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I think I fixed it now, by using the command:


sudo dpkg --force-all -r libncurses5-dev


Atleast now I can use apt-get again, so I'm marking the thread as solved.
If one of you clever guys...

I have a few repos added, but they were all there, long before any problems began to show :)



The first command runs without any output to the console, while the second command gives me the...

Hello :)
I can't seem to get my apt-get command to work at the moment..
When I'm asked to run "apt-get -f install" to fix some unmet dependencies (or whatever it does - I just follow instructions...

Honestly, I can't remember :)
But seeing as I havn't asked around anymore since then, I would say that it might have :)
But don't go formatting, just from my "hunch" :)

I usually just press ctrl + alt + t :)

In Windows, right-click on your start button and click run..Then write

diskmgmt.msc

There, you should see a partition which Windows doesn't recognize - That's the one you have/had ubuntu on.....

If you have a Windows Vista/7 install disc, use this method:

http://neosmart.net/wiki/display/EBCD/Recovering+the+Vista+Bootloader+from+the+DVD

If not:
...

According to the site below, you doesn't really need swap space anymore - Only when using hibernation as mentioned before :)

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SwapFaq

In the preferences you can set it, so that it does not remember your password.
I believe that it is as far as you can go as for "logging in/out" :)

I'm probably gonna get it for reviving an old thread..
But nonetheless, I have the exact same symptoms as the poster above me..Does anybody have any help with this..I have tried the other...

Due to some other problems on my computer (due to me ******* up :P) I'm going to format my computer, and install another distribution (for the fun of it..) - Hopefully that will fiz whatever the...

Any ideas, anyone? :)

If it is a CD, I would use the dd command:


Turn a CD/DVD into an .iso
sudo umount /dev/cdrom
dd if=/dev/cdrom of=file.iso bs=1024


If it is a folder use the mkisofs:

As far as I can tell, it doesn't say anything like IO-error or the like..But then again, I'm not sure what to look for :P
It does however mention something about some error and remount..? :)
And by...

Just checked and double checked that, and they didn't seem loose, nor did it fix the problem - But thanks nonetheless :)


If nothing else it at least tells me, that it's not just my system using...

They are both ext4 :)
One being the root system

Bump..

It would appear the problem isn't there, when moving files to a USB flash drive - Formatted NTFS..

Hello :)
For the past week+ I have been experiencing very slow file transfers, moving files from one HDD to another - both internal, connected with SATA, should anyone care..
When I move any file,...

Not sure what you mean..
Du you want the output written to a file or what?

In that case it would be:


command > file | cat file

First of - I forgot, I always set my DNS to Googles ;)

But that's not really the point..I read around in the threads you supplied and apparently it turned out, that changing the MTU value did the...

I tried that, and it didn't seem to have any effect :P

I'm going to try out those suggestions in the other threads for now - But the funny thing is, the speed of the network isn't slow as such,...

I tried setting them "by hand", but that didn't do anything..
But yes, it is currently on a DHCP network :)

Hello all :)
My father finally let me install Ubuntu on his desktop.
Great, I can finally show him how great Ubuntu is :D

But no...When the installation had finished I had no Internet access on...

All I get from that, is what we already know - That you indeed have a 64-bit processor