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Did you burn the cd/dvd the correct way? It's not enough to just copy the cd image or its contents to a disk. See this page.

If you have the proprietary nvidia driver installed, you probably need to remove it and the xorg configuration file to allow xorg to load the correct driver.
These commands should do it:

sudo...

You might want to have a look in the output when you run ./configure. You'll usually find most problems there...

Make sure you don't have any other package manager open (update manager/software central/synaptic).

The only thing you really need is alsa. Since alsa is part of the kernel, you should already have it, even on the server install.
Just to make sure you have all the alsa configuration files and...

His motherboard does not have any hdmi output, and from the specs and the manual I can't find that it has any s/pdif.
So there are two options for getting digital audio:
1. Get a sound card with...

You should be able to make a new home folder for your user by booting into recovery mode.

Reboot your computer and hold down the shift button until you get the boot menu. Pick one of the lines...

Actually you can easily add the ppa and install the package using synaptic, but it's just so much easier to just copy+paste a few commands into a terminal...

.rpm files are for Red Hat and related linux distros. They will not install natively in Ubuntu. It is possible to install some .rpm packages using a program called "alien", but chances are the...

Wastes space, how? In other DEs every application have it's own menu bar on top of the window, in unity they all share the one single fixed menu bar at the top of the screen. Either you add a menu...

You are right that 32 bit ubuntu with a pae kernel is able to use all of the datfireflyfan's ram, but that does NOT mean he gets all the other benefits of 64 bit.
For web browsing and other simple...

Looks like you have the proprietary ati driver (fglrx) installed and working.

If you provide the output from this command we will see exactly what graphics card you have and which driver it currently uses:

sudo lshw -C display

There is a plugin called 'nspluginwrapper' that can be used to run 32 bit plugins in 64 bit firefox.
To install it, just type this in a terminal:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install...

The package manager should be able to handle the dependencies.
Try these commands in a terminal:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras
When the package manager asks...

Tell us what graphics card he has, and which driver it uses. Without those vital pieces of information no one will be able to help him.

Why do you assume PeterBrinck has an nvidia graphics card? He did not say anything about which graphics card he has...

Not sure about what power regression bug you are talking about. On phoronix there are a few articles about a power regression in the recent linux kernels, but it seems to have been fixed in the 3.3...

Flgrx is amd's proprietary driver. The "disabled" message in jockey-gtk can be just a faulty message. It sometimes show "disabled" even when the driver is installed and working.
The proprietary...

How do you know that suryak uses the proprietary driver? Are you sure it really support the type of hybrid graphics in his laptop?

As far as I know, amd's support for intel/ati hybrid graphics...

The command should be:

sudo apt-get install xlibs-devBut from the other thread I see that your problem is with installing fontforge.
Why not just get it from the repos with this command:

sudo...

You will of course have to adjust the path in the first of those commands to reflect the path to your actual torrent client...

This is how I did it years ago, still works:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=229924

The errors you post there clearly indicate that you are trying to install through wubi, but still you claim that you booted the live cd. Perhaps you are a bit confused about what a live session is?...

You can still use the text based alternate installer. Just get an alternate ubuntu cd from here.