Questions about the 64-bit architecture, and how to get some software working on it.
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Bios unable to find Ubuntu 64bit CD, with 32bit installed already
My friend and I are having a problem, where his PC won't find Ubuntu 64bit CD, after having installed 32 bit already by accident.
He gets a BIOS message saying "Media test failed. Check cable" and ...
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Recommendation for a dictation software
Any recommendations for a good, free dictation software for Ubuntu, and Linux in general?
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Unable to shutdown Ubuntu 12.04
I just have installed Ubuntu 12.04 64 bits just few days ago, and everything is ok, but just some times when I tray to shutdown the system just freezes for a long time, and I have to force the ...
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How to upgrade from 32bit Wubi to 64bit Wubi?
I have a 12.04 beta 2 Wubi installed. I want to change it to a 64 bit wubi when I upgrade to the final 12.04 version.
Would I need to uninstall the old Wubi and then reinstall a complete new one?
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How to remove tearing in videos with Nvidia driver?
I'm using ubuntu 11.10 as my HTPC OS on ION board. Tearing was always a big problem but this guide (http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/01/how-to-fix-video-tearing-in-videos-nvidia-ubuntu/) used to solve ...
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Dell Laptop won't shutdown / restart by itself
I recently upgraded to ubuntu 11.10 64-bit on my Dell Studio 1569. Before this I ran ubuntu 11.04 64-bit.
Every time I shutdown, or restart it goes through the usual processes, and shows no error
( ...
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Can i install Gimp 2.7?
I am trying to install Gimp 2.7 on my Ubuntu 11.10 64bit.
I used the following:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:matthaeus123/mrw-gimp-svn
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gimp
This issue is ...
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Google Earth shows a black screen and options are greyed out
I have installed the latest .deb Google Earth from Google, but the Google window is black (where the earth should be) Plus all 3D options are greyed out.
I have checked my graphics card, and 3D is ...
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Graphics show up as unknown on a Dell Inspiron 1564 [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I get my Intel integrated graphics to be recognized in System Info
I have a Dell Inspiron 1564 i3 330M. I dual boot it with Windows 7 and Ubuntu. Prior to ...
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Help to fix acpi on my HP Pavilion DV6-6008el
Update: further details related to the issue in this other question.
I'm able to boot my laptop only adding acpi=off as kernel parameter in grub configuration file. Without this parameter the system ...
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Ubuntu 12.10 64b does not shutdown
I am a new linux user so i am not familiar with what actually is needed to check.
When shutting down or trying to restart i get a screen with yellow letters and the system does not close or restart. ...
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Desktop integration with file manager
I use KDE as my primary desktop environment. I also have GNOME and Xfce installed along side. As a result (I think), different applications use different file manager for desktop integration. Dropbox ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 login screen flickers. “Could not write bytes: broken pipes”
I use Ubuntu 12.04 x64 with a dual-boot setup.
Yesterday it worked fine but this morning when I attempted to boot it gets to the login screen and then it just flickers, alternating between the login ...
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Dell Latitude E6420 in-built microphone not working
I'm running with Ubuntu 12.04 64bit on Dell Latitude E6420.
The inbuilt microphone is not working, and is not listed on the sound settings dialog.
According to lspci, the device is:
00:1b.0 Audio ...
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How to get KeePass to properly work with Chromium?
The two-channel auto-type obfuscation feature of KeePass doesn't work for me with Chromium (on Ubuntu 12.04 64 bits). However, it works just fine with Firefox.
Dows anyone know how to fix this?
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32bit vs 64bit on desktop [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What is the difference between 32-bit and 64-bit and which should I choose?
My cpu is Intel® Core™2 Quad Q8200 which, by Intel page support 64bit.
I went to the download ...
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How can I install Adobe Flash player? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I view flash video?
I'm trying to install flash player on my new install of Ubuntu 10.10. I've tried several ways, from the flash player website, another question ...
