I want to convert a .pdf file to an .odt file so that I can further convert it to a .doc file. Is there any software/script that can do this. I have tried to copy the content of the .pdf file and pasted it in liberoffice writer the formatting isn't preserved.
The document is confidential so I'd prefer not to use any on-line service for the conversion.
Any help is highly appreciated.
I am trying to copy a file from my Download directory to my Desktop directory; but I am getting the Permission Denied Error. Directory and file permissions doesn't restrict me from copying (Directory perm: 755 , file perm:- 664).
sockets@ankit:~$ ls -ld D
Desktop/ Documents/ Downloads/
sockets@ankit:~$ ls -ld Downloads/ Desktop/
drwxr-xr-x 9 sockets sockets 4096 Jan 4 12:52 Desktop/
drwxr-xr-x 3 sockets sockets 4096 Jan 10 16:24 Downloads/
sockets@ankit:~$ ls -l Downloads/Ankit.pdf
-rw-rw-r-- 1 sockets sockets 96170 Jan 10 16:24 Downloads/Ankit.pdf
sockets@ankit:~$ cp Downloads/Ankit.pdf Desktop/Ankit.pdf
cp: cannot create regular file `Desktop/Ankit.pdf': Permission denied
Any ideas why I would be getting the permission error. I know I can use sudo to copy the file.
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sockets@ankit:/var/log$ df -i
Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 2501856 228878 2272978 10% /
udev 755379 510 754869 1% /dev
tmpfs 757578 431 757147 1% /run
none 757578 3 757575 1% /run/lock
none 757578 8 757570 1% /run/shm
/dev/sda6 27639808 37521 27602287 1% /home/mount
----------EDIT 2
sockets@ankit:~$ df -h | grep /dev/sd
/dev/sda1 38G 8.5G 28G 24% /
/dev/sda6 416G 87G 308G 22% /home/mount
/dev/sdc1 16G 2.1G 14G 14% /media/New Volume
sockets@ankit:~$ mount | grep /dev/sd
/dev/sda1 on / type ext4 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
/dev/sda6 on /home/mount type ext4 (rw)
/dev/sdc1 on /media/New Volume type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,uid=1000,gid=1000,shortname=mixed,dmask=0077,utf8=1,showexec,flush,uhelper=udisks)
I am using lubuntu 12.04 on my PC. I want to install Ubuntu 12.04 on my laptop. How do I create live-usb on Lubuntu so that I can install Ubuntu OS to my Laptop.
Edit: There's no startup disc creator in Lubuntu Software Center
I have added a couple of torrent files to Transmission BitTorrent Client to be downloaded.
I have a limited internet speed so I can't start all of them in a single go; so I have to peep in after every 30 minutes or so to start downloading other file(added to the client).
I don't want to peep in 30 minutes; looking for a way to schedule the downloads (i.e when one download completes other files can start automatically) without manual intervention.
Copying file from other user's directory with '-p' switch should reserve the permission as per the man page.
I am copying /etc/passwd to my home directory with -p switch but the permissions aren't preserved as follows:-
ijoin@stream:~$ ls -l /etc/passwd
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1813 Sep 25 08:58 /etc/passwd
ijoin@stream:~$ cp --preserve /etc/passwd .
ijoin@stream:~$ ls -l passwd
-rw-r--r-- 1 ijoin ijoin 1813 Sep 25 08:58 passwd
I am doing something wrong?
As the subject says; I want to know why is every directory having a size equals to 4K even if they contain files with sizes greater than 4K.
Please have a look at the following:-
$ ls -lh
total 2.0M
drwxr-xr-x 4 ankit ankit 4.0K Sep 11 07:28 Desktop
$ ls -lrh Desktop/
-rw-rw-r-- 1 ankit ankit 9.1M Aug 4 11:15 sophosthreatsaurusaz.pdf
-rw------- 1 ankit ankit 107K Dec 27 2010 KP 3 0.pdf
drwxrwsr-x 9 ankit ankit 4.0K Sep 10 19:26 eclipse
PS: I am aware of du -sh command line utility.
Edit: I am assuming directory as a container for files.
I recently installed Lubuntu. The terminal look and feel are not as good as compared to L&F for terminal that I used use in Ubuntu 12.04.
