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| rt realtime | <reply> The RT kernel is the Linux kernel with special realtime patches applied. It is not available in Ubuntu. See also !lowlatency and https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuStudio/RealTimeKernel | Added by Tm_T Date: 2007-12-18 11:26:52 Last edited by dax Date: 2020-02-26 16:33:48 Requested 151 times |
| sshd | <reply> SSH is the Secure SHell protocol, sshd is the server (or daemon) of SSH. For setting up the SSH server, please see: https://help.ubuntu.com/lts/serverguide/openssh-server.html . Advanced SSH uses: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SSH/OpenSSH/Advanced . For SSH client information, see !ssh . Related: !scp (Secure CoPy) | Added by Pici Date: 2008-09-30 18:26:26 Last edited by knome Date: 2015-07-27 16:44:18 Requested 149 times |
| tex latex | a language for describing a document, commonly used especially for scientific publishing. Information and instructions for installing TeX and other related packages can be found at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LaTeX | Added by LjL Date: 2007-05-12 00:23:42 Requested 147 times |
| proaudio | <reply> For information on professional audio tools in Ubuntu, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuStudio/ProAudioIntro | Added by knome Date: 2013-02-26 18:58:19 Last edited by knome Date: 2013-02-26 19:09:00 Requested 142 times |
| selinux | <reply> SELinux is available on Ubuntu, but not officially supported. Ubuntu uses another security framework by default, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AppArmor | Added by LjL Date: 2007-11-06 00:07:16 Requested 141 times |
| burniso | <reply> To burn an ISO image of a CD in Linux, Mac OS or Windows, read the howto at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BurningIsoHowto | Added by thoreauputic Date: 2006-06-22 14:17:16 Requested 139 times |
| kqemu | a kernel module (now free under the GPL license) for speeding up the !QEMU virtual machine. Installation instructions can be found at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/KQEmu | Added by LjL Date: 2006-06-22 03:32:12 Last edited by dax Date: 2017-10-30 06:53:36 Requested 137 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 |
| upgrade-#kubuntu | <reply> For upgrading instructions see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/$curStableUpgrades/Kubuntu | Added by tsimpson Date: 2009-05-07 18:40:11 Last edited by tsimpson Date: 2012-10-18 17:38:01 Requested 113 times |
| aptproxy apt-proxy | <reply> apt-proxy is a program that acts as a local apt repository server for a LAN, only fetching from the internet when required. To set it up see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AptProxy | Added by bimberi Date: 2006-10-27 04:06:15 Requested 104 times |
| label | <reply> To rename the labels of your partitions, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RenameUSBDrive. | Added by jrib Date: 2008-06-25 00:23:45 Last edited by jrib Date: 2008-06-25 00:24:29 Requested 101 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 |
| ibus | <reply> IBus is used to allow multilingual input such as Chinese, Japanese, Korean (CJK), Devanagari and Dravidian characters in !GUI applications - see also: !SCIM. For more info on Ibus see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ibus | Added by tsimpson Date: 2010-06-03 15:20:31 Last edited by Flannel Date: 2010-08-22 05:19:43 Requested 98 times |
| binarydriver-#ubuntu+1 | <deleted><reply> For Ati/NVidia/Matrox video cards, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/VideoDriverHowto | The ATI and nVidia binary drivers may not currently be installable. | Added by stdin Date: 2008-10-03 10:02:27 Last edited by tsimpson Date: 2012-04-26 17:51:59 Requested 95 times |
| cloud | <reply> Ubuntu Cloud Infrastructure is a ready to deploy Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) based on OpenStack. See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuCloudInfrastructure for further details. | Added by elky Date: 2011-01-03 04:00:07 Last edited by rww Date: 2014-01-26 20:22:26 Requested 91 times |
| bootrepair | <reply> Boot-Repair is a simple tool to repair frequent boot issues you may encounter in Ubuntu. See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Repair for more info. | Added by k1l Date: 2014-11-05 21:27:32 Last edited by Pici Date: 2014-11-05 21:31:43 Requested 89 times |
| subversion | an open source application used for revision control. It is sometimes abbreviated to svn in reference to the name of its command line interface. Look here for a Subversion How To on Ubuntu: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Subversion | Added by nalioth Date: 2006-08-27 02:03:51 Requested 87 times |
