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user136984

00:00

I'm off to bed! :)

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

01:08

@Fabby fixed the script , committed all changes to github and into the answer, verified with set -x that everything works, and changed couple parts. Let me know if there's any issues. Cheerios ! Thanks for Czeching out my script :D

hmm, also I think I've advanced a bit since the time I wrote that script. I think I'd probably approach this task quite differently if I had to do it now. Maybe could reduce it to a command or two only

TheWanderer

01:27

aliens?

wtf CW

Thomas Ward

@dessert There's two parts actually. One is virtualenv, but the other one is pyenv (which is more or less deprecated now)

I use pyenv to create local Python virtual environments as 'stock' versions of the given version, and then create a virtualenv for a given program with virtualenv and refer to the Python version installed by pyenv.

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

01:48

Let the memes begin

TheWanderer

pls

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

you're welcome :)

what, nobody's gonna match me up with another meme ? tsk

Not even a Unix pun anywhere. I should rm myself from here maybe

Nathan Osman

Hey guys. Guess what? Apple hasn't messed anything up this we— oh, never mind.

TheWanderer

another one?

Nathan Osman

To be fair, this issue is a few weeks old.

But it doesn't appear to be fixed yet.

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

02:02

"there's no obvious way to kill an entire sandbox, for example" ... wait, does that mean that if there's malware in the sandbox, one can't technically nuke it from the orbit ?

Nathan Osman

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

Also . . . kill syscall ? Really ? Didn't Apple grab base system from like early BSD release ? Does that also mean BSD's syscall implementation is affected ?

Nathan Osman

macOS is based on Darwin.

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

Darwin kernel, but what's that based on ?

Seth

RE Linux Journal shutting down: "They could try renaming to Systemd Journal but unfortunately we can't read binary."

Nathan Osman

02:06

31

Q: How closely are Mac OS X and BSD related?

I read that Mac OS X and bsd are related. How closely are they related. Can Mac OS X software be tweaked and installed on BSD?

^--- more details here

Seth

finally fixed

also, Linux Journal is shutting down :(

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

Such a pity. I wasn't reading Linux Journal regularly, but I did learn a few things from it here and there

Nathan Osman

@Seth :(

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

Also . . . inb4 systemd, adding word processors, unnecessary features, etc.

Nathan Osman

That reminds me...

Seth

02:09

@SergiyKolodyazhnyy same

@SergiyKolodyazhnyy "SystemD adds Windows"

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

shudders That's the real horror

Nathan Osman

^--- lol

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

Soon in theaters near you "SystemD'ing", "Attack of SystemD clones", "SystemD'ception"

TheWanderer

SUITE

Seth

"SystemD-day"

2

Nathan Osman

02:13

Make. This. Happen.

George is willing to lend his talents for this.

Hey wait a second. We already have a "SystemD Day". It's April 1.

2

Ducks.

Seth

XD

Nathan Osman

I'm so tweeting that.

Seth

Do it.

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

Make sure you use sytemd's twitter client

Nathan Osman

So #ThanksHarryPoettering is actually a hashtag.

:P

TheWanderer

02:22

oh dear

if anyone has Netflix watch The Flash S3E9 from around 14:40

that's probably the worst CG scene I've seen

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

github.com/git-me-outta-here

Very nice username

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

02:56

Here's a riddle for you guys

ewedit.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/…

dammit, links

TheWanderer

hang on

what the

net-tools uninstalled itself

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

What did you break already ?

I was going to make a nice riddle with a bin and Bash from Reigns

TheWanderer

I didn't break it

17.10 is a hot mess

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

Well, at least it's artful ... advark

Thomas Ward

@TheWanderer yes it's annoying, net-tools isn't part of the standard image anymore :p

still exists though

TheWanderer

03:00

no no no

I had ifconfig working

and suddenly it wasn't installed

Thomas Ward

don't touch autoremove :p

TheWanderer

autoremove didn't do it

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

IIRC ifconfig is slowly being phased out in favor of ip utils

ip addr, ip route

TheWanderer

how do you disable interfaces with ip?

