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sound alsa dmix audio	<reply> If you're having problems with sound, click the Volume applet, then Sound Preferences, and check your Volume, Hardware, Input, and Output settings. If that fails, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Sound - https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SoundTroubleshooting - https://alsa.opensrc.org/DmixPlugin - For playing audio files, see !players and !mp3.	Added by Seveas Date: 2006-06-19 10:56:18 Last edited by hggdh Date: 2019-01-08 16:38:15 Requested 7310 times
md5 verify	<reply> To verify your Ubuntu ISO image (or other files for which an MD5 checksum is provided), see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToMD5SUM or http://www.linuxquestions.org/linux/answers/LQ_ISO/Checking_the_md5sum_in_Windows	Added by Seveas Date: 2006-06-18 00:00:46 Last edited by dax Date: 2017-10-30 06:52:54 Requested 3566 times
virus av viruses	<reply> Antivirus is something you don't need on !Linux, except where files are then passed to Windows computers (perhaps using Samba). See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Antivirus	Added by ompaul Date: 2006-08-11 08:38:28 Last edited by knome Date: 2015-07-06 22:31:40 Requested 2225 times
elaborate error details	<reply> Please elaborate; your question or issue may not seem clear or detailed enough for people to help you. Please give more detailed information; for example, we might need errors, steps, relevant configuration files, Ubuntu version, and hardware information. Use a !pastebin to avoid flooding the channel.	Added by somerville32 Date: 2006-12-14 20:17:34 Last edited by dax Date: 2016-05-09 17:43:50 Requested 2189 times
webmin	no longer supported in Debian and Ubuntu. It is not compatible with the way that Ubuntu packages handle configuration files, and is likely to cause unexpected issues with your system.	Added by Seveas Date: 2006-06-18 19:18:33 Last edited by tsimpson Date: 2011-03-03 21:32:45 Requested 1743 times
files dirs file fhs hier fsh	<reply> An explanation of how files and directories are organized on Ubuntu, and how they can be manipulated, can be found at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LinuxFilesystemTreeOverview see also: man hier	Added by Seveas Date: 2006-06-19 23:17:27 Last edited by Pici Date: 2010-02-05 20:56:11 Requested 1726 times
rar unrar	a non-free archive format created by Rarsoft. For instructions on accessing .rar files through the Archive Manager view https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FileCompression. There is a free (as in speech) unrar utility as well, see !info unrar-free	Added by Spec Date: 2006-07-31 22:11:25 Requested 1711 times
burners burn burner burning cdrw	<reply> CD/DVD burning software: k3b (KDE), brasero (GNOME), gnomebaker, xcdroast, wodim (command-line) \| To burn ISO files, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BurningIsoHowto	Added by Seveas Date: 2006-06-18 21:35:32 Last edited by rww Date: 2011-04-23 23:42:28 Requested 1340 times
sound-#kubuntu	<reply> If you're having problems with sound see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Sound - https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SoundTroubleshooting - For playing audio files, see !Players and !MP3	Added by Hawkwind Date: 2006-09-14 19:14:50 Last edited by tsimpson Date: 2009-11-21 20:21:54 Requested 1145 times
fuse captive	<reply> FUSE (Filesystem in Userspace) is a !kernel driver that allows non-root users to create their own filesystems. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_in_Userspace for more on FUSE. Some examples of filesystems that use FUSE are !ntfs-3g, sshfs and isofs. A full list of Filesystems that use FUSE is here: http://fuse.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/FileSystems	Added by apokryphos Date: 2006-06-19 11:48:16 Last edited by Amaranth Date: 2007-08-07 14:36:30 Requested 1130 times
chroot debchroot	<reply> A chroot is used to make programs believe that the directory they are running in is really the root directory. It can be used to stop programs accessing files outside of that directory, or for compiling 32bit applications in a 64bit environment - see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BasicChroot	Added by ompaul Date: 2006-08-11 17:28:50 Last edited by Pici Date: 2010-06-15 17:12:19 Requested 1095 times
