Re: Need help updating linux mint (or) ...

2024-05-17 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
on Mint in that regard. And this is a great summary of Rolling release vs a more traditional release and the hazards. https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxquestions/comments/yvmmk8/comment/iwfgohe/ https://itsfoss.com/best-rolling-release-distros/ has a good list of rolling releases, and given how many

Re: Need help updating linux mint (or) ...

2024-05-16 Thread Snyder, Alexander J via PLUG-discuss
rst, but I would back everything up that I needed or wanted, and then just do a fresh mint install on one, get it the way you want it, then you could image it for the others, or just do the same steps on those too. If you're constantly backing up to the other systems for redundancy, it might make

Re: Need help updating linux mint (or) ...

2024-05-16 Thread joe--- via PLUG-discuss
PLUG Friends ... I need help and I will be glad to pay someone to help me get my out-of-date Linux systems updated. I have four (4) Thinkpads with these old versions of Linux Mint installed: #1 T420 linux Mint version 18.1 Serena #2 T430 linux Mint version 18.1 Serena #3 T460 Linux Mint

Linux Mint

2023-11-20 Thread Donald Cha. via PLUG-discuss
Hello Gentlemen. Linux Mint on laptop, finger pad works when using battery power. When charging finger pad will stop working, oddly sometimes it will work charging. Not that long ago another guy had same issues and was discussed here. Is there away I can look on your website to find past

Re: Linux Mint update questions ...

2023-11-01 Thread Ryan Petris via PLUG-discuss
and updating!) > > I have four (4) IBM/Lenovo Thinkpads with > these versions of Linux Mint installed. > > #1 T420 linux Mint version is 18.1 Serena > #2 T430 linux Mint version is 18.1 Serena > #3 T460 Linux Mint version is 20.1 Ulyssa > #4 T530 Linux Mint version is 19.

Re: Linux Mint update questions ...

2023-10-31 Thread greg zegan via PLUG-discuss
and updating!) I have four (4) IBM/Lenovo Thinkpads with these versions of Linux Mint installed. #1 T420 linux Mint version is 18.1 Serena #2 T430 linux Mint version is 18.1 Serena #3 T460 Linux Mint version is 20.1 Ulyssa #4 T530 Linux Mint version is 19.1 Tessa #1 is my primary computer

Re: Linux Mint update questions ...

2023-10-27 Thread joe--- via PLUG-discuss
PLUG Friends ... Need help updating: (I hate updates and updating!) I have four (4) IBM/Lenovo Thinkpads with these versions of Linux Mint installed. #1 T420 linux Mint version is 18.1 Serena #2 T430 linux Mint version is 18.1 Serena #3 T460 Linux Mint version is 20.1 Ulyssa #4 T530 Linux Mint

Re: Help! a major catastrophe with my Linux Mint installation ...

2021-03-10 Thread joe--- via PLUG-discuss
of those settings. On Thu, Mar 4, 2021 at 11:09 AM joe--- via PLUG-discuss wrote: I have been running Linux Mint 17 on several computers 24/7 for a very long time with very reliable performance. This morning, when I turned on the monitor, the panel had vanished and I no way to do anything. I

Re: Help! a major catastrophe with my Linux Mint installation ...

2021-03-04 Thread Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss
i.archlinux.org/index.php/cinnamon > > But my first thought would be to rename the config files for your window > manager and reboot to see if it is part of those settings. > > On Thu, Mar 4, 2021 at 11:09 AM joe--- via PLUG-discuss < > plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:

Re: Help! a major catastrophe with my Linux Mint installation ...

2021-03-04 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
settings. On Thu, Mar 4, 2021 at 11:09 AM joe--- via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > I have been running Linux Mint 17 on several computers > 24/7 for a very long time with very reliable performance. > > This morning, when I turned on the monitor, the pa

Help! a major catastrophe with my Linux Mint installation ...

2021-03-04 Thread joe--- via PLUG-discuss
I have been running Linux Mint 17 on several computers 24/7 for a very long time with very reliable performance. This morning, when I turned on the monitor, the panel had vanished and I no way to do anything. I finally found a way to get to the command line and all of my data appears

Re: After Linux Mint update, numerous problems ...

