@ lynx Give up? No o. Just wondering. U knw wat, help me wit mint. If u can mail it gr8. if u cant, i rmbr u said u work in ikeja, i can come pick it up.

Maybe mint will bhave beta. Wat is funny is as av said i run it on a dualboot laptop and ubuntu only desktop and problems always identical. Must be my luck i guess.

Will keep on sha, every problem is solvable u just have 2 try and try. It will help if i get pointers on windows equivalents. Am pretty good wit windows

No am not. Its d only thing on d hard drive. It seems this is not solvable?

@ lynx are you tryin 2 abandon d ubuntu community? Ehn? U beta format dt system n reinstall jaunty. You dnt undastand me. Av gotten d vpn. I need 2 configure it. D yf already tries 2 start it then gives a tun/tap permission error. Ok where is d adapter like in windows where i can tweak d dns? And hw do i give d thing permission 2 use d vpn?

Alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: no such file or directory

In fact yesterday i dwnld alsa mixergui, alsaplayer, gnome alsaplayer, n every codec in sight. Hmmn i also found dt in system/sound dt under default mixer tracks both capture n playback show null output.

Ps hw do i stop dt update mgr thing from disturbing me. D thing starts up every 5 mins

Cos i get dis nice msg frm d bios POST saying cmos checksum failed, my time n date always reset, d pc always scans 4 ram n harddrive AND when i change d cmos everything starts working well!

@lynx pls post your config 4 gettin d system 2 use yf. Am a bit confused. I had d systemwide network proxy on direct connectn, set mozilla 2 automatically detect and at first it didnt work, then it worked fine, now it just stopped in d middle of an update and is not sending packets again.

Nb. Pls where n hw did config vpn? Iv downlded it bt in network mgr its not listed and d add tab greyed out. Yf tries 2 start it bt fails.

It says snd-gtk not installed use sudo apt-get install snd-gtk

Yup. Most definitely. Premium sound. I gathered as much myself dt d pc aint seeing no sound card. Let me do d other cmd lets see

folabuntu@folabuntu-desktop:~$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge (rev 03)
00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82557/8/9/0/1 Ethernet Pro 100 (rev 05)
00:14.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02)
00:14.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01)
00:14.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01)
00:14.3 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage Pro AGP 1X/2X (rev 5c)
folabuntu@folabuntu-desktop:~$

okay it has just occured to mythick skull that i have abolutely no sound at all, not even system sounds. i dunno y i neva just realised it all this while. i was pulling plugins off the repos for mp3 them when after getting them tried to play, well the songs played alright, just dont hear nuthing. avinstalled this things for like 2 weeks now and am just realising.

so next hurdle o my people

WHERE DO I START? Yaaaaaaaaaaaay!!!!!! Weaver, YOU ARE D MAN!!! Success at last. D app started, i configged it, am online and updating my repos, was just going to post on nl wen pwr went. Am so happy. I dont knw hw 2 express my gratitude. Lynx, muyi, evry1. BIG THANK YOU.

Av learnt a lot. On my way frm noob 2 novice to user 2 guru 2 don! Lol.

Now dnt think u getting of dt cheap. Expect many more daft questions from me startin frm now. Lol.
Am so happy.

Ok so hw do i do d shortcut or do i have 2 use terminal all d time?

@Lynx, is vpn in d repo? And pls now u hav 2 help me config it o.

Humm wat else, yes bluetooth software 4 dialup?
LOL!!! Am coming

WHERE DO I START? Yaaaaaaaaaaaay!!!!!! Weaver, YOU ARE D MAN!!! Success at last. D app started, i configged it, am online and updating my repos, was just going to post on nl wen pwr went. Am so happy. I dont knw hw 2 express my gratitude. Lynx, muyi, evry1. BIG THANK YOU.

Av learnt a lot. On my way frm noob 2 novice to user 2 guru 2 don! Lol.

Now dnt think u getting of dt cheap. Expect many more daft questions from me startin frm now. Lol.
Am so happy.

Ok so hw do i do d shortcut or do i have 2 use terminal all d time?