fsck	the FileSystem ChecKer, which runs automatically when you boot if you didn't shutdown cleanly. Type "man fsck" for information on running it manually. The command "sudo touch /forcefsck && sudo shutdown -r now" will force a reboot and a filesystem check; "sudo touch /fastboot" will skip a filesystem check at next reboot	Added by LjL Date: 2006-12-13 20:01:03 Last edited by tsimpson Date: 2011-05-04 07:55:19 Requested 1048 times
home separatehome movehome	<reply> Your home directory is where all of your personal files are usually kept. For moving your home directory to a separate partition, please see: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Partitioning/Home/Moving	Added by Hobbsee Date: 2007-10-01 08:45:38 Last edited by jussi Date: 2011-05-16 07:43:54 Requested 938 times
trash	<reply> Your GUI file manager's Trash folder is located at ~/.local/share/Trash/ for files moved to trash from your hard disk and .../.Trash-userid/ on external devices for files moved to trash from the device.	Added by LjL Date: 2008-04-18 01:11:40 Last edited by rww Date: 2011-04-19 00:43:28 Requested 780 times
tar tgz tar.gz bz2 7z compression tar.bz2 gz ace 7zip 7-zip	<reply> Files with extensions .tar, .gz, .tgz, .zip, .bz2, .7z, .ace and other archive file formats can be opened with file-roller (GNOME) or Ark (KDE) - Also see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FileCompression	Added by Seveas Date: 2006-08-11 14:55:35 Requested 689 times
live live cd livecd	<reply> The Ubuntu Desktop ISO is a "Live" image, which can be run without altering existing files on your hard drive. Especially useful for testing your hardware's compatibility, it also includes an install option.	Added by apokryphos Date: 2006-06-18 16:24:06 Last edited by SonikkuAmerica Date: 2016-10-16 00:50:29 Requested 634 times
ext3	the default filesystem on older versions of Ubuntu, and the most popular on Linux. You can read/write from Windows to ext3 via http://www.fs-driver.org	Added by apokryphos Date: 2006-06-18 21:35:14 Last edited by rww Date: 2011-01-02 04:11:40 Requested 623 times
deb .deb installdeb gdebi	the Debian package format, also used by Ubuntu. To install .deb files, simply double-click (in Ubuntu) or click (in Kubuntu) on them to start the GDebi utility.	Added by apokryphos Date: 2006-06-19 10:47:18 Last edited by Jucato Date: 2007-10-31 03:57:27 Requested 611 times
p2p	<reply> Peer-to-peer filesharing clients are available for several networks/protocols, including !BitTorrent, !Gnutella, !eDonkey, !DirectConnect, !SoulSeek - Multi-protocol engines include !MLDonkey and !giFT - See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/P2PFileSharing for general information	Added by Seveas Date: 2006-06-18 19:31:50 Last edited by dax Date: 2017-10-30 06:44:32 Requested 596 times
pdf acrobat	<reply>The Portable Document Format is created by Adobe; PDF files are viewable in Ubuntu with Xpdf, Okular, Evince and also Adobe Reader (free download, but closed source)	Added by bimberi Date: 2006-07-31 07:34:53 Last edited by jussi Date: 2011-04-28 15:21:23 Requested 476 times
md5sum checksum	<reply> To verify your Ubuntu ISO image (or other files for which a checksum is provided), see https://ubuntu.com/tutorials/how-to-verify-ubuntu	Added by Hawkwind Date: 2006-10-21 05:40:18 Last edited by hggdh Date: 2020-08-15 00:12:40 Requested 463 times
defrag defragmentation defragment	<reply> The default Ubuntu filesystem (ext4) is engineered to avoid fragmentation issues in most cases. However, there is an online defragmentation tool available if needed. For more information, see `man e4defrag`	Added by Seveas Date: 2006-07-20 22:49:03 Last edited by dax Date: 2016-03-30 19:26:16 Requested 368 times
scp winscp	a secure way of copying files across networks using !SSH. Usage: scp filename user@host:filename - WinSCP is a client for Windows, available at http://winscp.net/	Added by Seveas Date: 2006-06-19 13:35:53 Last edited by tsimpson Date: 2011-03-03 21:40:56 Requested 342 times
midi	<reply> Trouble playing MIDI files? Look at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MidiSoftwareSynthesisHowTo	Added by Seveas Date: 2006-06-19 13:49:56 Requested 338 times
