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msPeachy

9:00 AM

@AbrahamVanHelpsing yes I asked it here in chat

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A: How to play HTML5 or Flash games offilne in Ubuntu?

All you have to do is.... ... I forget. Sucks doesn't it?

lol

AbrahamVanHelpsing

@penreturn why not dupe it to the how to install packages without internet question?

msPeachy

this guy is sort of funny

Takkat

@msPeachy they call themseves Trolo (missing `l')

penreturn

@AbrahamVanHelpsing which one?

AbrahamVanHelpsing

the one i pointed at :/... askubuntu.com/questions/197357/…

Mochan

9:03 AM

@msPeachy Lol

AbrahamVanHelpsing

@penreturn to: askubuntu.com/questions/974/…

The Linux kernel ships with drivers for most consumer hardware except video and wireless, so unless you have something rather unusual or a monitor, your machine should run Ubuntu out of the box ;)

Mochan

Question: my answer (all four of them - lol) have never been picked as accepted, but my name states I have a '80% accept rate' when I have never been accepted...? Not complaining, though! Advantages of being a noob ;)

penreturn

:p

AbrahamVanHelpsing

@Mochan accept rate is how many questions you ask and accept answers to, not how many of your answers are accepted

msPeachy

@Mochan it is your acceptance rate

Mochan

9:06 AM

@AbrahamVanHelpsing Is it a good thing? =w=

@msPeachy Acceptance rate* then?

-correcting self-?

msPeachy

meaning accepting answers to your questions

AbrahamVanHelpsing

>75% is fine imo. <50 and people start not even looking at your questions

Mochan

@msPeachy Oh ^o^

penreturn

Own question

Mochan

@AbrahamVanHelpsing So people with no x% accept rate means 100%?

penreturn

9:07 AM

not even ask question kot

msPeachy

@Mochan I only have 1 answer accepted, but I have 100% acceptance rate since I've accepted answer on all of my questions.

Journeyman Geek

lol. or you have very interesting problems.

Mochan

@msPeachy LOL. So you don't have a weird label thing because you're 100%? Mind if I stalk your question to see what could possibly confuse you? XD

AbrahamVanHelpsing

@Mochan idk. it's either 0 for no questions or 100. either way, once you ask one it should reflect your accepted answer rate

Journeyman Geek

Low exceptance rate + tumbleweed for example/.

I don't think 100% acceptance is good either, depends on the quality of the answers ;p

Mochan

9:10 AM

@JourneymanGeek I've had the tumbleweed medal o.o

@JourneymanGeek +1

Journeyman Geek

lol

AbrahamVanHelpsing

@JourneymanGeek i've deleted questions that i thought wouldn't get good answers. i also have a couple open, but still show 100%

Takkat

<-- is Tumbleweed holder too

msPeachy

@Mochan well I have several other questions when I was new here but I deleted some of them even those with upvotes

The Interrupter

Can you answer this? Local network speed issues, 12.04.01/smb/cifs http://askubuntu.com/q/182923?atw=1 #networking

Tweeted by AskUbuntu on October 7, 2012 at 9:01 AM

msPeachy

9:11 AM

what's a tumbleweed?

Eliah Kagan

@msPeachy askubuntu.com/badges/40/tumbleweed

Journeyman Geek

@msPeachy: question with no answers and low views

@Takkat Yay~

@EliahKagan thanks

9:12 AM

Asked a question with no votes, no answers, no comments, and low views for a week

penreturn

weed

msPeachy

@JourneymanGeek well I had questions with no answers but got several views and upvotes

Journeyman Geek

amusingly, my tumbleweed question was self answered

msPeachy

whoah 5649 tumbleweeds

penreturn

windows? askubuntu.com/questions/164725/…

Mochan

9:14 AM

@AbrahamVanHelpsing Oh my God!! Is that yours?!

AbrahamVanHelpsing

@Mochan it's the site total. i asked one.

also, don't link to a windows driver installer...

Mochan

@penreturn Auto-detect. It should detect the OP's system. Should I just give them the self-fill form?

AbrahamVanHelpsing

Try updating your video drivers. Download here: support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/windows/Pages/auto_detect.aspx — Mochan 3 mins ago

msPeachy

@AbrahamVanHelpsing is it prohibited?

