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GENERAL UBUNTU SUPPORT IS OFF-TOPIC. Support questions may be asked at https://askubuntu.com/. Ubuntu is a free desktop and server operating system based on Debian GNU/Linux. This tag is for programming questions specific to Ubuntu.

Ubuntu is a free desktop and server operating system based on Debian GNU/Linux.

Note: Questions concerning the use and administration of Ubuntu, running third-party applications, development, or services provided by Ubuntu may be better suited for Ask Ubuntu rather than Stack Overflow.

Philosophy

The goal of the Ubuntu project is to provide a free computer environment, centered on a Linux distribution and complemented by online services. See Ubuntu's mission for full details.

Releases

The core of the Ubuntu distribution contains a -based desktop environment which is tightly integrated to the system, in particular providing a GUI for hardware management and system administration. The supported core also includes other desktop environments such as , although their integration is managed by side projects such as Kubuntu.

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 April and one in October. One in four is a long-term support (LTS) release, the latest being (Jammy Jellyfish), released in April 2022. LTS releases get 5 years of full support (with additional support available), while non-LTS releases get 9 months.

Derivatives

Side projects of Ubuntu include:

  • Kubuntu: managing the integration of KDE into Ubuntu.
  • Ubuntu Studio: for multimedia production.
  • Xubuntu: managing the integration of Xfce into Ubuntu.
  • Lubuntu: managing the integration of LXDE into Ubuntu, focusing on speed and energy efficiency.

Documentation

Common tasks

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Vagrant error : Failed to mount folders in Linux guest

I have some issues with Vagrant shared folders, my base system is Ubuntu 13.10 desktop. I do not understand why I have this error is something that is not right configured ? Is a NFS issue or Virtualbox Guest Additions ? I have tried with different…
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"Unable to find remote helper for 'https'" during git clone

I am unable to clone HTTPS repositories. I can clone SSH repos fine, but not HTTPS repos. I cannot test the GIT protocol since I am behind a corporate firewall. This is what I am trying to do: $ git clone https://github.com/nvie/gitflow.git Cloning…
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Getting permission denied (public key) on gitlab

My problem is that I can't push or fetch from GitLab. However, I can clone (via HTTP or via SSH). I get this error when I try to push : Permission denied (publickey) fatal : Could not read from remote repository From all the threads I've looked,…
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How to place the ~/.composer/vendor/bin directory in your PATH?

I'm on Ubuntu 14.04 and I've been trying all possible methods to install Laravel to no avail. Error messages everything I try. I'm now trying the first method in the quickstart documentation, that is, via Laravel Installer, but it says to "Make sure…
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Allow docker container to connect to a local/host postgres database

I've recently been playing around with Docker and QGIS and have installed a container following the instructions in this tutorial. Everything works great, although I am unable to connect to a localhost postgres database that contains all my GIS…
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Copy Paste in Bash on Ubuntu on Windows

How to execute a copy paste operation from Windows 10 to the Bash on Ubuntu on Windows environment? I tried the following: ctrl + shift + v right click to paste Any suggestions?
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ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: YES)

I have been following a manual to install a software suite on Ubuntu. I have no knowledge of MySQL at all. I have done the following installations on my Ubuntu. sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install mysql-server-5.5 sudo apt-get install…
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How to set ANDROID_HOME path in ubuntu?

How to set ANDROID_HOME path in ubuntu? Please provide the steps.
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sqlite3-ruby install error on Ubuntu

I have the following error during sqlite3-ruby install: Building native extensions. This could take a while... ERROR: Error installing sqlite3-ruby: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension. /usr/bin/ruby1.8 extconf.rb checking for…
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Docker command can't connect to Docker daemon

I want to make a move to Docker, so I've just started to mess around with it. I've installed Docker on a VirtualBox Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily Werewolf) installation and as suggested here I then tried running a basic nginx Docker image: $ docker run --name…
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What are the differences and similarities between ffmpeg, libav, and avconv?

When I run ffmpeg on Ubuntu, it shows: $ ffmpeg ffmpeg version v0.8, Copyright (c) 2000-2011 the Libav developers built on Feb 28 2012 13:27:36 with gcc 4.6.1 This program is not developed anymore and is only provided for compatibility. Use…
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How can I completely uninstall nodejs, npm and node in Ubuntu

The Question is similar to How do I completely uninstall Node.js, and reinstall from beginning (Mac OS X) but for Ubuntu, and just for uninstalling. Installation was done by: sudo apt-get install node How do I completely remove npm along with all…
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How to install JDK 11 under Ubuntu?

So Java 11 is out. Does anybody know how to install it (OpenJDK from Oracle) from the command line? I would like to see something like it was before for Oracle Java 10: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:linuxuprising/java sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get…
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GStreamer Editing Services freezes when transitions are added

I'm trying to use Gstreamer's GStreamer Editing Services to concatenate 2 videos, and to have a transition between the two. This command, which joins 2 segments of the videos together without a transition, works fine: ges-launch-0.10 vshort01.mov 0…
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When I run `npm install`, it returns with `ERR! code EINTEGRITY` (npm 5.3.0)

I am getting this error while running sudo npm install. On my server, npm was installed earlier. I've tried to delete the package-lock.json file, and ran npm cache clean --force, but it didn't work. My npm version is 5.3.0. The error: npm ERR! code…
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