There are two sets of repos for 4. One is stable and the other is Factory. On the repos page it says this about kde 4.4 Factory: "These repositories feature the KDE packages under development for the upcoming openSUSE release and includes openSUSE specific patches". For reasons that are somewhat involved and that I won't go into right here I am stuck in openSUSE 11.0 and can't upgrade until I get a new machine which will be some time. Is Factory unfinished and will Kde 4.4 Factory work well in 11.0?
If I install the factory release now, can I easily convert my system to a normal 11.3 point release later, after 11.3 is out? If so, how would I do it? (11.2 has an issue that affects me. It's fixed in 11.3 already, so I have to use 11.3 if I'm going to use openSUSE.)
A friend gave me his netbook because he left for the military and it has Ubuntu on it. I know nothing about it and really need it to have the 7 home that came with it. I have searched forums and tried to figure this out on my own but I keep getting nowhere.
There is no CD drive on the netbook so I have been trying to install 7 with a flash drive. The netbook did not have a disk but I did get a serial number for 7 and I have an ISO of 7. I put it on my flash drive and tried to boot it, but when I click on unetboot menu "default" it just starts the 10 second timer over and doesnt load.
I used a live usb of ubuntu to go to gparted to delete the partitions so I could load up the usb with 7 on it, but again it does not work. It gives me a grub error if I try to boot up. I know there I deleted the partitions, but maybe something is still there?
In short: I need ubuntu off and windows 7 back on using only a flash drive, a serial for 7 and an ISO image.
I dont know if this matters but its a Toshiba Satellite T-115D.
I just received this Acer Aspire One Aoa110 from my sister. Originally Windows Xp, my cousin changed it to Linux. Right now I am so frustrated with this, as I have no knowledge of Linux whatsoever. I tried looking for the Acer recovery program, but I can't find it. I do have to say that Linux is really fast, but I like personalizing my walllpaper where I can do it with Windows Xp..
So my question is, how can I restore this computer to how it was before my cousin tweaked it?
Here is what the desktop looks like right now: http://i51.tinypic.com/s0vmhk.png
I am on 10.4 with a Dell Notebook (E6400). I use it mostly with a USB mouse. Everything worked fine for about 2 months. Then I shutdown, unplugged the mouse, restarted without the mouse, and my trackpad is broken. It works a little, but text fields and some apps capture the mouse events and won't let go. For instance, the cursor gets stuck in a text field and there is no way (keyboard or mouse) to get out.
I've tried several times to fix this and I cannot. If I boot from a LiveCD then everything works fine. My theory is that the mouse configuration files somehow got corrupted in my plugging/unplugging of the external mouse. How can I reset the mouse to factory defaults? Are there a set of files I can copy over from the live CD?I tried to delete and recreate my xorg.conf file and this did not work either.
Well, my desktop's win7 installation stopped working over a year ago...so it just sat there gathering dust until the other night, when I was trying out ubuntu on it from a disk. So, well, the factory settings was vista, so i was wondering if there was something i could put into Terminal to restore it?
I installed Ubuntu to dual boot with Vista that came with my Dell Inspiron 1420. Dell had a partition where the Vista install could be restored to factory state when the laptop was purchased.
After installing Ubuntu, I see:
I think the /dev/sda5 partition was the one that contains the Vista system restore information. And according to Dell documentation, I need to the F8 key at BIOS load time to make the laptop boot the restore partition.
However after the Ubuntu install, I cannot get the Factory Restore to start by pressing the F8. It worked before the Ubuntu install.
How to get to my state before I installed Vista. I want to be able to restore the laptop to the state before I installed Ubuntu.
I'm running Ubuntu 11.04 (also Classic, don't really care.) I'm trying to install [Greeting Card Factory DELUXE V7] Can anyone help me or does anyone have any clue whatsoever if this can be achieved?
I bought a used Acer Aspire one with Linux on it and it works great. I want to restore it to factory settings but I do not have a restore disk. (not to mention that the unit doesn't have a CD drive anyways.)
I have read on other sites that Alt-F10 works but I think that is only for WIN because I can not get that to work. Is there an equivalent function with Linux.
I have installed UNR 9.10 Karmic on new Asus EEE pc 1008HA to dual boot with XP. Like many new pc's it has a hidden partition to recover the factory hard disk settings and Microsoft Windows XP. Unfortunately, GRUB2 has picked this up and is showing the recovery system in the boot menu. Clearly this is dangerous because the user could reset the pc. How do I remove or hide this boot start up option? Other thoughts: I do not believe Easybcd works with xp/linux. is there another easy bootloader?