AbrahamVanHelpsing

it doesn't. it hands you an exe (might detect card and windows version). use jockey/jockey-gtk/additional drivers

Mochan

9:16 AM

@AbrahamVanHelpsing auto_detect.aspx I'll update with the fill-in form

penreturn

the link must be something like this www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/…

Mochan

Try updating your video drivers. Download here: support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/windows/Pages/auto_detect.aspx — Mochan 4 mins ago

Updated

Takkat

@msPeachy Ubuntu calls you names when running .aspx files.

AbrahamVanHelpsing

@Mochan still the windows download. stop being ridiculous

Mochan

@penreturn The OP doesn't specify the driver?

@AbrahamVanHelpsing Fine. Comment removed/

Eliah Kagan

9:18 AM

@Mochan Can you explain what you mean here? I can't figure out what you're suggesting should be done. Furthermore, neither APT nor dpkg is being updated, and both are being used to perform the update, so I'm having trouble seeing how what you're saying could be correct.

Well for starters, DPKG and the Advanced Packaging Tool (apt) are not the same. You are updating the apt instead of the DPKG. — Mochan 23 mins ago

jokerdino

I don't know what he means but I just got 2 upvotes and a badge.

penreturn

@Mochan just to inform you. That kind of comment can rewards you -1

Mochan

@EliahKagan ...Hm. You know, I'm actually having trouble seeing that myself. Perhaps I ought to sleep once in a while and get my head in the know

jokerdino

so, thanks for the fish.

Mochan

@penreturn Thanks. I'll keep that in mind for the future.

penreturn

9:20 AM

@jokerdino no problem... ceewahhh

jokerdino

wah

penreturn

@Mochan aite sir ;)

Eliah Kagan

@Mochan Ok. Btw, just so it's clear, my question has nothing to do with any other comments or anything anybody else here has said recently (which I have not even been following, having recently come back to my computer from the "real world").

Mochan

Thanks to all for correcting my unusual comments.

msPeachy

@jokerdino you got a badge for a comment?

Mochan

9:21 AM

@EliahKagan Quite aware of that. Thanks anyway :)

jokerdino

@msPeachy No. two people upvoted the linked answer.

Mochan

@penreturn Ma'am* ;)

msPeachy

@jokerdino I did

Takkat

we can't scroll up in a virtual TTY, can we? askubuntu.com/questions/197314/…

jokerdino

She says she is a lady.

Aye be a good buddy of @msPeachy ?

@msPeachy oh thanks.

Journeyman Geek

9:22 AM

yay ~~girls~~ Ladies!

2

Mochan

@JourneymanGeek XD

jokerdino

@Takkat you can't i believe

penreturn

@Takkat nope... unless he using script blabla.txt so he can check back all cli line perform

msPeachy

@Mochan oh you are?

jokerdino

i found some spam to fry.

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A: What's a good cheap video card?

I recommened to check this site Cheap Gaming Video Card. I have looking for cheap gaming video card too and I found this site it very useful for me. There have a lot of recommended gaming video card and discount price too. :D

Mochan

9:24 AM

@msPeachy Yup. Welcome to a new screwed up world of female Ubuntu-users (fairly non-existent) -.-

Journeyman Geek

hmm, fried spam.

@Mochan: blah, what's screwed up about it? ;p

jokerdino

@Mochan Wah? Ubuntu release manager is a female.

Journeyman Geek

We need more (clued in) women in tech

penreturn

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A: How to install slingshot launcher

gpg: "tag:launchpad.net:2008:redacted" not a key ID: skipping

Journeyman Geek

If they're dumb pure management types, you can keep em ;p

Mochan

9:25 AM

@jokerdino *o* Admiration~

Journeyman Geek

(no matter what the gender)

Mochan

@JourneymanGeek Certain times of the month can effect your answers -awkwardness-

Journeyman Geek

lol

msPeachy

@Mochan I just assume you were one of the guys, sorry. Nothing wrong with Ubuntu ladies! We're cool

jokerdino

"Now if you don't my saying, this conversation is getting a little strange."

AbrahamVanHelpsing

9:26 AM

@jokerdino as is the person in charge of ui/ux iirc

Journeyman Geek

@Mochan: guys don't have an excuse for being a little out of sorts. They can be just as distracted without... yanno, aunt flo

Mochan

@msPeachy No need to apologize :)

Journeyman Geek

XD

Mochan

@JourneymanGeek XDD I call it TOM (Time Of Month). Awkwardness, again. Sure this what you want to be discussing?

