About
May 22nd, 2007
Thanks for reading!. This is a blog from a Ubuntu user… who is also a cat lover.
You can find my Ubuntu tutorials here
Comments (here!)
I appreciate all the non-spam and non-flame comments I get, even if I don’t respond to them all individually. If you post something I disagree with, that’s okay. If you post something offensive, insulting, or irrelevant, I’ll probably delete whatever you wrote.
Technical Support (not here!)
If you’re a Ubuntu user and you need help with a technical problem, please post a support thread on the Ubuntu Forums. I will not be helping out with technical support through blog comments.
June 18th, 2007 at 1:41 pm
I just googled for this blog and couldn’t find it. I googled for “Psychocat”, which took me to http://www.psychocats.net. Perhaps you should update that page with a link to this wordpress blog?
June 19th, 2007 at 3:45 am
Done. Thanks for the suggestion, Scaine.
June 26th, 2007 at 5:54 am
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/songbird
http://www.songbirdnest.com/ubuntu_installer_script
Much love.
mig
June 26th, 2007 at 7:32 pm
That’s cool, Mig! I’ve never been called a hacker before. In all fairness, that code is just a modified version of code originally written by Ubuntu Forums member nanotube.
I don’t really know how to program. Glad it works for people, though.
June 29th, 2007 at 9:05 pm
THANKS FOR YOUR GREAT SITE(S)!!!!
The amount of work you put into it is obvious. I sure wish I had found this site last week when installing and setting up Ubuntu, but it is still very relevant and informative.
Again, thanks
June 29th, 2007 at 9:58 pm
Glad you’ve found it helpful, Steve.
July 2nd, 2007 at 5:10 pm
Ah, psycho… have you thought about making your blog “free as in freedom” by using cc-by-sa or GFDL? (Ah, it’s decided: tomorrow I move to Ubuntu. Today was backing up day!).
Cheers!
Eugenio
July 2nd, 2007 at 6:40 pm
Is that Creative Commons stuff?
July 3rd, 2007 at 8:09 am
cc-by-sa = Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)
Personally, I use GFDL in my website and in my blog… but sincerely, it’s a somewhat difficult license to use (and I hope the Free Software Foundation will change that GFDL 2 first draft… it’s horrible).
As I say in a post of mine in my blog: use cc-by-sa if you want simplicity but it is very legally too vague. Use GFDL is you want legal accuracy but it is too complicated to use.
Of course, you can keep everything “unfree” (a “proprietary” blog???)… it’s your blog ;-) …I was just wondering why an Ubuntu-related blog wasn’t “free”.
July 3rd, 2007 at 1:44 pm
I’m not definitely opposed to the idea of open sourcing my blog, but I don’t view it as being the same as software. For me, the idea of opening up software is like science: it’s the accumulation of research and the ability to “stand on the shoulders of giants” instead of starting from scratch.
This makes sense for science. It also makes sense for software. Hell, it even makes sense for Ubuntu tutorials (I haven’t officially registered the Psychocats tutorials with a Creative Commons license, but unofficially allowed others to mirror parts of it or translate it). After all, if someone can make a better tutorial with the same screenshots, add different screenshots, or update the language, why not?
But my blog is my thoughts. It isn’t Wikipedia. It isn’t intended to be a collection of knowledge. It is supposed to be my opinions. I think the expression of my opinions should be my own and not a group effort. Does that make sense?
July 4th, 2007 at 10:59 am
It’s an interesting point, what you say… It was just a question.
I agree science should adopt something similar… And also creative literature, because of its social function.
But opinions are something different. And this gives me a good topic for my blog to show differences where “free” culture can be applied and where not.