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

ip link set wlan0 down

it's got a lot of options

There's man ip-link on that

TheWanderer

03:05

jesus

why is it so complex

chaskes

@andrew.46 Giving slack another go

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

@TheWanderer Because complex is the new simple, and simple is the new complex. Just look at systemd

But granted, ip commands give a bit nicer output ( IMHO ) than ifconfig and iwconfig

$ ip -o -4 addr show wlan7 | awk '{print $4}'
10.70.2.204/22

much easier to parse with awk

Thomas Ward

blasts epic evil music and laughs evilly as he does some Pythonic black magic

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

Ooooo, magic and snakes ! that's my jam

I actually want to keep a pet snake someday

TheWanderer

yay now the alt_f2 menu froze

Thomas Ward

03:09

@SergiyKolodyazhnyy i've got three.

they're all under the porch.

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

@ThomasWard nice ! Can I take one ? I'm sure they'll become friends with my garden snakes

Thomas Ward

good luck, they're quite comfy under the porch where they can snag all the rodents that try and get into my apartment :P

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

Anyway, smoke and then back to studying. I've still 3 modules to complete in my class before taking final assessment and then final exam.

What's cool about AskUbuntu is that there's no final exams (therefore less stress). It's just perpetual answer posting cycle with occasional upvotes and downvotes and badges

Thomas Ward

well there are exams

especially if you do something wrong, you incur the wrath of Diamonds.

so you're constantly self-checking your conduct :P

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

Conduct is one thing, I'm OK on ethics. But I like that I can answer what I know. If a question isn't in my league, I just leave it

Videonauth

04:41

BIOS Self Test; Bootup ; yawns

good morning everybody

Thomas Ward

@Videonauth The Darkness compels you to be stuck in a boot loop for eternity.

Nathan Osman

You know you're a developer when someone asks you a question and your response is worded like an RFC with perfect terminology and every possible corner case covered.

Videonauth

@NathanOsman No then you're Richard Stallman, a developer just hands you a piece of paper, on which is printed upon the magic word ...."MANUAL"

Videonauth

05:40

I wonder when the winter bash will start this year

Videonauth

06:03

one of the mods around?

@Seth are you're still around?

Seth

actually yes

Videonauth

ok have here an impossible situation : askubuntu.com/questions/642991/… this is going to be close voted agains this askubuntu.com/review/close/782842

and vice versa

would mean in the end none of them would be open for new answers

can you kick one of them off the queue

luckily i got both in one review session, or this might would have gone un-noticed

they are both having a good share of answers accumulated tho, not checked them yet for queslity, might make a good merge candidate

Videonauth

The questions major issue is the Xfce Desktop and the use of Chrome/Chromium browser, the problem exists in any Ubuntu/Linux distro with Xfce. Either you have an answer, and answer the question or waste peoples patience and time. Way to go. — Gjohncoe 6 hours ago

should I flag that?

Journeyman Geek

hmm

yes

Videonauth

06:18

done so

First i was half way through writing a response comment to that, but then i found this would be rude as well and not the way I roll :)

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

06:48

I don't know if I'm a developer, but it feels sweet when I wake up, look at a comment by user, find a solution like "yep, I can rewrite my script as so", and go back to sleep

Videonauth

:)

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

tbh, I probably fit more to be a sysadmin

Videonauth

i would not even know where i would fit :) since I'm sorta jack of all trades but master of none

karel

07:07

@Videonauth I commented about your "impossible situation" in Raiders of the Lost Downboat before reading your comment here. The real duplicate question is this one: askubuntu.com/questions/656744/… which needs one more CV to close it. Closed already.

Videonauth

@karel well this is now closed but the other one remains in the CV queue

oh its done already, good then i can close those tabs

karel

@Videonauth The question passed the preliminary stage of the review, and it was voted to remain open.

Videonauth

Well good then :) because i initially CVed the one which is now left open

karel

@Videonauth All OK now, the CVs on the open question have been automatically erased.

Nathan Osman

07:33

It's always dangerous to read Wikipedia late at night. One never knows where one might end up.

I learned what Botox is. It's basically a small quantity of botulinum A toxin.

Wikipedia has this to say in the same article:

"Botulinum is the most acutely lethal toxin known, with an estimated human median lethal dose (LD50) of 1.3–2.1 ng/kg intravenously or intramuscularly and 10–13 ng/kg when inhaled."

