These are two examples on how to write an interactive shell script, either with a YES/NO prompt and with a LIST among which the user has to choose.

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On Ubuntu Linux Jaunty 9.04, Ubuntu Linux Hardy 8.04 and Ubuntu Linux Intrepid 8.10 the audio subsystem is mostly supported (multichannel autoconfiguration support is due in Ubuntu 9.10) Very recent models may however have a few issues with microphone and multichannel audio. They can try out latest pulseaudio 0.9.15 (for autoconfiguration issues) and latest alsa [...]

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Recently a new policy impose package signing even for launchpad PPA (Personal Package Archives) and requires users to add the repository key to their keyring for each repository. Update: either ways, if you know the repository or can’t exactly locate it you can simply add the repository key using the terminal through this command (thanks [...]

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Questa guida riguarda la rimozione del programma di posta elettronica Incredimail ed il passaggio a Mozilla Thunderbird senza perdita di dati (e-mail).

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This howto is about getting rid of Incredimail e-mail client without data (email) loss.

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