Comments on: 10 Things to do after installing Ubuntu 8.10

By: DeergeBub

DeergeBub — Wed, 20 May 2009 15:54:47 +0000

Terrific site!! I will visit once more…

By: eric

eric — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 23:43:38 +0000

I put sudo in front of sudo echo ‘deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/openoffice-pkgs/ubuntu intrepid main’ >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/openoffice.sources.list && sudo apt-get update

and it gave me this:

g35celicaz@g35celicaz-laptop:~$ sudo echo ‘deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/openoffice-pkgs/ubuntu intrepid main’ >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/openoffice.sources.list && sudo apt-get update
bash: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/openoffice.sources.list: Permission denied
g35celicaz@g35celicaz-laptop:~$

What can I do?

By: John

John — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 02:25:54 +0000

no no no….better think that through….what you want is the codecs, like libdvdcss2 to play dvd movies, etc. If you enable all the repos, you’ll update some things that you really don’t want to update and possibly make things unstable.

By: John

John — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 02:22:31 +0000

eric, put ’sudo’ just sudo in front of the whole string of commands…you lack permission…needs to be run as root or ‘fakeroot’ which is what sudo is.

By: eric

eric — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 00:37:03 +0000

Can’t install OpenOffice 3.0 for Ubuntu 8.10
I just installed ubuntu 8.10 on my laptop two days ago and I was unable to to install OpenOffice 3.0.

The command I put in the terminal window was this:

echo ‘deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/openoffice-pkgs/ubuntu intrepid main’ >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/openoffice.sources.list && sudo apt-get update

But it gave me this:

bash: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/openoffice.sources.list: Permission denied

Please Help

– Thanks

By: seicean

seicean — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 20:46:41 +0000

appreciate your help on the problem, but this article is simply not necessary.

From your point of view, picasa, google earth and acrobat reader are the most important things to consider.

From my point of view:

1. Enable all repos

2. Make Update to all packages

3. ???

4. Profit

By: John

John — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 21:51:33 +0000

Eric….try this guide and see if works better for you. http://linuxchronicles.wordpress.com/2008/07/03/installing-multimedia-support-in-ubuntu-hardy/

By: John

John — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 21:49:27 +0000

Did you get it resolved? Are you running Ubuntu 9.04 or 8.10?

By: eric

eric — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 17:23:49 +0000

PLEASE HELP!!!

When I was trying to install Medibuntu Repository I got an error on the terminal window. I put this on the terminal window: sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/intrepid.list –output-document=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install medibuntu-keyring && sudo apt-get update

Then in the end I got this:

W: GPG error: http://ppa.launchpad.net intrepid Release: The following signatures couldn’t be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 9423A34CCA967634
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems

What do I do?

I went to update manager and it installed and removed some programs.

– Thanks

By: John

John — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 17:26:23 +0000

Easy to undo…but, it seems like you need a public key installed…that’s why you are getting that error.

to remove that line from sources.list:

sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

find the offending line and delete it….be careful.