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How to find zombie process?

System information as of Fri Mar 9 19:40:01 KST 2012 System load: 0.59 Processes: 167 Usage of /home: 23.0% of 11.00GB Users logged in: 1 Swap usage: 0% IP address for eth1: 192.168.0.1 …
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How to format a USB or external drive?

Using Ubuntu 11.10, how do I format an external or USB drive? I don't find an option to 'format' when I right click. In the new version, the drives don't come up on the desktop, but instead come on the Launcher.
Sudeep Halappa
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How do I create an animated gif from still images (preferably with the command line)?

I want make a .gif animated picture from a given set of .jpg pictures. I would prefer to do it from the command line, so command line tools would be very welcome.
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How do I use the latest GCC on Ubuntu?

I want to compile my program with the latest version of gcc. Ubuntu 14.04 comes with gcc 4.8.2, however there's 4.9.0 available, moreover, I see that it is available as a package: gcc-4.9. I tried to install it sudo apt-get install gcc-4.9 but it…
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How to get a drive formatted with exfat working?

In Ubuntu 13.04 there was an option to use the PPA by Relan in order to get ExFat functionality. Seeing that in Ubuntu this functionality is now available from the repositories without the PPA I tried this but failed to make it work. So my question…
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How can I display the current time & date setting?

How can I display the current time configuration, like the time zone, in Ubuntu?
usef_ksa
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How to create a Wi-Fi Hotspot (in Access Point mode)?

How to setup an Access Point (AP) mode Wi-Fi Hotspot? Point to be noted: Wireless access points aren't the same as ad hoc networks. They differ significantly. In short, ad hoc networks aren't supported on newer devices and most Android, Windows…
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.bashrc not executed when opening new terminal

The code in .bashrc does not execute when I open a new terminal window in Ubuntu 12.04. I noticed this when creating a .bash_aliases file. The aliases did not show up when I opened a new terminal. However when I type source .bashrc the aliases did…
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Command line tool to crop PDF files

I am looking for an open source command line tool to crop PDF file just like we can do in Adobe Acrobat Pro. I have tried PdfTk, ImageMagick, PyPDF, and GhostScript—all with no success so far.
Rakesh
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How to install Chromium without snap?

I just discovered that chromium will only be released as a snap package. How can I continue to get chromium, without snap? Is this possible without building from source? Notes: Please let's keep to the question as stated - not "what do you have…
lonix
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How to invert fn keys on Dell Laptop?

My Dell laptop (XPS 15z) has special keys on the F1 to F12 keys. If I want to disable keyboard backlight, for example, I must type Fn + F6. Is it possible to invert it? In fact, I don't often use the F* keys. How can I only hit F6 to disable the…
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How to find a text file which contains a specific word inside (not in its name)

I want to find a text file in my hard disk which contains a specific word. Prior to Ubuntu 12.4 I used to start in the dash an application, I think it was called "Search for file...", whose icon was a magnifying glass.I can't find that simple…
SomeoneMe
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libdvd-pkg: `apt-get check` failed, you may have broken packages. Aborting

FYI: I am using Kubuntu 18.04 I keep getting the following error when I install apt-transport-https Things I have already tired to fix this error are: sudo apt-get autoremove libdvd-pkg sudo apt-get install libdvd-pkg sudo apt-get update sudo…
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How to search entire hard drive for a file?

Trying to locate a file, how can I search the entire hard drive for a file?
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How to back up my entire system?

If I want to make a backup of my entire OS (including but not just my home directory), how do I go about this? Is it as simple as backing up everything in / and then when if I suffer a crash, just copying the files back over? Will this cover grub,…
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