Er....................

Wat.

Videonauth

yep ;P and woman use this to look younger and more sexy ;)

no wonder were are where we are demographically

Nathan Osman

Where is the puking emoji...

Videonauth

LOL

dessert

:O=

that's the way to greet on a thursday morn'…

Videonauth

08:13

@SergiyKolodyazhnyy now only an answer from @desert is missing :D

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

08:30

@dessert I am curious what you can come up with for this one ;) askubuntu.com/q/983324/295286

@Videonauth good answer btw, lots of reference to manuals. I like that

Videonauth

yep thats my new way of saying RTFM ;) i reference where i can

well to be honest some people wight not even be aware that a bash manual exists, so pointing to it maybe makes em read it

dessert

@SergiyKolodyazhnyy Is this a test? :)

A competition kind of thing?

code golf?

Videonauth

@dessert answer golf :p

longest most explainign answer wins :P

or so

(kidding)

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

@dessert no , this is a [

Sorry, have no better pun tonight

Videonauth

oh so its not a [[ ?

:P

nnow we just need one sed answer and one using awk to blow the OPs mind to nirvana

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

08:38

Well, at least according to bash's manual, [[ is a compound command apparently :)

Videonauth

ah and and and perl

python

c++

c

java

:D

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

That's probably gonna bit a bit too much for OP. "Guys, I only tagged my question with bash, slow your horses"

dessert

I too wondered why you guys stuck to bash, but OP asks about that…

> So I am new to bash scripting

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

Nathan could do golang, of course

dessert

have a full-blown awk script nobody gets :D

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

08:41

lol

dessert

08:57

not sure whether this is actually a good way, but how about we store the file content in a variable instead?

i=$(cat 1)
mv 2 1
echo $i >2

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

O_o

dessert

:D

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

might work, but what if it's a gigabyte size file

dessert

yes, what if? we'll be clogging the ram, so what? ^^

terdon

@dessert Very bad idea for large files.

Not just clogging, the file could easily be greater than the available RAM. That could bring the whole machine to its knees.

dessert

09:02

Oh, so that's a candidate for

3

Q: How to make my Ubuntu lock up?

WARNING!!!: The question asks for temporarily breaking Ubuntu. There shall be no safe answers. If you have important services running, important documents/files being edited, please note that you might not be able to recover/save your work. Please note that trying these answers is not recommende...

command-line

I wonder, is cat inside a script a good idea at all?

I feel like I always advise against it…

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

/facepalm

cat inside a script is bad idea, you have a stray feline in your filesystem

3

@terdon so . . . ${1%/*} fails. Parameter expansion doesn't work with positional parameters ?

Kaz Wolfe

Wow. They're making Jenkins pretty.

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

@terdon nevermind, apparently that's just mksh. It apparently works in bash

Nope, it actually isn't bash

$ bash  check_temp.txt  input.txt
+ dir1=input.txt
++ mktemp -p input.txt
mktemp: failed to create file via template ‘input.txt/tmp.XXXXXXXXXX’: Not a directory
+ tmpfile=
+ echo ''

terdon

Try a directory name, not a file

dessert

@SergiyKolodyazhnyy I often tried that and never got it to work – seems like it doesn't. :(

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

09:14

@terdon well, from your comment it's supposed to be dir1="${file1%/*}"; but even if I store $1 to file1 variable it still breaks, what if "file1" contains filename from current working directory ? Also, directory name such as /etc/ would work because there's slashes, but there's to remove if it's in cwd

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

0

Q: How can I create an ISO of a VPS server and run it locally into VmWare\VirtualBox?

I am not so into Linux and I have the following doubt: I have a VPS server based on Ubuntu 16.04 in the cloud. I have the root access. I want to know if it is possible do something like this (by the shell, I have no desktop environment): can I create an ISO of the entire system that can be run i...

ubuntu virtualbox virtual-machine vmware iso

dessert

0

Q: Can i switch to windows cmd in ubuntu for windows?

If i want to start ubuntu from windows terminal i can start and exit the ubuntu commandline: I was wondering can i start cmd from ubuntu too?:

command-line

I like this question: How do you run Windows cmd.exe stuff in Ubuntu?

