Alvar's questions

I'm setting up a web server that won't have a static global IP. It will be at my parents house and I won't be able to SSH into it when the global IP changes. The global IP will change every time router is restarted which happens like once a month.

I need a script that sends me an email every time the global IP changes. So I can update the DNS so my website will work again.

I don't know anything about scripts in Ubuntu, but I know the basics in Java and PHP.

Computer: Ubuntu 13.10 server, iMac G4 Globe.

I recently posted an answer where I wrote add the PPA. But I now realize, that I have no idea what the difference between a PPA and a Repository is. So can someone please explain it to me?

I recently wrote a repport for school with a lot of code in it. The only way I found to wrok was to highlight it with STRONG and that is really quite ugly. So is there a code highlightning extension for libre office writer?

Like this one below:

<insert code here>

A syntax highlight with different colors is also ok.
I never enter a whole program so I need to be able to highligt what I think is code.

Like this one: echo "Hello World!";

Cooder

I presonally didn't like this highlight since it formats the text and all the text that comes after. I want to mark some text then click on a highlight and that's it.
This one is too complicated and hard to use, I have to select programming language each time I highlight which will be about 100 times in one report, that's way too much.
I would like something similar to what they use on the site. simple code highlight if you will.

Code Colorizer Formatter

It installs for me, but I can't get it to work and it doesn't have PHP or HTML support, which I need.

I hear a lot of talk about apparmor, I want to know the following:

• What is apparmor?
• How does apparmor work?

Some questions I want answered in the answer:

• How do I know if apparmor is running?
• How can I tell if it's working well?

What is the difference between sudo apt-get purge and sudo apt get remove --purge?

There must be a difference or both of them shouldn't exist.

I think I might have a virus on my windows partition and I want to scan it from Ubuntu. Is this possible? I would like a program that is free.

clamAV
I tried clamAV but I couldn't find a setting for scaning my other partition that I have windows on, it scaned my Ubuntu disk and that was fine.

Antivirus Within Windows
I can't use my Windows partition since the virus make my laptop freeze every time I log in. And I don't want it to spread or make more damage than it might have done already.

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Invoke a wine installed application from command line

I would like to start a wine program via the terminal so if something goes wrong I can see what.

What command should I type in to get the program started?

for an example lets say Spotify.

I want to know where I can find lists of applications and where to put them as well. I have some questions here on AU that are lists and I want to move them to one place for easy access for everyone.

Lists are good if they are up to date; and if you are looking for new software lists are the best.

So has anyone some recommendations on places where lists of applications can belong?

they aren't allowed on any of the SE sites according to the FAQ.

Requirements

I would like to divide my applications lists in games, multimedia, web browsers etc. But I would also like to link to other sites where I can find software. Especially software that isn't in the USC

I normally use 4 different workspaces for different things, and they are always the same. Can I make a different background image for each one of them?

I would like an answer that works for GNOME 3 desktop environment, Unity and the Classic desktop environment.

This question has multiple answers covering different Ubuntu versions:

• 17.10, 18.04 and later
• 13.04, 13.10 and 14.04
• 12.10
• 12.04
• 11.10
• 11.04
• 10.04

Every time I log in to Skype I hear a bad sound on top of the log-in sound. (I hear both bad sound and the log-in sound.) This problem has existed since I made the full install, (Skype is in my post-install script). Please help this is very annoying.

I've got this very strange error message when I typed skype -version

Another strange message When I typed skype

Skype version: 2.2.0.35

How do I make post-install scripts so when I reinstall ubuntu everything is as I want it?

Things I want to achive:

• Installing PPA
• installing my programs
• themes needs to be installed
• Settings needs to be changed (power management, short commands, startup applications, etc.)
• system reboots

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Is there a Paint.NET alternative?

I want to crop, maybe highlight some of the picture and be able to save as jpg. I want a program that is easy to use. I tried Gimp but it was way hard to use.

Are there any easy to use image editing programs?

