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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
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June 18th, 2007 at 13:41
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 03:45
Done. Thanks for the suggestion, Scaine.
June 26th, 2007 at 05:54
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/songbird
http://www.songbirdnest.com/ubuntu_installer_script
Much love.
mig
June 26th, 2007 at 19:32
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 21:05
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 21:58
Glad you’ve found it helpful, Steve.
July 2nd, 2007 at 17:10
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 18:40
Is that Creative Commons stuff?
July 3rd, 2007 at 08:09
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 13:44
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
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 18:13
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 22:48
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 23:27
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 06:12
Great blog, very interesting topics.
Glad to see some life outside of the forums besides CafeLinux or SocialDiscussion.
July 18th, 2007 at 13:40
Thanks, Frak. I try to vary it a little (not make everything about Ubuntu).
July 30th, 2007 at 08:21
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 15:51
Thanks for pointing that out! I’ll fix it right away.
August 4th, 2007 at 19:24
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 03:56
Great essays! very interesting and thought provoking. keep up the good job!
May 23rd, 2008 at 03:09
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 15:56
That’s great to hear, Allan. Thanks for sharing!
May 30th, 2008 at 14:31
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 15:34
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 19:37
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
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 04:05
Thanks a lot for your helpful tutorials, they have been a huge boon to this new Ubuntu user.
June 28th, 2008 at 12:56
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 19:47
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 13:42
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 19:59
Hi,
on psychocats.net the link of security analysis tools is broken.
Thanks.
June 30th, 2008 at 22:48
Thanks for bringing that to my attention. I’ve removed the dead link.
July 2nd, 2008 at 18:33
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 23:52
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 23:08
Excellent and easy to follow instructions at:
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/ies4linux
Thanks,
Bakul
July 7th, 2008 at 15:33
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 16:37
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
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 22:49
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 05:02
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 15:28
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 15:57
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 02:49
thanks dudes awsome easy to understand info>>>
August 4th, 2008 at 03:14
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 14:22
Thanks for letting me know, b2609. I’ll work on getting that page updated.
August 4th, 2008 at 14:42
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 01:15
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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
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 01:10
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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
I think your best bet at this point is to post a thread on the Ubuntu Forums to get help.
August 8th, 2008 at 23:47
Guys ,
thank u very much.. i learnt things from u.. thaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaanks a looooooooooooooooooooooooooot !!!!!!!!
August 11th, 2008 at 09:07
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
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 19:04
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 07:43
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 13:43
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 06:39
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 06:56
Just wanna say thanks for your instructions on Firefox on Ubuntu 7.10 & 7.04 – They work like a charm :)
August 29th, 2008 at 15:40
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 04:25
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 04:37
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 21:17
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 16:47
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 18:05
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
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
That should, of course, have been “just one thing missing” not “just one think missing”!
September 10th, 2008 at 15:11
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 07:48
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
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 17:50
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 18:26
I haven’t had time to extensively test that, but thanks for the suggestion. I’ll look into it.
September 15th, 2008 at 18:48
It doesn’t seem to remove a lot of other stuff (arts, a lot of the libs, etc.)
October 4th, 2008 at 08:42
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 21:55
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 22:26
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 03:39
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
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
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 07:54
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 00:23
hey, i have dvd burner…. can i use infrarecorder../??
November 9th, 2008 at 01:54
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 17:44
Thanks for the great tutorial!
November 13th, 2008 at 00:42
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 00:47
Sorry, just posted a problem, but meant to say error: wrong architecture ‘i386′, not ‘i836′. Thanks lol
November 16th, 2008 at 04:27
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 13:47
Thanks for the NTFS Config write up.
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/mountwindows
November 18th, 2008 at 23:26
Hi just wanna say that you might wanna add http://www.kahvi.org to your guide on itunes under http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/itunes
Just a suggestion
Thanks for your very nice ubuntu-guide, it helped me out many times in the beginning, have been using ubuntu since 5.10 Breezy Badger
Kind Regards MikeDK
November 19th, 2008 at 02:08
Hello,
i just go through the tutorial of installation ubuntu use the virtualbox. so i’ve download ubuntu 8.10, then i burn into CD (not *.iso).
ok i successful install it. ok, i would like to know, how to make ubuntu be full screen the window… this i meant is install guest addition is never been success. i do not know how to solve this.
November 19th, 2008 at 08:59
Hi,
I used your tutorial to set up VirtualBox under XP and then UBUNTU under VirtualBox. It worked great. It would be handy to have similar quality instructions for installing Guest Assistance on the UBUNTU machine. I tried to follow Sun’s instructions several times and do not know enough about Linux to get it right.
Mel
November 20th, 2008 at 12:23
RE:Editing Files that Belong to Root at psychocats.net/ubuntu/permissions
Hey, you are the man!!!!
im ooold man (20 years MS user) tell your friends time has finally come to get into linux (kubuntu) and welcome the windux user. That’s a linux usr with a practical mind (no lindows esquizo).
If I can do it, anybody can!
I almost drowned with kubuntu+xampp instalations but now im almost afloat and getting happy. I am using almost all gui to do things, linux has finally come to age.
Cheers !!!! and Thank You for your intelligent help, i owe you one.
dad
November 25th, 2008 at 18:16
Hi. I want to try the kde on ubuntu. But i can’t find the KUbuntu-desktop pack in Sysnaptic. The same goes to Xfce. Could you help me ? I’m pretty new to Linux
November 25th, 2008 at 19:52
Hi
tried replying to one of the ubuntu forum threads that helped me alot, but no luck. So I hope its ok to post this here. (delete if not)
Just wanted to *thank you* for your post on
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=368932
edubuntu on top of xubuntu.
Thank you. helped me heaps.
i’ll be checking your blog regularly from now on.
cheers
mark
November 27th, 2008 at 14:49
Thank you very much. Your site is very helpful. I wish the best to you…
yobo
November 29th, 2008 at 16:09
Thank you for writing the command to remove gnome. Please specify on that page what disadvantage there is to:
sudo apt-get remove gnome-desktop
December 1st, 2008 at 19:41
I just wanted to thank you for all the tutorials. My begiinging questions on the Ubuntu forum have at times resulted in a link to your pages. But I’m learning a lot more just reading around. You’ve done a great job!
Trish
Oxford, England
December 18th, 2008 at 09:02
I would like to make a correction on one of your tutorials. ( http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/backup ). You mention you cannot mount the image created by dd_rescue.That’s wrong.Please check http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=711773 .Thnx
December 18th, 2008 at 09:16
sorry i just made a mistake. I missread the tutorial. Please erase the message
December 19th, 2008 at 14:56
Thanks for your Ubuntu site. For some reason the permissions on my sudoers file changed, and I couldn’t chmod it til I read your suggestions. I was running out of hair to pull out.
December 29th, 2008 at 18:40
Thank you for your very excellent Ubuntu tutorials – specifically the pages describing how to (easily) move from Xubuntu – Ubuntu and from Kubuntu, etc.
Very much appreciated!
Greg
January 1st, 2009 at 18:50
Your tutorials have proven to be extremely helpful orienting me in a new, diverse, and unfamiliar environment. Thank you!
January 3rd, 2009 at 00:39
I just wanted to say thanks for a great site and all of the time and effort you put into it. I’ve decided to try Ubuntu and thanks in part to your site I’m up and running and have been enjoying it immensely.
Thank you.
January 3rd, 2009 at 18:40
Thanks for the great site, it’s been a lot of help when learning the world of (K)Ubuntu :)
Thank you, a lot.
January 5th, 2009 at 11:26
I am trying to learn Ubuntu, and I am really struggling. I had a need to edit some of the system files, and no clue how to gain access to them. Then I found your site, and the simple instructions you posted using Alt+F2 and “gksudo nautilus”. It worked, and was an absolute lifesaver for me. I was able to edit the files and get some hardware working that previously didn’t.
You present information in a simple and straightforward way, which is what is needed for those of us trying to migrate from Windows. Your site is now permanently bookmarked!
Thank you so much!!!!!!! All the best to you in 2009!
January 5th, 2009 at 23:14
Some fool forgot my password and thanks to you I am back in business and installing updates.
January 6th, 2009 at 07:10
First, I want to thank you for the lots of tutorials but I find there is one thing missing in the tutorial about “Installing a Dual-Boot with Windows and Ubuntu”, some people are still afraid after reading anything about installing ubuntu, maybe you could mention WUBI witch installs ubuntu without repartitioning, excellent for the people who are afraid
thanks, Sander
January 6th, 2009 at 12:47
I’ve added in a plug for Wubi. Thanks, Sander.
January 6th, 2009 at 21:02
Hello,
I just used your tutorial to install Ubuntu on VirtualBox. Thanks a ton! The installation was a breeze.
I was contemplating VirtualPC or VirtualBox..and after couple of days of deliberation I decided to go ahead with VirtualBox. Your tutorial was very helpful.
Thanks again!
Regards
Anu
January 7th, 2009 at 05:43
Hi and Thanks for one of the best Ubuntu tutorials. It seems like whether I have a new problem, or just need to remember the basics, a search always lands me back in one of your tutorials.
That being said, and to that very point, I just found this site, http://www.thonisite.co.cc/2008/11/partitioning-windows-and-ubuntu.html , with your tutorial cut and pasted in it’s entirety, but with no visible attribution. I may be incorrect in my assessment, and I don’t see for sure whether you are “certified” in your use of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License, but I thought it to be in poor form/bad taste to plagiarize blatantly what was given free with nothing more than a request to be named as author. I don’t know what good it will bring to raise this issue to you. I don’t see any efficient course of action to get the material removed, and judging by the quality of the content at the bottom of the page, an e-mail request will probably go unanswered. Sigh. I suppose imitation is the highest form of flattery though. Right under payment…
-Thanks. Aaron.
January 8th, 2009 at 00:40
Yeah, I’m actually okay with people mirroring my tutorials. You’re right, though. A little attribution wouldn’t hurt.
January 10th, 2009 at 08:17
read your article: Editing Files that Belong to Root. It was crystal clear and wonderful. Thank you.
January 10th, 2009 at 13:32
HEllo,
How can I use your barebones install to add:
1. mythtv
2. asterix+freePBX OR trixbox
3. Server packages…
thank you.
newbie
January 11th, 2009 at 17:37
Awesome. Though only the last step worked for me. Thanks 5 stars.
January 19th, 2009 at 20:45
I need help with IceWM, as there is a black window which is unclosable, and it happened when I used the thinblack2 theme. Change of theme does not remove it. It also prevent log off. Please help!
January 23rd, 2009 at 03:39
Being a linux noob but Windows veteran, I was ready to install Ubuntu the first time on a Win XP system, and stopped at the installation stage where I had to determine the HD partition allocations. Trying to make the right choice, I googled and reached to your site. Great stuff – help to clarify a lot of things required during the install decision-making process. Thanks.
If I may provide a suggestion, I would like to see the pro and con of the major choices required during the installation – for example, in talking about Wubi in “Installing a dual-boot with Windows without partitioning” you indicate the benefits of that approach, but not the drawbacks. Consequently, I need to look for additional info on that before proceeding with the installation.
Again, thank you for a great and very informative site!
January 23rd, 2009 at 13:02
Thanks for the feedback, Kob. I guess right now there isn’t a drawback to Wubi. I thought one of the drawbacks was difficulty in moving from a Wubi dual-boot to a single-boot Ubuntu (without Windows), but people on the Ubuntu Forums assure me it’s easy (never done it myself).
At this point, I’d recommend Wubi for anyone wanting to undertake a dual-boot.
January 26th, 2009 at 23:54
Just wanted to say thank you so very much for your detailed instructions. It was a life saver… OK, I’m a little dramatic, my life wasn’t in actual danger, but if it were, you would have saved it with your excellent detail. Thanks alot!!! I’ll be sure to check out your other tutorials soon
MJ
February 4th, 2009 at 11:14
Hi, well i just forgot how did i get here, but i’m extremely happy to have found this blog/site. Im a new user of Ubuntu and having some difficulties installing and using it.. but i’ve managed so far to overcome the problems thanks to you! :) After googling and searching for 3 days, finally i’ve found real help. Im going to keep reading the ubuntu page. Theres a lot of things useful to me.
Once again thanks for all the work you had making this site, i can say that its really useful and well done. oh and im so a cat lover! So now i know that you are a really great guy.. :) All the best for you!
February 10th, 2009 at 16:32
Thanks for help running ubunto into windows xp…i just wana know to change desplay from 16bit to 32bit bcoz always when i boot ubunto it give msg regarding 16bit to 32bit changing desplay plz help
February 19th, 2009 at 18:08
I just read and used your “Getting Back to a Pure Gnome on Ubuntu” – tutorial and it worked GREAT! THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU VERY MUCH! Its people like you that make Linux work.
February 20th, 2009 at 19:52
“In Gnome’s file manager called Nautilus, you can also rename files by doing two spaced-out single-clicks on the name. Gnome’s renaming will focus on the name of the file and not the file extension. ”
Hey, your tutorial pages are terrific!
One note about the above, I believe this no longer works in the latest version of Gnome, at least on Ubuntu 8.10x
February 21st, 2009 at 01:29
I just tried it, and it appears to still work.
February 25th, 2009 at 15:39
Hey I am having trouble installing flash player on my Ubuntu 8.1. The error occurs during package installer,
Status: Error: Wrong Architecture ‘i386′
Do you know what I can do to fix that?
February 25th, 2009 at 17:42
The IES4LINUX script doesn’t seem to work on Intrepid.
Python throws an error and nothing happens, no icons, no IE.
(Not a request for tech support, just FYI that it’s broken)
February 25th, 2009 at 19:55
@Sai
If you need help, the best place to get it is the Ubuntu Forums.
@Han
Thanks for bringing that to my attention. I’ve added a little note with a link to a forums thread with a workaround.
February 26th, 2009 at 04:02
In your tutorial on the Terminal password thingy, the reason the terminal password comes blank is a security feature that has been around since the original DOS. By not having any sort of visual cue, it prevents an over-the-shoulder eavesdropper or camera to view the number of characters in a password.
We have it at my school’s Student File lookup (for administration).
February 26th, 2009 at 12:43
TodesEngel, I think that’s a bogus reason, and I explained that pretty thoroughly both in my terminal password page and in the thread I linked to from it.
First of all, anyone around can listen for how many taps of the keys to find out how many characters are in your password (let alone look at the keyboard).
Secondly, my main beef is that it’s an inconsistency in the interface. If it’s really a security issue, then there shouldn’t be any dots in the graphical interface password dialogues either… but there are!
So basically if it is a security issue (and it is not, for the reasons I stated), then the graphical password dialogues (which use the same password, by the way) are insecure by your logic.
February 27th, 2009 at 06:19
Hi, thanks for the helpful pages. I broke Intrepid sudo.Partly through updating, then my own ineptitude.
Gives syntax error and parse error line 1
I’ve tried your commands:
sudo cp /etc/sudoers /etc/sudoers.backup
sudo nano /etc/sudoers
All I get is the /etc/group file.
sudo visduo gives me nothing either.
At my wits end to fix sudo, but don’t know how.
Would be grateful for help.
Thanks,
February 27th, 2009 at 13:03
@Terry
You’ll be able to best find technical support on the Ubuntu Forums.
February 28th, 2009 at 23:30
Hello Ubuntucat,
I have read so far 3 of your Ubuntu tutorials (on partitioning, dual-booting). They are useful. Tomorrow, I have to install Ubuntu 8.10 in a friend’s PC.
One thing that annoys me a lot in all your tutorials is the fact that you use “pt” units for defining font-size and that makes the whole webpage text non-resizable in Internet Explorer. And the font-size you use is small: so even if I use Firefox, I have to resize the text size anyway. Reading small text can be very frustrating (furthermore if the topic/subject is not a familiar topic/subject); rigid, frozen, non-resizable font-size is very much anti-user-friendly and frustrating.
regards, Gérard Talbot
March 6th, 2009 at 02:09
For installing Flash (http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/flash) how do I get it so Firefox uses the Adobe Flash player and not Gnash or Totem which seems to override Adobe in Intrepid and Jaunty?
There are two ways of doing so using the command line, One is to remove or make a symbolic link of a shared object and the other is a program thAt lists the installed flash players and you get to choose which one you want, although I forget how to invoke it.
Can you help me? Possibly by adding this to your tutorial?
March 6th, 2009 at 12:55
I think your best bet for technical support in the Ubuntu Forums. I’m there often, but so are a lot of very knowledgeable Ubuntu users.
March 15th, 2009 at 02:34
Hello Ubuntucat,
You wrote:
”
Why would you want to install the Mozilla version of Firefox?
There’s usually no reason anyone would have to install the Mozilla version of Firefox. The Ubuntu repositories version receives security updates and is integrated with the filesystem.
”
2 reasons. The default Mozilla version included in the Ubuntu install CD is in English: the natural tongue of the new Linux user may not be English. Also, in the Ubuntu 8.10 install CD, the Mozilla version is not the latest.
I see that you removed the “pt” unit … and it makes the text resizable in IE and other browsers. The default font size now fits, meets perfectly the preferred font-size of visitors/readers of your Linux tutorials webpages. Excellent!
regards, Gérard Talbot
March 15th, 2009 at 12:28
Thanks for sharing your knowledge. I had forgotten my sign-in to Ubuntu and your tutorial saved the day.
Kudos
Bruce
March 18th, 2009 at 07:11
You have a very deceptive matter-of-fact sense to your explanations, which is not always the case with Linux users. I had a hard time ‘visualing’ my environment as an Ubuntu user, until a desire to install a theme\icon pack made be stumble over your site, courtesy of Google.
I have only had to read what you’ve made available once, I guess that’s a compliment.
March 18th, 2009 at 09:15
There’s a few tipsy typos in my first post, apologies..
March 22nd, 2009 at 11:16
Hi – appreciated your tutorial on moving home directory
(http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/separatehome).
However, wouldn’t most people want the ‘m’ option to cpio so that all file creation times are preserved?
Also, I am not sure about this, but before running this, wouldn’t you want to ‘cd /old’, not ‘cd /old/home’? That way ‘home’ itself gets created.
So, to perform the copy, I would have it as:
cd /old
(find home -depth -print0 | cpio –null –sparse -pvdm /new/
Wondering also, why not just use “cp -rp” instead of the find/cpio combo. ?
