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@Seth I swear I have found weirder tags :(

@Braiam I believe you.

3.10 LOL

Why was this reopened? askubuntu.com/questions/364760/…

2:41 AM

@Seth start a darn clean build directory

dpkg-deb: building package `indicator-bluetooth' in `../indicator-bluetooth_0.0.6daily13.02.19-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb'.
 dpkg-genchanges  >../indicator-bluetooth_0.0.6daily13.02.19-0ubuntu1_amd64.changes
dpkg-genchanges: including full source code in upload
 dpkg-source --after-build dont-hide-on-rfkill
dpkg-buildpackage: full upload; Debian-native package (full source is included)

OK

now let me see that "builddep"

:11873877

    seth-saucy@sethsaucy-VirtualBox:~$ sudo apt-get build-dep indicator-bluetooth
    [sudo] password for seth-saucy:
    Reading package lists... Done
    Building dependency tree
    Reading state information... Done
    0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded

@Seth mmm... as far I know he meant the bazaar plugin D:

sudo apt-get install bzr-builddeb
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
bzr-builddeb is already the newest version.
bzr-builddeb set to manually installed.

Oh, you mean't builddeb not builddep?

2:46 AM

builddeb

Purpose

Builds a Debian package from a branch.

Usage

bzr builddeb [BRANCH_OR_BUILD_OPTIONS...]

Yeah, so you want the builddeb error?

yeah...

nope, I found out why it trow you an error...

OK. Funny thing is, I re-downloaded the source and now ./configure and make worked O_O

gpg: /tmp/debsign.h797omcX/indicator-bluetooth_0.0.6daily13.02.19-0ubuntu1.dsc: clearsign failed: secret key not available
debsign: gpg error occurred!  Aborting....
debuild: fatal error at line 1278:
running debsign failed
bzr: ERROR: The build failed.

something like that right?

Yep.

2:59 AM

@Braiam Look alright? askubuntu.com/questions/296317/…

yeah

Cool. Thanks for all the help :)

I have no idea why the original way all of a sudden started working.

because your build tree was dirty... you needed to clean up :P

Yes, but I don't understand what made it dirty..

Oh cool:

about the gpg error check developer.ubuntu.com/packaging/html/getting-set-up.html

3:10 AM

I'm lovin' Monit:

Just dropped #supervisor on @2buntu in favor of #monit. It's much more powerful and offers a nice web interface.

Tweeted by nathanosman_dev on October 26, 2013 at 3:09 AM

they seriously should merge LP and Ubuntu openid :(

Here's a screenshot:

Very handy.

I remember about almost using monit... don't know what happened that I never touch it

@Braiam Hey - if you want an OpenID, you can get one at my website :)

I'm a full-fledged OpenID provider.

lol, I need less openids :P

I have... let see... ~8?

3:16 AM

The more you have, the less likely you'll run into problems if one stops working.

mm... login twice to LP...

3:28 AM

WebGL is broken on Chrome :(

ok, @Seth I've figured out the problem... is that that module is geared towards people that modify the packages (ie. has an entry in the change log)

Now signing changes and any dsc files...
 signfile indicator-bluetooth_0.0.6daily13.02.19-0ubuntu2.dsc Braiam <braiamp....>

You need a passphrase to unlock the secret key for
user: "Braiam <braiam.....>"
2048-bit RSA key, ID F179A1EE, created 2013-10-26


 signfile indicator-bluetooth_0.0.6daily13.02.19-0ubuntu2_amd64.changes Braiam  <braiam....>

You need a passphrase to unlock the secret key for
user: "Braiam <braiamp....>"
2048-bit RSA key, ID F179A1EE, created 2013-10-26


Successfully signed dsc and changes files

I added an entry into the changelog with dhc -i and the darn thing worked

now I have a package with my signature :(

4:19 AM

Everything is acting up today.

I went to play some audio and it was set to output through S/PDIF by default :P

someone reject this edit is a ripoff wikipedia

from here en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slackware

7:46 AM

If I wanted to share a script I wrote which puts <kbd> tags around strings, would that be more suited to meta or the main site?

no response? meta then

don.joey

7:59 AM

I was tempted not to edit this: askubuntu.com/revisions/366057/1

@don.joey I was just about to flag it as OT EOL when I noticed the title.

Q: Can We install ubuntu 4.10 on virtualbox?

8:33 AM

someone wants to go back to 2004

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Anyone has a idea how to install Ubuntu 4.10 on virtual box?My specs are: 4 GB Ram Intel core i3 64 bit@3.40 GHz Windows 8 64 bit thnx Anonymous

its virtualbox. WHY NOT BLOODY TRY IT?

