renaming a system

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how do you rename a system in 8.10, tried all of the ways used in older versons

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Nick S (pinkcoons) said :
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You haven't told me about precisely what ways you used, however this is how I renamed my system:

System->Administration->Network->(unlock)->General->Host Name

Type the new name for your system there.

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Alexandru Guduleasa (gulyan89) said :
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or you can type
sudo hostname new_name
in the terminal

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