2020-09-03 Thread joe--- via PLUG-discuss
observation. Earlier in the thread you expressed concerns about speed, number of processes running, and resources in general. You seem quite proficient at Linux. Maybe it's time you move away from coddling type distros like Mint, Ubuntu, and to a lesser extent Debian. If you were to switch to t

Re: After Linux Mint update, numerous problems ...

2020-09-03 Thread joe--- via PLUG-discuss
Thanks again Brian ... I'll recheck everything you mentioned and keep trying. -Joe 2009-03 8:40 AM Brian Cluff wrote: There is a line on the output of your command that reads: "197 additional updates are available with UA Infrastructure ESM" It appears that you are running a very

Re: After Linux Mint update, numerous problems ...

2020-09-03 Thread Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss
ybe it's time you move away from coddling type distros like Mint, Ubuntu, and to a lesser extent Debian. If you were to switch to the Void Linux distro (https://voidlinux.org/), there would be far fewer levels of abstraction on your machine. If you switch to Void, I think all your resource probl

Re: After Linux Mint update, numerous problems ...

2020-09-03 Thread Brian Cluff via PLUG-discuss
There is a line on the output of your command that reads: "197 additional updates are available with UA Infrastructure ESM" It appears that you are running a very old very of your OS. It's essentially saying that you need an Extended support contract in order to continue to get updates to your

Re: After Linux Mint update, numerous problems ...

2020-09-03 Thread joe--- via PLUG-discuss
Thanks for the link, Stephen ... I read the whole article and comments, but it is talking about chromium on windows, not chrome on linux, and I did not see any recommended action or solution in that article. --- 2009-03 6:31 AM, Stephen Partington wrote: It appears chromium knows

Re: After Linux Mint update, numerous problems ...

2020-09-03 Thread joe--- via PLUG-discuss
So I ran: sudo apt dist-upgrade again and got this result: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 197 additional updates are available with UA

Re: After Linux Mint update, numerous problems ...

2020-09-03 Thread joe--- via PLUG-discuss
Brian ... When I tried to do sudo apt full-upgrade, I got this result: t420: sudo apt full-upgrade [sudo] password for joe: apt Usage: apt command [options] apt help command [options] Commands: autoclean - Erase old downloaded archive files autoremove - Remove automatically

Re: After Linux Mint update, numerous problems ...

2020-09-03 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
g. > >> > >> Firefox works fine, but I still hope to get chrome working. > >> > >> Any other suggestions? > >> > >> > >> -- > >> 2009-01 Michael Butash wrote (in part): > >>> I've had ibus brea

Re: After Linux Mint update, numerous problems ...

2020-09-02 Thread joe--- via PLUG-discuss
--- Aug 31, 2020 joe wrote: After a Linux Mint update today, I seem to have numerous problems that I did not have before the update. ** Chrome browser won't open at all. --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To s

Re: After Linux Mint update, numerous problems ...

2020-09-02 Thread Brian Cluff via PLUG-discuss
a clean user profile?  Ibus tends to be user dependent ... to test just to log in as another user Aug 31, 2020 joe wrote: After a Linux Mint update today, I seem to have numerous problems that I did not have before the update. ** Chrome brow

Re: After Linux Mint update, numerous problems ...

2020-09-02 Thread Bob Elzer via PLUG-discuss
Could the page be a blank page ? Have you tried typing in a working web page address like www.google.com ? On Wed, Sep 2, 2020, 5:29 PM joe--- via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > Thanks Stephen ... > > I did everything that you suggested and I still get > a black window

Re: After Linux Mint update, numerous problems ...

2020-09-02 Thread joe--- via PLUG-discuss
Thanks Stephen ... I did everything that you suggested and I still get a black window or blank window when I open the Chrome browser. The title bar shows a web page open, but there is nothing in the open window. Meanwhile, I installed Slimjet and it works fine. Firefox works fine.

Re: After Linux Mint update, numerous problems ...

2020-09-02 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
; > > > Would be worth using journalctl -f as root while launching > > to see what the system is complaining about > > > > > Have you tried a clean user profile? Ibus tends to be > > user dependent ... to test just to log in as another user > >

Re: After Linux Mint update, numerous problems ...