July 4th, 2007 at 6:13 pm
Loving finding folks engaged in no many circles. Most of what is on here, I don’t even recognize as English ;-)
July 13th, 2007 at 10:48 pm
Hello, I screwed up my Ubuntu installation, searched for a solution, and found your very useful site. I cannot log into my Gnome desktop and have lost my username. All services appear to be running and I can ssh into the system:
I have no name!@motx:~$ cat .xsession-errors
/etc/gdm/PreSession/Default: Registering your session with wtmp and utmp
/etc/gdm/PreSession/Default: running: /usr/X11R6/bin/sessreg -a -w /var/log/wtmp -u /var/run/utmp -x “/var/lib/gdm/:0.Xservers” -h “” -l “:0″ “vgoel”
/etc/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session setup…
Could not get password database information for UID of current process: User “???” unknown or no memory to allocate password entry
Failed to start message bus: Memory allocation failure in message bus
EOF in dbus-launch reading address from bus daemon
——-
Please let me know if you have a pointer for me. Thanks.
July 13th, 2007 at 11:27 pm
Vimal Goel, that sounds pretty serious. I’m not sure if I can help you with that, but you might be able to get help at the Ubuntu Forums.
July 18th, 2007 at 6:12 am
Great blog, very interesting topics.
Glad to see some life outside of the forums besides CafeLinux or SocialDiscussion.
July 18th, 2007 at 1:40 pm
Thanks, Frak. I try to vary it a little (not make everything about Ubuntu).
July 30th, 2007 at 8:21 am
Lost my Ubuntu sudo privileges, but found your page
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/sudo
That’s a great resource, thanks!!
Saved me a lot of worry as a new Ubuntu user.
One point, towards the end of the above page you have the command, “addgroup username admin”, I think that should be an “adduser” command.
Thanks again.
July 30th, 2007 at 3:51 pm
Thanks for pointing that out! I’ll fix it right away.
August 4th, 2007 at 7:24 pm
Stumbled upon your site via the Ubuntu Forums. I’ve been tinkering around with Ubuntu linux of the past couple of years, but haven’t been using it all that much until Feisty came out. I love the OS and have it running on two personal laptops and my desktop at work! Great stuff you’ve written here.
August 7th, 2007 at 3:56 am
Great essays! very interesting and thought provoking. keep up the good job!
May 23rd, 2008 at 3:09 am
Hi there,
Been meaning to send a note to you since late last summer, when I took the plunge and booted my first Linux distro. It was Ubuntu, and I thought it was the greatest thing since sliced cheeze! During the fall and winter months, I went through just about every category (Just Beginning, Next Step, etc), as projects to get to know Linux.
I’ve since moved on to Debian, but I still keep your Ubuntu pages bookmarked. Why? It remains, to me at least, one of the most straightforward and easy-to-read collections of tutorials on the web. I still refer to it now and again, and refer it to others, as well.
Thanks for creating and maintaining such a great site, and for all the help you’ve provided!
May 23rd, 2008 at 3:56 pm
That’s great to hear, Allan. Thanks for sharing!
May 30th, 2008 at 2:31 pm
ubuntucat, Thanks for the wonderful site. Here is a suggestion for http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/separatehome
find . -depth -print0 | sudo cpio –null –sparse -pvd /new/
should be
sudo find . -depth -print0 | sudo cpio –null –sparse -pvd /new/
otherwise a normal user may not have the privileges to find all the files in another user’s home directory.
May 30th, 2008 at 3:34 pm
You’d be surprised - the default permissions on /home/username directories allow the directory and its subdirectories to be readable by other users. I might tweak the instructions a bit, though.
June 14th, 2008 at 7:37 pm
Thanks for the comment on my blog. I’m a feminist antiracist radical left Ubuntu user too!
I’m not an Ubuntu power user, though. I initially started using Linux because it made it easier to do my programming assignments. Ubuntu was the distro that allowed me to use Linux ‘normally’ and not have to boot back to Windows.
Good work with the tutorials. I still haven’t installed Wine, so I’ll be using your tutorial if I feel I need some Windows app.
June 25th, 2008 at 11:01 am
Hi I just wanted to let you know I use your ubuntu tutorials a lot for reference. I was wandering though if you could maybe also add a tutorial for installing KDE 4 as well. Thanks for all your work and Great job on the tutorials!
