Monday, August 17th, 2009
The easiest way is to install the standard Debian 5.0 package instead of the Ubuntu-specific package. Full instructions can be found in Ubuntu Forums.
For the technical among you - there seems to be an issue with the statically linked package for Ubuntu. The dynamic package for Debian seems to work ...
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Thursday, June 4th, 2009
Recently, after upgrading to Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty) from 8.10 (Intrepid) I noticed that PDF files produced via the "Print" command in various programs (similar to Adobe Distiller) produces very low resolution files and renders all text into images. It turns out to be a bug in CUPS-PDF, which is the ...
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Friday, April 24th, 2009
Just some notes from my upgrade today. I upgraded from 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) to 9.04 (Jaunty). When the computer rebooted, and started X, the keyboard and mouse would not work. It seems that the HAL daemon failed on startup with a segfault. Upon further digging, it seems that this is ...
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Monday, February 4th, 2008
This is a short guide for people who want to use Flash with Opera under Ubuntu Linux 7.10 (Gutsy):
1. Enabled the proposed repository in System->Administration->Software Sources.
2. Go to Synaptic and install the latest flash plugin from the proposed repository.
3. Go to Opera's website and install the 9.50 beta version.
4. Start ...
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