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Q: 500 error on index.php with nginx + php-fpm

Before starting, I'd like to ssay this is my first experience with VPS, I have an Ubuntu 18.04 64bit minimal server. For everything I tried so far I didn't tried using complex application. Just plain html file with Hello message and WordPress blank installation. To begin with, I'm installing Ve...

Zanna

01:37

OMG

@TheWanderer thank you!

jokerdino

05:04

@TheWanderer Yes, sounds about right

Congrats @Ravexina and @Zanna.

Ravexina

@jokerdino Thanks :)

Zanna

05:31

@jokerdino thanks! <3

Pandya

06:06

@Rinzwind update:

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A: How much percentage of non-free softwares do Ubuntu's repositories contain?

Though I didn't find such information on Ubuntu's Documentation, I created a simple script to calculate it manually: #!/bin/bash ubuntu_main=$(lynx -dump http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/focal/main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | grep ^Package: | wc -l) ubuntu_universe=$(lynx -dump http://archi...

@Zanna congratulations! :)

Zanna

@Pandya wow nice job :) I saw your question this morning looking for stuff related to Debian

@Pandya thank you! :D

Pandya

@EliahKagan is the code markdown dead?

Kulfy

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Q: We're switching to CommonMark

I’m Ham and I’m a developer on the Teams team here at Stack Overflow. Over the past few months, I’ve been heads down working on the way we turn Markdown into HTML when writing and editing posts across the network. I’d love to share what I’ve come up with. In a nutshell: We're planning to use Comm...

discussion status-completed featured markdown announcements

See "Indented code block highlighting"

Eliah Kagan

@Pandya Both four-space indents and code fences still work to make code blocks, and that icon still makes four-space indents. My edit applies syntax highlighting, which is not automatically applied because no bash-related tag is on the question, and also should be applied to some, but not all, of the text formatted as code. Before the CommonMark migration, both  preceding an individual code block and  for all code blocks worked.

Since the CommonMark migration,  is no longer supported, though  still is. To apply syntax highlighting to some code blocks but not others would (maybe aside from writing explicit HTML tags) require at least one code block to use a code fence. I figured the least bad way to apply syntax highlighting selectively in that post was to convert them all to code fences.

Pandya

06:23

I think button/UI should be updated to introdcuce ``` instead of four spaces

@EliahKagan Thanks for the fix :)

Eliah Kagan

No problem! Should the grep commands be zgrep? On my Ubuntu system, running it unmodified gives:

Total number of packages on Ubuntu's main repository = 0
Total number of packages on Ubuntu's universe repository = 0
Total number of packages on Ubuntu's restricted repository = 0
Total number of packages on Ubuntu's multivrese repository = 0
Runtime error (func=(main), adr=7): Divide by zero
Percentage of non-free packages on Ubuntu's repositories=  %

But changing each grep to zgrep works:

Total number of packages on Ubuntu's main repository = 6090
Total number of packages on Ubuntu's universe repository = 53206
Total number of packages on Ubuntu's restricted repository = 143
Total number of packages on Ubuntu's multivrese repository = 813
Percentage of non-free packages on Ubuntu's repositories= 1.61225040474905558500 %

Pandya

> $ which grep
/bin/grep

> $ man grep | tail -n 1
GNU grep 3.3 2018-05-11 GREP(1)

@EliahKagan

Eliah Kagan

I have GNU grep 3.4. The system I tested it on is Ubuntu+1 (20.10 Groovy Gorilla). Does grep one some systems auto-detect that a file is gzipped?

Or maybe the difference is in the behavior of lynx -dump?

I don't expect grep to automatically un-gzip Packages.gz.

Pandya

06:41

> $ apt-cache show lynx | head -n 2
Package: lynx
Version: 2.8.9rel.1-3

Eliah Kagan

I have lynx 2.9.0dev.5-1.

$ lynx -dump archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/focal/main/binary-amd64/… | file -
/dev/stdin: gzip compressed data, from Unix

Pandya

> $ lynx -dump http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/focal/main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | file -
/dev/stdin: UTF-8 Unicode text, with very long lines

Eliah Kagan

Apparently the difference is lynx then. Interesting.

Pandya

what's the difference between lynx rel version and dev version?

jokerdino

one of them is feline

Pandya

06:48

I am on Debian actually packages.debian.org/buster/lynx

Eliah Kagan

@Pandya According to lynx.invisible-island.net/current as I understand it, the rel versions are stable and the dev versions are experimental. But stable releases of Ubuntu also have dev versions.

Pandya

Hmm...

I was also surprised when I used lynx and it automatically extracted .gz

Rinzwind

@Ravexina gratz :)

@Zanna gratz too :)

@Pandya dude :D :D

I only voted for 2 and not 3 people in the election whistles innocently

Eliah Kagan

07:05

@Pandya I find this quite interesting and wish to investigate it further to understand the change in lynx, but I think I have a solution that would make the scripts portable. The problem is, when lynx -dump doesn't uncompress, zgrep must be used (or it can be piped through zcat first, etc.), but when lynx -dump does uncompress, zgrep must not be used. So I suggest replacing lynx -dump with wget -qO- (which never uncompresses) and replacing grep with zgrep.