June 28th, 2008 at 4:05 am
Thanks a lot for your helpful tutorials, they have been a huge boon to this new Ubuntu user.
June 28th, 2008 at 12:56 pm
On your pages:
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu
Almost of the pages I looked at have
“Page updated” at the bottom.
All of those that do have “Page updated 06/28/2008″
even tho it is early morning. Is that really true?
BTW I did not see a link from your blog to the
tutorial pages (I could have missed it, but I did not see it) I also did not see an email address to report things like this that dont need to be public.
Nice site.
Fred
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June 28th, 2008 at 7:47 pm
Thanks for bringing that to my attention. Back when I was using static HTML pages, those modified notices made sense. Since I’m using PHP includes now… not so much. I’ll take them out.
June 30th, 2008 at 1:42 pm
Thanks for the instructions on installing ubuntu on virtualbox. I got it to work first time! I added a link to my blog and added a few extra little things:
http://randomconsultant.blogspot.com/2008/06/setting-up-ubuntu-on-virtualbox-windows.html
June 30th, 2008 at 7:59 pm
Hi,
on psychocats.net the link of security analysis tools is broken.
Thanks.
June 30th, 2008 at 10:48 pm
Thanks for bringing that to my attention. I’ve removed the dead link.
July 2nd, 2008 at 6:33 pm
Does free space in “Use the largest continuous free space” mean unpartitioned space or just unallocated space.
My harddrive has unpartitioned space who WindowsXP can’t use because it’s too large. Can the Ubuntu installation partition the space or do I have to buy partition magic?
July 2nd, 2008 at 11:52 pm
I’m not 100% sure on this, but I think it means the largest continuous free space, whether it is unallocated on an existing partition or completely unpartitioned.
Please test it out and let me know.
July 6th, 2008 at 11:08 pm
Excellent and easy to follow instructions at:
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/ies4linux
Thanks,
Bakul
July 7th, 2008 at 3:33 pm
ubuntu can’t i can’t get to back up my home by your tutorial at psychocats.net. Some files are not copied says file permissions dont allow that. How can i fix that ? is there a norton ghost like solution for backing up ubuntu ? i have literally done 10 reinstallations of ubuntu to try to back up but i couldnt get it right. I have done aptoncd package back up but it still isn’t one stop solution for backing up WHOLE system.
July 7th, 2008 at 4:37 pm
minhaaj, sorry things aren’t working out for you. Best thing to do is post a support thread on the Ubuntu Forums.
July 8th, 2008 at 12:56 pm
Installed Ubuntu 8.04 a couple of weeks ago, was working great until sudo decided to not grant any user root privileges.
User your guide to fix sudoers, and all is well now. Thanks for the help, much appreciated!
July 10th, 2008 at 10:49 pm
Your guide is very good! Congratulations.
Our install guide will be based on it.
BTW… we are a scientific distro based on Ubuntu… called Poseidon Linux
http://sites.google.com/site/poseidonlinux/Home
The citation for your site is in our download section.
Cheers!
Christian
July 16th, 2008 at 5:02 am
Hey UbuntuCat,
Thanks for the Ubuntu guide, it is excellent! I am just beginning to learn Linux, and this guide has made things much, much, much easier. Your approach to things has been very helpful, as some of the official documentation Ive gone to mostly helped me get more confused.
Anyways, thanks again, keep up the good work!
Cheers,
-Cory
PS Hope this was the right place to post a “thanks”
July 31st, 2008 at 3:28 pm
just wanted to say that as a beginning ubuntu user, your guide has helped me way beyond what i expected, it helped me get passed the small learning curve behind ubuntu (or any linux distro for that matter) and get right into using the OS to its full potential…thanks to your website as a learning guide, i managed to catch my friends interest in ubuntu simply by showing them my desktop, and pointing them to your site, im burning them copies as i type :) … anyway, many thanks, and i wish you the best in any future endeavors.. (maybe a new 8.10 guide someday?)