2020-09-02 Thread joe--- via PLUG-discuss
tem is complaining about > Have you tried a clean user profile? Ibus tends to be user dependent ... to test just to log in as another user Aug 31, 2020 joe wrote: After a Linux Mint update today, I seem to have numerous problems that I did not have before the update. ** Chro

Re: After Linux Mint update, numerous problems ...

2020-09-01 Thread Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss
against, remounting your old home when done. HTH! -mb On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 7:42 PM joe--- via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > After a Linux Mint update today, I seem to have numerous > problems that I did not have before the update. > > ** The k

Re: After Linux Mint update, Chrome browser fails ...

2020-09-01 Thread Matthew Crews via PLUG-discuss
On 8/31/20 3:56 PM, joe--- via PLUG-discuss wrote: > After doing the latest update on my Linux Mint > system, the Chrome browser fails, will not load. > > cat /etc/lsb-release > DISTRIB_ID=LinuxMint > DISTRIB_RELEASE=17.2 > DISTRIB_CODENAME=rafaela > DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION=

After Linux Mint update, numerous problems ...

2020-08-31 Thread joe--- via PLUG-discuss
After a Linux Mint update today, I seem to have numerous problems that I did not have before the update. ** The k-write text editor that prefer to use is now failing in multiple ways, failing to save files, locking up, shows this error message whenever I try to open a text file: ... loading

After Linux Mint update, Chrome browser fails ...

2020-08-31 Thread joe--- via PLUG-discuss
After doing the latest update on my Linux Mint system, the Chrome browser fails, will not load. cat /etc/lsb-release DISTRIB_ID=LinuxMint DISTRIB_RELEASE=17.2 DISTRIB_CODENAME=rafaela DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Linux Mint 17.2 Rafaela" Should I uninstall and reinstall it? Also, ps -ef

Mint Application Launcher Menu question ...

2020-05-24 Thread Joe Lowder via PLUG-discuss
As you can see in this image link: https://upquick.com/temp/gdoclink.jpg On my Linux Mint Application Launcher Menu there is a link for: "temp - Google Docs" I don't know how that link got there, but I would like to know how to add an additional link to open a second or differ

Re: How to get different wallpapers on linux mint kde 18.3

2020-03-13 Thread Michael Butash
the 90's. Particularly you just need to right click on each >>> desktop and set the background, I tend to do a rolling pattern of 4k >>> displays when using KDE, otherwise I use 4Kx3 display images at full triple >>> 4k resolution that are beautiful when the desktop (like kde

Re: How to get different wallpapers on linux mint kde 18.3

2020-03-09 Thread Bob Elzer
4k >>> displays when using KDE, otherwise I use 4Kx3 display images at full triple >>> 4k resolution that are beautiful when the desktop (like kde) isn't stupid >>> to disallow this. >>> >>> Cinnamon/mint do this, but do not let you split the scr

Re: How to get different wallpapers on linux mint kde 18.3

2020-03-09 Thread Stephen Partington
esktop (like kde) isn't stupid to disallow this. >> >> Cinnamon/mint do this, but do not let you split the screens per desktop. >> One reason I really hate KDE still. Give me my single framebuffer for 3x >> 4k displays! Everything else does >> >> -mb >> &

Re: How to get different wallpapers on linux mint kde 18.3

2020-03-09 Thread Bob Elzer
use 4Kx3 > display images at full triple 4k resolution that are beautiful when the > desktop (like kde) isn't stupid to disallow this. > > Cinnamon/mint do this, but do not let you split the screens per desktop. > One reason I really hate KDE still. Give me my single framebuffer for 3

Re: How to get different wallpapers on linux mint kde 18.3

2020-03-09 Thread Michael Butash
the background, I tend to do a rolling pattern of 4k displays when using KDE, otherwise I use 4Kx3 display images at full triple 4k resolution that are beautiful when the desktop (like kde) isn't stupid to disallow this. Cinnamon/mint do this, but do not let you split the screens per desktop. One reason I

How to get different wallpapers on linux mint kde 18.3

2020-03-09 Thread Joe Lowder
How can I get different wallpapers on each virtual desktop with linux mint kde 18.3 ? I have that working on one of my other computers with Mint 17.3, but I can't figure out how to get it working on mint kde 18.3 --- PLUG-discuss mailing list

Re: How to get Linux Mint to auto start?

