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    [ubuntu] Re: System76 bonobo laptop bag broke

    Yup - I picked up mu Bonobo about 3 months into using it with the bag that came with it and on end of one of the two handles ripped out of the covering :(. So I moved to a sturdier bag that I'd got...
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    [ubuntu] Re: How to remove ttf-mscorefonts-installer ?

    Phidia, mac4man: you guys are so brilliant!! It's been 1991 or before since I used a character-based GUI, and I'd totally forgotten how!

    So I used the <tab> keys, answered the questions, got the...
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    [ubuntu] Re: How to remove ttf-mscorefonts-installer ?

    So I decided to believe the message ... and did
    apt-get install ttf-mscorefonts-installer
    and I get a MS EULA page up on my Terminal (what a horrible sight!)

    It seems to want me to...
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    [ubuntu] Re: How to remove ttf-mscorefonts-installer ?

    Thanks, mc4man. it didn't do any harm to run "sudo dpkg --configure -a && sudo apt-get update", but unfortunately removing the corefonts installer still fails - same error message as before.

    I...
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    [ubuntu] Re: How to remove ttf-mscorefonts-installer ?

    OH, and thanks too to you, blackbird34. However, Synaptic is what U11.10 uses as the System Software Center (at least, it comes up looking the same!), and it also only offers "Removal", which still...
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    [ubuntu] Re: How to remove ttf-mscorefonts-installer ?

    Thanks for the suggestions -

    phidia: it was trying to install VBox that surfaced the problem - VBox just gave up trying to install (so far as I know)!
    I have tried "sudo apt-get...
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    [ubuntu] How to remove ttf-mscorefonts-installer ?

    I have just started using a System76 Bonobo and want to virtualise an older Windows machine (I work with SQL Server). So I used Parallels to make a usable image of the machine and tried to install...
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    Re: Cooperative Bank (UK) and Ubuntu

    It would be nice if any of the banks here in the USA could be considered to have any ethical standards above those of a sewer rat (apologies to any well-brought-up rats who may be reading this)....
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