desktopsearch strigi indexing indexers beagle kerry tracker kat pinot doodle	<reply> Services to index files for fast searching include: Beagle (front-ends: beagle, catfish, gnome-main-menu, mozilla-beagle for !GNOME; kerry, kio-beagle for !KDE; beaglefs for !CLI) - Tracker (tracker-search-tool, libdeskbar-tracker for GNOME; tracker-utils for CLI) - Strigi (strigi-applet, strigi-client for KDE, strigi-utils for CLI) - Kat (for KDE) - Pinot (and pinot-applet for GNOME) - Doodle (for CLI)	Added by LjL Date: 2007-06-03 17:10:31 Last edited by LjL Date: 2007-06-03 17:12:22 Requested 184 times
plymouth	<reply> Plymouth is an application that runs very early in the boot process (even before the root filesystem is mounted!) that provides a graphical boot animation while the boot process happens in the background. To change your Plymouth theme use « sudo update-alternatives --config default.plymouth && sudo update-initramfs -u »	Added by Pici Date: 2010-12-02 14:07:39 Last edited by Jordan_U Date: 2013-04-29 00:05:35 Requested 161 times
zip file-roller ark	<reply> Files with extensions .tar, .gz, .tgz, .zip, .bz2, .7z, .ace and other archive file formats can be opened with file-roller (GNOME), Ark (KDE), or Xarchiver (XFCE) - Also see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FileCompression	Added by Seveas Date: 2006-06-18 15:55:25 Last edited by tonyyarusso Date: 2007-07-26 06:10:54 Requested 152 times
btrfs	<reply> Btrfs is a filesystem available for Ubuntu. It is not recommended by default, and should not be used for important data. See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/btrfs	Added by LjL Date: 2011-11-06 15:30:17 Last edited by dax Date: 2016-04-08 06:46:24 Requested 132 times
tar-#kubuntu tgz-#kubuntu tar.gz-#kubuntu bz2-#kubuntu 7z-#kubuntu zip-#kubuntu compression-#kubuntu tar.bz2-#kubuntu gz-#kubuntu ace-#kubuntu 7zip-#kubuntu	<reply> Files with extensions .tar, .gz, .tgz, .zip, .bz2, .7z, .ace and other archive file formats can be opened with ark - also see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FileCompression	Added by Mez Date: 2006-10-28 06:11:09 Requested 117 times
patch	<reply> Patches are files describing the changes in code to achieve some results. There are a number of ways these can be produced, but https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/HowToFix and http://developer.ubuntu.com/packaging/html/patches-to-packages.html may provide some useful guidelines.	Added by Hobbsee Date: 2007-12-01 12:13:47 Last edited by IdleOne Date: 2013-03-23 02:46:12 Requested 116 times
cvs	the Concurrent Versions System, the dominant open-source network-transparent version control system; it helps to manage releases and to control concurrent editing of source files among multiple authors. See: http://www.nongnu.org/cvs/	Added by Seveas Date: 2006-06-19 11:18:51 Last edited by dax Date: 2016-03-31 15:36:43 Requested 115 times
debootstrap	used to create a !Debian or Ubuntu base system from scratch, without requiring the availability of !dpkg or !APT. It does this by downloading !.deb files from a mirror site, and carefully unpacking them into a directory you can eventually !chroot into. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebootstrapChroot for more information	Added by LjL Date: 2007-04-22 15:12:30 Last edited by Hobbsee Date: 2008-01-02 14:49:58 Requested 115 times
reinstall	<reply> To renew the configuration of a package when installing, sudo apt-get remove --purge <package> && sudo apt-get install <package>. Note that you will lose ALL config files for that package. WARNING: This is dangerous, don't do this with core packages	Added by Seveas Date: 2006-06-19 11:05:44 Requested 114 times
sshfs	a !Fuse based filesystem which allows you to mount a remote system over !SSH - See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SSHFS for instructions	Added by jpds Date: 2009-02-15 18:29:16 Last edited by tsimpson Date: 2011-03-03 21:45:11 Requested 100 times
xfs	a high-performance journaling filesystem originally developped by Silicon Graphics for their IRIX OS. It is now fully supported by Linux so you can install Ubuntu on it if you wish. More info at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XFS	Added by Seveas Date: 2007-04-27 00:35:39 Requested 74 times
addingfs	<reply>If you are adding space to your Ubuntu installation mounting a newly created unix filesystem (ext3, xfs, jfs, etc) you can not set permissions (read, write, etc) filesystem-wide like you do when mounting filesystems that do not support unix permissions (vfat, ntfs, hfs, etc). See !permissions and !fstab	Added by jrib Date: 2008-02-12 15:52:30 Last edited by jrib Date: 2008-02-12 15:58:35 Requested 50 times
