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Kubuntu is a popular Linux distribution based on Ubuntu and the KDE desktop environment

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Kubuntu is a popular Linux distribution based on and the desktop environment. The motto of the distribution is "Friendly computing". Besides providing an up-to-date version of the KDE desktop at the time of the release, the project also releases updated KDE packages throughout the lifetime of each release.

Because Ubuntu and Kubuntu use the same sources, any application intended for one is installable and runnable on the other.

A better place for questions on Kubuntu is probably the stackexchange site askubuntu.com.

Website: http://www.kubuntu.org

Distrowatch: http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=kubuntu

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kubuntu

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Installing Phusion Passenger 4.0.20 on Ubuntu 13.10

So I'm trying to install Passenger on the newest version of KUbuntu (13.10). I installed Apache2 using the apache2-mpm-worker package using the Muon Package Manager. And these are the commands I ran. rvmsudo gem install passenger rvmsudo…
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Lighttpd doesn't start after purging Apache

I tried to migrate from Apache to Lighttpd on kubuntu 16.04. I used apt-get remove --purge apache2 then apt-get install lighttpd After running systemctl start lighttpd I got the error message Job for lighttpd.service failed because the control…
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SSH by key incredibly slow

SSH connecting with key, from my machine suddenly got incredibly slow (~10sec!). It is not a server or DNS problem as far as I can figure out. The problem suddenly appeared after a simple apt-get install kubuntu-desktop and some minor KDE related…
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How to know if the processor is 64bit capable or not?

Is there any straight forward say ? I am running the 32bit version of Kubuntu. Here is my cpuinfo. processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 15 model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E6550 @…
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Dialogs still ask for user password (instead of root's) after adding rootpw to sudoers file

To add an extra layer of security I'm using the rootpw option in the sudoers file and while it works perfectly fine from the shell, when a specific command invokes the GUI version of "elevation", only the user password will work in that case and not…
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A mount of box.com as davfs2 hangs and does not become unstuck

I have mounted box.com on a Ubuntu 11.04 system, and it worked fine. For a day. It is mounted with the davfs2 file system. But after a day it froze, and all shells that try to list or do anything in the parent directory of the mount point…
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Why a frozen snapshot of a LV is changing continuously?

Before I install gcc-8.3.0, I take a snapshot of the root("/") LV as following command: lvcreate -L 20G -s vgsys/lvroot -n lvroot_gcc7 Then, I installed gcc-8.3.0, and taked another snapshot of the root LV as following: lvcreate -L 25G -s…
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apt-get broken: Bus error (core dumped)

apt-get has broken for me. I tried to re-install it from a .deb, without any luck. I also tried installing aptitude from a .deb. The text below is what I see when running apt-get update. Before trying to install from .deb I saw the 'Bus error'…
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Emacs23 with "window height too small"

The new emacs23 gives me ("Window width 0 too small (after splitting)")) whenever I load ECB or tabbar. Seems to be introduces after updating from Kubuntu intrepid to jaunty. Any hint how to solve this?
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Automatically ssh when starting konsole

I'm interested, is it possible to set up automatic ssh login when I start konsole on kubuntu. To be more precise, when I start konsole I would like that it automatically starts ssh and logins to remote computer. On windows I would put this kind of…
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Problematic Wireless connection manager in Kubuntu 9.04

I've recently upgraded my Kubuntu installation to 9.04 and somehow the wireless manager is not working any more. I believe it is the official bug mentioned in this article. Have any of you encountered this and have a solution? As a workaround I…
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Enforce using proxy in all browsers

I've configured squid with squid with squidguard and when using proxy in browser it works fine. But I want to enforce using proxy (probably in iptables) in all browsers. Now it can be disabled in the browser settings by user. My setup is: one…
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Where is the KDE of Kubuntu 64bit?

I have just installed Kubuntu 64bit linux(kubuntu-10.04-dvd-amd64.iso). When it is opened i couldn't pass to the visual screen. I installed startx packages but not i don't see the KDE desktop. How can i install or call KDE desktop to use(and manage)…
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Port forward from router to pc with openvpn

so I want to port forward from my router to my computer which is using openvpn. The computer is running Kubuntu, before I did the same thing with windows, installed the openvpn client and ran it, and I could port forward to the computer, however in…
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yum in CentOS 6.9 VM insists on using ipv6 mirrors after mangling with iptables in host machine

I am learning to handle iptables when but I had to port forward over a NAT host machine to a server on a VM running CentOS 6.9. Host machine is running Kubuntu 18.04. After trying some iptable rules and ufw (which I promptly disabled after), yum on…
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