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Let me hazard an answer, try the bundle system in Chakra, you just download the bundle and click once. The application is ready for use.
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+1 for Transmission. Also there are other torrent programs in Ubuntu, search torrent in Ubuntu Software Centre. You can install uTorrent in Ubuntu, but it will not be the same version as in Windows,...

If installed under wine, the programmes are available in Dash. Just type Word or Excel in Dash and you will be pointed to MS Office Word and Excel respectively.

IMHO installing it under...

Welcome to the Forum. My guess would be that your boot loader is installed on the USB. But we need to confirm that. There is a script here http://bootinfoscript.sourceforge.net/ which will output all...

To add on to the list

4. Power point presentations saved in post Office 2007( read Vista and Windows 7) .pptx format will be a pain to edit and view in Libreoffice/ openOffice Impress. The...

You can also try Grub Customizer which has a simple GUI for that. More info can be found here http://www.webupd8.org/2012/09/grub-customizer-30-released.html and here for how it works...

Well You can try Miro. The Linux version is a powerful torrent client, a media player as well as a converter. This is something that was not there in the windows version (last time I checked). Good...

This is something that most windows users will never believe, ubuntu is simpler to understand and use than windows. You want a text editor: on the Dash just type , if its a spreadsheet, just type...

Another option is SMath Studio which only requires mono runtime to run.

For the duplicate sources list, try using chkdup from the link. I have used it several times and it works.

That usually works, another method if you have internet connection is install libqt, basically any will do libqt3 or qt4 will do and wvdial. For Safaricom beware, it removes the Sudo password prompt,...

Had the same problem. A friend of mine bought a laptop and decided he wanted it partitioned. Used windows tools and dynamic partitions resulted. I used GNOME Disk Utility from a live USB Iso. I use...

The errors remained, decided to do a fresh install of vanilla ubuntu and customise for design. Now having issues with kxstudio archives

Getting these errors;


Have already tried the solutions...

Tried it but still get errors.


Though the errors reduced some, but these wont go.

Try changing the download server. It worked for me. Then update with code

sudo apt-get update

Install hal then restart APTonCD with this command in terminal


sudo apt-get install hal

Just install hal then restart APTonCD with this code


sudo apt-get install hal

Well for me if the document originates from me, I usually export it as pdf- period. Saving as .docx in both libreoffice and abiword is possible, if as has been said earlier the formatting is minimal....

Thanks for the code it works like a charm.

The above configuration with localhost still works in Ubuntu Precise.

Thanks for the tip.

I still get that error, what did you do to resolve it. Also compiled and installed deb packages with checkinstall.

Thank you @FakeOutdoorsman. Followed your earlier post and reinstalled ffmpeg, but I still get errors when I try to convert. This is the output;

And after that;
So still no way forward.

There is a reason, to watch the said video on my home dvd player, which does not support flv videos.

I have this problem with a particular .flv video which can only play in GOM media player in windows 7. I would like to convert it to AVI format, but the result will not play. Stops after five minutes...

Hi everyone. Not really new here but have not introduced myself before. Coming from East Africa was surprised that there were better OS's to MS and free at that. Saw Lucid Lynx and was hooked now on...