Questions about installing Ubuntu, or installing programs from within Ubuntu.
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How to point grub to usable EFI vmlinuz.signed files.?
On trying to install Ubuntu 12.10 Desktop amd64 to a desktop pc using a ga a75 ud4h motherboard (which is using an AMD 3870k APU with a new 1TB HDD) following the advice in the motherboard manual and ...
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File not Found Grub Rescue after install
I'm having problems with Backtrack 5 R3.
After the installation of the system on my external disk, when i restart the computer the Grub Rescue Prompt appears after File Not Found. And when I type "ls ...
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how can i install gnu make 3.81 in ubuntu 10,04?
I downloaded gnu make 3,81 from http://gnu.org but i need to install it in my system 10,04 i used those commend make and make install but they are not working.
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no boot HP Mini 1104 dual boot Windows 7 with Ubuntu
Have successfully dual booted several HP desktop models with Ubuntu 12.04 and Windows 7. Have also installed Ubuntu 12.04 on USB flashdrive, which works correctly in a desktop PC. Have tried more than ...
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Help with installation version 12.10 desktop
I downloaded Ubuntu 12.10 a while back ant tried to install it. I created a USB drive and booted up from the drive. It started installing, showed a long list of code and then just showed a strange ...
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sudo apt-get update does not work?
I'm running newly installed Ubuntu 12.04 in my computer.
After the commandsudo apt-get update, my terminal shows the following message:
Reading package lists... Done
After that, nothing happens. ...
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Does Ubuntu still brick certain devices?
I read previously on other threads that installing ubuntu on some newer machines can cause the problems with the bios, where 'Ubuntu' will write over the bios, and cause the machine to end up being a ...
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Installing 12.04 on Mac PPC
I am working on an iMac G5 17" 1.8Ghz with 1Gb RAM. I downloaded 12.04 PPC (cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/12.04/release/ubuntu-12.04-desktop-powerpc.iso) and created a boot disk. When I boot from the CD ...
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Installing Ubuntu - Stuck at Extracting
I am trying to install ubuntu on my Netbook. I already have windows XP and i am using the windows installer to install Ubutu 12.04 LTS.
While installing, it successfully downloads the files(takes ...
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I can't get “apt-get install php5-suhosin” to work
I am running ubuntu 13.04. I cannot get my php website to work because I cannot install
php5-suhosin.
It said this each time that I have tried apt-get install php5-suhosin:
Package php5-suhosin is ...
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Ubuntu - Keyboard not working + strange screen when changing user
Yesterday, I installed ubuntu with wubi, and it went fine, but I decided I didnt like unity, so I uninstalled ubuntu. I tried all other ubuntu variations, none really succeeded to install :( live cd's ...
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Availability of packages on ubuntu LTS
How can i know what packages are available for the Ubuntu LTS. My host says that PHP 5.4 is not supported because it is currently not available on the LTS repo for Ubuntu 12.04. How can I find out if ...
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Reinstall ubuntu 13.04 with 13.04 again will loose data, or not? [duplicate]
I have tried to install Skype with 13.04 and fuc... something with (typing -f in some point) lost libsound2 and 20 more stuff, when finished with system upgrading now, I can not log in my computer, ...
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No primary partitions left: how to install Ubuntu now that wubi is no longer supported? [duplicate]
On my pc with Windows7 preinstalled, there is no primary partition left to install Ubuntu in.
/dev/sda1 * 2048 206847 102400 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda2 206848 ...
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unable to install ubuntu one on ubuntu 12.04 LTS
This is the message I am getting when I tried to install ubuntu one on ubuntu 12.04 LTS
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Attempted to install Ubuntu, now I have no boot menu
I attempted to install Ubuntu 13.04 onto my secondary hard drive. I say "attempted" because I had to cancel the installation after it hung on "update-grub" (or something like that) for two or three ...
