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E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13: Permission denied) E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root? These lines says that you are not authorized to install a package. You need root privileges to do it. So, you must use sudo to give permission...

I have now marked this thread as solved, however i cannot post on how it was solved, only guessing really. This morning i thought i would try running spotify again and this time it began playing my local files. I was surprised as nothing i thought had changed over the last few days. This is where th...

Thanks for the reply mank_in These are the errors when opening spotify from the terminal Root [mp3 @ 0x22f004166400] decoding for stream 0 failed [mp3 @ 0x22f004166400] Could not find codec parameters (Audio: mp3, 0 channels, s16, 273 kb/s) 10:26:06.094 W [audio_file_decompressor_ffmpeg.cpp:386] Fai...

Thanks for the response mank_in however i had come across that article whilst searching for a fix and did in fact install those 3 packages but it made no difference and spotify refuses to play local files. Very strange

Thanks for your reply Scriptiee ffmpeg was not installed so i installed it and libavdevice54, libavfilter3, libswresample0 came with it. Sorry to report that this did not help. Tried rebooting, also tried uninstalling and reinstalling spotify but sadly this made no difference and local files still d...

Still having no luck getting local files to play on Spotify, i have spent a lot of time searching threads here, on Debian forums and also on the Spotify forum. Spotify released an update for Linux yesterday ( 0.9.1.55 ) and i updated both Linux Mint Olivia (cinnamon) and LMDE. Again Spotify works fl...

Hi, its been quite a while since i was on the forum and that is to the credit of Linux Mint as i have had no problems at all until now. I am wondering if anyone here can help or point me in the direction of finding a solution to a problem i have with LMDE and Spotify. I have searched but found nothi...

I had the same problem with youtube. I tried to disable hardware accelaration in adobe flash and it worked. Now the videos in youtube are playing without the red filter. I was not getting the red problem with me it was crashing the whole system forcing a reboot. After seeing this thread i thought i...

Update: Following a read of this post http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=141&t=67520 i thought it may be worth giving the fix for the red screen a try even though for myself and dumonde it completely crashed my system forcing a reboot. I opened the link given i.e. http://www.skai.gr/pla...

I have exactly the same problem as dumonde, i have not changed anything myself except to update the system using synaptic. As soon as the music video begins to play everything just locks, then crashes resulting in a hard reboot to get going again. I have tried changing flash, i have tried re install...

I am listening to High Hopes by Pink Floyd from the CD The Division Bell.

sudo ufw delete allow from 192.168.1.128 [sudo] password for jose: Could not delete non-existent rule But you know? that rule exists. I can see it in GUFW I am not sure as to why this is not working for you, on my pc i set up the rule you have as a trial using GUFW then opened a terminal and delete...

Ah you wish to remove the Ip, i was thinking ports in my example.

Try it this way then:

sudo ufw delete allow from 192.168.1.7

Mouthful of grass by Free from the album Free

Try it this way:

Open a terminal and delete it from there.

example: sudo ufw delete deny 23399/tcp

As others have said all the 189 updates ran through just fine, rebooted and all is good and dandy.

Currently listening to Wishbone Ash track playing right now is "Throw Down The Sword"

I have been using the RC release with no problems and will just update any 1 and 2 updates if available. Great distro this one. Thank you

I am not sure if this will help you or not but i have a maxtor external hard drive, now when i plug it into the desktop PC its recognized straight away but when i plugged it into the laptop it was not. Anyway i left it plugged in and about 20 minutes later up it popped. Funny thing is since that 1st...

Drumming song by Florence and the Machine