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How to get SRGP working? [closed]
I'm running 64-bit Ubuntu 10.10, and I'm trying to make SRGP work. SRGP is an old graphics package that accompanies the book "Computer Graphics" by Foley, van Dam, et al.
I have installed ...
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Moving to New Machine… also upgrade to 64bit. What steps?
I am about to move to a new Lenovo X201 from current X61. Current setup has separate \home, separate swap file, also separate \Data partition. Am currently running 10.04 32 bit. Am considering running ...
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How to enable HP pavillon dv9000 pci express card [closed]
I Have an HP Pavillon dv9000, I recently installed Ubuntu 10.10 x64 on this laptop, everything works very very fine, but when I insert my eSATA pci express card in the slot, and attach my external ...
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Unable to connect to iFolder server [closed]
I tried to install iFolder on Ubuntu 10.10 server 64 bit using this guide.
Everything "worked" except: If I try to acccess the server with http://myurl/admin I get the error-message "Unable to ...
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How to get mit-scheme from the package manager? [closed]
I installed the latest version of x64 lubuntu and I want to install a scheme interpreter. Strangely, in Synaptic only debugger and documentation is available to install.
I would rather not compile my ...
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Should I install 12.04 or 12.10?
I've been using 12.04 for a few months now, but today I began thinking about re-installing Ubuntu, and now I'm a bit confused.
What should I Choose?
Ubuntu 12.04 or 12.10
32 bit or 64 bit
I want ...
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ubuntu 12.04 LTS 64-bit for Intel Core 2 Duo laptop?
I would like to download ubuntu 12.04 LTS (64-bit). The iso file says "ubuntu-12.040desktop-amd64.iso" will it work with Intel Core2 Duo laptop?
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Which window manager offers the best stability?
I installed Unity window manager and love it, except that it is always crashing, When I say crashing, I mean that it is unrecoverable, I can't kill anything even from TTY.
It occurs usually once a ...
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is it true that ubuntu effect on hdd longevity?
is it true that "Ubuntu May Be Killing my Laptop's Hard Drive"?? Please explain(if possible).
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/07/10/30/1742258/ubuntu-may-be-killing-your-laptops-hard-drive
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Where can I download Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS desktop edition for 64 bit?
I am unable to find the link to download 64 bit Ubuntu version 10.04.4 for Intel based processor.
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lamp-server wants to install mysql but i want it to use already installed MariaDB
i want to install lamp-server in ubuntu 10.10 (the end goal is to install redmine), i am using
sudo tasksel install lamp-server
However after downloading packages it asks for a root password for ...
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Videos, songs, and all media playing in fast forward
Whenever I try to play a video or song, on YouTube or using Banshee, the media plays as if it's in fast forward. Everything ran fine, videos and songs played normal, all hardware worked fine, and then ...
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Location of file folders of installed programs
I'm new to Ubuntu and will like to know where i can find the location of program files of programs installed from the Ubuntu Software Center or the Command Line Interface
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Can 32 bit use HDMI?
I want to buy a desktop, and use Ubuntu with it. My question is: Can I have a 32 bit computer with HDMI? Also, will it be beneficial to purchase a 64 bit computer, when it comes to Ubuntu?
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Why is the 64bit 10.10 ISO labeled amd64.iso? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
My processor is 64-bit - does that mean I need the amd64 image?
And should I be reluctant to try and install it on a laptop with an intel processor + 6G RAM? (Probably a ...
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Can't install wine (or ia32-libs) in Ubuntu 12.10 64 bit
As already pointed out here, people seems to have issues with installing wine in the latest version of Ubuntu. I'm suspecting this only happens with 64 bit users.
For example, when trying to install ...
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x86 or x64 for AMD E-300 and 4 GB of RAM? [duplicate]
So I have a machine with AMD E-300 ( http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/Bobcat/AMD-E%20Series%20E-300.html ), and 4096 MegaBytes of RAM memory, 3712 MB usable, because the integrated GPU takes 384 MB. What ...