Thanks.
David
March 23rd, 2009 at 02:47
Thanks for your helpful site ubuntucat.
With reference to your tutorial ‘Modest Spec or Barebones Installation of Ubuntu’. There is one additional options screen that I encountered during using the Ubuntu 8.10 “Intrepid Ibex” Minimal CD which is not shown in your tutorial. It is the screen that asks you to choose which type of installation you want i.e, server, LAMP, desktop, MID, mobile, etc. I unselected everything thinking it would do a ‘minimal’ install. Instead the installer decided to do a desktop install when all the options were unselected. I read elsewhere on the internet that the ‘server’ install is the equivalent of a ‘minimal’ install. Perhaps you could update your tutorial to add this screen and clarify this point.
Regards,
Ashiq.
March 23rd, 2009 at 19:06
Thanks for the heads-up. I thought I’d updated it with the Intrepid CD, but maybe I still have the old Hardy screenshots. In any case, since you’re the first person to mention this, I think I’m going to leave it as is until Jaunty comes out next month. Then I’ll update it.
March 25th, 2009 at 15:47
I have been reading your ubuntu and ubuntucat sections and their articles are simply great.
Sorry if I am comunicating this through the wrong channel. could not find another link/email for this.
March 25th, 2009 at 15:50
sorry part 2. Did not specify. Articles about ubuntu and linux. Perfect for linux newbies like me. Now I am trying to find time to read all you sections!
March 27th, 2009 at 14:44
I came across your tutorial on mounting windows in Ubuntu. It’s a great tutorial. I just realized, though, that the latest version of Ubuntu (Intrepid Ibex) does automatically mount the windows partition. Well, I had to enter my user password to access it, but there it was sitting in the left side-bar in Nautilus. How cool!
March 29th, 2009 at 10:35
I’ve been using your “Create a separate home partition in Ubuntu” page.(http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/separatehome) Under the sentence that starts, “Now we’re going to back up the home directory…” are four commands. Should the fourth command there be moved up to be the first of those commands?
Thanks for all your great tutorials. They’ve helped me allot.
March 29th, 2009 at 13:10
No, it shouldn’t be moved. Glad you’ve found the tutorials helpful.
March 31st, 2009 at 03:08
Only one comment:
Please add a donate link to Paypal.
March 31st, 2009 at 12:58
Mark, thanks for your suggestion. Right now, I do get a little bit of revenue (for operating costs) from the ads on my Ubuntu tutorials.
If you really want to donate to something, I would suggest donating directly to Ubuntu instead of donating to me:
http://www.ubuntu.com/community/donations
March 31st, 2009 at 13:04
Just wanted to say thanks for the Ubuntu download/burn page. I’m not actually installing Ubuntu, but I was looking for a nice free utility to burn disc images – InfraRecorder hit the spot!
April 3rd, 2009 at 07:24
Hi there. Just been reading through your tutorials, it’s excellent stuff, really nicely put together and accessible. Regarding your iTunes on Ubuntu tutorial, it’s now becoming a lot easier to set up a virtual machine running windows over ubuntu. I set one up a couple of weeks ago, and I’ve written a guide to the process, see what you think:
http://www.silverknife.co.uk/tech/2009/03/how-to-run-itunes-and-manage-your-ipod.html
April 3rd, 2009 at 12:56
That’s great that you’ve set up that tutorial.
Frankly, though, I want to discourage people from running a virtual Windows session just for iTunes. I like iTunes as much as the next person, but I believe the ultimate solution to Windows applications dependence is a migration to native Linux applications.
April 3rd, 2009 at 19:10
Partimage. So neat, in a live-environment I can now backup my ubuntu, while surfing the net under 5 mins.
who needs norton ghost?
thanks!!!
Michael
April 17th, 2009 at 12:46
Another reason for gksudo is that it allow you to enter the password in “gui-input”, as opposed to entring it in command line.
April 17th, 2009 at 20:31
Great site, thanks for the help.
April 17th, 2009 at 22:29
I have the iso burned on a dvd is that ok? It says that an invalid cd detected wtf?
April 24th, 2009 at 00:50
Thanks for your great tutorials. In particular,
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/sudo
just saved my day after upgrading to Jaunty.
April 30th, 2009 at 11:43
Dear Psychocats,
I am referencing http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/partimage in trying to use part image to backup my system.
I’m using the live CD for ubuntu 9.04, but when I go to type in “sudo apt-get install partimage”, I get the message:
Package partimage is not available, but is referred to by another package. This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source.
E: package partimage has no installation candidate.
I checked synaptic and it’s not there.
How do you get around this?
Thank you for your time, your great website, and I look forward to hearing from you soon.
Sincerely,
Ben
May 8th, 2009 at 15:46
Thanks a lot for your tutorial on how to mount windows partitions on ubuntu! It was very useful to me… :)
May 11th, 2009 at 01:24
Hello Ubuntucat,
Several suggestions for your Ubuntu tutorials. Most of them refer to handling appropriately to HTML code.
1- Make all of your abbreviations, acronyms and definitions available to HTML elements like <dfn>, <abbr title=”…”>. That would help. Example given:
<dfn>GRand Unified Boot loader (GRUB)</dfn> for the first occurence in the document and then afterwards <abbr title=”GRand Unified Boot loader”>GRUB</abbr> for the 2 following occurences. That way, you make a webpage superior and more usable (tooltip info on hovering cursor over) than a printed page.
2- Create a webpage defining all the often encountered abbreviations. You can later <link> it [1] in the <head> part. Eg: GNOME, GParted, MBR, apt, sda, BIOS, etc. This can help a lot understanding and learning.
[1] <link rel=”glossary” href=”[path/url of glossary webpage]” title=”Glossary”>; the people with a site navigation toolbar will be able to consult such page. You can add a link to the glossary into the your webpage footer.
3- Make your webpages use a conformant doctype declaration declaring a strict DTD. And then, of course, validate (http://validator.w3.org/) the HTML markup code of your webpage. Maybe this will be difficult for you. You may need assistance to make your web tutorials conformant, using valid markup code.
Fixing markup errors is very important and necessary.
E.g. at http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/installing , you most likely have an improperly coded or unclosed link because we can notice a strange :hover effect when hovering a paragraph. [Addendum: got it! <a name="notes"><h3>Notes</h3><a> : unclosed link and misnested anchor: an inline element can not wrap a block-level element]
4- Absolutely try to avoid link texts that are general, not specific, vague when taken out of context.
Bad: this, here, click here, this one, these instructions, etc.
Good: PCLinuxOS, order a live CD, configure your BIOS, more info on using restricted formats
W3C QA tips for webmasters: Don’t use “click here” as link text
http://www.w3.org/QA/Tips/noClickHere
These are suggestions as to how to improve your tutorials.
regards, Gérard
May 11th, 2009 at 12:07
Thanks for the suggestions.
If it’s not awkward, I do try to incorporate links into a proper sentence, but every now and then it is easier to just use the click here, and I at least try to make sure people know what clicking there is for.
I learned HTML years ago, and since I’m not a webmaster by trade, I haven’t really kept up with all the new-fangled W3C standards. In fact, my webpage is pretty crap code (but at least it makes sense to me, and it seems to render okay in the major browsers) and includes tables instead of CSS. Your suggestions are probably good ones to follow, but they rank pretty low on my priority list right now, so don’t hold your breath on my implementing them.
Thanks for taking the time to make them, though.
May 12th, 2009 at 01:00
Hello again (Today, I’m using Kubuntu 9.04 and Linux for the first time!!),
<dfn>, <abbr> and <link> are HTML elements which were defined in HTML 4.01 in 1999; <link> has been defined in 1995 in HTML 2 and was in fact used for Site Navigation toolbar purposes.
Fixing markup errors would also fix the ones which have layout repercussions like improperly closed <a> elements and misnested elements which do have various and impredictable rendering in standards compliant browsers.
Validation explanations
Truth & Consequences in Web Design: Validation
A <link>-ed glossary would help; abbr and dfn would help the readers/visitors of your tutorials and that’s easy and simple to do.
I agree that you may have only 4 or 5 general link texts. As for replacing tables by CSS columnar layout templates, that would take you more time and learning, I suppose.
regards, Gérard
May 12th, 2009 at 11:33
Thank you for your tutorial on “Mounting Windows partition in Ubuntu”.
itis really cooooool, easy to follow with clearcut info.
It is one of the needed contribution to ubuntu-mswindows-linux community
all the best
May 12th, 2009 at 12:24
I just installed Jaunty Jackalope. I’ve been away playing with Fedora 10 and decided to come back. I had been with Hardy working with Oracle and PeopleSoft FSCM and decided to give the free version of Redhat a try, Solaris 10, Open Solaris. Hardy was the first time that I tried linux and I am back to Ubuntu. Thank You for the directions to fix sudoers. Strange, I don’t remember having to fix sudoers in Hardy. Maybe now I will take some formal training. I am so thankful to the Linux and dba community. Thank You, Cliff
May 15th, 2009 at 20:35
Hey, I want to thank you for your Tutorial site of Ubuntu. It’s really helpfull to me !
Thanks
Dries
May 22nd, 2009 at 22:36
In reference to your web-page “KDE and Gnome Comparison” (http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/kdegnome): near the bottom of the page you talk about Panel Options and ask “What does screen edge mean as a setting?”
I wondered that, myself, until I happened to hover my cursor over it and found that it (the cursor) changed to the four-headed arrow. Experimenting bravely, I held down the Ctrl-key and dragged that four-headed arrow over to the side of the screen and, lo and behold, the panel suddenly popped in place over there! Turns out, it’s the very thing I was looking for to move the panel to a different location.
Apparently it’s limited to one of the four screen edges–you can’t float it, as you can some toolbars–so that’s probably why it has that ill-fitting name. Screen edge! Who’d a’ thunk?
May 24th, 2009 at 03:49
hello,
its a good thing i stumbled into your very informative site. thank you very much for all the information. i am now beginning to see the light in ubuntu.
i decided to use edubuntu for our school, here in the philippines.
as i am very new to linux, your site is very helpful to me.
you are very informative about ubuntu. but can you please point me to some site which gives information about openoffice?
someone who gives information and tutorial as easy and breezy as you do, it seem so effortless. yes, that’s how good you are in tutoring people like me.
i will always be visiting your site, as it makes ubuntu a lot easier for me to use. you made my migration a lot easier.
thanks!
mervin m. pascual
June 20th, 2009 at 21:08
I read your article “Using Partimage in Ubuntu”. My “LiveCD”, Ubuntu 9.04 does not open the Partimage, but I used it from ” System Rescue CD “. However, the program copies around 14 % of the archives and informs that the target partition is full, what it is not true. Is it possible to repair that?
Thanks
June 28th, 2009 at 16:13
your site is very helpful to me. thankyouuuuu
June 28th, 2009 at 20:50
This message is about the layout and look and feel of your site and not the content. I like the way your site looks. What software are you using for the blog and this page?
Thanks in advance for the info
June 30th, 2009 at 02:53
Hi ubuntucat,
Thanks for all your great posts (non-linux) on life, etc. They are always thought-provoking. I have a question though – Would you mind shooting me a list (either here or by email) about some books you might have find enlightening about homosexuality and Christianity?
Thanks.
J.
June 30th, 2009 at 13:17
I think a good book to start with is The Good Book by Peter Gomes. You may also want to check out the documentary film For the Bible Tells Me So
July 4th, 2009 at 13:22
Thank you for the tutorials! When I first began to officially use ubuntu as my main OS your guides help me understand ubuntu better in many practical and basic ways. Keep up the good work in contributing in the community.
July 7th, 2009 at 23:39
GRAMMAR POLICE
If you don’t like Ubuntu, you can ***uninstalled*** it just like any other Windows program by going to Add or Remove Programs in the Control Panel and select Change/Remove for Ubuntu.
uninstall
July 8th, 2009 at 02:20
Thank you, Cosmo Carboni. Should be fixed now.
July 9th, 2009 at 15:57
I found your tutorial on creating a separate /home partition very useful but found that sudo alone did not give me permission to execute the command find . -depth -print0 | cpio –null –sparse -pvd /new/ successfully and then when using sudo bash to enter a root terminal executing the command and then exiting the root terminal it worked fine.
July 9th, 2009 at 18:23
Is there a reason one would choose to use find|cpio instead of just using ‘sudo rsync -av /home/* /’?
July 9th, 2009 at 18:23
[I thought so... ::sigh::]
Is there a reason one would choose to use find|cpio instead of just using ’sudo rsync -av /home/* (new-partition-mount-point)/’?
July 11th, 2009 at 05:19
Thanks for your Ubuntu Linux Resources site, its really good. Have you thought about doing a Clonezilla help page? Its the best way to clone/image a complete hard drive in my opinion.
July 11th, 2009 at 12:37
I’d love to, except that I can’t really suss out CloneZilla myself…
July 16th, 2009 at 10:17
just wanted to thank you for this great information!
July 18th, 2009 at 23:48
thanks for the manual of installing ies4linux, it was verya useful
July 21st, 2009 at 21:56
Thanks for the ‘Mounting Linux Partitions in Ubuntu’ post; I formatted an old NTFS partition to EXT3 and just couldn’t get it mounted till I came across your post.
August 7th, 2009 at 17:24
I have a question, or maybe it is a suggestion, I am not sure. I have installed the minimal ( or bare bones ) of Ubuntu with the xfce desktop which is my favotite at the moment, and I was wondering about the sound setup. I have fooled around with it some, and I get sound ok on the desktop, but is there a “preferred” sound system that works the best with Ubuntu? I thought I had it all figured out, and I founf a neat site for installing Skype on my setup, which I did, and it even worked for a bit, but now I am having trouble with it. Do you know any tricks or tips for the correct sound set up, and best mixer to use. My sound card is an Intel. Thanks for any help, or suggestions. Love your work!!
August 7th, 2009 at 17:38
Unfortunately, I’m not that knowledgeable about sound issues. If this doesn’t fix it for you…
https://bugs.launchpad.net/netbook-remix/+bug/318942/comments/44
… then I would try the Ubuntu Forums:
http://www.ubuntuforums.org
August 10th, 2009 at 05:07
hi , In your guide http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/mountwindowsfstab you make a dir windows that is never used, nice tutorials
August 11th, 2009 at 05:40
Hello ubuntucat. I appreciated your guide about the advantages in using gksudo instead of sudo.
But i found that sometimes we must execute a graphical application with our environment, and not the root config.
This because simply i could have an application configured in my home dir and want it to have some privileges (niceness, permissions etc).
So i think is worth saying that gksudo has also this ability with the -k option. In this way gksudo preserve the environment of the user, but act with root privileges. You could mention this feature in the gksudo guide. Thanks.
August 11th, 2009 at 13:45
Hi ubuntucat, thanks for the pure gnome, pure xfce, pure kde scripts. I was wondering… Could you also make one of these for pure console? As in… no ubuntu, no kubuntu, no xubuntu?
August 11th, 2009 at 14:44
@Alonso
It’s in there. Take another look.
@mizar
Interesting to know, but it’s a bit out of the scope of my tutorials.
@josh fuller
I believe if you remove libc6 and xorg, that should do it.
August 17th, 2009 at 09:22
Hi,this is nishant here from India. I wanted to know when ubuntu is being installed in an specific drive, whether it will delete some files from the drive or keep it as before the same…..?????
August 30th, 2009 at 00:55
thanks for the info
August 30th, 2009 at 00:56
to nishant – ubuntu is being installed on a virtual drive, all your host drive is safe and cannot be accessed by the virtual machine, the virtual drive is the only place ubuntu runs off.
August 30th, 2009 at 07:58
Hey just want to say thanks,
one of your tutorials just saved all my data after vista crashed, and i had forgotten my login for ubuntu.
Shane
September 3rd, 2009 at 17:46
I just used your mounting an internal partition tutorial. Worked like a charm and now I have access to the other 800+ gb on my TB system as a data storage area. Thanks MUCHO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
September 4th, 2009 at 15:36
Hey there, thanks for the great website, I used your separate partition for /home instructions and (once I actually bothered to read them properly!) they just worked! Great!
One point, already made by ‘David’ somewhere up above, wouldn’t it be better to use the -m option on the cpio operation to preserve modification times? So the command becomes:
find home -depth -print0 | cpio –null –sparse -pvdm /new/
Great site, be encouraged!
September 7th, 2009 at 14:03
Thanks for another great site about software installation under Ubuntu.
I have one question, though, which I have not seen a good answer for on any of these sites: once you install a package, how do you know which name to refer to the main executable? Sometimes the mapping (package name -> binary executable) is obvious, sometimes there is some small mutation of the letters at the end. Sometimes more than one binary executable is added.
I haven’t added that many packages, and I am already losing track:(
September 7th, 2009 at 21:05
Thank you so much! I am new to Ubuntu and Linux and could not understand how to modify the /usr/local/lib directory. Now I get it!!!
Thanks agian!
Kevin
September 8th, 2009 at 13:37
Your pictograph tutorial for Dual boot is very nice…but I feel you underestimate yourself…IF presented in the step by step, Picture by Picture method you have used here:
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/installing
MOST people wishing to switch to a Windows/Linux Dual boot COULD use the ext4 manual partitioning method. I will have an Article/Tutorial up SOON on either Associated Content or eHow…I would LIKE to possibly colaborate on combining our knowledge and skills to revamp what I have presented in an illustrated way. Please E-Mail me so I can E-mail you the link as soon as my Article is “Out in the REAL World”…If you wish.
Later!
Wolfie Lee (ubuntu software forum user [Ultimate Edition Ubuntu])link to my posts:http://forumubuntusoftware.info/search.php?search_id=egosearch&sid=27f31f5750fda74b86860b54b899cd46
September 8th, 2009 at 15:50
My concern isn’t that people would be unable to follow those directions to do a traditional dual-boot.
My concern is mainly that a traditional dual-boot is harder to undo. If people aren’t sure whether they want to use Ubuntu or not, it’s best to put them in a situation in which they can easily remove Ubuntu should they wish to. Wubi allows them to remove the dual-boot the way they would any Windows program.
A traditional dual-boot does not.
September 8th, 2009 at 22:57
Just used your password reset instructions — real life saver — thanks!