Ah…

3

Q: CMD.exe Emulator in Ubuntu to run .cmd/.bat file

Possible Duplicate: Executing .bat file The title says it all. I need to create batch files and run and test them. I dont have any Windows machine. If there was any cmd.exe emulator in Ubuntu I would have worked on it. So do you know emulator that can run .bat/.cmd files? I know I ...

emulation batch

3

Q: Windows CMD for Linux?

Let us assume that I am not in my right mind, as no one who has used a good shell like bash, fish or oh (or any of the other shells listed here) would want this. Nevertheless, seeing as one can have bash on Windows, has anyone tried to create CMD.EXE for Linux? If so, where can I get it from, an...

command-line bash fish

Videonauth

@SergiyKolodyazhnyy What is the output of cat image.png? --> Of course a cat !

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

@Videonauth output of a cat ? looks at cat litterbox Emmm . . . I probably shouldn't mention that in chat

Also, awwwww, that's adorable

Videonauth

yes she is adorable but sometimes she drives me crazy

especially when im really working on something she tends to lay down on my hand on the keyboard

but if you have a computer mouse you as well need a computer cat

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

09:31

Yeah, my cat used to come and lay down my laptop's keyboard

And still does that occasionally ,but not as much. I now spend more time sitting in front of my dual monitor setup

anway, gtg

bye folks

Videonauth

bye :)

dessert

@SergiyKolodyazhnyy Chazelas hits again – thanks!

terdon

@SergiyKolodyazhnyy Yes, good point. That assumes absolute paths. I'm just thinking that if one of the files is on another filesystem, copying it to /tmp can take a long time. OK, how about:

Ah no. I was about to use readlink to get the full path but that would break on symlinks. It would copy the target, not the link.

I guess you have to use dirname.

Ah, but you'll still get problems if you don't have write access to the directory (that's why you're getting that error with mktemp). Damn.

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

09:51

@terdon well i edited my answer already , I solved it with just hardcoding "." there

Ok, now i am out for sure

dessert

@SergiyKolodyazhnyy What if the disk runs out of space? askubuntu.com/questions/983324/…

Videonauth

@dessert well i don't know if this would not already be overkill, might as well have a protection for sky is falling events or such ;) and question [ -e $TMP/tempfile ] is true so wouldnt it then run rm with the files still rpesent in the tmp directory?

dessert

@Videonauth oops ;P

Videonauth

so turning around the following logic :)

and yes the $1 and $2 was agood catch, happens when i try to make my life easy and do a copy and paste ;)

dessert

10:12

@Videonauth I figured, happens to me all the time.

Videonauth

weird weather outside, dark, rainy simply depressing, and im again already tired

dessert

@Videonauth I'd be tired too if I slept just five hours (or even less) – how about sleeping? :P

Videonauth

@dessert would be nice if, i not even slept, my medical condition prevents me from sleeping, but i not want to take those hardcore pills every day

so I'm mostly 3-4 days awake

then sleeping due to medication and agin awake

dessert

@Videonauth My sympathy, now I get why you're here nearly 24/7…

Videonauth

:)

terdon

10:23

@Videonauth Ouch :(

Videonauth

sounds worse than it is, but its enough to being pensioned at age of 45

terdon

@Videonauth Every cloud has a silver lining, eh?

Videonauth

there is no way you have enough power to do actual work

terdon

Of course not. :(

Videonauth

@terdon Its simply lifes rule, adapt or go down

terdon

10:24

And at least you're in Germany, so probably have a reasonable pension.

Videonauth

and since i cant change it i chosen to adapt

@terdon 378 euros ...

i call that just enough to not die, i still have to get subsidies for the rest

terdon

Oh. That's uhm, almost as low as Greece!

Videonauth

yep its almost nothing if you take the high prices for living in account

together with subsidies i have 806 euros, but 389 are rent, aournd 60 for electricity and about 60 for phone/mobile/internet

and then medicine which is not fully covered by health insurance

and every two years i have to get reevaluated for being pensioned, which costs them around 5-50k euros for the evaluation, that is far more than i get in the same time

makes sense or, does it?

DBinJP

Good evening ... this place vs IRC -- any thoughts?

dessert

You can forget about pension in Germany, it's merely a joke…

Videonauth

10:31

@DBinJP IRC runs in terminal if you want it :) but here the climate is better :P

dessert

@DBinJP There are real people here.

