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Do Ubuntu Linux apps work on Kali Linux?
Do Ubuntu Linux apps work on Kali Linux?
linux ubuntu-14.04 kali-linux
I'm new to Linux and I wanna know if apps that can be installed on Ubuntu can also be installed on Kali.
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Deleted /usr/bin/python and now the terminal doesn't run
I accidentally deleted /usr/bin/python and now I can't run my terminal - gnome-terminal. When I try to run it using XTerm it says:
/usr/bin/python3: bad interpreter: no such file or directory
When ...
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Setting up vnc server and no physical display : Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
I am trying to setup a vnc server on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS which has unity desktop installed. I do not want to install other desktop environment.
I started with installing x11vncserver and later realized ...
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Cygwin - Obtaining new commands [on hold]
I installed Cygwin to get the bash shell on window 8, and I'm not able to use vim, ssh, apt, install command. Many commands work now, while it didn't work in few minutes ago. What could I do to obtain ...
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Thinkpad Helix and touchscreen compatibility with Linux
I purchased a Thinkpad Helix, which is a touchscreen Thinkpad.
I immediately installed Ubuntu, replacing Windows. It mostly works except that the touchscreen only works well in Chromium/Chrome and ...
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Replacing dualboot ubuntu with Kali Linux
Last year, I installed Linux Ubuntu on my PC as dual boot (GRUB). First option is Windows 10, second one is Linux Ubuntu... What I want now, is to replace Ubuntu with Kali Linux... Can you guys help ...
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Possible to ubuntu mirroring mouse keyboard?
is there a anything available that can "mirror" keyboard and mouse inputs to multiple windows? Like I have a "master"-window in which I click and write and the input from there gets send to several "...
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how to install pearl desktop environment on ubuntu 14.04?
I want to try installing desktop environment called pearlDE for ubuntu. if you know theme for pearl desktop environment , please tell me also . thankyou
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Boot into grub menu instead of grub command line - ubuntu
I'm using a Lenovo Windows 10 laptop and recently installed Ubuntu 16.04 with "alongside Windows" option. However I'm not getting the GRUB menu that allows to select between Ubuntu and Windows, but ...
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I can't find the file stdio.h [on hold]
I use VM and ubuntu to do my homework. After I decompress my file and run it, I find some error. To fix the error, I need to find the stdio.h and modify it. However, I can't find the files "stdio.h". (...
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Bash script performance
In a bash script, some integers in a range are generated, concatenated with fixed strings, and printed on a file. OS is Ubuntu 14.04 and bash version is 4.3.11(1)-release.
The strings (and so the ...
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Unable to start wireshark in VNC
I installed wireshark but unable to start in VNC but I am able to launch it in desktop console directly, error shown below.
user@host:~$ wireshark
QXcbConnection: Failed to initialize XRandr
Qt:...
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Set mouse speed with profiles
I have two mice, one at home with resolution 800dpi and one at work with resolution 1000dpi.
The two mice behave differently. When I come to work, I need to set the pointer speed to max. When I work ...
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Get X session id
Can I get the unique session id for each user's xsession if they're logged in remotely through ssh or xrdp or x2go? What command is used to find the session id for each logged in user?
Thanks.
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Remount filesystem to filesystem root
I have FreeBSD and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS in my PC.
For some reasons, I mounted the FreeBSD partition /dev/sda3 to Ubuntu's /mnt and shutdown without umount.
Next time I turn on machine founding the ...
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How do I install the LINC software switch?
Even following the LINC-switch instructions, I was unable to get LINC and Erlang working correctly. How can I solve this?
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Freenas iscsi to VMware - Mount newly created disk to Ubuntu
after a thorough search without an answer, here goes my question:
We've install Freenas with 4 WD RED drives. We have successfully enabled and configured the iscsi service for one of the disks.
On ...
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Systemback and grsecurity kernel
I use grsecurity-hardened kernel and I can't get Systemback to work. On attempt to create backup it drops error: "An error occurred while opening the following file: /etc/passwd" I guess it could be ...
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PXE boot through the DHCP
I cannot establish DHCP server and therefore cannot make PXE boot through patch-cord between two computers work.
On Server-computer (this is NetTop) Ubuntu Server 16.04 LTS is installed. Here are ...
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Open LibreOffice with certain size, even in fullscreen
I want to open LibreOffice with keeping just a little bit of space left, already tried wmctrl without full-screen and that wasn't working to begin with.
I'd like to know if its able to stay the ...
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Unable to open any browser through crontab / GNOME Schedule
I am able to run the Selenium scripts through command line terminal in Ubuntu 14.0, but my question is:
Why am I not able to open a browser using crontab / GNOME Schedule?
I tried it with this ...
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X2Go keeps asking for trusting the host key [on hold]
Client Machine: Ubuntu 16.10 Unity
Server Machine: Parabola GNU/Linux Libre
After a successful connection via SSH, I'm trying to use X2Go for the first time, but run into a warning window when I try ...
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Unbind/bind new Bluetooth Device Driver - Ubuntu 14.04 Trust Tahr
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I know my way around a bash shell... a bit... but I am a n00b when it comes to Kernal hacking and Linux Device drivers. I swallowed the first 3-chapters of the Linux Device Drivers, Edition 3 ...
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Serve Internet to remote machine via SSH? [on hold]
This question is asked from few times but my setup is little different from other setup.
I have my machine sitting in closed network with no internet and I have sudo access to that machine. But I ...
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Unable to restrict a user from using certain commands
I have been trying to use the following in visudo to restrict a user from using the following commands and going into another directory , but this doesn't seem to work
myuser ALL=!/home/ubuntu,!/usr/...
