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Thanks, sudodus! I will look into Lubuntu. The thing is, my computer is only two years old (specs). The main problem with newer versions of Linux was that it would freeze and be totally...

Lars Noodén - I installed hfsplus, hfsutils, hfsprogs, and hfsutils-tcltk, but that didn't help it automount. I don't know what to do if it's not even registering the device.

This community...

sudodus - All it has is a SIM card.

chadk5utc - It doesn't register at all when I plug it in, at least on the computer's end.

I know it can be detected and accessed in newer versions of...

I want to get the photos off an iPhone 3. I am using Ubuntu 10.04. When I plug it in via the USB port, the phone buzzes but nothing happens on the computer.

This thread suggested adding a...

No, I never figured it out, and I eventually just gave up. Maybe try contacting the IT people and see if they will meet with you to help? Or try the KC Linux User Group. They meet this Wednesday at...

Since I started out using Linux with Ubuntu (10.04), I have been testing various Gnome-based desktop environments for a new system. The new ones listed above all have the same problem, which is that...

Preferences > Keyboard Shortcuts. That actually allowed me to use <Ctrl>y without launching it whenever I try to type a plain y.

Why does that work differently than Configuration Editor?

Thank you! This is awesome!

I tested this in my current system (Ubuntu 10.04). I did have trouble getting the keybindings to work correctly. Any time I tried to bind it to <Ctrl>somekey it would...

I currently use the Character Palette panel applet in Ubuntu 10.04 (old gnome) to insert scientific symbols and Greek letters into documents. I'm thinking about upgrading, possibly to Linux Mint with...

Fixed it, following instructions from this forum.


sudo rm /var/lib/apt/lists/* -vf
sudo apt-get update

As an exciting new update to the situation, I just tried to uninstall the Software Center so I could reinstall it and see if that would fix the problem, but when I tried that I got a similar error: ...

Thanks for your suggestion! I tried it in Remmina and it was unable to connect. I will ask my department's IT guy about this sometime next week to see if I am doing something wrong. When we were...

My Ubuntu Software Center and Update Manager are not working, and have not been working for a couple of days.

Error Message (appearing under giant red minus sign in top panel of Unity)
An error...

I'm wondering if it is possible to connect to my university's remote labs while using my Linux partition. I would be doing this to use statistical software (SPSS) for a class.

When I try to...

Thanks! It did reclaim the unused clusters.

I have a flash drive that got slightly wet a few years ago, and I was curious to see if any parts of it were corrupt. It does technically still work. I ran fsck on it, then read the info page for...

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I emailed Corel Customer Service about my LinDVD problem.

This is their response:



Dear [omitted] ,

Corel's Response:



Dear [omitted] ,


Thank you for contacting Corel Customer Support Services.

Your program is no longer supported via telephone or through this email service. ...

As I mentioned above, Movie Player (aka Totem) will not play DVDs from my drive, and neither will VLC.

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I'm having the same problem this guy had. He got an error message when trying to install LinDVD, but since he realized he didn't actually need the software in the...

I just submitted this question to Corel customer service. I will update the thread with their response.

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I'm having the same problem this guy had. He got an error message when trying to install LinDVD, but since he realized he didn't actually need the software in the...

Just kidding... Wine installed fine, but when I tried to install the Internet Explorer package, it gave me this error, via pop-up:

After that, I tried to install an updated version of Wine...

It worked. You're awesome; thanks for your help! :D

I'm trying to install Wine (Version 1.1.35-0ubuntu1) from the Ubuntu Software Center. I click "Install," and as soon as it starts loading, it gives me this error message:

How do I find out what...