@Lynx, is vpn in d repo? And pls now u hav 2 help me config it o.

Humm wat else, yes bluetooth software 4 dialup?
LOL!!! Am coming

dude for good measure am not on the same system so am typing by reading. but actually i just usually drag the damn file into terminal after typing so there cant have been an error. but no worry am almost thru with the download of the jdk version so no wahala av had time today.

ps if i use a cmd in terminal to open an app and i want to use that particular string as a shortcut how do i do that.
TONITE WE POP CHAMPAGNE

java - jar drag the freedom .jar =

unrecognized option:-jar/home/folabuntu/Documents/freedom-20090901-01linux/freedom.jar
could not create the java virtual machine

move to home folder then type java , =
unrecgnized option: --jar~/freedom.jar
could not create the java virtual machine

Java -jar freedom.jar
Unable to access jarfile freedom.jar

Probly sata issues. Sori o. Y not just update d vista well. Or look 4 win7.

Pls wat culd be killing my desktop's cmos battery? All of a sudden av had 2 change d cmos twice in 2 month 2 weeks! Infact i rarely eva hear of cmos being changed much less yearly

Yeah i knw. It was reporting an error. Pls give some time 2 get home and check wat it says. If i rmbr it includes cannot start java virtual machine.

Yup. I totally removed wine and rebooted. Now when i Click d jar files there is no response at all. Iv tried terminal and its giving java virtual machine error. Exact words i have to check l8r. Am not in position now. Is there a significance btw java dev kit and runtime? D apps require runtime but am wondering if linux requires d toolkit. Windows doesnt.

@lynx wat java are u using?

Java -version now proudly reports that i have java 1.6.0 14 java se runtime library installed.

So y my java apps no dey start?

Scratch that. D error is not file found. I think what happened is i had earlier installed java.exe in wine. When i traced javac it was showing me d java in wine. So i removed that, did d install of linux java and association again but still its showin file not found. D attempt 2 start was d response i got in wine earlier. I think associations are bad. But am very sure 1st time i tried it i got jvm error

No o, i never ever quit! Its just that am tired of being a pest on dis thread n lookin lyk am stupid.

Good n bad news. I got a post online on installin java and followed it by applyin common sense n managed 2 actualy install d thing properly and using update alternative cmd was able 2 link my java files to it! Hurray. BUT HOLD IT, NOW I CAN LAUNCH WITH JAVA SE BINARY BUT D THINGS WONT START. They want 2 then fail. Went to terminal and d response is
Urecognized option: -freedom.jar
Could not create the java virtual machine.

Welcome 2 round 2.
D locate javac did not give any result o!

I tried 2 do dt line but was gettin unknown directory and some oda things sef.

Thanks every1 very much. But since i apparently installed java dt i cant uninstall cos i cant find it in my pc 2 uinstall!, i think i will just downgrade this issue into the passin interest category and just mess wit d system till i break it and then try kde, then any oda thing dt catches my fancy except mint works sha.
I even went down wine direction, crap software if i eva saw 1, it actually ran vlc.exe but no sound. Every oda exe i tried no way.

Experimenting all d way. I even tried 2 live boot puppy 4.2, d thing would not start x either in xorg or xvesa. Guess dt means d iso image is bad? Or wat?

Just Works is not sometin dt shld be mentioned wit linux

Oh ok i get now, i actually can hook up 2 d net now, i got anor fone. Thats wat all d runtime issue is about naw. Av some apps wit runtime dependencies.

Vlc log

Vlc: error while loading shared libraries: libvlc.so.2: cannot open shared object file: no such file or directory

@ weaver I use mtn.

@ lynx anyhw possible just name it. Hummn maybe d way i got d ubuntu. Or maybe i can get it at some meet up point. Just d mint.

Actually am doing it on both a laptop and a desktop. Now d results are exactly identical. I dunno abt dt vlc thing o. Maybe d deb is bad. Or d installer is bad. Abeg. Painful dt i cant compile from source. Dt 4 beta 4 me.

On d lapie i installed thru wubi. Hw do i access files in windows?
2 diff pc!s painful.