lost+found lost	where !fsck places any files it gleans from a corrupt filesystem. These are files which had become unlinked from their parent directories.	Added by apokryphos Date: 2006-06-19 13:12:22 Requested 48 times
tarball	<reply> Files with ".tar.gz", ".tar.bz2" or ".tgz" extensions are compressed archive formats, similar to ZIP files. See !tar for extracting them. Some of these files contain programs in source code form; see !compile for getting them to run.	Added by LjL Date: 2006-10-29 18:09:46 Requested 42 times
rm	<reply> The Unix 'rm' command removes files and directories from the filesystem. It is an extremly powerful tool, and you should not run 'rm' commands unless you fully understand them. Do not run arbitrary 'rm' commands you see online. For a beginning guide on using terminal commands, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UsingTheTerminal	Added by Seveas Date: 2006-06-18 19:07:55 Last edited by k1l_ Date: 2016-02-22 21:54:28 Requested 41 times
pkexec	<reply> pkexec is a PolicyKit tool that allows an authorized user to run (graphical) applications as another user. To run a graphical application (e.g. gedit) which can write to the entire filesystem, use e.g. "pkexec env DISPLAY=$DISPLAY XAUTHORITY=$XAUTHORITY gedit /etc/environment"	Added by knome Date: 2015-06-25 22:56:08 Last edited by hggdh Date: 2019-03-31 04:02:52 Requested 31 times
filesystems	<reply> ext3 and ext4 are the default filesystems in Ubuntu (and many other Linuxes). Alternative Linux filesystems include reiserfs and xfs. fat32 and ntfs are DOS/Windows filesystems. hfs and hfs+ are filesystems for the Mac. More info at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems	Added by Seveas Date: 2007-04-27 00:36:30 Last edited by Myrtti Date: 2011-01-05 12:49:11 Requested 30 times
picard	a digital audio fingerprinting/tagging program using the MusicBrainz online music database, not unlike freedb. It can be used to identify and tag files in your music collection. Usage instructions: http://musicbrainz.org/doc/HowToTagFilesWithPicard ; Ubuntu installation instructions: http://musicbrainz.org/doc/PicardLinuxInstall	Added by gnomefreak Date: 2006-08-26 02:31:18 Last edited by tsimpson Date: 2011-03-03 21:33:31 Requested 23 times
sudoedit	<reply> To edit files with !superuser access using the user's standard editor (as set in the EDITOR !shell variable) and its normal configuration, the command « sudoedit <filename> » is available. It creates a local copy of the file, and runs the editor with the user's permissions.	Added by ompaul Date: 2007-12-29 21:22:30 Last edited by LjL Date: 2007-12-29 21:39:01 Requested 15 times
gift	a peer-to-peer filesharing engine supporting several networks and protocols by means of plug-ins. It's available in !Universe. Clients include gifTui, giFToxic (GTK), Apollon (KDE), giFTcurs (terminal-based) - See also !P2P	Added by LjL Date: 2007-11-03 00:35:09 Requested 12 times
mldonkey	a peer-to-peer filesharing engine supporting several networks and protocols, available in !Universe as 'mldonkey-server'. Clients include mkdonkey-gui (GTK) and KMLDonkey (KDE). See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MLDonkey - See also !P2P	Added by LjL Date: 2007-11-03 00:31:31 Last edited by LjL Date: 2007-11-03 00:33:20 Requested 7 times
fhs	<alias> files	Added by apokryphos Date: 2006-08-30 07:54:40 Requested 5 times
screen-#ubuntu-server	<deleted><reply> Screen is a window manager for terminal sessions, also useful over SSH. The 'screen-profiles' package provides very useful additional utilities. See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Screen	Added by LjL Date: 2009-03-03 17:00:12 Last edited by tsimpson Date: 2011-09-07 11:25:59 Requested 5 times
pocketpc windows mobile	<reply> For information on transferring files and synchronizing to PocketPC and Windows Mobile devices, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PortableDevices/WindowsMobile	Added by Pici Date: 2009-10-15 18:04:01 Requested 5 times
file	<alias> files	Added by apokryphos Date: 2006-06-19 23:13:00 Requested 2 times
hier	<alias> files	Added by Pici Date: 2012-05-03 14:47:28 Requested 2 times