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thank you all for your replies. I have since updated the repo's & installed updated pack 3. However the reason I want to compile and not just install from the repo's is so it's custom to my specific machine. I've always compiled HandBrake and had no issues until now. Now after updating repos and...

@proxima_centauri a big thank you for your help.
With your sticky of the Update Pack Info I was able to do what needed to be done and change the repo's to the correct
locations and finally have my updates coming through without Update Manager screaming at me

Hi hoping someone can help. I've been using Linuxmint for quite a while. I have now gone from Ubuntu based to LMDE 201109 [x86_64]. Now the installation was a breeze. However I am trying to compile an Application " HandBrake ", now I have all the required libraries except one " fribid...

I would suggest Windows First!
As for VirtualBox not all Windows games are able to be run through Virtualisation, most Windows games still require DirectX 9 this is not supported in VirtualBox.

My understanding and forgive me if I'm wrong but if you entered the following: sudo apt-get upgrade this will upgrade packages that need upgrading sudo apt-get dist-upgrade this will upgrade you to the next distro for example you might be using Debian 5.0 (lenny), if you enter sudo apt-get dist-upgr...

@altair4 thank you very much this seems to have fixed it, not sure how it broke to begin with. Maybe you either don't have fuse installed or you are not a member of the fuse group: sudo apt-get install gvfs-fuse Then add yourself to the fuse group: sudo gpasswd -a your-user-name fuse Unfortunately y...

@altair4, thank you for your suggestion, tried as qutoed and still no go! In terminal after entering the command you suggested I get gvfs-backends is already the newest version. The second error: I am also having the same problem with Network when Nautilus is open and click on Network in the left pa...

@richyrich, thank you for stating the bleeding obvious! I've been using this distro since the release date in 201012. Now if you have something useful to post I'll gladly read it! These links I'm referring to have been on my desktop since the initial install! Linux is NOT Windows ! You want to add a...

Hi everyone, I have a small problem,When I click on Computer icon on desktop I am getting message "Could not display Computer:///". Nautilus cannot handle "computer" locations. I am also having the same problem with Network when Nautilus is open and click on Network in the left p...

@proxima_centauri thank you for that little bit of info. I had no idea is was dependent on the GNOME 3 desktop.
this pretty much answers my question as to why it's not in the repos.

thanks again!

Just to check if you have Java Installed go to http://java.com/en/download/installed.jsp click verify java version. If you have the most recent up to date version it will say Congratulations! You have the recommended Java installed (Version 6 Update 26). If you have no java installed it will tell you!

Hi, just wondering if anyone knows when Brasero 3 will be updated on the repo, as brasero-3.0.0 is now the stable version. But even on the Brasero Page ==> http://projects.gnome.org/brasero//index.html they still haveThe latest stable release is 2.30.0. On their FTP server when you checkout the sour...

I'm having much the same issue but trying to retireve info on 32399 packages I also ran through terminal and was left with the below mesasage and it just stays on screen with the animation, have to reset session to clear it! Any help would be appreciated. thank you ap40137@mint-desktop ~ $ mintinsta...

I updated to the new mintUpdate update manager followed the instructions as set out on the blog and I must say worked like charm. It found the updates needed, it tells you want to do incase things go awry and last but not least, it's working beautifully! I'm using LMDE 10 Kernel 2.6.38-2-amd64 &...

@cecar it worked like a charm this is exactly what I was needing and missing! thank you again! :D :D :D @karashata thank you for your extra advice too I have followed that and the next time updates come down I'll check back. I just updated to the new update manager worked like a charm and no recurre...

Have a question as to why LMDE does not restart the computer but instead restarts a new " Kernel " session. Any chance there could be a reboot option as when I have to reboot I have to " Shutdown " & Power On. Traditionally even in previous versions of LinuxMint if you clicke...