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Remove any third party packages from former libreoffice installation
After recent updates the global menu dissapeared as mentioned in this question (Libre Office shows blank menu and then crashes). I tried to file a bug report by typing out
ubuntu-bug libreoffice
A ...
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My Computer System Information
Heres my System Information. Is this ok for the latest ubuntu? does my processor good enough?
About installing ubuntu, I have 2 partitions and i put my important files in 2nd Drive (Drive D:), after ...
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Need help installing Ubuntu 12.04.2 desktop AMD-64 dual boot with Windows 7
I'm running Windows 7 (I'm not sure what service pack), and I want to do a dual boot with Ubuntu. I've done some research and homework, but I don't know how to allocate the space on the hard drive ...
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Ubuntu 13.04 Stuck During Boot After Grub
I Just updated Ubuntu from 12.10 to 13.04 today. Everything went smooth until after reboot,and now at the grub menu. If I picked the first option(which says Ubuntu) it goes to a blank screen with a ...
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Cannot find “Run Ubuntu alongside with windows” option when installing
I have Windows 7, and I'm trying to dual boot Windows 7 and Ubuntu. However, when I try to install Ubuntu with a USB, it doesn't give me the option to dual boot. I can only "Replace Windows 7 with ...
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meld installation issue
I am trying to install the meld diff viewer on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. When I run
sudo apt-get install meld
I get the following output:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
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Ubuntu 12.04 can't see Windows 7
I already read other questions like this but nothing seems to work.
I just had my ASUS UX31A recovered from factory with Windows 7. Everything is fine there, so I tried to reinstall Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ...
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Ubuntu not getting installed, stops with blank screen [duplicate]
I have a laptop of HP Pavilion g4 with Windows Home Basic 64 bit as default windows. I am trying to install Ubuntu 11.04 i386 and amd both (side by side with windows) using Unetbootin on a separate ...
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cant install or uninstall anything after a failed sun-java-6 installation
I've attempted to install sun-java-6 by following a method given in a site which asked me to add a repository and then sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre. while installing on terminal i cant click ...
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UEFI setup extreme3 gen3 American Megatrends [closed]
I would like to dual boot win7 and U13.04 on an Asrock extreme3 gen3 mainboard which has an American Megatrends UEFI. Now, this used to be easy: I had a working system with 12.04 and win7 on sepatate ...
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How do I install Ubuntu with a usb on a Dell that has no Operating System?
I've been trying to look for this for a while, I only have access to one computer and that is my school computer that has blocks on using a lot of programs thank god I can download Ubuntu. I'm trying ...
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Problems installing Red5 server : “eclipse must be removed.”
I am trying to install red5 server on my ubuntu 12.10 laptop. When I click on install, a dialog box comes up saying eclipse must be removed. I can't remove eclipse as I need to use it often.
Is there ...
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Ubuntu 12.10 freezes at boot installation (at the purple screen)?
Each time i try to install Ubuntu 12.10 live cd, the Ubuntu installer asks about the language and then it loads at the purple screen. Suddenly everything freezes at some point in the first purple ...
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How can I run a software package I installed called 'openscam'?
I installed a software called 'openscam' but I cannot find its launcher.
It's installer is a .deb file, after I clicked in it, Ubuntu Software Center installed the software, and finished it, but I ...
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Can i add a 13.04 repo to 12.04 LTS to install new package via synaptic?
I want to install julia (programming language from MIT) on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, but I encountered some problems with the compilation from source. I noticed that there is a specific package to install it ...
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'sudo' command is broken
I updated an old centrino-notebook after Ubuntu 9.10 with 12.04 - now
sudo seem to be broken, because after sudo <whatever> I get the error message:
sudo: unable to initialize PAM: No such file ...
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How to install Precise Pangolin as a second OS on a PC with a RAID?
I want to install Ubuntu as a second operating system beside Windows XP SP3.
My main PC has a mainboard based on the nVidia nForce4 architecture with an onboard (mainboard) nVidia RAID controller, 4 ...
