Latest Ubuntu related questions

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pastacompany avatar
How to download bittorrent form ppa?
ng flag

I am using this command to try to download qBittorrent

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:qbittorrent-team/qbittorrent-stable

However, I am getting this error:

Hit:1 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable InRelease
Hit:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal InRelease
Get:3 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates InRelease [114 kB]
Get:4 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-backports ...
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ubuntu 21.04 - gnome-tweaks - themes don't stick after restart
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I recently switched to ubuntu/gnome due to my having replaced my 1920x1200 laptop by a a new 4K-capable machine: the old setup that I copied over did not handle scaling to my satisfaction.

Pretty much everything on the new system meets my expectations with the exception of the gnome-shell-related stuff especially anything where text is involved — menus, notifications, calendar, overview searche ...

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How to install AMD-GPU-PRO Drivers in Ubuntu 21.04?
cn flag

Every time I execute

./amdgpu-pro-install --opencl=pal,legacy

within the

amdgpu-pro-21.10-1247438-ubuntu-20.04

folder, it will try to install it, but then it will crash with the error:

Errors were encountered while processing:
 amdgpu-dkms
 amdgpu
 amdgpu-pro
 amdgpu-pro-lib32
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Please Help, thanks.

Things I've tried:

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Korbel avatar
how to make Ubuntu 20.04 give guest permissions for local file share to windows 10
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so far i have a file share set up and ive gotten to the point where it is now discoverable on my windows 10 pc by adding a wsdd service (i think thats what i did anyway. mostly just following tutorials online cause i dont understand very much yet. im getting there tho.)

so at this point i can now see and open the network location and am able to see the shared folders inside the network folder. wh ...

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liels avatar
20.04.2 locks up completely when writing to RAID 6 array
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I can reproduce the problem consistently (and in minutes quickly) but I can't find any messages in the logs that are helpful. This problem occurred with a RocketRaid 3740C HBA and the proprietary nvidia driver but now occurs with an LSI/Broadcom 9305-16i HBA and nouveau drivers. I have flashed the Broadcom card to the latest firmware and bios. The Host Bus Adapter is connected to 9 drives (of 10, RAI ...

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Issues installing Ubuntu Studio 20.04 at Acer Nitro 5
pl flag

I have the message error (Trying to translate from portuguese to english)

the external command failed:

the command apt install -y -no-upgrade -o Acquire::gpgc::Options=..ignore-time-conflict shim signed failed while finishing in 300 seconds. There is any output

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Mark Lee avatar
How to launch default browser from bash script
cn flag

How do I launch the default Web browser from within a script? In the below script, the browser opens when the script is successfully run as an executable shell script:

#!/bin/bash
cd $1
php -S 127.0.0.1:5000
for f in *.html; do cp -- "$f" "${f%.html}.php"; done
x-www-browser http://127.0.0.1:5000/index.php

However, in this longer version with Kdialog UI, everything executes correctly (the files are c ...

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genderbee avatar
bash, display only in case output has count of n characters
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how can I display content of output which has only count of n characters in second col divided by ,? For example, grep only line which content 4 characters in second col.

Input.

a,123
b,223
c,1234
d,323
e,2234

Output.

c,1234
e,2234

Is some easy way to do this, for example by cut and sed, or for loop must be used?

Thanks.

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IsntItEthan avatar
Missing final newline
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I'm very new to everything here and only got ubuntu today. Also I have no clue how to use the bit that makes it clear its code so apologies. I am trying to install git for a project and it says this:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run 'apt --fix-broken install' to correct these.
The following packages have unmet dependenci ...
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Costa Michailidis avatar
How to separate embeded videos from PDF or Powerpoint?
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I've got a giant Powerpoint document I need to present. I have no windows machine, and wine/PlayonLinux have not been working.

The PPT has a few embeded videos in it. Is there a way to extract the videos from the PDF or Powerpoint, so I can do the presentation and then just alt-tab to play the videos in a video player?

Much Love.

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Michael avatar
Update Maven causes JAVA_HOME problem
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I broke maven... I wanted to change from 3.6.0 to 3.8.1 and nothing is working yet

wget https://downloads.apache.org/maven/maven-3/3.8.1/binaries/apache-maven-3.8.1-bin.tar.gz
tar xf apache-maven-*.tar.gz -C /opt
ln -s /opt/apache-maven-3.8.1 /opt/maven
nano /etc/profile.d/maven.sh 
chmod +x /etc/profile.d/maven.sh
source /etc/profile.d/maven.sh
mvn -version
The JAVA_HOME environment variable is not def ...
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Ubuntu 20.04.2 MySQL upgrade mangled our data...how to fix?
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We upgraded from Ubuntu Server 18.04.5 LTS to Ubuntu Server 20.04.2 LTS. Everything seemed fine until today when we noticed that one of our applications was no longer working. MySQL appears to have mangled Unicode characters (stored as UTF-8) in the database when the database software was upgraded.

For example, UTF-8 character:

0xF0 0x9F 0x8C 0xB5

Became:

0xC3 0xB0 0xC5 0xB8 0xC5 0x92 0xC2 0xB5
 ...
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merlin avatar
How do I get drivers for my motherboard (Z590 aorus elite AX) for Ubuntu
jp flag

My wifi is working, but it keeps dropping the connection ever couple of hours. I want to hard-wire it so I don't have to deal with this anymore, but when I plug it in to the modem I'm not getting a connection. The light on the back of the modem is flashing orange. I've had this problem with other motherboards before, and I fixed it by going to the manufacturers website and downloading the drivers. W ...

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varungupta avatar
Installing Ubuntu in empty HDD with Windows 10 installed in SSD
eg flag

[Not Duplicate] I couldn't find a thread directly addressing this issue, and I didn't want to take chances with my Windows installation and files.

I have a SSD running Windows 10 and an empty (formatted) HDD. I wish to install Ubuntu in the HDD ['Area 51(V:)'] without affecting the SSD (C:) files.

My PC's Disk Information

The step I'm confused at while installing Ubuntu is the 'Installation Type':

  1. 'Install Ubuntu Alongsid ...
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Mohammed avatar
The selected boot device failed Windows 10
bm flag

I am trying to install Ubuntu on my Windows 10. I was following these steps. My computer uses UEFI as BIOS mode as described here. I have downloaded ISO image and created a live USB of Ubuntu. I have also allocated free space on my disk. Lastly I disabled secure boot and also enabled legacy support following these steps. Still, I get that my boot device have failed. What is wrong? I need to downlo ...

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berebitsuki avatar
Steam won't start on ubuntu 20.04 64-bit with nvidia 460 drivers installed
in flag

I have steam installed from flatpak, and in the recent months this is what it outputs whenever I try to run it:

masha@gudrun:/$ /usr/bin/flatpak run --branch=stable --arch=x86_64 --command=/app/bin/steam-wrapper --file-forwarding com.valvesoftware.Steam @@u %U @@
INFO:root:https://github.com/flathub/com.valvesoftware.Steam/wiki
INFO:root:Will set XDG dirs prefix to /home/masha
INFO:root:Overriding  ...

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