I'm trying to get Samba running, but I accidentally deleted smb.conf. I tried reinstalling Samba through apt-get, but it does not create another smb.conf (which it did when I first installed it). I'm pretty new to ubuntu, and I'm just wondering if anybody knows how to get a completely clean install.
View 2 RepliesI uninstalled Chromium including config files through synaptic, but then after doing a file search, I found lots of Chromium and Chrome files laying around. So then I used that search list to delete them, but I believe there are still Chromium/Chrome files somewhere on my Ubuntu 9.10.To regress a bit and for a little background on this problem, I wanted to uninstall Chromium because I want to see if I can correct this problem that I have with the browsing history file. I want the browse history feature to work and it doesn't - the archive has all of the activity from only one day in history, 8 Apr 2010, and when I try to delete that day of history, it says that is has been deleted, but it is still there, and it won't record any of my browse history.
So I thought if I could do a clean install from scratch, maybe I could get the history feature back.Anybody know where I can find the file containing the history files and/or tell me how to clean reinstall of Chromium?
I have debian on a VPS. I think the installation is fubar.
Can I completely reinstall debian on this? I don't suppose I need to format the disk. Could I put some sort of network install is some special directory, and run the install from that?
I had a 100% XP machine, installed 9.10 into a dual boot a while ago, and eventually upgraded to 10.4 LTS.
Current partitions
/dev/sda1 ntfs
/dev/sda2 extended
---- /dev/sda5 ext4
---- /dev/sda6 linux-swap
Currently, dual boot is working and both OSes are working as expected (although there's that bit of inconsistency with intel 845 graphics). I want to do two things in a major re-install: move Home to a new, separate partition, and do a clean 10.4 install while still retaining XP dual boot. If possible leave sda1 untouched, but that can be reinstalled if necessary.
Only things in Home that need to be moved are documents and mozilla seamonkey prefs and emails. Those items I can save and restore manually, so I have no problems with backup needed files, then clean install, then manually restore.
I know enough to be willing to try suggestions, but also know enough to recognize I can get into trouble. So that's why I'm asking here first.
I just install Ubuntu on a new computer I got, and set up LAMP. I started poking around in MySQL (more than I should have) and managed to break it. I've been trying to fix it, but I can't. I've done apt-get --purge mysql-client, but when I reinstall it it's the same thing. How can I reinstall MySQL (and PHPmyadmin) from a completely clean slate? (There's no important data on there)
View 1 Replies View RelatedI'm attempting to install some software on my friend's computer. It keeps saying the packages I want aren't there but I know they are. I've been fooling around with this for a while. I may have broken something in the process. Repository names, perhaps?Is there some way to reinstall Synaptic/Aptitude and "wipe the slate clean?"
View 6 Replies View RelatedI have problem with my printer HP Deskjet D1460. My printer is configured and works. When I send a file on the print, the printer clings a sheet of paper and starts to print, but a paper as was clean so clean and remains, after printing.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI configured cron to clean my /tmp directory, should I also add other locations to clean and especially /var/tmp.
View 4 Replies View RelatedIs there any difference between apt-get clean and aptitude clean? Do they both remove the same caches? Should I know any other commands for cleaning up wasted space on my ubuntu laptop?
View 1 Replies View RelatedSo I was messing around trying to uninstall Nibbles and reinstall since I have an issue starting that game and something happened and removed the submenu under Games called "Logic", which had another whole list of games.
Is it possible to reinstall the games package or reinstall the update?I'm thinking more of the lines of a system restore or something so back 2 days from today.
how do I retrieve/reinstall Grub without having to reinstall Ubuntu?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI recently installed opensuse 11.2 on my laptop which also had windows vista and windows 7, i created a new partition and the installation went smoothly, after i went to boot back into windows 7 i got a blue screen of death, strangely vista boots perfectly.I could just reinstall windows 7 but its a pain to reinstall all my programs and such
View 6 Replies View Relatedi have ubuntu 10.04 64 bit installed and configured and working sweet. I have reinstalled windows 7 and now i can't boot ubuntu i've tried easybcd to add ubuntu to win boot loader which failed and tried to follow the instructions to reinstall grub through a live cd which i am in at the moment. i go to a terminal and type sudo grub and it brings up the grub prompt. i have mounted all discs and entered the command find /boot/grub/stage1 and it keeps spitting this back at me Error 15: File not found
my hd is a 80gb with partions like this
/dev/sda1 105mb ntfs system reserved
/dev/sda2 45gb ntfs win 7 home premium 64 bit
/dev/sda3 34gb ext4 ubuntu 10.04 64 bit
/dev/sda4 1.5gb linux swap
I,m running ubuntu 10.04 and prior to that have ran a Linux op system for about a year now. I,m thinking its time to clean up amd tweak my PC. Any ideas how I can do this? In the other operating a defrag and :c drive "Clean Up" seemed to worked.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI've had ubuntu installed on this computer, and I've updated it all the way up to Lucid from Dapper over the years. I'd like to clean out settings and old programs that might not be needed anymore to make it more like a fresh install, as I've noticed some problems that people with fresh installs don't seem to have. Two indicators for Empathy Computer Janitor freezes Weird system tools and wine entries, etc.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI have used SUse some time now, and I return now to Ubuntu. In Yast cron jobs can be edited easily in order to keep the tmp-partition clean. I would like to do the same in ubuntu, as I know a full tmp partition prevents the system from booting. So, how to do it? I have tmpreaper installed, but this soft is not as handy as Yast. Tmpreaper.conf can indeed be edited, but I have no idea how. It is always "read only".
