Ubuntu :: Installing On A Computer With Little Or No Internet?
Oct 1, 2010
I live in northern Canada. I am not in a high speed internet zone but use an alternative method which I pay lots of money to get high speed. However I am restricted to 5 GB of traffic per month.
Now I have to computers running Ubuntu. So for example, if I want to install TuxPaint on my first PC then I would go to the software center and it would download then install the software for me. Now if I wanted to install the same program on my second computer it would download it again. The problem is that this would download twice as much from the internet. Is there any way that I can save internet bandwidth by using the download files from my first computer to install the program on my second computer? Similarly, can I only download updates once but install them on both computers?
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Feb 5, 2011
Turning an old computer of mine into a server and I don't have an ethernet with me to connect it to the router so I was just wondering if I can install Ubuntu Server without being connected to the internet.
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Mar 26, 2011
I have a laptop with internet and ubuntu, and a desktop without internet, and I need to install some pakages on it. I did my research and generated a script to download them from synaptic, but when I double click it, it opens it gedit, when it is supposed to download the packages. What am I doing wrong? I was using this article [URL]
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Jun 22, 2011
My only interest in Ubuntu is that I want a reliable trouble free as nearly as possible computer. I know absolutely nothing about the inner workings of one and have no interest in learning about them. I am a 77 year old retired seismologist on a fixed income so you can understand my reasons for want of a trouble free computer. The current system I have is a Dell Studio XPS with Windows 7 64bit. It is a little more then a year old and has had two crashes. The first ended with having to change the hard drive which Dell did with no charge to me. The second crash resulted in having to reinstall windows. I had the disk so that wasn't much of a problem, but without the disk I would have had a very expensive paper weight. My chief concern is about malware, spyware, viruses and what have you. I want something that not everyone is taking shots at. If I were to install Ubuntu I would want it to be able to do what I currently do and do it without fear of it crashing or having to update it every week or reinstall it every year. It would have to work with the printer and scanner that I had to buy because drivers weren't available for the older printer and scanner I have.
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Feb 13, 2011
I want to install ubuntu on my internal harddrive. The reson is that my laptops screen is broken, and im not able to switch to external screen in windows.
Is there some kind of shortcut in linux which switches to vga output? If not, all this will be time wasted...
If there is:
I tried to boot from both USB and cd, but apperantly its set to boot from harddrive. Again, my screen dont work so i cant change the boot order.
So, is it posible to take my laptops internal drive, hook it up to another computer using sata-->usb adapter, and then install ubuntu on it. Put it back into the computer. And then just boot it as normal?
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Nov 15, 2010
I'm just about to set up my own home network here and I'd like to be able to control my Linux desktop over the network. VNC would be what I would normally use in this case, but the requirements are a bit different.
I basically need to be able to start work on something here on my desktop and continue that work seamlessly on a laptop or netbook as I'm moving around. I want to be able to literally pick up exactly where I left off and control my host computer's mouse pointer location, keyboard, etc and not have to open any windows: I need to be able to start from EXACTLY where I left off.
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Aug 25, 2010
I have a problem with my internet connection. It is turning on and off all the time. I can maybe surf 3 sites without a problem then the internet goes really slow and after that I wont be able to surf at all. After a while it works fine. I can't even look on ..... videos because all of them stop at half or before. I have connected to my router through my cellphone and my ps3 and those two are working just fine.
I am running ubuntu 10.04 64bits. I don't know what network card my computer has.
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Nov 17, 2010
I have a computer running XP with a wireless Internet connection. I have installed Ubuntu 10.04 on a second computer. I would like to connect my Ubuntu computer to the internet through a wired connection to the XP computer. As I am a newby to Linux commands could someone explain how to do this in laymans terms.
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Dec 23, 2010
I'm trying to get internet to my old server through a laptop. The laptop is running ubuntu 10.10 and the tower is running ubuntu server 10.10 X86.
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Jun 15, 2011
I have 2 computers connected to my linksys router via ethernet cables.
My main computer is running Ubuntu while the other is Xubuntu.
When both comps are on, the internet works fine, but when my second computer is off, my main computer has super slow internet. Sometimes it takes 2 minutes and I get "This webpage is not available", and then I refresh that and it finally loads.
Why does it work when both comps are on? What could cause this?
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Sep 1, 2011
I'd like to set up remote desktop which I can access from any computer with a VNC client, without knowing the IP address in advance and without having access to the "server" at the time of access. I'm aware of the security risks, but there's nothing critical on the server computer, and I'll make sure I use a good password, so I'd still like to go ahead. Is this possible?
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Dec 14, 2010
I'm running 10.10 and I have an ATI HD5470 and I was trying to add VAAPI support. I was told to compile and install a newer version of ffmpeg from SVN, which I did. I had to uninstall all the current/medibuntu libav* codecs to do so. I want to uninstall it but whenever I try to do anything in Synaptic it tries to reinstall the standard codecs before it can remove ffmpeg so it says
Code:
I can't uninstall this broken version and I can't get all the applications that had to be uninstalled back!
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Jun 15, 2010
I would like to send a pop-up message to a computer using its ip address which is connected online,how it can be done..?
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Jan 3, 2011
I have a computer who has a wireless card I use for my local network and Internet. I have a second network card on this computer (onboard lan card), that I would like to use to forward an Internet connection to a older-generation laptop computer.
Main Computer Connection to Internet:
Internet > Wireless Router > Computer A
Laptop Computer:
Computer A > Laptop (via cat5 cable connecting my main computer to the laptop)
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Feb 9, 2011
I need to back up a Windows computer to a Ubuntu server across the internet. It needs to be secure as I'm transferring business data. I have been searching high and low and am only coming up with sporadic, half solutions.
