Comments on: How to setup the perfect Ubuntu 8.10 Desktop

By: jeremy

jeremy — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 00:56:45 +0000

you are the man thank you for doing this for both 8.10 and 9.04 thank you so much

By: pippin

pippin — Mon, 25 May 2009 18:04:17 +0000

i found help in irc
It is working now.
Am running the rest of the code now.
Thanks

By: pippin

pippin — Mon, 25 May 2009 17:21:34 +0000

ubuntu n00b so I got stuck when the java box pooped up. I was confused by it reading “configuring sun java etc” and then had “ok” at the bottom.

So I was like “ok” I’ll just sit here and wait, but then nothing happened…lol….then I accidentally closed the terminal and then got stuck with message when I tried again, “dpkg package was interupted…”

just type “sudo dpkg –configure -a”

I typed it exactly and it now shows Error:Broken count>0
E:_cache->open() failed, please report.

I am really stuck what do i do?

By: Torkiliuz

Torkiliuz — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:50:04 +0000

Actually, it’s Medibuntu, not “Mediabuntu”…
@Robbert: It does not make it any different if you use sudo instead of gksu, gksu is a “graphical front-end” for sudo…

By: Mr.NiceGuy

Mr.NiceGuy — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:25:53 +0000

By doing this do you need to open the add/remove application to actually install or does it directly install all the updated app?

By: chopinscherzo

chopinscherzo — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 14:22:57 +0000

I’ve been using ubuntu for a while, but there’s some good tips I didn’t know about. Thanks!

Have people had good luck with wine under ubuntu?

By: Runix

Runix — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 21:07:00 +0000

This is probably one of the best HOW TO I have ever seen.
Thanks a lot for the time you have put into.

By: jack

jack — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 22:50:22 +0000

If you are looking for a good MSN client with video and voice features try using amsn.

Also, if you are bold, try the ubuntu 9.04 alpha. works great for me. Especially fast when you manually configure the installer to make a ext4 filesystem partition.

These instuctions work for 9.04 with some mods. substitute JAUNTY for INTREPID.

eg:
sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/jaunty.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list

By: Robbert

Robbert — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 20:40:15 +0000

It’s not “sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list”

sudo is for CLI-applications, use gksu for graphical applications.

The right command is:
gksu gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

By: elvis

elvis — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 07:14:41 +0000

How do I manually disable services permanently?

This guy lists things to optimize ubuntu but doesn’t fully explain how to do them.

http://www.techsopa.com/linux/optimizing-ubuntu-810-boot-speed/

thx!