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Does anybody know what to do about this?
Machine is a 2008 Core 2 Duo iMac with 4GB RAM. (And 64bit Debian 7 boots OK, but I've not tried installing under the latest version of VirtualBox as I have just upgraded VBox today.)
VirtualBox 4.3, upon trying to boot a machine with the Ubuntu 13.10 (64bit)…
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I am running sudo update-manager -d and start the upgrade process. I select upgrade option and when then manager enters Setting new software channels it throws an error.
Could not calculate the upgrade
An unresolvable problem occurred while calculating the upgrade.
This can be caused by:
* Upgrading…
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In trying to install the latest version of Ubuntu, I made a bootable USB and proceeded to give it a shot. As it loaded, the upper half of the screen displayed staticy, multi-colored horizontal lines, but continued to boot into the installer. The installer appeared to be functional using the keyboard…
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I have an internet connection that is using pppoe. In my windows I do not assign an ip address for my network and I am able to connect using password and username. I installed Ubintu 13.10 today, and I did pppoeconf, and I setup an ip/network mask and changed the mac address in the options, and I…
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The long wait for the latest stable version of Ubuntu is finally over. Now you can download your favorite UI version of Ubuntu 13.10, try out the Phone Edition, and grab a copy of the official manual using the compiled set of download links we have put together for your convenience. Download Links…
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I'm looking into ways of automatically loading Gedit as gksu gedit when I enter sudo gedit by mistake?
I have found that I have made a number of files unreachable by using gedit and I have only just found out why!
ACHIEVED SO FAR
I have written a script which will make an alias so that if I type…
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When I load GEdit, it is different from sudo GEdit.
Normal GEdit gives me Gtk warnings in the console, and ithas a different look.
When I install plugins on either version, it doesn't reflect on the other.
I tried removing gedit and reinstalling, but I get the exact setups (in other words, GEdit…
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I am a bit confused as to where I should put externally downloaded plugins. I have tried putting them in:
/usr/share/gedit/plugins
~/.local/gedit/plugins
~/.gnome2/gedit/plugins
/usr/lib/gedit/plugins
The way I have checked whether the plugins show up or not is going to Edit-Preferences-Plugins…
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I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 with python 2.7.3 and PyGObject and I'd like to develop plugins for Gedit in python. I found a simple looking tutorial for this sort of thing here.
According to the tutorial, I need the Gedit module to interact with the plugin interface:
from gi.repository import GObject,…
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Previously, I need to clear documents history, so I Googled and found this:
http://www.watchingthenet.com/ubuntu-tip-clear-disable-recent-documents.html
I did the step, and then when I opened gedit in root terminal, I've got this:
root@dellph1-desktop:/# gedit
(gedit:8224): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_bookmark_file_load_from_data:…
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