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Q: Sort Folders Before Files for Only a Specific Directory

4:46 AM

In Ubuntu 16.04 LTS is easy to sort/not sort folders before files. In Files program, by selecting Edit > Preferences, just mark/unmark Sort folders before files, as shown in the figure below. The problem is that this option has an effect on all operating system directories. How to mark/unmark...

Q: Does Sshuttle proxy Transmission?

5:18 AM

Firstly we got sshuttle running in my ubuntu terminal, sshuttle -r root@104.140.00.200 0/0 --dns --python=/usr/bin/python3 -x 104.140.00.200 then download a video file with Transmission, the speed is 90 times faster than my regular webpage browsing, do you think Sshuttle handling Transmissi...

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Q: E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'linux-headers-3.10.0-862.14.4.el7.x86_64

6:05 AM

I am using ubuntu 14. when I run the command below I get the error in the title. I searched but I could not find how to solve it. Thanks. apt-get install -y linux-headers-$(uname -r) error: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Una...

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emkman

6:30 AM

Hi anyone a device mapper guru?

Trying to resize an lvm partition original from a usb drive image, I was able to expand the lvm volume and the partition, but in device mapper its still the old size

Q: SSH broken pipe and then connection refused [UBUNTU 18.04]

7:23 AM

Today i started the server i was working on and after logging in with ssh it kicked me out of server and after that when i tried to log back into the server I get connection refused error. error: packet_write_wait: Connection to 192.168.30.59 port 22: Broken pipe i have tried re-configuring the...

ubuntu ssh

7:33 AM

Hi there. Can anyone help me understand when a command such as rpm --query --provides vlc should be used? Equally, when should rpm --query --recommends vlc, rpm --query --supplements vlc, rpm --query --conflicts vlc be used? What is the purpose of the types of dependencies? In reading rpm.org/user_doc/dependencies.html, it is no clearer.

Q: Configuring network adapter in linux guest

8:26 AM

I am using Windows host and ubuntu guest via Virtualbox. I have 2 network adapters configured. Both are bridged. The first one is bridged to my wifi network adapter and the second one is bridged to my usb ethernet adapter. The wifi adapter is set to dhcp, the usb network adapter is set to static ...

ubuntu networking virtualbox

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9:45 AM

@Motivated never. rpm is redhat not debian/ubuntu. we use "apt"

Q: Hiri email client issue not sync

10:15 AM

I configured Hiri with our Exhange acocount. After some sync well done, it starts to have an issue and it fails everytime to sync and send emails. The only info I have about the error is the hiri message "Smothing went wrong" but nothing more. If I delete th eacocunt and the readd again, it star...

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1:43 PM

I need two more votes to reopen this question.

1:59 PM

@karel I don't like the accepted answer :(

it proves it is off topic too :X

ubuntu keyboard-shortcuts

2:10 PM

Q: Ctrl + F4 not working

I've some problems with shortcuts in Ubuntu. One of them is that I cannot close tab in PhpStorm via Ctrl + F4 (it's specified so in screen where I choose to close it manually). It just does nothing

2:33 PM

> First off, I’d suggest printing out a copy of the GNU coding standards, and NOT read it. Burn them, it’s a great symbolic gesture.

from kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/coding-style.html

lol

@terdon stop posting comments when I am typing a comment :=D

feature request: get notified when Rinzwind is typing ]:>

2:49 PM

@Rinzwind Sometimes the OP can be persuaded to retract a hasty and unwise accept answer decision. For example this answer posted today by Byte Commander identified a security vulnerability in the then accepted answer. Voter pressure won out in the end, and the OP accepted Byte Commander's answer instead. But sometimes it takes years to get there.

6) Functions

Functions should be short and sweet, and do just one thing.

soooooooooooooo when do we get rid of systemd? >:-D

9) You’ve made a mess of it

That’s OK, we all do. You’ve probably been told by your long-time Unix user helper that GNU emacs automatically formats the C sources for you, and you’ve noticed that yes, it does do that, but the defaults it uses are less than desirable (in fact, they are worse than random typing - an infinite number of monkeys typing into GNU emacs would never make a good program).

- we need monkeys to disprove this :P

I keep seeing perfectly good command line questions in the CV queue

who is close-voting them?!

I've noticed them too. An aggressive noob keeps flagging them.

they have votes, not just flags

I can see who posted the comment, but not who close voted unless the question is closed.

Maybe the noob is a programmer. Stack Overflow has stricter standards for what an acceptable programming question is than Ask Ubuntu. A do my homework for me question or a write my code for me question will usually be quickly closed and deleted at Stack Overflow.

3:02 PM

> Encoding the type of a function into the name (so-called Hungarian notation) is brain damaged - the compiler knows the types anyway and can check those, and it only confuses the programmer. No wonder MicroSoft makes buggy programs.

> If you are afraid to mix up your local variable names, you have another problem, which is called the function-growth-hormone-imbalance syndrome.

terdon

@Rinzwind :P

@karel Should be closed as to broad here too, probably.

4:12 PM

@Rinzwind - Ubuntu refer to it rpm in its man pages - manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/bionic/man8/rpm.8.html

4:38 PM

@Motivated lol, that’s a nice message to answer to, now it looks like you’re volunteering :) – joking aside, of course you can install the rpm package manager in Ubuntu, but it’s not a good idea to use it alongside apt

> On Debian and derived systems it is recommended to use "alien" to
convert RPM packages into .deb format instead of bypassing the Debian
package management system by installing them directly with rpm.

launchpad.net/ubuntu/bionic/+package/rpm

4:59 PM

@dessert - Possibly :-). So do you mean to say that apt has no similar subcommands e.g recommends?

@dessert - If yes, i'll stop volunteering.

@Motivated here’s a nice table of equivalents: help.ubuntu.com/community/SwitchingToUbuntu/FromLinux/…

oooh a table

@dessert - Sure. It doesn't touch on subcommands such as recommends though.

@Motivated there are questions for that on the network, e.g. askubuntu.com/q/306618/507051 and serverfault.com/q/340075/437958

basically grep the output of apt show I suppose :)

5:56 PM

@Motivated sure but 99% of the times someone else already went through the trouble and made a DEB. and that 1% of the time it wont work. Use "apt" or "dpkg" as 1st 2 methods,next option would be build from source (and the negates rpm totally)

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7:55 PM

sooooooo the UK is going to sink into the northsea now? :D

8:13 PM

@Rinzwind well deserved on England's part. I expect Wales, Scotland & Northern Ireland will stay as they are

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