Questions Tagged With install

Try to open muse score

Rosaleen Boyle — Mon, 24 Nov 2014 18:23:43 -0500

I recently installed Knoppix on hard drive instead of windows and I then downloaded musescore to the desktop. when i try to open the folder there was no reaction the only thing that oipens is the manual. when i right click on it and try to open with a program i dont know which one to use. can you tell me what im doing wrong. greatly appreciated

i need to know when a linux distro was installed on the system

piyush128kk — Tue, 04 Nov 2014 16:55:31 -0500

Please give an example as well instead of just the syntax

Installed Mint 12 on AcerAspire One, getting "wicked" errors in sudo

xxfool — Fri, 01 Nov 2013 10:56:25 -0400

Greetings,

I have been here before with mu eee pc. It finally went to crunchbang then died (it was old and abused). I now have a Chromebook. I love it, but it has limitations that require the use of my Aspire. I had the .exe virus on the One. I used Dban, good to go. I bought the actual installation disk for Mint 12/ Ubuntu. I bought a brand new external cd/dvd as my old one was chugging. So far so good. I insert Mint, boot order was already to cd load. I get kernel panic. Look it up. No big deal. I get three errors during load ( I do not remember what they were, but then the network loaded and the install carried on. Good. I get to the desktop, excellent. I can not find the icon or location of the internet to get to my browser (I am connected to my local network). I don't know enough to play around. I google answer. Found a wonderful tutorial that took me step by step. I followed the directions exactly to install a desktop. I sudo. I put in command. I sudo apt-get update. I get 15 "wicked" errors concerning repositories. OK. I put the Mint disk back in to re-load. Can't find system to load to. OK. I shut down, make sure the cd is plugged in and boot to rom. I get the first round to ready, great! Then boom black screen, I am still at black screen. I spent 2 months on the eee pc, and fried 7 gurus with my inability to understand the complexity of their excellent instructions. If you need more information please ask. I appreciate, in advance, any advice, suggestions, solutions, a hammer that you may provide. If this can not be fixed please say so. If I can not get this going soon, I will kill my neighbor. I like my neighbor.

( If I sound snotty or rude it is not intended. I value your knowledge and assistance but I am at the point of having a good cry, 4 gallons of ice cream and buying 20 pair of new shoes)

health and happiness to you and yours, xxfool

packet tracer for rhel 6 64 bi6

dinesh — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 04:53:35 -0400

can anybody tell me how to insall and download packet tracer for rhel6 (64)

linux installations error

Softelgin Mulizwa — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 02:24:24 -0500

i installed oracle linux 6 on my desktop and i mistakenly set my swap to 250M twice but i wanted it to be 2gig is there any way i can remove it and set it to 2gig?

What to think about when installing on an SSD?

aron — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 11:34:44 -0400

What do I need to think about when installing Linux on a SSD? You want to limit the writes/reads so the SSD don't get worn out right?

What filesystems are preferred? What filesystems are not?

What about swap?

Anything else that is good to think about?

I think I will use Debian or Mint.

Why openSUSE live cd stop copying root fs to the system[Solved]

unixbhaskar — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 09:00:09 -0400

I was trying to install openSUSE11.4 and using Live installable cd to install it. But when it start copying the root fs ..it hung on 15% and wait forever..and cd stop spinning too.

Can someone please shed some light on it.

how to install Ubuntu over http

Registered User — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 04:28:29 -0500

Hi, I am having a situation where I can not use a CD or PxE boot or wubi to install.I need to necessarily do an http install of Ubuntu.I am basically trying to create a guest OS in a virtualization setup on Xen on a non VT hardware.On a non VT hardware the virt-manager does not allow to install from local ISO or PXE even the only option is via a URL on http://

Here is what I did
1) Download ubuntu 10.04 32 bit ISO
2) Kept it in /var/www (apache2 is running)

3) renamed it to ubuntu.iso

and when I reached a stage where installation begins I gave path http://localhost/ubuntu.iso but I got an error any installable distribution not found.

4) After this I did

mkdir /var/www/sk

mount -t iso9660 /var/www/ubuntu.iso /var/www/sk -o loop

and this time during the installation I gave path http://localhost/sk I was able to see the contents in browser http://localhost/sk which you will see in a normal CD. But beginning installation I got same error

ValueError: Could not find an installable distribution at 'http://localhost/sk

So I want to just confirm if http install is done only this way or some other way because the installation is not proceeding.

Which Linux distribution is better for newbies?

Phenom — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 17:31:48 -0400

I'm going to install Linux for someone who isn't even very good with Windows. I've narrowed it down to either Linux Mint or PCLinuxOS. Which one should I install? Are there any other Linux distributions I should be considering?

Also, should I install Gnome, KDE, or something else?

Kickstart and customized Ubuntu installs

Ron — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 20:41:50 -0400

I'm looking at making a way where I can do installs of Ubuntu systems with as little work as possible.

