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Downloading a complete software archive, and using that offline, is certainly possible, as I attempted to document elsewhere on this forum. You may even want to start at the first post of that...

My thoughts exactly. I'm no fan of either Unity or GNOME 3 Shell, but if there were ever to be a (granted, silly and totally useless) discussion about abandoning either, then my vote would go to...

After I posted the above reply, the Ubuntu system on one of my computers suddenly decided to want to run a file system check on one of its partitions whenever I booted it—though I have no idea...

I used the “tune2fs” command to turn off mount count based, as well as time interval based checking on each of my file systems, as follows:

sudo tune2fs -c 0 -i 0 /dev/sdDN
(where, obviously, “D”...

I didn't mean to say that Ubuntu as a distribution would drop GNOME; what I meant was that, as I understand it, Unity is supposed to become an independent desktop environment that would no longer...

Absolutely! The “zip” command works great under Linux.

The “native” data compression and archive file handling tool under Linux (and any Unix-like system), however, is “tar”; creating a compressed...

But... Isn't Ubuntu moving away from GNOME? The way I understand it, the ultimate goal is to turn Unity into its own, independent desktop environment, and get rid of GNOME entirely.

In that...

Well, thanks! If I ever decide to try out Unity for real, then this step will certainly become a part of my installation and customisation procedure.

Come to think of it, it appears to me that,...

Wayland does, indeed, look like an interesting development, but it will likely take quite a bit of time until it can be considered “ready.” In addition, the “Precise Pangolin” will be a Long-Term...

Well—I did point out that, as opposed to KDE4 and GNOME3, I could see Unity become a potentially interesting option. In fact, in my experience, you are right that the elderly people don't always...

I, for one, am tired of this “desktop revolution” garbage. It's not even just an Ubuntu problem—first there was KDE4, which I tried to like, but it simply wasn't my cup of tea.

Then came Unity,...

Does Synaptic list any "openoffice" packages? (I would be surprised if it did, since I don't think that Ubuntu 11.04 has them in its repositories. It won't hurt to check, though.)

If your system...

Perhaps he simply wants to learn?
Like you, I haven't had to compile a kernel ever since I started to use Ubuntu, but I do remember the early Slackware days, when compiling your own kernel was often...

Since the output says "x86_64" that would be amd64.

To overcome this issue, you should do an apt-get dist-upgrade instead; that's the action that Synaptic takes as well.

For those who, like me, are trying out XFCE: I have just found an interesting Weekend Project: Find Hidden Treasures in XFCE 4.8 (on Linux.com).

Even if you are seriously considering XFCE, you may...

You still can, can't you? You can run Unity, GNOME classic, KDE, XFCE, LXDE. The issue is not that you no longer have the choice; rather, it is that GNOME is undergoing massive changes—which you may...

To be honest, I'm beginning to wonder if Unity and GNOME 3 Shell are, perhaps, the best thing that ever happened to XFCE...? ;)

In my opinion, neither Unity nor the GNOME 3 Shell were developed with the traditional desktop (or laptop) primarily in mind. Rather, they seem to target new generations of devices—like tablets,...

Could you give an example of such an improved workflow? Just so I could begin to appreciate the difference with a classic interface.

To be honest, I'm puzzled about what's so wrong with the classic menu interface? I'm not too thrilled about the launch bar, and I certainly don't consider it a reason to upgrade.

Mind you, I can...

The first user created will have uid 1000, because, according to Debian policy rules, that is the first "non-system" user. Whenever you create a new user, the user and group administration utility...

I'm sure we would all appreciate it very much if you could document what you did in order to get it to work. Anything that may help others get the most out of their local repository mirrors, is...

The Problem.


Note:


This post applies to Ubuntu 10.04 (a.k.a. the “Lucid Lynx”) and Ubuntu 10.10 (a.k.a. the “Maverick Meerkat”)—which apparently share the same version of the “debmirror”...

You can interrupt the download at any time. Then, when you restart it, it will pick up where it left off.

There must, indeed, be a way to schedule the download to start at a particular time of day...