While installing software using apt, I am often offered "software-doc" as a recommended adjunct to install. Presumably this provides some documentation for the software. For example, when installing mit-scheme, I am offered mit-scheme-doc as a recommended additional install.
I usually do opt to install the documentation, only to never see or hear from it again! Where does the "*-doc" documentation go, what is it's nature, and how do I tap into it?
I ordered a Dell Developer Edition XPS 13 7390 laptop with Ubuntu 18.04 preinstalled. I am tempted to upgrade to the latest 18.04 point release including the updated HWE kernel.
Is there a disadvantage to doing this? Are there any kernel tweaks placed by Dell in their standard install that I will lose by going to the HWE kernel? What about the rest of the software preinstalled on the laptop?
I often find it convenient to work entirely from the command line, and like to have several tty "consoles" open simultaneously.
How do I make my system default to having more than the traditional 6 tty consoles (CTRL-ALT-Fn)?
Also with the transition to SystemD and Gnome, has the tty console number actually drop? I seem to struggle sometimes opening even one, let alone several, and often end up with a behavior in which several (CTRL-ALT-Fn) combinations all lead to a GUI rather than a tty.
I am running a combo of Ubuntu 18.04 and 18.10 across several machines, if it matters.
Is there any way of installing Emacs 25 or 25.1 on Ubuntu 16.10 without having to compile from source?
I want a stable install of Emacs and do not wish to install an unstable or nightly build.
Anybody succeed in loading Ubuntu on the new Asus X205 subnotebook? I am not certain if the UEFI is 32 bits or 64 bits.
After upgrading to Saucy, Clang now gives me the error message:
clang -Wall -Werror -std=c99 -ggdb -O0 5.1.c -o 5.1
In file included from 5.1.c:1:
/usr/include/stdio.h:33:11: fatal error: 'stddef.h' file not found
# include <stddef.h>
^
1 error generated.
make: *** [5.1] Error 1
BTW the header I included was stdio.h not stddef.h but I am assuming that stdio.h references or #includes stddef.h
I am experiencing install hell trying to add an installation of Ubuntu 12.10 and Scientific Linux 6.3 to an old machine (BIOS not EFI) with Debian Squeeze and Linux Mint 10. The installs seem to go OK but when rebooting grub either refuses to boot completely (I had to reinstall grub) or complain that the uuid of both Ubuntu and Scientific Linux are invalid. Most of the time Debian Squeeze and Linux Mint 10 boot OK.
One of the hard drives is a 3TB hard drive formatted using GUID/GPT. It is the one that gets grub on it's MBR.
Is it possible to force grub NOT to use uuids. This way even if it is corrupted I stand a chance of repairing the install manually or at least booting manually with some difficulty?
I have disabled the automatic boot into Unity and am booting into a CLI tty with a login shell. While running the CLI login shell the screen resolution is fairly low and only utilizes a tiny portion of my widescreen. I do want to maximise the screen resolution but keep the fonts small. I am actually running this particular install in a virtual machine inside VirtualBox but will also apply it later to other "bare metal" installs on other machines.
Has anyone succeeded in installing a plain vanilla Ubuntu (or other Linux distribution) install on the Acer C7 Chromebook? I am aware of the ChrUbuntu project but would prefer a plain vanilla Ubuntu install if possible. I am not sure how the special google firmware influences a standard Linux install?
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How to disable X at boot time?
How do I boot Ubuntu by default into the CLI using a multiuser runlevel? I wish to still maintain my graphical desktop manager (GDM or whatever replaced it) since I do use that to switch between Unity and Awesome WM. I do however wish to boot by default into a CLI login shell. I could then startx to start my GUI if I need it. I am aware that Ctrl-Alt-(F1-6) will open a separate tty instance with a login shell but it seems wasteful to have a GUI running even if asleep if I am working purely from the command line.
When I start Awesome WM, it works fine but it does not start the daemon/application that searches for and connects to wifi networks.
How to make it do that both on startup as well as on demand since I may want it to do so only on demand?
I just installed Lubuntu 12.04 on a Mac Powerbook G4 12 inch laptop (G4 867 MHz Powerbook with 640 Megs RAM and an 80 gig HD). It works, but just barely, with a painfully slow shutdown (about 3 minutes) and an equally painful boot up (5 minutes). Once it boots, applications are reasonably responsive.
Any ideas or suggestions?
How do I use Awesome WM with Ubuntu 12.04? How do I invoke Awesome instead of Unity? Any dangers to trying to install it - in other words can I mess up my graphical shell?
How do you edit the icons in the launcher? I am particularly interested in "bumping up" higher some of my more frequently used software icons that I have locked to the launcher. Unity seems to dictate a fairly rigid way of doing things while allowing less room for personalisation.
11.10 to 12.04 Upgrade: My natural inclination is to go for the command line update method using:
do-release-upgrade
Any advantage or disadvantage to using the command line vs the graphical update process using update manager? Ubuntu's website recommends using update manager but I suspect this may be due to many user's aversion to using the command line.
I have used oh_my_zsh (and tinkered with bash_it) on multiple systems and have generally been happy with it, though I hate it's auto-correction feature and generally turn it off.
My usual shell is zsh and I really want just three things from my prompt:
The rest is just bling and is often irritating.
By using these shell scripts I am paying too much in cpu cycles for what I want.
Any suggestions, either with using these scripts or as a separate shell script. I am OK with either zsh or bash.
How do I install just the documentation and man pages of Clang and LLVM? I compiled the current version from source, based on the source from the LLVM website and it works fine but since it is a local self-contained repository (it can run from your home directory assuming you have it's bin subdirectory in your path) it does not install the man pages or documentation.
I uninstalled the Ubuntu package of Clang/LLVM to avoid any possible conflicts but this also removed the Clang man pages. How do I install just the man pages and documentation. I am OK if the man pages are technically from a couple of versions back compared to the installed compiler if necessary.
Thanks.
Is there an Ubuntu equivalent to the BSD Ports system? I realize that the Linux and Ubuntu culture tends to install new software from binaries, but having used BSD ports within both BSD and Mac OS X I find it very simple and elegant and the idea of compiling from source on demand, with all dependencies figured out for you, is very powerful.
How would I go about installing version 3 of Clang/LLVM in Ubuntu 10.10? Ubuntu 10.10 installs version 2.8 by default. Version 3 has more extensive/up to date support for C++ and possibly C (I am not totally sure about C). I know that I could possibly compile from source but was wondering if there is a ppa or other method to avoid compiling it from source.
If I compile from source do I have to tell it where to find the std c library etc. or is that automatically done.
When working on a git repository with multiple branches, how do I modify my zsh prompt to include my current active branch?