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Unable to play video on ubuntu 21. AC-3(ATSC A/52) decoder, MPEG-4 AAC decoder. H.264High profile decoder are required to play this file

I am trying to play a movie but this is what I get (after downloading VLC) : video error message So I presses "Find in Software" and I got these...

Published: Jul 18, 2026

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Uncompress file from URL to hard disk?

How to uncompress directly from terminal if I have the URL of the file? For example : unzip www.test.com/test.zip destination-folder-on-my-pc

Published: Jul 18, 2026

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Is there a way to know what really caused a specific segfault?

I recently bought a new motherboard/cpu (Asus Rog Strix z690-a gaming wifi D4/Intel i7 12700K) and initially used my existing ubuntu 20.04 installation wh...

Published: Jul 18, 2026

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Open terminator settings after activating paste on right click

I installed terminator in Ubuntu 18.10 and want to have putty style pasting (right click = paste). This works, but unfortunately I'm unable to open t...

Published: Jul 18, 2026

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How do I change the "label" reported by lsblk? [duplicate]

I have a USB stick that once-upon-a-time contained Ubuntu installation media. I have repurposed the device, but the original label has stuck despite my ef...

Published: Jul 18, 2026

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Make link open target file, not file at link location

Sorry for the tags. I don't know whih one applies. Please remove not pertaining ones, then delete this line. Or comment, and I'll do it myself. ...

Published: Jul 18, 2026

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Server randomly hangs, with the only way out a forced reboot

For whatever reason, having an X server installed causes my headless server to completely hang (no response to any pings, attempts to ssh in, input on exs...

Published: Jul 18, 2026

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Enable Command Not Found messages in Zsh

I found out how to allow the "... command not found but can be installed with..." to appear in Oh-my-zsh by adding source /etc/zsh_command_not_f...

Published: Jul 18, 2026

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How do I find the image with the greatest width in a group of images?

Let's say there are 50 images, and I want to know which one has the biggest width. Which commands should I use?

Published: Jul 18, 2026

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On i3 wm, gnome-terminal randomly loses transparency and starts showing cursor traces

I am using Ubuntu 20.04 with i3. I have reduced my terminals opacity a bit so the wallpaper is a bit visible through it. Sometimes, seemingly randomly (or...

Published: Jul 18, 2026

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