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Are you getting a weird error when you try to update your package indexes?
Yesterday I started getting a weird error message when I tried to check for updates using Update Manager. That text box with the horizontal scroll bar says Method gave invalid 400 URI Failure...
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A pair of Jaunty fixes, and an AWN update
There are a pair of bugs that popped up when I upgraded to Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope, or should I say one popped up when I made the upgrade and the other seems to have popped up in the last several...
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Have you gotten your koala yet?
The bad news is that everyone and their brother (or sister) seems to be either trying to get the disk image to burn or trying to perform the upgrade. Randy Cole posted a comment on the Mass. Ubuntu...
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Peng’s links for Saturday, 14 November
That’s right, I’m finally getting another links post written. I’m sorry it took so long. I’ve been trying to run down some bugs, and when I haven’t been on bug hunts things have been simply crazy here...
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Ubuntu Tweak, and it’s website, get a major upgrade
[Updated 13 January to give good news on the UTweak website annoyance. -Peng] Today I fired up the Update Manager and found that Ubuntu Tweak has been updated to version 0.5.0. Among the changes...
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[UPDATED] It’s almost Lynx time
We have a mere 7 days until Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx LTS is released and this morning I got an email from Steve Langasek through the Ubuntu Announcement email list letting me know that they now have a...
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YouTube breaks third-party apps again, but Minitube got a quick fix
Earlier this year YouTube rolled out a site redesign that broke every video downloading addon out there, although Firefox’s addon devs rose to the occasion. (I do with my gChrom extensions would get...
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Potentially excellent news for Linux Mint KDE users
I’m afraid I’ve fallen behind with reading posts on the Linux Mint Forums, but I see Boo, the (lead) developer behind the KDE version of Linux Mint, has shared why it’s taking so long to get Linux Mint...
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[HOWTO] QuickTip: Amarok broke on upgrade with complaints about MySQLe
As I said in my earlier post I upgraded my Linux Mint Debian Edition +KDE laptop to the testing repositories yesterday and other than the changes in Gimp I just wrote about I also discovered that...
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Linux Mint Debian Edition Update Pack 5 is now available
When Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) was first released back in 2010 it used packages from the Debian Testing (Wheezy) branch, which meant that updates would come faster than with the main Linux Mint...
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