Looks like it requires hwloc, which pulls cairo, which pulls libgl.
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Looks like it requires hwloc, which pulls cairo, which pulls libgl.
Vanillalite
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It's Ubuntu release day if anyone cares.
Oh. Thanks.
Any handy reviews? Did they ever fix the broken LibreOffice desktop integration? (Keyboard shortcuts didn't work, which is a deal breaker for someone like me.)
Vanillalite
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Young Magus
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Treechopper
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* Does a happy dance *
More recognition for the best distro never hurts.
Why do you need it via Wine? Does that give you access to more games?
Young Magus
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Oracle Dragon
Member
Well I got the chance to revisit this and I finally got it working! Not much solid documentation that I could find on this. I had more than one problem, something that makes it hard to troubleshoot:
A) I'm using a natted connection on my VM. Probably most people won't run into this. But it meant that my 192.168.0.0/24 range wasn't accurate as NFS sees me as 192.168.0.10 and my VM thinks it is 10.0.2.15. You need both configured in /etc/exports and /etc/hosts.allow
B) I was trying to share something off of root (ex: /videos). This doesn't work for some reason. If you see a log entry like "refused mount request from <ip> for <path> (/): not exported", you can't export root. I needed to remount my videos drive from /videos to /export/videos, and this point it worked.
C) The share wouldn't mount as NFS reported that an illegal port had been requested. I had to add "insecure" to the etc/exports options for the mount point in order to get past that.
This problem began to make more sense to me once I could figure out how to get some logging. Two of the most important steps for me were:
A) Enable NFS logging. You need to use rpcdebug on the NFS server to do this:
sudo rpcdebug -m nfsd -s proc
This will write logging into /var/log/syslog (ubuntu) or presumably /var/log/messages on others.
B) Mount from the prompt with verbose logging:
sudo mount -v <mount options>
Its not perfect yet, my permissions are still sloppy since in my desperation to finally get the darn thing working I was opening things left and right, but if anyone else is having NFS problems (it was supposed to be so easy!) perhaps the above may come in handy.
Emperor Bohe
Member
so is there no way to upgrade from my preexisting elementaryOS Luna to the new Freya? don't really feel like starting from scratch...
Back up everything dear to you and do a fresh install. It's the Linux way, if you don't want package problems down the road.
If you're not on a rolling release distro
bernardobri
Steve, the dog with no powers that we let hang out with us all for some reason
So, while using Spotify on Ubuntu (14.04) on some reason, the app doesn't show sections in my music library like Artists, Albums, etc that I have included in my favorites, just leaving me with bare options. I find this very odd given that the rest of the devices that I use (like on OSX) the app shows my music library without any kind of problems... I unistalled and reinstalled the app and still doesn't let me access my library, so I'm left to wonder if I did something wrong?
Vanillalite
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I always just use the website. Works for me vs dealing with app compatiblilty on Linux.
Treechopper
Member
Ah, I thought I replied to you. Sorry!
I uninstalled the client. I don't know if they're actively maintaining it, but with each package update the client kept accruing more bugs. The web client's not ideal, but it works well.
Also, if you have or are using the Spotify client, check the .cache directory for Spotify stuff. I had 2.5 GBs of stuff just left there after the uninstall.
Dice
Pokémon Parentage Conspiracy Theorist
Edit: I have Ubuntu 15.04 installed, and I have a dual monitor setup, but one monitor is 120hz and the other is 75hz. I can set that just fine, but if I run with both monitors at once the GUI only paints at 75hz. Any way to set separate GUI refresh rates per display like windows does? It's pointless to have my 120hz monitor going that fast if only my cursor benefits.
Treechopper
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I usually do clean installs, keeping /home on a separate partition and just moving my data over to a new user. So my settings are not retained from install to install.
Aarglefarg
Member
Fedora has releases normally about 6 months apart, though people can turn it into a kind of rolling release using a 'rawhide' repository.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/Rawhide
FunkyPajamas
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Hi Linux GAF!
I'm currently running Ubuntu LTS 14.04 on a high-ish end Dell Laptop (XPS 15" i7 with 6GB RAM) and I'm thinking of either upgrading to 15.04 or switching to another distro. I will mainly be doing web development (Ruby/RoR + JS MVVC frameworks with PostgreSQL databases and AWS SDK stuff) so pretty much every distro out there will cover that. I've been generally happy with Ubuntu's performance/ease of use but I honestly don't like Unity that much and greatly miss Gnome's flexibility.
