Questions tagged [ubuntu-16.04]
The 24th major version of Ubuntu, codenamed Xenial Xerus.
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Opening a .msg file in Ubuntu [closed]
Someone sent me a .msg file on Skype, and somehow I just can't open this in Ubuntu.
Is there any app in which I could open the .msg file?
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Boot Ubuntu 16.04 into command line / do not start GUI
I want my Ubuntu 16.04 to not start GUI on boot and show command line console only. I have tried the following recipies but none of them are for version 16.04 and so they do not seem to work — GUI ...
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Cannot access external drive in Windows 10 Linux Subsystem bash
I'm using Ubuntu 16.04 over the Windows 10 Linux subsystem.
When I plug in an NTFS external hard drive (D:) I cannot access it over the bash, when I run ls -la /mnt I get the following output:
rwxr-...
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Cannot dismiss certain reminders in lightning/thunderbird
I'm using Thunderbird's Lightning addon to manage my calendars. I've been running into an issue where certain calendar events simply refuse to be dismissed for several days. They usually end up ...
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Chrome auto-fill saved passwords is very slow
I have been a Firefox user for more than 10 years; all my passwords are saved by Firefox password manager and protected with a master password. Now I want to move to Google Chrome (ubuntu 16.04), so I ...
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Windows 10 Share not accessible from Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
I am trying to connect/mount a point on my Ubuntu 16.04 LTS VM to a share on the host which is a Windows 10 with no success. The goal is so that I can download files on Ubuntu(VM) and transfer them to ...
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Using Gnome Desktop on Windows WSL version of ubuntu
For Windows 10 Pro 64 Bit, is there a way to install the Gnome Desktop in the Windows (WSL downloaded from the MS Store) version of Ubuntu? Or do I need to use a different distro?
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How to disable daily upgrade and clean on Ubuntu 16.04
I just updated to Ubuntu 16.04 and have been facing outages that I've traced to running unattended upgrades (which incidentally shutdown the tomcat server).
I would like to disable all unattended ...
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VMware Tools for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Xenial
Anybody knows how to get VMware Tools working for the latest Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Xenial?
I've been using the patches from here
for my Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid, which works fine. But not any more for ...
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Google chrome logs out from every webpage after system user has logged out
Every time I log into my account I have to again, and again, and again log into every webpage I'm using, because Google Chrome logs me out of everything I am logged in to. However, some cookies do ...
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Super key not toggling activities
I installed Ubuntu Gnome 16.04 on my new laptop but the Super key is not toggling activities. I tried to change the keybindings from settings> keyboard> System > Show the overview where it is set to ...
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Many USB 3.0 devices on a single Ubuntu via a powered HUB
I tried connecting multiple usb 3.0 enabled devices to my ubuntu 12.04 machine. But found out that at a time not more than 9 devices could be seen connected. I tried monitoring the kernel logs at /var/...
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Eclipse IDE Ctrl + Backspace not working
I am using Eclipse Java IDE for Web Developers (Oxygen.3a.Release (4.7.3a)) on Ubuntu 16.04.4 and within code I am unable to delete the previous word relative to my text pointer. The command is ...
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How to capture "dropped packets" in tcpdump
I have a problem with my networking performance. I am using Ubuntu 16.04 on VMware Cloud Server with NIC E1000. But I see some packets dropped in sections of ifconfig command:
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Why does do-release-upgrade from 16.04 LTS to 16.10/17.04 not find updates even with --devel-release?
I'm trying to upgrade a server (CLI only) from Ubuntu 16.04 to a newer non-LTS release using the do-release-upgrade tool.
I know LTS versions usually don't upgrade to 'non-LTS' releases prompting. ...
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