@JourneymanGeek yes it's fine, the problem is if they need some help with anything

@minerz029: I have an instance of OS/2 running on a VM

and I've set it up from scratch before

yes, i heard. you can't assume everyone is as good as you ;)

@minerz029: Well, I got where I am by looking up documentation, and filling in the cracks with research

8:46 AM

but if the OP couldn't find old-releases.ubuntu.com then I don't have much hope

oh, that bits true

but in that case he asked the wrong question

the question could do with some editing, but will anyone even see it again?

well, I'd guess it makes it googleable

but I am not convinced its a good question

i'd say it's still OT

cause of EOL

EOL-ness aside the OP hasn't even done the minimal amount of research

8:50 AM

i agree. old-releases is linked right from releases.ubuntu.com

(though, now I'm wondering if there's a snapshot of the last warty repo floating around anywhere)

did apt exist back then? (history lesson)

oh certainly

ubuntu inherited apt from debian (and until unity, was actually pretty close to debian)

@minerz029 yes

will it work if there's no repo at archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu ?

8:52 AM

oh, it will work

you won't be able to install any software

@minerz029 you can install but updating is impossible

ok, you'd be using the default software from the .iso

forever more

@JourneymanGeek installing is possible >:) just got to hunt down the debs _O-

Kartik

@JourneymanGeek I tried with 10.10. I wasn't able to install anything

@Kartik: there's supposed to be repos with a snapshot of the last release of the packages for each release

8:54 AM

ah well >:) he is on his own anyways :D

yep, i even mentioned it in my answer in bold

Q: Where can I get the repositories for old Ubuntu versions?

ah hah!

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Where can I get the old repositories for Ubuntu versions? In my case, it's 9.04 Jaunty? I found all the official repositories and their mirrors have been removed. I am wondering where I can get the repository list for this version?

ubuntu

my 13.10 has a nice battery life :D

heh

funny you might mention that

I'm currently struggling to get an older laptop with a slightly cranky hard drive updated

@minerz029 add above link to the answer >:)

BUT answering his question means he is not on his own >:-D

8:57 AM

@Rinzwind shouldn't it be enabled by default? does it have to be added to sources.list?

So many >:) faces

i meant that the link was about as far as i could help

i am an evil faces person :+)

feel free to edit yourself if you want to add that link, I'm not sure how you want me to mention it

@minerz029: you need to replace the source.lst with the one for archival versions

hey he is on his own >:D

i'm going to end up helping him too much...

9:00 AM

commented

you can always delete your answer :-D

@Rinzwind that would be truly >:)

told you! I am a evil face >:-D

pity my pom pom girl does not work here :(

o0

9:53 AM

@ThomasW. @Seth does

11:07 AM

.... what?

yes

he gave username and password. -.-

and... he deleted it

11:41 AM

just installed a system... forgot to set either root password or user password :(

searchfgold6789

12:28 PM

I guess you don't have to know how to spell nowadays to get into "collage"? askubuntu.com/posts/366131/revisions

Amith KK

@searchfgold6789 And how will tor help him bypass his bandwidth limit ? -_-

In fact, won't it increase it?

searchfgold6789

My guess is that the bandwidth limit might be the kind that reduces the size of files that can be downloaded rather than, say, a total daily limit.

It's common for public networks to discourage individual IP's from downloading big files, which uses bandwidth more constantly (torrenting a Girls Gone Wild video) rather than in short spurts (web browsing).

According to the network, if Tor is used, a bunch of little downloads are made rather than one big one.

(Actually torrent wasn't a good example because that also breaks it up into multiple connections, maybe downloading a big .iso or something)

1:20 PM

@Braiam: time to haxxor it!

single user mode?

@JourneymanGeek nah, chrooting FTW... :P

sigh

to dualboot or not to dualboot...

mount /dev/sdb5 /mnt
chroot /mnt /bin/bash
passwd ## New root password here :D

(setting up a system for my mom, windows for the lovely google transliteration keyboard, giving her a locked down account. Trying to decide if I want to blow away the centos partition for a *buntu one)

lol, someone "unaccepted" my answer...

Q: What is the "learn" tag good for?