I've been considering either Mint or Arch, but I don't want to deal with driver issues; I will need video/audio support to work flawlessly for Skype/Hangout conferences, etc.
What say you guys?
I'm currently running Ubuntu LTS 14.04 on a high-ish end Dell Laptop (XPS 15" i7 with 6GB RAM) and I'm thinking of either upgrading to 15.04 or switching to another distro. I will mainly be doing web development (Ruby/RoR + JS MVVC frameworks with PostgreSQL databases and AWS SDK stuff) so pretty much every distro out there will cover that. I've been generally happy with Ubuntu's performance/ease of use but I honestly don't like Unity that much and greatly miss Gnome's flexibility.
I've been considering either Mint or Arch, but I don't want to deal with driver issues; I will need video/audio support to work flawlessly for Skype/Hangout conferences, etc.
What say you guys?
Considering Mint is an Ubuntu derivative it seems unlikely that you'd run into driver issues. But it's easy enough to test just by using a bootable CD or bootable USB stick and trying it out as a live CD. Or if your laptop's hard drive is easily accessible, just install to a spare drive and experiment with it that way.
archnemesis
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I've been using Mint for a while and I have never had any driver issues with it.
Considering Arch has an amazingly well updated packages, I'd probably go for Arch. I really doubt that you'll find any drivers problems, since their Wiki is the best resource for Linux users available.
Also, don't be scared of Arch, to be honest, I use it for good 6-7 months and still haven't got any huge problems. Actually, back in Ubuntu almost every Kernel update broke my system, especially distribution upgrades, those were deadly.
If you don't feel like doing the 'official' install, try EvoLution, it's an amazing CLI installer with its own iso that works flawlessly well.
I'll happily help you with any problems that you encounter, just PM me.
FunkyPajamas
Member
Thank you guys! I now know what my weekend plans are going to be. Will post back with impressions on each and will sure ping you mvtn if I encounter any issues. 
Treechopper
Member
Another Arch user here. I've been using it for 1.5 years and it's rock solid. Any "breaks" are pretty minor things.
I wanted to report in as a new Linux user. I was visiting my parents last week and my father was about to take an old computer to recycle. I decided to save it as i'm changing career paths and I was accepted into a special 1 year business oriented IT infrastructure management program and figured I should start learning linux.
I installed Ubuntu 14.04 on it and my god is it snappy on this old Athlon 64 machine. I'm really impressed. I had some fun messing around in the GUI but i'm more interested in some of the more serious stuff to prepare myself for my program and I have some questions:
Is there any good guides for learning terminal commands?
I installed LAMP and was wondering if anyone had any recommended guides on setting up an apache & mySQL servers?
Is there any good general linux noob sites or youtubers I should watch?
Sorry for the bump, its just a lot of the information i've been findings looks to be quite outdated, things move so much faster in linux that some 2 or 4 year old guides I found aren't really helping me. Also I love the first page with people saying "never run as root", I accidentally ran firefox as root in terminal, and afterwards couldn't run it again unless I was root, so I had to reinstall Ubuntu. Learning this OS is making my head-spin but I'm having a lot of fun doing it!
I installed Ubuntu 14.04 on it and my god is it snappy on this old Athlon 64 machine. I'm really impressed. I had some fun messing around in the GUI but i'm more interested in some of the more serious stuff to prepare myself for my program and I have some questions:
Is there any good guides for learning terminal commands?
I installed LAMP and was wondering if anyone had any recommended guides on setting up an apache & mySQL servers?
Is there any good general linux noob sites or youtubers I should watch?
Sorry for the bump, its just a lot of the information i've been findings looks to be quite outdated, things move so much faster in linux that some 2 or 4 year old guides I found aren't really helping me. Also I love the first page with people saying "never run as root", I accidentally ran firefox as root in terminal, and afterwards couldn't run it again unless I was root, so I had to reinstall Ubuntu. Learning this OS is making my head-spin but I'm having a lot of fun doing it!
Hey! Welcome to Linux community and enjoy your stay.
Good to hear that Unity runs well on old rig since it's well known for being broken.
Doug Rumbaugh did an amazing series about terminal and stuff around it as well.
Also, there are some other YouTube channels worth watching:
Thanks so much for that. I will be busy for a while watching Doug Rumbaugh. I had no idea you could combine commands and set up aliases.I can wait to learn to make some bash scripts and automate sorting my music collection.
I actually saw a Nixie Pixel video before I installed Ubuntu and I have developed a slight nerd crush on her. I noticed she's only been using linux for a few years and seems quite knowledgeable which gives me some hope.