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Jun 19, 2011
Lately my computer, while connected to our router and using the internet, drags the connection speed of everyone in the house down tremendously, to the point of being unusable in many cases. Even buffering a ..... video causes tremendous lag across the network, making second-long load times stretch to a minute or more.
Now, our connection isn't the greatest, but ..... shouldn't cause that much lag, so I'm thinking there's something else at work. Is there some application I could use to monitor what programs on my computer are accessing the internet?
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May 16, 2010
So I've been trying franticly to get a means of installing Global Menu on my computer (vr 10.04) and have had no success so far. I have downloaded the files, but at this point have no idea what to do with them.
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Mar 1, 2010
I want to install all the ubuntu distro packages on a computer without an internet connection. I read the website, but it didn't say if the DVD you buy has all the packages. Or are there ISO's of them?
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Nov 19, 2010
I am having a problem with my internet connection. It only works half the time. Usually when i start the computer it doesn't connect until i restart anywhere from 1 - 10 times. I did sudo ifconfig while it was not working here is the output:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:19:d1:00:36:41
inet6 addr: fe80::219:d1ff:fe00:3641/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:11 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
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Dec 2, 2010
I am in college and live in a dorm room. As a dorm resident, I have access to only one wired network connection and I am not allowed to connect it to a router. My primary computer is multihomed and I was hoping I could share network access (eth1) through eth0 to a router. Then I want to hook up my secondary system to the router. I am not using the WAN port on the router. I believe this makes it act like a switch, which seems to be what I want.Here is my /etc/network/interfaces file on my primary computer
Code:
# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).
[code].....
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Dec 8, 2010
I have been looking for a piece of software that can do the following; however, I am unsure what category of technology it would fall under. In addition, I am not sure if I am describing it correctly. I am looking for a piece of software that will allow a Bluetooth connection between my desktop, and cell phone. I then can place a Internet based call (SIP software, Skype, Google Talk) via the cell phone, which has been connected to the desktop system by Bluetooth.
I want to be able to receive and send calls via the cellphone, but use Internet for my calls. What got me thinking about this is a house phone I have by Panasonic, which has the capability to pair your cell phone via Bluetooth to the main base-station. This allows the option to answer calls to my house number, via my cell phone.
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Dec 21, 2010
i just installed ubuntu and the apps i wish to use and well where do i start its freezing sounds crashing then my internet goes and most apps are crashing it makes the desktop unuseble. It works really well for like a haf an hour then crashes i never had this problem in windows witch i had on here before i may go back unless i can find some kind of fix.
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Feb 10, 2011
Actually when I am working on internet.. The computer closed all programs and a black screen appeared asking me login : and Password after it... later It showed me that there are some update packages ... I didn't know how to get out of that except to restart ...
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Apr 24, 2011
Like the title says, is there a way to restart the computer if the internet connection is lost?Is this possible on ubuntu?
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Jun 30, 2011
I am trying to get an internet connection on my newly-installed ubuntu computer.
i have tried <sudo apt-get install b43-fwcutter>. it responded <E: Unable to locate package b43-fwcutter>.
i then tried a <dmesg | grep -i firm>.
the it spat back at me.
[ 0.161805][Firmware Bug]: ACPI: BIOS _OSI(Linux) query ignored
[ 0.245165] pci 0000:05:08.0: Firmware left e100 interrupts enabled; disabling
[ 17.328521] Broadcom 43xx driver loaded [ Features: PNL, Firmware-ID: FW13 ]
[ 18.302783] b43-phy0 ERROR: Firmware file "b43/ucode5.fw" not found
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i read the instructions, but no downloads. and fast, too; caus if i don't set up my friends computer by sunday i dont get $50.
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Jul 4, 2011
I'M trying to install python on Fedora 13, 32 bit OS, 64 bit computer. Here are the instructions. On Unix, Linux, BSD, OSX, and Cygwin:
./congigure
make
make test
sudo make install
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Feb 7, 2010
My computer:
Pentium Dual-Core CPU
E6300 @ 2.80GHz
2GB RAM
XP SP3
2 X 500GB SATA HDD's
Motherboard: ASUS P5Q-EM DO
I would like to install Linux Ubuntu 9.10 on my new computer, on a separate hard drive, and create a dual boot Linux and XP.
I already own another 500GB HDD but this one is IDE. I would like to install Ubuntu on this one. The other two are SATA. The second one is used only to mirror the first one and protect me from a single drive failure.
I hooked up my IDE drive to IDE controller and connected the power cable. However, BIOS doesn't show recognize this drive; it is not visible in Windows explorer, or in disk management either. The jumper is on cable select (so I thought motherboard will decided on boot order, and as the first drive is SATA, it will boot first which is fine).
I double checked all cable connections and tried again, and there was no change. The drive (WD Caviar Blue PATA 500GB) is not registered.
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May 23, 2011
I have an old computer running Windows ME. I am currently trying to install Linux on it. It has an Asus A7v600-x motherboard. When I try to boot off a flash drive it just says boot error. How do I get Linux on this machine?
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Aug 7, 2010
Ubuntu
Installing 'Mediawiki' and using the instructions found at this website. [URL]
I get this error during installation.
Quote:
dave@dave:~$ sudo apt-get install mediawiki
(Reading database ... 321919 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking mediawiki (from .../mediawiki_1%3a1.15.1-1ubuntu2.1_all.deb) ...
Setting up mediawiki (1:1.15.1-1ubuntu2.1) ...
* Reloading web server config apache2
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Feb 22, 2010
I am using an HP dv6 series laptop. The wireless works fine in Ubuntu 9.10 (must install the Broadcom STA wireless driver). When I try to use Kubuntu 9.10 my computer crashes when I try to install the driver. Is there any particular reason why it works in one and not the other?
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