I just upgraded from Ubuntu 13.10 to Ubuntu 14.04. However, after I had entered the username and password the computer froze. Unity just appears to hang. I fixed this by reinstalling Unity. Note – this problem might have be caused by the upgrade process. I’m not sure it was related to this error message: I … Read more
I had a problem installing Teamviewer on Ubuntu 13.10. This is an awesome tool for helping to remote desktop into other Linux or Windows machines. I downloaded the .deb file but when installing it complained: unresolvable dependency: lib32asound2 I did some research and some various solutions including installing the package which has been removed from … Read more
If you need to install Postgres 9.3 with development headers (i.e. so that you can compile extensions to Postgres) then hopefully this post can help you. Firstly – don’t use the official Postgres PPA because it only provides binaries and not sources. So, use Chris-Les Postgress PPA found here: https://launchpad.net/~chris-lea/+archive/postgresql-9.3 I hope this help someone.
I upgrade one of our servers from Ubuntu 13.04 to Ubuntu 13.10 and immediately one of the apache sites went wrong. It is was an odd problem because the Apache configuration had not changed and there was nothing unusual about it. I was getting and SSL error like so: It turns out that all I … Read more
On our Ubuntu 13.10 server, I had created an apache configuration file for a virtual host however, I could not enable it using a2ensite. The file was here: I tried to enable it: However, the command complained that ERROR: Site www.example.com does not exist! The files clearly exists. It turns out the this command only … Read more
I really love watching 4oD but I get an error message when playing it on my Ubuntu 14.04 laptop. It is actually really easy to get 4oD to work on Ubuntu – you just need to install HAL. It should work after that. Please let know if it doesn’t for you.
The package ‘ia32-libs-gtk’ has been removed in Ubuntu 13.10 (I have no idea why). When you try and install it you get the error “Package ‘ia32-libs-gtk’ has no installation candidate”. It seems that most people need this ia32-libs-gtk for installing or running Adobe Air. I have found the solution is: This got Adobe Air working … Read more
I have made a new set of instructions for Installing Balsamiq Mockups on Ubuntu 13.10 because it it is slightly different from installing it on Ubuntu 13.04. Step 1 – Download Adobe Air – http://airdownload.adobe.com/air/lin/download/latest/AdobeAIRInstaller.bin. Step 2: Make the installer excutable. Step 3: Try running the installer. Step 4: If your computer is 64bit then … Read more