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I am the only person living in my house.
I am the only person using this computer.
I wash my own dishes.

I do not want nor need the security Ubuntu version 15.04 is imposing on me.

I get...

Thanks guys. FFmpeg installed.

What do I do now?

gnome-ubuntu 14.04

Worked perfectly... Thankss

In gnome Ubuntu 12.04 & before, I was told that if I wanted to source a script I could put it in a folder, '/home/dave/bin'.

Since I upgraded to 14.04, I do not find this options.
1. Has this...

dave@Dafydd:~$ cat /etc/hostname
Dafydd
dave@Dafydd:~$
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7 Feb 15 01:56 hostname
Should it be somewhere else?

I've been getting this error for a couple of days. What is causing it and what do I need to do to eliminate it?


And then all seems to work.

I just got driver update for HP printer. I DO NOT own a HP printer. I have a Samsung.
This is not the first time I received updates stuff I don't have. Why do I get these?

If I don't install...

No it it not just you. I have been using Evolution since I started using Ubuntu. Now all of a sudden, it won't save my new entries.

What all is Evolution linked to in Ubuntu?. Can I just delete...

Their website says for Ubuntu 11.04 and before. Is that anything for 12.04 and after?

After reading on this website, I decided to go with 'bleachbit' over 'computer-janitor'.

Is the error message below normal? Is something missing on my system? Is it safe to proceed with it?


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I use Evolution Calendar and Events to keep a list of appointments and such. For the last 2 weeks everything I have entered will show on the screen for about 2 seconds and then disappear......

Has...

Is there someplace I can get a compiled 'netpbm'. I have been trying to compile it from the source on Source Forge. Get failure because of dependency problems.

I have a script that uses 'pamcomp'. It is missing from 'netpbm' which is in the repository. I have 'netpbm' installed.

There is only 1 post on this website about the missing 'pamcomp' and it is 5...

The H P Pavilion All-In-One come with Ubuntu installed. google searched it about 3 pm yesterday.

Comments, Successes, Failures, Thrills, what have you.

I'm not a gamer but I do have some video editing I need to do. HP Pravilion only has a 1.3 gig cpu, I would like something faster if I can...

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An anthropologist proposed a game to the kids in an African tribe. He put a basket full of fruit near a tree and told the kids that who ever got there first won the sweet fruits. When he told them to...

This sounds very much like my problem. I can not find the 'desktop control'.

The only diff I see is I'm using Ubuntu 12.04.

Suggestion?
D

I would like to mark this thread solved but how do I do that since the update?

I was having errors in another application I called from the command line, someone said to use gkedit.

This was an extremely helpful link, thanks for posting.

Ubuntu 12.04
Gnome3

When i get update notices and use the command
gksudo update-manager in a terminal to install them, I get a long list of this message:


(update-manager:6093): Gtk-WARNING...

Where is the solved button?

Ah ha! Thanks

Out of habit mostly. For the first 20 years of my computer life I did not have a graphic interface, and it is almost natural for me to drop to a terminal and type what I want to do. And I get to see...