There's a section of my program that will focus on SQL. I figured setting up a SQL server and messing around with database entries and learning some of the basic commands. might be beneficial. Make me more comfortable at least before classes start, considering I don't have any programming knowledge. It's a 2 year program condensed into a year with a 4 month practicum so I really don't want to fall behind.
I also am interested in setting up Apache server and trying to do some kind of web based frontend like rutorrent, and use it for a plex media server. I'm basically just looking for things to mess around with and trying out some system admin monitoring tools. I'm not sure on the usefulness for an infrastructure management program but I think it will be fun to learn.
So far i'm having a lot of fun, even learning about UUID and configuring fstab, setting up where my partitions will mount. Just having a blast. I've been messing around with Samba and only running into some issues with my windows 8.1 laptop recognizing my shared directories. I'm actually thinking about setting up a partition on my gaming rig and trying out Mint and checking out KDE and/or Gnome, and trying some of my linux steam library. I wish I would have done this years ago, I am really really impressed with whole experience.
You could also try Arch Linux. It's probably going to be interesting if you are having fun learning Linux.
Also, when you are finished messing around with Apache and MySQL you could give Nginx and PostgreSQL a try. My feeling is that the traditional LAMP stack is getting out of style. Especially PHP.
I think I messed up my Debian 8 install.
My system has a 120GB SSD with Windows 7 on it, a 1TB HDD with games and whatnot on it, and a 60GB SSD I bought to experiment with (currently have Debian 8 on it). When I installed GRUB, I chose to put the loader on my 120GB Windows 7 SSD after misinterpreting the wording.
Tried booting directly to C/120GB SSD from Bios, but it just takes me to GRUB with Debian 8 as the only option.
How screwed am I?
My system has a 120GB SSD with Windows 7 on it, a 1TB HDD with games and whatnot on it, and a 60GB SSD I bought to experiment with (currently have Debian 8 on it). When I installed GRUB, I chose to put the loader on my 120GB Windows 7 SSD after misinterpreting the wording.
Tried booting directly to C/120GB SSD from Bios, but it just takes me to GRUB with Debian 8 as the only option.
How screwed am I?
If you can boot Debian not much.
Install the package os-prober, edit the file /etc/default/grub, so that there is no line "GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=true" (comment it out if there is) and run the command update-grub.
Young Magus
Junior Member
So I booted up my arch laptop the other day and the internet/wifi icon was not showing on my screen. Thinking that it could be a distro error, I downloaded ubuntu MATE on another computer and made a USB. Long story short that doesn't work. My laptop still works tho.
Without any internet access on my laptop, is there a way to figure out what the hell is wrong with my.....internet access on my laptop?
Edit: Still on arch btw. Couldnt switch to Ubuntu.
Without any internet access on my laptop, is there a way to figure out what the hell is wrong with my.....internet access on my laptop?
Edit: Still on arch btw. Couldnt switch to Ubuntu.
Zombie James
Banned
Not distro-related but what's the best word processor available if I want the best DOC/DOCX compatibility (read and write)? Was just about to install LibreOffice but maybe there's something better I don't know about.
So far so good. Thanks for the positive thoughts. I did automatic partitioning with resizing and it looks great. Haven't rebooted into Windows, but honestly I'm pleased with the snappy feel of Fedora 22 on this new laptop.
Aarglefarg
Member
This is a change in Gnome 3.16, if you mean things like the drop down when you click on the clock.
It doesn't fit well with the gnome shell theme, making it look like they don't belong to the top bar.
Speaking of Fedora 22 appearance, I'm using the xfce spin, and for some reason evince doesn't use the system window decoration/borders. Does anyone know how to fix this?
I had never even heard of LFS, but now I really want to try this (if I ever find the time...). I'd be curious to know how well it works on a chromebook.
I had never even heard of LFS, but now I really want to try this (if I ever find the time...). I'd be curious to know how well it works on a chromebook.
Up until Fedora 21 the GNOME Shell used its own toolkit, St. Now that GTK+ 3 has caught up and offers everything they need they killed that, and the theme for the shell had to be completely rewritten.
I expect them to tweak the new look some more in the next few releases, now that the tech side has stabilized somewhat.
That's because it uses client side decorations. GNOME integrated the toolbar and window controls into one single bar for most of its core apps, so that apps look more compact and integrated. There's a 'nocsd' hack that attempts to revert this but I wouldn't recommend it, it's an ugly hack.