2020-03-05 Thread Stephen Partington
Go to Preferences > *Login* Window. Click on “Security” tab and enable the option “Enable *Automatic Login*”. Choose the user for which *auto login* is desired from the “User” field. Hit “Close” when done. On Thu, Mar 5, 2020 at 12:10 AM Joe Lowder wrote: > On one of my Linux Mint com

How to get Linux Mint to auto start?

2020-03-04 Thread Joe Lowder
On one of my Linux Mint computers, it has auto-start so no login is required, and it has different wallpaper backgrounds on different virtual desktops. But I cannot get either of those features to work on my Linux Mint 18.3 KDE laptop. Why? And how can I get these two important features to work

Re: Mint update fails ... Thank you!

2019-07-16 Thread Stephen Partington
nning: > >> > >> sudo apt update ; sudo apt -f install > >> > >> Once you've run that everything should start working again. You may > >> even want to do: > >> > >> sudo apt full-upgrade > >> > >> to get your system

Re: Mint update fails ... Thank you!

2019-07-16 Thread Joe Lowder
gt; to get your system completely up to date. >> >> Brian Cluff >> On 7/15/19 6:35 PM, Joe Lowder wrote: >> >>> What do I need to do to get a mint update to work? >>> Please view these screenshots that disclose the problem? >>> >>> htt

Re: Mint update fails ...

2019-07-16 Thread Stephen Partington
n. You may > even want to do: > > sudo apt full-upgrade > > to get your system completely up to date. > > Brian Cluff > > On 7/15/19 6:35 PM, Joe Lowder wrote: > > What do I need to do to get a mint update to work? > > Please view these screenshots that disclose th

Mint update fails ...

2019-07-15 Thread Joe Lowder
What do I need to do to get a mint update to work? Please view these screenshots that disclose the problem? http://www.upquick.com/temp/mup1.jpg http://www.upquick.com/temp/mup2.jpg http://www.upquick.com/temp/mup3.jpg --- PLUG-discuss mailing

Re: Linux Mint mutes parts of music

2019-04-30 Thread Bob Elzer
y, then >> turns the sound back on. Every now and then, just a beat or two is replaced >> by a rogue note from the same song; those are not reproducible. >> >> Clementine has a feature where we can mark the last song in a group, but >> now that is broken too: it stops

Re: Linux Mint mutes parts of music

2019-04-30 Thread Mike Bushroe
What about writing a batch file to concatenate an mp3 of 5 seconds of silence onto the front of every song and modify the file names to show they have been padded. Consider it like the dead space between tracks on the old vinyl records. Mike -- "Creativity is intelligence having fun." — Albert

Re: Linux Mint mutes parts of music

2019-04-30 Thread Victor Odhner
the sound back on. Every now and then, just a beat or two is replaced by a > rogue note from the same song; those are not reproducible. > > Clementine has a feature where we can mark the last song in a group, but now > that is broken too: it stops at the end of the marked song, but

Re: Linux Mint mutes parts of music

2019-04-30 Thread Bob Elzer
st song in a group, but > now that is broken too: it stops at the end of the marked song, but spits > out one beat of the next song! > > *Status:* I am desparate. > I could try to update from Mint 18 to 19. > I thought Linux wouldn’t jerk me around like Windows does. Maybe

Re: Linux Mint mutes parts of music

2019-04-30 Thread Victor Montoya
en too: it stops at the end of the marked song, but spits out one > beat of the next song! > > Status: I am desparate. > I could try to update from Mint 18 to 19. > I thought Linux wouldn’t jerk me around like Windows does. Maybe the wrong > distro? > Does PulseAudio have something

Re: Linux Mint mutes parts of music

2019-04-30 Thread Aaron Jones
en too: it stops at the end of the marked song, but spits out one > beat of the next song! > > Status: I am desparate. > I could try to update from Mint 18 to 19. > I thought Linux wouldn’t jerk me around like Windows does. Maybe the wrong > distro? > Does PulseAudio

Linux Mint mutes parts of music

2019-04-30 Thread Victor Odhner
song in a group, but now that is broken too: it stops at the end of the marked song, but spits out one beat of the next song! Status: I am desparate. I could try to update from Mint 18 to 19. I thought Linux wouldn’t jerk me around like Windows does. Maybe the wrong distro? Does PulseAudio have

Re: Linux Mint update flushed my settings ...