September 10th, 2009 at 03:02
Just wanted to pass on my thanks for making my transition to linux so easy.
I’ve been in I.T. for 20+ years, always stuck in the proprietary software environment. I’ve been using opensource apps for over a decade but never used linux.
All of the ‘distros’ and desktops had me stumped and with all of the ‘technical’ help out there, trying to find a simple answer the most basic question: “Which linux should I use”. I got all sorts of fanbois trumpeting a, b, c and everwhere I looked had a different ‘technical’ opinion and rarely a ‘user’ opinion.
Your turorial/setup site is very well written and had me up and running in less than 30 minutes (plus the patching and apps setup). Straight forwards help like you’ve provided is the only way the ‘average person on the street’ will ever swap from micro$oft to linux.
Again, thanks very much.
September 13th, 2009 at 11:34
Just wanted to express my appreciation for your website. I loaded KDE into my GNOME-using Ubuntu install to play with it and only then realized there was no “one click solution” to remove everything. Thanks for the tutorial page!
September 13th, 2009 at 12:24
Thank you so much! I have install ubuntu 9.04 in windows xp, using virtualbox.
September 15th, 2009 at 18:31
My grandfather worked for IBM, taught me DOS when I was 8. I’ve been an MS baby ever since.
It’s getting old.
I love this open source stuff and I’ve just begun exploring it. That exploration landed me here, and your site has been bookmarked for what will be many references to come I’m sure. I’m guessing it will be a long journey, and I’m looking forward to it. Thanks for all your work.
Love the religious thoughts as well – though it’s been a while since your last on that. Have you moved that type of discussion elsewhere or just sick of it? ;)
September 16th, 2009 at 05:37
G’day,
This is an excellent site for beginners – I am starting a Linux Users Group in my City on 3 October and will be making a guide to installing Ubuntu with all references to your site. One of the main purposes for a LUG is to promote Linux to people in the community – this has helped me organise the necessary resources.
Thank you for an incredible resource for the Linux Newbie.
Cheers
Martin
September 16th, 2009 at 22:40
Being a regular reader of ubuntucat, I notice that the homepage has just turn into about page? Wassup over there?
“in my mind I m going to Carolina, can u see the sun shine, can u just see the moon light… “
September 17th, 2009 at 10:46
I’ve changed it back. I thought perhaps it was going to take too long to load as more and more entries got added. Wasn’t sure anyone cared if it was there or not. Apparently at least someone does.
September 17th, 2009 at 14:39
Well, I thought I was some glitch or something, but if it’s ur call…
Anyway, there’s a very neat plugin on WP platform that automatically trim your post, with a link to the full one. Fully customizable. It’s especially useful if you tend to write a short summary at the begining of a wall of words :)
It’s here: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/post-teaser/
It’s completely down to personal, but I prefer the front page about 1 screen or less. Never been a big fan of scrolling pages after pages.
September 17th, 2009 at 16:00
I one time read somewhere about how to protect access to Memtest at the grub menu. Could you please tell me how to do that? Thanks.
September 17th, 2009 at 16:56
Hi, It’s been more than a year since i switched over to Ubuntu and i am ashamed to admit being unclear about how to create a data partition during installation, even today. I have been told that it can only be done post installation. In that case, how do i reserve space for it so that /dev/sda1 is swap, /dev/sda2 is the data partition and /dev/sda3 i the /(root)? And all of them are in the ‘correct disk order’, because if i have understood correctly, partitions are numbered in their order of creation, and i would very much prefer to have my / partition at the end.
September 18th, 2009 at 16:12
@mehboob
I’m not sure about “data” partition, but if you’re talking about the “home” one, then as far as I know, you can create it even while installing, and that’s the easier way.
When it turns to the step that creating partitions, just create a new one, say, /dev/sda2, and select its mount point as “home”. let the installation do the rest. After installing, you wont notice anything different, but your /home is in a separated partition. Doing this will help save your data, should you want to reinstall OS, or install the newer one.
And although I’ve never try, although many have said it’s okay, my lesson from windows is that you should never install OS in any other place but the foremost partitions.
Hope this help!
September 20th, 2009 at 19:37
Hello,
I loved your forum here.
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/kde-core
However, I installed 8.04 Hardy Heron, and would like you to update this site with a section for Hardy Heron under “Getting to kde-core from a standard Kubuntu installation”
It would be greatly appreciated!!
September 25th, 2009 at 14:37
Thanks a lot for this very helpful guide:
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/partitioning
There are tons of guides out there which describe how to partition the drive, but they usually don’t talk much about planning the partition.
As a totally Linux newbie, this was extremely helpful to me.
Kudos!
September 25th, 2009 at 18:45
Just wanted to say, your guide on upgrading to Mozilla’s FireFox was absolutely perfect – thank you so much for posting it.
I’d tried a few methods previously, both from the Net and ones I’d cobbled together myself, and never managed to get a result I was happy with to get myself up to 3.5. Your tutorial couldn’t have been simpler to follow, though, and on top of that, I really appreciate the script break down at the end – helped me understand a little more both about what was going on, and about the power of the Terminal in Linux.
So, again, thank you very much for taking the time to put that tutorial up, you’ve just managed to remove one of those last few little grumbles I was still having with Ubuntu.
September 29th, 2009 at 08:35
Re: Forgot user password under Ubuntu 8.04
You saved me … your guide was the clearest and most effective … bar none.
Thank you.
Pierre Tremblay
Ottawa, Canada
October 6th, 2009 at 04:30
I am new to linux. I was given ubuntu 9.04 and wanted to try it out. I tried out two of your tutorials
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/partimage
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/separatehome
my live cd didn’t have partimage or gparted packages, (its called pcuserextreme 9.04) so I created a flash boot disk from the cd then installed partimage and gparted to the flash boot disk.
I stuffed up permissions for /home (root owned all the files) and couldn’t view the task bar when I logged in.
This site showed me how to set proper permissions.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=371052
Thanks for your tutorials. It was a lot of fun.
October 10th, 2009 at 20:24
Hi, http://pb.opperschaap.net/69 are ways to remove meta packages. You can use it to remove *buntu-desktop packages including their dependencies. It will not remove deps which are needed for other packages you have installed.
Same principle applies for removing build-deps.
If you place it on your website, please credit me.
https://launchpad.net/~wesleys
Cheers,
Wesley
October 14th, 2009 at 21:30
Regarding your post on making a seperate /home partition. It was helpful, but caused problems for me. The section where you copy over the /home directory, you should append that to read cp -p to maintain the permissions, then you don’t have to go back and chmod 644 to the files that become unusable due to ownership rights. I’m not new to linux, so I was able to figure out what went wrong and how to fix it, but for people that are new to linux and just want to preserve space on their installation, they may find themselves unable to log back in. Anyway, thanks for the post all the same, I wouldn’t have thought of it prior to reading your HOWTO.
October 18th, 2009 at 17:16
Hi, I have just read your tutorial as I have today installed ubuntu to completely replace windows xp, I did this because I was ripped off with an unlicensed windows I followed the instructions and popped out while it was installing, when I came back, the PC screen still had the install icon, I clicked on it thinking that it had not worked and nothing happened so I rebooted and I Have killed my Pc…. It will not boot normally or from the CD all I get is Boot failure, I have entered cmos and ensured that it is set to boot from cd, however I kep getting the same message..please help, Have I killed my PC, I am now in panic mode….
lisa
October 21st, 2009 at 04:25
Many thanks for your great description on http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/mountlinux!
Could you put a short comment to the last two commands
(sudo chown -R marie:marie /storage
sudo chmod -R 755 /storage)
about that it is not advisible if the partition to be mounted is a (another) boot partition!
(I was too fast while douing the steps. Finally I resolved, but this comment could save some time for other readers of your excellent description.)
Many thanks,
Pal
October 21st, 2009 at 13:36
Hi Psyco, Your tutorial is superb. it really helped me a lot.. thanks for your tutorial.
October 21st, 2009 at 21:17
Hi,
Do you know why when I download flash player that it gives me a error message?
“Error: Wrong architecture ‘i386′”
Thx
BoomBoom
October 22nd, 2009 at 08:32
Create a separate home partition in Ubuntu
I followed your page on psychocats to put my /home on a dedicated partition. By the way, this is on beta 9.10 version.
It works… but just a few comments.
- where ‘ext3′, we can put actually anything that we like, as long as it is in line with what has been used during the partitioning with gparted. For my account, I have my system on an ext3 partition, and the new /home on an ext4.
- new line in fstab. Much better to base this new line on the other lines already in fstab, for similar partition. I did follow (without thinking, like an idiot!) your recommendation (changing the sda nr and type of course) of putting
/dev/sda3 /home ext3 nodev,nosuid 0 2
and of course, nothing worked once I re-boot.
So, after some thinking, I re-modified fstab with a line for my /home partition that was based on the other ones (e.g. the one for the system partition). Of course needs to get the UUID (ls /dev/disk/by-uuid)… without any mistake. It worked.
- chown etc… Because I messed up with the fstab line, I did try first your recommendation for .drmc and .ICEauthority, and forgot about it.
That probably messed a bit ‘Evolution’. But this may be because when I did the chmod … there was no /home partition anymore (wrong line in fstab, and no /home in the root system). I re-did the chmod lines that you recommend, directly in the normal session with the Terminal, and this fixed the issue with Evolution.
Thank you.
October 24th, 2009 at 04:04
I wanted to suggest something about your page “Which *buntu to pick”.
Maybe you might want to add Ubuntu Studio, Mythbuntu, and maybe even Mint to the version you detail. At least the same size paragraph as Ku,Xu,Edu & Ubuntu have.
This would let users of Windows Media know it might save them trouble going to Myth or Mint which seem to be more media ready. I know it wouldn’t take long to download codecs, but I think these also add more media players? I know Mint comes with the non-free codecs pre-installed.
I use a Mac, and I think Ubuntu Studio is more inviting. Since Macs tend to be used more with graphic design / website work. I like that the application bundles lean more towards creative types.
Thanks for your tutorials, I’m hoping to get my PC built in a few months and load Ubuntu Studio.
Meanwhile, I have Debian in my PPC iMac, since it works better for my hardware.
October 27th, 2009 at 17:11
I plan to do a translation to portuguese (BR) of your good website about Ubuntu. Would there’s already been done?
Thanks
October 27th, 2009 at 17:25
@anyone asking for support
Go to the Ubuntu Forums: http://www.ubuntuforums.org
Very friendly and helpful folks there
@natgab
I don’t want to complicate things too much new users (that’s whom the page is targeted toward—it’s not intended to be comprehensive), but I will consider your suggestion for future Psychocats iterations
@Antonio
I don’t know if it’s already been done. You’re welcome to do it, though
October 29th, 2009 at 06:02
Your website offers a choice between virtualbox and wubi:
http://psychocats.net/ubuntu/installing
I’ve installed Heron on two netbooks and far prefer Ubuntu to Windows. On a new notebook/netbook (Acer 1410), I hope to have a true dual boot system running Windows 7 and probably Koala.
I’ve been reading numerous blogs and threads, but wonder why you presented virtualbox and wubi but didn’t mention actual dual boot.
October 29th, 2009 at 12:31
Teresa,
Thanks for your comment. It’s because I’ve read too many “I installed Ubuntu but don’t like it and want to go back to Windows… how do I do it?” posts over the years on the Ubuntu Forums. VirtualBox and Wubi allow easy and safe ways to get to know Ubuntu without committing to a difficult-to-remove installation (which a traditional dual-boot is, since it involves repartitioning and replacing the boot loader on the MBR).
I figure by the time someone has had sufficient experience with Ubuntu in VirtualBox and Wubi, she should have the tools necessary to set up a “proper” dual-boot… or just install Ubuntu over Windows altogether.
October 30th, 2009 at 09:23
Your article on making use of the ‘Manual’ partitioning option during a Ubuntu installation in place of the ‘Guided’ partitioning option and creating a /home partition was excellent. I Googled and Yahooed and clicked on a lot of links for doing that but your tutorial was the BEST.
Nice work!
And now that I have found this website I wish you write more articles!
November 5th, 2009 at 20:05
ubuntucat, thank you for your site. It made going back to ubuntu a snap after trying kubuntu for a while. It also made reinstalling kde a snap after finding out that my wife prefers kubuntu.
I was wondering if you could point me in the direction of a way to be able specify different default desktops for diferent users: Gnome for me and kde for the beautiful miss michelle (my wife). I’ll look around for an answer in the meantime.
thanks
November 7th, 2009 at 17:32
ububtucat, I’ve answered my own question, it seems that the ogin manager remembers your last login and defaults to that desktop when the user logs in the next time. Thanks Kevin
November 20th, 2009 at 12:24
When I finally stumbled onto your page titled “Where’s the Terminal” I was so pleased find an explanation aimed at a person having little experience with Linux/Ubuntu. Nice job. I feel better already.
November 23rd, 2009 at 00:48
Have just discovered your Ubuntu Linux resources site. Fantastic! Thank you.
November 25th, 2009 at 03:01
hi thx for a good post on moving home to a new linux partition. one point though. on a similar tutorial you said, “I also ran into the /home directory (mount point) not existing when I followed these instructions, so I tried to correct that in my tutorial”. However, I can’t see how yours is clearer. I’m at the point, “Mount the new home”, which is not included in your post. It seems logical to mk a new home directory on the /root partition & then mount the home partition to this. Would be great if you could clarify this, & how should the /home partition be structured? As /home/username/[data & files]?
December 1st, 2009 at 14:16
Thanks for the Post…..
And can i know about the Linux Memory Management with kernel 2.6
December 2nd, 2009 at 21:26
man, thanks a lot for the tutorial of how to install firefox 3.5 in ubuntu hardy…!!!1
really!!! thanks a lot!!!
December 3rd, 2009 at 01:26
On another site(psychocats), you wrote a guide comparing kde and gnome. You said that sometimes, you defend kdes “complexity”, but other times, you see that it is actually confusing. You specifically said, something like”I cannot figure out how to move the task bar to other places in the screen. Also, what does the “screen edges” option do?”
I lol’d when I saw this, as if you click on screen edges, hold the mouse button down and drag to another screen edge(hence the name :), it moves the task bar to another spot :D
Hope this helps :D
December 7th, 2009 at 04:42
Hello dude!,
Hey, just asking. The pure KDE terminal command on your site is missing :(
Do you plan posting it anytime soon? :)
Cheers and thanks for everything.
December 7th, 2009 at 14:49
I’m seeing it here:
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/purekde
Can you be more specific about what’s missing?
December 8th, 2009 at 12:31
hi
i have installed ubuntu jaunty on my laptop. it using all space of my hardisk(160gb).
but now i need some space for windows that i want to install.
how can i making partition for my ubuntu and prepare instalation for windows?thanks
December 29th, 2009 at 12:23
Dear Ubuntucat,
I found a tutorial for creating images on
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/partimage
it needs (should-need) an update as the partimage repositories are
moved to universal, (explaning that you need to add the universal repos to the /etc/apt/sources.list)
Kind Regards
Hugo
December 31st, 2009 at 13:48
I appreciate all of the work you have done with this site. I have referred many people here when they needed a tutorial to sole different issues.
I did not see a tutorial on fixing the bootloader after a user re-installs Windows on a dual boot setup.
I can outline it, if you would be interested in adding a tutorial on that problem.
January 5th, 2010 at 14:20
I’m brand new to Linux (read: dummy w/ no tech background) and your tutorials have been an incredible resource to get started. Thanks a lot for writing it in a way a liberal arts-educated person can understand it.
January 6th, 2010 at 05:03
Thanks for the flash help post… It is easier than I thought. Straightforward and simply brief…
January 8th, 2010 at 21:42
I’m a recent convert to Linux/Ubuntu 9.10 and am enjoying your tutorials which explain things more fluently than the offical Ubuntu forum.
Now, if only I could convince my teenage son to convert. He expects me to spend 3 days on his laptop reloading a trashed XP Pro (including 5+ years worth of update downloads)!! All this despite me proving to him that Spotify can run under WINE!!
January 11th, 2010 at 08:57
Hi,let me say at the outset that I am very impressed with your tutorials and your view of the linux world, it’s refreshing, thanks. I would like to know if you are going to do a tutorial or give you ideas of about watching movies in Ubuntu. I think that with your GUI approach it would be most helpful for new converts, as people do love movies. Thank you.
January 16th, 2010 at 12:42
At the risk of sounding weird I realized today I should probably thank you for what you have done within the Ubuntu community. I began using Linux in early 2007… three years later I haven’t looked back and your tutorials which were so helpful to me in 2007 are still something I turn to, sometimes, when I upgrade or reinstall.
Just thought you might want to know how appreciated your hard work is :)
January 23rd, 2010 at 19:48
The way, you have demonstrated how to get KDE in Ubuntu is remarkable. I am much appreciated and totally satisfied.
January 28th, 2010 at 14:30
Thanks for your help!
I’ve made the bad choice to don’t make a root password in the instalation process, without your help, I couldn’t make anything.
Thanks, from Brazil :)
February 6th, 2010 at 04:55
Loved http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/minimal#barebones
I was wondering if you could update/expand it to include using apt-cacherng – the FASTEST way to install multiple machines.
February 9th, 2010 at 18:16
Many thanks for the tutorial on moving /home to a new partition. Was so excited to get my new PC i completely forgot to partition it correctly! D’oh!
You saved me a lot of pain! Cheers!
February 18th, 2010 at 22:10
I followed the instructions on setting up a minimal Ubuntu system with icewm and everything went well, at first.
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/minimal
I would like to install an icewm theme, but I’m running into trouble. First, most of the tutorials say to use the icewm menu. I see no menu! Second, I’ve followed the manual configuration, configuring the $HOME/.icewm/preferences file, but nothing happens, even after a restart.
Everything still looks the same as when I first installed it. I can’t switch themes.
Any ideas? Am I missing something? Thanks.
February 20th, 2010 at 08:45
I have a comment about http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/backup
You wrote there “So if you’re going to do any kind of experimental stuff with Ubuntu (for example, installing Beryl or Compiz)”, well compiz is installed by default in Ubuntu since Jaunty (or even earlier).
February 20th, 2010 at 11:51
Thanks for bringing that to my attention. I’m planning to do a more thorough update when Lucid comes out.
