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Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus) is a long term support release, available from 21st of April 2016. Questions should be related to writing or running programs under Ubuntu. General Ubuntu questions should be asked on https://askubuntu.com

New features include the following

  • 5 year support term
  • Linux 4.4 LTS kernel
  • Unity online search disabled by default
  • Unity launcher can be repositioned
  • ZFS (file system)
  • Ubuntu Software Center replaced with GNOME Software

It is available for download as an ISO image.

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Ubuntu Dbeaver backup database

I have Dbeaver installed and I have a connection to a PostgreSQL database on a remote server. I'd like to export this database to my local PC but when I go to Tools -> Backup database I see an error Client home is not specified for connection What…
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Can't reset root password with --skip-grant-tables on ubuntu 16

I am trying to reset the root password following MysqlPasswordReset but when I try to start the server with --skip-grant-tables the server doesn't start Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS (GNU/Linux 4.4.0-59-generic x86_64) mysql Ver 14.14 Distrib 5.7.17, for…
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Anaconda-Navigator - Ubuntu16.04

This is ubuntu16.04. I can open Anaconda-Navigator from the terminal using anaconda-navigator, but when I click on it, it doesn't open. What am I missing?
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Why can't I install python3.6-dev on Ubuntu 16.04?

I am trying to install it with this command: sudo apt-get install python3.6-dev But I'm getting this error: E: Unable to locate package python3.6-dev E: Couldn't find any package by glob 'python3.6-dev' E: Couldn't find any package by regex…
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Why does pip freeze list "pkg-resources==0.0.0"?

On Ubuntu 16.04 with virtualenv 15.0.1 and Python 3.5.2 (both installed with apt) when I create and activate new Python virtual environment with virtualenv .virtualenvs/wtf -p $(which python3) --no-site-packages source…
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libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.20' not found

To upload the raw-reads > 2GB to SRA on Genebank, I installed aspera connect plug-in on ubuntu 16.04. But the plug-in did not pop up as indicated by the instruction on the genebank SRA portal. I got this error on the terminal as I initializing the…
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"pip install json" fails on Ubuntu

Cannot install the json module. As far as I know I shouldn't use sudo. what's the matter? pip install json The directory '/home/snow/.cache/pip/http' or its parent directory is not owned by the current user and the cache has been disabled. Please…
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python GDAL 2.1 installation on Ubuntu 16.04

Here will be my sequence of command lines while trying to install gdal2.1 in a UBUNTU virtual machine. My virtual machine is a UBUNTU 16.04 LTS(64bit) I would need gdal2.1 and especially the Python bindings to work with it in python. The versionof…
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command 'x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc' failed with exit status 1

I tried to install "scholarly" package, but I keep receiving this error: x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc -pthread -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O2 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -fno-strict-aliasing -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat…
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How to fix "module 'platform' has no attribute 'linux_distribution'" when installing new packages with Python3.8?

I had Python versions of 2.7 and 3.5. I wanted the install a newer version of Python which is python 3.8. I am using Ubuntu 16.04 and I can not just uninstall Python 3.5 due to the dependencies. So in order to run my scripts, I use python3.8 app.py.…
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How to run docker with experimental functions on Ubuntu 16.04

I have following question: How to run docker with experimental features on (like image squashing docker build --squash=true... for reduce it size) on ubuntu 16.04 ?
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Failed to start redis.service: Unit redis-server.service is masked

I Installed Redis Server on ubuntu 16.04. but when I try to start the redis service using $ sudo systemctl start redis I receive message: Failed to start redis.service: Unit redis-server.service is masked. I don't have any idea about this error.
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R 3.4.1 "Single Candle" Personal Library Path Error: unable to create ‘NA’

I just updated to R (3.4.1 "Single Candle") on my Linux Mint 18.1 Cinnamon machine and I attempted to install a package. R returned the following: > install.packages('ggplot2') Installing package into ‘/usr/local/lib/R/site-library’ (as ‘lib’ is…
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E: Package 'oracle-java8-installer' has no installation candidate

I tried to install java8 using the following commands: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install oracle-java8-installer I'm getting an error as follows : Package oracle-java8-installer is not…
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Mongod Service start exits with code 100

Problem My mongo service does not start anymore: root@machine ~ # service mongod start root@machine ~ # service mongod status ● mongod.service - High-performance, schema-free document-oriented database Loaded: loaded…
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