Ubuntu :: Installing On Broken Computer?
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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Jul 5, 2011
Something happened where my RHEL6 computer locked up and I needed to shutdown the computer manually via holding the power button. When I turn the computer back on all I see is the wallpaper and mouse cursor...no log in window or anything. I can do the alt-shift F1/f2 thing where I can log in via terminal type commands but I cant get the normal display to work. When going init 5 in the console x loads but still nothing but the wallpaper and mouse. When I go back to console it seems to be stuck at enabling bluetooth devices...but I dont believe I even have a bluetooth device.
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Jul 27, 2010
After tomboy was gone today from my machine and does not appear in synaptic, I tried to install gnote and got this error. what should I do?
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gnote:
Depends: libboost-filesystem1.40.0 (>= 1.40.0-1) but it is not installable
Depends: libboost-system1.40.0 (>= 1.40.0-1) but it is not installable
Depends: libpanelappletmm-2.6-1c2 (>= 2.22.0) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libpcrecpp0 (>= 7.7) but it is not installable
E: Broken packages
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Jan 7, 2011
When I try to update my packages, or install new packages, I get this error:"E: /var/cache/apt/archives/libglib2.0-0_2.26.1-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb: subprocess new post-removal script returned error exit status 1"I tried the "sudo apt-get install -f" but it didn't work.I'm running 10.10, on a Asus laptop
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Jun 20, 2010
I've just tried to install amarok 1.4 with the bogdan sources, but now I've broken dependencies in Kubuntu 10.04.
When trying to sudo apt-get -f install, I got the following output:
I tried several tricks to repair the broken dependencies, but couldn't suceed.
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Jun 1, 2011
I am running fedora 14,
have 456.2 MB RAM
59.9 GB disk space
Kernel 2.6.35.13-91.fc14.i686
Intel Pentium 4 CPU 2.00Ghz
SIS motherboard
Unknown brand sound card
Have tried tried the following music apps
-Amarok
-Audacity
-Banshee
-Rhythymbox
-Kaffiene
-Movie Player
Have played
-mp3
-m4a
-wav
Used several diff speakers and heaphones
What is the problem?
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Nov 10, 2010
I recently upgraded to Fedora 14. I tried installing gcc using yum. But it seems there is a broken link. I get the following result:
Code:
You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest
So i tried using --skip-broken
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If i try to install glibc, i get the following message:
Code:
I also tried to install it using Menu-> Administration -> Add/Remove Software, but i get the same error.
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Apr 25, 2011
I would like to install Edubuntu 10.10 on this ancient Toshiba with Windows XP on it. The situation is a little complicated since I have no stable internet connection (I can not download Edubuntu once more). Now I realised that the DVD-Drive is broken and I can not boot from DVD to install Edubuntu. I have, however, an external USB-Drive, but there is no Boot-Option from USB (Phoenix Bios V. 1.3). So now I figured different options:
I could update my PhoenixBios to have a USB-Boot-Support. But I don't know if that's possible, so I am asking for opinions.I sucessfully installed Ubuntu 10.10 with Wubi on the Laptop, but I wasn't able to install the packages for Edubuntu. Any time I put the DVD in my external USB-Drive and tried to mount with Synaptic I got the error message: "E: Could not mount CD-Rom". So I could install Ubuntu 10.10 with the CD, the Edubuntu-packages in addition with the DVD afterwards. Is there no way to install Edubuntu directly with Wubi?
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Oct 30, 2010
I installed RC1, and never touched the disks that were raided previously, and the attached image is what i see for my raid array that was previously working fine.
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Mar 12, 2011
After recently installing Linux Mint 10 I have tried to install the updates it says and everytime it tells me I have to fix broken packages first. I have been into something that tells me there is no broken packages. What can I do?
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Jun 4, 2015
I've been trying to install a few programs with the basic Debian repositories on my Jessie edition, but I keep getting a "broken packages" error and "cannot be installed" error, and the programs won't install.
I went to other repositories, e.g. Mint and Ubuntu, and with these included in my sources.list file, I was able to install the desired programs.
If the programs are listed in Debian and the dependecies as well, why would they not install?
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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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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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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
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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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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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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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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
[Code]....
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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
[Code].....