February 22nd, 2010 at 02:19
Regarding:
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/puregnome
Great tutorial! After removing kubuntu though it did not restore the default mouse cursor though and I had to google around a bit to find it out. I think this would be helpful for other people.
sudo update-alternatives –config x-cursor-theme
and pick the number for /usr/share/icons/DMZ-White/cursor.theme
Thanks for the great work!
February 23rd, 2010 at 00:05
we are on a limited data cap here in nz do you know how much the minimal install downloads
February 26th, 2010 at 08:49
Hey man. Thanks a bunch for telling how to reset ubuntu password. Was using virtual box, and never used password as had save state. You saved me a bunch of time from reinstalling. Thanks!
March 3rd, 2010 at 18:42
Thank you for the ‘mountlinux’ tutorial. This has been a problem for me for months. I finally cracked it following your processes. Easy when you know how, isn’t it.
Thanks again,
Paul.
March 9th, 2010 at 01:08
Dear Author
Your wonderful write up on the Ubuntu PSW recovery article is very useful. However, I have problems in recovering my psw after many tries. I got to the second screen but when the system console prompted for entering my password which is nr and I entered passwd nr and the system said login incorrect. I tried your method ls/home (lower case L and S), it still gave the same error.
My system has GRUB Version 1.97~beta 4.
can you place help me?
Thanks
Ram
March 9th, 2010 at 09:42
Hi, I’m a big fan of your tutorials, and as a relative beginner to Ubuntu I’ve learnt a lot from them, so I’d like to say thanks.
My second reason for posting this was to let you know I would like to create a mirror of your site at http://www.ubuntutor.info, unless you have any objections to this? (It would be an exact replica.)
At the moment my site is empty and going to waste. I intend to write some of my own articles aimed at beginners to Ubuntu, when I finally get round to it…..
Thanks,
Martyn
March 9th, 2010 at 21:22
Sure, mirroring is cool. More details here:
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/#translatelinkto
March 10th, 2010 at 18:07
Hi, I just want to say cheers for being the start of my Linux journey. I saw this link posted on a forum: http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/resetpassword It reminded me of the time I got into my mates laptop and left a text file on his desktop informing him that he had been hacked, he wouldn’t shut up about how safe linux was. I had to. But it started my passion for Linux. Thank you.
March 11th, 2010 at 02:03
Thanks for your tutorial web site. I used your “How to reset your password in Ubuntu” guide the other day while helping a friend with his computer. He is young and had change his password to keep his Brother off it then straight way for got what it was.
March 12th, 2010 at 05:36
Thanks or ubuntu-desktop on Kubuntu.
I can’t even believe that.
No more wars, two DE’s in one place, just log out and you are welcome.
Tutorial is MUST HAVE = it’s about multimedia and visul styles, not about commands and physical things.
Why? Because when I am satisfacted by the appearance and music, radio, Internet TV around me I CAN LEARN COMMANdS IN THAT * NICE WHITE-COLORED TERMINAL.
And work: spreasheets, bases, business – when my computer in the pair with Ubuntu is well MULTIEDIA-ARMORED.
March 12th, 2010 at 14:07
Good tutorials. One comment, somewhat related to the “iTunes in Ubuntu” article. I’m a sysadmin in an entirely Windows environment. There are certain tools that I use for work (and occasionally for personal use) that just will not run in Linux, and for which there are no (as of yet) suitable alternatives on the FOSS side. Primarily I’m speaking of Access, Visio, and personnaly, Income Tax software, although there are a few others. (Yes I’ve tried Kivio and OOBase, but they just don’t cut the mustard).
I used to Dual-boot, but as you stated, this very quickly becomes tiresome. Now I run Win7 in a VirtualBox VM, and keep the VM open on one side of the Cube. I do the majority of my work/play in Karmic, but when I NEED to use one my Windows apps, I just spin the cube around and there it is, no muss, no fuss.
Just a suggestion for those folks who unfortunately have to use Win apps on occasion.
Again, great tutorials. Your site is now bookmarked.
March 12th, 2010 at 15:20
Sorry for mistakes because of Firefox during I was typing forced me to restart.
March 12th, 2010 at 15:31
To Glen Isham.
Thank you for the information about Access, that’s the problem which is very importent for me too.
Just in fresh Karmic OOBase doesn’t open Access 2007 files (but .DOCX and .XLSX filetypes in OpenOffice is OK – it’s great, I can’t keep silence about that). I believe that I’ll find some decisions later because I’m only getting started with Ubuntu now .
March 21st, 2010 at 16:51
I was able to change my home directory to a new partition successfully; on Linux Mint Helena. Simple and complete instruction. Thanks
- Kapil
March 31st, 2010 at 10:32
Where have you gone?!
The separate /home partition post was useful and I just checked back when I found a problem with Ubuntu 10.04 (see bug 544250 in Launchpad). You need to disable the swap partition to be able to resize the main partition:
right click the swap partition and select swapoff
It’s used by default by the LiveCD.
March 31st, 2010 at 21:02
I just wanted to let you know that the remove Gnome command is blank on the pure KDE page.
March 31st, 2010 at 21:44
Please ignore my previous comment, apparently it was Konqueror. Thank you for your extremely helpful tips!
March 31st, 2010 at 22:47
I read your post on iTunes. You are my hero, and you need to post more. Do it now.
April 17th, 2010 at 18:39
Thank you so much for the command to remove the appalling xubuntu and go back to pure gnome -installed inadvertently when trying to fix a sound problem.
Who ever thought it was a good idea? Until I stumbled upon your page I was contemplating a full reinstall to get rid of this inflexible, unfriendly pile of doodoo.
Well done.
April 28th, 2010 at 14:14
The amount of work that went into this project remains to be both impressive and obvious. Thanks for everything!
But, one question: Why does Ubuntu hate 64-bit architecture? I used your wonderful Installing Flash page and it didn’t work (“Unable to find expected entry main/binary-amd64/Packages in Meta-index file”), tried using Klik and it’s not working, laughs at me (well, kind of) when I try to install ZSNES, doesn’t like the new Firefox 3.6.3 download, and the list goes on.
Should I just throw out my 64-bit laptop (being next to a window is a very tempting) and just buy a damn 32-bit or what?
Ripping out my hair,
Jake
April 30th, 2010 at 03:37
I have been following your guide for installing flash (http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/flash). But after this step http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/images/flashlucid04.png I get the error: Package ‘adobe-plahplugin’ is virtual.
Could anyone help me please?
April 30th, 2010 at 12:29
Probably this bug:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apturl/+bug/554449
Post a thread on the Ubuntu Forums for help.
May 5th, 2010 at 07:40
Haven’t used ubuntu since I was in college, your tutorials were great! Thanks a lot for the help!
May 5th, 2010 at 13:22
@Gallivanteer:
Us “old guys” are supposed to be using that line! As in, “I haven’t used Unix since I was in college.”
Which was, um, more than 5 years ago…
May 6th, 2010 at 19:41
Hi! Great site! it is one of the best I have traced about Ubuntu. It is very useful to all Linux newbies. Thanks a lot for the effort and the time you have spent.
May 7th, 2010 at 14:04
Would you please add another page to your wiki? I already have three partitions root, swap, and home. And thanks for the help getting that done.
Now that 10.4 is out, I do NOT want to do an upgrade. I would like to do a clean install on root. I have tried this before with 9.4 but the install did not see my current accounts (4). I need to save the documents, pictures, etc, but do not want to save the .gnome stuff.
Kind of start clean with my documents in tact. I’ve read that it is ‘easy’ to do, but I’m lost. I could simply re-install, re-make the accoutns, and then copy…
what is the better way?
thanks.
Craig A.
May 7th, 2010 at 14:27
Since you want your documents but not your settings to stay, instead of a /home partition, what you need to do is set up a data partition and preserve that when you reinstall.
If you need more help with that, start a Ubuntu Forums thread.
May 9th, 2010 at 11:09
Love http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/minimal
One improvement could be to [ !! Choose language ] and select “C”: No localization, that would make the installation even more minimal.
From the lots of questions, most difficult to answer was to choose Grub(2) to which kernel to boot (by default):
* linux-generic
* linux-image-generic
* linux-image-generic-2.6.x
etc.
Thanks for the tutorial.
May 10th, 2010 at 14:38
I just wanted to let you know how helpful your tutorials have been in helping me explore and understand the world of Ubuntu. Your work is VERY appreciated.
May 11th, 2010 at 20:10
Hi there ubuntucat,
One small suggestion: I was looking for the best way to download and burn a Ubuntu ISO and stumbled upon your tutorial: Downloading and burning an ISO of Ubuntu. Unfortunately after having read for about ten minutes (I am not a native Anglo-Saxon so I have to translate the text) I realized that your tutorial was meant for people doing this under Windows, so in fact I don’t find much help in it.
Maybe if you would add “under Windows” in the title of the tutorial it would avoid confusion.
For newbies, who want to learn how to deal with Ubuntu and Linux (especially the terminal), finding correct and easy readable and/or understandable tutorials is not an easy task. I have Ubuntu on my desktop since about may 2008, and will never return to Windows. I have clearly understood the advantages of working with a Linux-oriented distro. But still, sometimes I am confronted with problems where I have to search for days and days before finding the correct answer/solution. For example: a few weeks ago I installed a, completely new, second hard-drive. So I had to partition it before installing Ubuntu. Well, somewhere I must have made a mistake, because now I have noticed that my HD is mounted at Root (/). So now I understand that, when I want to boot up on my new HD the desktop stalls. I am convinced that I will find a way to resolve this problem, but maybe now you understand a little bit better my remark about the title of your tutorial: when you have to go digging in tenths of thousands of posts an threads before finding any answers, it can sometimes be frustrating to start reading a paper and having to find out that it is not exactly what the title promises.
No offense, I have already found a lot of help in some of the other tutorials you have written. For which my deepest gratitude. Thank you oh so much for the good work you have been doing.
Many regards, gusteman.
May 15th, 2010 at 17:04
Hi! Great tuturial on youtube on how to install ubuntu on a virtualbox. I am running XP. After I installed the virtualbox, I have no wireless internet connection. I can only connect with a cat5 cable. Do you know a fix for that?
Thx,
AJ
May 16th, 2010 at 06:35
Hmm…
I checked ur post on a different home partition…
And am gonna try something really wicked here…
Just installed Ubuntu 10.04 with a seperate /boot and /home. And planning to install Fedora 13 KDE on another partition.
The /boot is different so no issues.
But, I wanna use the same /home partition for Fedora as well as Ubuntu. Fedora 13 should be downloaded in a day or so.
Let’s see how it goes. If you have any suggestions feel free to mail me… ;-)
May 19th, 2010 at 10:34
Any chance of adding removal instructions for lubuntu-desktop on this page http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/puregnome?
Thanks in advance
May 19th, 2010 at 20:36
Doubtful as part of the page. Start a thread in the Ubuntu Forums, though, and I may be able to help you out there.
May 23rd, 2010 at 20:48
Thank you. Your work is appreciated ^___^
May 30th, 2010 at 09:41
thanks for the advice on changing the password in ubuntu. It’s worked and I’m back running again
June 1st, 2010 at 18:48
thanx man!!!
June 2nd, 2010 at 14:35
i tried your Create a separate home partition in Ubuntu in Lucid and i was successful but i got this error resulting in disappearance of the volume control and shut down/restart/logoff control on panel
may be theres something that needs to be tweaked in the procedure..
But a quick way to do it and i like it though
have posted it on the forums
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=9400412#post9400412
June 7th, 2010 at 14:36
Just want to say thanks for the website! I have only been using ubuntu for about a week now. I couldn’t get hulu to work no matter what I tried. I spent several days searching forums web pages ext. I was considering moving back to windows out of frustration. I found psychocats eventually and within 5 minutes was up and watching hulu. Best ubuntu tutorials I have found so far. Long live Linux!
June 8th, 2010 at 15:52
I need to give you a belated thank you for your contribution to my knowledge. I’ve been using Linux for about ten years now. I struggled with it until I found Ubuntu and the Apt-get application. Now whenever I run into a snag, I consult with Psychocats for the hows and whys, before I go elsewhere. Many thanks from me and from others who have yet to thank you themselves.
June 11th, 2010 at 13:41
Hi, I just tried the remastersys tutorial and I wanted to tell you that you give clear and easy to do tutorials, thank you so much. I have a question, the custom cd after it has booted ask me for a user name and password. I think I know my username but when making the custom cd it never ask me for a password. So I can’t get in. Maybe I’m missing something. How do I get pass this? Thanks in advance…
June 11th, 2010 at 16:41
Seems to be a known issue:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=9158421&highlight=password#post9158421
Better to ask the Remastersys creator (Ubuntu Forums username fragadelic
June 15th, 2010 at 03:12
you are wrong about one thing, it is possible to get itunes on ubuntu – i currently connect to the store and use it with my iphone
June 15th, 2010 at 11:37
hi,
The tutorial for using wine to open an windows executable file in ubuntu was extremely helpful. This is the first time I was trying to use a windows program in linux and was floundering when i found your instructions. thanks a lot.
June 15th, 2010 at 12:18
If you can provide a step-by-step tutorial that someone else can follow to get iTunes working successfully on Ubuntu and then update the WineHQ entry on it then I will update my info on iTunes.
So far, after seeing thousands of forum threads and blog posts about it, I have not seen any convincing evidence that iTunes successfully can be run on Ubuntu without using virtualization (which is really just using Windows and not Ubuntu at all).
June 18th, 2010 at 17:51
Hi,
when i uninstalled the KDE from Ubuntu Lucid Lynx, browser fonts was very ugly. It was needed to remove the file ~/.fonts.conf to correct this behaviour. I’ve saw this tip in http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=9289462
June 20th, 2010 at 19:57
I have a suggestion for your tutorial on “Mounting Linux Partitions in Ubuntu” — I noticed you used a listing of /dev/disks/by-uuid, but with some users, especially those with many hard drives and many partitions on those drives (I have over 10 myself), that can be messy to sort through and difficult to understand, although I respect that it is appropriate for many users. Perhaps you could try “sudo blkid -p /dev/yourdrive” after querying the available drives with “sudo fdisk -l” to find the one you are after. Using “blkid” would keep the desired output to one line and still provide the same information. Kudos to an otherwise great tutorial!
June 21st, 2010 at 00:17
Ralph, I always appreciate thoughtful feedback. My tutorials are really beginner tutorials aimed at simplicity and trying to address the most common scenarios. In most cases, people have been able to figure out what drives are which, even if they have two or three hard drives with a couple partitions on each.
I do think what you have offered is good for me to know, though, in case I get a question on the Ubuntu Forums about a special situation. Thanks!
June 22nd, 2010 at 11:16
Nice infos you have there, ubuntucat.
I was just reading [url=http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/puregnome]this page[/url] and was thinking, instead of all those packages, couldn’t it be easier if someone wrote a dummy-package that conflicts with all those other ones and after installation prompts to be uninstalled whenever opened?
Do you know if such a package already exists, or if there’s a reason why it’s not?…
**sorry, pasted wrong address the first time, lol!
June 22nd, 2010 at 12:06
That’s an interesting idea. If I knew how to package, I’d make that metapackage!
June 28th, 2010 at 09:43
Really appreciate your work here, you have my deepest respect.
I’ve spent weeks to figure out how to do certain things in Linux. I’ve really missed comprehensive tutorials or info such as yours. I’ve stumbled upon incomplete tutorials so often that If I wasn’t absolutely forced to use Linux at work I would’ve surely given up by now. Also, I would’ve probably saved lot of time If I had found your site earlier.
Bless you and don’t forget, your work is much appreciated.
Regards John.
June 30th, 2010 at 23:16
Hello,
I was reading your tutorial about the differences between KDE and GNOME. A topic that wasn’t covered is accessibility for people with disabilities. I know it could be a topic for a minority of users, but a very important one for people who are starting in Linux. For example: GNOME has a shortcut (alt+f1) to get to the menu where there is application, place and system, and control+alt+tab to alternate between panels. Also, for blind people such as myself, there is orca, a screen reading program that uses eSpeak to synthesize all the text written to the screen, and even in gnome-terminal. On the other hand, there are very little articles about KDE’s accessibility!
Anyway, keep up the good work!
July 1st, 2010 at 12:11
What can I say but a big thank you for making Linux less of a mystery.
Your instructions are wonderfully written and easy to follow . After an hour or so scrolling around Ubuntu 10 , well it’s starting to feel like a very new friend .
Thanks for helping out with your online presence.
Best
JJ
July 8th, 2010 at 21:16
Typo on your password reset instructions . . .
In this case, I’m going to reset Susan Brownmiller’s password.
To reset the password, type
passwd username
where username is the username you want to reset. In this case, I want to reset Linda’s password, so I type
passwd susan
July 14th, 2010 at 06:40
Good news. Opera Mini for Android has just been updated. It now has that much asked for feature of setting it as the default browser.
It also does fullscreen now.
Thought you would like to know.
Cheers,
E
July 15th, 2010 at 21:53
Good site this! Lots of useful tricks.
I especially used the command for removing the xubuntu desktop from ubuntu. For this section I have a request, can you also give the command for a complete removal of the ubuntu dektop from a lubuntu perspective? That would be very apreciated!
July 23rd, 2010 at 15:25
I was very impressed. I was considering doing the same thing and setting up a blog posting this material but you’ve saved me the trouble of having these tutorials. Well done and well researched.
July 30th, 2010 at 04:44
Hello, ubuntucat. I was reading your website about your instructions for a minimal Ubuntu installation, and I was thinking you could make the system even more faster by utilizing an advanced partition setup, and/or by utilizing apt-build. If you reply to this post, please email me. Thank you!
August 5th, 2010 at 07:27
Thanks!
The guide to install Ubuntu on Windows with VirtualBox have helped me twice now, much appreciated!
August 12th, 2010 at 14:11
Hey there,
Since I saw that your material can be used (for translation, tutorials etc…)…So I’m writing you here that I’ll use your photos from here http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/installing
and of course I’ll put your link as a reference where I took it from
I started to write linux blog of my own…not english, it’s croatian since I’m from Croatia :)
Cheers and keep up with the good work
August 12th, 2010 at 14:50
Sure thing. Thanks for asking. Just as a courtesy, can you make copies of those pictures and upload them to your server, so you aren’t hotlinking them from my site?
