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 Post subject: Re: Ubuntu
PostPosted: Fri May 02, 2008 8:42 pm 
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If you are trying some stuff, you can also install grip which is good but has a messy interface with too many options for us, simple mortals. On my comp, the default configuration for mp3 in sound-juicer is lame v0 so it's quite good.

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 Post subject: Re: Ubuntu
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If you are trying some stuff, you can also install grip which is good but has a messy interface with too many options for us, simple mortals. On my comp, the default configuration for mp3 in sound-juicer is lame v0 so it's quite good.


You think you could tell me what it says for the GStreamer Pipeline thing in your mp3 profile?


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 Post subject: Re: Ubuntu
PostPosted: Mon May 12, 2008 6:23 am 
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here it is :
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audio/x-raw-int,rate=44100,channels=2 ! lame name=enc mode=0 vbr-quality=0 ! id3v2mux

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 Post subject: Re: Ubuntu
PostPosted: Mon May 26, 2008 6:51 pm 
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Sounds like you had a great Ubuntu experience.

Mine was the opposite. I built a machine using a Lan Party case for my TV room. I tried numerous different distros of Ubuntu and couldn't get it working at all with the components I had. As long as you are using NVidia and AMD chipsets, it seems to be fine. However, the particular board I had wouldn't let me use the HDMI output, wouldn't work with the ATI card etc. etc. etc.
Nothing but 50-60hrs of trouble to find out it was incompatible with my components. Plus I hate the lovey dovey unity theme.

I've since switched 2 machines to FC8 and so far have had no problems at all. Except that Azureus doesn't seem to want to function properly.


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 Post subject: Re: Ubuntu
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I installed this yesterday and am having problems unzipping stuff. I'm obviously missing something somewhere. I tried to unzip K3b and it did so, but it didn't install onto my system.

Any ideas?

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 Post subject: Re: Ubuntu
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I installed this yesterday and am having problems unzipping stuff. I'm obviously missing something somewhere. I tried to unzip K3b and it did so, but it didn't install onto my system.

Any ideas?


What exactly are you trying to do? What type of file is it?

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 Post subject: Re: Ubuntu
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brainofpea wrote:
I installed this yesterday and am having problems unzipping stuff. I'm obviously missing something somewhere. I tried to unzip K3b and it did so, but it didn't install onto my system.

Any ideas?


What exactly are you trying to do? What type of file is it?
I'm trying to set up a program on my comp. All the files have extracted and now I'm flummoxed. When using winrar to unzip programme files there was a set up file within.

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 Post subject: Re: Ubuntu
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Well, installing softwares in ubuntu is different from the windows way. Read this page : http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/installingsoftware and you'll understand what is happening to you.
Basically to achieve the task you're trying to do, you have to go in "applications" menu and then click on "add/remove..."
Here you can select the software you want to install.

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 Post subject: Re: Ubuntu
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Thank you, sorted. 8)

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Walter Sobchak wrote:
Well, installing softwares in ubuntu is different from the windows way. Read this page : http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/installingsoftware and you'll understand what is happening to you.
Basically to achieve the task you're trying to do, you have to go in "applications" menu and then click on "add/remove..."
Here you can select the software you want to install.


Depends. If it's an RPM, you can use the rpm command, or the distro probably has an RPM manager. If it's source, you have to configure, compile, and/or install it.

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 Post subject: Re: Ubuntu
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Ubuntu is debian-based so the package system is *.deb.
The synaptic package manager is a great tool for installing without messing things up with compiling (especially when you're a beginner).
Apparently it's possible to install rpm-based packages but it's not a good way to proceed.
Ubuntu has a huge software base so almost everything available under linux is found in a .deb type.

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 Post subject: Re: Ubuntu
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Now it has fucked up my screen resolution. It's stuck at 800x600, rather than the 1024x768 I had it at. The latter option is now disappeared of the system completely as an option to choose. :?:

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 Post subject: Re: Ubuntu
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take a look at your xorg.conf file, it's somewhere in /etc/X11/ i believe. There you edit it with gedit (sudo gedit) and you go to the screen section and you put manually back your screen resolution (be careful to follow the syntax of the file)

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 Post subject: Re: Ubuntu
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Believe me, I went through all that for hours last night and it didn't, or wouldn't let me change it.

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 Post subject: Re: Ubuntu
PostPosted: Tue Mar 24, 2009 8:32 pm 
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Did you make an update recently ? Have you checked the ubuntu forums ?

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 Post subject: Re: Ubuntu
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The updates come thick and fast on ubuntu, so yeah for the updates. The ubuntu forums say to do the same as you. It doesn't give me permission to do what they say to do though. :-(

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brainofpea wrote:
The updates come thick and fast on ubuntu, so yeah for the updates. The ubuntu forums say to do the same as you. It doesn't give me permission to do what they say to do though. :-(


You have to edit it as superuser. Use "sudo gedit xorg.conf" or switch to superuser ("su (password)") and then edit it.

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 Post subject: Re: Ubuntu
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This is weird. I booted up my pc today and everything is back to normal. :?:

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That's very windows-like ! :D

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 Post subject: Re: Ubuntu
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I've been fooling around with Ubuntu lately, and I like it.

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