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Linux Software Installation EasyGuide

March 24, 2010 by Lee hodson 6 Comments

A couple of years of experience have taught me there are many ways to install software into Linux. Most of those methods are as easy as fishing for piranhas with a horse for bait - it's quick and painless (for the fisherman, absolute nightmare for the horse) and a few of them are as enjoyable as listening to your tone deaf sister do karaoke without a background track - it goes on for ever and ever and ever and causes your ears to close shop and move to another body. A couple of days ago I was stuck down with a couple of those convoluted and very painful installation … [Read more...]

Filed Under: EasyGuides, Linux Sanity Tagged With: Advanced Packaging Tool, aptitude, Deb, Debian, EasyGuide, installing source code, linux, Package management system, running scripts, software installation, Synaptic, Ubuntu

Fixing the Dreaded “Errors were encountered while processing” Errors

March 14, 2010 by Lee hodson 24 Comments

For the past week or two, every time I installed new software into Ubuntu, I was greeted with the "Errors were encountered while processing:" blah, blah, blah speech. Up until yesterday, that error was just a battle scar my computer had earned attempting to install a few software packages. I didn't need them, my computer wasn't bothered by them not being fully installed so after trying to fix them many times I thought f#ck it! No real problem. But yesterday, when a few more packages failed to install, and this time they stopped my computer from updating itself and prevented me from using … [Read more...]

Filed Under: EasyGuides, Gremlins!!!, Linux Sanity Tagged With: Advanced Packaging Tool, apt errors, Debian, Errors were encountered while processing, KDE, linux, Ubuntu

Extra Repositories for Karmic Koala

November 10, 2009 by Lee hodson 2 Comments

I was about to stick these extra repositories into the Karmic Koala Review but thought "No, there are enough of them and they're useful enough to put into their own little section." so that's what I've done here. I will update this list of repositories whenever I find a new one that's worth adding to my sources.list. First, a little about repositories Software can be installed into Linux in one of two ways: Each program can be located and downloaded from the Internet or an external storage device and then installed in its own peculiar way; and Each program can be installed using … [Read more...]