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How do I upgrade PHP version to the latest stable released version?
I'm using a system running on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 64-bit OS.
I'm currently using following PHP version on this machine:
Command used to get the below info at terminal : php -v
Details I got are as below :
PHP 5.5.19-1+deb.sury.org~precise+1 (cli)…
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What is the difference between the core, full, extras and light packages for nginx?
nginx on Ubuntu is a virtual package provided by one of five packages from the official repositories (at least as of 14.04, defaulting to nginx-core, I believe):
$ apt-cache depends nginx | tail -n+2 | cut -d: -f 2 | sort -u
nginx-core
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How can I determine which fonts are installed from the command line, and what is the easiest way to install more?
There are many questions and answers regarding fonts on Ubuntu, but not so many dealing with Ubuntu for Embedded Linux, such as Beaglebone Black.
I have not been able to locate any .ttf files in standard locations on my system, and I think that…
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How to use lm-sensors?
I wanted to install a package to monitor the temperature of my CPU called lm-sensors.
According to Synaptic, it's already installed.
Can someone give me some simple step-by-step instructions on how I can actually run it from the command line or…
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How to do: underline, bold, italic, strikethrough, color, background, and size in Gnome Terminal?
How to do: underline, bold, italic, strikethrough, and color in Gnome Terminal?
Bold
Italic
u̲n̲d̲e̲r̲l̲i̲n̲e̲
s̶t̶r̶i̶k̶e̶ ̶i̶t̶ ̶l̶i̶k̶̶e̶ ̶i̶t̶s̶ ̶h̶o̶t
Color
background
font < (its mono if you couldn't tell)
size
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How do I enable auto-login in LightDM?
I want user foo to auto-login using LightDM (which has been used by Ubuntu since version 11.10). How would I do that?
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Change niceness (priority) of a running process
Is it possible to set a new nice level of a running process with a known id?
Does this operation require root access, or just being the owner of the process?
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How do I find packages to install via apt-get
After doing a man apt-get and cursory Google search it's not clear how I find new programs to install (from the internet) using apt-get (which is amazingly powerful and simple coming from another Linux distro).
I'm using Ubuntu Server 8.04 LTS (an…
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What is the path to the kernel headers so I can install vmware?
I installed the VMware bundle on my Ubuntu 11.04 successfully but when I open it it gives me this window
and I don't know the path to this C headers.
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How to use Alt+Shift to switch keyboard layouts?
I recently upgraded to Ubuntu 13.10, with the new keyboard handling system. The little "switch keyboard" option does not let me set it to Alt+Shift. How can I get this keyboard binding, as I have absolutely no interest in using the Mac-esque…
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How to display file properties via terminal?
What is the command line that displays file informations (or properties), such as in GUI method Display properties in GNOME?
I know that ls -l shows properties; but how to display the same informations?
For example, instead of
rw-rw-r--
we have…
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Permanent xmodmap in Ubuntu 13.04
I cannot make xmodmap run on login in Ubuntu 13.04. I have searched around, including in askubuntu and all answers I found do not work.
I have a file named .Xmodmap in my home folder which contains the desired mappings. If I run it manually it works…
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Bash: delete word ahead of cursor
Consider the following bash command line, where ^ denotes the cursor location:
svn commit -m very/long/path/to/some/file "[bug 123456] Fix the pixel issue"
^
I'd like to commit a different file with the same message. How can I delete…
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Gconf, Dconf, Gsettings and the relationship between them
I'm trying to understand how Gconf, Dconf and Gsettings works and what the relationship is between them.
All I know is:
Gconf - XML based database (backend system). The older one.
Dconf - BLOB based database (backend system). The newer…
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How to open Nautilus at current command line directory?
I was wondering if anybody knew a command that would allow me to open a Nautilus (if that's the right name for the Ubuntu graphic/window explorer) window from the command line at the current directory that the user is at.
So, if I open a command…
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