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The answer provided by Ryan Thomson was heading to the right way. Still it would not be able to do the job (The details reason is given below). The correct (and easiest) way of doing so is using -o with apt to pass dpkg option and force dpkg to ask you whether you want to retain the modified config files or the original ones. The command will be like this - sudo apt-get --reinstall -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confask" install foo This would ask you a question like Configuration file '/etc/foo/foo.conf' ==> Modified (by you or by a script) since installation. Version in package is the same as at last installation. What would you like to do about it ? Your options are: Y or I : install the package maintainer's version N or O : keep your currently-installed version D : show the differences between the versions Z : start a shell to examine the situation The default action is to keep your current version. *** foo.conf (Y/I/N/O/D/Z) [default=N] Recent Questions...

I just upgraded from 14.04LTS to 16.04.01LTS. Still finding warts. Here's this moing's: I install kmail and start it up. It reads in my old settings and talks about new account creation (why is it trying to create a new account? I already had fully-working accounts before I performed an upgrade). Anyways, it decided that I should use a KDE Wallet. Whatever - I'll bite the bullet. So I agree. It asks me to choose classic blowfish or GPG. I go with GPG. I am then given only the option of using the Ubuntu Archive Automatic Signing Key (or back or finish). There is no "new" option - that needs to be fixed. So I select that key because it's the only option. Then a pile of stuff breaks because it can't use that key (I'm not even prompted for a password). At this point there is no "back" button - only failure. So I install Kgpg to create the required keys. First, why prompt people for info and at the same time tell them to just click next? A better option would be to pick all the defaults a Recent Questions...

When I am trying to tu on the bluetooth it shows that no bluetooth adapters found like this

How to solve the problem? Any kind of help is appreciated.

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There is nothing showing in the list of the additional drivers. The only thing that is showing is, as shown in the picture... I cannot understand what it is saying.

I am a Ubuntu 16.04 dual boot user with Windows 10..

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I have followed these instructions: https://help.ubuntu.com/lts/serverguide/openldap-server.html Step: Modifying the slapd Configuration Database Create a file, call it uid_index.ldif, with the following contents:dn: olcDatabase={1}mdb,cn=configadd: olcDbIndexolcDbIndex: uid eq,pres,sub sudo ldapmodify -Q -Y EXTERNAL -H ldapi:/// -f uid_index.ldif ldap_modify: Other (e.g., implementation specific) error (80)additional info: duplicate index definition for attr "uid" Recent Questions...

I am new user of Ubuntu 16.04 (installed on USB 3.0 stick) and I have come across a problem when none of my wireless mouses (Trust, HP, Microsoft) works on my recently bought USB HUB Tracer H7. My phone seems to work just fine when plugged into it as well as do regular wired mouses. All mouses are also displayed when I check lsusb regardless of where they are plugged. The best I managed was with the Microsoft mouse, after pressing the synching button on the adapter, I got the cursor to jerk around a bit, but even that stopped working after a short while. All help, suggestions or insights you could provide are very welcome. Recent Questions...

philip@philip-HP-Tablet-PC-Tx1100:~$ sudo -s [sudo] password for philip: Sorry, try again. [sudo] password for philip: root@philip-HP-Tablet-PC-Tx1100:~# apt-get install 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. linux-image-generic-lts-trusty : Depends: linux-image-3.13.0-95-generic but it is not installed E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f. root@philip-HP-Tablet-PC-Tx1100:~# apt-get -f install Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Correcting dependencies... Done The following extra packages will be installed: linux-image-3.13.0-95-generic Suggested packages: fdutils linux-lts-trusty-doc-3.13.0 linux-lts-trusty-source-3.13.0 linux-lts-trusty-tools The following NEW packages will be installed linux-image-3.13.0-95-generic 0 to upgrade, 1 to newly instal Recent Questions...

W: The repository 'cdrom://Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS _Xenial Xerus_ - Release amd64 (20160719) xenial Release' does not have a Release file. N: Data from such a repository can't be authenticated and is therefore potentially dangerous to use. N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details. E: Failed to fetch cdrom://Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS _Xenial Xerus_ - Release amd64 (20160719)/dists/xenial/main/binary-amd64/Packages Please use apt-cdrom to make this CD-ROM recognized by APT. apt-get update cannot be used to add new CD-ROMs E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead. Recent Questions...

I hope I'm putting this on the right website. I'm not completely use to terminal commands, so sorry if I put the wrong ones. I upgraded from 2gb to 4gb DDR2 RAM. In bios, it shows up with the full 4096 (4gb), but in Ubuntu 16.04 it only sees 3.2gb. Output of free -m: free -m total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 3249 908 1259 164 1081 1996 Swap: 3315 0 3315 In the lshw command under the memory part, it shows: *-memory description: System memory physical id: 0 size: 3249MiB Thanks for the help. :) Recent Questions...