| ocr | <reply> For OCR (optical character recognition) software in Ubuntu, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/OCR for packages and instructions. | Added by LjL Date: 2007-09-29 22:03:51 Last edited by jussi Date: 2011-04-28 15:10:43 Requested 87 times |
| activedirectory ad | <reply> You can learn more about ActiveDirectory intergration at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ActiveDirectoryWinbindHowto | Added by imbrandon Date: 2006-06-23 22:07:05 Requested 82 times |
| numlock numberlock number lock | <reply> To enable Number Lock by default, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/NumLock | Added by apokryphos Date: 2006-06-18 21:13:09 Requested 81 times |
| autofs automount | <reply>Automount is the modern way to mount directories over a network. It is much easier to manage and more economic in bandwidth than static mounts via fstab. For more info - https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Autofs | Added by Pici Date: 2009-09-23 23:29:54 Requested 80 times |
| restoregrub recovergrub | <reply> Lost GRUB after installing Windows? See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestoreGrub | Added by ikonia Date: 2011-11-30 12:28:24 Requested 79 times |
| wep | <reply> WEP is totally insecure, don't use it, the full Wireless Documentation for Ubuntu can be found at: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs | Added by Seveas Date: 2006-06-18 15:45:43 Last edited by ompaul Date: 2007-10-20 18:19:47 Requested 76 times |
| phasedupdates phased | <reply> Since Ubuntu 21.04, APT may hold back some updates on some systems while they are being phased in. This is called "phased updates". See https://ubottu.com/y/phased and https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PhasedUpdates for more info. | Added by krytarik Date: 2022-10-05 17:23:03 Last edited by tomreyn Date: 2023-03-15 17:21:28 Requested 73 times |
| tasksel | <reply>Tasksel is a Debian/Ubuntu tool that installs multiple related packages as a co-ordinated "task" onto your system, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Tasksel for more information. Use tasksel only to INSTALL tasks, not to remove them. It will remove every package listed within the removed task! see https://launchpad.net/bugs/574287 | Added by Tm_T Date: 2011-02-10 13:14:44 Last edited by Tm_T Date: 2011-02-10 14:08:44 Requested 72 times |
| sparc | <reply> Information on Ubuntu on SPARC platforms can be found here https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/Sparc | Added by ompaul Date: 2006-06-26 20:38:15 Last edited by Pici Date: 2009-06-01 00:15:01 Requested 71 times |
| gmail | a webmail service. For information on using it with Evolution see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UsingGmailWithEvolution | Added by bimberi Date: 2006-07-28 02:16:53 Last edited by dax Date: 2017-10-30 06:53:43 Requested 70 times |
| lowmemory lowmem | <reply> For installing on low memory systems, this page has useful information: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/LowMemorySystems. See also https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/SystemRequirements. | Added by ompaul Date: 2008-03-26 01:01:39 Requested 70 times |
| path | <reply>The $PATH variable tells the shell where to look for the commands you tell it to run. See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EnvironmentVariables#File-location_related_variables | Added by Pricey Date: 2013-05-30 22:47:48 Last edited by AlanBell Date: 2013-11-27 11:22:08 Requested 65 times |
| googleearth earth | <reply> Google Earth is available as the package "googleearth-package" in !Multiverse. See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/GoogleEarth | Added by apokryphos Date: 2006-06-18 16:38:52 Last edited by tsimpson Date: 2011-03-03 21:38:33 Requested 64 times |
| xfce4-panel xfce-panels panels-#xubuntu panel-#xubuntu xfce4-panels | <reply> Did your panels disappear? Press alt+f2 and run: xfce4-panel | See also: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/XubuntuPanels | Added by Pici Date: 2009-02-12 13:12:32 Last edited by Unit193 Date: 2015-12-01 20:43:58 Requested 62 times |
| smartphone portables nokia | <reply> Guides for smartphones and portable devices can be found here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PortableDevices/ | Added by apokryphos Date: 2006-06-19 12:29:44 Last edited by Pici Date: 2007-12-31 14:09:55 Requested 61 times |
| teamspeak | the proprietry VoIP software see: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/TeamSpeak For a open source alternative consider using Mumble http://mumble.sourceforge.net/ | Added by ompaul Date: 2007-11-23 21:04:16 Last edited by tsimpson Date: 2011-03-03 21:43:42 Requested 57 times |
