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**Rog131** · Dec 23, 2006, 12:59 PM

Re: Installing anything - especially sound

About installing:

Installing Software in Ubuntu
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/installingsoftware

How to install ANYTHING in Ubuntu!
http://monkeyblog.org/ubuntu/installing/

No sound
Hmm - check dmesg

dmesg explained
http://linuxgazette.net/issue59/nazario.html

Removing kmix and installing it without adept.
Try in the konsole (read psychocat, terminal=konsole) :

Code:

sudo apt-get remove kmix
sudo apt-get install kmix

If this doesn't work - you get info why not. So not this problem:

the green tick won't stay in the box.... Hmm!

APT HOWTO
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/ap.../index.en.html

I have downloaded a file KMix-1.0

Hmm - my kmix tells that it is 2.6 (dapper, from repositories)

**tonyblair** · Dec 23, 2006, 02:01 PM

Re: Installing anything - especially sound

Phew!

That's me told....! See what I mean by "easy if you know how". To that I'd now add " if you also understand what on earth the geeks are talking about!"

Thanks very much for your help. I'll plough my way through all that stuff over the next few days with a suitable dictionary, and a packed lunch for sustinence, and try to figure out what it all means. I've looked at some of those links before and note that they are largely written by geeks in Geek for more geeks so I'm not too confident of success. I'm a trier though and, If I survive, I'll report back.

Many thanks again; despite my unsure reaction, I really do appreciate your time and help and will try to do your advice proud.

Anyone got any other (eazy peazy, human sized, "write this, press that then do this" type) leads meanwhile?

Tony, Cherie and the kids.

**claydoh** · Dec 23, 2006, 03:31 PM

Re: Installing anything - especially sound

When using adept, you can see what packages will be removed/installed when making your selections by using the "Preview Changes" button before you click on 'Apply Changes'
This shows us that by uninstalling kmix also removes a package called 'kubuntu-desktop' which is a meta-package that basically just defines a preset group of applications and libraries that make Kubuntu, well Kubuntu

It is not terrible to remove this package, but it make sit much easier for the package managers to keep it updated for any major changes or upgrades down the road.

An example of this:
Say, I uninstall Kmix, and also uninstall Open Office because I like Koffice more, and maybe a few other standard but non essential bits as well. After doing this, I decide i want to get it all back. Simply installing the 'kubuntu-desktop' will cause all the missing standard bits to be reinstalled without having to track down all the separate packages

Anyway, after getting back on track here

follow the directions above to reinstall kmix with a slight modification

Open Konsole and enter:

Code:

sudo apt-get remove kmix
sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop

The command line is good for this as it will give excellent error messages

This should get you back with Kmix
Now, open kmix again, right-click on the icon, and see if there is an 'x' next to 'Mute'. My guess is that there is. Uncheck that and see if there is sound then.

Installing programs is as easy as using the Add/Remove Programs, but using Adept package manager will show more stuff.

In reference to the "green box", I am confused are you also trying out Synaptic package manager?

Now as to antivirus, you really don't need it linux, there are few if any linux viruses out there, and the linux antivirus software is for detecting Windows viruses more or less. Firewalls are a bit complicated in linux, but there are some gui tools out there, but I don't know of any off the top of my head. Kubuntu is rather well locked down by default. i am behind a dsl router with NAT built in, so I don't really need to try and set this up myself, though someone else may have some good tips for this.

**tonyblair** · Dec 24, 2006, 04:25 AM

Re: Installing anything - especially sound

Aha!

Some success....

I typed the remove kmix line into Konsole and it confirmed that kmix is not installed (remember I removed it) so there is nothing to remove.

I then typed the install kubuntu desktop command and got this:
"Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Package kubuntu desktop is not available, but is referred to by another package. This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source.
E: Package kubuntu-desktop has no installation candidate"

So, I'm encouraged to keep trying, this sounds like it needs to find the package. I have the cd in the drive but the machine doesn't seem to be looking for the files there (I assume they are on it somewhere...?)

Have you any tips on how to point the Konsole script at the cd or wherever the package is?

Very many thanks for your help.

Tony, Cherie and the kids.

**arochester** · Dec 24, 2006, 08:21 AM

Re: Installing anything - especially sound

It's very strange that kubuntu-desktop is not available. Have you activated all of your repositories by removing # at the begining of each deb line?