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How does one go about installing flash 11 (64bit)?
How does someone install the new beta version of flash 11?
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Will all applications work fine on 64-bit Ubuntu?
I used Ubuntu some time ago and now I want to switch on it again since community raised a lot and so did support for applications like Wine. I remember that when 64bit version just came out many ...
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Installing by using Wubi on Windows Vista 64
After Reboot no Windows Partition is found and installation cannot start. How can we solve this, in order to try Ubuntu ?
It says I only have free space available, but that isn't true. I'm on the ...
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dual screen doesn't work on ubuntu
I'm not an expert in Linux but I'm currently try to learn it myself. Unfortunately I'm stuck here.
So, I'm using Ubuntu 64-bit ( with Unity desktop ) on a laptop.
I get stuck when I try to plug ...
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Brightness not working on an HP Pavilion Dv6 with a ATI Radeon HD6770M
I am new to Ubuntu, but so far I am loving it.
I was always unable to change my brightness since I installed Ubuntu, but I figured that installing the latest ATI driver for my graphics card would ...
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Why does my burned Ubuntu DVD have a different hash/checksum than the iso?
I downloaded the 10.04.4-dvd-amd64.iso file, then burned it to a DVD.
I then tried installing it but it hangs at 95%. I then checked the hash with md5sum and they are not the same. The ISO is the same ...
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How to compile FontForge?
Who knows right way to compile FontForge on the Ubuntu 11.10 64-bit system?
Any experience and suggests will be greatly useful.
Full guide for build and install from source here:
FontForge : ...
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Ubuntu 11.10 64 bit won't start after I upgrade it, possible procesor problems?
I have a HP 630 with an i3 processor on which I run Windows 7 64 bit without any problems, I also dual booted Ubuntu 10.04 32 bit I believe, now I upgraded to 11.10 and the clean install doesn't have ...
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Why is 32 bit Ubuntu “recommended” and 64 not? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Why does Ubuntu Download recommend 32-bit install?
On the Ubuntu download page, you have a choice between 32 and 64 bit, and the 32 bit one is "recommended". Why is ...
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Why I am getting a segmentation fault opening Guitar Pro?
I am having this hard time with Guitar Pro on Ubuntu 11.04.
I am getting a segmentation fault error from the application, but it used to work before on Ubuntu 10.10, suddenly it stopped working.
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How can I install a 32bit python on 64 bit Ubuntu
I am using Ubuntu 10.10 (Linux pc07 2.6.35-27-generic #48-Ubuntu SMP Tue Feb 22 20:25:46 UTC 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux) and the default python package (Python 2.6.6).
I would like to install python-psyco ...
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Packages not showing up in created APT repository
I created an APT repository using deb-scanpackages, and it seemed to go well.
When I did a apt-get update on another server, the Packages.gz file was retrieved, and all seemed well - until I went to ...
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Eclipse won't let me select a Windows share as Workspace
Environment: Ubuntu 10.04 (64-bit), Eclipse Helios 3.6 (64-bit), Android 2.3 SDK + ADT.
All works great, but I can only select a workspace that's on the local system. Eclipse won't let me select ...
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Battery life greatly depreciated in 64-bit when compared to 32-bit
I have a Dell E6400 and have been using Ubuntu on this machine for just over a year. Previously I used 9.10 on 32bit. When I upgraded to use 10.04 I remained on 32bit and battery life seemed just ...
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If I install 64-bit Ubuntu 10.10 will Flash work? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I install Flash 10 for Firefox in 64bit
I am currently downloading 64-bit Ubuntu 10.10 but am seeing reports that there may be problems with Flash. I'm ...
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Difference between alternate and desktop 64 bit? and how do i find out which one i am using now?
My system has crashed because of deleting a partition that i should not have deleted. Now i want to create a liveusb but i am confused whether i should make the liveusb with the alternate of desktop ...