July 31st, 2008 at 3:57 pm
Thank you for that comment, Gabe. I can’t make any promises as to how long this’ll last, but I’m planning to keep updating the Ubuntu guides indefinitely. 8.10 is definitely on my list and may be done by early November or mid-November, depending on how busy I am.
August 1st, 2008 at 2:49 am
thanks dudes awsome easy to understand info>>>
August 4th, 2008 at 3:14 am
In case you want to update your Ubuntu iTunes replacement page, iTunes works quite well on Wine now, including purchases: http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=12953 . Also, you could recommend Amarok as a full iTunes replacement as it has many more features anyways. BTW, the link you provided to the iTunes winehq appdb page is broken now, and has been for some time.
August 4th, 2008 at 2:22 pm
Thanks for letting me know, b2609. I’ll work on getting that page updated.
August 4th, 2008 at 2:42 pm
You know what? I still see some missing functionality for iTunes in the Wine app database, so I am not going to recommend that as a solution. I may try to install iTunes myself and see how it’s working, but it doesn’t sound good based on the summary comments.
August 6th, 2008 at 1:15 am
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Is there a guide for configuring the ubuntu boot menu manually?
I mean, I s’pose it’s a command line thing somewhere… but WHERE?
And what the commands? And syntax?
Thanks,
Ozdimdim
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August 6th, 2008 at 12:00 pm
Yes, you can configure the boot menu manually graphically:
http://psychocats.net/ubuntu/startupmanager
You can also configure it through a text file:
sudo nano -B /boot/grub/menu.lst
August 7th, 2008 at 1:10 am
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Hullo again,
I used the sudo nano… approach. It worked well, and I learned some very interesting things about the menu in the process, so thank you for pointing me in the right direction.
Now I´ve got another problem… well two actually…
The first is that I´m TRYING to execute the following line:
sudo apt-get install sun-java6-bin sun-java6-fonts sun-java6-jre sun-java6-plugin
but I always end up with a java licence agreement in the window and I´m supposed to click ¨ok¨ before it will go any further. The trouble is NOTHING I have tried gets a response. The live link seems to have been stripped out of the thing I´m supposed to click. Someone suggested clicking in the window and pressing ENTER but that doesn´t work either. So, do you know a way to say ¨OK¨ to java and make that line finish executing?
The second problem is that I have to hit certain punctuation marks twice to get them to register on the screen. If I don (<- see ¨don´t¨) instead of getting the punctuation mark, the next character I type disappears instead. I am HOPING that when I succeed in solving the first problem, it will then solve the second one for me - but what if it doesn´t?
Thanks again,
Ozdimdim.
August 7th, 2008 at 11:05 am
I think your best bet at this point is to post a thread on the Ubuntu Forums to get help.
August 8th, 2008 at 11:47 pm
Guys ,
thank u very much.. i learnt things from u.. thaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaanks a looooooooooooooooooooooooooot !!!!!!!!
August 11th, 2008 at 9:07 am
Hi. I got the Live CD on Ubuntu 8.04 and started checking it out. I like what I see so far. Thinking about doing an install. Was looking at your guide and really like it. You have so much information and I enjoy reading it. Have been learning a lot by reading your links. They are so interesting to read. I for one greatly appreciate the trouble you have went through setting this up and keeping it updated. I Did a partition check using the live CD and discovered the following:
Partition
File System
Label
Size
Used
Unused
Flags
/dev/sda1
NFTS
Hp Pavilion
224.33 GB
21.91 GB
202.42 GB
Boot
Unallocated
Unallocated
7.84Mlb
…
…
/dev/sda2
Fat32
8.55 GB
8.10 GB
456.02MLB
lba
On the sample pages I have seen in your guides and others plus the videos I have never seen anything like this. I use HP pavilion, Windows XP MEdisa Center edition. I was wondering that if I do an install does it look like there will be any problems. On the Sda2,it is a partition set up by HP for recovery. I had nothing to do with that. Don’t know what the unallocated is. As I mentioned, I haven’t seen anything like this in the examples. They always just show the NFTS none of the other. So, when I saw this I got kind of worried and wanted to check with you on this before attempting an install. I really like what I have seen with Ubuntu. I haven’t tried any thing but Windows since the old DOS days. Even then the DOS was when taking a class. Then I went to Windows 3.0. So, as you can see I’m really a newbie at this and would greatly appreciate your advice. Again, I thank you for your wonderful site!!!!
