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@all who helped. Thanks for the help! I got it working with the boot-repair tool :):):)

Back after some much needed shut-eye :)

Okay. I turned on my laptop and the dos-text is an error that states:


error: the symbol 'grub_xputs' not found.
grub rescue>

@black veils. Thanks...

In desparation tried this

repair bootsector

I am going to reboot and see what happens. I will work on this some more when I wake later on this morning. It is 2am here in Arizona and sleep...

The installation gave me a grub-rescue prompt. I have included a screenshot of my partition setup. Is there any code I can run in terminal to fix my setup?

Yay! Okay here goes!

Thanks :) :) :)

Thanks for responding wilee. Bootloader in sda and not sda1 correct? You probably just noticed I have included a screenshot now.

Hi. I have decided to install Xubuntu 12.04 LTS. I am going to be dual booting and am at the end of the installation. I have a prompt asking where I wish to install the boot partition.

Do I...

Hello. I am using a website to help me with my mathematics and it uses HotEqn to display the mathematical formulas. My Lucid Lynx is not able to display the information provided by HotEqn. I've done...

I've never run an .sh script before!

Is there a kind person who will guide me through this process???

I need my MG5220 setup for school. TIA :)

EDIT:

Nevermind. I got it working! I had...

It downloaded and installed 1.1.9 which seems to work fine so far :)

Thanks!!!

:D:D:D

Okay thanks :D

as for the terminal command is this the right one?


sudo add-apt-repository ppa:lucid-bleed/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install vlc vlc-plugin-pulse...

It's been awhile since I've used term commands but is


sudo apt-get purge VLC

the easy way to uninstall VLC so that I can try the VLC webpage PPA??? Do I even need to uninstall the 1.0.6...

This got me 1.0.6

Is it even worth it to upgrade? I did notice on the VLC website that it suggests using a newer version than 1.0.6. I want to try this b/c when I play MKV on the packaged media...

How do I install through the repositories?

TIA.

That VLC webpage you linked only has instruction for 1.0.6.

The laptop I want to install VLC 1.1.0 on is a ThinkPad X200 with Intel X4500HD. Ubuntu Software Center has VLC but it's the 1.0.6 version. How do I install from a PPA so that my VLC gets updated...

Cool. Thanks Shantiq :)

would anyone know the terminal command to get PINTA???




EDIT:

Found it! For anyone who wants an easy terminal command....

I really like paint.net also!

Now that I have a little time to do things I installed 10.04LTS alongside my W7. I do not need all the wizardry of GIMP right now so this find is great! :)

I am wondering if anyone has any experience with the ones in the Ubuntu Software Center?

I would like one of these programs and am asking the community which desktop session recorder works very...

Hi Gary. :)

Give the post a little more time :)

I ran the script and did not do this on a ThinkPad X200. It shows that it cannot find a battery. How do I remove the "tp-smapi-srouce+m-a" that the script downloaded and install the "tp-smapi-dkms"...

I'm wondering if there's a utility in Ubuntu or linux in general that I can use to securely wipe an SSD? I've read through some forums and am a little confused. There's talk about "disabling AHCI"...

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