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Re: HOW TO : Install Grub Customizer (Grub2 Editor Gui) in L
Posted: Sun Mar 10, 2013 5:05 pm
by KilUma
I've tried both ways, following zero's instructions for compiling. Neither work. I'm certain it has something to do with sources, but I can't figure out what.
The following is the output for:
Not sure if this is helpful, but the following is my output for(abbreviated):
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apt install cmake g++ libgtkmm-2.4-dev gettext libssl-dev
Package cmake 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 'cmake' has no installation candidate
E: Unable to locate package libgtkmm-2.4-dev
E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'libgtkmm-2.4-dev'
Re: HOW TO : Install Grub Customizer (Grub2 Editor Gui) in L
Posted: Sun Mar 10, 2013 5:15 pm
by zerozero
KilUma
if you are using nadia and have the ppa (as i see you do) you don't need to compile it
try
Re: HOW TO : Install Grub Customizer (Grub2 Editor Gui) in L
Posted: Sun Mar 10, 2013 5:25 pm
by KilUma
This is the output of that command(note: the broken package is grub-customizer, itself):
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kiluma@kiluma ~ $ sudo apt install grub-customizer
[sudo] password for kiluma:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
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:
grub-customizer : Depends: libatkmm-1.6-1 (>= 2.22.1) but it is not installable
Depends: libcairomm-1.0-1 (>= 1.6.4) but it is not installable
Depends: libglibmm-2.4-1c2a (>= 2.33.13) but it is not installable
Depends: libgtkmm-2.4-1c2a (>= 1:2.24.0) but it is not installable
Depends: libpangomm-1.4-1 (>= 2.27.1) but it is not installable
Recommends: hwinfo but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
Re: HOW TO : Install Grub Customizer (Grub2 Editor Gui) in L
Posted: Sun Mar 10, 2013 5:31 pm
by zerozero
sure, you're missing the main ubuntu repo
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deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal main restricted universe multiverse
you have the source-code repo but not the "regular" one
add it, update and upgrade and try again
Re: HOW TO : Install Grub Customizer (Grub2 Editor Gui) in L
Posted: Sun Mar 10, 2013 5:56 pm
by KilUma
It's usually something simple. Thanks for tolerating my oversight. It works, all is fine.
Re: HOW TO : Install Grub Customizer (Grub2 Editor Gui) in L
Posted: Sun Mar 10, 2013 5:57 pm
by zerozero
glad you got it sorted
Re: HOW TO : Install Grub Customizer (Grub2 Editor Gui) in L
Posted: Tue Mar 12, 2013 6:55 pm
by KilUma
So, I prefer BURG over GRUB. But I'm have an issue getting it installed using either Grub Customizer, or Super Boot Manager. So here is what I have tried, and my results:
When I open Grub Customizer, it finds BURG. I click 'yes' to configure BURG, and then get the following error message:
burg-mkconfig couldn't be executed successfully. error message:
Generating burg.cfg ...
/usr/sbin/burg-probe: error: cannot stat `/boot/burg/locale'.
No path or device is specified.
Try `/usr/sbin/burg-probe --help' for more information.
I choose the "Environment" option, and confirm everything is correct. It is. After confirming the failure, I exit out and look up the info provided in the error message.
As a result of that, I input the following in the term:
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sudo /usr/sbin/burg-probe --device /dev/sda
I get this as the output:
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/usr/sbin/burg-probe: error: unknown filesystem.
This leads me to specify a partition. This is my input:
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sudo /usr/sbin/burg-probe --device /dev/sda5
This is the output:
Which is weird, because it's an ext4 fs. Either way, it doesn't solve the problem.
Re: HOW TO : Install Grub Customizer (Grub2 Editor Gui) in L
Posted: Fri May 24, 2013 9:57 am
by massexy
I just successfully installed Grub Customizer in LMDE UP6 following the instructions here but with the latest .deb I could find on this page:
https://launchpad.net/grub-customizer/+download
There is a 3.0.4 release but only tar.gz files so you would need to follow the instructions to build it.
My netbook has a 32bit processor so I used that .deb file.
1. I downloaded the file:
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wget -c https://launchpad.net/grub-customizer/3.0/2.99/+download/grub-customizer_2.99-0ubuntu1%7Eppa1p_i386.deb
I guess this one should work on 64bit PCs:
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wget -c https://launchpad.net/grub-customizer/3.0/2.99/+download/grub-customizer_2.99-0ubuntu1%7Eppa1p_amd64.deb
2. And then installed it:
Re: HOW TO : Install Grub Customizer (Grub2 Editor Gui) in L
Posted: Sun May 26, 2013 10:04 am
by excollier
Didn't work at all for me.
It's there in the main menu, (after a reboot) but it doesn't respond at all.
Re: HOW TO : Install Grub Customizer (Grub2 Editor Gui) in L
Posted: Sat Jun 01, 2013 8:21 am
by tux-sven
Thank you massexy,
So easy and working so well!
I installed it in a friends LMDE to get a Windows restoring entry away (i didn't delete this partition for eventually coming needs)
Now it's no risk somebody hits the start-entry of this dangerous row. (I think it would destroy the whole Linux installation)
Thanks again!!
Re: HOW TO : Install Grub Customizer (Grub2 Editor Gui) in L
Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2014 11:42 am
by sdibaja
I installed the .deb file >grub-customizer_4.0.6-0ubuntu1~ppa1t_amd64.deb< as retrieved from
https://launchpad.net/~danielrichter200 ... /+packages (on LMDE)
It works smoothly.
I had not tried this for quite a while, the new version is much improved with new features.
Thanks for all the input folks.