Thank you in advance for any and all advice you are able to give to me.
Tom
August 11th, 2008 at 12:34 pm
The only thing to worry about is accidentally deleting a partition you might need later (one with important data… or one that is a recovery partition).
Post a thread on the Ubuntu Forums, and there will be lots of people to help you through the process.
August 11th, 2008 at 7:04 pm
Thanks for the response. I really appreciate that. So, correct me where I’m wrong in my rambling on installation. I go for the first choice and let Ubuntu come out with the partiton design. If I thinking right, I should see a partition for the NFTS, one for the FAT32 then what Ubuntu wants for itself(swap and other) right? Or will the NFTS and FAT32 be listed as a single partiton as Windows XP and one partition UBuntu? Sorry for the confusion but I’m trying to work this out in my mind as to what to expect when I start the installation process. I guess I’m wondering if Ubuntu will be trying to go into the FAt32 or just set up it’s own partition. Again, I appolize for the questions. I don’t plan on doing any deleting of any partitions that shows up. I want to be able to have an enjoyable experence with Ubuntu and Windows XP dual boot. Have to keep Windows for certain things until I can get those things to work on Ubuntu. So that is why I’m asking these questions and enjoying the answers and responses I get from you.
Again thanks for the website and all of your help.
Tom
August 14th, 2008 at 7:43 am
Thought I might say thanks. Was pulling my hair out over not being able to edit any file I felt like. (obviously new to Linux)
Took a deep breath, found this outstanding explanation on ´gksudo nautilus´ in google. :)
August 18th, 2008 at 1:43 pm
Hi. Just wanted to let you know that I installed Ubuntu 8.04 this Saturday night. Went smooth. Gave both sections a little over 100 gigs each.
Had a heck of time with my Thunderbird and Evolution set up but this was due to my transposing the last two letters of SMTP. :( After I had installed and removed and reinstalled Thunderbird serval times I realized my mistake.
Small and stupid mistake but really throws a monkeywrench into things for you. :)
Having fun learning different things now.
Just wanted to say thank you for all of the help and suggestions that you have given me. It is that I was scared to take the step to learning a new O.S. After talking to you, Forrestpixie and Paqman I decided to go ahead and get my feet wet.
Kept my fingers crossed that I didn’t have cement shoes put on. :) But all in all it was a very plesant experience in doing this. I’m constantly learning and you’ll probably see some more posts in the forum from me if I can’t find what I’m looking for.
I have found nothing but great people and wonderful help from everyone. I thank you all. I have been to forums where people were getting slammed. I’ve been very lucky in every forum that I have visited and asked questions in. I’ve been treated with respect and not looked down on when being answered some of the questions that I have asked. People like you and the others make learning a great experience.
Thank you very much.
Tom
August 21st, 2008 at 6:39 am
Hi,
I just found out your website which are very informative and resourceful. Am now a full time ubuntu user at work :) Learning never been so easy.
Btw appreciate if you could recommend me on any version of ubuntu that works with apple ibook G3 non intel processor. I did download some ubuntu iso but it wont work :(
Appreciate any reply from you. Thanks very much.
August 23rd, 2008 at 6:56 am
Just wanna say thanks for your instructions on Firefox on Ubuntu 7.10 & 7.04 - They work like a charm :)
August 29th, 2008 at 3:40 pm
From your site, “Someone can correct me on this if I’m wrong, but I haven’t seen any difference between putting the swap partition in the middle or at the end of the drive. I put it on the end in these examples because that’s what Ubuntu’s default installation does.”