I 4 try kde bt wen ubuntu dey stress me like dis i hate 2 think wat kde will do 2 me.

@ lynx hw bout hookin me wit mint?
Haha i posted d log dis nite naw, nl bots don start again o

res_init DEFINED
configure: checking for working epoll implementation,
checking for epoll_create, yes
configure: checking for libdl Library and Header files,
checking dlfcn.h usability, yes
checking dlfcn.h presence, yes
checking for dlfcn.h, yes
checking for dlopen, no
checking for dlopen in -ldl, yes
configure: checking for LZO Library and Header files,
checking lzo/lzo1x.h usability, no
checking lzo/lzo1x.h presence, no
checking for lzo/lzo1x.h, no
checking lzo1x.h usability, no
checking lzo1x.h presence, no
checking for lzo1x.h, no
LZO headers were not found
LZO library available from http://www.oberhumer.com/opensource/lzo/
configure: error: Or try ./configure --disable-lzo
folabuntu@folabuntu-desktop:~/Documents/openvpn-2.1_rc19.tar linux/openvpn-2.1_rc19$

the bove is for the vpn. then tried the diable lzo cmd and it gave another error about open ssl. guess that one is a lost cause.

for the next package which i tried for audacious
checking for g++, g++
checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler, yes
checking whether g++ accepts -g, yes
checking dependency style of gcc, none
checking for strerror in -lcposix, (cached) no
checking whether byte ordering is bigendian, no
checking whether ln -s works, yes
checking whether make sets $(MAKE), (cached) yes
checking for rm, /bin/rm
checking for mv, /bin/mv
checking for cp, /bin/cp
checking for ar, /usr/bin/ar
checking for tr, /usr/bin/tr
checking for ranlib, /usr/bin/ranlib
checking for GLIB, no
configure: error:
Cannot find Glib2! If you are using binary packages based system, check that you
have the corresponding -dev/devel packages installed.

folabuntu@folabuntu-desktop:~/Documents/audacious-2.1$

where do we get the glib thingy?

i uninstalled and installed the vlc again, this time i looked at the terminal log and it only showed two lines
1 for unpacking, two for setting up, and did not show any detailed log of anything and was over in a record time!!!
looked fishy to me, cant for the life of me figure out why it would report successfull installation when it didnt.
the installer is 16 mb and i thot if i was corrupt it would not install no?

i don tire abeg. thanks so much weaver, really really appreciate ur efforts.

other sugestions and where to get .debs will be appreciated. get deb is too empty.


@ lynx, did u eventually do that apt on cd? then remember that link to the restricted repositories files that was in rapidshare that i wanted u to help me download? any chance you can still trace that?

Lets save time. I read d log. Am on fone so cant paste but basically d gist is there is a glib 2.6 not found error. I guess that is needed 2 compile.
D other 1 4 vpn said missin lzo.

I dragged d vlc into d terminal and it said dt no such path found.

Hmmn. If dis is not gud enuf give me till night. Power is bad in d day at my end.

Then ran java -version and nothing was listed as present. Just d apps dt use it.

Basically d priority is that java. I have a .bin of sun jre. Hw do you suggest i install it. Draggin into terminal has basically failed. If i solve that i will solve d rest easily

Thats my point. I start by saying for eg, fola/documents/openvpn2.1 ./configure

It does stuff and ends with fola/documents/openvpn2.1 $

At this point i usually type make after it but it gives error, ditto sudo make install.

My question is after ./configure and it does its thing, EXACTLY HOW DO I USE THOSE MAKE, SUDO MAKE INSTALL?

As in hw EXACTLY DO I TYPE THEM OUT given that d next string after /configure is now say fola/doc/openvpn $

I mean d cmd wit which to launch the application dt u were referring to.

I dnt hav pwr now. U knw come 2 think of it when i did /configure one of d lines said something abt glib2 not found.

This thing is like a baby making a mess of eating a boiled egg.

Its not just d old system o lynx. Wat makes all this really wack is that mtn has gone really bad in my area. Tseew.


Bottom line is i installed jre and checkin synaptic, its not listed as installed. If dt problem is solved, d rest is easy. Na apt get abi?