2019-03-12 Thread Michael Butash
kup and updated swapped. > > On Tue, Mar 12, 2019, 12:11 PM Stephen Partington > wrote: > >> Back them up via regular update script? >> >> On Mon, Mar 11, 2019, 4:01 PM Joe Lowder wrote: >> >>> Very annoying! >>> >>> Linux Mint update

Re: Linux Mint update flushed my settings ...

2019-03-12 Thread Stephen Partington
Or backup script since I got backup and updated swapped. On Tue, Mar 12, 2019, 12:11 PM Stephen Partington wrote: > Back them up via regular update script? > > On Mon, Mar 11, 2019, 4:01 PM Joe Lowder wrote: > >> Very annoying! >> >> Linux Mint update flushe

Re: Linux Mint update flushed my settings ...

2019-03-12 Thread Stephen Partington
Back them up via regular update script? On Mon, Mar 11, 2019, 4:01 PM Joe Lowder wrote: > Very annoying! > > Linux Mint update flushed my settings. > > How can I prevent that in the future? > > > > --- > PLUG-discu

Linux Mint update flushed my settings ...

2019-03-11 Thread Joe Lowder
Very annoying! Linux Mint update flushed my settings. How can I prevent that in the future? --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: https://lists.phxlinux.org

RE: I want to download a program (mint 19.1)

2019-01-02 Thread Carruth, Rusty
with wget, so end up with a browser because I'm tired of trying to work around the proxy) Rusty -Original Message- From: PLUG-discuss [mailto:plug-discuss-boun...@lists.phxlinux.org] On Behalf Of kitepi...@kitepilot.com Subject: Re: I want to download a program (mint 19.1) wget -c

Re: I want to download a program (mint 19.1)

2018-12-31 Thread kitepilot
wget -c http://url.to/file.iso Michael writes: sorry. I meant I want to download an ISO. On Mon, Dec 31, 2018 at 6:34 AM wrote: apt-get install and/or dpkg! Michael writes: > should I use wget? > > -- > :-)~MIKE~(-: ---

Mint 19.1 updates

2018-12-31 Thread Daniel Stasinski
I've noticed that since upgrading from Mint 19 to 19.1, there has not been a single update of any package. Has there just been 0 updates or did something break on my end? *Daniel P. Stasinski* dan...@genericinbox.com I ✞ --- PLUG-discuss mailing

Re: I want to download a program (mint 19.1)

2018-12-31 Thread Bob Elzer
go to the website, click on the download link of the version you want simple On Mon, Dec 31, 2018, 11:01 AM Michael sorry. I meant I want to download an ISO. > > On Mon, Dec 31, 2018 at 6:34 AM wrote: > >> apt-get install and/or dpkg! >> >> >> Michael writes: >> >> > should I use wget? >> >

Re: I want to download a program (mint 19.1)

2018-12-31 Thread Michael
sorry. I meant I want to download an ISO. On Mon, Dec 31, 2018 at 6:34 AM wrote: > apt-get install and/or dpkg! > > > Michael writes: > > > should I use wget? > > > > -- > > :-)~MIKE~(-: > --- > PLUG-discuss mailing list -

Re: I want to download a program (mint 19.1)

2018-12-31 Thread kitepilot
apt-get install and/or dpkg! Michael writes: should I use wget? -- :-)~MIKE~(-: --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:

Re: I want to download a program (mint 19.1)

2018-12-30 Thread Snyder, Alexander J
I don't have experience with Mint, but I do with Ubuntu, years ago. If mint uses DPKG, I think you can use the command: dpkg -i "URLtoYourDEBfile.deb" wget will get the file, but won't install it. Thanks, Alexander. Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S8+ On Dec 30, 2018 17:20, "

I want to download a program (mint 19.1)

2018-12-30 Thread Michael
should I use wget? -- :-)~MIKE~(-: --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss

RE: Mint update failure ...

2018-10-08 Thread Carruth, Rusty
Wait - are using apt or dpkg for the updating? My understanding of Mint is that you need to use update manager or the dependency thing can bite you. Rusty From: PLUG-discuss [mailto:plug-discuss-boun...@lists.phxlinux.org] On Behalf Of Michael Butash Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2018 4:06 PM

Re: Mint update failure ...

