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I bought civ5 on steam a few weeks ago (when it was on sale).
It runs fine under wine on my box.
It runs a bit slow, but then my processor is slower than yours and civ5 is a notorious cpu hog.
My...

Have you tried to install drivers using the "Additional Drivers" app?
It's in the system menu on kubuntu, not sure where to find it on unity.
This is the supported method for getting proprietary...

what version of ubuntu are you running, how much memory

12.10 with 6GB. The system has been updated for several versions, so is likely full of some cruft, but I've never mucked about with any tty...

I have many users who use the same machine.
Often several of us have used the machine and not logged out.
THis used to be no problem - the screen gets locked and the next person to use the...

Try replacing the ? character with a * which should match all of the files you want. ie rm digit.buildtree.*.log
If you have other files in that directory with similar names that you want to keep...

You need to tell wine where to find notepad.exe
If your shell session is currently in the same directory as notepad.exe then your command will work. Otherwise you need to include the path to...

Wine needs an argument.
Try 'wine --help' for example.
To run a windows program you need to enter
wine /path/to/my/program.exe

If your /home is on a separate partition you don't need to erase it. Just install to a differrent partition for / and select the old home partition to be mounted as /home and make sure that it is not...

The latex plugins for open/libre office are your best bet. They replace your latex equation wtih a png image so the file should save and open in MS Office just fine.

If you are going to be doing...

When you say you downloaded wine, what did you do exactly?

Try installing the other packages first - eg. sudo apt-get install ia32-libs
and so on. apt should give you some feedback if they won't install.

If you get those packages installed and wine...

Try
wine "/media/PWI Genesis Installer/PWI_Genesis_Installer/install.exe"

You want the program e2label.
Type 'man e2label' into a terminal to see how it works.

Probably you're not mounting the cd before you start the program. Wine then doesn't know it's there. Try opening the cd in a file browser first and then run your gaem.

Micropolis is packaged for ubuntu and is in the repositories.
sudo apt-get install micropolis

The last bit suggests your data is still intact though I don't know much about testdisk. Type man testdisk into a terminal to read the manual pages for it.

Googling some of the output lines you...

I started getting these messages a week before my hard drive went to digital heaven. I was able to get it running occasionally at first, was able to fsck it and make a back-up, but I got increasing...

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:kubuntu-ppa/backports

Then you just update as normal. It will be a big update...

You're telling perl to run with the text file as input. The first part of that file is 'perl' which perl doesn't know what to do with.
Edit your file to print "Hello, World!\n"; and run it with...

Doom3 and all three humble-bundles.
I also play all the half-life games and portal through steam (using wine) and Oblivion, Bioshock and Civ4 using wine. Have others, but these get semi-regular...

Try setting 'direct sound' to 'emulation' in the wine configuration widget.

ctrl-alt-f1 (to f6) will give you another terminal to log into.
You can switch between them by the same command.

ctrl-c should bring your command prompt back. Is this not working?

This site is very useful.

http://www.linuxcommand.org/lts0080.php

Either way should work, you just need to make sure the correct folder is mounted as /home in fstab.
ie. if one /home then put your user's /username home folder in there and make sure /home is...

It's fine to use the same home partition for multiple distros, but make sure that you do not allow the /home partition to be formatted when installing!! Also, back it up beforehand just in case the...