If you have not, proceed, with care, to do it and use the command

kdesu kate /etc/apt/sources.list

in konsole

**shadowfx78** · Dec 24, 2006, 08:35 AM

Re: Installing anything - especially sound

i think he may have typed in kubuntu desktop without the proper hyphen "kubuntu-desktop" that may be the reason it wasnt recognized by apt-get?

**claydoh** · Dec 24, 2006, 10:14 AM

Re: Installing anything - especially sound

I suggest posting the contents of /etc/apt/sources.list, There are probably more lines commented out (this happens sometimes during the install if it can't connect to the repositories).

All line that start with "deb" should be enabled (uncommented, the '#' removed from them if doin it by hand)

**tonyblair** · Dec 24, 2006, 11:41 AM

Re: Installing anything - especially sound

Next instalment....

Well, I checked that I'd included the hyphen first time around. I had and still got the same error message.

Then I typed in the "kdesu kate /etc/apt/sources.list" phrase and I got back the following....>

"X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 166
Major opcode: 144
Minor opcode: 3
Resource id: 0x0
Failed to open device"

This message came up twice. Then I got....>

"sh: kate/etc/apt/sources.list: no such file or directory"

I then did a CD to the directory called "/etc"

Further CDing revealed no sub directories in there. Just a long list of around 150 files at a guess, (one called "apt" actually!) which won't cut and paste out of the Konsole window. I tried CDing to apt from within "/etc" but just got "no such file or directory". Are we looking for anything specific (I can confirm any files if you tell me their names) or I'm guessing its the lack of the desu kate /etc/apt/sources.list directory which is the issue?

No # signs to be seen yet either, BTW!

That's it!

If it seems easy still, I'd be grateful for continuing support to migrate from Bill's Windows but I do understand if it is looking a bit gloomy....

Many thanks again, and have a great Christmas!

Tony, Cherie and the kids

**claydoh** · Dec 24, 2006, 01:29 PM

Re: Installing anything - especially sound

you need to have the command

Code:

kdesu kate /etc/apt/sources.list

note the space between kate and the file path

Just simply use Konqueror to browse to the directory /etc/apt, make sure you have enabled viewing hidden files/folders in Konq'a View menu. Then right-click on the file there called 'sources.list' and go to the Action menu, then Edit As Root then you can copy the text and paste it here

**tonyblair** · Dec 24, 2006, 03:19 PM

Re: Installing anything - especially sound

Hi again,

Here's the script:

# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
#deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper main restricted
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
#deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper main restricted

## Major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the
## distribution.
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
#deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper-updates main restricted
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
#deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper-updates main restricted

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'universe'
## repository.
## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to
## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in
## universe WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu security
## team.
# deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper universe
# deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper universe

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'backports'
## repository.
## N.B. software from this repository may not have been tested as
## extensively as that contained in the main release, although it includes
## newer versions of some applications which may provide useful features.
## Also, please note that software in backports WILL NOT receive any review
## or updates from the Ubuntu security team.
# deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper-backports main restricted universe multiverse
# deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper-backports main restricted universe multiverse

# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
#deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security main
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
#deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security main
# deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security universe
# deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security universe

I can see how the security stuff may need installing somehow - but the sound mixer.....?

I really appreciate this!

Very many thanks,

Tony, Cherie and the kids.
8)

**jaybombalous** · Dec 25, 2006, 03:04 AM

Re: Installing anything - especially sound

everything thats starts out like this...

#deb
#deb-src

change too...

deb
deb-src

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**jaybombalous** · Dec 25, 2006, 03:07 AM

Re: Installing anything - especially sound

# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper main restricted
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper main restricted

## Major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the
## distribution.
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper-updates main restricted
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper-updates main restricted

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'universe'
## repository.
## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to
## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in
## universe WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu security
## team.
deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper universe
deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper universe

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'backports'
## repository.
## N.B. software from this repository may not have been tested as
## extensively as that contained in the main release, although it includes
## newer versions of some applications which may provide useful features.
## Also, please note that software in backports WILL NOT receive any review
## or updates from the Ubuntu security team.
deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper-backports main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper-backports main restricted universe multiverse

# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
#deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security main
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security main
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security universe
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security universe

something like this should surfice.

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