August 13th, 2010 at 10:28
sure, that was the plan :) (I’ll download them and rename them :) then they’ll be uploaded on my blog)
tnx for the material :)
August 14th, 2010 at 13:16
Thanks for the guide! Very helpful. One suggestion (unless it’s already there and I missed it, of course): a paragraph or two on the filesystem. I figured out what the “home” folder is, but what is the “Public” folder in my user folder for? And I know I shouldn’t be messing with files outside my user directory, but I still wonder what “bin” is- a place for putting extra system files? Or is that “etc”? Why is there a “usr” folder when my files are in “home”? What’s the difference between “sys”, “root”, and “boot”? Some of this is probably beyond the scope of you guide, but it would be helpful to know where programs go when they are installed in case they have a readme or save files in their own directory, and on a more basic level, it took me a bit to figure out that my files are in “home” rather than “usr” or “root”. Also I had thought that “root” was the equivalent of “C:\” in Windows.
Thanks again!
August 14th, 2010 at 14:13
I don’t rightly know the exact purpose of the folders in the *nix hierarchy (or the Windows one, for that matter).
Some basics, I do know, though. / is the absolute top-level directory everything else is in. There is no exact equivalent in Windows, since D:\ doesn’t live within C:\
/etc generally contains a lot of system configuration files.
/lib contains libraries
/bin contains system binaries (executables)
/usr/bin contains most of the executables you’ll actually use (/usr/bin/firefox and /usr/bin/acroread)
/home is where the user home folders are (/home/heather is the Linux equivalent of /Users/heather or C:\Documents and Settings\heather)
/media is where other drives mount (what would be D:\ and E:\ and F:\) so you would get /media/My BackUp Drive or /media/Sandisk.
That’s about all I know. Hope that helps. As I mentioned before, you really shouldn’t have to (unless you get explicit directions from a detailed tutorial) mess with anything outside your home directory (meaning /home/heather).
August 14th, 2010 at 17:18
Might add these:
‘/root’ is the “home” directory for the superuser (system administrator account). You might ask why it’s not kept in ‘/home/root’ — that’s because oftentimes the ‘/home’ directory tree is kept on a separate disk or partition, and if ‘/home’ doesn’t mount on bootup (e.g., disk failure, rebuilding ‘/home’, etc.), the system will likely fail. Root’s account therefore must reside on the most essential partition, i.e., ‘/’.
‘/boot’ contains boot-time configuration files, mainly the Linux kernel and and a companion “initial RAMdisk image” (‘initrd.img’, a mountable “starter filesystem”) that enable Linux to boot and start assembling the system at startup. Often this is kept in a separate partition, and it must be in a “primary” partition on your hard drive (so that the BIOS loader can find it), whereas the rest of the system, together with other multi-boot operating systems, can be in an extended partition.
‘/sys’, ‘/dev’, & ‘/proc’ are virtual filesystems that are assembled at boot time and describe the system’s device drivers, available devices, and processes & core configuration, respectively. These are not static files as are found in other system directories because you can add or remove system components (such as changing your sound card, hard drives, or even your processor) between bootups — and you wouldn’t want to have to rebuild your system after doing so, so it’s done dynamically at each boot.
Lastly, ‘/usr/bin’ typically contains apps that are installed with the base system and from the distro’s repositories, whereas apps that you compile yourself or obtain from other sources are often put in ‘/usr/local/bin’ to distinguish their origin. Some third-party applications, such as Crossover, use ‘/opt’ instead of ‘/usr/local’ for this purpose.
August 15th, 2010 at 02:29
Thanks for the info on the small desktop environment. I managed to install ubuntu on my old laptop(128 mb ram and 700 mhz cpu!) .
I had to use the alternate-ubuntu iso, because this laptop had no ethernet but an usb wireless dongle!
And I tried using the minimal install…but even after pinging my router with iwconfig and ifconfig, the system was unable to resolve web sites and thus the apt-get repositories. Aww well, I guess I will uninstall gnome!
August 24th, 2010 at 12:35
Thanks ! Outstanding clarity in your tutorial. You just made adding another HDD really easy.
(Got one of those Netgear Storas, upgraded it to 2Gb and put the 1Gb out of it into my Linux box)… several hundred gigs now backing up merrily. Cheers !
August 24th, 2010 at 12:39
oops… seagolfer you berk… that should be Tb’s not Gb’s
September 3rd, 2010 at 01:25
Hi, great web for ubuntu new comer.
But i have a question, why don’t you cover guide for ubuntu installation side by side with windows, only wubi install is available?
September 7th, 2010 at 18:17
I tried following the directions, the installer keeps telling me i have the wrong version of wine but i have the latest from the winehq site, any suggestions? I am using ubuntu 10.04
September 20th, 2010 at 20:30
I recently came across your tutorial about virtualbox and installing ubuntu. will you tell me if its possible to install linux programs like kdenlive in the box without installing a linux operating system, because i do not want to install another OS in the computer.
September 22nd, 2010 at 16:05
I am hoping you can help me here, I am trying to figure out how to get skype to work. First the mic did not work but the headset did, now neither work.
I searched the forums found one that spoke of 32 or 64 bit set up depending on what you have.
Well it is a new computer days old and I don’t know how to find this information using ubuntu…… I know I know, ID-10-T error or what I like to call operator head space, but right now I can even feel myself getting dumber by the minute.
Any information you can give that even points me in the right direction will be a big help.
September 26th, 2010 at 01:33
I wish to express my gratitude. Back when I was just beginning with Ubuntu, and even earlier, when I considered the chance of getting some Linux, I found your articles to be of immense help. Thank you a lot!
September 26th, 2010 at 13:28
Thanks for the help with Ubuntu!! :)
September 28th, 2010 at 14:28
Thx for partition help!:-)
September 29th, 2010 at 10:17
Wow! What a lot of help. Great.
Just one small point though, and yes, I do know it was raised earlier – well sort of. Can you date your pages please so we know how old the info is. There is so much stuff around nowadays it can be ve-ery hard for a new *nix user to sort the wheat from the chaff. Difficult to know what is reasonably up to date and what is most definitely not. I do realise that some ‘old’ info is still current and relevant but a date will help. Well at least us oldies who like it on the line.
Cheers
Alan
September 29th, 2010 at 11:24
I am new to Linux. Your site was indeed a blessing!! Thank you so very much!
October 5th, 2010 at 09:41
hey ubuntucat I host a linux help site and I was wondering if we could form some kind of partnership because I often refer back to your site, in order to help the linux community by providing a base for simple linux related help so because i often find the forums a bit daunting.. lemmie know what you think
October 8th, 2010 at 13:26
Thank you for your tutorial on Mounting Linux Partitions in Ubuntu. That was the exact information I needed to solve a problem I had been having when I added a new hard drive. Thank you again for passing along your knowledge.
October 10th, 2010 at 15:07
i am trying to download ubuntu using wubi.. but once downloading, it says on screen downloading ubuntu 10.4.1 desktop.amd64bit. iso.itorrent. just wondering coz my system has only 32-bit. should i continue downloading this or not? please need an answer.thanks!
October 10th, 2010 at 21:59
Hi,
I’m from the Philippines. There’s a local forum/board that has a section on Ubuntu tutorials and there are quite some instances when I pointed to your website as I personally find it easy especially for newbies. We’re trying to spread Ubuntu as well; I hope that referencing to your tutorials site won’t bother you. Here is our specific thread: http://www.symbianize.com/showthread.php?t=261361.
Most Filipinos are bilingual so in case you would check it out, you’ll notice they speak in a mix of English and Tagalog (our native language). Just wanted to let you know. Great job by the way! :)
October 15th, 2010 at 16:46
thanks for your article about how to fix a broken sudo,
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/fixsudo
that just saved my ubuntu. really thank you!
bless
October 24th, 2010 at 08:36
Thank you for your minimal spec article (http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/minimal), as I was able to use it to get Ubuntu 10.10 working on a pentium 3 laptop with 256 mb or memory, when neither the regular ubuntu desktop or even xubuntu 10.10 would respond quickly enough.
One suggestion about the list of software packages: instead of firefox, you might want to use epiphany (obtainable by: sudo apt-get install epiphany-browser).
Firefox was a huge memory and cpu hog, and after having it running for an hour, made using all the other apps impossible, whereas epiphany runs much more efficiently.
November 2nd, 2010 at 14:45
Thanks a ton for the instructions on resetting the UNIX password. Saved my bacon! :)
November 3rd, 2010 at 20:00
ps. ntfs-config fault on Ubuntu 10.10 due to their abandonment of HAL (is udev the new thing? – frustrates me a bit… ).
Installed by apt-get.
/$ gksu ntfs-config
Traceback (most recent call last): File “/usr/bin/ntfs-config”, line 102, in
main(args, opts)
File “/usr/bin/ntfs-config”, line 75, in main
app = NtfsConfig()
File “/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/NtfsConfig/NtfsConfig.py”, line 56, in __init__
os.mkdir(HAL_CONFIG_DIR)
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: ‘/etc/hal/fdi/policy’
November 11th, 2010 at 13:21
Hi,
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/purelxde
Can you please expand on your page regarding this? I don’t know if these steps should be done in a pure shell or in ubuntu. Also, do these steps just modify the userspace or for all users on the system?
Thanks alot.
Learned about your website via reddit. :)
November 17th, 2010 at 16:53
I just saw your article on fixing broken sudo.
I have a comment there, since you are editing /etc/sudoers with nano. this should not be done that way.
The correct way would be using visudo.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Sudoers
November 17th, 2010 at 19:13
I know it’s technically not the correct way, but I suggest nano because it’s more user-friendly, and Ubuntu has bounced back and forth between having nano and having vi as the default editor for the sudo visudo command.
November 18th, 2010 at 18:24
I Googled three days for the Solution but couldnt find a Sufficient Answer …
Thank You so Much for the Right Solution on one page with Best Windows Linux dual boot tutorial
Noor
Pakistan
November 19th, 2010 at 10:06
Hi,
My colleague tried to remove kde from kubuntu today using your suggestion on http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/puregnome – I think you should state a bit more clearly that more things than excepted may be removed and that the list of packaged that are to be removed should be well checked… He’s still busy trying to get his mysql-databases back – and when those are reinstalled, a lot of other things are waiting…
Otherwise, much great information ;-)
November 19th, 2010 at 13:44
Thanks for your comment.
I don’t know how much clearer I can be than It’s possible that the commands might remove some other packages you have since added to the default and want to keep. If that’s the case, keep track of which packages those are and reinstall them. Your settings should still be there.
November 19th, 2010 at 19:57
I’ll link your site to anyone I come across that gets curious about Ubuntu but confused by the various options. You explain things in a very simple and straight forward manner
November 21st, 2010 at 15:15
Hi,
Your site has been an enormous benefit to me as a noob…thankyou – one thing though, any chance you could update your pure Gnome page for removing fluxbox :-) I’m lazy and you know what your doing more than me :-)
November 28th, 2010 at 04:11
Hi, awesome job, first of all, I do have one simple suggestion, makeing all of the shell scripts into a shell file, so it would be easier to just download the “script.sh” file for there version of ubuntu to goto the other version, instead of copy and paste only.and you could even do a lynx friendly version where its just a directory listing.
Just Saying.
December 6th, 2010 at 10:56
Thanks for the excellent Remastersys tutorial. The Remastersys website doesn’t quite explain *what* needs to be copied to /etc/skel before running it, but seeing the screenshots in the tutorial made it clear.
December 10th, 2010 at 11:41
Hey!
Y’know that tutorial on installing KDE onto Ubuntu.
After I installed it onto UBUNTU 10.10 as soon as I started messing with KDE’s menus my menu dissapeared in Gnome. Also, Ubuntu died after 3 hours. I really think you should put a warning about that. Maybe thats why KDE isn’t in Ubuntu’s software centre
December 22nd, 2010 at 22:28
I think you need to update your KDE guide for 10.10. I was trying to do a core install but it seems all of KDE base and core stuff was removed from the packages.
January 3rd, 2011 at 13:14
I just wanted to personally thank you for this tutorial…
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/separatehome
And some of the other EXCELLENT tutorials, as the “other” how to’s on this /move were located in SUPER geekville, and to hard to grasp for someone like me who has “Terminal fear.” (and reoccurring XP M$idise)
BUT Dr. psychocat cured that with a “how to” a Total n00b (thats Tn0b for short) could savvy!
REALLY FOR ALL YOU DO. . . THIS THANK YOU is for YOU !
January 9th, 2011 at 05:09
Thank you very much. Worked perfectly!
Regards,
Dan
January 17th, 2011 at 15:25
Could you make a tutorial for chroot?
So if you’re on the live-cd to chroot to the installed ubuntu version on the HDD to run updates for instance.
January 17th, 2011 at 23:56
Thanks a lot for the Virtualbox tutorial! I looked all over the web for tutorial, and yours was the most straightforward and helpful. Your site is very organized, which I really appreciate. After I try out this virtualbox, If I like ubuntu I’ll come back and use your tutorials to help me partition,etc.
Thanks a bunch!
-Spifire
January 23rd, 2011 at 15:56
Help, I’m a newby. Put Ubuntu 10.10 x64 on a stick. when I load it (Acer 3820TG) hangs up at “who are u” forward button never goes orange and progress bar say “ready when u are”. Well I’m ready, already!!!
January 29th, 2011 at 01:29
FYI in your webpage http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/puregnome the very first box, under “Remove Kubuntu” is empty, i.e. does not show the command to be used in the terminal, when viewed using Konqueror 4.4.5! (it does show up when viewed in Firefox)
January 29th, 2011 at 04:14
Thanks for the “how to install KDE” :) I had an idea how to do but I didn’t think it was safe to install it next to Gnome. Great job!!!
February 9th, 2011 at 05:06
Just wanted to point out that on your tutorial about Wubi, you should state it will not work with Windows Me but will work with Windows 98, at least that is what I read somewhere on the internet.
February 15th, 2011 at 08:37
You are the best .I am just old guy retired,self taught Linux. Thanks for many times you have bailed me out
this time sudo fix with recovery.
February 25th, 2011 at 21:56
Thank you ever so much for all the work you must have put into your Ubuntu tutorial pages–particularly the instructions for virtualised installation [http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/virtualbox]. It seems they’ve been complete for some time, but let me assure you they are still unmatched, essential resources for handholding noobs through the process.
Having just stumbled through the experience myself, I think you might obviate a little nooby retarditude by inserting the following N.B.’s where appropriate:
>> The VirtualBox installer must be run as Administrator. Otherwise, the installation will appear to proceed as designed, but any attempt to open the program will be futile (Windows 7).
>> Once VirtualBox has been properly installed, you will want to download VirtualBox 4.0.4 Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack (link on same page you found VirtualBox) and allow VirtualBox to handle opening the package. Otherwise, your virtual Ubuntu install will be plagued with USB error messages…and you’ll look like an idiot having unplugged all your peripherals as though that might help.
>> Even if you understand that the Ubuntu installer’s universe should be restricted to the virtual hard drive created by VirtualBox, you’ll be scared sh*tless by warnings about over-writing your Master Boot Record, etc….don’t worry, it’s not talking about T H E MBR–no need to waste a Friday night polishing up your partitioning kung-fu.
As authoritative as your pages are, I’d be unsurprised if your response indicated that these pointers are in fact already provided…in which case I’ll add an apology to my continuing thanks for having shared your expertise.
February 25th, 2011 at 22:38
I have a question about the speed of a virtualised installation.
Just for kicks, I (briefly) ran Ubuntu off of the .iso before eventually unmounting it from the virtual optical drive, so my virtual Ubuntu machine now boots up from its virtual hard drive.
Now that I’m running it properly, though, I can’t say I’ve noticed much of a gain in speed. Why would one expect to realise such a gain, when in fact the virtual CD image was running off of HD as well?
And since I already have the image on my hard drive, would it be worthwhile to try running Ubuntu off of the .iso via Virual CD-ROM Control Panel? I would imagine the overhead would be a fraction of that demanded by VirtualBox.
Certainly, I’m not asking you to enumerate the advantages (non-read-speed-related) realized by the installation process; rather, I’m wondering how significant those advantages would be.
February 26th, 2011 at 00:38
Are there any benchmarking applications that might be useful in comparing relative speed–
1. Running Ubuntu off of an actual .iso in my actual optical drive
2. Running Ubuntu under Virtual CD-ROM Control Panel, off of an .iso image on hard drive
3. Running Ubuntu under VirtualBox, off of an .iso mounted on virtual optical drive in virtual Ubuntu machine
4. Running Ubuntu under VirtualBox, off of virtual hard drive in virtual Ubuntu machine.
March 2nd, 2011 at 07:46
Hi, just wanted to say your blogs on ubuntu are very informative. This is coming from a person who grew up with windows right back to 95. I have decided recently, as the server permits, to switch from the spiralling cost of windows, to the linux alternative and what i see so far i like. Its so easy to install stuff and free. To be honest there isnt anything that windows does which linux doesnt not.
Thanks again for the usefull information.
March 13th, 2011 at 17:35
Your Ubuntu tutorials are an excellent resource. They’ve helped me immensely in my Linux troubleshooting efforts. Thanks!
April 4th, 2011 at 10:10
Thanks for the KDE/Gnome comparison. Very helpful for people new to linux.
April 6th, 2011 at 03:34
Thanks for the tutorial on creating partition images with partimage. Everything ran “smoothly” (my partitions are all still alive) but I have some newbie comments and questions: partimage is not included in Ubuntu Hardy – it is not a standard package available say through synaptic package manager. I downloaded and installed with GDebi. I found that gparted can copy/paste partitions – I assume this is as good as making an image – without compression of course. Also, if I wanted to preserve the layout of a disk with multiple partitions, including of course contents, which program is best – is partimage applied to each partition the way to go? Thanks again! Christoph
April 18th, 2011 at 19:25
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/nvidia
On my system (fresh install of BioLinux, which is based on Ubuntu 10.04), System | Administration | Hardware Drivers not only says no proprietary drivers are in use, but neither does it list any, making them difficult to select. Since the title of your page is “How to install Nvidia drivers in Ubuntu”, I would suggest this is a bit misleading as it doesn’t tell me where I can find them.