DBinJP

._.

... I suppose it was a dumb question, because my IRC port is blocked on wifianyway.

(at university)

/me wonders if /me works.

Videonauth

There are no stupid questions :)

DBinJP

/e wonders if /e works.

/emote wonders if /emote should give up already.

terdon

@DBinJP None of the IRC things work. This is a completely different system.

dessert

10:32

\me wonders too.

DBinJP

@terdon -- except tab complete, apparently :P

terdon

See here for what little fancy stuff you can do. And that's only for formatting.

Videonauth

` inline code for single lines * = italic ** = bold ***= italic bold

terdon

@DBinJP Oh wow, IRC does that now? Last time I used IRC was in the late 90ies so. . .

DBinJP

... there are too many ways for me to procrastinate. >_<;;

dessert

10:33

But you can paste any question/answer/comment link from the SE network and it will get nicely formatted. :)

DBinJP

@terdon actually client-dependent i think

terdon

@DBinJP QUite possibly. Has to be, now that you mention it.

DBinJP

"i am smart. smrt. i mean s m a r t" -- homer simpson('s voice actor)

no enter/leave notices here either, eh?

Videonauth

to quote @GeorgetheDev it now is called smartctl:P

DBinJP

?

dessert

10:35

@DBinJP there's something way better: You can see how active the chat users are!

DBinJP

smartmontools huh

terdon

Apr 29 '14 at 23:31, by terdon

S.M.A.R.T. is the new S.T.U.P.I.D.

DBinJP

@dessert whatchu talkin'bout willis

dessert

@DBinJP On the right you see the avatars, they turn pale when the users doesn't write anything.

DBinJP

oh snap

ain't that the shizzlet

(can we say shizzlet in here?)

Videonauth

10:38

@DBinJP systemd (service) systemctl etc.

Idea for a Twitter bot: every time someone uses the name of a Unix command in a tweet, the bot replies with "the correct command is now [name]-ctl". #systemd

Tweeted by george_the_dev on November 10, 2017 at 2:09 AM

2

:D

dessert

@Videonauth starred!

DBinJP

starred?

3

dessert

Ah, another great feature!

Videonauth

take a look at the right side of the chat, thats the star board

DBinJP

O I C

dessert

10:40

You can star a post!

DBinJP

computer cat ... indeed.

... ... ... (searches Internet)

reference.com/technology/…

TIL the person who named it a mouse had never before seen a mouse.

... I guess it's better than "clicker" though.

Videonauth

if you click on the time mentioned on the star board it will take you to the apropiate places in th ranscript

DBinJP

"Cooker, toaster, blender, just say what the thing does, and then you add -er. Kitchen Appliance Naming Institute [...]" -- Mitch Hedberg

O: oh my that's cute

Rinzwind

@DBinJP there starred it :+

DBinJP

also i didn't know this was logged D: alt+f4!!

D: that was like ... wasted star power. don't play mario kart bro, you would lose >_>

goodnight

Rinzwind

10:45

good afternoon :=)

RobotHumans

it'w wicked early morning here, but hello. UGT morning.

Videonauth

good wake time :) (I do not count hours)

DBinJP

lol @Videonauth

RobotHumans

Fair point. I was criticized once for saying the whole world should run on UTC + 0. No timezone differences, and it's just dark during the day some places.

Rinzwind

@RobotHumans China does that. 1 TZ for the whole country.

Videonauth

10:51

$ fortune | cowsay -f tux
 ________________________________________
/ Don't speak about Time, until you have \
\ spoken to him.                         /
 ----------------------------------------
   \
    \
        .--.
       |o_o |
       |:_/ |
      //   \ \
     (|     | )
    /'\_   _/`\
    \___)=(___/

RobotHumans

It's not a bad idea. Imagine how irritating it is if you live in one timezone and work in another. So, during your commute, your wake up alarm on your phone goes off again. If it doesn't happen to you every day for a month, you have no idea how valuable setting the alarm/clock application to unadjusted UTC values is.

Also, I did NOT know there was a cowsay for that.

