I use my browser, or Thunderbird (currently 68.10) to manage active email on my system (Linux Mint 18.3). When an old message is worth archiving, I use Getmail (currently 4.48.0) to transfer it to...
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I use my browser, or Thunderbird (currently 68.10) to manage active email on my system (Linux Mint 18.3). When an old message is worth archiving, I use Getmail (currently 4.48.0) to transfer it to...
Thank you for your suggestion. Increased swap partition to 4 GB, upgrade went through without errors.
Question: is there a way of determining, before running the upgrade, how much memory will be...
Computer is a Dell Optiplex GX-20 with 1GB of physical RAM. There is a swap partition, also 1GB.
Got this system four years ago and have run apt upgrade 100-200 times with no previous problems.
Recently got an error when trying to do a routine upgrade, Here's the output:
2018-01-05
$ echo 'Y' | sudo aptitude upgrade
The following packages will be upgraded:
firefox...
Downloaded the 32-bit trusty image (ubuntu-14.04.3-server-i386.iso), md5sums checked, burned it to medium.
Your assistance is appreciated! Marking this thread solved.
Hello -
Want to try installing Ubuntu server, at the moment just to experiment with it. The download site lists 14.04 and 15.10, 64-bit only. The alternative download site , however, lists...
Hello - Installed dvd-slideshow in attempt to begin creating a slideshow with several hundred images.
This will be a silent slideshow.
I have worked with ffmpeg and dvdauthor in the past, and...
Tried using synclient to disable the touchpad, then rebooting. But on reboot, the touchpad is enabled again. Then booted into Windows, used Functionl-F9 to disable the touchpad. Upon reboot,...
Thank you for the response, and please excuse the belated reply; had to deal with some pressing matters.
"synclient" does appear to turn the touchpad on and off on my system; will try disabling...
My travel computer is a Toshiba NB-505 notebook with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (also has a Windows 7 partition). A few weeks ago, for unknown reasons (perhaps from playing with the function keys to get it...
If I understand this, the new build of mplayer will use its own version of ffmpeg, which may be different than the version I previously built. And if I had checked "no", it would have used the...
Thank you again. Successfully used the guide in http://www.andrews-corner.org/ubuntu/mplayer.html to install and compile a version of mplayer that displays and interacts with dvd menus. (Did not...
Thanks to both of you for your assistance.
Read to the end of the thread, and saw that Andrew.46 is now advising readers to go to a more up-to-date guide at...
Thank you for your reply.
Created an actual image file with
genisoimage -dvd-video -o image.iso iso-image/.
Using the first of your suggestions gives the same result as before:
$ mplayer...
Since my upgrade to 14.04 LTS, mplayer with dvdnav option completely fails. Using the command I frequently used in the past to test iso images before writing them to disc, the result is now:
$...
What do function the "zeitgeist" folder and the "activity.sqlite" database serve?
Today in the middle of a browser session, computer froze whilst making a lot of fan and disk noise, had to power...
Here is what I've found out so far. On System A, Compiled a working ffmpeg about 30 days ago:
Copied ~/bin/ffmpeg from System A to System B. (Both systems have Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, updated...
Thank you, that was exactly what I needed. I saw the gvfs directory from "mount" (must have been there before), I have 14.04, so cd'd to /run/user/<uid>/gvfs, found the camera, was able to access...
bump. eight weeks, no responses. is there another forum that would be better to post to?
First, thanks to Fake O. for maintaining this great tutorial - have used it several times now.
QUESTION: Assuming you've got three non-networked systems with the same version of the same OS...
To disable CapsLock in 14.04, see http://askubuntu.com/questions/462021/how-do-i-turn-caps-lock-into-an-extra-contrl-key
bump. tried connecting the Nikon to another computer with 14.04 LTS, virtually identical results. The new system does not have gphoto2 installed. Here's the output from /var/log/sysog:
Sep 23...
Have worked with several cameras over the years and usually, to access the photos, I attach the camera cable to a USB port on my system. After a few seconds, running "mount" will give a message like...
Thank you for your reply. It was especially useful to get confirmation that the reading function and the burning function are separate, and
that one may work even if the other doesn't. I will keep...
Tried using wodim to write a set of ten audio files to CD on the same writer. Tracks 1-8 seemed to burn normally, then:
$ wodim -dev=/dev/sr1 -v -audio -pad *.wav
...
Starting new track at...