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Enable disk encryption after installation

I'm running 13.10 Saucy. If I didn't enable disk encryption during installation, is there any way to enable it post facto? I found this, which says that encryption has to happen at install time, but it's also referring to Fedora. I can easily boot…
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What does 'Ign', 'Get' or 'Hit' mean when running an apt-get update?

I had a bunch of errors in the output of sudo apt-get update: duplicate entries and 404 not found errors. Figured those out, I hope: I removed PPAs that didn't have any packages associated with them, then I removed out a duplicate entry in…
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sudo: no tty present and no askpass program specified

When attempting to run a remote binary using sudo on the remote box: ssh remotehost "sudo ./binary" I see this error: sudo: no tty present and no askpass program specified How can I work around this?
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How do I install LibreOffice 4?

I want to download and install LibreOffice 4. How can I do this?
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How does Ubuntu make money?

We get various distros like kubuntu/ubuntu/lubuntu/edu/etc... for free. We get critical updates constantly. We can download any programs we want from Ubuntu repos. Gee, I can't even imagine what kind of a CDN network you gotta have to support all…
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Is there an offline command-line dictionary?

Is there any command line offline dictionary? I know that there are some like StarDict and Artha but how about one in the command line? Also, I tried dict but it is an online dictionary.
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How to manage available wireless network priority?

I'd like to move up and down available wireless access points, setting priorities as we can do in Microsoft Windows. I can't remember to have ever succeeded in this since using network-manager. Maybe something with conf files is possible... I'm not…
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How to remove wine completely

How can I remove the wine folder and all the applications in that folder? I've tried via synaptic but it keeps showing up in the application menu.
peter
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How do I install the Cisco Anyconnect VPN client?

I installed Cisco AnyConnect for Ubuntu(64) 12.04, but it failed. It can be installed on Ubuntu 10.10(64). The error log Installing Cisco AnyConnect VPN Client ... Extracting installation files to /tmp/vpn.teuSIr/vpninst096243274.tgz... Unarchiving…
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How do I get the latest GIMP version available?

I understand that there is a new version of the GIMP available, although it appears that the only way of doing this is by compiling from source :P Is there another way of getting it, or if I have to compile can I do that through the terminal or…
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python-is-python3 package in Ubuntu 20.04 - what is it and what does it actually do?

Having used Ubuntu 18.04 for a handful of years now, and reading that Python 2 has been removed from Ubuntu 20.04, I was looking forward to using the commands python or pip rather than python3 or pip3. So today I tried Ubuntu 20.04 for the first…
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How to customize on-screen notifications?

There was a tool to configure notifications in earlier versions of Ubuntu as described here. I tried to install it in Ubuntu 12.04 too but I failed. I want to have the notifications dynamically located (e.g. notifications for music player and volume…
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System program problem detected?

I keep getting, since several days, "System program problem detected" error message: I always clicked on Report problem button but nothing happens. I also run update and upgrade everyday. What causes this ? How to get rid of it ?
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How to change/disable password complexity test when changing password?

I know that it is a "bad" idea, I know that it is not secure, I know. I searched the net for an answer and all I saw was whining that it's not good. But I like using Linux because it lets me make the system I want and like to use. The end of…
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How to encrypt individual folders?

Let's say that I have a folder, within my Documents folder, that has files I want no one to access without a password. Is there a way to lock down that folder so that it's password protected / encrypted? In fact, is it possible to password-protect…
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