Okay, I have had this error for probably over 6 months and finally after being so lazy to do so am trying to get an answer to fix my problem. One day, doing absolutely nothing to screw up my Ubuntu, at least not intentionally, I get this error saying I have unmet dependencies and to run apt-get a...

i am a ubuntu user. i often open/launch programms from the command line / terminal. But when i close the terminal, the program also shuts down. Is there some way to let the programs stay open, even when the terminal, i launched it from, is closed? Thank you in advance!

Someone has connected to my web-server. I'm trying understand to what kind of remote protocol has he/she used. Since my web-server was a windows server, I'm suspect maybe he/she tried RDP. I'm sure that his/her client was an ubuntu or at least a linux client. I have attached a screenshot that h...

I want to resize a partition on a 8002GB disk /dev/sdb1 using parted. Start 1000MB | End 4000MB | Size 3000MB | File system NTFS (and so on) Current version of parted has replaced resize with resizepart. I was able to use resizepart to change end to 100% i.e 8002GB but I can't seem to chang...

I'm currently on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. As of writing this, 18.04 LTS is available. However, I do not wish to upgrade to it. Instead, I would like to upgrade to 17.04 LTS. I've done: sudo apt update sudo apt dist-upgrade Many tutorials suggest sudo do-release-upgrade as the next step. But I be...

This question, WinEunuuchs2Unix has written the best answers and put the most effort, but nothing seems to work Bernard Wei, a very smart answer, I really wished it would work, I thought it would work, it did not. Fabby, watched all the solutions fail, gave the simplest solution, his solution w...

I'm having a wired problem in my laptop. It works fine but almost every hour the screen freezes. When I force the shutdown and start it again, I see problems similar to this: The only solution I found is turning over the laptop for few seconds before starting it again. This help me see my Ubun...

I have an ubuntu 18.04 linux server. Why does the command(ifconfig eth) says Device not found whereas this command(ifconfig eth0) works? COMMAND1: ifconfig eth eth: error fetching interface information: Device not found COMMAND2: ifconfig eth0 eth0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> ...

I am logging in with ssh to a linux terminal (Ubuntu 16.04), but the shell is not completely 'working' anymore. What I mean with that is: I am able to login I am not able to use the arrow keys to go back to a previously used command. Using the 'up' arrow just prints ^[[A on the shell The shell ...

I'm trying to make a script to setup a new VM to be ready for use, which involves some installs, but when I put the install commands (sudo apt-get --yes install <package>) in the a script they always fail with: E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable...

Here's the situation: A question has answer A which explains something fairly well I already have an answer there with alternative solution B However, I see that A can be explained in more detail and on deeper level that A already provides. Such explanation is unrelated to B, so doesn't seem...

I am presently attempting to fix a broken (I think) Ubuntu 16.04 install on a VirtualBox install and it is hanging with the following message: A start job is running for Create Volatile Files and Directories ( Xmin Ys / no limit) I think I'm missing the broad picture here and am unsure where to...