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I am using an old Dell desktop PC as a samba file and print server for a Windows 7 network. The version of Ubuntu I am running is 12.04 which seems to big for the RAM and disk space I have available. Ubuntu 12.04 runs very very slow, the printing over the home network works at a quite acceptable speed.

I have two problems: SLOW Ubuntu and I cannot update samba. The update manager tells me "update failed".

So my two questions:

  1. Is there anything I can remove from the standard 12.04 installation to make Ubuntu run faster and
  2. should I un-install and the reinstall samba to overcome the "update failed" problem? I hesitate, as printing and file serving works somehow and I don't want to loose that.

I know I should give you more information to give me answers. But what would you need to know? I am not a natural Linux user. Windows 7 is still my home.

Thanks in advance, Gerd

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What do you mean by "the standard 12.04 installation", Ubuntu server or Ubuntu desktop? The server edition is pretty lean, and should run well on 128MB of RAM. I don't think uninstalling samba would fix anything. Can you post the exact error, or the output of sudo apt-get upgrade. – mikewhatever Dec 16 '12 at 4:55

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