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Feb 26, 2010
trying to install Ns2 simulator on ubuntu 9, when I try to install the build-essential package ( the first step before the install of the Ns2, I get error that requires a depending on package (g++) after , then I tried to install the g++ package, it also give another required package, .... after getting all install, and try to install the build-essential package, I got another error message "broken package" what can the reason be!!, noticing that the same versions been tested and been installed before with friends! and no such error !!
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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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Mar 12, 2010
A substantial proportion of the packages on my computer (yum list installed) are labelled as coming from the unstable rawhide repository. The rawhide repository is not currently enabled and never has been enabled as far as I can recall. How has this situation arisen and what can I do to ensure that packages are only installed from relatively stable repositories?
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Mar 29, 2010
I have a WinXP computer with two internal hard drives that are partitioned. I would like to setup a dualbooting system. I first attempted to install PC-BSD 8.0 from a DVD onto an external 640 GB USB hard drive. Everything looked it was going to work (including the boot loader program) until after the installation. PC-BSD took out the NTFS of the hard drive (with over 500 GB of Window files). And the bootloader never loaded on startup. It took two days to get everything back. The files created on this external hard drive could not be read by another linux operating system (Slax 6.1.1). I would like to load PC-BSD on one of my empty partitions (from my second hard drive). The manual for PC-BSD states PC-BSD has to be installed on a primary drive and not a logical drive. If you attempt a logical drive installation, PC-BSD will wipe out the entire hard drive on installation. Would it help if I format a logical partition to the linux file system and then attempt to install PC-BSD to it? I can use Slax 6.1.1 from a CD to format the logical partition.
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Feb 6, 2011
I installed a network program and a system info program on peppermint ice and now when I type in my username and password the computer will freeze up and the number lock, scroll lock, and caps lock lights flash till I turn the computer off?
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Mar 11, 2010
I have dictionary.jar If I save it in my mobile & open it then dictionary opens up with facility for entering word to search.I am using ubuntu 8.04 with 'sun-java6-jre sun-java6-jdk sun-java6-plugin' installed.I read URL...which says that application has entry point. I don't know java.
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Feb 10, 2010
1) I have installed centos 5.2 on my desktop computer, it was very slow i couldn't even copy from pendrive to harddisk, if i do mouse pointer stuck and move no smoothness in working in centos...! can't work ! (i have installed minimal installation and also turned off many service using chkconfig command) specification of my computer :---- gigabyte 8 series mobo and pentium IV 2.6 GHZ, 1.2GB Ram, and 6200 GeForce nVidia graphic card ----
2) After installation ntfs-3g it won't work to access harddisk.
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Jan 30, 2011
I had a working ubuntu 10.10 system two days ago with kernel 2.6.35-24. I have a gtx 460 card so I have the driver from Jockey/Additional Drivers installed.
Two days ago update manager prompted me to install 2.6.35-25. I've never had problems updating kernels so I did. I Rebooted my machine and gdm/gnome no longer starts. I always get stuck on the tty1 screen. I did some troubleshooting and figured out that my current NVidia drivers seems to be messing it up. So I booted into my older kernel (2.6.35-24) and removed my NVidia driver.
I used these steps to switch from nvidia to nouveau:
NvidiaDriverSwitching
I can now boot into my latest kernel (2.6.35-25) but now I'm having problems trying to reinstall the nvidia drivers.
jockey sometimes doesn't list any available drivers. and when it does, it gives me an "System InstallArchive() error" when trying to install.
I tried installing nvidia-current via apt-get and I get these errors:
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Setting up nvidia-current (260.19.06-0ubuntu1) ...
Removing old nvidia-current-260.19.06 DKMS files...
dkms.conf: Error! No 'DEST_MODULE_LOCATION' directive specified.
dkms.conf: Error! No 'PACKAGE_NAME' directive specified.
dkms.conf: Error! No 'PACKAGE_VERSION' directive specified.
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Jan 25, 2010
Well, in first place let me tell you that my HDD boot sector or i dont know what is damaged, so to boot i made a boot usb with the grubdos utility, so anytime i want to boot in win7 i have to plug my usb and select win7 from it.Today i finished downloading the opensuse iso, then i mounted the image with poweriso and initialized the install, and it asked me to restart my computer, after that when i boot from my usb pendrive it goes directly to the opensuse install, but it just showme the blackscreen and nothing happens.
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