I have tried so many download managers it ain't funny, but there's one thing they all don't seem to know how to do well, and that's resume problematic downloads. I have used both fast and slow Internet connections on 3 continents (currently I'm on a slow and intermittent one as I live in Burma) so speed doesn't seem to be what causes the problem. And I download from many, many different sites, so it's not site specific either. The problem is as follows. I'm downloading a file from a server that supports resuming downloads but something goes wrong with the download and the download manager reports an error, like "size mismatch", or "timeout error".
What I really, really want to know, is why can't these managers resume downloads that experience these errors? Why can't they set markers during the download process (say every 5MB) so that if a problem like a size mismatch, a connection dropout, or a timeout occurs, then it can backtrack only slightly and then resume? I download a couple of shows from revision3 each week and more often than I care to remember they've failed at around 70% of a 300MB+ download and merrily just start downloading all over again. Another frustrating thing is they ditch the file that didn't finish, so I can't even watch the part of the show I had. I live with it, though it's very frustrating, but I wonder why these download managers aren't more intelligent.
I have used wget to try to download a big file. After several hours I realized that it would have been better to use a download accelerator. I would not like to discard the significant portion that wget has already downloaded. Do you know of any download accelerator that can resume this partial download?
Every time I try to use Tucan or Gwget to download a file, it gives me a time like 2 minutes or 47 seconds, and downloads an empty file. I checked to make sure I was logged into my RS account, tried it with zShare, and again with several different links. Does the same thing with .rar or .avi, the extension doesn't make a difference. Thought it was Tucan at first, so tried Gwget instead and both are doing it. Until now they both worked fine.
I don't know whats happening. the second i open either the update manager, add or remove programs, or the package manager tehy close instantaneously and when i click the button for updates on the top bar of my computer it shows a picture of a minus sign in a red circle. hwo can i fix this. i have ubuntu 9.04 and im trying to upgrade it and get new programs but it wont let me. ive tried the sudo get updates etc etc
I have new hardware (Nvidia Geforce GTX 960) which required new drivers. I'm running jessie but had to install the driver version 352.30 from the experimental repo. Everything seems to work fine, except after a suspend. On resume, the X server exists with errors, and I'm dropped back to the Linux console.
I've done a fair amount of searching, but the problem most people seem to have is corruption or black screen. I'm getting something equally annoying but less severe: I just get dropped back to the shell, but as soon as I restart the X server with startx everything continues to work... until the next suspend.
My full Xorg.0.log is at [URL] .... . Here are the errors that appear after the suspend:
Code: Select all[ 1772.779] (--) NVIDIA(GPU-0): DFP-6: disconnected [ 1772.779] (--) NVIDIA(GPU-0): DFP-6: Internal DisplayPort [ 1772.779] (--) NVIDIA(GPU-0): DFP-6: 960.0 MHz maximum pixel clock [ 1772.779] (--) NVIDIA(GPU-0): [ 1772.792] (II) NVIDIA(0): Setting mode "DFP-6:nvidia-auto-select" [ 1772.792] (WW) NVIDIA(0): Failed to set the display configuration
[Code] ....
The monitor is a Dell P2715Q running in its native 3840x2160 resolution at 60Hz.
I want to if there's any plugin for firefox or so that can save your incomplete (still in process) downloads and can resume after the next boot.i just lost my broadband connection and now i am stuck with this mobile internet (android on ubuntu) and sometimes when i want to go outside i have to shutdown my computer because i have to carry my phone with me.so is there any app or plugin for firefox so i can resume my download after i get home.
i am trying to find a good download manager that will integrate with firefox so when i click on a download link it will transfer to the download manager. i have used orbit downloader and fdm (free download manager) with windows. one cool thing about orbit is that you can download flash videos from videos and just about any other flash video with the "getit" button, but that's not exactly necessary. i would just like a program that can manage downloads outside of firefox so i can pause them and continue them later if i need to like orbit or fdm. i found filezilla when i searched for download managers in the software center but apparently it's not what i thought it was.
Maybe some torrent client for Linux can understand the metadata generated by a Windows client. Or maybe there is a Web/Desktop client that works in both systems. Is there any way to do that?I use uTorrent for Windows, and I haven't used any torrent client on my Ubuntu 11.04 yet. But if the solution uses other client for Windows, it will work for me.
I am trying to resume an aborted download. I have to use the curl_easy_setopt(hnd, CURLOPT_RESUME_FROM_LARGE,(curl_off_t)no. of bytes to be skipped) to set from where to start resuming download. But in run time, how would i put the no. of bytes to be skipped? Its not possible always to see how much is the size of file downloaded already. So is there any way so that prograjm will automatically know from where to start??
I'm trying to download GIMP but when I click install I get this message: But you can see in the top right I am connected. This happened when I tried to install tor as well.
I am getting this errors when I check for new updates: Code: W:Failed to fetch [URL] 404 Not Found , W:Failed to fetch [URL] 404 Not Found , E:Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
My problem is whit the package managers all of it is not responding (update,GDebi,synaptic), it bater if any one know application replacing them because i'm always having problem whit them and this picture could help ;
All my package managers are crashing. I will try to start them up, they will begin loading, and then will crash. The problem began with the Update Manager putting up the red circle error icon that says: "An error has occured, please run Package Manager from the right-click menu or apt-get in a terminal to see what is wrong. The error message was: 'Error: BrokenCount > 0'. This usually means that your installed packages have unmet dependencies."
