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Is there an application like Wubi for other Linux distributions?
More specifically, I'd love to install Fedora without a dedicated partition or changing my bootloader.
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I've got a problem with apt-get update and apt-get install ... commands .
every time update or installing fails and errors are :
Get:1 http://dl.google.com stable Release.gpg [198B]
Ign http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable/main Translation-en_US
Get:2 http://dl…
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sh@ubuntu:/home/ccpp/helloworld$ make
gcc-4.6 -O2 -DMODULE -D_KERNEL_ -W -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -isystem /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build/include -c -o hello-1.o hello-1.c
hello-1.c:4:0: warning: "MODULE" redefined [enabled by default]
<command-line>:0:0: note: this is…
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I am having trouble accessing the several critical header files that show to be a part of the build process.
The "Ubuntu Software Center" shows "Build Essentials" as installed:
Next I did the following two commands, which did not improve the problem:
~$ sudo apt-get install build-essential
[sudo]…
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I'm trying to update my Debian machine to 2.6.32-46 (which is the new stable). However, after doing apt-get update my apt-cache search linux-image shows me:
linux-headers-2.6.32-5-486 - Header files for Linux 2.6.32-5-486
linux-headers-2.6.32-5-686-bigmem - Header files for Linux 2.6.32-5-686-bigmem
linux-headers-2…
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I'm helping out with a project for an embedded device that only has USB and no serial. This device is running Linux.
These days, when we need to connect to a serial port on a device we typically use a USB to serial adapter (on something like a phone system or a load balancing device, etc). I would…
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I'm trying to use remote desktop on my laptop (running Fedora) to my desktop (also running Fedora) on the same local network.
I configured Remote Desktop on my desktop via System - Preferences - Remote Desktop, verified that the port is open by nmap, and attempted to connect from my laptop via vinagre…
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I want to install texlive on my fedora 16 laptop
with the following procedure:
# yum remove tex-* texlive-*
# cat > /etc/yum.repos.d/texlive.repo <<EOF
[texlive]
name=texlive
baseurl=http://jnovy.fedorapeople.org/texlive/2012/packages.f17/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0
EOF
# yum update;
# yum install…
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I did run preupgrade to upgrade my Fedora 16(x64) to Fedora 17. And it seemed to work fine. So I got the new gimp 2.8, gcc 4.7.0 and so on. But the system keeps using the old kernel from fc16. Uname -a gives me:
Linux localhost.localdomain 3.3.6-3.fc16.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed May 16 21:43:01 UTC 2012 x86_64…
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I had already installed the yum-security before. And I was going to do an update by entering the following command:
[root@localhost /]# yum update
Loaded plugins: presto, priorities, refresh-packagekit, security
Skipping security plugin, no data
Setting up Update Process
Resolving Dependencies
Skipping…
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We have a sendmail server that also works as DHCP, DNS, and a gateway to our ISP. It has three network interfaces, one for our ISP ( static IP) and the other two is for LANS on different subnet. The hardware is quite old and we've been experiencing downtime due to hardware failures, so we have decided…
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