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Q: Is the nvidia gtx 690 and the ryzen 5 1600 cpu compatible with ubuntu 18.04 LTS?

it is my first post on this forum i hope that i did not create any confussions. I have already built this pc: NVIDIA GTX 690 X370 MSI MOTHERBOARD AMD RYZEN 5 1600 16GB DDR4 planning to install Ubuntu 18.04 LTS i'm gonna make 4 questions 1- Is the Nvidia GTX 690 compatible with linux/ubuntu 1...

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5:11 AM

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Q: Running python file leads to Seg Fault

I have a python3 script to connect to a database using pyodbc but every time it runs or if I run it from a interactive python prompt via the terminal I get a Segmentation fault. The error message is as follows: python3: Relink `/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsystemd.so.0' with `/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu...

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7:30 AM

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Q: Ubuntu can't read repository

I ran the command on Ubuntu 19.04 sudo apt update Hit:1 http://fi.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic InRelease Hit:2 http://fi.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security InRelease ...

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Benny

8:06 AM

\o/

Benny

8:48 AM

Hey guys, I did flag about this 2 comments, please help me to remove this 2 comments at my answer here How to install updates via command line? there was a good comment with +9 that describe that is a very good approach and now its gone and instead there are the 2 new comments. Help to remove them if you agree with me that is can be removal.

Journeyman Geek

@Benny you need a mod to do that

iiiiiiirc

unless it has one of the list of inwanted words

Benny

what do you mean mod? iiiirc?

Journeyman Geek

iirc = if I remember correctly

Mod means moderator. Those guys with diamonds...

(Not me, I'm a moderator elsewhere)

so just flag and wait

Benny

Thanks @JourneymanGeek

terdon

10:21 AM

@Benny could you explain what's wrong with those comments? They seem reasonable to me. Why can't you run sudo -- sh -c '... apt-get dist-upgrade --auto-remove -y?

And if you run apt-get dist-upgrade is there any reason to also run apt-get upgrade? I admit I haven't used a deb-based distro in a few years now, so I may be remembering wrong, but doesn't dist-upgrade do everything that upgrade does?

Isn't dist-upgrade a superset of upgrade, I mean?

DK Bose

11:09 AM

I have gnome-terminal 3.28.2 on Ubuntu 18.04 and on Kubuntu 18.04. gnome-terminal --title="Something" or gnome-terminal --title "Something" works in Kubuntu, not in Ubuntu. Any idea why? I'll be trying Xubuntu 18.04 in a while to see what happens there.

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Q: What does `swapaccount=1` in GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT do?

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11:50 AM

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Q: How to show GRUB menu instead of command line?

I am trying to install Ubuntu 18.04 on a Lenovo ideapad 320, but the installer always hangs at installing the grub2 package. So I ran the installer with ubiquity -b (no bootloader) and it installs fine. I thought this way I could install grub manually. When I boot, grub drops to the grub> command...

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Bahamut

My ubuntu is working well. How can I fix it? :D

Journeyman Geek

just start deleting random things and mixing repos ;p

@terdon properly - dist upgrade is when you change your repos to a new version

so it checks a few things better, and upgrades some packages that might be held back IIRC

but certainly won't hurt

Videonauth

@terdon dist-upgrade is simply as well be able to downgrade packages if needed which a normal upgrade can not do. I usually only do dist-upgrade as update command and fared pretty well with it.

Bahamut

okay, I'll try :D

terdon

@JourneymanGeek @Videonauth yes, exactly. That's what I'm saying: if you have already run dist-upgrade, then what's the point in also running upgrade?

Journeyman Geek

12:02 PM

oh

nothing

Videonauth

@JourneymanGeek well it can hurt if you have packages which might get downgraded on your machine but that is for the user to know, as if we all not can know what they have installed or not

terdon

If you've run upgrade, then running dist-upgrade after that could make sense. But the other way around?

Videonauth

@terdon makes no sense at all

Journeyman Geek

@terdon cargo cult ;p

terdon

Yep :)

Bahamut

12:03 PM

Oh, I know I upgrade bionic dirrectly to eom. this should work

Videonauth

aswell it makes no sense to run --autoremove with that together as it can end up in an unclean state

terdon

That's why I don't get why @Benny thinks those comments are wrong.