April 19th, 2011 at 03:11
Your advice on gnome and removing xfce was of great help. Thanks!
April 27th, 2011 at 14:56
In case anyone’s chomping at the bit, I know Natty’s coming out tomorrow, but I probably won’t get around to updating all the tutorials until a few days or even a week after release day. Thanks for your patience!
April 28th, 2011 at 14:25
First of all, thanks for your instructions of making a pure KDE or GNOME desktop for Ubuntu. I was able to test them on some of my computers running 10.04LTS and it worked flawlessly. QUESTION: will you be posting soon the same instructions for 11.04 (natty)?
Thanks.
Ric
April 28th, 2011 at 18:27
First of all, thanks for your instructions of making a pure KDE or GNOME desktop for Ubuntu. I was able to test them on some of my computers running 10.04LTS and it worked flawlessly. QUESTION: will you be posting soon the same instructions for 11.04 (natty)?
April 28th, 2011 at 21:24
Thanks for the tutorial on Virtualbox. I’m a putz at *nix, but anyway.
I was trying desperately to get some info for (XP host) getting Puppy Linux into Virtualbox. Puppy has a phone package included, which I still have to virtualize or ‘get to’ the hardware. I have no broadband. Yeah, I set up wvdialer(?) on another machine but with the flying wonderful software out there, running everything on one machine is, eh, neat!
It doesn’t come with an easy install like Ubuntu, and I had a hell of time narrowing a search down to what I needed to do. Hell, just installing it (Puppy) on a physical hdd is probably the same degree of “task”; I have no issue doing stuff manually.
I’m not done, but seeing some pics of a current Virtualbox got my head out of a corner. Between booting the iso and booting the live cd to make my changes for booting.
Greg
April 29th, 2011 at 11:52
Thanks for posting the pure KDE removal commands for Natty.
However I tried on the one machine running 11.04 but it doesnt run. I could send the entire terminal output but is its rather long… the last few lines are as follows:
Note, selecting ‘libnux-0.9-doc’ for regex ‘libnux-0.9′
Virtual packages like ‘linux-headers’ can’t be removed
E: Unable to locate package gstreamer
E: Unable to locate package compizconfig
E: Unable to locate package backend-gconf
E: Unable to locate package common
E: Unable to locate package gnome-support
E: Unable to locate package common
E: Unable to locate package about
E: Unable to locate package desktop-data
E: Unable to locate package mahjongg
E: Unable to locate package terminal-data
E: Unable to locate package gsettings
E: Unable to locate package desktop-schemas
E: Unable to locate package murrine
E: Unable to locate package service-identica
E: Unable to locate package indicator
E: Unable to locate package application
E: Unable to locate package libedata
E: Unable to locate package libgtk
E: Unable to locate package sharp-beans-cil
E: Unable to locate package 1c2a
E: Unable to locate package libnet-dbus
E: Unable to locate package common
E: Unable to locate package librsvg2
E: Unable to locate package 2
E: Unable to locate package libxml-xpath
E: Unable to locate package generic
E: Unable to locate package network
E: Unable to locate package manager-pptp-gnome
E: Unable to locate package configglue
E: Unable to locate package gmenu
E: Unable to locate package markupsafe
E: Unable to locate package pygoocanvas
E: Unable to locate package virtkey
E: Unable to locate package unity-place
E: Unable to locate package files
Thanks again for taking the time.
Ric
April 29th, 2011 at 14:20
I think I found the problem on the command to make pure KDE… The are several packages to be removed were there is a space between the ‘hyphen’ and the rest of the package name. For example, the package “bluez- gstreamer” should be “bluez-gstreamer”. Anyway the are many like that, which I found and corrected… I havent ran the it yet…
April 29th, 2011 at 14:30
Thanks for letting me know. I’m going to fix that.
April 29th, 2011 at 14:35
Should be fixed now. Let me know if you still spot problems.
April 29th, 2011 at 15:50
Will do… thx.
April 29th, 2011 at 19:01
Ok almost there…
I tried the fixed commands, here the resulting last lines:
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
Package gwibber is not installed, so not removed
Package gwibber-service is not installed, so not removed
Package gwibber-service-facebook is not installed, so not removed
Package gwibber-service-identica is not installed, so not removed
Package gwibber-service-twitter is not installed, so not removed
Package indicator-me is not installed, so not removed
Package libgwibber1 is not installed, so not removed
Package notification-daemon is not installed, so not removed
Package python-egenix-mxdatetime is not installed, so not removed
Package python-egenix-mxtools is not installed, so not removed
Package python-gtkspell is not installed, so not removed
Package telepathy-haze is not installed, so not removed
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
epiphany-gecko : Depends: epiphany-browser (>= 2.28.0) but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages
April 29th, 2011 at 20:25
By the way… epiphany-gecko (or any epiphany packages) are installed on my system…
April 29th, 2011 at 20:26
Correction… the epiphany packages are NOT installed.
April 30th, 2011 at 10:38
FYI Problem Solved (at least for my system):
Even though “epiphany-browser and epiphany-gecko” were NOT installed on my system, I added them to the to be removed packages. That worked. I have a pure KDE installed.
Thx.
May 3rd, 2011 at 16:32
On http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/whichbuntu
(a generally useful page), you have an unfortunate typo:
11.04: April 2010 (Natty Narwhal)
10.10: October 2010 (Maverick Meerkat)
10.04: April 2010 (Lucid Lynx) Long-Term Support
Rather than the preferable
11.04: April 2011 (Natty Narwhal)
10.10: October 2010 (Maverick Meerkat)
10.04: April 2010 (Lucid Lynx) Long-Term Support
Just thought I’d let you know.
May 3rd, 2011 at 22:01
Thanks for letting me know. I’ll fix that.
May 9th, 2011 at 03:45
Thank you very much for your “separate home partition” tutorial. Specifically, the alternative command line as written here:
[sudo find . -depth -print0 | sudo cpio --null --sparse -pvd /new/]
I’m quite new to Ubuntu/Linux and though I had tried the initial sudo command after tutorials from other sites had failed, I would never have thought to add the second.
Thank you again for the headaches that I will not suffer from trying to figure this out myself!
-p
May 10th, 2011 at 10:26
Thanks for your article about installing apps in Ubuntu:
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/installingsoftware
I am a complete newbie and just downloaded a .tar.gz file that doesn’t contain source — rather, it’s precompiled. I just need to know where to put it and how to integrate it with the shell/path. That would make a nice, brief addition to your article.
May 10th, 2011 at 15:24
Thanks for publishing the Ubuntu minimal install guide:
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/minimal
I just used it to install Natty on a VM. One difference worth noting is that after removing the install CD and rebooting, you need to hit Alt-F1 to get to the login prompt.
May 10th, 2011 at 16:14
Thanks, Dan. I’ve made the change.
May 11th, 2011 at 10:36
Greate site! It help me a lot, just to let you know, on this page http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/xfce you said that xubuntu-desktop package no longer appear on Maverick Merrkat and Natty Narwhal, but i recently found out that it still included in the Ubuntu Software Center, you just have to click the ‘show technical items’ button on the bottom of the list, cheers :)
May 20th, 2011 at 16:39
What happened to the psychocat picture? I loved that picture.
May 24th, 2011 at 21:16
Hello, I found your site when I googled ‘ubuntu best security practices’, or something to that effect, after installing Natty on my ’06 MacBook Pro (1,1) and FINALLY getting the cpu fans to cooperate with Ubuntu so my MBP could cool out and not shut off automatically when I unplugged the power cord and tried to run on battery power… anyway, Way Too Much Info, I’m sure.
Anyway, my comment was about your blog’s subtitle: ‘Random musings from the radical feminist Christian antiracist left that has something to do with ubuntu’. I like it. There’s no ‘like’ button under it though, so I had to comment.
Also it is nice that you like cats. Apparently, Mark Danielewski is writing like a 27-volume novel about cats. If it’s anything like House of Leaves (his debut novel), it’s gonna be good, especially for cat-lovers. Anyway. I like your website. It has been bookmarked by me and I will be checking it periodically. Joe out.
June 2nd, 2011 at 04:28
Many thanks for the logon as root for forgotten password tutorial. Saved my bacon this morning!
Jon
June 3rd, 2011 at 20:06
I just used this “how to” http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/separatehome to move my /home directory from a 40 GB SSD to a 1TB HD.
It worked! You have saved me a ton of TIME, I learned new things, and I book marked all of your recommended documentation sites.
Thank you.
June 7th, 2011 at 11:23
Thanks for this:
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/puregnome
Now to add unity back to see if I’m an idiot or there was an actual problem.
June 8th, 2011 at 00:51
i did copy paste to remove ubuntu and get xubuntu and this was the answer in the terminal
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
E: Unable to locate package adium
E: Unable to locate package br1tty
E: Unable to locate package br1tty-x11
E: Unable to locate package box
E: Unable to locate package compiz-plugins-main
E: Unable to locate package compizconfig-bakcend-gnonf
E: Unable to locate package compuer
E: Unable to locate package janitorsudo
E: Unable to locate package apt-get
E: Unable to locate package remove
E: Unable to locate package libedata-cal1.2-6
E: Couldn’t find any package by regex ‘libedata-cal1.2-6′
E: Unable to locate package libedataserver1.2-11
E: Couldn’t find any package by regex ‘libedataserver1.2-11′
E: Unable to locate package libexchange-storage1.2-3
E: Couldn’t find any package by regex ‘libexchange-storage1.2-3′
E: Unable to locate package libglitz-glx1
E: Unable to locate package libglitz1
E: Unable to locate package libibus1
E: Unable to locate package libprotobuf5
E: Unable to locate package libprotoc5
E: Unable to locate package linux-headers-2.6.32-21
E: Couldn’t find any package by regex ‘linux-headers-2.6.32-21′
E: Unable to locate package linux-headers-2.6.32-21-generic
E: Couldn’t find any package by regex ‘linux-headers-2.6.32-21-generic’
June 13th, 2011 at 08:27
thanks for sharing the site and the cats. i feel like at home.
was hard to do what i needed but i did it THANK YOU
June 15th, 2011 at 13:10
I just used your tutorial for creating a separate /home partition, because I’d like to be able to play with OS a little more and not frag all of my documents and music. I loved the style, and the fact that it actually seemed to address the installer I was using. I’m a literature student by trade and I thought it was easy to read and nicely engaging and humble. I’m relatively new to Ubuntu, but I’m enthusiastic, and I will definitely be coming back to your work in the future. Thanks very much, you’ve been a sanitysaver.
Best,
Nate
June 16th, 2011 at 22:00
Hi,
I was just wondering if you could post a “install xubuntu for dummies” version of a tutorial. I kind of don’t get all this “extract this” and “burn that on ___cd”. I am running Windows XP on kind of a (pardon my French) crappy computer.
Please help me!
Thanks,
Kakashi
June 19th, 2011 at 01:21
Thank you for providing the “pure gnome” scripts to remove (k|x)ubuntu! They have been very helpful for me as I like to experiment with the different WMs.
June 22nd, 2011 at 10:06
I don’t know what ubuntu is but I like your musings!
June 24th, 2011 at 08:03
hi…..i have dual boot system, Ubuntu 10.10 n Win 7….the problem is, i want to upgrade my ubuntu 10.10 to ubuntu 11.04 via live cd, but when i boot frm my cd, i only get this : 1) Erase Ubuntu 10.10 n Reinstall Ubuntu 11.04 2) Erase Ubuntu 10.10 n Win7, reinstall Ubuntu 11.04 3) Something Else…..i dunt see any upgrade Ubuntu 10.10 to Ubuntu 11.04….can u plz help me ?
June 28th, 2011 at 11:58
I just wanted to thank you for all the information and tutorials on your site. All of the info has helped me wade into a new OS. I’m definitely not ready to take the full plunge yet, but I’m anxious to expand my skill set.
July 3rd, 2011 at 13:07
I just installed Ubuntu 9.10 and like it, but MP3s and videos wont play.. and Totem’s “Search For Codecs” doesn’t work (as you noted was true for 10.10 and 11.04). Worse, the ‘new suggestion’ of 29 April 2011 (Applications; Ubuntu Software Center) does not end in an ‘Install’ button; it ends with pretty much: ‘Tough Luck’. It seems that the media’s attack-lawyers have been busy..
July 20th, 2011 at 15:05
My, this was very helpful. http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/passwordinterminal Thanks! I’m still getting used to the terminal, and the password thing really threw me.
August 1st, 2011 at 11:45
My sudo command didn’t work. I read other pages that told you what to do, when you can login as root, but none of them addressed the key question “how do you login as root, when you have not set the root password after your ubuntu installation?”
Thankfully for me you did, I followed your instructions and was able to restore the sudo command.
the link to the page below saved me alot of bother
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/sudo
Thank you very much.
August 7th, 2011 at 12:14
Hi,
am presently working on a project which has Ubuntu at its core. And your blog has been very very helpful. Thank You.
Pls can I have your email address. Will love to take your advice on some issues pertinent to the project. It involves building an OS that can be used to bridge the Digital gap between Africa computer literacy level and rest of the world.
Regards
August 25th, 2011 at 01:42
Mate, you should know that I’m using Ubuntu for the last 4 days and it’s my first time ever with Linux. Previously it was only Windows, and previously MS-DOS.
The Natty Narwhal seemed such a nice way to finally start using Linux and it was a perfect choice.
Now, as you know, people who come straight from Windows find many difficulties. Although Ubuntu forums and documentation are absolutely excellent, there are many things that should exist to warn a newcomer from Windows that, if it wasn’t for you, I’d still be drifting around.
Thanks to you, I’m loving my Ubuntu even more every each day! Thank you a lot!!!
September 19th, 2011 at 10:31
I just wanted to drop you a line to say ‘THANKS’ for this site… google brought me here when I couldn’t figure out how to get a Ubuntu desktop to stop flashing on and off my screen when I logged in.
I’d tried the Ubuntu forum searching with no luck – but the little tip you posted about being able to log in using ‘safe mode’ made all the difference for me!
Now I can actually USE the install I’ve been re-installing for days. :)
So, thank you for this site!!
September 29th, 2011 at 09:29
Thank you sooo much for the step-by-step instructions on resetting my Ubuntu password. You’ve saved me from having to re-install. The tip about holding down the shift key was missing from other posts on this same topic, and was crucial.
October 1st, 2011 at 14:08
hey i found one of your tutorials and i needed to tell you thank you but i found a small fault http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/mountlinux
the command
sudo chown -R jessica:jessica /storage
when i was mounting this and changing owners if jessica is already the owner why are you changing the owner as my system was set up the owner of this partition was root.
so the correct command i found was
sudo chown -R root:jessica /storage
but without tutorial i woudnt have figured it out so i really appriciate it thank you for your work
October 12th, 2011 at 11:06
Thank you for your son, Remastersys instalation tutorial. I installed it correctly.I tried to create an iso image of my system on my flash drive as my hard drive has run out of space. When it finished I don’t see any iso file at all. May I know what should I do now ??
October 13th, 2011 at 08:33
Hi
Thanks for tutorial I have installed Ubunut 11.04 on VirtualBox under wondows xp. Everything was fine and worked out.
But after I restarted my computer the whole Oracle folder that was in C:/Program files/Oracle/VirtualBox..
Has disappeared. I dont know why. I know that when I was installing Ubuntu I had a message popping out that said something about Windows logos not suppoerted or something like that. But I just ignored those messages and everything wokre fine. I compiled few programs in Ubuntu and it was really smooth. But after restarting my computer everything dissapread.
Any ideas ?
I found someone with simillar problem here:
https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=33218
Thanks,
Karol
October 14th, 2011 at 17:58
Hi there,
I have installed Ubuntu using the Ubuntu alternate install iso cause I didn’t want all the stuff that comes with Ubuntu. Can you please tell me how can I get Ubuntu fonts with the LCD patches on my pure XFCE system?
Thanks!
October 15th, 2011 at 18:53
Was trying to correct my missing password after upgrade to
11.10, no luck, I found your Video, but it was much too fast. Hope you can slow it down somewhat.
October 19th, 2011 at 09:07
Barebones for 11.10 — there’s a new dialog “Software selection” that shows up after “Install security updates automatically” and before grub config. Maybe you can add this screencap: http://imgur.com/rqJT6
Thanks for a great site!
October 19th, 2011 at 21:44
Hey, Dan!
I just went through the entire thing myself and didn’t see that screen pop up. Any chance on the first screen you picked Install instead of Command-line Install?
October 20th, 2011 at 06:34
how can i register and make change in madwifi driver?
October 20th, 2011 at 08:06
Just happened onto your tutorials. Well written, in fact, spare with standout clarity.
JRL
Akron, Ohio
October 23rd, 2011 at 00:25
@ubuntucat – definitely a chance of that, sorry for the false alarm…
October 23rd, 2011 at 02:02
Or maybe my test was a fluke in the other direction? I’ll see if I hear the same thing from anyone else.
October 23rd, 2011 at 17:22
Thank you very much indeed for you clear help
Marc
October 29th, 2011 at 04:53
Nice site, well written stuff.
Re your overview of Ubuntus: on the bottom you discuss the difference between the CD and DVD. You say: “There doesn’t seem to be a simple explanation for what’s on the DVD. ” I suggest to add “but for almost all users, the CD is the best choice: All the extra material on the DVD will be downloaded on an as-needed basis by your installer”. The DVD is really a fall-back option for machines without a good internet connection.
October 31st, 2011 at 22:24
I have no internet connection on the box to install a barebones system. Install process continues to loop asking to download.
How is a barebones system achieved with no internet connection?
P.S. I wiped my working 10.10 install before attempting to run the Minimal Ubuntu CD. :shrugs:
November 4th, 2011 at 17:26
Hello!
I love your tutorials, they’ve made my life much easier.
I am not asking for tech support, rather, this is a tip for you:
I was experiencing some problems with KDE, and so I used your tutorial on how to remove it— in order to re-install it.
After reinstalling it, it was like it was never uninstalled.
After some confusion and internet searching, it is better to use “apt-get purge” for environment removal.
November 11th, 2011 at 13:15
Hey
Many thx for your tutorial on how to put xubuntu/xfce desktop onto Ubuntu 11.10. I find the Unity interface very difficult and frustrating to use (even though 11.10 is marginally less annoying than 11.04), so i’m glad to migrate to a different desktop and keep my settings. Cheers!