I would like to know from where and how can I download the same terminal that I was using Ubuntu 12.04.
I chose an Openbox DE at the time of login and the system took ages to load the DE. So I switched to CLI (Ctrl+Alt+F1) and rebooted my system (but I wanted to logout from the GUI and not restart the whole system).
My question is, can I issue some command at CLI to log me out from the GUI so that I can select different DE. (I don't want to restart my system every-time DE hangs.)
$ DISPLAY=:0 gnome-session-quit --force
** (gnome-session-quit:3144): WARNING **: Failed to call logout: The name org.gnome.SessionManager was not provided by any .service files
I want to restrict the upload speed of my transmission client to 1kB/s, is it possible?
What changes do I need to make to lower the upload speed?
Why is there a huge difference between the outputs' of top command and the system monitor when both programs were run at the same time. Please find attached is the screen shot showing the huge difference:-
Is this a bug?
I've been learning about the top command. There are some terms on which I am confused. I need some clarification.
What are the WA, HI, SI and ST terms in the CPU(s) row, and also VIRT, RES and SHR?
I am not sure what does this following means:-
[ 0.652039] ACPI: Added _OSI(Module Device)
[ 0.652044] ACPI: Added _OSI(Processor Device)
[ 0.652049] ACPI: Added _OSI(3.0 _SCP Extensions)
[ 0.652054] ACPI: Added _OSI(Processor Aggregator Device)
[ 0.656286] ACPI: EC: Look up EC in DSDT
[ 0.660361] ACPI: Executed 1 blocks of module-level executable AML code
**[ 0.720310] [Firmware Bug]: ACPI: BIOS _OSI(Linux) query ignored**
[ 0.721539] ACPI: SSDT 000000009ce70798 00727 (v01 PmRef Cpu0Cst 00003001 INTL 20100121)
[ 0.722623] ACPI: Dynamic OEM Table Load:
[ 0.722630] ACPI: SSDT (null) 00727 (v01 PmRef Cpu0Cst 00003001 INTL 20100121)
[ 0.752832] ACPI: SSDT 000000009ce71a98 00303 (v01 PmRef ApIst 00003000 INTL 20100121)
What kind of bug is this? Does this bug affects my system performance.
I am curious to know why the password characters(special characters) are not echoed when we login to the system via a terminal.
But we can see the password characters(special characters) while we login to the system via GUI.
The only reason i can think of is that the total number of characters in my password wouldn't be revealed to someone who's spying over my system/password.
Any suggestions/ides?
I am aware that every terminal has it's separate history,which can be viewed by the history command. Commands issued on suppose terminal tty1 will be shown in the history of tty1 only and not in the history of any other terminal suppose tty2.
Is there a file which stores all the commands fired from various different terminals; irrespective of the terminal type (tty,pts1).
What is meant by term kernel compilation?
Does it involve working directly on the source code of the kernel; making changes to the kernel program and then compiling the whole source code? Or does it mean something different?
If compiling the kernel involves working on the source code; then where do i get the kernel source code?
And after somebody compiles the kernel according to his needs, then does kernel automatically get registered in grub file and ready for the next boot time?
ALT+Tab functionality has suddenly started misbehaving. it's showing only desktop and the current active app instead of all the applications opened.
For eg currently, opened applications are firefox and terminal but when i press ALT+Tab I can see either "desktop + firefox" or "desktop + terminal" depending upon whether the current active application is browser or terminal.
I have not installed any update.
Please help.
Sometimes my charger remains plugged into laptop even after charging is complete.
Is there a way to get a pop-up message/notification when my battery gets full due to charging or is there any software/package which can provide the functionality?
I want an editor that is as good as TextPad (for Windows) for compiling and running Java programs on Ubuntu 12.04. Please suggest one.
Where do the updates provided by Ubuntu gets stored on the hard-disk. I see that the updates are downloaded and then installed.
It would of great help if i can get the location of the downloaded updates so that I can save the downloads to a usb or an external hard-drive because in case i need to format my system i don't need to download the updates again.
How do I keep logs of all the work done via terminal? For example, I want a record of all the work done on database via terminal.