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Questions tagged [ubuntu-16.04]

The 24th major version of Ubuntu, codenamed Xenial Xerus.

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Opening a .msg file in Ubuntu

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 starts anyway: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=”text” Changing…
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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 going away after a while but it's been over a week…
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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-xr-x 1 root root 512 Sep 21 19:04…
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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 removed the master password in Firefox, and…
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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 the Windows host. The Windows share is…
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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 upgrades so I can run them manually when the server…
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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 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Xenial. Error enclosed…
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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/log/kern.log, where i found out that on…
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Google chrome logs out from every webpage after system user has logged out

So I've got a really annoying problem and Google Chrome isn't providing me any information on what's causing it. 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…
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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 supposed to be Ctrl + Backspace, but this doesn't work.…
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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: root@ubuntu:~# ifconfig ens192 ens192 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr…
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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. Some assorted (old...) forum posts seem to imply…
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Is it expected that firejail allows R/W outside of the sandbox without "--overlay" flag?

Just installed firejail on Ubuntu 16.04 (version 0.9.38) and according to this linux-magazine article, by default it should make R/O the entire filesystem: The programs in the sandbox have only read access to all directories and are thus unable to…
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