Pandya

@EliahKagan btw, what lynx does for you if you don't use dump?

i.e lynx http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/focal/main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz

Zanna

07:21

@Rinzwind thanks :D

Eliah Kagan

@Pandya It opens lynx interactively, in a curses-style interface, and says:

application/x-gzip D)ownload, or C)ancel

Hizqeel

@zanna

Congrats for your selection :)

Ravexina

@Rinzwind Thanks :)

Zanna

07:37

@Hizqeel thank you! :) long time no see

Sasuke Uchiha

08:04

Is there a way to save an answer besides bookmarking it in the browser?

Kulfy

@SasukeUchiha Saving as draft?

Hizqeel

08:23

@zanna quite busy on job .... but look here I am :D

@Ravexina congrats on your selection :)

Parto

08:51

@TheWanderer Congrats to the new mods

Ravexina

@Hizqeel Thank you... :)

@Parto Thanks

Thanks to everyone... :)

Dan

09:23

@SasukeUchiha You can favorite the question, or you can use the follow functionality and follow an answer. As long are you're not following a lot of posts, you'll then be able to easily find it in the list of followed posts here askubuntu.com/users/current?tab=following

Eliah Kagan

09:34

@SasukeUchiha Or do you mean actually save the answer locally? Like, are you asking how to save the Markdown source of an answer's current revision?

Sasuke Uchiha

@EliahKagan No I want to save it for future reference.

Currently, I have them bookmarked in chrome

There are some from other sites. Ignore them

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: Unable to add a Google account on Gnome Online Accounts

I am using Ubuntu 20.04 and I am getting this message when I try to add a Google account to "Online Accounts": Peer sent fatal TLS alert: Access was denied I don't know how to fix it. I can otherwise access my Google account via a web browser.

ubuntu gnome google

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

10:39

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Q: Ubuntu 20.04 Fractional Scaling crashes computer

I am using Ubuntu 20.04 with an nVidia GTX 1650 graphics card. I enable fractional scaling in gnome and set it to 125%. Everything looks fine, scaling is working properly then I restart computer. After logging in everything is frozen. Mouse is not responsive, keyboard, etc. I can see the screen m...

ubuntu gnome nvidia display-settings display-manager

Dan

10:59

I just looked at results on OpaVotes, not to go into many details, but those results are... odd...

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12:03

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Q: Bibliography can not make Mendeley 1.19.6, Libreoffice wirter 6.4, Ubuntu 20.04

My question is how to get References/Bibliography after inserting citation? My system is Mendeley Desktop 1.19.6 on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Libreoffice writer 6.4. I tried changing sudo flatpak override --filesystem=/tmp org.libreoffice.LibreOffice as well but failed.

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jokerdino

12:26

@Dan which part?

Aman Turate

i am making customized os with ubuntu 18.04 as base. I will be using wpa_supplicant to connect with wifi. can i remove network manager as i read that its services may interfere with wpa. Please let me know your views

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: Create a USB bootable drive on Kali linux

I want to create a bootable USB drive on Kali Linux. I have an ISO image of Ubuntu and I want to create a bootable Ubuntu USB drive. How can I create it?

ubuntu bootable

cl-netbox

14:42

Congratulations on being selected as new moderators @Zanna and @Ravexina ! Great choice ... wish both of you the best of luck in your new role.

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Q: Installing Ubuntu as dual-boot without previous partitioning

My previous operating system was a Windows 8.1 with two virtual partitions (C: and D:) and it got a Black Screen of Death after the logon. Running commands like msconfig at this point was possible, but I tried to follow tutorials and messed it all. The final result was a Windows with no logon. I ...

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Zanna

15:12

@cl-netbox thank you!

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Q: SSH fingerprint issue

I tried to google it but didn't get the correct answer I wondering if someone can clarify. I am using a key to log in to the machines and I have over 1000 machines to login. The issue is when I use the key to log in it's asking me for ECDSA key fingerprint is SHA256:kfhfhfhfuuisiinnthhthucyFJxjfD...

linux bash shell-script ubuntu ssh

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Q: Ubuntu virtual machine: cursor flickers at animation if more than one display is used

I using KVM to run a Virtual Machine with Ubuntu 20. Because I want to use all three of my monitors in the VM I did the following video setup in virt-manager: <video> <model type="qxl" ram="524288" vram="262144" vgamem="262144" heads="3" primary="yes"/> <alias name="video0"/> <address type="...

ubuntu kvm cursor spice

Ravexina

16:36

@cl-netbox Thank you so much :)

jrg

17:22

Congrats @Zanna and @Ravexina on winning the election!

Zanna

thank you! And thanks for your comment on my nomination :) :) :)

jrg

you're welcome! I can say this now... when i saw there was an election, i hoped you were going to run and was pleasantly surprised you did.

Zanna

^_^

terdon

@jrg this.

jokerdino

yo @jrg!

how are you doing!!

Ravexina

17:42

@jrg Thanks :)

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