Swap is used if the system memory won’t hold all the programs the user wants to run at the same time. If you need to use swap, you probably have bigger problems, but in the specific case of swap at the end of the disk, the time for the heads to move to the swap slows the system down. Optimally, you would want the swap space dead in the middle of the used area of the hard drive, since that would minimize the head-seek time, but this is an impossible condition to meet.
If I were concerned about swap, I would put the swap partition on a second hard drive. The operating system spends a lot of time loading things from the boot partition (programs) and having swap on a second hard drive, for example a data storage drive, minimizes contention between seeks to the boot partition and seeks to the swap partition. Next best option is to make swap space first, followed by boot, although I’m not sure this is doable in Linux.
My guess is this is just a quibble about microseconds, but you asked, and I put in my two cents worth.
Regards,
Thomas
September 2nd, 2008 at 4:25 am
in kde there is something called system settings in which your supposed to be able to change settings. I went to kde here on ubuntu 108 for the purpose of changing my settings to my nvidia graphics card (gforce fx 5500).
and to my westinghouse monitor flat screen lcd.
However in the graphics card change windo it says you have to click the ADMINISTRATOR BUTTON. I just don’t have any idea where that might be. I would assume i could log in as admin but i don’t seem to be able to do that either.. i was never asked on setup to make an admin account ?? why on that one too ?
thanks,
Nate
September 2nd, 2008 at 4:37 am
Greetings from a fellow non-racist, feminist,but ’secularist/humanist’, Hardy-on-a-barebones-portable-non-eeeeeekpc, who is also a cat lover. I am also enamoured of OS X, but refuse any longer to get lumbered with the machines you have to buy with it.
It’s been on my mind now for more than half a year to come here to register my profound admiration and thanks for your dedication to the community but mostly for your gifted tutorial approach; I have lost count of the number of times that I’ve simply linked to your page on “Editing Files That Belong To Root” for new users and for those moving across from exclusive GUI interaction, both in Windows and OS X. It’s a masterpiece of clarity and information, which users - especially those only used to being admin in Windows - always understand immediately.
sudo is a superb security concept (OS X is a dream to use the UI in) and your tutorial always makes sure that new people get off on the right foot and thus have confidence to continue learning to manage their systems well.
My next-door neighbour had had no experience with other than a proprietary XP box, for which the network was configured for her by the vendor and her isp, and in which she had never opened the terminal.
When her mainboard died, she built her own new system from components with my advice, and showed such aptitude that I asked her to be a guinea pig with a new Hardy installation using only the new users forum and your site - with her own judgement to guide her on what advice to use.
She had finished a session at my place within 2 hours with a live desktop downloaded, md5ed, and ready to run on her new machine at home - - I purposely asked her to do it without me there to make sure I didn’t give any hints in spite of myself.
She emailed me from her live cd within another hour.
She emailed me from her new Hardy system before the end of the day.
I haven’t been to inspect her networking arrangements, but her confidence that she has a firewalled system with a system monitor to alert her of any activity says to me that she has grasped the basics very well.
The report back was that she had become overloaded with information very quickly with a few guides from the new users forum, hence went to your site to begin anew.
In particular she praised your dual boot install guide because the keys to a single boot install were also very clear within it.
My neighbour is 68 and has recently retired from many years of clerical employment.
I do understand that her case can’t be generalised, but for a literate and careful new user, your effective tutorials can’t be bettered.
My neighbour has quickly progressed to terminal interaction with Hardy and has made room on her hdd for a couple of other systems, Open BSD being one. She is sharing a folder of multimedia with a music player.
She is sure that without a UI as a safe springboard for learning linux, that she would not have felt so comfortable with a new system so quickly.
