I know I can do dpkg --get-selections to see a list of installed packages. However I have a hard drive that doesn't boot but most files appear to be intact. Is there a way I can get the list of packages that were installed off this broken hard drive without figuring out how to boot a system...

I'm using Ubuntu Server 16.04.4 LTS to set up a SFTP server via openssh-sftp-server 1:7.2p2-4ubuntu2.8 from my Server I need to watch /log the activities of sftp users. So, I am using the below configuration. But, I don't see any information getting logged on /var/log/sftp.log I am not sure what...

I require to dual boot Ubuntu LTS 18.04 along with Windows 10. Which laptop would you recommend to do so? I would need a good community to troubleshoot with, documentation, step-by-step guides to dual boot Ubuntu on that particular laptop. The laptop's installation of Ubuntu (dual boot) should be...

I recently installed a PCI-E card that gives me both Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. Previously I was using Bluetooth through a USB connected to one of the USB ports. I am dual-booting both Windows 7 and Ubuntu. My Wi-Fi is working fine on Ubuntu. Both my Wi-Fi and Bluetooth are working fine on Windows 7....

I've installed and configured Folding@Home: $ lsb_release --all No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 19.10 Release: 19.10 Codename: eoan $ FAHClient --version 7.5.1 $ cat /etc/fahclient/config.xml <config> <!-- Network --> <proxy v=':8080'/> <!...

I have issue in Ubuntu 18.04 Server to configurate internal and external network. Case is that i have Gateway device which has DHCP service to lease IP addresses for wlan connected devices. Gateway device eth0 IP address is 192.168.1.120 and Gateway device wlan0 has static 10.10.0.1 IP address an...

sfdisk --delete $disk From Ubuntu 18.04 or later works. What is the equivalent command in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS? Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (--delete missing): http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/xenial/man8/sfdisk.8.html Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (--delete present): http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/bionic/man8/sf...

i have a problem on use udev. i want to realizae usb Hot plug on ubuntu16.04, so i write a udev rule as follow: KERNEL=="sd[a-z]*", ACTION=="add",SUBSYSTEM=="block",SYMLINK+="USB",RUN+="/bin/sh /root/load_device.sh %k" when i use USB, it works, and the symlink /dev/USB direct to /dev/sda1 or /...

I bought this USB wifi dongle and I tried to install it on my Kubuntu 20.04 (Kubuntu 18.04 LTS upgraded recently to 20.04) $lsusb ... Bus 005 Device 002: ID 0bda:8812 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8812AU 802.11a/b/g/n/ac 2T2R DB WLAN Adapter ... I followed this french tutorial that says that ...

I'm trying to compile Nginx from source with the following relevant line: --with-ld-opt='-Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions -fPIE -pie -Wl,-z,now' And the ./configure fails with: checking for --with-ld-opt='-Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions -fPIE -pie -Wl,-z,now' ... not found ./configure: error: the invalid va...

My configuration: /dev/sdb2/ -> Windows 10 Partition /dev/sdb4/ -> Ubuntu 18.04 Partition I would like to decrease the Windows 10 partition and give that unallocated space to the Ubuntu 18 partition, but there is an EFI (boot, esp) partition between them. What is the best way to achieve this ?