip rather than python3 or pip3. So today I tried Ubuntu 20.04 for the first…
cdahms
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Ubuntu 20.04 Network Performance Extremely Slow
I just upgraded from Ubuntu 18.04 to 20.04 on one of the Dell XPS 13 machines, and the network performance is abhorrent. Internet speed is very fast from a google speed test (>300Mb/s for both upload and download).
However, whenever I try to…
kwsp
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WiFi randomly disconnected on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
I installed Ubuntu 18.04 LTS in this week and now I have a problem with wifi connection. The WiFi connection auto disconnected every 5 - 10 minutes but wifi signal is still fine.
I did a search, found some answers for older versions of Ubuntu and…
Cảnh Đinh Văn
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How can I free space from a massive 39.5GB /var/log/ folder?
I just got a message from the default disk analyses software (Baobab)
that I only have 1GB left on the hard drive. After some search, I found that the /var/log/ folder is the cause of this.
Some file/sizes in /var/log/:
kern.log = 12.6…
blade19899
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Disable "Mouse battery low" spam notification
Countless times over the past few weeks I have been notified about the low battery in my wireless mouse. Every time it wakes up from sleeping mode and reconnects over Bluetooth I get a notification. I have gotten hundreds of notifications. I do not…
domo
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How to change Windows line-ending to Unix version
We have 10 PC with some version of Ubuntu and only remote access. While doing some upgrades to custom software I did not notice that the line endings in some scripts were Windows version (CR+LF) and not the Unix version (LF). So now when I want to…
NonStandardModel
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There is no public key available for the following key IDs 1397BC53640DB551
When I run the command:
sudo apt-get update
I got this following warning:
There is no public key available for the following key IDs: 1397BC53640DB551
This is the only warning I got and I do not get any Error.
How I can fix it and what the key…
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How can I install Ubuntu without CD and USB?
I want to install Ubuntu on my laptop that doesn't have a CD-ROM drive and I have no spare USB disk. I've tried Wubi, but that doesn't seem to work (since it prompts me to have the CD in the drive, which I don't have).
How can I install Ubuntu,…
user294273
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How do I restore .bashrc to its default?
I've been trying to install Android developer tools on Eclipse, and I followed the information in this video.
Like the video said, I added the following two lines of code to the .bashrc file:
export PATH=$(PATH):-/android-sdk/tools/
export…
nanananana
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Switch command output language from native language to english
How can I switch the command output language from my native language to English, so I can post my Ask Ubuntu question with English command output (error messages)?
BuZZ-dEE
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How can I show or hide boot messages when Ubuntu starts?
Is there a way to easily turn on/off showing the boot messages (loading the services) when Ubuntu starts? Is it something in Grub2?
I am running 10.04.
Weboide
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