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I did that, and got

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these.
The following...

shim-signed:
Installed: 1.5~12.04.1+0.4-0ubuntu4
Candidate: 1.9~12.04.1+0.8-0ubuntu2
Version table:
1.9~12.04.1+0.8-0ubuntu2 0
500 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/...

Sorry, I'm on 12.04.

ETA: I'm running Ubuntu 12.04.

Every time I go to install updates, shim-signed tries to update and always returns the same error. (I didn't copy it down, and now I'm not getting it anymore.) I ran...

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I have very pointy elbows.

Sprinkling Rite:
#108 I've Just Come From the Fountain

I'm in charge of a choir, so sue me.

My fiance has put on Aaron Copeland's arrangements of American folk songs. Right now we're on Got Me A Cat. :D

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Thank you very much! I'll probably upgrade some time after final exams, haha. :)

Unfortunately I purged the old version, but I symlinked the two and it seems to work. Thank you! In the meantime I'll complain, since .so.1 doesn't seem to exist for Precise, which after all is...

Thanks! I ran that and got

libudev.so.1 => not found
How should I proceed?

Hi!

I'm trying to use Spotify's Linux client (64bit Ubuntu 12.04). I installed it from their repository as per their instructions. It used to work, and then at some point it just...stopped. When I...

Dropping the icon into the trash can didn't work--it just jumped back to where it was. But

unity --reset-icons
did the trick. Thank you!

Hi y'all,

A while ago, my LibreOffice Writer launcher icon began malfunctioning--specifically, when I click on it, it launches GIMP. When I right-click it, it gives me three options: "New...

Aaaah thanks a million! Spacebar worked.

So I'm installing Vidalia, and it presents me with this:
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What do I do to tick that box? Tab just switches me between the box and the Ok.

Okay, thank you!

Thanks a lot! I have my restricted-extras now. O:)

There's something wrong with shim-signed, though:

Setting up shim-signed (1.5~12.04.1+0.4-0ubuntu4) ...
Unrecognized option...

Also, I don't know if this is relevant, but

sudo apt-get-update
gives me

W: GPG error: http://extras.ubuntu.com precise Release: The following signatures were invalid: BADSIG 16126D3A3E5C1192...

Hi, everybody.
I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. I tried to install the Spotify client Linux preview, and Terminal told me:

Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have...

Okay, here we go:

monicagorman@Charlie:~$ dpkg --get-selections | egrep 'gstreamer|ffmpeg|codec|mplayer'
bluez-gstreamer install
chromium-codecs-ffmpeg install...

Okay, I've got MPlayer2 installed. Now when I play Varunendra's video, I get audio but no video. I have one version of the R. Tam Sessions that claims to be 5:37 long, and it plays fine for about...

MediaInfo gives me

General
Complete name : /home/monicagorman/Desktop/RTam.mov
Format : MPEG-4
Format profile ...

So if I'm reinstalling VLC, what application should I tell Firefox to use for apt links, and where do I find it? Or to do it from the command line, which mirror should I use to add squeeze-backports...

I installed ubuntu-restricted-extras, which included "gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse libavcodec-extra-53 libavutil-extra-51".
MediaInfo told me the file is an MPEG-4 (Quicktime) file. Do I...