The recommended fix for this looks to be on this post that I got from LaunchPad: [url]
It says to: "Open the Synaptic package manager. System --> Administration --> Synaptic Package Manager
If anything is broken it will tell you.Choose 'Custom' from the buttons at the bottom then click on 'Broken'
Right click on the offending package and choose to remove it."
What are the various network managers that can be present on Ubuntu? I have been having problems with network connections on my laptop, and it seems that I have more than one manager that is conflicting with the other. I can make settings for both wired and wireless connections using nm-connection-manager, yet using the applet NetworkManager to make a connection ends up with different settings.
i.e. I had set a fixed IP address with nm-connection-manager, yet NetworkManager made a connection that had a different address. When I went back to NetworkManager, the settings had been changed to make an automatic connection with DHCP. I did have wicd installed at one point, but deleted it with synaptic using the "complete removal" setting.I want to be able to go to one location to setup the connections, and have those settings remain.
I was wondering is there were any other file managers for Ubuntu other than nautilus and dolphin, And it has to have a GUI, I like nautilus, but I cant stand the way it's tabs are now (compared to how they were in karmic) also nautilus is a little slow for my liking, dolphins tabs are fine, but I use gnome and it looks terrible outside of KDE.
I have been using kubuntu 10.04 for a while now and its working great. The main problem is that as far as I know it lacks a simplified package manager like ubuntu software center. Kpackagekit is fine as a synaptic replacement but searching for programs among all sorts of unrelated packages is very tiring. Are there any other options?
getting exactly the same error described here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...er/+bug/464020 and according to the people on there, doing "sudo dpkg --configure -a" fixes the problem...However when I try this I getQuote:dpkg: status database area is locked by another processI've tried restarting but that doesn't fix the problem.
As the title says I am looking for window managers that support having a workspace per screen. Now I'm not talking xrandr, twinview, xinerma or anything. I don't think this feature is possible with metacity. Most tiling window managers are like this and I love it, it makes things so much more efficient.
I tried Docky and then uninstalled it. Then got a notification on a missing library item asking if I wanted to delete association. Now I have no open program tabs on my panel. So how do I get them back? And are there other program window management programs that might be of interest? If it matters, I'm using Ubuntu Studio.
I'm getting exactly the same error described here: [URL] and according to the people on there, doing "sudo dpkg --configure -a" fixes the problem...However when I try this I get
Quote:
dpkg: status database area is locked by another process
I've tried restarting but that doesn't fix the problem...
I am running Valgrind on my program. It shows me two errors but mentions only addresses against them and not actual code even on a debug build.
The output is
==23002== Memcheck, a memory error detector. ==23002== Copyright (C) 2002-2005, and GNU GPL'd, by Julian Seward et al. ==23002== Using LibVEX rev 1575, a library for dynamic binary translation.
Does anybody here has made experiences with tiling-WMs ? - Are there any in our repos, and there? - Do they run under the normal DE,or only solo? - Can I use all programs with them? Actually,I am using openSuse 11.3 with KDE 4.4.
If I install a new desktop manager without uninstalling the old one, how do I specify which one to use? I wanted to look at LXDE, so to see what would happen, I installed it without uninstalling KDE. KDE apparently just sat underneath, and was unaffected. I didn't keep LXDE, but I might, if I could switch back to KDE to do work until I understood LXDE. (Keeping up-to-date in MEPIS will force me to learn KDE 4 despite that KDE 3 was fine, so I might as well examine other desktop managers.)
I have a noob qn, if I installed a program with yum, will I be able to see the details of the installed program with rpm -qa? My linux has no internet access so I can't test it out.
I just installed Enlightenment from slackbuilds, but I'm not sure how to change over to it. Not trying to permanently switch to E, just wanting to play with it some, and use it when I need to free up resources from KDE4. How can I switch between the two?
I'm having trouble starting non-kde window managers. From the start-up command line, I get an error message about the XServer when typing "fluxbox" in as a command. However, when I put fluxbox in as a command in konsole, it gives an error message (which makes sense because I was using kde). I also can't start xfce as it is not a recognized command.
I have Ubuntu Karmic 64-bit installed. Update manager tells me there are updates available, but when i try to install them, downloading the updates fail and throws this error:
Code: Failed to fetch [URL] Consequently, a similar error occurs when I try installing Sun Java 6 Runtime.
Code: Failed to fetch [URL] Connection failed [IP: 91.189.88.31 80] And of course Ubuntu Restricted Extras stalls when it's time to download the Java package
I tried synaptic, update manager, aptitude, apt-get, and they all throw similar errors. Then I also tried connecting to different servers, to no avail. So to check if it's my connection to the net that has problems somehow, I tried downloading the file directly through my web browser, and it works. (But it's not recommended, and it won't let me!, install the updates manually, right?) I then checked if I'm using some inappropriate proxy settings, and everywhere it's all set up to connect to the net directly, which is, well, my setup. Take note though, that I am able to install other software normally, i.e, using synaptic, apt-get etc. The ones I tried include Pidgin and Mplayer.
It's just these updates and Java: Code: jeanne@jeanne-desktop:~$ sudo sudo aptitude upgrade W: The "upgrade" command is deprecated; use "safe-upgrade" instead. Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done The following packages will be upgraded: libc-bin libc-dev-bin libc6 libc6-dev libc6-i386 5 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded .....
