I like having a clock showing the current time and date in the menu bar, but this morning when I logged in it's not there anymore. Everything under System Settings > Time & Date > Clock is greyed out. Ubuntu 13.10 64-bit.
I have an Android phone that connects with my computer via MTP. This works fine; I can see and transfer files with Nautilus. However, I often want to use the terminal to move large numbers of files, and I cannot seem to find the device anywhere in the filesystem tree. Nautilus reports the location as mtp://[usb:003,007]/, but it's not under /media or /mnt.
Does anyone know where it is?
I have a few thousand FLAC files which I would like to transcode to OGG Vorbis, but I can't find any suitable tools for the job. To name a few I have tried so far and why they are unsuitable: oggenc is single-threaded and would require me to automate it myself, mencoder requires the input to also contain video, and abcde assumes the input is a CD.
The ideal tool should be multi-threaded, and support inputing multiple files located in different directories simultaneously. CLI or GUI makes no matter.
Does such a tool exist?
I would like to copy every 10th cell from a column of several thousand. Is this possible?
I have a Bose Soundlink external audio device, which I use to stream music from my computer to my stereo. Ubuntu recognizes the device, but does not automatically use it. In order to get PulseAudio to use it for output, I have to manually choose it in the 'Output' tab in 'Sound settings'.
I would like PulseAudio to always prefer an external device over the internal, if one is available. Is there a way to accomplish this?
My apt-get is currently complaining about unmet dependencies (and refuses to do anything until I fix them):
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
libavcodec53 : Depends: libva1 (> 1.0.12~) but 0.31.1-1+sds4 is installed
libva-dev : Depends: libva1 (>= 1.0.12) but 0.31.1-1+sds4 is installed
libva-glx1 : Depends: libva1 (> 1.0.12~) but 0.31.1-1+sds4 is installed
libva-tpi1 : Depends: libva1 (> 1.0.12~) but 0.31.1-1+sds4 is installed
vainfo : Depends: libva1 (> 1.0.12~) but 0.31.1-1+sds4 is installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.
The thing is, I absolutely need that specific version of libva1. Anything newer doesn't work with mplayer-vaapi. The purported unmet dependencies do not seem to have any negative effects on my system (other than breaking APT), so is there any way I can make apt-get ignore them and just do what it's told?
VLC 2.0.1 is behaving oddly, and since it does not appear to offer any increase in performance over 1.1.12 I would like to downgrade to the latter. However, this appears to be non-trivial.
After running these commands:
sudo apt-get remove --purge vlc
sudo add-apt-repository -r ppa:videolan/stable-daily
sudo apt-get update
VLC 2.0.1 should be gone, as should the ppa from which I got it. However, it is still not possible to install VLC 1.1.12. When I try to, I get an error message about broken dependencies:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
vlc : Depends: vlc-nox (= 1.1.12-2~oneiric1) but 2.0.0+git20120222+r100-0~r29~oneiric1 is to be installed
Depends: libvlccore4 (>= 1.1.0) but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: vlc-plugin-notify (= 1.1.12-2~oneiric1) but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: vlc-plugin-pulse (= 1.1.12-2~oneiric1) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
How can I reinstall VLC 1.1.12?