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Terminal says Chromium is installed but I can't find it?

I tried to install Chromium using sudo apt-get install chromium-browser and all seemed to be well but when I went to search the computer to open Chromium ...

Published: Jul 20, 2026

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Ubuntu Server 20.04.1 LTS, not all disk space was allocated during installation?

During the installation of Ubuntu Server 20.04.1 LTS I chose to use the entire disk as partition (default partitioning that's recommended for beginne...

Published: Jul 20, 2026

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Nvidia GPU heats up on idle on ubuntu 19.04

I have a MSI gs65 8sf laptop with ubuntu 19.04 and the latest driver of the nvidia. My problem is that when the Nvidia GPU is in idle (e.g. when I switch ...

Published: Jul 20, 2026

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Automatic say yes to make ext3 file system on disk with mkfs.ext3

I am working on a script where I make a ext3 filesystem on a disk, the problem is that the script ask user to either say yes or no: root@ubuntu:/home/scho...

Published: Jul 20, 2026

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Is separate EFI boot partition required?

In the past with BIOS, I've never created a separate partition for the bootloader. My question is, if i wish to use UEFI, is a separate boot partitio...

Published: Jul 20, 2026

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How do I call a sed command in a python script? [closed]

Through python script, I am trying to replace a string by a string in a file using sed command. I do that through subprocess.call as it in the script. Whe...

Published: Jul 20, 2026

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Unable to verify the SHA256 checksum for Focal (20.04) LTS minimal cloud image

I'm attempting to follow the official How to verify your Ubuntu download tutorial to verify the checksum provided with the 20.04 minimal cloud image ...

Published: Jul 20, 2026

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Should media files (HTPC) using NFS mount using fstab/static or autofs?

I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 with XBMC and am streaming media files from my fileserver (mounted using NFS). Right now I have fstab configured to mount my N...

Published: Jul 20, 2026

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How can I get valid path from argument in #!/bin/sh script?

I have some script(copy) and want to get valid path. #!/bin/sh cp -R $1 $2 I tried with parameter like this ./copy.sh /home/apple /home/pie;reboot then se...

Published: Jul 20, 2026

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How can I safely shutdown/reboot/logout KDE from the command line?

I am not talking about shutdown and reboot commands. I want to initiate the same routine from command line that would be performed if I would press the lo...

Published: Jul 20, 2026

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