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In Debian-based distributions (and here I’m also talking about the widely-spread Ubuntu), there is no rc.local file preinstalled. The good thing is that you can make one easily so you can have a place to put commands to be started up automatically at boot. Here’s what you have to do:

sudo nano /etc/init.d/local.autostart

You can name the new file whatever you want, but in this example we’ll use local.autostart. Paste

#!/bin/sh

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