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The easiest way to do this is to copy and paste the following in the terminal (you can do it in one fell swoop) OLDCONF=$(dpkg -l|grep "^rc"|awk '{print $2}') CURKERNEL=$(uname -r|sed 's/-*[a-z]//g'|sed 's/-386//g') LINUXPKG="linux-(image|headers|ubuntu-modules|restricted-modules)&qu...

Your instructions just worked great for me M4he, to create a desktop icon for Dolphin in Linux Mint Cinnamon. Thank you very much!

Just figured out how to solve my particular "icons not showing up on my desktop" and the "clicking on the desktop with a right mouse click box not opening up" problems: Open "dconf Editor" (you may have to install it if you do not currently have it) and then click on th...

This still happens on my system (Qiana, Cinnamon 2.2.13, Nemo 2.2.2). No, I don't have Nautilus installed! I found the following workaround to avoid the disappearing icons: Add the command «/bin/sh -c "killall nemo && nemo -n&"» to the startup applications. This will kill the ...

xenopeek wrote:You can remove the package lists, and then fetch them anew. To do so open a terminal and run the following two commands (one at a time):

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sudo rm -fv /var/lib/apt/lists/*
sudo apt-get update

That should solve the MergeList issue.

Thank you very much Xenopeek, this also worked for me.

You can install Ubuntu Software Center using Synaptic Package Manager. Its package name is "software-center". Then you can use it to install Ubuntu Tweak. :shock: Awesome tip, Thank You! :D Oops, except when I try to start Ubuntu Software Center in Linux Mint Cinnamon, it is not starting....

This information also worked for me, Thank you everyone.

http://www.upubuntu.com/2012/05/how-to-install-apache-openoffice-34-via.html Thanks a lot Adoptapet for posting this info, worked great for me. :) I use OpenOffice instead of LibreOffice because Libre has/had some sort of problem when creating PDF files, but OpenOffice doesn't have that problem for...

several sound devices in my PC and would like specific applications to put out their sound through different devices You need to investigate Pulseaudio Device Chooser and Manager, they should be in the Sound & Video menu but if not check they are not hidden in menu editor, otherwise in a termin...