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hunterkasy
Senior Cruncher USA Joined: Dec 8, 2008 Post Count: 300 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I have installed Ubuntu and I was in the process of doing all of the updates, not all updated, when I went to the add/remove I got this message:
failed to check for installed and available applications this is a major failure of your software management system. please check for broken package with synaptic, check the file permissions and correctness of the file '/etc/apt/sources.list' and reload the software information with: 'sudo apt -get update' and 'sudo apt -get install _f' when I went to the synaptic manager and looked for broken packages it was with firefox, no matter what I try to do with the firefox packages I get this: An error occurred the following details are provided E:/var/cache/apt/archives/firefox-3.0_3.0.7 + nobinonly - 0ubuntu0.8.10.1_i286.deb: corrupted file system tarfile - corrupted package archive What can I do to fix this? and remember I am a noob with linux |
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hunterkasy
Senior Cruncher USA Joined: Dec 8, 2008 Post Count: 300 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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this fixed it:
First, close down synaptic package manager. Then, open a terminal and clear out the cache. Now, see if you can upgrade your machine. Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal Code: sudo apt-get clean sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade |
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Bearcat
Master Cruncher USA Joined: Jan 6, 2007 Post Count: 2803 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Here is a good place for info when playing with linux.. http://www.linuxforums.org/forum . Or grab you a book on it. Had it installed a few times. Learned allot from the forum. In the end though, Mac OS X is allot better but you can't beat free when it comes to linux. I might build a box with intel i7 when the prices come down a bit and put linux on it one day.
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Sgt.Joe
Ace Cruncher USA Joined: Jul 4, 2006 Post Count: 7699 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Just got back from best buy with my new mac book. 2.4 ghz core 2 duo, 2 gb ram. In the process right now installing XP on the bootcamp partition. I'm so excited!!  Congrats. Is this your 1st mac? I bought the 2ghz mac pro a few months back. love it. Thinking of selling my 24 inch iMac to fund upgrading my quad mac to an octo. I know brink has mentioned he had a PPC MAC. Do you need to replace the motherboard to to go to octo or does the present one have two processor slots ? I see we are in for it on Tuesday - 6 to 8 inches of white fun with 30 mph winds and -5 afterwards. Cheers
Sgt. Joe
*Minnesota Crunchers* |
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Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Just got back from best buy with my new mac book. 2.4 ghz core 2 duo, 2 gb ram. In the process right now installing XP on the bootcamp partition. I'm so excited!! Congrats. Is this your 1st mac? I bought the 2ghz mac pro a few months back. love it. Thinking of selling my 24 inch iMac to fund upgrading my quad mac to an octo. This is my first Intel Mac. I have a G4 400Mhz PPC and a G5 1.8Ghz (x2) PPC. I'm going to sell the G5 on Craig's List shortly and put it against the new Mac Book. Don't think I can get anything for the G4. 20 bucks maybe...if that. |
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Bearcat
Master Cruncher USA Joined: Jan 6, 2007 Post Count: 2803 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Just saw i goofed on my post. I bought the 2ghz macbook aluminum. Awesome laptop. They fly allot faster than the PPC ones. I had a G4 powerbook years ago. Awesome back then. I'll bet you can get 100 bucks for that G4. Post it on macnn.
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hunterkasy
Senior Cruncher USA Joined: Dec 8, 2008 Post Count: 300 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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so far on my new linux box, I have already completed a couple of WU's. The one thing I have noticed every time I install any type of software the files in the cache gets corrupted, but by doing those steps that I have posted above seems to clear out the cache so all works well, I am amazed with all of the programs that can be installed under the add/remove it seems they have everything a person could need/want, I also found out, for the games "I am a gamer" their is allot of strategy games to play more than I would no what to do with, so far I do really like it, it is a learning process, but I have lots of time, being unemployed
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Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Just saw i goofed on my post. I bought the 2ghz macbook aluminum. Awesome laptop. They fly allot faster than the PPC ones. I had a G4 powerbook years ago. Awesome back then. I'll bet you can get 100 bucks for that G4. Post it on macnn. macnn...sweet. Thanks! |
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hunterkasy
Senior Cruncher USA Joined: Dec 8, 2008 Post Count: 300 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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14 beta's last night I just found out this morning, I had 16 beta's their were a few that was completed before I could count them |
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hunterkasy
Senior Cruncher USA Joined: Dec 8, 2008 Post Count: 300 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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2 more beta's so far today
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