She would have come here to comment, but she doesn’t think she’s smart enough !!
sincerely, with gratitude but never enough time
NM
September 3rd, 2008 at 9:17 pm
I’m doing the how to on the nvidia drivers. It seems to work but it will not recognize my monitor. Westinghouse L2046NV. I cannot get over 800 X 600 with my intel integrated card and less than that with my nvidia card. It works in window so there is a fix but i have no idea what it is.
Thanks,
Nate
September 5th, 2008 at 4:47 pm
Hi,
is it possible to get the Ubuntu clock in Xubuntu? I like the Ubuntu clock the Xubuntu default clock is rubbish.
I hope you can make it possible.
Regards,
kmo
September 5th, 2008 at 6:05 pm
I’m again,
can I uninstall edubuntu like this:
sudo aptitude remove edubuntu-desktop? Do I have still my ubuntu?
My first was Ubuntu, then I installed like your tutorial Xubuntu and I did the same with Edubuntu.
But now I want to remove Edubuntu. It’s look good, but I think, it removed my Desktop-context menu in Xubuntu.
Regards,
kmo
September 10th, 2008 at 12:20 pm
Hi Psychocat,
I have found your tutorials very helpful, having only recently decided to try Ubuntu. However, there is just one think missing: you explain how to install software but not how to remove it. Is this something you might have time to add at some stage?
I mention this because I have removed Evolution from my machine for various reasons not important here, but every time I run Update Manager I get a long list of “bits” that need to be downloaded for Evolution.
I would have thought that if Evolution has been removed, Update Manager would cease inviting me to download software updates for it. Presumably there is more to removing software than simply telling Synaptic to remove it.
Regards,
Chris
September 10th, 2008 at 12:21 pm
That should, of course, have been “just one thing missing” not “just one think missing”!
September 10th, 2008 at 3:11 pm
I haven’t included a removal guide because very few people ask how to remove things. Most of the questions from new users are how to install things. And usually if, as you have demonstrated, people learn how to install things, they pretty much get that removal is the opposite of what they just did.
I think the problem is that the word Evolution is used in many of Gnome’s packages and may not always refer to the Evolution email client. That’s the best explanation I can come up with.
If that doesn’t cut it, you should start a thread on the Ubuntu Forums, and some people will help you out.
September 13th, 2008 at 7:48 am
Your excellent guide to installing software on Ubuntu …
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/installingsoftware
… is the first result in a Google search on “.tar.gz ubuntu”. It has a link to …
http://monkeyblog.org/ubuntu/installing/
… but it appears the page has been moved or no longer exists.
September 13th, 2008 at 11:33 am
Yeah, that’s unfortunate. It’s a good guide, but its server has always been up and down. I’ll take down the link.
September 15th, 2008 at 5:50 pm
Hey just ran into your tutorial on “Getting back to a pure Gnome” and thought of something that would trim down your list a little.
sudo apt-get –purge remove kubuntu* kde*
this should trim down your list a lot and anything else it misses could be added. But yea just a thought, love your stuff keep on with it.
raphsabb.blogspot.com
September 15th, 2008 at 6:26 pm
I haven’t had time to extensively test that, but thanks for the suggestion. I’ll look into it.
September 15th, 2008 at 6:48 pm
It doesn’t seem to remove a lot of other stuff (arts, a lot of the libs, etc.)
October 4th, 2008 at 8:42 am
I was looking for a way to move the home partition in Ubuntu 8.04 and your blog helped to get thro’. One correction I want you to include is before starting the gparted the disk on which one wish to make partition is to be unmounted.I hope you will include this. Thanks for your nice post.
October 5th, 2008 at 9:55 pm
Burning music bought in the iTunes store, and then ripping from the cd has always been a way of removing DRM, and is not breaking the terms of service or user agreement or whatever. There is nothing shady about it, and right now you seem to imply that in your itunes section.
October 5th, 2008 at 10:26 pm
I’m not implying anything. I’m quoting directly from the iTunes Music Store Terms of Service. I’m not saying it’s shady. I’m saying it is breaking the terms of service, and it is.