2018-10-06 Thread Michael Butash
failing. It's generally a bug, but can be varying degrees of problematic. There is probably more to the logs than you pasted here for prior failures. -mb On Fri, Oct 5, 2018 at 5:01 PM Joe Lowder wrote: > Today, as I did an update on two of my Linux Mint computers, > one worked per

Mint update failure ...

2018-10-05 Thread Joe Lowder
Today, as I did an update on two of my Linux Mint computers, one worked perfectly, and the other gave me this error: E: /var/cache/apt/archives/mint-artwork-common_1.8.1.2_all.deb: subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2 What can I do to correct this problem

Re: Linux Mint Cinnamon

2018-09-06 Thread Michael Butash
no idea about multi clocks > > On Thu, Sep 6, 2018, 5:23 PM Jim wrote: > >> I'm trying out Linux Mint Cinnamon and I have a couple of questions. >> >> >> Is it possible to have a separate background image for each desktop? >> >> I like that the clock in th

Re: Linux Mint Cinnamon

2018-09-06 Thread Jim
clocks On Thu, Sep 6, 2018, 5:23 PM Jim <mailto:jim.nant...@comcast.net>> wrote: I'm trying out Linux Mint Cinnamon and I have a couple of questions. Is it possible to have a separate background image for each desktop? I like that the clock in the panel displays in a 24 ho

Re: Linux Mint Cinnamon

2018-09-06 Thread Matthew Gibson
Yes, you can set different backgrounds for different monitors and workspaces. I have no idea about multi clocks On Thu, Sep 6, 2018, 5:23 PM Jim wrote: > I'm trying out Linux Mint Cinnamon and I have a couple of questions. > > > Is it possible to have a separate background im

Linux Mint Cinnamon

2018-09-06 Thread Jim
I'm trying out Linux Mint Cinnamon and I have a couple of questions. Is it possible to have a separate background image for each desktop? I like that the clock in the panel displays in a 24 hour format. However I want to see the time in multiple time zones.  I'd like multiple copies

RE: Mint Cinnamon with a default login

2018-06-21 Thread Carruth, Rusty
Is this mint 17 or mint 18? In fact, is it 17, 18, 18.1, 18.2, or 18.3? If you have a /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf file, then set it to something like [Seat:*] #autologin-guest=false #autologin-user=john #autologin-user-timeout=0 (I think. Or that might turn it on, not sure. Found that info

RE: Mint Cinnamon with a default login

2018-06-21 Thread Carruth, Rusty
list Subject: Re: Mint Cinnamon with a default login I would suggest that you create a new Admin user, Log in as that user and verify it works. Delete the Company create user. Disabling the automatic login has several paths to execution. https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/45573/how

Re: Mint Cinnamon with a default login

2018-06-21 Thread Stephen Partington
I would suggest that you create a new Admin user, Log in as that user and verify it works. Delete the Company create user. Disabling the automatic login has several paths to execution. https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/45573/how-to-disable-auto-login-in-linux-mint On Wed, Jun 20, 2018

Mint Cinnamon with a default login

2018-06-20 Thread Victor Odhner
A vendor loaded Tom's new PC with Mint Cinnamon. It powers up without authentication to a default user account. How do we disable that? The details: It was set up with one temporary admin user, named “user”, with password “password.” So we set up the “tom” account, with admin status

Re: Mint update errors ???

2018-06-12 Thread kitepilot
I did...:) Joe, what's the output of: cat /etc/issue ET Michael writes: I'm sure you meant 'Joe' On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 3:51 PM, wrote: Mike, what;s the output of: cat /etc/issue ET Michael writes: ask on the mint forums. I think the sources need to be updated as the links

Re: Mint update errors ???

2018-06-12 Thread Michael
I'm sure you meant 'Joe' On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 3:51 PM, wrote: > Mike, what;s the output of: > cat /etc/issue > ET > > Michael writes: > >> ask on the mint forums. I think the sources need to be updated as the >> links >> are dead >> On Sun, Jun 1

Re: Mint update errors ???

2018-06-12 Thread kitepilot
Mike, what;s the output of: cat /etc/issue ET Michael writes: ask on the mint forums. I think the sources need to be updated as the links are dead On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 10:28 PM, wrote: When I last tried to update a Dell laptop, I got these errors. How can I fix this? E: /var

Re: Mint update errors ???

