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Ubuntu Server is a flavour of the Ubuntu operating system. It is the same core product as the Desktop version, but with certain differences that make it more suitable as a server. Most notably, it's missing a GUI. is a free desktop and server operating system based on Debian GNU/Linux. Note that https://askubuntu.com is specifically dedicated to Ubuntu questions.

Philosophy

The goal of the Ubuntu project is to provide a free computer environment, centered on a Linux distribution and complemented by online services.

Releases

Ubuntu includes a small amount of non-free software such as drivers. Ubuntu offers a large amount of packages directly taken from Debian's unstable distribution, in the form of the universe repository.

There is a release of Ubuntu every six months. One in four is a long-term support (LTS) release.

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Shutdown ubuntu server remotely

I have my Ubuntu Server 16.04 LTS running and at the end of the day I want to shutdown my server from android device. I have created a php file (API.php) as below. And in android app there is a button, and…
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Linux LXD container not getting IP from DHCP Ubuntu 16.04 TLS

This is my first time when I am setting up LXD to run multiple containers. I have done all the configuration steps but my container not getting IP address from DHCP server which is running inside my organization. Please help me out. I am using…
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X11 forwarding to run gvim on ubuntu server

I am using Ubuntu server 14.04 and accessing it remotely via "ssh -X". I do not have a desktop environment installed, and would like to keep it that way if possible. I installed the vim-athena version as it required the least dependencies. But the…
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Issue while running Djangorestframework api on Ubuntu Server

I have developed an api using djangorestframework. It uses selenium and firefox driver. It works completely fine on my localhost. But it gives WebDriverException when I try to run it on server. Server and host both have the same environment, as…
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MongoDB Initial Sync failing repeatedly (Mongodb 3.2 on Ubuntu 16.04 on Azure VM)

I have a one member mongod instance (Server1) with a very large DB with 2.5 million documents (Each document is very big) and 4 indices. Then I added another machine (Server2)to this replica set. Mongod on Server2 takes about 5 hours to fetch all…
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Missing UDP packets between docker containers

I'm developing a project where I need to exchange UDP packets between 2 docker containers on the same host. The host is a new dedicated server running ubuntu server 14.04LTS (Dell PowerEdge R410, 32 GB RAM, Intel Xeon CPU E5640 @ 2.67GHz). While…
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How can I resolve these 'cryptsetup: WARNING' messages following Ubuntu server upgrade?

After recently upgrading the packages on my Ubuntu 12.04 server I received a couple of warnings in relation to cryptsetup. My update steps were: sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade The warnings I received were: cryptsetup: WARNING: failed to…
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Curl not installed correctly (Call to undefined function curl_init())

I have installed curl on my ubuntu server 14.04, On the file: /etc/php5/mods-available/curl.ini I have this extension=/usr/lib/php5/20121212/curl.so On PHP ini file extension=curl.so But when I run something like…
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Python3 fonts for matplotlib running on headless server

I wrote a python3 (3.4.3) script that generates some graphs using matplotlib and seaborn, and it works wonderfully on my laptop running ubuntu 14.04. I want to schedule it to run as a cron job on my server, which is running ubuntu-server. To get it…
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Unable to create chef user: Connection refused connecting to https://127.0.0.1/users/

I'm installing chef server per the instructions at https://docs.chef.io/release/server_12-3/install_server.html#standalone on an Ubuntu Server 14.04 LTS machine. When I run the command to create a chef administrator: sudo chef-server-ctl user-create…
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web browser on ubuntu server ERROR:browser_main_loop.cc(237) Gtk: cannot open display

Question/Problem I am getting an error message when I am trying to run a web browser from the terminal. The error message is basically: ...ERROR:browser_main_loop.cc(237) Gtk: cannot open display... How can I correct this problem/get a browser to…
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install MySql connector on Ubuntu Server, Mono

Connector is installed in gac: nn@sv3:~/mysqlconnector.net/v4.5$ gacutil -l |grep MySql MySql.Data, Version=6.9.7.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=c5687fc88969c44d I have added MySql.Data to machine config: nn@sv3:/$ cat…
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Gitlab-git-http-server not working

Hi I'm trying to clone a remote repository to another remote repository but I'm getting errors trying to do so. i have figured out that Gitlab Unicorn and Sidekiq are not running so that's my issue. Here is the error I get when trying too start…
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Pause wget and resume when closing terminal

I've searched all over the web and have come to the conclusion that it's possible to pause wget with Ctrl+c and that it's possible to resume with wget -c [URI] But what I haven't found is whether it's the same if I'm mirroring a server over…
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Error running command oninit -i for Informix on Ubuntu Server

When I call oninit -i command in an Ubuntu server terminal, it shows an error like this: INFORMIXSERVER does not match DBSERVERNAME or any of the DBSERVERALIASES.FAILED Can anyone give me a solution for this problem?
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