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technastic_tc

6:56 AM

Hey people!

I've a small doubt.

Is the output of commands executed in terminal saved somewhere?

For APT stuff, we can check term.log. Is there any similar logs for non-APT commands?

@BeastOfCaerbannog Any idea?

BeastOfCaerbannog

@technastic_tc I don't think that all terminal output is saved by default somewhere. The closest I found to do this is in this U&L question.

technastic_tc

@BeastOfCaerbannog oh.. ok. Thanks for the info!

BeastOfCaerbannog

Something similar is here. Note what steeldriver says for script: "Note however that script saves everything in the terminal (rather than just command output) - including ANSI color sequences, which can make it difficult to extract plain text from the resulting file in the case of color terminals."

@technastic_tc No problem!

technastic_tc

@BeastOfCaerbannog oh.. ok..

How to find which nvidia drivers are installed in Ubuntu?

Is there any command for that?

BeastOfCaerbannog

7:15 AM

Run nvidia-smi. It also shows you a bunch of other useful info.

technastic_tc

@BeastOfCaerbannog is there any apt or dpkg command to find?

BeastOfCaerbannog

I don't know. Would something like that work? cat /proc/driver/nvidia/version

Journeyman Geek

@technastic_tc hmmm

technastic_tc

hmm.. I'm actually trying to help some other user who has messed up the nvidia packages..

Look into this log: paste.ubuntu.com/p/knfP2rhVbQ

BeastOfCaerbannog

Perhaps you could try this with apt, but I'm not sure that it's the best way to check: apt list --installed | grep xserver-xorg-video-nvidia

Journeyman Geek

7:21 AM

I'd just go for grepping for nvidia and noveau (however the latter is spelt)

technastic_tc

@JourneymanGeek Can you let me know the command?

Journeyman Geek

@BeastOfCaerbannog got it mostly right

apt list --installed will dump out everything installed

technastic_tc

@BeastOfCaerbannog what are the hyphens for?

Journeyman Geek

but I would go with apt list --installed | grep nvidia and apt list --installed noveau (the open source driver)

@technastic_tc its an arguement for apt

technastic_tc

@JourneymanGeek I'm referring to hyphens after grep..

Journeyman Geek

7:24 AM

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Q: How to list all installed packages

I'd like to output a list of all installed packages into a text file so that I can review it and bulk-install on another system. How would I do this?

then you're piping (|) the output to grep to search for things

"xserver-xorg-video-nvidia" is the name of a package :D

technastic_tc

@JourneymanGeek oh.. so only one package is required by the nvidia driver?

Journeyman Geek

Its linux

so.... uh...

there's more than one possible driver?

@technastic_tc not really

BeastOfCaerbannog

@technastic_tc grep nvidia [filename], where [filename] is the name of the file where you saved the pastebin.

technastic_tc

@JourneymanGeek hmm..

Journeyman Geek

nouveau.freedesktop.org

or the nvidia propietary driver

technastic_tc

7:27 AM

@JourneymanGeek ok..

BeastOfCaerbannog

From the log it looks like they must have nvidia 450 installed

Journeyman Geek

@BeastOfCaerbannog let me know if I'm getting in the way ._.

BeastOfCaerbannog

@JourneymanGeek Oh, no. Not at all!

Journeyman Geek

.... that sounds really old

techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/geforce-gts-450.c1778

technastic_tc

I pasted the contents of the pastebin in terminal by mistake :(

I closed the terminal..

Journeyman Geek

7:30 AM

rofl

ctrl c

then clear

BeastOfCaerbannog

@JourneymanGeek 450 is the nvidia driver version, not the card model.

Journeyman Geek

ah

technastic_tc

But I hope nothing wrong could happen since there was no sudo in the log.. and I didn't type password in the terminal..

@JourneymanGeek I tried.. it didn't work. But anyway, I closed the terminal.

BeastOfCaerbannog

@technastic_tc Don't worry, nothing will happen. Even if it ran, it would probably throw command not found errors.

technastic_tc

@BeastOfCaerbannog :)

@BeastOfCaerbannog I did it. There are lots of nvidias.. I have gone nuts..

BeastOfCaerbannog

7:37 AM

@technastic_tc What is the question you are helping with?

technastic_tc

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Q: APT seems broken in my Ubuntu

I am a beginner in Ubuntu. Just last week I have installed Ubuntu18. I have a dual boot machine on new Laptop with Secure boot switched-on (Windows 10 and Ubuntu 18.04.5). I have NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 in my laptop, so i tried to install Nvidia drivers by following the steps mentioned here: http...

18.04 apt package-management upgrade dpkg

BeastOfCaerbannog

I think they should try to purge all installed nvidia drivers and then install the recommended nvidia drivers using sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall.

technastic_tc

@BeastOfCaerbannog Is it safe to purge nvidia drivers? I guesss the system's graphics might depend on it. So is it safe?

