I would like to find out from cmdline (!) if a certain software is already installed.In redhat based Linuxes I could enter something likerpm -qa|grep -i mysoftwarebut this does not work in Ubuntu.How can I find this out with apt?What, if the installation was done by a perl script .pl rather than with apt.How can I find out in this case?
View 1 RepliesWhat is the default cmdline (!) mail client in Ubuntu?
Normally I use Thunderbird as GUI. But occasionally I get to Ubuntu systems where TB is not installed and cannot be installed but I need quick access to mail client
through a commandline based simple mail client.
how to configure this client?
Which are the right commands for start and kill the X window using cmdline?
View 3 Replies View RelatedCan nautilus be open at specific screen location via the command line?
running Karmic
I like to do have this folder opened at a specific location
nautilus --geometry 800x400 /home/user1/testfiles
say at location 100,300
I have a Debian Etch system. From the Gnome file manager, I can easily browse to SMB file shares on the network. So the SMB redirector is apparently present on the system.
Question - how do I access SMB shares from the command line? smbmount command is not available, trying to cd into a smb://... path gives a "No such file" error. I'm not looking for a persistent mapping, just a brief look. Better yet if root access is not necessary.
I had to reinstall 10.04 because I got an error, waiting for root device. And I figured I knew why I got this error: I changed my xconf.cfg (or whatever the file is in /etc/x11/) -- So this time I downloaded the 64 bit, because I have a 64 bit computer, so though, might as well get it! I've narrowed the problem down to this:
After I install nvidia settings (the x server or whatever?) And change my view to TwinView (I have my laptop monitor and an external monitor), and save the config file, this happens. I will do some more testing, but here is the whole error message: Gave up waiting for root device. Common problems:
- Boot args (cat /proc/cmdline)
- Check rootdelay= (did the system not wait long enough?)
- Check root= (did the system wait for the right device?
- Missing modules (cat /proc/modules; ls /dev)
ALERT! /dev/disk/by-uuid/bcb49367-8554-4116-8e4d2b39d92415cf does not exist. Dropping to a shell!
BusyBox v1.13.3 (Ubuntu 1:1.13.3-1ubuntu11) built-in shell (ash) Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.
I would like to secure my dhcp server against mac spoofing. I have two nics:eth0 -10.10.10.1/24 LANeth1 - WAN (dynamic from dhcp)I have setup /etc/etheresSERWER.MYDOMAIN.PL 00:01:02:03:04:05comp1 00:1f:d0:27:d1:beetc.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI need to make some configuration changes to an ftp server running on Ubuntu server 10.04. I don't know which ftp server program is installed, so I don't know where to look for the config files. I know that some server is installed because I can connect to it
How can I determine which ftp server is installed?
It just goes to a file I have no idea where?
View 2 Replies View RelatedToshiba Satellite laptop, Ubuntu 10.04lts
I installed qcad earlier today, using Software Center. Qcad didn't show up anywhere in the Applications dropdown menu. When I was running 9.04, it showed up in the Graphics sub-menu, but it's nowhere. Rebooted, nothing. It shows up as installed in the Synaptic Package Manager, but I went ahead and removed and installed it again, rebooting between each operation. (sigh) Still nothing. Now, I'm sure it's in here, but I can't find it. So, I have three questions:
1. How do I start it (or any program) using command line?
2. How do I find it using my Gnome gui, and put it in the applications menu
and
3. Generally, is there a guide that will explain what I'm looking at when I open my File System directory?
I have installed SAFECOPY & TESTDISK using Synaptic manager. after installation I can't find the applications in the menu, I am trying to use them. where to find these applications?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI installed glipper 1.0-1.1 on my Ubuntu 9.10, and cannot find a way to execute it. I don't see it in the Applications menu, glipper command from the command line doesn't work.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI'm playing with my hard drive partitions and trying out different O/S versions so I want Grub2 to be aware of them on its boot menu. Currently I'm using the maintainer's version of Grub2 that came with karmic. Do I have to do a re-install of Grub2 or is there a makefile I can use? Specific commands that I would need be nice.
View 5 Replies View RelatedJust bought a new accounting program BasicBooks - on the install instructions (Gibberish to me) I apparently must have Postgres installed, which apparently comes with most distros. I can't find a reference to Postgres - there should be an entry in 'System Settings --> Server Settings --> Services from the main system menu', which I cannot find. Nor can I find it in the Ubuntu software centre. I did find pgAdmin III but have no idea how this works either.
View 2 Replies View Relatedgetting this message when trying to install XP."Setup did not find any HD installed in your computer." I have Ubuntu installed on another partition so it makes no sense that XP doesn't recognize my HD.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have just installed the package monodevelop on Ubuntu 10.4 and wanted to try it out.I'm a long-time .NET developer using Visual Studio 2005/2008 on Windows so I'm familiar with the concepts.I created a new Gtk# project in MonoDevelop, but the empty project already won't compile because almost all referenced assemblies are missing. Here's the build error messages:
Warning: Die Referenz 'gtk-sharp, Version=2.12.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=35e10195dab3c99f' ist ungltig fr das Ziel-Framework des Projekts. (test1)
Warning: Die Referenz 'gdk-sharp, Version=2.12.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=35e10195dab3c99f' ist ungltig fr das Ziel-Framework des Projekts. (test1)
Warning: Die Referenz 'glib-sharp, Version=2.12.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=35e10195dab3c99f' ist ungltig fr das Ziel-Framework des Projekts. (test1)
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I have installed several applications on my Powerbook running lucid, but when I click the "applications" menu, many of them do not appear on the list. They show in the software install/remove application.
