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What exactly happens when you follow the directions from: http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/resetpassword
Can you post the output from all of the commands that are given in that tutorial???
The...

Is there a question here???
Please tell us what you are trying to do, what the problem is, and what errors you get.
Just posting the terminal output without telling us what the problem is is not...

It seems that this is a known bug that has been reported to Launchpad. See these pages for the fix:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+bug/1010212...

Please only start one thread for each problem:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2044344
This is so that everyone who tries to help you is literally on the same page.
You will not get more...

Are you able to install software from the terminal using apt-get?
Can you post the output (in CODE tags #) of:


sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install my-app

where my-app is the program...

Crashes of the X server would be listed in /var/log/Xorg.0.log.
Errors in the Xorg.0.log start with EE.
A quick way to check for errors in the Xorg.0.log is to run the command:
...

Your output of aptitude search flash indicates that you have no flash installed from the Ubuntu repos.

You should have flash copied to ~/.mozilla/firefox/plugins if you followed my instructions...

As I said in my last post, you must remove all flash packages that you have installed from any repositories. This will remove any conflicts between flash from the Ubuntu repos and flash in your...

I did this and the error message started showing up again. And, flash still doesnt work.[/QUOTE]
How did you install the flashplugin-installer package? The best way is to install it from the Ubuntu...

Your sources.list looks to be pristine and is free of any third party repos.
Are you still getting the same error you posted in your first post???
If so, try reomving the offending packages that...

This by itself will not add any third party repos. The flash aid is just a FF addon.

Post the contents of your /etc/apt/sources.list file as well as any files in the /etc/apt/sources.d/ directory....

How did you install flash aid?
If you used any third party repos, including those unsupported PPA repos, I would remove those.

I use Lubuntu 12.04 with Firefox 13 and the flashplugin-installer,...

Do yourself a favor and always do clean installs of Ubuntu. Never do dist-upgrades.
These forums are just full of a myriad of problems from people who do dist-upgrades and somehow manage to screw...

How did you install Kubuntu? When it came to the part of the Kubuntu install where you install the grub boot loader what specifically did you do with grub?

Depending on where you installed...

If you would simply like the option to login to Ubuntu with Gnome/Unity, or to login to KDE when you boot the computer, then you can add KDE to your Ubuntu install. Just install the kubuntu-desktop...

It always amazes me just how many people will add a boatload of these unsupported PPA repos to their sources; and then they somehow expect the Ubuntu upgrade manager to seamlessly make sense of it...

Just to be sure we are on the same page here, do you mean that you checked the md5sum of the CD that you burned, as is discussed here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToMD5SUM
You can also run...

If your home directory is on a separate partition then all of your data is safe if you do a clean install of Ubuntu. I have used every single version of Ubuntu since the inaugural 4.10. I always do...

In order to help us solve your problem, perhaps you could post a link to the theme you want to install. Also post a link to the installation instructions for this theme if you can.
Activating the...

To evroniano,

If you only want Ubuntu as the only OS on your computer, you should ideally create 3 partitions:

1. A root partition of about 20GB. This is where the Ubuntu OS will live.

2. A...

The brand new Ubuntu 11.10 uses the new 3.0 kernel: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/OneiricOcelot/ReleaseNotes#Linux_3.0_Kernel
So if you need or want the newest kernel I would just do a clean install of...

To give us your hardware specs, boot up the Ubuntu live CD, open a terminal, and run this command:

lspci -k
This will tell us your hardware (lspci) and the kernel module ( -k) in use for each...

I you are only creating 2 partitions, then one needs to be root. The other can be swap.
So just install Ubuntu again. Let the installer create root and swap partitions. The installer should...

Here are detailed tutorials for dual booting Windows7 with Ubuntu: http://members.iinet.net.au/~herman546/

2F4U said what I wanted to say about your hardware.

As for being a "specialist", I have absolutely no technical background at all. In fact, I purchased my first computer 9 years ago when I was 42...