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Trouble connecting to composite USB serial port
I have a composite USB device that emulates a sound card and a serial port. The sound card portion works as expected, however I am having trouble trying to communicate with the COM port of this ...
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How do I route a 20 x /24 subnets (secondary) in one shot in Ubuntu 14?
Trying to bind 20 x /24 subnets in Ubuntu 14 Server but I'm stuck here. These are diversified /24 subnets.
I tried the below method via script called addips.sh
for i in $(seq 3 254); do echo "auto ...
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What happens if a users default shell is not installed?
I work as a sysadmin in a large company and have to maintain several windows and Linux (Ubuntu 16.04) VMs. Since I want to use zsh instead of bash on the Linux VMs, I have to change my default shell.
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Cannot start VSFTPD in Ubuntu
I am using Metasploitable which is based on Ubuntu and I have killed the vsftpd process using the fuser -k 21/tcp command.
However, while I am trying to get it back running by starting it, I get an ...
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facing a dual boot issue
I have a 500 GB hard disk and it haas been partitioned into 4 partitions namely C,D,E,F.
Windows 7 version is installed in C drive while Ubuntu 16.04 is installed in D drive. The other two partitions ...
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What problems or experiments did you try when first using the terminal? [on hold]
Relatively new to Ubuntu/Linux terminal and I'm wondering what most here did or experimented with when they became familiar with the syntax and implementation of code in the terminal.
I know my way ...
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What problems should I tackle in the kernel? [on hold]
I have basic understanding using the command line and the Ubuntu system. I also have various virtual boxes set up with various OSs, but I'm kind of in a transition of not being able to implement and ...
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No sound in chrome using nonroot user [on hold]
I have installed latest version of chrome and found sound is not working when I run chrome using non-root user from this command-
gksu -u chromeuser google-chrome
However when i run the chrome using ...
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How can I dual boot 2 linux distros Keeping One as my primary and constantly change the second?
I would like to Dual boot my secondary laptop. I want to keep one Linux Distro (Lets take Ubuntu..!) as my daily driver and try out different distros like Linux Mint, Fedora, Manjaro....etc. How can ...
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bash: cannot set terminal process group (-1): Inappropriate ioctl for device
Trying to execute the source command using "lfs" user on ubuntu 14.04 and getting this:
root@linux:~/lfs# su lfs - -c "source ~/.bash_profile"
bash: cannot set terminal process group (-1): ...
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Friendly tool for specific process CPU real time profiling
Is there any friendly, ready to go, practical tool that provides real time profiling of CPU usage of a specific process (application) in a form of a chart/graph ? (I have some tools like nmon, but ...
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*buntu multiarch: libusb-dev & libusb for armel
I want to set up a cross-compiling environment for Phidget's SBC.
libphidget needs libusb-1.0-0 and libusb-1.0-0-dev, and currently it doesn't find those:
~/Softwares/libphidget-2.1.8.20151217 $ ./...
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Touchpad zig-zag in linux
I have the issue that when I'm moving my finger diagonal on my touchpad, it tends to make a zig-zag pattern when I go slow.
Also when I want to move the cursor, a few pixel over to a link, it doesn't ...
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How to make grub manual boot to ubuntu permanent?
I have recently installed Ubuntu 12.04 on my Asus X552C. The system had a Windows but I completely erased everything and repartitioned it, here's the partition details:
`...
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Ubuntu terminal closes after running the script
This is a .sh file which the Ubuntu terminal runs then quits immediately. What is wrong with my script?
I don't know what my problem is – why the terminal closes after running the script and does not ...
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apt hangs connecting to ca.archive.ubuntu.com
I'm trying to install mutt software, but the download process get stuck on the following image. Could anyone be able to tell me what do I have to do to unblock this process?
In fact, this yellow line ...
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''Rats, that failed, you may have to do it manually" you you [closed]
I'm trying to configure Sup-mail with the command-line sup-config, but it failed. I got the message Rats, that failed, you may have to do it manually. Could anyone be able to tell me how could I fix ...
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Trouble using postgres sql in ubuntu 16.04
I am running Ubuntu 16.04 operating system and have recently installed postgres using the instructions given in https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-and-use-postgresql-on-...
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How to raise max threads for elasticsearch?
I have a fresh installation of Ubuntu 16.04 and I installed elasticsearch 5 on it. Now when I try to start elasticsearch using
/etc/init.d/elasticsearch start
After a few seconds in the log file I ...
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my site is down in Ubuntu how to resolve it [closed]
I've attempted to go to my website, I think it might have a problem. Here is my in browser error:
might be temporarily down or it may have moved permanently to a new web address.
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Linux distribution with out-of-the-box exFAT support
I have to create a live USB media I can boot a machine with that has no network devices. At the same time, it has to be capable of writing to/reading from exFAT formatted devices. I had to find out ...
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Bluetooth on, but not showing avaliable devices Ubuntu 14.04?
I have a problem with my Bluetooth connections, I turn on the connectivity of my b-device and my PC but it keeps on searching for nearby devices and showing nothing.
Any ideas?
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Can't Find Theme (New To Linux)
I am trying out Ubuntu Linux and one thing I really want to change is the change is the default theme. I saw the a theme site and saw a really good menu bar and thought that downloading the theme ...
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Best front end for MRTG rrd graphs
I am using default MRTG on Ubuntu which creates nice graphs for various servers/instances but it pool data at 5 minute interval therefore I want to move to RRD graphs which can get data at 1 minute ...
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Can't write to file system even though there is free space as said by df -h
I was writing files (large amount of small files) to the file system in a java programme and then it suddenly threw a 'No space left on device' exception. Then I checked the output of df-h and it says ...
