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How to install a downloaded .deb file along with its dependencies in a system with an internet connection (offline?)
Despite the teaser in this Meta question's title, the title of the question that was closed is How to install a downloaded .deb file along with its dependencies in a system with an internet connection,...
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Are questions starting with "How to..." okay?
I noticed there are many questions with titles of the form:
How to "do something"?
For example, How to upgrade a single package using apt-get?
I reckon grammatically these are invariably ...
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What's your Ubuntu question? Be specific
I don't exactly know why this is the case anyway, but I have quite often seen new questions with the above title ('What's your Ubuntu question? Be specific') as the person asking the question cannot ...
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Should I change question title of: Some services won't start a startup?
I answered this question: Some services won't start a startup? and, as OP said, it seems that workaround fix the problem.
Later I found this question: Sickbeard start service on boot not working: ...
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Edit question title or make new question?
I had a question that I asked about owncloud server 12.04. I recently had the person that answered the question review it and make sure it's relevant to 14.04.1. Should I edit this question, ...
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What are the implications of various CAPPED/spaced keywords in a title? Should title keyword match package spelling?
For example:
What are the implications of network manager vs NetworkManager?
Where are the NetworkManager logs?
Should I bother updating the title or tags to include how the package is named in ...
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How can I or how to?
In a question title, is it better to put "How to do X" or "How can I do X" if I want to know how to do X?
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Attaching [SOLVED] to title of questions with accepted answers
Is it good practice to attach [SOLVED] to a solved question's title? I know this helps a lot when searching forums, but in a SO environment there is a visual clue for solved questions.
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Should "ubuntu" and "linux" be kept on question titles?
AskUbuntu couldn't be more explicitly about Ubuntu, a specific Linux distribution. (Duh, right?)
With that in mind, should questions like this be renamed?
How to set up multiple IP addresses?
how ...
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