Videonauth

rather do the dist-upgrade and then apt autoremove --purge

terdon

Why purge?

Videonauth

to not have leftover config files on the machine piling up

autoremove usually not removes configuration files

purge does

Benny

12:09 PM

Hey =) I am not sure if they wrong, I just didn't like to see that someone probably a moderator has removed the comments with +9 and instead this 2 new comments that seems unuseable. anyway, Thank you all.

terdon

@Benny Hey, I'm not sure they are correct either! That's why I asked. Why are you saying they're wrong?

@Videonauth Yea, that's a bug not a feature for me :) I often want to keep configs in case I install again. So I wouldn't use purge unless I'm 100% sure I will never want it back.

@Benny Why unusable? They seem like valid suggestions you could incorporate into your answer. Are they not? What am I missing?

Benny

Because according to comment #1: If someone will try to add it to the 3 ways command I supply, I think it will fail. and comments #2: I disagree because If dist-upgrade after upgrade did some upgrade so what he is saying not true.

Videonauth

@terdon well for that i keep usually backups of all config files but want my machine except that clean up everything which is not in use anymore

Benny

for example, try to add #1 to this: sudo bash -c 'for i in update {,dist-}upgrade auto{remove,clean}; do apt-get $i -y; done'

:D

Bahamut

12:24 PM

reboot

Benny

I think like this:

sudo bash -c 'for i in update {,dist-}upgrade\ --auto-remove autoclean; do apt-get $i -y; done'

terdon

@Benny not for that one, no, but you can add it to the other two approaches.

And (assuming it does the same thing as apt-get autoremove -y), if you do add it, that's one less command to run.

@Benny Sorry, I don't understand the second. If you ru dist-upgrade, then why would you also run upgrade?

dist-upgrade is basically a more complete version of upgrade. So why run upgrade at all if you are going to run dist-upgrade anyway? Is there ever a case where that will be helpful?

Benny

I am really not sure about it but I remember I test it and found useful to do it. but now I am confusing.

Bahamut

12:44 PM

when you make a release upgrade without this do-release-upgrade thing, then it makes sense first to make partial upgrade.

terdon

@Bahamut why?

No, hang on, do you mean release-upgrade or dist-upgrade? Those are two different things aren't they?

The question is whether there is any benefit in running apt upgrade before running apt dist-upgrade. I had always understood that dist-upgrade will do everything the simple upgrade will do, plus extras. So if dist-upgrade does everything, why run upgrade first?

Bahamut

It will upgrade nesesary packages like apt dpkg and others. I always upgrade debian and ubuntu that way. never had problems.

Rinzwind

@terdon sort of ... but... bahamut is correct.

your update can fail if apt has an outstanding update though it is unlikely

Bahamut

I am not a of friend of do-release-upgrade. I'am old-fashioned

terdon

1:07 PM

All of this is in the context of this specific answer:

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A: How to install updates via command line?

Execute all the commands by typing sudo once: sudo -- sh -c 'apt-get update; apt-get upgrade -y; apt-get dist-upgrade -y; apt-get autoremove -y; apt-get autoclean -y' or sudo -s -- <<EOF apt-get update apt-get upgrade -y apt-get dist-upgrade -y apt-get autoremove -y apt-get autoclean -y EOF ...

In that context, is there any reason to run both upgrade and dust-upgrade? @Rinzwind

Bahamut

normally not.

Benny

how are u guys updating your PC? (I am using one of the methods suggested).

Zanna

1:28 PM

sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade && sudo apt autoremove

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Journeyman Geek

sometimes also autoclean. I run some janky systems

Benny

Thanks, @Zanna consider using autoclean as well, no? :)

Zanna

haha you asked what I do, I didn't ask for advice :P

Journeyman Geek

I mean I do that too

naaaw

Zanna

1:41 PM

nothing has ever happened when I use autoclean

Journeyman Geek

autoclean is mostly useless unless you are rediculously short of space

I think apt does some clean up itself

Zanna

@JourneymanGeek sure, my comment was to Benny haha

@JourneymanGeek yeah!

Journeyman Geek

I'm running windows 10 on a cheap chinese tablet whose bottleneck is the onboard storage

so I run all the software off a SD card

Zanna

my onboard storage is super limited too :(

@JourneymanGeek isn't it slow?

