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I have an old HP 5150 color ink-jet connected via USB on one computer and shared to other computers over the LAN. Printing an eight page document from a computer on the LAN quit in the middle of...

Jack,
I used Macrium for Windows XP, but no longer have anything but Linux installed on my computers. I suspect Macrium will not work on Linux, even in WINE.

For full backup of a Linux...

Not sure this will help you, but...
I got a neighbor to switch to using Ubuntu MATE-14.04 a few years ago and had problems getting the Brother multi-function printer (model MFC-J870DW) to connect....

Thanks for the suggestions,
I decided to purchase a new flatbed scanner. I ordered one that uses LED lamps that will hopefully last longer that eight years of my occasional use.

Thanks DuckHook,
You could be right, but how do I correct the scanner not producing the color white where it should?
I tried using a couple of other scanner software applications (gscan2pdf and...

My scanner is not producing white background for color documents. Do I need a new scanner? Advice please.
My Epson V200 Photo scanner is about eight years old. The scanner functions correctly - I...

RobGoss - Yes, After changing servers the Software Updater application now reports the Software is up to date on this computer. I'm holding off declaring total success until I get notice of an...

Thanks both for the replies. I tried both suggestions.

RobGoss - I did as you suggested and it selected a different server. Maybe that will help with future Software Updates.

vasa1 - the...

The last few times running Software Updater have ended with the message: “Package Operation Failed - The installation or removal of a software package failed.” I get the same error message when I...

You might have to restart the computer to get the Resize & Rotate actions show in the context menu. These items only show if right-clicking on a file which is one of the standard image file formats...

I have problems with image resize via Caja in Ubuntu-MATE 16.04. I installed the caja-image-converter package via Ubuntu Software Center and any attempt to resize an image file results in the Error...

Running Ubuntu-MATE 16.04 and trying to install Ancestral Quest 14 in Wine-1.6.2. When running the application install EXE file I result with the Error: 1621 Failed to verify signature of...

The Font Manager application fails to initialize in Ubuntu-MATE 16.04. I installed this package using the Ubuntu Software Center, getting version 0.5.7-4. When I run Font Manager it starts to...

I also have problems with image resize via Caja in Ubuntu-MATE 16.04. I installed the caja-image-converter package via Ubuntu Software Center and any attempt to resize an image file results in the...

Thanks qyot27,

I was able to get that to work. Seems strange to me that WINEARCH needs to be set and a new configuration for wine established, but hey I got Ancestral Quest running in Wine on...

Problem in a nutshell - Winetricks installing DLL or Windows components - I get a message that the installer does not support 64-bit architecture and Winetricks exits.

On a 64-bit computer...

UPDATE - Software Updater notified me of updates to MySQL and after those changes were installed it said "Software on this computer is up to date. However, Ubuntu 15.10 is now available (you have...

Thanks for the replies.

Yes Ubuntu MATE does have "Additional Drivers" - and that does open the "Software & Updates" window. Interesting! But I also discovered that "Software & Updates" is...

I have Ubuntu-MATE 15.04 (64-bit) running and desire to test the Upgrade process.

Instructions at this article

The first step says to select System > Administration > Software & Updates. ...

Thanks oldfred,

The computer is definitely SATA, not PATA configured. I checked my records and the computer was bought in early 2008, so it is not ten years old, so I was wrong on the age. The...

Thanks again. I completely miss understood what EUFI is and your response caused me to look on the Web to find descriptions. I thought it was some Microsoft invented secure boot modification to...

Thanks tgalati4, but my issue is not with the Linux Mint Menu. My issue is with the Ubuntu-MATE distribution and not knowing how to change how the menus in applications (such as LibreOffice). Maybe...

Thanks Yancek.

I don't think I have EUFI. The computer is over 10 years old and I don't do Microsoft, which I think EUFI is related to. I do put one distribution on a physical drive. My...

Thanks for the reply Dennis.

If I understand what you do, instead of specifying just sda for Boot information I should specify a partition such as dev/sdc1 or sdd1 (what the new drives will be)...

Installed Ubuntu-MATE 15.04 and I like it, back to what Ubuntu used to be. But I have one thing that bugs me that I would like to change, but don't know how. In applications, principally...