Tag: Kubuntu
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KDE help: Kubuntu Oneiric Won’t Shut Down Anymore?
I’m really loving Kubuntu 11.10. As usual, I upgraded during the beta phase to avoid the slow downloads after the official release. It was a flawless upgrade: the best I can remember. I even did it using the wireless connection, with no significant hiccups… except this one I hardly noticed. I rarely need to reboot…
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Kubuntu Natty Update Weirdness
I just updated to Kubuntu 11.04 (Natty Beta 2) last night. All went reasonably well except for a few hitches: Inexplicably, several apps were uninstalled including GIMP and Wine. Easily remedied. This weird error message proved more difficult to fix: dpkg: warning: parsing file ‘/var/lib/dpkg/available’ near line 20544 package ‘handbrake-gtk’: error in Version string ‘svn3834ppa1~maverick1’:…
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New year, new OS?
So far it’s shaping up to be a year of changes. Some milestone birthdays, the family website on a content management system (at long last), and now, a change of operating system. After about 3 years of running Kubuntu on the family desktop, I’ve switched to openSUSE. Not a huge change I guess, switching from…
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Kaffeine: Can’t check DMA mode. Permission denied or no such device: “/dev/dvd”
I recently ran into trouble trying to play copy-protected DVDs on my new installation of Kubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron beta). Initially it seemed that there was a problem with the installation of libdvdcss2, because Kaffeine kept offering to re-install it. However, after a re-start of Kaffeine from Konsole with wizard mode (kaffeine -w), I got…
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Will The Canoniclique Finally Listen To Kubuntu?
Yesterday, Ubuntu tore a page from The Book of Dell and launched Brainstorm, an opportunity for its users to contribute their ideas for software development and marketing. To my own surprise, I signed up for an account. It’s not that I don’t enjoy giving my opinion. Tirades and diatribes are my raison d’être. If you…
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Kubuntu 5.04: The Hoary Hedgehog Release
Despite a less than stellar experience with the previous version of Ubuntu I decided to climb back on the horse and mosey down for a visit with Ubuntu’s fraternal twin, Kubuntu. Kubuntu is what Ubuntu would look like if he decided to abandon the patent leather shoes and forsake all corduroy and khahki and opt…