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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 ...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

Thanks so much for these posts. They helped me to clean out some things and fix some problems as well.

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...

What fun! By continually pressing my up arrow while in terminal, followed immediately by hitting return, I drove my dog crazy.

Another dead link which leads nowhere.

This link leads no where. The whole posting should be removed. do not waste your time clicking on it.

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...

zerozero wrote:Tim_Olaguna,
can you provide us, please, the output of

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inxi -Sr

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apt policy gnome-shell gnome-session gnome-tweak-tool

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.

Thanks so much for helping to brighten my days and life.

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...

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...

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" ...

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 ...