I'm just starting to use Kickstart so I want to do the unattended install; but I also want to have it pull the install-script.sh from the Internet (Dropbox right now, but maybe a PPA??) and then install some repos, applications, deb files for which there is no repo, and some wallpaper images, etc. I also want to be able to change, remove, update the install-scetup.sh on my Internet site and whatever deb files, images, etc, all at-will; -- so putting these things on the ISO image of the alternate install CD isn't really a viable option.

By pulling from the Internet, I don't need to constantly update the CD itself until a new point release comes out, ala 10.04.1LTS, 10.04.2LTS, etc, so anything that I change (like adding/removing applications from the install-script.sh and/or *.deb files, wallpapers, etc) would instantly be updated. So of John installs and now a few months later I add some new backgrounds, remove a few applications from the install-setup.sh, so when Suzy installs, she will get those changes.

It'd be a nice bonus if Johnny would get those changes too. I know that would require a PPA repo vs Dropbox. One thing about that though... I'm not a packager, so I don't know how to package *.deb files, etc.

Some sites (and code....) I've ran across are below..... as for the code, will it work "as is"? How do I incorporate it into the ks.cg (Kickstart) file as a %post ? Can I even do that?

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-7.3-Manual/custom-guide/ch-kickstart2.html http://nerdnotes.org/2006/02/kickstart-for-ubuntu-live-cd/

http://www.ubuntugeek.com/unattended-ubuntu-installations-made-easy.html


#!/bin/sh

# determine the mac address of the first network adapter
mac=`/sbin/ifconfig  | awk  '/HWaddr/ { print $5 }' | head -1`

# download and execute livecd init script
wget -q -O - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/914191/install-script.sh?mac=$mac | /bin/sh

( Anyone who researches my posts on here will see the install-script.sh I'm talking about.) ( You can also get it at: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/914191/install-script.sh )

Installing Linux to a Mini-ITX board

iceman — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 12:53:43 -0400

I want to install Ubuntu 10.04 to a embedded board: Intel D201GLY, Celeron 1.33GHz, 1Gb DDR400 and 4gb compact flash. Is there a custom Ubuntu for embedded boards or do I have to do it? I tried to install the standard Ubuntu 10.04 from a USB drive to the flash drive on this board, but to my surprise the boot time is about 10 mins and so is the shutdown time. Ubuntu doesn't seem to find the wlan drivers either. Is there a way to boot faster? Possibly it is to use a CFS, i.e mount the compact flash read-only and then remount as a union with a ramdrive using tmpfs. What is the procedure for doing this?

Slow CPU + very fast disk -> Compression might not be useful
Fast CPU + very slow disk -> Compression may be useful

Install multiple versions of a package

iceman — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 21:14:43 -0400

I want to install multiple versions of a package (say libX) from src. The package (libX) uses Autotools to build, so follows the ./configure , make, make install convention. The one installed by default goes to /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/lib and I want to install another version of this in /home/user/libX .

The other problem is that libX is a dependency for another package (say libY) which also uses autotools. How to I make libY point to the version installed in /home/user/libX ? There could be also a possibility that its a system package like ffmpeg and I want to use the latest svn version for my src code and hence build it from src. What do i do in that case ? What is the best practice in this case so that I do not break the system libraries?

I'm using Ubuntu 10.04 and Opensuse 10.3.

Ubuntu Studio Install from USB

Swagat — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 05:35:44 -0400

Okay ,,, my problem is that,,,, i have downloaded an image of UBUNTU STUDIO 10.4...... nd i want to install it on my desktop which has a good config......

but the problem is that it doesnt have a dvd/cd drive...... so i have to install it somehow via the usb ...... which i have no idea whatsoever.......

it would be really helpful if you cud tell me a step by step process of how to do it.....and if possible give an easy way of doing it.... thanks.....

How can I improve this install script?

Ron — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:43:13 -0400

This is a script I wrote that you can run right after you install Ubuntu 10.04LTS (Desktop Edition). It adds some 3rd party applications, repositories, configures iptables and so forth. One thing I'd like it to do is detect if it's being ran on a 32-bit or 64-bit system and then either download the w32codes or the w64codes accordingly.

I'm also open to any other ideas and/or suggestions.

I've updated this code a few times, incorporating suggestions from people to the point that there's more code than what I am allowed to paste here, si I've moved the code off-site to a Pastebin log at:

http://pastebin.com/3B9K5Fyp

1) Does anyone see anything else I can do too?

2) Another thing I was thinking of adding was my own repository for files like fonts, images, PDFs, etc and loading them into the appropriate places .I do have a Lanchpad account, but I'm not a packager/programmer by nature. I'm a network / os / security guy, not a developer. I'd like to make some sort of all-inclusive *.deb file that people can download from my repo and it'd update wallpapers, documents, programs, etc.

Right now as you can see, I'm using Dropbox as a repo of sorts.

So in addition to my on-going question of how to improve the script and the above new things, I need to add this:

3) Is there a way I can test my script without loading it onto a new PC? A sort of "simulation mode" per se?

I've ran into a couple of issues where during the install, I must select choices (like to accept the EULA for Java, or to enable or disable a daemon, etc), and I'd like to automate that process somehow for testing purposes.

Lastly, but most importantly, I'd like to thank everyone for their suggestions, as you have helped me make this a better script.