| soundblaster | If you need help with setting up your soundblaster card, then visit https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SoundcardsWithHardwareSynth | Added by Spec Date: 2006-09-07 18:20:26 Requested 54 times |
| autostart | <reply> If you want to edit your Autostart programs, open the Unity dash and search for Startup Programs. If you're on XFCE, use menu -> Settings -> Settings Manager -> Session and Startup, if you're on KDE, use Kickoff -> Computer -> System Settings -> Autostart. For more details see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AddingProgramToSessionStartup | Added by apokryphos Date: 2006-11-28 14:04:30 Last edited by dax Date: 2016-03-31 15:49:36 Requested 54 times |
| ivtv | <deleted><reply> IVTV can be installed on Edgy by following the guide at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Install_IVTV_Edgy | Added by LjL Date: 2006-11-24 15:45:53 Last edited by IdleOne Date: 2012-10-13 23:21:44 Requested 53 times |
| ubuntustudio-controls | <reply> Ubuntu Studio Controls is the application through which audio is configured in Ubuntu Studio. It configures Jack, sets the CPU governor, and ensures the user has realtime audio permissions. For more info, see !jack and https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuStudio/UbuntuStudioControls | Added by hggdh Date: 2019-03-24 15:53:34 Requested 50 times |
| irda | <reply> Information about using IrDA interfaces under Ubuntu can be found at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/IrdaHowto | Added by LjL Date: 2007-02-14 17:20:14 Requested 49 times |
| ubuntustudio-backports | <reply> The Ubuntu Studio Backports PPA contains newer versions of select software that is included with Ubuntu Studio. For more info, such as how to add this PPA to your system, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuStudio/BackportsPPA and !ubuntustudio-installer. See also !ubuntustudio-controls | Added by dax Date: 2019-04-23 23:54:52 Last edited by housecat Date: 2020-05-13 01:50:21 Requested 49 times |
| 64bit whicharch | <reply> AMD64 and Intel 64 are fully supported architectures on Ubuntu. Consider using 64-bit if your memory ussage exceeds 4GB. See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/32bit_and_64bit | Added by apokryphos Date: 2006-06-18 00:18:56 Last edited by LjL Date: 2011-08-03 22:44:30 Requested 48 times |
| scanner | <reply> Scanning software: simple-scan (GNOME), Gwenview (KDE), Xsane. For instructions see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ScanningHowTo and to see supported hardware: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareSupportComponentsScanners - See also !OCR | Added by apokryphos Date: 2006-06-19 10:34:05 Last edited by bazhang Date: 2010-05-08 15:37:43 Requested 45 times |
| zsync | <reply> Use zsync to update your Ubuntu CD image without needing to download the parts that didn't change. See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ZsyncCdImage | Added by LjL Date: 2011-10-06 19:24:01 Requested 44 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 |
| biosupdate | <reply> To see how to update your bios on Ubuntu visit the community collected methods here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BIOSUpdate | Added by hggdh Date: 2019-01-28 14:36:02 Last edited by hggdh Date: 2019-01-28 14:36:39 Requested 39 times |
| oldworld | <reply> For installation on Old World PowerMacs see this URL https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/OldWorldMacs | Added by Seveas Date: 2006-07-13 19:37:16 Requested 38 times |
| songbird | <reply> Songbird is a media player based on Mozilla. Official Linux builds and support ended in April, 2010. Ubuntu installation instructions at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Songbird | Added by LjL Date: 2009-04-12 19:44:15 Last edited by IdleOne Date: 2013-03-23 02:47:46 Requested 38 times |
| citrix | <reply> For help configuring the Citrix ICA Client, see: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CitrixICAClientHowTo | Added by ompaul Date: 2006-07-05 13:23:41 Requested 32 times |
| matlab | <reply> MATLAB is a high-level language and interactive environment that enables you to perform computationally intensive tasks. More info and install instructions at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MATLAB | Added by gpc Date: 2011-02-12 16:32:02 Last edited by gpc Date: 2011-02-12 16:41:59 Requested 31 times |
| servergui | <reply> Ubuntu server does not install a desktop environment or X11 by default in order to enhance security, efficiency and performance. !eBox provides a GUI system management option via a web interface. See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ServerGUI for more background and options. | Added by Seveas Date: 2008-03-13 16:49:00 Requested 29 times |
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