View 1 Replies View RelatedI'm trying to learn more about managing my ubuntu system and I was wondering what the difference is between apt-get clean and apt-get autoclean; and if there is a general rule of thumb on when to use them.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI think i wanted to do something bigger than me...and now i want to clean everything and going back...
here it's what i did on this page: http://ubuntumanual.org/posts/126/ho...sors-in-ubuntu
i think i load a module when ubuntu startup,installed lm-sensors and made an executable script? right? how can i get everything back and cleaning ?
I see sometimes when you're compiling something to run, you do a make, install and clean. What exactly does clean do?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI've been using my 2TB external hard drive with Ubuntu with no problems for a while now, but recently there is one folder on the drive that I cannot access. Whenever I try to open the folder I get "error stating file: Input/output error". I scoured the forums and noticed that the folder might just be dirty because I failed to use the Windows option to "safely unplug" the drive (bolstered by the fact that neither avast! or Malwarebites found anything). My question is how do I "clean" the folder so I can use it again?
View 9 Replies View RelatedI need to change the language used by Ubuntu 8.10 (updated to 9.04) from English to Spanish. This does not refer to the keybord distribution. What must I do?Alternatively, I could remove Ubuntu so as to start from scratch again with a 9.10 CD. But I don't know how to make a clean uninstall. The 80 GB HD contains as well windows XP and boots with Grub. Originally the present Ubuntu was installed to an unallocated space left on purpose to receive Linux. Ideally this space ought to return to that condition to be able to receive the new installation.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI read somewhere that i can clean cache memory with this comand:
Code:
david@lap:~$ sudo echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
bash: /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches: Permission denied
The problem is that permission is denied as you see...
I recently tried the package "pysdm" to mount a data partition but didn't care for the way it handled things so I opted for editing fstab which I'm much more satisfied with.I did then purge pysdem and it's config files but something lingered, finally I got things working by using a UUID designation in fstab but I know there's an old symlink to a /dev/sdb7 that has since been deleted and later recreated with a new UUID.
I have "googled" enough to find that the package "fslint" should be able to handle this but since one gui got me in trouble I'm reluctant to use another, I'd prefer just being able to find where symlinks live and ripping them out by the short hairs
My Ubuntu partition is just about out of memory, and I need to do some cleaning of the windows.I couldn't find a lot on here (maybe I wasn't using the right terms), and when I looked on google it seemed like the only results I found were from people that wanted to remove linux from windows.What I'd like to do is create a very, very small partition for windows for when I need it (burning MP3s to CDA and my printer only).I wouldn't mind re-installing windows and starting from scratch (I have all my software backed up) and then installing Ubuntu a backed up version of Ubuntu. Except I can't get Clonezilla to install for the life of me after several attempts.So is their any (hopefully easy) way to clean up windows without going to extremes?
View 9 Replies View RelatedI noticed its my hardive that has problems and wont boot any of my operating systems not letting me get to my desktop. Is there a way i can clean it or a disk to do it but without doing it at your desktop?
View 7 Replies View RelatedEver since I first discovered alacarte (gnome menu editor) I have been creating lots of menus and submenus for gnome menu so I can always find what I want. To avoid having to redo them, whenever I try another gnome based distro or do a fresh install I always copy ~/.local/share/desktop-directories and applications (and a couple of other files, I forget right now) so I can use the same menus in those.
Well, I don't use these custom menus so much lately so have gone for a much simpler solution of creating a "Favourites" submenu and just adding apps I use a lot. It was while rummaging around .local today I noticed there are hundreds of left over files from long since deleted custom menus (like 18 months+) that I have been copying from one distro to another all this time. Why on earth doesn't alacarte delete all these deleted menus and applications files?
I just did a little experiment: I deleted everything out of these folders so I was basically left with the stock gnome menu with no customizations. I then added a new submenu and then added 3 random apps to to it. I then went and deleted two of those apps and when I went to check, sure enough ~/.local/share/applications contained the 3 files instead of one.
I downloaded and installed k3b from the software center and remember seeing that after it was installed, an additional 180MB would be taken up. so the installation process took about 2-3 minutes after unpackaging or whatever it does. But when I went to uninstall it, it took like 2 seconds. Is there a way to clean up packages that hasn't been uninstalled all the way or haven't been used? Is that normal?
View 4 Replies View RelatedThis is kind of a odd request but I figured I would ask before just poking around and messing something up!
I use Ubuntu 10.04 and Windows 7. I have 80 gigs of my HD dedicated to ubuntu the rest of my 500 gig HD to Windows . Heres my issue when the initial boot screen comes up asking me what OS I want to use. Theres like 4 versions of Ubuntu and then the Windows selection. I was wondering if theres a easy way to go in and clean it up so only the most recent Kernel update is showing, it's recovery mode option, and then Windows?
I am trying to figure out if I can just do a clean install and still be able to keep any files, ex. music, scripts, pics ect. without having to burn the contents to disk or upload them to an external device? I have like 150gs of info I need to save I have an external but it will take a long time to copy everything so if you know any way to do this wile doing a new install.
View 7 Replies View Relatedthis is my first post here .I have two issues related to grub2 I upgraded recently from ubuntu 8 to 10.04 and upgraded grub 0.98 to 1.98. 1-How to prevent Grub from detecting one of Windows installations? or how does grub detect Windows. I have 2 hdds, they were backup of each other. but no more, I deleted one Windows by deleting most of the files so therefore I don't need it to be present in Grub 2 menu. How do I delete this? any suggestion? 2-For some reason grub2 only work correctly from sdb , even though I chose to install grub2 to sda too, but it seems grub is trying to find grub files on the same hard disk instead of on sdb, therefore it goes into grub rescue mode with error "file not found" . I set my computer to boot from sdb for now. but I would like to learn how to make sda's grub work. before it used to work with grub 0.98.
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