3:18 PM

I'm sure there is a question about this (@mateo)

Ask Ubuntu Meta

3:29 PM

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Could someone tell me the pro's of having learn? Some questions are closed (as dupe, 1 NARQ). The others are very subjective (where do I start?), or too broad (asking for "good" books), instead asking questions that really have an answer. I say the tag has to go and the questions that aren't ques...

discussion tags

4:08 PM

The "low quality" algorithm shows no respect at all :-)

bug askubuntu.com/q/362933/169736 D:

:-))

@guntbert once I had a answer of Jorge too :P

having an algorithm with no false positives isn't even desirable

Q: Exporting Logical Volume to Mac for use as Time Machine drive

4:31 PM

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I have an Ubuntu server, and I have put a hard drive into this server. The logical volume on this hard drive looks like Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 2048 976773167 488385560 8e Linux LVM this has a ext3 file system. What do I have...

ubuntu osx samba fstab

dupe:

-1

Q: Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb

13.04 boot

@Seth of???

See comment ;)

@Braiam Okay. Thanks for figuring that out :)

eodj

4:48 PM

How can I make the music notification shorter when I listen to a song, its is there for 10 seconds/

great, chromium depreciated a entire section of the calls and didn't told anyone :(

@Seth hahaha

Mateo

@Braiam my guess would to start at step 5 the phablet-flash part... not sure installing android would be necessary

Q: How to reinstall latest Ubuntu Touch on Nexus 4?

don't we have a canonical question about "that"?

Mateo

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I've followed the instructions on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/Install, first doing the steps that lead to phablet-flash -b and then the manual ones. In both cases, I get stuck at the Google boot screen. It does not boot into Touch. No errors during manual install, and adb devices shows the devi...

ubuntu-touch nexus-4

except that is about the n4 not galaxy

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Q: How do I install the latest version of ubuntu touch in a LG Nexus 4?

I installed ubuntu on the touch device LG NEXUS 4 according to the instructions of the wiki. The first problem was the command in step 4: phablet-flash (cdimage-touch | cdimage-legacy | ubuntu-system | community)-b gave me: (bash: syntax error near token expected "cdimage-touch") I got resu...

ubuntu-touch

5:04 PM

@guntbert That is a low quality post.

@Seth well, it could be a little more elaborate, that's true, but it answers the question exactly, doesn't it?

Emm... Not in my opinion.

A: Do one-line-of-code answers count as VLQ?

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The key part of the very low quality flag is that the post cannot be salvaged through editing. A one-line code answer or even code with no explanation can be salvaged. It may not be complete, but it does answer the question and pretty much anyone can look at it and add in text that describes the ...

Q: Tutorial: Ubuntu 13.10 Install Brother DCP-8110DN Laser Printer

5:20 PM

@Seth Do you say it doesn't answer the question?

A question that is an answer -- what to do with

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As continuation of my efforts to install Brother DCP-8110DN Laser Printer on Ubuntu, finally I made it, so I want to share with you all how I did it. This is how I have done it. With the help of this page: http://www.conocetupc.cl/te-ayudamos-ubuntu-faq/25-sobre-ubuntu/41-instalando-impresora-...

drivers printing 13.10 brother tutorial

@guntbert Close as unclear.

@guntbert IMO an answer is more than just code.

I would downvote such and answer.

@Seth downvote != flag LQ

really, what is the tutorial for? Asking for a tuturial?

@Braiam care to approve the edit request on the "tutorial", so the Title is already reworded

done

Amith KK

5:31 PM

BBT

Good Night

he's asking about vmware, vmplayer or vmwhatever?

@guntbert Yes, which is why I would "looks good" it. All I'm saying is it is LQ ;)

Oh btw @Braiam askubuntu.com/questions/296317/…

What does that normally mean?

@Seth that you messed up the name of the package :P

    bzr is already the newest version.
E: Package 'bazaar' has no installation candidate

oh.. right >.<

I can't believe I did that.

ok, he has problems installing virtualbox (?) and ask how to install it, I answered

5:40 PM

5

I can't believe I never thought of that!

This is a bug right? askubuntu.com/questions/366314/ubuntu-13-10-gnome-breaks-unity

@Braiam Nothing wrong with that.

6:17 PM

@Seth status-bydesign

What O_O

Do we really need to include 'sudo warnings'? askubuntu.com/a/366321/44179

link to the sudo question maybe

not necessary though, if you are asking that.

Q: Ubuntu- How do I change clock speed from terminal?

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The title of this question pretty much says it all. What command or program do I need to run in order to change the clock speed to a specific value I want? For example, I'm looking for something like <command name> 1.7, or something similar, to change the speed to a specified frequency in GHz or ...

ubuntu terminal cpu cpu-frequency

Q: Could someone provide a step by step guide to configuring OpenVPN server to work over port 443?

6:35 PM

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My network is very restrictive and many many things do not work so I need to configure a VPN that will work over port 443. I have tried numerous times to set up the server myself, however I can never get further than establishing a connection between the server and the client. The traffic is not ...

ubuntu debian vpn openvpn

7:06 PM

Oh @jokerdino still gonna add those links to my git repo?