Journeyman Geek

(yes, it could run linux, but the touch screen is exquisitely wierd)

@Zanna its faster than the onboard storage.

Zanna

1:42 PM

hahaha ouch

Journeyman Geek

but it was about 50 usd so...

Benny

Thanks!

Benny

2:26 PM

If I will just change from dist-upgrade to full-upgrade ... it can be better from the current?

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Q: Ubuntu: execute a terminal output inside Makefile

I have a command that spits as an output another command. I'd like to run this output in a makefile script. The simpler command I could reproduce is awsecrpush: VAR=$$( sudo echo "ls -lah" ) | bash -c "sudo -s $$VAR" What are my results: Running make $ make VAR=$( sudo echo "...

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2:50 PM

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Q: sudo sshuttle without password

I find an aricles http://superuser.com/questions/611511/how-to-launch-sshuttle-without-superuser-pwd-prompt, when I try ps auxwww |grep sud, I get output a bit different root 2846 0.0 0.1 79104 4328 pts/0 S+ 08:27 0:00 sudo -p [local sudo] Password: PYTHONPATH=/usr/lib/python3/...

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Rinzwind

4:56 PM

@terdon always dust your machine :P

terdon

Dammit! I was hoping nobody would notice that! :P

In my defense, I was on mobile.

Byte Commander

but do you have more or less dust after a dust-upgrade?

Rinzwind

depends on the cleaning tool :P if you use software cleaning tool not a lot of dust gets removed.

you need to use a duster :=)

terdon

@ByteCommander You have better dust!

Rinzwind

electric dust :=)

WinEunuuchs2Unix

5:18 PM

I tried sudo apt dust-upgrade like @terdon suggested but my laptop still runs at same temp :(

terdon

Maybe you're already fully dustgraded.

WinEunuuchs2Unix

oh right. I forgot I put dust-upgrade into my rc.local so I'm clean as a whistle all the time :)

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Q: Running a whole bunch of Files and changing it's parameter four times

I have 8,000 files, within those files, for each file I want to change it's parameters about four times? Is there an easier way I can so it can start running files ?

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Benny

5:59 PM

@Rinzwind you 218k reputation (well done my friend), why u not become a moderator? is it not happen automatically after X reputation? you don't like to have the diamond? =D

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Q: How to use a SOCKS5 Proxy in Unix

I have a python bot which works on UDP Protocol. I know that only SOCKS5 Proxies support UDP, but how do I use them? I have seen many tutorials but they're using ssh to connect to remote and that's something I don't want to do I think some Proxifier might work but proxychains is not working. Som...

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Rinzwind

@Benny making me a moderator has been proven to be a bad decision.

and I will be #1 on AU w/o becoming a moderator :=)

Benny

6:21 PM

:D You already #1. Today I just realized that there is such thing calls moderator =D

Rinzwind

6:36 PM

nah Oli still is but I have better traction (my rep on older q's is better)

terdon

6:51 PM

@Benny askubuntu.com/users?tab=moderators

:)

WinEunuuchs2Unix

7:09 PM

@Rinzwind Pilot 6 joked you and Oli should be banned so everyone else can make points :P

Rinzwind

Everyone else should make an effort :=

WinEunuuchs2Unix

Some of the new users should do less effort and more watching and learning before posting :)

Benny

8:54 PM

nicely, only 12 moderators

WinEunuuchs2Unix

So we only need 12 less then? haha

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9:29 PM

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Q: Screen Never Sleeps (And Turns On Automatically)

My xset settings keep getting reset. This is causing my monitor to never sleep. Even when I try to force my monitor to sleep using the command xset dpms force offthe monitor almost immediately turns back on. I have tried unplugging my mouse to make sure that it isn't causing a mouse event to tr...

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11:29 PM

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Q: How to log in via desktop enviornment?

I am using Ubuntu for my terminal. I am unable to access my Desktop and when I type "ls" nothing shows up. How do I log in via desktop environment in order to access my desktop files? huque@RNB:~$ pwd /home/huque huque@RNB:~$ cd Desktop -bash: cd: Desktop: No such file or directory huque@RNB:~$ ...

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