October 6th, 2008 at 3:39 am
Hi
I have a Nvidia GeForce 5400 PCI card on my machine (I know thats sort of ancient :) ). On ubuntu when i enable the Nvidia drivers for this, the max resolution i am able to get is 800×600. Cant i get higher resolution modes?
October 11th, 2008 at 10:04 am
AY:
I should start off by saying that I am one of many Canadians who read your blog regularly. You get quoted up here surprisingly often!
I wanted to suggest a topic for your blog that I thought you may be interested in tackling, given your political and spiritual perspectives on things.
As you are well aware the world is going though what could be called “an economic crisis” of somewhat epic proportions. Most economists seem to think it will be at least a deep and long-lasting recession. Others are less optimistic, but personally I don’t like to use the “d” word in public for fear of it becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy.
I recently heard some philosophers and pundits on the radio suggest that this “economic situation”, even if it gets quite bad, could have some net benefits to humanity. One that was named is that it may reverse the last 50 years of rampant materialism and influence people to change their values from “buying things” to more along the lines of friendship, helping others and spirituality.
I wondered if you would consider writing something on this subject?
October 12th, 2008 at 12:11 pm
I’m glad there’s a loyal Canadian contingent of readers. Thanks for being part of that. Unfortunately, I don’t really know much about economics, so I can’t contribute anything original or insightful to commentaries on the so-called “economic crisis.” I would if I could.
October 14th, 2008 at 7:54 am
Hi Psychocat,
I am writing regarding your webpage
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/backup.
Thank you for your informative site!
I have an ubuntu/windows XP Pro dual boot with the following partitions:
Windows C:(NTFS)
Windows Data (NTFS)
Linux / (ext3)
Linux swap (ext3)
Linux /home (ext3)
Eventually, I was thinking about getting acronis backup software to backup my entire image, but in the mean time, I just want to backup my NTFS Data and ext3 /home partitions to an external HDD formatted to FAT32.
I was wondering if you could tell me the best way to do this. Thank you for your time, have a nice day, and I look forward to hearing from you at your convenience.
Sincerely,
Ben
November 8th, 2008 at 12:23 am
hey, i have dvd burner…. can i use infrarecorder../??
November 9th, 2008 at 1:54 am
Thank you so much for your website! You helped me get rid of all the bloat that I had installed with Ubuntu and Kubuntu; so now I have all that space available (VERY DESIRED) for my Hardy XFCE machine. I also needed to remove it because when you install some Linux programs (through apt-get or others), sometimes it detects if you have Kubuntu installed, and therefore installs unneeded files when I just need it to install the GTK dependent files, see? So I would obtain even more bloat!
Thank you Thank you THANK YOU!
November 11th, 2008 at 5:44 pm
Thanks for the great tutorial!
November 13th, 2008 at 12:42 am
hey man, you seem really good with linux- I hope you don’t mind a direct request for help with a personal problem… I used your tutorial for installing Flash on 8.04+ Ubuntu… but I got the error: wrong architecture ‘i836′… not sure how to fix this problem… if there’s any chance you could help that’d be awesome. Thanks.
November 13th, 2008 at 12:47 am
Sorry, just posted a problem, but meant to say error: wrong architecture ‘i386′, not ‘i836′. Thanks lol
November 16th, 2008 at 4:27 am
OMG! I was trying out XFCE, “sudo apt-get install xubuntu-desktop”. It messed with the startup and shutdown, and I didn’t like it anyway. I put up a thread in Ubuntu Forums, saying that I wanted to try KDE (fikelfikel is my username on Ubuntu Forums) and I didn’t want KDE anymore. User forestpixie put a link on to one of your sites, http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/index.php. I found how to remove KDE and XFCE, and I really wanted to thank you, so I put this message here. I’m definatly bookmarking that site!
November 17th, 2008 at 1:47 pm
Thanks for the NTFS Config write up.
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/mountwindows