Videonauth

cowsay can do a lot of different ones

RobotHumans

Alternate thought, I was time traveling every day for a month ;)

Videonauth

so are you now actually 30 days younger or older as your passport shows? Or didn't you reach the speed of light?

RobotHumans

Nah. I went back in the other direction every time and never broke the speed of light. It was just a commuter train. Hopefully Elon will come up with something for that ;)

Videonauth

11:10

not computer related but still funny: The comments below the question↓↓↓↓↓

5

Q: Why didn't Sauron go looking for other dragons after Smaug died?

Another question here mentioned that there are more dragons in Middle-earth than just Smaug. Why did Sauron not search them out, if Gandalf thought that Smaug was important enough to create a quest to get rid of the dragon, because of the danger that he posed?

tolkiens-legendarium

dessert

11:20

Well, the dragons were created by Morgoth, so they kind of had to obey Sauron. However, we all know that Sauron isn't very good at finding things. — void_ptr 17 hours ago

:D

Videonauth

I like this one most

@DRF I think it was more of a Nazgul thing: "I can hear the Ring's calling nearby... But I can't see a damn thing in this stupid hood! Screw it, Saurie can go look for it himself, I'm going home". — Darth Hunterix 44 mins ago

IanC

11:44

nice, I could find an answer to write on SO :D

except the question is 2 years old, but it's still useful additional information

Dan

15:32

Has anyone noticed that Google now supports Stack Exchange for showing multiple answers in their search results? For example, google.com.lb/… would show this i.sstatic.net/hcYFg.png

terdon

1

Q: Google special SERP entry for Stack Overflow

Wow, have you seen the new search engine result page entry for Stack Overflow hits in Google: And when there are multiple answers: I am not sure if this has been rolled-out globally or if this is just an A-B test, but I think this is an excellent improvement for the UI to our favorite Q/A s...

discussion search

Dan

This is really cool though, I think this helps when people still unfamiliar with how SE works. As they can see there may be more than one answer.

terdon

Yeah, it's a nifty idea.

Dan

I've seen a few colleagues who would just leave a certain question just because the answer on the top didn't work for them

TheWanderer

18:24

ugh

I think I'm just going to try 18.04 again

I have a 17.10 image and I know how to dd so that should work if I need it

Nathan Osman

19:01

Facebook for Android is broken. Don't update if it isn't too late.

App won't even start after clearing all app data.

:|

Imma see if logcat shows me anything interesting.

Maybe it's this error? I dunno...

Continues reading...

TheWanderer

I just don't use it

problem solved

@NathanOsman that's just a W though

Nathan Osman

19:16

This might be it: paste.ubuntu.com/26120400

I know Facebook does some black magic with the class loader to make everything fit in their app.

TheWanderer

they must be compiling without a lint

because that's a pretty big error

also, why is do-release-upgrade stuck on Reading Caches?

Nathan Osman

Man, they really messed that up.

TheWanderer

there's no way that APK was even tested

just compile-->upload

Nathan Osman

I'll try switching to beta to see if that helps.

TheWanderer

can you help me?

Nathan Osman

19:24

With... what?

TheWanderer

the do-release-upgrade

it just hangs on reading cache

user1770201

When trying to install `steam-devices`:

```
sudo apt-get install steam-devices
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package steam-devices
```

I tried `sudo apt-add-repository multiverse && sudo apt-get update` but that doesn't work. Anyone have any ideas on how to get this package to install?

Nathan Osman

@TheWanderer You could try clearing the cache.

TheWanderer

where

Nathan Osman

sudo rm -rf /var/lib/cache/apt

I think that's right.

Thomas Ward

19:28

fweeeeeees

TheWanderer

doesn't exist

Nathan Osman

:|

sudo apt-get clean

Try that?

TheWanderer

did that already

dessert

@user1770201 enable multiverse in software-properties-gtk

(or your DE's GUI)

TheWanderer

under /var/cache/apt/

but still no effect

dessert

19:33

@user1770201 or with e.g. sudo add-apt-repository 'deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful multiverse' – replace “artful” with your release!

Nathan Osman

Argh. Have to reboot my Pi after 50 days of uptime over Docker issues.

user1770201

It shows that I have multiverse added already

I also ran sudo apt-get update

I'm running xenial

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