OOooh

i totally forgot -.-

Oli

@Seth Improper use of sudo dd is very dangerous.

I'll surely get to it in the following week.

@Oli I didn't note it was a dd question. In that case, yep.

I didn't realize it was a dd question either lol.

@Oli So yeah, that probably changes things then. Thanks for pointing that out.

@jokerdino Thanks :)

gzip: stdout: No space left on device
E: mkinitramfs failure cpio 141 gzip 1

O_o

@Seth rm -rfi / :P

7:17 PM

lol.

dupe askubuntu.com/q/365979/169736

Of?

check OP comment :P

Oh, now I see in the post :P

Q: I am looking for stable distro with global menu

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I really like that mac's and ubuntu's global menu, where every program integrates with the top bar, and "file" "new" "view" (and other menus) are put in the global bar. I would like to find out if there are other alternatives (except for ubuntu) that have this feature inside them. I am looking fo...

shell ubuntu fedora

7:25 PM

Can I clear out /tmp?

and what about initrd.img.old?

sudo apt-get autoremove :P

and don't touch it!

I tried that. Same error.

/boot is full.

mm...

Guess I'll try this: askubuntu.com/questions/89710/…

hm, remove old kernels using dpkg -r

7:30 PM

use the:
kernelver=$(uname -r | sed -r 's/-[a-z]+//')
dpkg -l linux-{image,headers}-"[0-9]*" | awk '/ii/{print $2}' | grep -ve $kernelver

K

that will list all the old ones, then remove them with whatever you like

> After this operation, 471 MB disk space will be freed.

Man, dpkg is verbose.

Okay, that removed all but 3. Dependency problems on those. However, it was enough to finish the upgrade and do autoremove. Thanks

w00t!

7:50 PM

@Seth not true :/, run it with --debug=44444 or --dry-run :P

JohnMerlino

I noticed an issue with libreoffice

Soemtimes I underline text in a document, and when I save and exit, and reopen the document later, it underlines everything, even stuff I did not underline

Anyone experience this?

version of LO?

JohnMerlino

Its the version that comes installed with 12.04 lts

LibreOffice 3.5.7.2
Build ID: 350m1(Build:2)

My document is over 900 pages

And it includes links to web pages

dunno, but that desn't happen in later releases, maybe a bug, you should upgrade LO

at 900 pages, things happen

8:05 PM

Have someone ever used the Evidence Based Scheduling of Joel Spolsky?

I want to use it on FogBugz but no idea how

BHM

Hmmm... if I do a sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get upgrade -y and my i386 laptop drops to low graphics mode AND when i CTRL+ALT+F1 login it says GNU/Linux ...31-generic i686 << i686. Is there maybe something wrong?

Is it a valid suspicion to think that i386 and i686 should not be the same?

@BHM linuxforums.org/forum/miscellaneous/… doesn't matter, that's the architecture of your processor, any iX86 processor is able to run i386 code

BHM

That is assuring. thanks.

is made like that so it always work in any old/new pc

spam

8:22 PM

as you say

8:34 PM

unity-tweak-tool works in 13.10, too. — eswald 55 secs ago

I know; I tested it.

LOL, just write 13.04 and later :P

:P

things might change in 14.04

primarily with Mir.

yep

I can wait! :D

I didn't upgrade to 13.10 yet

Need to check back up first

8:37 PM

I have 3 bugs that prevent me from upgrading...

Q: Can the sysv tag be deleted?

list them please

Ask Ubuntu Meta

9:03 PM

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There are currently three questions with the [sysv] tag ; I don't think this really adds much. It is used to describe "sysv-like" behavior, and cases where it is used would be better served by describing how it is relevant, in the context of an answer or question, not as a tag or as shorthand. ...

discussion

@JohnMerlino You really outa upgrade that.

LO is now at version 4.1.something

9:17 PM

LOL @LiveWireBT is that a figurine of Asuna?

Can someone VTR?

Q: Start up commads in LUBUNTU

10:00 PM

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I want these 2 commands to run on boot. xinput --set-prop "Razer Razer DeathAdder" "Device Accel Constant Deceleration" 4 xinput --set-prop "Razer Razer DeathAdder" "Device Accel Velocity Scaling" 1 I tried putting these 2 commands /etc/rc.local, .zshrc, also...

ubuntu oh-my-zsh lubuntu

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Q: Escape hash in bash while exporting env var

I am adding an env variable to /etc/environment but because the variable value contains # sign, string is striped. export MYSQL_PWD="something#no" Now if I do env above code yields MYSQL_PWD=something. How can I escape hash? I've already tried \ character.

bash ubuntu