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I was creating a user with encrypted home directory usnig "adduser --encrypt-home username" when I got the mentioned error.
It's a lot nicer to upload/download files when they are mounted into your filesystem
got a nasty error when using a shebang on top of php script
For those who need to remotly log into another linux machine.
.jar files run automatically in windows, but in linux they need to be called with java
I tried to install the jdk via
sudo apt-get install jdk
but got:
E: Couldn't find package jdk
I needed to know how to configure my Ubuntu Linux server (10.04 LTS) to have a static IP
if using sudo commands in a script, you don't want to have to enter a password for it.