November 12th, 2011 at 16:52
Thank you, thank you, thank you! I just bookmarked you. I installed Ubuntu using the wubi installer so I won’t have to worry about Win-withdrawal and I’m trying to get my head around it, but the sheer volume of the Ubuntu documentation is daunting. Your well-organized, methodical approach is perfect for getting started. This site is really chopping a big hunk out of the learning curve!
I love your cat art – it reminded me of those Coles Phillips “fadeaway girl” Life Magazine covers from the early 1900s. Fadeaway cat.
November 19th, 2011 at 16:48
i tried twice to migrate from ubuntu to pure xfce following your tutorial but both time my whole installation crashed what must be prob?i
November 20th, 2011 at 13:42
You are genius Psycocats.. :D
Your blog: Mounting the hard drive works fine..
I tried it for NTFS drive.
Thanks a lot.. :D
November 27th, 2011 at 04:08
Thank you,
Spent hours trying to find how to uninstall Kubuntu back to Ubuntu & get rid of KDE programs including using the Ubuntu software center to remove kdm & kde bin, workspace, etc but the apps/apts remained. Then found your website which uninstalled everything in minutes, excellent. I can’t believe there wasn’t a link in Ubuntu help, etc. Thank you.
Also found about the same time synaptic but nobody ever listed this as a way to uninstall. Anyway by filtering for KDE, I found the following programs that although uninstalled still gave me the option to “remove permanently”:
akregator will be removed with configuration
amarok will be removed with configuration
ark will be removed with configuration
bluedevil will be removed with configuration
dolphin will be removed with configuration
dragonplayer will be removed with configuration
gwenview will be removed with configuration
jockey-kde will be removed with configuration
kaddressbook will be removed with configuration
kate will be removed with configuration
kate-data will be removed with configuration
kde-baseapps-bin will be removed with configuration
kde-config-gtk will be removed with configuration
kde-runtime will be removed with configuration
kde-runtime-data will be removed with configuration
kde-window-manager will be removed with configuration
kde-workspace-bin will be removed with configuration
kde-workspace-data will be removed with configuration
kdelibs5-data will be removed with configuration
kdemultimedia-kio-plugins will be removed with configuration
kdepim-groupware will be removed with configuration
kdepim-kresources will be removed with configuration
kdepim-runtime will be removed with configuration
kdm will be removed with configuration
kmail will be removed with configuration
knotes will be removed with configuration
kontact will be removed with configuration
kopete will be removed with configuration
korganizer will be removed with configuration
kpat will be removed with configuration
ksysguard will be removed with configuration
ksysguardd will be removed with configuration
ktorrent will be removed with configuration
kvkbd will be removed with configuration
libakonadi-calendar4 will be removed with configuration
libakonadi-contact4 will be removed with configuration
libakonadi-kabc4 will be removed with configuration
libakonadi-kcal4 will be removed with configuration
libakonadi-kde4 will be removed with configuration
libakonadi-kmime4 will be removed with configuration
libbluedevil1 will be removed with configuration
libcalendarsupport4 will be removed with configuration
libdebconf-kde0 will be removed with configuration
libeventviews4 will be removed with configuration
libgpgme++2 will be removed with configuration
libincidenceeditorsng4 will be removed with configuration
libk3b6 will be removed with configuration
libkabc4 will be removed with configuration
libkateinterfaces4 will be removed with configuration
libkatepartinterfaces4 will be removed with configuration
libkblog4 will be removed with configuration
libkcal4 will be removed with configuration
libkcalcore4 will be removed with configuration
libkcalutils4 will be removed with configuration
libkcddb4 will be removed with configuration
libkcmutils4 will be removed with configuration
libkde3support4 will be removed with configuration
libkdecorations4 will be removed with configuration
libkdecore5 will be removed with configuration
libkdegames5a will be removed with configuration
libkdepim4 will be removed with configuration
libkdepimdbusinterfaces4 will be removed with configuration
libkdesu5 will be removed with configuration
libkdeui5 will be removed with configuration
libkdewebkit5 will be removed with configuration
libkdgantt2 will be removed with configuration
libkdnssd4 will be removed with configuration
libkemoticons4 will be removed with configuration
libkephal4abi1 will be removed with configuration
libkfile4 will be removed with configuration
libkholidays4 will be removed with configuration
libkhtml5 will be removed with configuration
libkidletime4 will be removed with configuration
libkimap4 will be removed with configuration
libkio5 will be removed with configuration
libkjsembed4 will be removed with configuration
libkldap4 will be removed with configuration
libkleo4 will be removed with configuration
libkmanagesieve4 will be removed with configuration
libkmbox4 will be removed with configuration
libkmediaplayer4 will be removed with configuration
libkmime4 will be removed with configuration
libknewstuff2-4 will be removed with configuration
libknewstuff3-4 will be removed with configuration
libknotifyconfig4 will be removed with configuration
libkntlm4 will be removed with configuration
libkonq5abi1 will be removed with configuration
libkontactinterface4 will be removed with configuration
libkopete4 will be removed with configuration
libkparts4 will be removed with configuration
libkpgp4 will be removed with configuration
libkpimidentities4 will be removed with configuration
libkpimtextedit4 will be removed with configuration
libkpimutils4 will be removed with configuration
libkprintutils4 will be removed with configuration
libkpty4 will be removed with configuration
libkresources4 will be removed with configuration
libkrosscore4 will be removed with configuration
libkscreensaver5 will be removed with configuration
libksgrd4 will be removed with configuration
libksieve4 will be removed with configuration
libksieveui4 will be removed with configuration
libksignalplotter4 will be removed with configuration
libktexteditor4 will be removed with configuration
libktnef4 will be removed with configuration
libktorrent3 will be removed with configuration
libkunitconversion4 will be removed with configuration
libkwineffects1abi2 will be removed with configuration
libkworkspace4 will be removed with configuration
libkxmlrpcclient4 will be removed with configuration
libmailcommon4 will be removed with configuration
libmailtransport4 will be removed with configuration
libmessagecomposer4 will be removed with configuration
libmessagecore4 will be removed with configuration
libmessagelist4 will be removed with configuration
libmessageviewer4 will be removed with configuration
libmicroblog4 will be removed with configuration
libmuonprivate1 will be removed with configuration
libnepomuk4 will be removed with configuration
libnepomukquery4a will be removed with configuration
libnepomukutils4 will be removed with configuration
libokularcore1 will be removed with configuration
libphonon4 will be removed with configuration
libplasma-geolocation-interface4 will be removed with configuration
libplasma3 will be removed with configuration
libplasmaclock4abi2 will be removed with configuration
libplasmagenericshell4 will be removed with configuration
libpolkit-qt-1-1 will be removed with configuration
libprocesscore4abi1 will be removed with configuration
libprocessui4a will be removed with configuration
libqgpgme1 will be removed with configuration
libqimageblitz4 will be removed with configuration
libsolid4 will be removed with configuration
libsolidcontrol4abi2 will be removed with configuration
libsolidcontrolifaces4abi2 will be removed with configuration
libsyndication4 will be removed with configuration
libtaskmanager4abi2 will be removed with configuration
libtemplateparser4 will be removed with configuration
libthreadweaver4 will be removed with configuration
libweather-ion6 will be removed with configuration
okular will be removed with configuration
okular-extra-backends will be removed with configuration
oxygen-cursor-theme will be removed with configuration
oxygen-icon-theme will be removed with configuration
oxygen-icon-theme-complete will be removed with configuration
partitionmanager will be removed with configuration
phonon will be removed with configuration
plasma-dataengines-addons will be removed with configuration
plasma-widget-kimpanel will be removed with configuration
plasma-widget-kimpanel-backend-ibus will be removed with configuration
plasma-widget-networkmanagement will be removed with configuration
plasma-widgets-workspace will be removed with configuration
systemsettings will be removed with configuration
Thought I would let you know.
PS after exploring you blog, I wonder if you know an iphone app which reads “.odt” files?
November 28th, 2011 at 16:21
Hiya,
I was just reading you page about the the differences between Gnome and KDE at http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/kdegnome and I have a small niggle about naming. Basically, it looks like you are comparing KDE with Ubuntu’s new interface which isn’t really Gnome anymore. Basically they added the menubar thingy on the left of the screen and dumped the gnome menu and panels.
All the best,
John
December 5th, 2011 at 09:45
hi i want to learn Linux , i have a laptop with 4gb ram and 250gb hard disk ,if i install wubi ,performance of my system will effect , i read it when i goggled about wubi , can u give advice about that
December 6th, 2011 at 06:47
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/xubuntu
you need to replace “aptitude” with “apt-get”
December 10th, 2011 at 18:33
Hi,
Found your tutorial on VirtualBox hugely helpful, so thanks! There is one screen that the tutorial misses, just asking for the ‘type’ of HDD, before it asks whether to have a dynamic or fixed size.
Thanks again.
December 16th, 2011 at 10:29
I saw your KDE v Gnome article and was confused. What you were calling Gnome looks a lot like Unity to me…
December 22nd, 2011 at 15:08
Hi. Thx for
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/installingsoftware
I have found that using different ways to install gives slightly different efect for example directories . I have ubuntu 11.4 with grubb. When I check software center or apt then the answer is I have no grub. It is misleading. Thx
December 22nd, 2011 at 23:43
I found your web site from the Ubuntu forum. Your about page does not seem to address the most fundamental questions about you.
Male or Female?
Young, old, or ancient?
Living in South America, North America, Europe, Asia, Iceland, North Pole?
What nationality?
So many questions…..
I love your web site!! Phil
December 24th, 2011 at 21:26
I used this advice of yours yesterday, it killed my system, it no longer boots.
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/purelxde
I’ve since found out that tasksel does exactly what you are trying to achieve but properly, please direct people to use tasksel, it’s much safer.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Tasksel
December 30th, 2011 at 10:13
I found the error. After instaltion ubuntu from created distro I don’t have in home catalog any system folders e.g. Music, Video,etc. Only Destktop and every catalog you create at home catalog are in Desktop :(
December 31st, 2011 at 06:47
HELP! I have a very simple question I hope you can answer ASAP. I downloaded Ubuntu according to the directions on your website as a dual boot with Windows 7. I burned Wubi and Ubuntu ISO on a DVD and during the installation I selected the first option to install alongside Windows 7. When I restarted the computer, it goes straight to Ubuntu and there is no boot menu to start Windows 7. I tried pressing Esc during the start up to load the boot menu, but all of the options load Ubuntu. I’m assuming that windows 7 is still installed because once I’m logged into Ubuntu I can see all of my Windows files are still there on the hardrive. Help please!!
January 2nd, 2012 at 09:02
I really like the style of your tutorial site.
It helped me get a lxde desktop on my server finally!
Thanks
January 4th, 2012 at 20:24
I used your command on http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/purelxde to remove the ubuntu desktop and use lxde instead. When it had removed all the packages and apt-get asked for confirmation to install the new packages the keyboard wouldn’t work. I assume a package that made the keyboard work had been removed. Therefore I couldn’t type Y to install the new packages. Don’t know what to do now…
January 13th, 2012 at 04:53
Hi!
I’ve been researching my need for gksu (gksudo) in an Arch Linux setup. I came across your tutorial at http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/graphicalsudo
I suggest you add something about the sudo -H flag. This runs the application with the environment variable HOME set to another user’s (root by default) home directory. This averts the configuration file problem.
As for running applications without a terminal window, some people including me do not currently have this need, but I respect that your tutorial is directed towards Ubuntu users.
I recently investigated my need for gksu, and am happy to realize I can avoid using multiple programs for quickly aquiring root privileges. You might want to write about the already built-in solution in sudo VS using a secondary program.
Thanks for the tutorial!
January 20th, 2012 at 08:20
Hello,
in those cases wher you require to reboot in recovery-mode, you might consider to start a root-console by simply hitting and enter ‘root’ as username and the root-pwd. If you need to reboot after changes being made you can just use init 6 to do so.
If rebooting isn’t neccessary, for example when fixing the sudo issue of permission not being 0440, you can just return to the GUI by
HTH
best regards
mathol
January 20th, 2012 at 08:25
Sorry, but the editor just swallowed the control characters…
So I give it a second try by masking it:
it should read:
by simply hitting ‘CTRL-ALT-F2′ and enter ‘root’ as user ..
and the second sequence:
you can just return to the GUI by ‘CTRL-ALT-F7′
mathol
January 20th, 2012 at 22:24
I was looking at your “KDE and Gnome Comparison” (at http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/kdegnome) and I would like to point out that you have actually compared KDE with Unity, not Gnome. Unity itself is built of of Qt (commonly associated with KDE) and uses many gnome services. Although the default Ubuntu applications are mostly (if not all) gtk+, which is the widget tool-kit of the Gnome desktop that does not make it gnome. Ubuntu used to run a Gnome desktop but that has been replaced with Unity in releases since 11.10.
I think you should make this clear in your comparison as to not mislead people.
January 23rd, 2012 at 17:28
Hi,
I am sorta new to Ubuntu so I enjoyed reading your comments. especially about installing programs. I haven’t had much trouble installing using the internet on ubuntu 11.10.AMD64. (This is installed on a Compaq CQ57 laptop) however, for the life of me, I can’t install from a CD. Have you tried installing a program from a CD without being connected to the internet? I was wandering if you or anyone else has tried this. As to wheather or not it needs to be connnected to the internet I don’t remember you commenting about.
Thanks,
Glenn
January 23rd, 2012 at 20:46
Thanks for the post on Getting Back to a Pure KDE on Ubuntu.
Would you consider another entry that is for getting back to Pure Command Line Server Ubuntu?
January 24th, 2012 at 20:47
Probably not, Mike. I think someone once told me you can remove [i]libc6[/i], and that’ll pretty much take care of anything graphical. If not, you can also try removing [i]xorg[/i].
January 28th, 2012 at 11:22
Hi
when i was on Windows i used to connect to a proxy server with a client name Proxifier but now on Ubuntu i wasn’t so lucky fining an alternative to it how can i connect to a proxy server which requires authentication?
January 30th, 2012 at 07:57
Making a bootable USB of Ubuntu!
———————————
Will it work like the Live CD or can I use it as an ordinary Ubuntu installation?
February 5th, 2012 at 23:20
Well first of all hello and well-done for your tutorials..They help plenty of people (not me however as i don’t use ubuntu:P)
I just want to say someting about your article “KDE vs Gnome”…well,actually someone would expect a comparison between KDE4 and Gnome3..however what you show is not Gnome3..It’s Unity!So better change the title..That’s all..
Keep up with the good work!!;)
February 7th, 2012 at 19:22
Hei i read your comparison on this side:
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/kdegnome
You know that you compare Unity and kde, not gnome and kde?
gnome ist this: gnome.org
Unity is also based on gtk but its not THE gnome GUI.
Greets
February 7th, 2012 at 19:22
I vorgot. Except of that thing, its a nice overview.
February 10th, 2012 at 19:22
Hi, in your How to return to classic Gnome in Ubuntu post the package name is given as gnome-fallback, but I think the correct name is gnome-session-fallback?
Many thanks for the helpful tutorials
February 11th, 2012 at 02:53
Good catch, Alexander. I’ve fixed it.
February 11th, 2012 at 17:24
Hello psychocats!
As with everyone else, first, many thanks!
I’d like to suggest a small improvement to, probably, this page:
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/wubi
It’s not clear from this page (or any other non-psychocats page I could Google)
** where within the Ubuntu file tree the host disk is mounted after installing from Wubi.**
Of course the answer to this question is “/host/”, but I was completely unable to guess this and just had the good fortune to run into a forum thread where someone advised someone else to run “mount” to find their Windows files and I did the same… and fortunately knew by that point what an “sda” was. :-)
February 12th, 2012 at 12:25
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
I took the newbie plunge and built myself a brand new box with a 500gb hard drive. I installed linuxmint, without partitions.
Soon realizing the benefits of separate ‘system’ and ‘data’ partitions, I gparted a 400gb partition for data storage and immediately “lost” 80% of my hard drive.
Google helped me find out that my new partition needed the correct permissions but I couldn’t figure out how to fix things until I found your simple-to-follow, step-by-step tutorial. A thousand newbie thanks!!
BTW, I switched to KDE. To me. it’s more unique and less “windows-ey” than Gnome.
February 14th, 2012 at 14:16
Just wanted to say that your “Fix Broken Sudo” saved me when I broke sudo on my system. One thing though; when I rebooted into the recovery shell, my /etc folder was mounted read-only. Therefore, I couldn’t edit the sudoers file (even with sudo). However this command did the trick and made the rest of your tutorial work perfectly:
sudo mount -o remount,rw /
I’m not sure if my case was unique (I’ve got a luks encrypted home directory) but you might want to add that command to your excellent tutorial.
Thanks again!
February 26th, 2012 at 13:59
Are your instructions for getting back to a Pure LXDE, 11.10, for 32 bit or 64 bit?
Will the instructions work equally well on both 32 bit and 64 bit?
Is ‘python-software-properties’ required before installing ‘lubuntu-desktop’ or ‘lubuntu-core’?
I have a very recent copy of 11.10 64bit installed now and the login manager doesn’t have an option for classic, so I removed just unity and it is just as bad as unity.
Jane! Stop this crazy thing. :D
March 3rd, 2012 at 05:10
I just wanted to say thank you for posting the code on removing Kubuntu! I was very frustrated by the fact kubuntu-desktop doesn’t remove them all. You saved me a big head ache and it is greatly appreciated!
March 3rd, 2012 at 16:07
I just wanted to comment on your recent comparison of KDE and Gnome. I understand that it’s a Ubuntu comparison, but you seem to incorrectly describe Unity as being Gnome – this is not the case. the Gnome 3 interface is drastically different from Unity in many ways. I myself found the Unity interface rather frustratingly locked down, so I tried Gnome 3 shell instead (included as an official package in the 11.10 repository) and I liked it a lot better. You should add Gnome 3 to your comparison, and make Unity a separate window manager to compare- while Unity is based on Gnome, it is NOT Gnome in the purest sense of the word.