Can I install ubuntu on my Huawei gra L09 - smartphone? My smartphone has Emui version is 4.0.1.; operating system Android 6.

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Somebody please help me in how do i get native notification in ubuntu 16.04.

I have tried libnotify, but no luck.

Any mentions ??

Thanks

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No, there isn't.

Dropbox has an official sync client for Linux and Google Drive has also an unofficial one, so both can be easily used in a Linux system. However, sync always means copying the contents to the synced local folders, hence using at least as much space.

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I am using Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. I want to know some extra security tips in dealing with PDF files. I found that we can easily make a PDF file password protected using pdftk command from here. But is it possible to make PDF files to expire after a specific date? I mean a PDF displayable only for a particular period of time and after that if someone tries to open it he would get only a message like "Sorry, nothing to display". Is there any command or script for that? Recent Questions...

I used ecryptfs to encrypt my home and the swap.
Now I have a device /dev/mapper/cryptswap1 which seems to act as the swap.
(by the way, how can I confirm that?)

Before, my swap was in a partition of its own, sda7. Now, this partition is shown unused by Gparted (0.00b used).

Therefore I'm wondering if cryptswap1 is located in sda7 or in sda6, which is my ubuntu partition.

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I really need your help! Recently, I switched from Win7 to Ubuntu 16.04 LTS in order to avoid WinX. So far, everything worked out fine. Until I discovered, that my WLAN-bandwidth keeps on altering - in most cases: decreasing - after irregular intervals. I usually start with a rate of >100Mbit/s(I'm using my routers monitor-website to check) After a short time, I'm down to ~54Mbit/s, usually, I won't notice, because browsing and streaming is still possible. Adding some more minutes - regardless whether I put load on the connection or not - the rate drops to 5MBit/s or even 1Mbit/s! Sometimes WLAN will even disconnect and I have to restart the NetworkManager-Service to regain access. When connecting my smartphone to the wlan, it keeps a steady rate of 54Mbit/s, which is as expected.Back in the dark old days of Win7, a behavior such as mentioned above, was never noticed. Well, despite of being new to Ubuntu, I'm a rather confident son of a bitch. I already tried various "fixes", such a Recent Questions...

I have installed desktop app named "obfsprosy" in libertine container, this app is a console app without things about desktop,so I can't find it's icon from scope, and How to launch it? thank you!

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It's as simple as using gparted to redefine the Windows partition from ntfs file system to ext4 file system for Ubuntu to use. You can use the new partition to store Movies, Music, etc. You can also use gparted to expand your existing Ubuntu storage space into the old windows space but that is a little more complicated.

Take your time and review your options by searching on gparted here in AskUbuntu and over the wider inteet with google.

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I recently updated to Kubuntu version 16.04 from version 14.04 after getting the upgrade notification. It successfully downloaded and installed, but after rebooting the system, it went straight to a terminal login screen. Even after successfully logging in, the GUI doesn't auto-load.

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The post is about Bengali typing using Bijoy Layout in Ubuntu. Unijoy in Avro is deprecated. But it's still available to use in Ubuntu. As an old school Bijoy layout user, I tend to use the Old Style typing using Avro, but not in Phonetic — using Unijoy, plus the Old Style typing - which is available in Windows still today by some patches. Recently I became almost a regular user of Ubuntu and I'm using the Unijoy layout beside Phonetic for Bengali typing. But I'm seriously missing the Old Style typing and that affected my typing speed and habit. I can get into the Setup panel for Unijoy using the dropdown menu, but there's no setting for 'Old Style' or 'Mode Style' there. Is there any desperate way using the Unijoy Old Style typing with Avro, in Ubuntu? Recent Questions...

I've been trying to install Ubuntu 16.01 since the last two days on dualboot with windows 10 on a seperate partition. At first, it got installed but wouldn't always boot on and got stuck on the bootscreen animation and would boot only 1 out of every 4 or 5 times I tried to boot it up. After that, I wen to windows and deleted that partition and tried to install ubuntu 14.04. It installed but didn't show the wifi networks so I removed that too and now I'm unable to install any version, every time I boot into the usb drive, it gets frozen at the ubuntu boot screen and doesn't proceed to the setup. My Windows is working perfectly smooth. Device config: Intel core i7 skylake 8G ram 256 ssd Used both rufus and Universal usb installer for creating the live USB Recent Questions...