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How do I install the Firefox Developer Edition?
Mozilla released the Firefox Developer Edition! How do I install it on Ubuntu?
Source:
Mozilla Releases 'Firefox Developer Edition' for Windows, Mac and Linux - OMG! Ubuntu!
blade19899
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How do I disable middle mouse button click paste?
Is there a way to disable the middle mouse button paste behavior that is here by default on gnome?
I have a sensitive mouse wheel and whenever I scroll texts, sometimes it pastes stuff randomly into the text. I lose quite a lot of credibility when I…
levesque
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How can I get apt to use a mirror close to me, or choose a faster mirror?
Downloading from the main Ubuntu archive is slow even when it's not release day, how can I get apt-get to automatically use a mirror that is close to me?
ajmitch
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What are the differences between snaps, appimage, flatpak and others?
I have been getting this question lately from students and although I have a lot of information to offer, I have not found a source that I can point people to where they can read an update answer (I have found a lot of misinformation and obsolete…
Luis Alvarado
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How do I install a different Python version using apt-get?
How can I install a different version of Python using apt-get?
Obviously I realise I can install using the source tar ball, however I would prefer not to install from source and instead use the package manager, as that's what it's there for. Surely…
AgileZebra
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What is the difference between Vi and Vim?
I would appreciate it if someone can let a newbie know what the differences are between vi and vim. I've heard Vim is a successor to vi but whenever I try to open vi in Ubuntu it opens vim instead.
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What is the Linux equivalent to Windows' Program Files?
Under Windows, most applications and application data are stored in a special directory known as C:\Program Files (and occasionally C:\Program Files (x86)). What is the Ubuntu/Linux equivalent to this path? Is there even one?
user11154
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Aliases not available when using sudo
I was playing around with aliases today and I noticed that aliases don't seem to be available whilst using sudo:
danny@kaon:~$ alias
alias egrep='egrep --color=auto'
alias fgrep='fgrep --color=auto'
alias grep='grep --color=auto'
alias l='ls…
kemra102
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How to move multiple files at once to a specific destination directory?
I got a bunch of files in some directory (along with many other files) that I want to move.
Luckily, all the files I want to move contain a certain identifier in their names, so I can ls | grep IDENTIFIER to get the exact list of files to move.…
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How can I make a script that opens terminal windows and executes commands in them?
I have three scripts I need to run when I start up my Ubuntu machine, they start services I use in my development environment.
To do that, I manually open three terminals and type in the commands.
Is there any way to create a script that will open…
JSBach
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How to change Gnome-Terminal title?
I have several instances of terminals running in my working environment, what I would like is to set a specific title for each one, in order to have a clear idea what purpose the specific terminal serves i.e. Apache, editing_ini, postgres etc...
Of…
topless
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How to find owner and group of a directory?
How can I find out owner and group of a directory in Ubuntu?
Gaurav Agarwal
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How to install the latest versions of NodeJS and NPM?
I noticed over at the https://nodejs.org/ website that node is currently at v 0.12.0.
Can someone let me know how to install the latest version of node together with npm (terminal commands please)?
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Can I directly download audio using youtube-dl?
Can I directly download audio from a YouTube video instead of first downloading audio+video and then extracting the audio?
DK Bose
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Why doesn't `sudo cd /var/named` work?
I want to cd into /var/named but it gives me a permission denied error, and when I want to use sudo to do this I am not permitted. What is the technical reason for this, and is it possible to do this some other way?
Hojat Taheri
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