I don't want a replica of Windows' Paint, or something that looks like it came from Windows, or something that is made for kids.

What software are related to the Keyboard? or the Keyboard configuration?

Problem

It's local, only at my account. It doesn't help If I try the reassign the keys they still won't work.

Info

My laptop.

If I type xev in a terminal I notice that the key codes are gone. I pressed F12 and got this.

   FocusOut event, serial 33, synthetic NO, window 0x5200001, 
   mode NotifyGrab, detail NotifyAncestor 

   FocusIn event, serial 33, synthetic NO, window 0x5200001, 
   mode NotifyUngrab, detail NotifyAncestor 

   KeymapNotify event, serial 33, synthetic NO, window 0x0, 
   keys: 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 
   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

How it happened

I was trying to stream audio via this question/answer. But when I was finished and stopped the program I noticed that F10-F12 had stopped working.

Problem I don't know what the software is called or how it works.

The keycodes For:

F10 is 76

F11 is 95

F12 is 96

Solution

The only solution I found was to reinstall Ubuntu, sad, just hope the problem is a one time thing...

I have a Banshee link that is wrong and I need to remove it, how do I do it from the Terminal? I have the incorrect link, I have the correct one as well.

I want to remove all programs associated to Wine and Wine itself in one command, can it be done? The whole point of this question is that I don't want to find any files connected to wine.

Skype doesn't find my audio input. If I click on the "Microphone" no other suggestions appears, my web camera works.

In windows everything works.

This is my audio preferences.

audio settings.

I have a bootable CD image that I would like to transfer to a USB stick, so that I can boot from it. The Startup-Disk creator doesn't support it. How can I make a bootable USB disk from it? The ISO is quite old so that might be a problem.

Results

I want to be able to walk from one room to another and hear the same song playing. Like you do if you were listening to the radio in all rooms.

I want that effect but I want to listen to my own music, can this be done?

Materials

• Ubuntu laptop.
• Mac computer.

First alternative

• I have found and setup the software according to this answer
• All of the softwares in both computers and server is setup how should I continue? http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/FirstSteps

Look at the video; the iPhone is supposed to appear as a photo collection of some sort but nothing happens with my iPhone! I have installed and upgraded all of the libimobiledevice versions.

I have tried to mount the iPhone with ifuse /mnt/iphone/ but the result of that operation is:

GNUTLS ERROR: A TLS packet with unexpected length was received.

Hi, how do I connect my iPhone to my laptop (Ubuntu 10.04) so that I can sync music and be able to look at it as a USB stick? (This is what I am expecting to happen.)

When I connect it to my laptop, nothing happens - it doesn't show up as an icon or as a mass storage device.

My iPhone runs iOS v4.2.1 and it's an iPhone 3G. It's not jailbroken for the moment; would that be a problem? My laptop is an Asus 1201n with Ubuntu 10.04 (64-bit).

Bus 002 Device 005: ID 05ac:1292 Apple, Inc. iPhone 3G

I connected my Ipod Video (30 gb) and that one doesn't appear as well So I'm kind of stuck now. The problem probably lies in the system, because the usb port is working.

Bus 002 Device 006: ID 05ac:1209 Apple, Inc. iPod Video

I have added this PPA, I have done all of the sudo update and upgrade. but my computer doesn't realize that my iPhone is connected, whish isn't related to libimobiledevice.

The port is working fine, it's simply that my computer doesn't recognize that I have my iPhone plugged-in! The phone itself is working (I tested it on my Mac).

I have the latest versions of these programs: hipo, ipod, gtkpod, ifuse, libusmuxd1 and usbmxd.

I connected my iPhone in Windows 7 and it worked, albeit annoyingly. I tried to mount my iPhone with fuse but I got this error:

alvar@alvars-laptop:~$ ifuse /mnt/iphone/
ERROR: the mount point specified does not exist

I have tried the ubuntugeek link, but I got an error while mounting it.

GNUTLS ERROR: A TLS packet with unexpected length was received.

Which one? (I have Lucid not Maverick.)