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Ubuntu 13.04 64-bit fresh install not booting at all,not detected
I installed Ubuntu 13.04 as a replacement to my old 12.10 installation from a usb pendrive.
The install went perfectly fine.However,when I rebooted,my computer did not detect ubuntu and got stuck on ...
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dual boot two drives [closed]
I have installed Cinnamon Remix on the second hard drive, sdb. The machine still boots into windows on the first HD sda, without asking which system I want. I think the install said it was putting ...
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How to solve “Error:Missing Dependency” when installing java on uxterm? [closed]
when I login to root and type this yum "localinstall jdk-7u21-linux-x64.rpm" a many messages pop up on my uxterm saying "Error:Missing Depency".What should I do? Please help .
Thank You
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nam error ns2.34
I'm a newbie to ns2. I successfully installed ns2.34 on Ubuntu 12.04, I added the MIT Leach modules to it, and it works fine except that it generates a file called leach.out. It is supposed to work ...
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Ubuntu 13.04 Fails to Load Unity after a clean install [closed]
I did a clean Install from 12.04 to 13.04 , the install went fine but on booting I see only the wall papper but no unity . the right click works fine but that's it. I rebooted into terminal and did a ...
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Dual-Boot failure with Grub (13.04 and 12.04)
I just installed ubuntu 13.04 alongside 12.04 and I'm not able to boot with it (I go straight to 12.04). I chose encrypt full drive and use EFI. In order to fix this, I think I should update grub or ...
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How do I install Ubuntu 13.04 on a new partition?
I ask this question because at the moment I can't even seem to load my live USB (which has the iso I downloaded from the Ubuntu website) because I don't know which key(s) to press to log into boot ...
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How to repair a failed program install on Ubuntu?
I had a program installing on Ubuntu called 'ubuntu-restricted-extras' and then my system shutdown because of powerfailure, I restarted and then tried the installation again and it comes up with a ...
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Can't install Ubuntu Dual Boot
I'm trying to dual boot Ubuntu with Windows 7 and it's not intalling .Before i got a black screen witha blinking cursor.I added nomodeset and now the problem is I'm have a grub menu and after i click ...
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Trouble with GRUB in dual boot
so I'm fairly new to linux and I have a problem after installing Ubuntu on my PC. I've dual booted ubuntu and osx before on my mac without trouble. I would be given the option of which OS to use. Now, ...
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How could I make a Ubuntu installer, but from my hard drive?
I want to use some sort of tool to create a Ubuntu installer on an internal hard drive. Could someone help with this? It would be on the same hard drive that I would be installing to.
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Clean install of Ubuntu 12.10 not booting
Just installed Ubuntu 12.10 (wasn't 100% happy with 13.04 yet) from a USB drive. I have done this numerous times. This time I did the install three times. I think something was wrong with one flash ...
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Can not install 4shared desktop
I have been going to install 4shared desktop. When I opened 4shared desktop .deb file by Software Ubuntu Center, it required openjdk-6-jre, but it can not install openjdk-6-jre. When i marked ...
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Installing Ubuntu 13.04 on VirtualBox gives an internal error at the start
Installing 32-bit ubuntu with mostly defaults:
Gives me the following error:
I am trying to look for some troubleshooting steps to find what is causing the error. Any Help would be appreciated
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How to make Revobase package work in R 3.0.1?
I have just moved to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and I am having a hard time with R packages and installation. I need to use the Revobase package. I installed it this way:
sudo apt-get install revolution-r
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Ubuntu 12.04 installation problems due to nouveau
Ubuntu installation failed due to power off and now getting the following error when trying to start installation again: nouveau failed to idle channel 1 and nouveau failed to idle channel 2. What is ...
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.iso program is stuck on notepad and can't go back
I downloaded the .iso program and didn't know what to do with it so i opened it with notepad. Will it still work on boot? If not, what do i do?Will notepad still allow it to run on startup?