2018-06-11 Thread Michael
ask on the mint forums. I think the sources need to be updated as the links are dead On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 10:28 PM, wrote: > When I last tried to update a Dell laptop, > I got these errors. How can I fix this? > > E: /var/cache/apt/archives/mint-artwork-common_1.8.1.2_all.deb

Mint update errors ???

2018-06-10 Thread joe
When I last tried to update a Dell laptop, I got these errors. How can I fix this? E: /var/cache/apt/archives/mint-artwork-common_1.8.1.2_all.deb: subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2 W: Failed to fetch http://packages.linuxmint.com/pool/upstream/f/firefox/firefox_60.0.1

Re: Computer Freezes When Waking Up [Linux Mint 18.3]

2018-01-23 Thread Andrew McRobb
eryone, >> >> I recently upgraded my kernel to ver *4.13.0-26*, and updated my Intel >> Microcode for the latest security fixes (*3.20180108.0~ubuntu16.04.2*) >> w/ some other updates revolving my Mint installation. It started happening >> once after everything w

Re: Computer Freezes When Waking Up [Linux Mint 18.3]

2018-01-21 Thread Michael Butash
com> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I recently upgraded my kernel to ver *4.13.0-26*, and updated my Intel > Microcode for the latest security fixes (*3.20180108.0~ubuntu16.04.2*) w/ > some other updates revolving my Mint installation. It started happening > once after everything was u

Re: New to Linux Mint 18

2017-05-17 Thread Michael
in moin Stephen, > > I just loaded Linux Mint 18 on a new Asus laptop. It begins the boot but >> hangs on the LM logo with 5 white/green dots below it. What do I do next? >> > > It looks like you wrote this yesterday early afternoon, but it didn't go > to the mail serve

Re: New to Linux Mint 18

2017-05-17 Thread der.hans
Am 16. May, 2017 schwätzte Stephen Elliott so: moin moin Stephen, I just loaded Linux Mint 18 on a new Asus laptop. It begins the boot but hangs on the LM logo with 5 white/green dots below it. What do I do next? It looks like you wrote this yesterday early afternoon, but it didn't go

New to Linux Mint 18

2017-05-17 Thread Stephen Elliott
I just loaded Linux Mint 18 on a new Asus laptop. It begins the boot but hangs on the LM logo with 5 white/green dots below it. What do I do next? SE --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe

Re: mintupdate problems, was: Linux Mint 17 synoptic update manager

2016-12-18 Thread Michael
on my mint system the mint update manager is 'software manager' under the menu button while synaptic is the 'package manager'. On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 3:15 PM, <j...@actionline.com> wrote: > Thank you, Tom, for your very thorough response. > Now, if my aging mind can manage to

Re: mintupdate problems, was: Linux Mint 17 synoptic update manager

2016-12-18 Thread joe
problem. > The second problem you must solve is, seek help from the appropriate > community. Given the presence of the KDE icon in the above screenshot, > and the appearance of your window frames in all 3, I'm guessing you're > running one of the KDE Mints[5]. If that's false, ignore the fo

mintupdate problems, was: Linux Mint 17 synoptic update manager

2016-12-16 Thread Tom Roche
problem. The second problem you must solve is, seek help from the appropriate community. Given the presence of the KDE icon in the above screenshot, and the appearance of your window frames in all 3, I'm guessing you're running one of the KDE Mints[5]. If that's false, ignore the following par

Re: Linux Mint 17 synoptic update manager

2016-12-15 Thread joe
Certainly do hope that someone can help me solve this mystery. -- Larry Lauer last wrote: > Could have a look at > https://www.unixmen.com/quick-tip-fix-gpg-error-badsig-linux-mint-ubuntu/ -- To which I replied: Thanks Larry. I had found and already do

Re: Linux Mint 17 updates fail ...

2016-12-01 Thread joe
Thanks for responding, Stephen ... After much wasted time, I finally did get Mint to update. --- > So in this case if i recall google has a deb that installs > a repo and link for chrome, that is then dynamically updated > within itself etc. I would look for that pkg

Re: Linux Mint 17 synoptic package manager crashes ...

