I’ve been trying to upgrade two servers from 12.04 LTS to 14.04 LTS for a few days now using do-release-upgrade. It seems that they’re both getting hung up on downloading the last of two updates. For one, I can’t fetch vim-runtime from trusty/main and linux-headers-3.13.0-45 from trusty-updates/main. For the other, I again can’t fetch vim-runtime … Read more
My situation I’m not proficient with Ubuntu or Linux. I’m a Windows convert. My computer tech knowledge is also novice. I’m running a NVIDIA GF119 on UBUNTU 12.04. Under Additional Drivers I have “NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver (post-release updates) (version 331-updates)” activated and currently in use. I’m a student and I read hundreds of page … Read more
I am using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 32 bit, 2 GB of memory. Which default package should I select when asked before downloading an application like the Opera Web Browser? Answer Normally in Ubuntu the packages that you can install directly via command line (sudo apt-get install <package>) or software center has the .deb format. Here … Read more
I have install MySql and now i am trying to get into the prompt of mysql with this command: mysql -host localhost -p but I am getting this error ERROR 2005 (HY000): Unknown MySQL server host ‘ost’ (2) Answer Your command line should be: mysql –host=localhost -p From the mysql man page: · –host=host_name, -h … Read more
I am trying to install srilm-1.6.0 on Release 12.04 (32-bit, Kernel Linux 3.5.0-41-generic) that is run on virtual machine (VirtualBox 4.3.12 r93733) gcc -v said that it is gcc version 4.6.3. I have read How do I install SRILM on ubuntu 14.04? but it does not help The commands make World and make MACHINE_TYPE=i686 World … Read more
I’m now using 12.04 LTS, and I don’t like to update because it sometimes causes problems and I need my laptop fully functional these days. But recently, most of the software I need for my thesis (I’m a chemistry student) requires to update to a more recent version of Ubuntu to install the most recent … Read more
This question already has answers here: How to start git-gui? (3 answers) Closed 7 years ago. I’m running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 64-bit OS on my local machine. I want to setup/install Git GUI on this machine. Then I’m having one repository at GitLab that I need to make clone of on my machine, then I … Read more
I’m using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 64-bits OS on my machine. Previously I was using Windows on my machine. Now in Windows, in Control Panel there is one option Add/Remove Programs which lists all the installed softwares and provides an option of Uninstall for each installed software. If user opts for uninstall of a certain software … Read more
This question already has an answer here: Repair filesystem permission (1 answer) Closed 6 years ago. I’ve recently installed Ubuntu 12.04 it was working fine unless I messed up with a command. I change all user permissions(as they call ago permission in Ubuntu) by running command sudo chmod -R 777 /. Now system won’t detect … Read more
I am trying to install DS9, but after trying several approaches, the command line still sends me the same answer. First, I run sudo apt-get update and then sudo apt-get upgrade. After both I enter sudo apt-get install saods9 and what the terminal gives me back is that Reading package lists… Done Building dependency tree … Read more
