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Hi all,

I am hoping someone can help me, I am having some problems with mounted CIFS shares and permissions. I have two external hard drives mounted to my Netgear D6300 router and shared over the...

If you really want to run MS Office 2007 you can download the trial version from here http://www.freedownloads.be/downloaddetail/1897-Microsoft-Office-2007-Trial-Version and then activate it using...

Did you find out where the locations.xml file is? The one in /usr/share/evolution-data-server-2.26/weather only has US cities in it. I want to add information for Renmark Airport, SA as my closest...

I have Qgis working fine in Intrepid AMD64 using the repository and fixes given by mariashaun in post #30.

I have tried to install it on Intrepid using this PPA repository,


deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/mixo-mixo/ubuntu intrepid main

but I get a segmentation fault when I try to use it.

I use QTOctave which is in the Hardy and Intrepid repositories. This is a front end to Octave and provides a MATLAB like environment and functionality. The version in the Hardy repositories is a...

Are you installing on a 32 bit system or 64 bit?

Do you have a 32 bit version of MATLAB or 64 bit?

I have successfully installed 32 bit MATLAB student edition on 64 bit Ubuntu as follows;


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I presume you are using Ubuntu as the host OS and you are intending to run Windows as a guest OS in Virtualbox?

If that is correct then you do not need the virtualbox-ose-guest-utils or...

The differences will be to do with the change from gnome-vfs to gvfs so no you should not need the sambashare group in Gutsy.

If you wish to you can use the old shares-admin from gutsy to set up...

Did you install it as administrator? In other words put sudo in front of the install command.

I presume you ran
install_unix.sh in a terminal.

you need to run
sudo install_unix.sh

I...

Add the nightly tester tools extension from here and you can then just install the standard addon from the mozilla addons site. It will give you the option of overriding the version when you install...

I'm glad it is working for you now.

As for the menu entry you can add it with the menu editor as follows;

Right click on the Applications menu
Select "Edit Menus"
In the left hand column...

You can start qgis from a terminal using the command
qgis

you can also hit Alt>F2 on your keyboard and enter qgis into the "Run Application" window.

If you want a menu entry you can either...

Hi Diptansu,

Just to point out the edit on my previous post, I found out after I had replied to you that Qgis is no longer in the ubuntu repositories. You need to add the extra repository as...

I have installed Qgis from the ppa but the grass plugin doesn't work. Grass works on its own but when I start qgis from the terminal I get "ERROR 1: libgrass_I.so: cannot open shared object file: No...

You will need to enable the universe repositories to install qgis. Just go to System>Administration>Software Sources and check the boxes next to "Community maintained open source software...

The best alternative here is probably Quantum GIS. It is a GIS system that can work with native files from MapInfo and ARCGis and has numerous plugins available to provide extra features.
I Don't...

I have been using 64 bit ubuntu for about 2 years now and have had no issues whatsover. The only hardware I have had any issue with is my internal dial-up modem and since I went to broadband I...

I had the same problem after installing ie6 using wine-doors. I fixed it by deleting my ~/.wine directory and starting again and this time didn't install ie6.

I make a habit now before I install...

I have installed a custom compiled version of gnumeric using apt-source (I needed more rows than the usual 65000) and I am having problems preventing it from being replaced with the version in the...

Hoary Hedgehog, and things have definitely improved since then.

I've just been playing around with Songbird and it looks like it may do the job eventually. It's still under development at the moment but it definitely has potential.

I have been looking for an...

I'm in too,

Just a suggestion, maybe someone has already said this, I haven't read every post, but would it be better to give people graphical ways of doing things rather than commands.


If...

I do this already with jigdo to create an install cd and then apt-on-cd to save all the other packages and then an installation/configuration script to set it all up. A gui to integrate these tools...

Virtualbox OSE is in the Gutsy repositories just
sudo apt-get install virtualbox-ose