2016-12-01 Thread Stephen Partington
t-get-update-error > > On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 1:52 AM, <j...@actionline.com> wrote: > >> Found partial solution to the problem I just reported here: >> https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=184248 >> >> > When I try to open the Linux Mint 17 synaptic >

Re: Linux Mint 17 synoptic package manager crashes ...

2016-12-01 Thread Stephen Partington
inuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=184248 > > > When I try to open the Linux Mint 17 synaptic > > package manager, it displays the error messages > > shown below, and when I close that error message > > pop-up, synaptic closes. > > > > E: Encountered a section wi

Re: Linux Mint 17 updates fail ...

2016-12-01 Thread Stephen Partington
is expired. On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 12:30 AM, <j...@actionline.com> wrote: > Still can't get Linux Mint updates to work. > Below are some of the errors that I see. > > What can I do to get the updates to work? > > - > > There is no public key avail

Re: Linux Mint 17 synoptic update manager

2016-12-01 Thread joe
Larry Lauer wrote: > Could have a look at > https://www.unixmen.com/quick-tip-fix-gpg-error-badsig-linux-mint-ubuntu/ Thanks Larry. I had found and already done all the steps described in the unixmen article ... and that did help to resolve most of the problems that I had reported. H

Re: Linux Mint 17 synoptic package manager crashes ...

2016-12-01 Thread Larry Lauer
Could have a look at https://www.unixmen.com/quick-tip-fix-gpg-error-badsig-linux-mint-ubuntu/ -Larry > On Dec 1, 2016, at 2:38 AM, j...@actionline.com wrote: > > Found a further (still partial) solution to the problem > that I reported here a few minutes ago

Re: Linux Mint 17 synoptic package manager crashes ...

2016-12-01 Thread joe
Found a further (still partial) solution to the problem that I reported here a few minutes ago. https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=221151#p1161682 However, the problem with the top window in the synaptic "Update Manager" (as shown in the screen shot link below) has gotten even worse

Re: Linux Mint 17 synoptic package manager crashes ...

2016-12-01 Thread joe
Found partial solution to the problem I just reported here: https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=184248 > When I try to open the Linux Mint 17 synaptic > package manager, it displays the error messages > shown below, and when I close that error message > pop-up, synaptic c

Re: Linux Mint 17 synoptic package manager crashes ...

2016-11-30 Thread joe
When I try to open the Linux Mint 17 synaptic package manager, it displays the error messages shown below, and when I close that error message pop-up, synaptic closes. E: Encountered a section with no Package: header E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists

Re: Linux Mint 17 updates fail ...

2016-11-30 Thread joe
Still can't get Linux Mint updates to work. Below are some of the errors that I see. What can I do to get the updates to work? - There is no public key available for the following key IDs: 1397BC53640DB551GPG error: http://dl.google.com stable Release: The following signatures

Re: Linux Mint 17 updates fail ...

2016-11-18 Thread joe
ote (in part) > Linux Mint 17 updates fail on all of my boxes: > W: Failed to fetch > http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/c/curl/libcurl3-gnutls_7.35.0-1ubuntu2.7_amd64.deb > http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/c/curl/libcurl3_7.35.0-1ubuntu2.7_amd64.deb > http://secu

Re: Libre Office comes pre-installed on Mint. Software manger says not installed.

2016-04-26 Thread der.hans
That should give you the packages that installed a file with libreoffice in the filename or path. ciao, der.hans Hi, I'm running Mint 17 KDE and want to use Libre Office Base to create some entity relationship diagrams. Mint came with Libre Office pre installed, however there is not Base. I saw

Re: Libre Office comes pre-installed on Mint. Software manger says not installed.

2016-04-21 Thread Brien Dieterle
My guess is you are looking at the meta package that installs everything for libreoffice. Go ahead and select it and it should install base too. On Apr 21, 2016 5:19 PM, "Keith Smith" <techli...@phpcoderusa.com> wrote: > > > Hi, > > I'm running Mint 17 KDE an

Re: Libre Office comes pre-installed on Mint. Software manger says not installed.

2016-04-21 Thread Bob Elzer
Maybe because the package manager didn't install it, it thinks it's not installed. Have you checked other pre installed software for the same behaviour ? On Apr 21, 2016 5:19 PM, "Keith Smith" <techli...@phpcoderusa.com> wrote: > > > Hi, > > I'm running Mint 17 K

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