Linux for your taste (sorry Naw :D) (14 Viewers)

[Zé Tahir]

So Asif was supposed to help me but I think he went to bed.

Anyway...my cousins laptop crashed and I tried saving her files (wouldn't let me access the drive) and reinstalling windows but that didn't work. Only thing that worked was Ubuntu 10.04 :toast:

Problem is that it can get kinda complicated and she's totally computer illiterate so I tried setting a few things up for her..like installing Adobe Flash so sites like youtube function. I tried installing Java but that is way too complicated for me. I tried installing Chrome but that didn't work, then I tried getting ms fonts (Times New Roman isn't on here) but I failed in doing that too

I messed around too much and now there's a 'do-not-enter' symbol on the top. I can paste the message I get in just a sec.

Can someone help though?

 

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[Martin]

do not enter? :confused2

 

[Zé Tahir]

 

[Martin]

It really is amazing the way in which people describe their technical problems. I think I know what's going on here, but just WOW at your far fetched way to explain it

When you log in all you get is a message box with that "stop" icon?

What's the message?

 

[Zé Tahir]

An error occurred, please run Package Manager from the right click menu or apt-get in terminal to see what is wrong. The error message was: 'Unknown Error: '<type 'exceptions.SystemError'> (E:Syntax error /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/10broken_proxy:4: Extra junk at end of file)'This usually means that your installed packages have unmet dependencies


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Don't make fun of me

Yeah, that's the symbol I see on the top bar, right next to the wireless network symbol. It wasn't there to begin with but after me messing around with other crap (mentioned above) it appeared.

 

[Martin]

An error occurred, please run Package Manager from the right click menu or apt-get in terminal to see what is wrong. The error message was: 'Unknown Error: '<type 'exceptions.SystemError'> (E:Syntax error /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/10broken_proxy:4: Extra junk at end of file)'This usually means that your installed packages have unmet dependencies


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Don't make fun of me

Yeah, that's the symbol I see on the top bar, right next to the wireless network symbol. It wasn't there to begin with but after me messing around with other crap (mentioned above) it appeared.

Looks like file corruption. You could try something like this:
To find out which package the corrupt file is from:
# dpkg -S /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/10broken_proxy
somepkg: /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/10broken_proxy

Then try to reinstall it
# apt-get --reinstall somepkg

 

[Zé Tahir]

Looks like file corruption. You could try something like this:
To find out which package the corrupt file is from:
# dpkg -S /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/10broken_proxy
somepkg: /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/10broken_proxy

Then try to reinstall it
# apt-get --reinstall somepkg

Put that into the terminal? proceeded by "sudo"?

 

[Martin]

Put that into the terminal? proceeded by "sudo"?

Yea

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

Martin, saviour of the non-techies!

 

[Zé Tahir]

I get this:

monique@monique-laptop:~$ sudo # dpkg -S /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/10broken_proxy
usage: sudo -h | -K | -k | -L | -V
usage: sudo -v [-AknS] [-p prompt]
usage: sudo -l[l] [-AknS] [-g groupname|#gid] [-p prompt] [-U username] [-u
username|#uid] [-g groupname|#gid] [command]
usage: sudo [-AbEHknPS] [-C fd] [-g groupname|#gid] [-p prompt] [-u
username|#uid] [-g groupname|#gid] [VAR=value] [-i|-s] [<command>]
usage: sudo -e [-AknS] [-C fd] [-g groupname|#gid] [-p prompt] [-u
username|#uid] file ...
monique@monique-laptop:~$ somepkg: /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/10broken_proxy
somepkg:: command not found
monique@monique-laptop:~$

 

[Martin]

on one line:
sudo dpkg -S /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/10broken_proxy

when I write # or $ it means the symbol that you see at the end of:
monique@monique-laptop:~$

You don't type it, it's just a way for me to say "this is a command".

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

I don't think you need to type the 'somepkg' command man. That's supposed to be an example of what the '# dpkg -S' would return!

Oh Ze...

 

[Zé Tahir]

on one line:
sudo dpkg -S /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/10broken_proxy

when I write # or $ it means the symbol that you see at the end of:
monique@monique-laptop:~$

You don't type it, it's just a way for me to say "this is a command".

Oh

This is what I got:

sudo dpkg -S /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/10broken_proxy
[sudo] password for monique:
dpkg: /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/10broken_proxy not found.

 

[Martin]

mhm, so we have no idea where that file came from.

Try to move it out of the way and see if anything breaks

$ mv /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/10broken_proxy \ /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/10broken_proxy.disable

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

mhm, so we have no idea where that file came from.

Try to move it out of the way and see if anything breaks

$ mv /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/10broken_proxy \ /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/10broken_proxy.disable

I usually don't like doing that. But since it's Ze's laptop, I'm interested to see the outcome!

 

[Martin]

I usually don't like doing that. But since it's Ze's laptop, I'm interested to see the outcome!

It's not Ze's laptop, it's Monique's According to Ze it's his cousin, but it's probably his girlfriend

 

[Zé Tahir]

mhm, so we have no idea where that file came from.

Try to move it out of the way and see if anything breaks

$ mv /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/10broken_proxy \ /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/10broken_proxy.disable

mv /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/10broken_proxy \ /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/10broken_proxy.disable
mv: cannot move `/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/10broken_proxy' to ` /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/10broken_proxy.disable': No such file or directory
monique@monique-laptop:~$

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I'm contemplating just reinstalling the whole thing

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

It's not Ze's laptop, it's Monique's According to Ze it's his cousin, but it's probably his girlfriend

Ze's... Moniques... As long as it's not mine, it doesn't matter!

@Tahir:

 

[Martin]

mv /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/10broken_proxy \ /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/10broken_proxy.disable
mv: cannot move `/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/10broken_proxy' to ` /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/10broken_proxy.disable': No such file or directory
monique@monique-laptop:~$

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I'm contemplating just reinstalling the whole thing

That \ was there because the second path was on a new line. But it's supposed to be all on one line, so you can remove the \.

 

[Martin]

And yeah, reinstalling usually helps when you have broken packages cause they are tricky to fix otherwise.