Questions about installing Ubuntu, or installing programs from within Ubuntu.
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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?
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Ubuntu 13.04 not recognized as Bootable after installation
I managed to successfully install Ubuntu 13.04; however after restarting, I found that the installation was unbootable.There was no error message --there was simply no option to boot from my hard ...
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Attempting to create live USB stick to try 13.04 on laptop with ATI Radeon HD 4225 graphics [duplicate]
My laptop is a Dell M101Z with AMD Athlon II Neo K125 processor. Graphics are ATI Mobility Radeon HD4225.
I have created a live USB stick of 13.04 using the appropriate AMD64 ISO image. The stick ...
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installing vmware-tools for windows guest
i have downloaded the required file vmware-tools-windows-9.2.3-1031769.x86_64.component.tar but i don't understand how to install it. It untars to vmware-tools-windows-9.2.3-1031769.x86_64.component ...
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Ubuntu installation in BIOS mode
I want to know what kind of installation is the best for me. I bought my computer with windows 7 preinstalled in it and I upgraded it to windows 8. It is in BIOS mode and I saw that i need to install ...
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New computer installation problems
I've just bought a new desktop computer:
Gigabyte 970A-DS3
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650
AMD FX8350
RAM: 16 Gb
I'd like to install 13.04 64-bit, but when I try to install, mouse doesn't work at all ...
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Why won't se-toolkit set up? [closed]
When I run "apt-get update" and "apt-get upgrade" on Backtrack 5 R3, I get this after waiting about an hour and a half or so:
Setting up se-toolkit (4.2.1-bt0) ...
Errors were encountered while ...
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How do I install filezilla?
I'm using 13.04
I go to ubuntu software center and find filezilla but there is no button to install.
I try to find it in ubuntu start button at application or ubuntu dash how its called and click ...
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I start upgrade and download only part of the packages
I start upgrade and download only 1366 packages out of 19.. How to Restart remaining packages for downloading ?
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How to install Lubuntu on Aspire one running Ubuntu 10.4
I have an old aspire one netbook I want to resuscitate. It currently runs Ubuntu 10.4 but tells me to go away if I try the Update function (only wants to do a partial update - Adobe flash-player has ...
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How to install gnopfract4d on Ubuntu 13.04 64 bit
How to install gnofract4d.deb file on 13.04 64bit. Here is error messages:
sudo dpkg -i gnofract4d_3.14.1_amd64.deb
Selecting previously unselected package gnofract4d.
(Reading database ... 234826 ...
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How to install Windows 8 on top of two Ubuntu OS
I am currently having both 13.04 64-bit and 12.04 64-bit installed using GRUB2. 13.04 is the main one and I allocated 100GB volume for 12.04.
I am trying to add a Windows 8 64-bit OS on top of the ...
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Why after fresh Ubuntu 12.04 installation update aren't being installed?
I've installed Ubuntu 12.04 on a computer. Everything is fine without update. Just after the installation, it was showing about 200 MB updates to download. Since then I'm trying to install all the ...
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how to install PPTP on ubuntu 12.04 from local file system
I uninstall PPTP by mistake, and can't connect to internet anymore by my VPN. as i have only vpn connection to connect internet so i can't do it by software center or using apt get-install. so i ...
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Is it safe to rollback Wubi without fresh Wubi install?
I've installed Ubuntu 12.10, then I made a backup from root.disk file. I decided to change from Ubuntu to Xubuntu. So I downloaded Xubuntu 12.10 ISO image and reinstalled Wubi.
In case I'm want to ...
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Trying to repare Ubuntu 13.04, because I broke it :D
I was running 13.04 and playing with networking when it all went wrong. No response to my questions, so all I can think of doing is go back to Windows, download 13.04 image and reinstall over the top ...
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Lubuntu doesn't repond to keyboard! + account not found (wubi) [duplicate]
So when I boot my lubuntu up, I get like a screen with these random stripes that you'd expect when your pc crashes. Then when it boots up, I can log in with the account user, not the account I made in ...
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Would like to install Ubuntu on secondary hard drive within my computer
Okay, so here's the story. I am trying to install Ubuntu 13.04. I currently have a 2TB drive in my computer where Windows 7 boots from, and a secondary 500GB drive that also has a bootable ...