How can I run the unlisted applications?
I am a beginner Ubuntu 9.10 user. I downloaded and installed the latest version of the sun VirtualBox. My problem is I cannot find where it is installed and that's why I could not run it. Generally, when I install a program the shortcut appears in the menu "Applications->ClassOfInstalledFile". But Virtual Box did not appear. How to find the icon, or simply how to run this application and have a shortcut of it on the "Applications" menu?
View 1 Replies View RelatedOn windows I installed the iscsi initiator which tells me my pc id. Then I take that id and put it in my storage which automatically gives me my extra disk. How can I find out the id assigned to my ubuntu pc?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI am trying to compile an android project, which requires GCC-4.3(mandatory, GCC-4.4 doesn't work). So I downgraded the gcc-4.4 on my ubuntu 10.04 to gcc-4.3.
But then the compiling process doesn't work. It says:
cc: command not found
make: *** [...] error 127
It's weird that the shell can't find 'cc' while I do have gcc-4.3 installed.
I've tried type the following command:
export CC="/usr/bin/gcc-4.3"
but I don't know what's it for.
I've installed Clamav antivirus from synaptics but I can't find it on any menu now. How can I run it?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI am new to Linux but i am a fast learner ...!
Well, i've been trying lately to get my v4l recognized and well supported tv tuner to work with gv4l http://gv4l.sourceforge.net/.
I've already installed transcode http://www.transcoding.org/
and gv4l via source! All with no errors except one major fluke ...!
When i am trying to open gv4l a message pops up saying that transcode can't be found or it's not in the programs known path ...
I really need to get gv4l working for tv capture needs cause it supports scheduled captures too without having to get along with mythtv that goes a long way from my purposes...!
Is anyone familiar with this kind of problem ??
Any ideas about what i am missing or what i should do ?
Zen-coding is a great gedit plugin for html & css development.I download the files and unpack them into ~/.gnome2/gedit/plugins/.After open gedit I can't find zencoding in the Gedit Preference.
View 9 Replies View RelatedThere is a laptop that I want to get that has the ATI Mobility Radeon 4100 and I cannot find it under ATI's driver downloads for any operating system.
Look for yourself [url] select notebook, then readeon, then 4100 series, for ANY operating system, it doesen't have a driver for it.
The first question is: Were is the linux driver for the 4100, and the second, if there is NO propriatary driver installed, will x take full use of the video hardware, or will it be capped and won't work to its fullest potential that it has?
Is it possible to find programs that were installed on a specific date or within a specific date range? If so, how?
View 6 Replies View RelatedI uninstalled OpenOffice using Software Center and installed LibreOffice from the PPA using the instructions on this page:[url]
I can't find any way to launch it. Applications > Office used to have OpenOffice Writer in it. Now there are no menu items for LibreOffice any darn place.
I'm trying to compile a file with the following line :
Code: gcc lesson2.c -o lesson2 -I /usr/X11R6/include/ -L /usr/lib/ -L/usr/X11R6/lib/ -L /usr/X11R6/lib64/ -lglut -lGL -lGLU -lX11 -lXmu -lm But i got the error : /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lXmu
I'm using this to compile a simple OpenGL file, and if I remove lxmu (and lxi, wiche gives me the same error), it got the all clear, but when I tun my program, I got an "Segmentation fault" error (I think because of the missing librairies)... When I did a locate libXmu :
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A client has sent me a docx. Actually it's not the first he's sent and it always causes me some kind of problems. When I open the document (a normal boring 3 page text document) with Open Office some of the characters are replaced with little empty boxes. From context I suspect they are things like slashes and commas - but I don't know for sure.
I copy and pasted some into gedit and there they appeared as boxes with letters and numbers inside like FF04. Is there some way to find out what these symbols are? I don't need to see them or print them, I just need to know if it is a plus sign, back slash, u with umlauts, or whatever.
downloaded the java .bin file from the website and made it excutable and ran in terminal... i got the 'done' message at the end of installation, so i restarted Firefox and verified if i had java. well, i got that message talking about missing plugins... i clicked it and click get missing plugins, It didn't find java on my computer!
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have downloaded GTKradiant 1.5.0(from GameFront) in rpm format and converted it to deb using alien.I ran that deb file to install the program.After the instalation completed,I closed Ubuntu software center.
However,I cannot find GTKradiant anywhere on my system.Any idea what's the cause and how could I solve this problem?
I use Ubuntu 10.10(that's why I posted this on the Ubuntu forum;does GTKradiant have any compatibility issues with Ubuntu?anything special to say about running that softwre on the mentioned OS?).(Note:I want to use Gtkradiant to create levels for the Neverball game). Yes,I've installed libgtkglext1.I've tried to run /opt/gtkradiant/radiant.x86 but I got:
"./radiant.x86: error while loading shared libraries: libgtkglext-x11-1.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory".
I tried to install the libgtkglext dev package but I got:
"Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
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