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hi i just did a clean install of ubuntu 12.04 and i went to install the adobe package
and i got this message:


remove the transitional dummy package or ttf-umefont in order to install...

actually if i specify sda1 in the configurator it works.
i think i was just screwing it up before :)

worked

i have no idea why that would work but:

wouldn't

I have a ATI 5770 and I just did a clean install of 1204
I went to install the restricted drivers and the one with (post-release changes) failed.
I installed the AMD driver without the post release...

ok so this worked for me

for reference the boot script is found here:
http://bootinfoscript.sourceforge.net/

my new output, i dont know what changed that made the difference, i would like to...

http://paste.ubuntu.com/987949/
this is the URL
i dont know if the boot repair worked yet but im in live cd so i had to save this somehow :)

I already did that (see above) but it didnt help :(
I cant control which drive is the first boot in my bios.

Hi there i just installed ubuntu 12.04 32 bit and im having some issues (not wubi). When i start up i get a screen that just says "grub>" and i dont know what to do.

I was getting "error 15" at...

I have seen many comparisons of Unity 3D to other desktop environments with regards to resource usage, but I'm curious how Unity 2D compares to LXDE.

Lubuntu has been the nicest-on-my-computer and...

When i try to load my other distro I see something come up after the "VGA= something " line that says partition doesnt exist.

Note: While i was trying to fix this i accidentally installed grub to...

Hi I just installed ubuntu and I was planning to dual-boot into another distro (which i've been doing for a long time with many flavors of linux).
However somehow the ubuntu grub choices result in...

I was wondering if the AMD64 bit release of ubuntu is just a recompiled kernel with amd64 optimizations or if it is ALL 64 bit?

I understand that an amd64 kernel doesnt have to come with a 64 bit...

really thats crazy, so if you open synaptic and update, nothing will happen.

i think i'll just keep to my rolling release, it would be just like having all the PPAs... whatever those are :S

I used to use ubuntu but I've been using a rolling release distro for a while. Rolling releases just update packages as they become new, no waiting for a release.
What I was wondering is does ubuntu...

i have lm-sensors and it runs great.
I ran the pwmconfig which made a config file.
BUT when I run fancontrol or restart my computer nothing happens and the fans just carry on like they always did....

There is a lot of stuff that isnt in the help file.

This guy figured out how to modify fan speed.
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?p=1386622

I really like the idea of using unity as the default environment in Ubuntu.

A lot of people really just use their computer like a netbook, a few applications (my parents and gf for example).
...

I have a 1.5TB storage drive which I use equally between windows and Linux. I just got it and was wondering what a better format would be, NTFS or EXT4 (or even BTRFS)

I think since i use windows...

I hear mostly nightmares about ATI drivers. I use NVidia and its perfect, dual screen, flash everything, awesome.

Also 150$!!?!... on new egg there is a MSI GTS 250 for 90$ after rebate


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i was using sudo... i forgot to write it..sorry

hi there i am having issues installing a program i have on an iso (its for linux)

i need to run the install script in the iso.
I can mount it using whatever the mounting program is but then I...

I have a P4 2.0 GHz computer with 1GB ram and an onboard video card.

Should I be looking at installing a low requirements distro like Sidux or Xubuntu?
Or are the low requirements distros for...

You also might want to look at Linux MINT a lot of people like that too.


You can do this in PCLinuxOS too, just install 'Gnome' (i think thats the name) from the repo.
It gives you a choice of...

on a mac when you hit f4 the calculator and weather and calender and stuff shows up above the rest of the screen and everything else is sort of greyed out... is there a linux equivalent of this... im...

The Ath5k website lists my adaptor as having the chipset:
AR5002G (b/g) (AR5212)
which is supposed to work well
"802.11g works well."

I upgraded from a distro with an old kernal which used...