Thanks for the info though! We need accessible and readable information about user-friendly distros like Ubuntu so that others might see the light ;)
March 16th, 2012 at 07:28
I’ve found a few problems with your KDE and Gnome comparison. You call the KDE menu KMenu, but it’s called Kickoff. KMenu was the KDE3 menu.
Also, you’re comparing KDE and Unity, not KDE and Gnome. Gnome Shell is different. Unity is just build on the Gnome backend.
Also, you say that KDE asks you to close the TTY’s. This is only on the live cd. On the installed version, it doesn’t.
March 20th, 2012 at 16:58
your post about gnome vs kde on jan 28 is incorrect. ubuntu by default has unity now. just wanted to let you know because some linux users will call you out on it.
March 20th, 2012 at 19:00
Thanks for the tip about Kickoff. I didn’t realize the name had changed. I also added in a disclaimer for people who aren’t the target audience for the page.
March 25th, 2012 at 20:44
Your tutoril for fresh KDE instead of GNOME removes the nvidia drivers thus making it completely unusable after reboot. I had to do apt-get install nvidia-current in safe mood.
RELATED to:
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/purekde
March 26th, 2012 at 00:33
I’m glad you were able to get your installation working again.
I have this disclaimer in there already:
It’s possible that the commands might remove some other packages you have since added to the default and want to keep. If that’s the case, keep track of which packages those are and reinstall them.
Unfortunately, I can’t know every possible configuration people could have. If you think the disclaimer could be improved, I’m open to suggestions.
March 26th, 2012 at 20:47
I used your tip on how to remove xubuntu from 11.10 and worked perfectly (http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/puregnome). Thanks for the help!
March 28th, 2012 at 05:40
I will like to point out that Disabling Automatic Login in User Account under 11.10 gives an option to select Classic every time rather than in automatic login where 3.0 gets running and one will require to log out and get classic running.
Regards.
March 30th, 2012 at 14:19
Hey, I just moved my home-directory successfully to a new partition. So I just wanted to say: Thanks for the helpful tutorial. :)
March 31st, 2012 at 14:19
Hi.. I was reading your article here :
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/gnome
and i found that all the images are missing. Please fix this problem. Other than that it is a good article.
April 1st, 2012 at 01:36
Hi I just found your page comparing Gnome V KDE;
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/kdegnome
Brilliant!
Thanks!
I’ve been tinkering with Ubuntu, (as a second boot), for about 3 years now, and generally manage to get on with it, with help from various internet sources when needed. One of the things that I often see when trawling the internet for info/advice is reference to the Gnome/KDE/xfce “Desktop”…
What your piece has made me realise is that in the Linux world “Desktop” means something completely different to the Windows world…
In Windows all “Desktop” really means is what’s on the screen when no applications windows are on display…
It’s the background/picture/icons/taskbar…
Whereas in Linux the term “Desktop” refers to the methods of how the whole gamut of GUI tweaks are implemented.
I used to hear/read the word “Desktop” in a Linux context and think, “Surely that desktop can have the colours/picture tweaked to look like another”. You comparison has made the penny drop for me and realise that in Linux “Desktop” means “How it’s done” not “How it looks”
Thanks again,
Regards,
Simsy
April 1st, 2012 at 16:40
I used your great walk through on granting permissions to internal permissions, but got hung up on the step :
ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid
After some poking around in ls –help, I found that ls -l… Oh it’s a font issue. There is no difference between the letter ell in your page font and my terminal font’s number 1. Anyway! that might be a good thing to highlight in the post.
Thanks for helping me gain access to the partition.
April 8th, 2012 at 18:20
Read your Wine comment (about EXE not recognized)…THANK YOU!!!
April 19th, 2012 at 13:18
Yours blog article named gnome vs. kde is plain wrong it is unity vs. kde.
April 19th, 2012 at 14:39
Please go back to the page and re-read the disclaimer in bold type. Thanks!
April 21st, 2012 at 05:56
Hi,
first of all thanks for the helpfull information. Since in the end i successfully got Lubuntu up and running.
I had quite an interesting problem though, when i used the ‘sudo apt-get install’ oneliner for changing Ubuntu11.10 into Lubuntu11.10.
At some point where all kind of ubuntu parts where removed, i got a yes/no input request in my prompt. But unfortunally at that point my keyboard was no longer responsive.
Solution was to at option -y to the apt-get install which makes the execution silent, always yes asumed.
Maybe an idea to ad the -y option in your oneliners. :-)
April 23rd, 2012 at 17:48
Your Mount Windows guide didn’t work for my Ubuntu 11.10 Unity. I’ve posted how I did it here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=11867857#post11867857
April 30th, 2012 at 20:19
Thanks.
I am on day 3 of using Linux. Your site helped me in loading flash.
thanks.
May 1st, 2012 at 16:36
Hello!
I’m glad your site exists.
Though I’m having trouble with removing ubuntu-desktop from my Kubuntu 12.04.
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/purekubuntu
The command from there throws me dozens of packages which can not be found. After removing the packages from the command I get the following:
Error: pkgProblemResolver::Resolve
You mind helping me out a bit? :)
May 7th, 2012 at 08:46
Hello!
I´m trying to install ubuntu into windows XP according to your manual. All explanations were of great utility.
At the end, I have a doubt because I dont know so much about it. When you open the virtual machine and start to install ubuntu, it appear a window where you have to choose between two options:
erase disk and install ubuntu or
something else (create or resize partitions)
I have installed the virtual machine in hard disk D:/ and it not detect any operating system (because windows is in C:/)
which would be my next step? because if I choose the option “erase disk and install ubuntu” will delete any files on the disk, but I dont know which disk, a D:/ or the virtual disk.
Thank you very much
Alvaro
May 14th, 2012 at 05:27
I’d like to know if adding `alias sudo=’sudo -H’` to the .bashrc would “solve” the problem of using `sudo` with stuff like graphic programs, or if there would be other side-effects not solved by the -H option.
(If the -H option solves this issue, maybe it would be nice to make this a default alias)
May 15th, 2012 at 20:46
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnUrqcD4W_M
…shows how to install iTunes using Wine and Play on Linux
May 16th, 2012 at 00:52
My recommendation for a native Windows/Mac environment or finding an alternative still stands. Read these comments:
http://freshtutorial.com/install-itunes-ubuntu-linux/#comments
May 18th, 2012 at 21:16
Very nice , simple, straightforward explained for the beginners.
Thanks a lot.
May 21st, 2012 at 08:40
Thanks for your great Ubuntu tutorials.
Just an information: when will we see two new interesting tutorials like ‘Pure Mate’ and ‘Pure Cinnamon’?
Thanks in advance and have a nice day.
May 23rd, 2012 at 20:40
Thanks for the awesome information. I’m a refugee from Unity, and your instructions for getting to xubuntu were invaluable. I had one obscure problem that you may or may not want to consider for your documentation:
After following your instructions here: http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/purexfceoneiric to get to pure xfce, my computer wouldn’t boot. By booting to a live CD and checking /var/log/syslog, and Googling, I discovered that /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf was sending me to the unity-greeter. I had to change /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf to look like this and then I could happily boot again:
[SeatDefaults]
greeter-session=lightdm-gtk-greeter
user-session=
I don’t know why my startup was still going to the Ubuntu login screen. Part of the reason I was following your instructions was to get rid of the Unity login and get to a pure xubuntu experience.
Again, I remain in awe of the great work you’ve done and thank you for it.
May 27th, 2012 at 15:59
Your Linux Tutorial collection is wonderful. I have successfully installed 12.04 on my and my granddaughters machine. I fiddled around with 10.10 a while back, successfully, but didn’t get real involved other than when I was teaching a week long build a PC class in the local college. For a compare-contrast after they all installed Win XP, watching the paint dry, I had one student install Ubuntu. This was to show them that there were alternatives to Mac OS and Windows and that it didn’t have to take hours to install an OS, I was free to teach what I wanted as I was being paid to develop the class for the the college. I wish I had your resource to have shared with the students then.
Dave
May 29th, 2012 at 00:33
Hi. I may be person # 15,734 to bring this minor omission in your otherwise wonderful tutorial of http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/resetpassword.
Two comments for what they are worth from a “newbie”:
The “-” is missing from “rw”, and while the order of the command switches shouldn’t matter, . . . only -rw -o works. Otherwise, my thanks for your help pages which, I am sure to revisit often. . . .Ineuw
May 29th, 2012 at 10:30
A big thank you for your job.
this was so helpful.
June 2nd, 2012 at 16:15
Thank you so much for posting this soulution http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/fixsudo It helped me very much.
June 16th, 2012 at 03:16
Hi, I was just reading your KDE v.s. Gnome tutorial on Ubuntu. I think it is helpful. I do think that is would be important to someone making this choice, that they also understood that in KDE you can NOT browse to a file share on the network and watch a movie without having it copied to your local hard drive first. I personally find this extremely inconvenient. Inconvenient enough, when viewing large HD movies (2 – 6 GIG), to choose Gnome over KDE.
June 22nd, 2012 at 04:19
Hello, just came across your very useful tutorial on virtualisation: ubuntu inside windows. Thank you, will use this as a reference. The inverse (windows inside linux) would also find an appreciative audience.
July 2nd, 2012 at 11:37
I’s just like to say thank you for your unofficial TOTALLY readable how to guides.
As an eager but time-poor learner I have found your entries extremely helpful.
Thanks!
July 5th, 2012 at 13:55
For some reason, when I go to this blog, it shows me the comment policy instead of the list of posts, but when I go to http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntucat/?s (the page to search posts) it lists them but also gives me the full post.
July 6th, 2012 at 03:52
It would be great if you could add the package list for ubuntu-server too. I have an Ubuntu-desktop which I would like to purge all the Windows manager etc from. I know the kernel image would need to change too, but it wouldn’t be fun if it was easy ;-)
July 18th, 2012 at 19:26
This is the most objective write-up I have read of KDE/Gnome-Unity etc. I am very grateful to you. You’ve made sense and reason to a bewildered newbie. Many thanks.
August 8th, 2012 at 08:48
Thanks for your article at http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/fixsudo
I ran into this by trying to figure out why “sudo visudo” was slow. I tried the “strace” command, like so: “sudo strace visudo”.
After saving the file (in nano, not vim, which seemed odd to me), strace dropped me out to a strange non-readline prompt mode. I didn’t realize this was visudo’s prompt and typed “Q” to quit. Oops!
Your article and this one got me out of the mess: http://lickthesalt.com/2009/07/06/fail-why-you-should-always-use-visudo/
Thanks!
August 13th, 2012 at 04:09
Hi,
just to thank you for you disk mounting tutorial. As a newbie less than a week its hard to grasp the file structure even though I used to use IBM unix all the time 15 yrs ago. I want to stop ubuntu automounting my windows disks and then just mount a shared partition to limit the possibility of personal data transfer. Anyhow this a very clear simple explanation of what I need to load a specified partition,
Cheers,
G
August 30th, 2012 at 14:48
Totally love psychocats.net
You, indeed, are a psycho put up all your content under CC-NC-ShareAlike 3.0, awesome. psychocats.net has been really helpful, ubuntuforums.org became my second choice for everything Ubuntu. :)
October 10th, 2012 at 05:43
MERCIMERCIMERCIMERCIMERCIMERCIMERCIMERCIMERCIMERCIMERCIMERCI
MERCI!
Thank you SO much!
I forgot my root password and tried EVERYTHING yet but nothing worked out…until I successfully reset it on recovery mode! such a relief! Laurianne in Lyon-France
October 20th, 2012 at 17:01
Thank you very much for the “Getting back to pure GNOME”. Always up to date and _very_ helpful !
October 20th, 2012 at 19:16
Hi,
There is a little error in the “Ubuntu remove” command on “Getting Back to a Pure Lubuntu” page :
—-> the third argument is missing: remove
Thank you for your site! It helped me a lot!
Regards,
David
October 21st, 2012 at 08:52
Good catch, David! I’ve fixed that. I also caught a similar error on the Kubuntu page and fixed that as well.
October 22nd, 2012 at 21:10
Hi,
I followed this page to install and I got some problems, I wish you can help me fix it:
http://wiki.quantsoftware.org/index.php?title=QSToolKit_Installation_Guide_Windows
I followed all of your instructions but when I went to the ‘Settings’, then ‘Storage’ and chose the ‘Virtual CD/DVD’ I met such error: “failed to open the CD/DVD image”
I also tried to mount with DAEMON Tools but I still cannot get you guided.
Can you help me fix that problem. Thank you very much
Regards!
October 25th, 2012 at 19:27
I want to do something slightly different from what you state on your PureKDE page: “These removal commands were created based on what Ubuntu, Xubuntu, etc. packages were added to a default Kubuntu installation.”
What I want to do is this: _start_ with a pure Gnome-based 12.10 system (no KDE), and completely convert it to a pure Kubuntu 12.10 system (no Gnome), as if I installed Kubuntu totally from scratch.
To do this, would I simply install kubuntu-desktop and then perform your PureKDE Gnome-removal procedure?
Or am I better off just doing a fresh Kubuntu 12.10 install from DVD which completely trashes the Gnome-based 12.10 system?
Or what?
Thank you very much.
October 25th, 2012 at 19:44
I really appreciate your tutorial efforts.
As an ex-win-geek, my inital transition to LINUX was aided by your blog and many others.
Thoughtfulness is a trait greatly needed in this day and age. Bless you and the Kitty kat!
November 8th, 2012 at 14:20
Hi! I have been trying to find a site that has clear direction on how to install Kubuntu on a WIndows 8 computer. There is an issue with the secure boot feature that Windows 8 computers now have that keeps Linux from being installed, as far as I understand. Do you know of any easy ways to work around this? I’ve tried utilizing EasyBCD and have had no luck. Great tutorials, btw!
Thanks in advance!
November 16th, 2012 at 11:57
Hi, I love your website, it was really useful when I was starting with Ubuntu, and I regularly point new users in its direction.
In your section about installing software, I just noticed that there is no reference to PPAs, when they are easily the most convenient way of getting software not in the official repos, or newer versions etc.
Cheers.
November 27th, 2012 at 07:39
Thanks for the “Installing Ubuntu inside Windows using VirtualBox” guide! I had no problem at all!
December 9th, 2012 at 00:19
On the “http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/installingsoftware” page, the link to “http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/installingsoftwarekarmic#synaptic” leads to an Error 404 page before defaulting to your home page after a few seconds.
Awesome website you have btw, been useful and informative to me for a few years now. Thank you for your efforts.
December 9th, 2012 at 23:10
Thanks, scrubjay. Should be good now.
December 12th, 2012 at 14:32
Thanks a lot. I got a problem with the edubuntu remove-thing, and I tried the commands you posted, and I looked in amazement as the logo of the dash changed to normal. I don’t have anything against edubuntu, but I just wanted to try it, but really difficult to remove properly. Thanks again.
January 18th, 2013 at 10:10
Thanks for pswr and usname solutions.
February 10th, 2013 at 10:55
Tried the method , and Ubuntu 12.04 accepted the password changes as you described , but when booting Unity rejects the password?
Help!!!!!!!!!!
February 10th, 2013 at 13:10
Solved :
Not exactly certain what happened , but when trying to switch from terminal to GUI mode in a program , somehow Nautilus trashed the GUI password setting.
Booted into GUI mode , and Unix password was rejected.
Then switched to terminal mode Crt-Alt-F1 and the Unix password was ok there.
Finally removed the xAuthority file:
sudo rm /home/username/.Xauthority
and also reinstalled nautilus and xorg
… at that point the GUI accepted the password.
Nowhere in the Ubuntu info does it say that the GUI password can be different than the Unix password !
February 18th, 2013 at 07:14
My question is, which file is the ISO file to be specified in Unetbootin?
I used bittorrent to download lubuntu 12.04 to a new folder on my desktop named “lubuntuCD”, which contains folders and files. The *Folders* are: .disk, boot, dists, doc, install, isolinux, pics, pool, and preseed. The *Files* are named: cdromupgrade, md5sum.txt, and README.diskdefines. Now, I downloaded and tried to use Unetbootin. Problem: Unetbootin needs the name of the ISO file. It won’t accept the desktop folder name, nor the name of any other folder in the desktop folder “lubuntuCD”. Which file is the “ISO” file?
Thanks.
February 18th, 2013 at 07:36
Nevermind. I had needlessly unpacked the downloaded *.iso file. I see, the file I downloaded by BitTorrent is the *.iso file. Thanks.
February 19th, 2013 at 06:27
After running Netbootin, and specifying as input the lubuntu*.iso file I downloaded via BitTorrent, apparently I have everything I need on my 4GB USB flash drive for the install of lubuntu on my Windows-XP-32-bit computer with 1GB of RAM and an AMD Athlon 64×2 CPU. Shall I choose, “Install lubuntu”? I wish I had a video of just what will happen. Will I have the opportunity to partition? Shall I set up a swap partition? How do I set up a swap partition? How much space for the Windows and Lubuntu partitions? Thanks.
February 19th, 2013 at 16:22
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/resetpassword
I wanted to reset my password, since I forgot it after not using my desktop in over a year and a half.
But I cannot boot anything, it just runs it’s course and ignores me.
It shows the screen with F2 AND F10 options, then tels me a fan has failed [clearly hasn't, I can see both working dandy] and tells me to press F2 to continue loading.
Trying to hold the shift right after I press the button to start the PC doesn’t work, or holding any other time also doesn’t work. The F2 and F10 won’t work, before or after the fan notice.
Any other way of figuring out/changing my password?
It loads my user without a password needed, but to change anything, I need it. But when the PC takes a nap, because I haven’t moved the mouse in X amount of time, then the PW is needed again.
March 26th, 2013 at 17:16
Dear Psychocat, I like LXDE best, but I hate the
“pop-up” scroll-bars. Is there a way to get a big fat
full-length scroll bar always showing? (And
can I get single-clicks to replace double-clicks
on my “launcher” icons?)
March 26th, 2013 at 17:19
PS. Maybe this is a matter of the openbox window
manager? How does one”switch-in a new windows
manager (and be able to switch back to another at will?)
April 9th, 2013 at 11:42
Tried your advice on http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/bootmenu to make Windows my default, unfortunately it didn’t work. Thanks anyway. Bob
April 12th, 2013 at 20:18
Great blog for beginners. I wish i found this at the very start. Thanks :)