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- Mon Aug 17, 2015 4:34 pm
- Forum: Tutorials
- Topic: How to install XAMPP on Linux mint 14 32 bit/64bit
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3509
Re: How to install XAMPP on Linux mint 14 32 bit/64bit [SOLV
This is how I did it: 1. Download the installer from Apache Friend: XAMPP for Linux v5.6.8 (PHP 5.6.8) 2. Assuming you have downloaded into your 'Downloads' folder. Open a terminal: cd Downloasds chmod 755 xampp-linux-*-installer.run sudo ./xampp-linux-*-installer.run Your htdocs folder is located ...
- Thu Jul 23, 2015 8:54 pm
- Forum: Tutorials
- Topic: How to install XAMPP on Linux mint 14 32 bit/64bit
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3509
Re: How to install XAMPP on Linux mint 14 32 bit/64bit
This is how I did it: 1. Download the installer from Apache Friend: XAMPP for Linux v5.6.8 (PHP 5.6.8) 2. Assuming you have downloaded into your 'Downloads' folder. Open a terminal: cd Downloasds chmod 755 xampp-linux-*-installer.run sudo ./xampp-linux-*-installer.run Your htdocs folder is located ...
- Thu May 28, 2015 5:08 pm
- Forum: Scripts & Bash
- Topic: How to write a Bash shell script - by example
- Replies: 43
- Views: 59080
Re: How to write a Bash shell script - by example
Of course, if you're into the shell as much as I am, you could use this in your ~/.vimrc au BufWritePost * if getline(1) =~ "^#!" | if getline(1) =~ "/bin/" | silent !chmod 700 <afile> Any file.{ext} that has any shebang (perl, python, bash, whatever) will be made 700 upon exiti...
- Thu May 21, 2015 4:09 pm
- Forum: Newbie Questions
- Topic: How to watch Netflix Safely.
- Replies: 11
- Views: 983
Re: How to watch Netflix Safely.
Hi and thanks for the replies everyone. As it seemed simpler I tried xenopeek's method: Link to the direct download of the installer: https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_i386.deb (or for 64 bit https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb) Th...
- Thu Jun 05, 2014 7:30 pm
- Forum: Newbie Questions
- Topic: Questions about Defragging or Antivirus? Look here first!
- Replies: 323
- Views: 263175
Re: Questions about Defragging or Antivirus? Look here first
Haha, or something. Nice sig by the way :lol: I really wrote this in hope that it would get stickied so that we wouldn't have to keep droning on about how they really don't need the things they were used to in Windows. It was just getting old. Yeah, lately I find myself loosing my cool when it come...
- Thu Sep 05, 2013 4:52 pm
- Forum: LMDE Archive
- Topic: [Solved] Could not download all repository indexes
- Replies: 4
- Views: 10088
Re: [Solved] Could not download all repository indexes
Thanks so much for these posts. They helped me to clean out some things and fix some problems as well. 

- Wed Jul 24, 2013 11:25 pm
- Forum: Tutorials
- Topic: How to install Burg and Super Boot Manager on Linux Mint 14
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3164
Re: How to install Burg and Super Boot Manager on Linux Mint
Is there any update to the above directions? i'm running LMDE linux mint-201303-mate-dvd-64bit and upon trying A. sudo add-apt-repository ppa:n-muench/burg then B. sudo apt-get update I get error messages like the following: Err http://ppa.launchpad.net debian/main Sources 404 Not Found Err http://p...
- Sun Jul 21, 2013 8:55 pm
- Forum: Tutorials
- Topic: How to enable login sound on Linux Mint Mate & Cinnamon
- Replies: 3
- Views: 7004
Re: How to enable login sound on Linux Mint Mate & Cinnamon
What fun! By continually pressing my up arrow while in terminal, followed immediately by hitting return, I drove my dog crazy.
- Sun Jul 21, 2013 2:48 pm
- Forum: Tutorials
- Topic: How to install XAMPP on Linux mint 14 32 bit/64bit
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3509
Re: How to install XAMPP on Linux mint 14 32 bit/64bit
Another dead link which leads nowhere.
- Sun Jul 21, 2013 2:44 pm
- Forum: Tutorials
- Topic: Install WORDPRESS on Linux mint 14 and Ubuntu 12.10
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1122
Re: Install WORDPRESS on Linux mint 14 and Ubuntu 12.10
This link leads no where. The whole posting should be removed. do not waste your time clicking on it.
- Mon Oct 22, 2012 10:08 pm
- Forum: Installation & Boot
- Topic: Maya Cinnamon refuses to install
- Replies: 6
- Views: 958
Re: Maya Cinnamon refuses to install
I have the same problem trying to install Mint 13 Mate or Mint Debian. The odd thing is I never had these problems when installing either of these distros on my 4 year old HP laptop running Win7 Home Premium. But I cannot get them to install on my new system whose main OS is Win7 Professional. My cu...
- Mon Aug 13, 2012 6:25 pm
- Forum: Tutorials
- Topic: Install Gnome Shell in Mint 13 (Cinnamon edition)
- Replies: 27
- Views: 38601
Re: Install Gnome Shell in Mint 13 (Cinnamon edition)
I'll be glad to later this week. My system is down while I replace it with a new box. Thanks for your help and interest.zerozero wrote:Tim_Olaguna,
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- Sun Aug 12, 2012 2:58 pm
- Forum: Tutorials
- Topic: Mini-HowTo: Fortunes + Cowsay (+random creatures) in LMDE
- Replies: 5
- Views: 7042
Re: Mini-HowTo: Fortunes + Cowsay (+random creatures) in LMD
Thanks so much for helping to brighten my days and life. 

- Sun Aug 12, 2012 2:23 pm
- Forum: Tutorials
- Topic: Install Gnome Shell in Mint 13 (Cinnamon edition)
- Replies: 27
- Views: 38601
Re: Install Gnome Shell in Mint 13 (Cinnamon edition)
I tried to do this in Linux Mint Debian (running as a MATE interface) but received this response: tim@tim-debian ~ $ sudo apt-get install gnome-shell gnome-session gnome-tweak-tool [sudo] password for tim: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Packa...
- Sat Aug 11, 2012 6:28 pm
- Forum: LMDE Archive
- Topic: Lamp in LMDE?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 963
Lamp in LMDE?
Re: You might consult the "Giant Debian Sources.List" > http://sites.google.com/site/mydebiansourceslist/ Well, I did. and the only reference I could find for "lamp" said, "Look in backports.org first!" Not very encouraging for what I previously thought was generally an...
- Thu Jan 19, 2012 9:22 pm
- Forum: LMDE Archive
- Topic: Problems when updating LMDE
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2261
Re: Problems when updating LMDE
I found a solution here http://www.absolutelytech.com/2010/01/27/solved-unable-to-update-iceauthority-on-booting/ cd /var/lib/gdm3 then sudo chown username:username .ICEauthority sudo chmod 0644 .ICEauthority where username is your username This command fails for me at "cd /var/lib/gdm3" ...
- Thu Jan 19, 2012 9:04 pm
- Forum: LMDE Archive
- Topic: Problems when updating LMDE
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2261
Re: Problems when updating LMDE
Every time I try to Update LMDE using this set of commands sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade I get a series of errors ending with these: Preparing to replace gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad 0.10.22-2 (using .../gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad_0.10.22-3_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement ...