Re: Hardy Alpha-4 synaptic error

2008-02-02 Thread scott
Try opening a terminal and typing 'gksu synaptic' or 'gksu update-manager'. Regards, Scott Richard Mancusi wrote: After a clean install (i386 desktop) I receive an error when attempting either: 1. System/Administration/Update Manager 2. System/Administration/Synaptic Package Manager An error

Hardy Alpha-4 synaptic error

2008-02-02 Thread Richard Mancusi
After a clean install (i386 desktop) I receive an error when attempting either: 1. System/Administration/Update Manager 2. System/Administration/Synaptic Package Manager An error occured The following details are provided: E:ERROR: could not create configuration directory /home/root/.synaptic - m

Re: use -dbg or -dbgsym files for debugging?

2008-02-02 Thread Murat Gunes
On Sat, 2008-02-02 at 20:48 +0530, shirish wrote: > Hi all, > I don't know should one be using -dbg or -dbgsym files for > debugging. >From https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProgramCrash : 3. The debug symbol packages have the '-dbgsym' suffix attached, so to install the debug symbols for the

use -dbg or -dbgsym files for debugging?

2008-02-02 Thread shirish
Hi all, I don't know should one be using -dbg or -dbgsym files for debugging. For there are some files which don't have -dbg files & some which don't have -dbgsym files. So it becomes confusing for end users like me to know which to use. Long time back somebody advised me that its better to be

Re: Nexuiz etc LiveCD -- how far can hardware detection go?

2008-02-02 Thread Cory K.
John Richard Moser wrote: > How far can Ubuntu's hardware autoconfiguration go? How far does 3D > support work in Linux now? Joysticks/mice/etc? > > One fascinating idea I've had for a while was to turn a PC into a gaming > console. I hear a lot of "Windows runs my games" and "I have a high-end

Re: Spelling library consolidation

2008-02-02 Thread Milan
Since we talk about it, two questions about hunspell in Hardy: 1) The specification [1] about removing duplicate dictionnaries suggest we make OpenOffice.org use myspell in order to avoid the need for unspell. A comment states that hunspell is an improvement of myspell, dropped by OO.o in the 2.x