I've just gotten a gateway netbook I'd love to throw a copy of ubuntu on. However, before I install I'd like to create a backup factory install disc. The problem is I don't have a DVD drive in my netbook.Is there a DVD writer program for Windows or something similar that would simulate the presence of a DVD drive and allow a backup DVD to be written to it?
I am giving my lucid netbook to my dad. How does one reset 10.04 to factory settings, clear user account, etc? I wanna give him virtually a new machine. no disks is best because i don't have an optical drive.
i want to upgrade to 11.2, however, i am very cautious about losing my files. there are files on this system which i absolutely can not afford to lose, and they are only on this system. which method of upgrade will be the best, best as in safest.
I tried to upgrade my KDE to new version (om this moment it's 4.4.2) in many ways.The result is the same:KDE updated, BUT not worked sound (error message for my sound card) and KDE (ConsoleKit error).Which best way to upgrade KDE to 4.4.2/4.4.1 on openSuse 11.2 and how you did that?
I finally got around to fully switching to openSUSE 11.3 from Kubuntu, while enjoying it very much, I'd love to install KDE 4.5. Following the instructions at How-To: Upgrade to KDE 4.5 | SUSE!!) I get messages like
I wish to upgrade my desktop, KDE 4.3.5, mainly because of some limitations in AmaroK. Upgrading just Amarok through the KDE update app repo is no good as I loose the scrobbling Last.fm option. So, I just wonder if Last.fm works fine with KDE 4.4.4 on OpenSuSE 11.2? And when I am on to it, if there are some general reasons to upgrade further, 4.5 or perhaps 4.6?
how do you upgrade to KDE 4.7? I'm pretty new to openSUSE (installed it last weekend) and have never had to upgrade before, so I don't know the ropes. The KDE website says that there is a 1-click install available, but the link doesn't work:Binary packages Some Linux/UNIX OS vendors have kindly provided binary packages of KDE 4.7.0 for some versions of their distribution, and in other cases community volunteers have done so.Currently pre-compiled packages are available for:openSUSE packages are available for openSUSE 11.4 (one-click install), for openSUSE 11.3 (one-click install), and openSUSE Factory (one-click install).That copy+paste comes from the bottom of KDE - KDE 4.7.0 Info PageI've looked for 4.7 in the yast repos and tried to do some stuff through zypper but I can't figure it out. I know it only came out yesterday, but it should be possible and stable, right?
I had installed the KDE 4.7 packages through repository listed below, The first thing is windows sometimes refused to minimized when I click on window name on task manager and second thing is when update kernel to 3.0.0.9 via kernel repository it completely fail to boot and logout automatically while now I upgrade kernel to 3 without any problem on KDE 4.6. Because of many improvment in KDE 4.7 especially in multi media that let me run the XBMC (It crash with my current KDE 4.6) I've to upgrade to 4.7. Any advice?
Index of /repositories/KDE:/Release:/47/openSUSE_11.4
I have another question, Is this way correct to installing ATI proprietary driver?
su sh ./ati-driver-installer-11-4-x86.x86_64.run --buildpkg SuSE/SUSE-autodetection Install the generated package zypper in fglrx* aticonfig --initial Reboot your computer shutdown -r now
I keep getting the following msg as I try to upgrade from 10.04 -> 10.10 ... "Could not calculate the upgrade An unresolvable problem occurred while calculating the upgrade: E:Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages. This can be caused by:
* Upgrading to a pre-release version of Ubuntu * Running the current pre-release version of Ubuntu * Unofficial software packages not provided by Ubuntu
If none of this applies, then please report this bug against the 'update-manager' package and include the files in /var/log/dist-upgrade/ in the bug report." I don't think any of the issues above apply - can anyone offer advice on how to get around or "force " the upgrade
I upgraded the KDE version on a new installation of 11.1 on another computer and everything went fine. But today I tried upgrading my computer from 4.2 to 4.3.5 with the one click installer, and in addition to having many dependency issues that I thought I got figured out, everything is messed up on my desktop. I still have the 4.2 panel, and my background is messed up (the background I had set has been replaced with a checker pattern), the lizard icon for the application menu is just a grey circle with a play button, all of my icons and my desktop folder that used to be on the desktop are gone, and nothing is showing in the system tray.
I am using Banshee 1.6 (beta 2) 1.5.1. I'm actually interested in is getting the Amazon mp3 extension to work, and I don't see this extension in my current version of Banshee. I tried to upgrade & ended up wiping my whole hard drive & had to re-install 11.2 but I'm sure that was my inexperience more than anything else.
I'm not sure of the proper procedure to upgrade any particular package on 11.2 actually. I just leave them alone & it works great. I could add the Banshee repo (which I have not done) but even if I uninstall 1.6 which I have now, and then re-install the newer app from the repo, it will not work. It says it installs properly (I know this from yesterday) but the program doesn't show up in the menu.
