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Strange... you might get a more detailed error message if you tried to ssh using an app such as ConnectBot.

Have a look at lubuntu. Lightweight, and up-to-date.

I'd start from scratch, and do it like this:

On your server/laptop:


cd /home/user
mv .ssh .sshbak
mkdir .ssh
cd .ssh
ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096

How did you install Steam? Did you use the .deb file from the Steam website?

Also, what is the error you are currently seeing?

I'd start by installing the build-essential metapackage, which will install gcc and g++ for compiling C and C++ code, respectively.

I personally recommend vim as a text editor, but that's just me....

Hi,

Maybe this will help you.

Welcome Francis!

Welcome to the Forum!

Glad to hear you got your system restored, that is a weird bug if it was that! :D

What happens when you try to install it? What are the errors?

When you logged in and there was nothing, was it a black screen, or just no icons?

Edit: Also, what model computer is this?

It's probably a dependency issue, but we will see:

cat /var/log/dpkg.log

Big +1 to steeldriver's post.

It might also be useful to know what $TERM is:

echo $TERM

Hmm, what does:

cat lexmark-08z-series-driver-1.0-1.i386.deb.sh | grep -i xterm
give you?

Mmm, eso parece una problema con el disco, pero tal vez que esto te ayude:


sudo mv /var/lib/dpkg/status /var/lib/dpkg/status.ko
sudo cp /var/lib/dpkg/status-old /var/lib/dpkg/status
sudo dpkg...

Welcome!

See if xterm can be installed:

sudo apt-get install xterm

Before this happened, did you update a graphics card driver? Also, what graphics card do you have?

You should use the 'route' command. Some quick Googling rendered:
http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/ubuntu-linux-add-static-routing/

Sorry, misread your post a bit there. As seen here:...

See if this helps (from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6893799/phpmyadmin-is-not-working-after-i-installed-it):
Add this line to /etc/apache2/apache2.conf:

Include /etc/phpmyadmin/apache.conf...

I'd suggest going with the latest release of either Lubuntu or Xubuntu, considering the age of the machine you're going to install on.

The Ubuntu website has instructions on how to create a...

If you have another Linux box, you could back up your data to it using rsync. On the other Linux box, just set up an ssh server (openssh-server package in Ubuntu), and copy your data on over.
...

Ubuntu 11.10 went end-of-life May 2013 I believe, and that's probably why you can't reach the repos.

I'd recommend installing a supported Ubuntu version (like 14.04) and then setting up Samba.

Apparently adding 'nomodeset' to the boot parameters helped this chap:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/183386/nouveau-driver-issue-when-trying-to-boot-ubuntu

I believe the command to open the System Settings from the command line is:

unity-control-center

Under your "User Account" settings, there should be a way to turn automatic login off.