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I have been having difficulties installing MATLAB 64 bit on my ubuntu desktop machine. I downloaded the necessary files from school (as my internet connection at home is very...

I am trying to create a bash script to do something very mechanical on open office calc. I have a big spreadsheet that will do calculations on aircraft sizing for me. I need to go through many...

hmm....when I try to run gparted from the live cd it just says scanning and it scans like forever. I let it run for an hour, and it still wasn't done. I've run gparted from the live cd before, but...

so this is the result of that when I start ubuntu with the live cd:

http://i.imgur.com/PDEfM.jpg


I do not think I am getting any partition errors? I am not sure?

Yea so I have used this program before- I have had to run Ubuntu from live cd and repair grub. But for some reason when I try this now, the boot repair runs and it says scanning hd but it takes...

My old HD died on me so I installed new HD on my desktop PC. My old setup was Windows 7 with ubuntu 12.10 dual-boot.

I recently got windows 8. I first installed windows 8 into one partition of...

so i just upgraded from 12.04- and I seem to be having issues with my ATI HD 4870 card. After googling for the solution- seems like this is a pretty wide spread problem.

My main issue is if I...

Ok so I know it is a bit hard to see but here are the results of df -h :
http://i.imgur.com/i5SpK.jpg

And I cannot run pastebinit because its not installed apparently. And I cant really get...

so yea I was able to find .ICEauthority and delete that file. But I still have the same problem- I cannot log in still. Any more ideas?

I have a Vista/Ubuntu dual boot set up (with Grub to manage it). I am about to upgrade from vista home basic 32 bit to windows 7 ultimate. Before I do though- I want to make sure that this will not...

wait...nvm I did find .ICEauthority- and I was able to remove it- but I still have the same problem. I cannot login still.

....yea no .ICEauthority either? Yes I am the only user/owner of this netbook.

I've looked and looked- but really it is not there. Like I have tried ls -a and I see other files like .xconfig but for the life of me I cannot locate .Xauthority

I was able to get into the console by just booting into the recovery console mode and I was able to login. However, I cannot find the .Xauthority file- when I try to delete it- it says no such file...

Oh yea I did that and I was able to get into the console and login. However I am not able to find the .Xauthority file? I did ls -a and I just don't see it? What directory is it in?

Hmm ctrl alt F1 doesn't seem to be doing anything for me? I am googling this and seems like other people also have had this issue trying to get to the login console

Hi everyone I was wondering if you could help me with this problem I have had with my netbook for a while.

I had set up a dual boot system with xubuntu and windows 7 starter. For a long time I...

yes, thank you very much. I guess I will just let the update run for the next several hours

yea, but I wanted to upgrade to 12.04 (and I have the option for the new distributions enabled in the settings)....so shouldn't it give me that option? Anyways here is the output:


W: A error...

yea, but I wanted to upgrade to 12.04 (and I have the option for the new distributions enabled in the settings)....so shouldn't it give me that option? Anyways here is the output:


W: A error...

Hey everyone, I am having some problems updating Ubuntu 11.10. My update manager is showing that my "package information was last updated 42 days ago". But when I try to update it, by first hitting...

He is trying to install ubuntu alongside vista on his laptop. Like he wants to have it dual-boot so that he can switch in between them.

We are following this: ...

yea he thinks it is, since that is the only thin on there right now

*it shows that there is a 238 Mb partition, but not sure why thats there, but the 250 gb is NTFS windows.

He is trying to install ubuntu alongside vista on his laptop. Like he wants to have it dual-boot so that he can switch in between them.

We are following this: ...

thank you for trying to help me out. I rebooted my computer and this is what I get:

[ 0.196399] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
[ 0.196407] usbcore: registered new interface...