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Q: help me to fix this i am stuck at this

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BeastOfCaerbannog

In general yes, since the system will fall back to using nouveau. But there is always the possibility of something going bad with drivers.

technastic_tc

7:48 AM

@BeastOfCaerbannog hmm..

Journeyman Geek

even then,...

you can swap VTs and try to fix it in shell

BeastOfCaerbannog

@JourneymanGeek True.

Journeyman Geek

anything in linux is fixable given enough time, if the sharks don't get you.

technastic_tc

The approach I'm trying to take can sound lengthy AF and stupid as well: To reverse whatever commands the OP used. Is it a correct way to do stuff?

@JourneymanGeek What is VT? Is it virtual terminal?

@JourneymanGeek What are the sharks?

Journeyman Geek

@technastic_tc yes

40% of OpenBSD installs lead to shark attacks. It's their only standing security issue.

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@technastic_tc If you know exactly what was done, its easier to tell what exactly is broken

technastic_tc

7:52 AM

@JourneymanGeek That's the reason I've asked the OP, the APT log and terminal history..

@JourneymanGeek lol!

BeastOfCaerbannog

Wait! Why are they trying to install aptitude:i386 in a 64-bit PC (I deduce that since they are using Windows 10)?

technastic_tc

@BeastOfCaerbannog IDK! Probably they read some online guide to fix stuff.. but it's just a guess.

BeastOfCaerbannog

Probably, but this could also be the fix to the problem.

technastic_tc

@BeastOfCaerbannog I didn't get you..

BeastOfCaerbannog

Their system is 64-bit, but they try to install i386 driver packages (that's 32-bit). I am not sure that this is supported in 18.04.

technastic_tc

7:58 AM

One thing which I noticed is that the errors started when the OP tried this: apt install nvidia-driver-430

Journeyman Geek

also does anyone ever use aptitude any more?

technastic_tc

@JourneymanGeek No idea...

So the command to install 64-bit aptitude is sudo apt install aptitue. Am I right?

BeastOfCaerbannog

Yes

Journeyman Geek

it might be, but you shouldn't need to

Aptitude is just another dpkg front end- it was better than apt-get but not really much so than apt

BeastOfCaerbannog

I have to work. I hope you manage to solve it. I'll check again later.

technastic_tc

8:03 AM

@BeastOfCaerbannog ok. Take care!

@JourneymanGeek oh..

@JourneymanGeek Can you edit this post if you don't mind: meta.askubuntu.com/questions/19376/…

The code formatting is not good

I know that the question is not related to meta and belongs to main site

I've flagged for moderator intervention to shift it to main site

Journeyman Geek

OH

nvm

technastic_tc

8:19 AM

Any user of AU with required reputation can edit posts in meta if I'm not wrong.

Thanks @JourneymanGeek

Journeyman Geek

ya. I'm a little tired and distracted :D

technastic_tc

@JourneymanGeek ohh.. Take care..

@JourneymanGeek It's 4 PM (approx) right?

Journeyman Geek

yup

I worked sat night. 2 day shifts and 2 night shifts + a weekend night shift.

its tiring :D

@technastic_tc the bigger issue is he dosen't have much information

technastic_tc

oh.. I hope your circadian rhythm is fine..

Journeyman Geek

he's trying to install steam

my circadian rhythm is death metal

technastic_tc

8:26 AM

@JourneymanGeek what's death metal?

Journeyman Geek

my circadian rhythm :D

technastic_tc

@JourneymanGeek yeah.. and the OP posted the same question in main site as well. I didn't notice that :(

Do close votes exist in meta?

Journeyman Geek

uhh

I think so

yup

technastic_tc

If you can, do add close vote to the question. And ask people in Downboat to close the post..

technastic_tc

12:26 PM

@Zanna Pinning tabs in browser might be helpful.

Zanna

12:59 PM

@technastic_tc :) I use OneTab extension, otherwise I have too many tabs

technastic_tc

@Zanna Is that extension available in Firefox?

Zanna

I only use Firefox :)

technastic_tc

@Zanna oh.. cool!

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Dan

3:08 PM

Is ok to tag all questions regarding Ubuntu anniversary with a new tag? Like 10th-anniversary, for example. It would be nice to be able to group under 1 tag so we can easily find them

jokerdino

3:23 PM

@Dan I am kinda thinking the same

αғsнιη

3:33 PM

Locate files matching mimetype in a directory recursively via command line 3asked Sep 10 '14 at 17:43 by ThorSummoner
duplicate of How to Search for Files Recursively into Subdirectories – αғsнιη Sep 10 '14 at 17:52 declined

Interesting 👀

almost 6+ years passed when I was flagged question as duplicate and just now I see it's handled and declined

👀

Dan

:55952283 no lol, the current posts will always be about the 10th anniversary. If we make another event next year, those new posts would be tagged with a new "11th-anniversary" tag

αғsнιη

yes, I read wrong, so recalled my comment above

and that's good idea to do so

Dan

6:23 PM

Thanks @Zanna for the tags!

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