Ask Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter - Monday, September 28, 2015

Top new questions this week: What's the difference between <<, <<< and < < in bash? What's the difference between <<, <<< and < < in bash? command-line bash   asked by MarkZar 20 votes answered by Serg 26 votes What is the difference between curl and wget? Both of these curl and wget are use for downloading files, etc. Is there any reason to use one over the other? downloads wget curl   asked by snoop 15 votes answered by A.B. 14 votes How to install latest version of Nitroshare on Ubuntu? I am using Ubuntu 14.04. How to install and configure the latest version of NitroShare on Ubuntu. I would like to know installation from PPA and from source. software-installation nitroshare   asked by Ravan 13 votes answered by Nathan Osman 11 votes Disk slowly filling up but no visible file size changes df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/vda1 30830588 22454332 6787120 77% / none 4 0 4 0% /sys/fs/cgroup udev ... filesystem disk-usage   asked by nizzle 11 votes answered by muru 21 votes How to sign files with Ubuntu command-line tools and my own keys? I want to sign some Python code files I wrote, because they are plug-in modules for one of my projects. For distributing it, I want that the user can be sure a plug-in is verified and safe (because ... encryption gnupg signature self-signed   asked by Byte Commander 7 votes answered by muru 7 votes Launchpad: Where can I see which ubuntu release ships the fixed version? This bug is marked "fixed released": https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/python3.4/+bug/1290847 Where can I see which Ubuntu release ships the fixed version? PS: I would like to avoid reading ... launchpad bug-reporting   asked by guettli 7 votes Image recognition search software? I have recently lost an image, I know it is somewhere on my machine, but I don't where. And I have an image which looks very similar to it. Is there any kind software for Ubuntu similar to the Google ... software-recommendation search images   asked by Paranoid Panda 6 votes answered by David McCorkle 6 votes Greatest hits from previous weeks: How to completely uninstall Java? How can I completely remove all traces of Java on my system? I already know how to install it in case I need it again. java uninstall openjdk   asked by CaldwellYSR 62 votes answered by BillThor 14 votes How do I add a DNS server via resolv.conf? Is /etc/resolv.conf useless in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin)? I see that the DNS server information is stored in NetworkManager now. The nmcli command line tool can list that for you. If I ... resolv.conf   asked by NulledPointer 106 votes answered by stgraber 88 votes Can you answer these? Pulseaudio per application volume for module-combine-sink I have two stereo sound cards and I'd like to create virtual 4.0 sink to use 4-channel audio. I'm using following pulseaudio configuration: load-module module-alsa-sink sink_name=output1 ... sound pulseaudio alsa   asked by user1780084 2 votes How to install the latest version of gedit? I want to report a bug report for gedit. Before reporting I want to install the latest version. I downloaded the source and configure fails like this: No package 'libxml-2.0' found Requested ... software-installation gedit configure   asked by guettli 2 votes Ubuntu 15.04 crashes with scattered screen I have recently installed 4GB DDR3 RAM (Innex) with an existing 2GB RAM (Dynet), currenlty it runs with 6GB RAM. I use Eclipse, Java, Chrome extensively for my development purpose But after this ... 15.04 java screen ram crash   asked by Saravana 2 votes

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