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Unable to Install Samba after uninstalling?
I have removed samba using : apt-get --purge remove samba and then Manually removed the smb.conf using rm *.* after going to the Samba directory. Now While I trying to install Samba again I am getting...
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how to repair ubuntu 8.04.4 after uninstalling many things by mistake
While trying to install rmagick and failing, I thought I would uninstall libfreetype6 and then reinstall it. When I entered sudo apt-get remove libfreetype6 It asked that the following packages will...
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Old dell workstations need to have XP reinstalled but there are no restore...
All of the workstations are XP Pro oem from Dell. I need to reinstall XP and all I have access to are the MSDN copies of XP. I found a page on Dell’s website where they would send you a free copy of a...
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Full disk encryption on linux (ubuntu) w/o re-installing – possible?
I work at a company that takes security very seriously (like most). Our IT guy came in today to prepare us mentally to re-install our systems after he’ll apply the new encryption policy (which will...
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Reinstall linux over ssh
Hello I’m having a large problem with our development server, it have had a program called Webmin + a total idiot have been administrating the Linux sever. Witch now have resulted in the server being...
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How can I resume installation of a package from ports?
I have a virtual machine in VMWare Workstation 7.0 with OpenBSD 4.4 and I was installing some ports. Most of them were installed correctly but not two. I had to cancel them because the system didn’t...
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My MySQL root user is gone, how do I recover it?
I was trying to move the MySQL tables so them were in another folder, so I messed out the plugins table or something like that and I ended up reinstalling the whole thing. I did sudo aptitude purge...
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Windows Server 2008 R2, reinstall without losing AD
I need to re-build a Server 2008 R2 instance, but I don’t want to lose all the current Active Directory info, what’s the best way to go about it? The reason I’m rebuilding over repairing is great, as...
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Should i disable triggers when force reinstalling packages in ubuntu (to...
I want to reinstall some selected packages on my ubuntu server (lucid). I’m planning on running cat packages.txt | xargs apt-get --reinstall install to restore some executables I think may have become...
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MySQL reinstall questions
For some reason my /var/run/ dir on debian6 had it’s chown and chmod changed. Problem is from what? Outcome is that mysql fails. I’m guessing the easiest way to fix is to reinstall MySQL. (Previously...
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