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Say that I had superb leadership skills and lots money and wanted to make Debian more popular than Ubuntu in 5 years' time. What would it take?
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I have a fresh install of Ubuntu 11.10 from the iso 'ubuntu-11.10-desktop-amd64.iso'. I installed this in VMWare Fusion 4.1.1 running on OSX 10.7.3. When setting up the VM, I allowed easy install to take care of creating my user and installing VMWare tools. No problems during installation, everything…
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When I type in 'sudo apt-get update' I get this
mohd-arafat-hossain@TUD:~$ sudo apt-get update
[sudo] password for mohd-arafat-hossain:
Ign http://bd.archive.ubuntu.com precise InRelease
Ign http://bd.archive.ubuntu.com precise-updates InRelease
Ign http://bd.archive.ubuntu…
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Whats common among Skype, Opera, OpenOffice in Ubuntu ? Whenever I open these applications I get logged off and shows back me the login screen. This started happening since the 10.10 upgrade.
Forgot to mention :
Yes, its x64.Each time I open these applications, the UI shows and then crashes.
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I have a warning triangle that my update information is outdated, the last update was 12 days ago. I use Ubuntu 11.10. A run of sudo apt-get update produces the following output:
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net oneiric InRelease
Ign http://de.archive.ubuntu.com oneiric InRelease …
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Hi all,
I'm trying to run apt-get update on ubuntu 9.10
I've configured my proxy server and I can access the internet without any problem:
/etc/apt# wget "http://www.google.com"
Resolving (...)
Proxy request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 292 [text/html]
Saving to: `index.html'
100%[=================================================================================================================================>]…
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As root i type this command apt-get update and get these error messages.
> Err http://security.debian.org lenny/updates Release.gpg
Could not resolve 'security.debian.org'
Err http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/main…
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I tried to update my debian dreamplug server with the command running as root apt-get update and recieved these errors.
Err http://security.debian.org lenny/updates Release.gpg
Could not resolve 'security.debian…
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I followed the first set of instructions on this page to install Open Office:
How to install Open Office?
However, the last step which says to change the CHMOD of a folder, I got an error saying that the directory does not exist.
Open Office now appears in my Ubuntu start menu, but clicking…
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I am trying to install PHP4 on a Debian 7 32bit box but I ran into the following
root@php4:~# apt-get update
Get:1 http://snapshot.debian.org lenny Release.gpg [189 B]
Hit http://snapshot.debian.org lenny Release
Ign http://snapshot.debian.org lenny Release
Hit http://snapshot.debian.org lenny/main…
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I have a Debian Squeeze EC2 AMI. On booting up an instance with it and trying to install packages with apt-get I get errors saying there is no keyring installed. Here is the error with apt-get update:
root@ip:~# apt-get update
Get:1 http://ftp.us.debian.org squeeze Release.gpg [1672 B]
Ign http://ftp…
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