Ask Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter - Monday, February 29, 2016

Top new questions this week: Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS hangs on boot after latest dist-upgrade in VMware I ran apt-get dist-upgrade as follows: Calculating upgrade... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: linux-headers-3.19.0-51 linux-headers-3.19.0-51-generic ... 14.04 boot upgrade vmware   asked by Alexander Zeitler 12 votes answered by Alexander Zeitler 9 votes How do I run a command? This is intended for use as a Q&A you can link to when you tell someone to run a command. I am a new user, who has just been told to run / execute a command. The answer has some text with a grey ... command-line execute-command   asked by Tim 10 votes answered by Tim 20 votes Why do Windows & Ubuntu have similar shell commands? Ubuntu has a bash (Bourne Again SHell) whereas Windows has it's proprietary shell. According to my research there is no name for the language used for shell scripting in Windows/Ubuntu. It's just ... command-line bash windows history-of-ubuntu   asked by Shady Programmer 10 votes answered by muru 35 votes Running .sh every 5 minutes I have a .sh script that downloads a photo from Japanese satellite's server and sets it as a background picture. I've put it into startup list, but how do I run it every, like, 5 minutes, ... bash scripts wallpaper schedule   asked by Aleksander Mahnyov 6 votes answered by Jacob Vlijm 14 votes Print return value after program execution I am wondering how to set option to auto print return value after every program execution in terminal without typing "echo $?". Is it something that can be setup? Codeblocks has that feature. gnome-terminal   asked by mr.backy 5 votes answered by Serg 8 votes What's the command for terminal to find the usb information? I know I can find the name of my flash drive by going /media/user/nameOfFlashdrive in the file manager. However, Is there a terminal command where I can enter the name of the flash drive and it will ... command-line usb   asked by user2669764 5 votes answered by Jacob Vlijm 5 votes Can you recover previous versions of files? I know that if I delete a file it won't actually be 'deleted' as such, just marked as 'can be overridden when needed' so that when that space is needed the file will just be overridden, and this means ... files data-recovery delete editing   asked by Paranoid Panda 4 votes answered by dn-ʞɔɐq ɹW 2 votes Greatest hits from previous weeks: Installing Broadcom Wireless Drivers I'm having serious problems installing the Broadcom drivers for Ubuntu. It worked perfectly on my previous version, but now, it is impossible. What are the steps to install Broadcom wireless drivers ... wireless drivers software-installation broadcom   asked by Fer1805 152 votes answered by Luis Alvarado 178 votes Is FFmpeg missing from the official repositories in 14.04? I tried to install ffmpeg in trusty/Ubuntu 14.04 and got the following message: $sudo apt-get install ffmpeg Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state ... software-installation ffmpeg   asked by user254877 219 votes answered by LiveWireBT 200 votes Can you answer these? dconf-WARNING **: failed to commit changes to dconf: The given address is empty So I got this script change_wallpaper, based from the answer from this: Automatically change Ubuntu wallpaper at a certain hour and ran it through cron. # For changing wallpaper at a certain time */1 ... unity 15.10 cron wallpaper dconf   asked by Angelo Sembrano 3 votes Open broadcaster not installing I'm trying to install Open Broadcaster: https://obsproject.com/download#linux but I'm getting these errors: The following packages have unmet dependencies: obs-studio : Depends: libavcodec-ffmpeg56 ... apt ffmpeg   asked by Costa 1 vote MythBuntu in VirtualBox with HDHomeRun Prime and Xfinity Over the last week, I have installed about a half-dozen different Ubuntu/MythTV configurations in VirtualBox. Today I tried MythBuntu, but I keep getting the same results. When I try to tune to any ... virtualbox mythbuntu   asked by ChuckM 1 vote

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