Journeyman Geek

lol

Takkat

9:27 AM

@jokerdino @penreturn: yes we can! But I don't know if that works in KVM :/ writing an answer anyway

Journeyman Geek

Used to it. Too many female friends back in the day ;p

jokerdino

@AbrahamVanHelpsing I guess so. Not too familiar with Canonical employees.

penreturn

@Takkat aitee...

jokerdino

@Takkat That would be something I would like to know.

penreturn

@jokerdino +1 \o/

jokerdino

9:29 AM

@JourneymanGeek aha ;-)

Journeyman Geek

i've decided I'm rather fond of visio

Mochan

I'm not sure which to choose as accepted. Neither of them solved my problem, but none of them will ever be able to for me - so should I choose the most relevant to other users experiencing the same thing? askubuntu.com/questions/192832/video-codec-dependencies-not-met

AbrahamVanHelpsing

@jokerdino seems like i was looking at a UK based ui/ux posting they had and checked who the boss would be if i applied... there was some video of her speaking about the 12.04 release/ui improvements i think

Journeyman Geek

@Mochan: two options

Mochan

@JourneymanGeek Correct. Both are valid.

Journeyman Geek

9:30 AM

comment why they don't work and don't pick either

Oh, both worked?

msPeachy

nap time, be back later

jokerdino

@AbrahamVanHelpsing oh i see. i'll just check the canon design team

Mochan

@JourneymanGeek Done, but that just leaves a dead question. The problem for my system will never be solved.

Journeyman Geek

comment to that effect, pick the better one, upvote the other

Mochan

@JourneymanGeek No. View above ---^ x2

Journeyman Geek

9:31 AM

delete question? ;p

jokerdino

design.canonical.com/theteam

@JourneymanGeek close it as too localized

Journeyman Geek

ok, fug it. Need to see if I can pick up some tiffin, then get back to work

Mochan

@JourneymanGeek Sounds most adequate. Think I will *sigh*

Journeyman Geek

lol, that needs people to do

you can delete on your own

AbrahamVanHelpsing

@Mochan i'm guessing you have a ppa in place that's holding one of your dependencies

Mochan

9:33 AM

@AbrahamVanHelpsing Probably. Should I just disable them all and see whether I can fix it?

penreturn

for this question... why dont he just download new iso 12.10 and upgrade?

Mochan

@JourneymanGeek Turns out because there are answers I can't. I'll see if I can fix it. But both answers would work afterwards (if I fix it) what do I do then?

AbrahamVanHelpsing

@Mochan yes. disable all ppas, update/upgrade...then pick through ppas to see which one is holding stuff and leave it disabled/file a bug

jokerdino

use ppa-purge

AbrahamVanHelpsing

and that --^

Takkat

9:34 AM

ppa-purge for the win (does it work with multiarch in the meantime?)

Mochan

@jokerdino For ppa-purge, should I include the link-name for the ppa? Like "dev whatever.whatever.com/whatever precise whatever"?

jokerdino

it would help if we know what ppa you have

Eliah Kagan

@penreturn The packages that need to be upgraded, even if they are all from official repositories, will not necessarily exist on the CD (or even the DVD) image. The OP's goal in that question appears to be to minimize or eliminate downloading duplicate data. .deb packages that update packages not provided in the ISO image will still have to be downloaded twice, if you upgrade from a live environment (or alternate/server CD environment) made from a 12.10 ISO.

jokerdino

then we can just give you the command you need to run.

Mochan

I have several. Therefore I should remove more than one?

AbrahamVanHelpsing

9:35 AM

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Q: What's the name of PPA? (for ppa-purge)

I'm testing PPAs, so I commonly use ppa-purge, that restores my default versions. But I always have problem with the ppa name. What do I need to put as argument for ppa-purge? I always used my browser to check name on launchpad, but what about when I'm without internet and I can't start X. Org s...

Mochan

@AbrahamVanHelpsing +1

jokerdino

@eliah, 12.10 also has alternate installer.

Eliah Kagan

@jokerdino Indeed, that was my bad. Edited.

jokerdino

Alright

Eliah Kagan

@jokerdino The alternate CD is better for upgrading but if it doesn't contain a 12.10 package for an installed package, that package will still not be upgraded until there is an Internet connection over which to do it (and will then be fetched from the Internet for each system separately).

penreturn

9:38 AM

@EliahKagan yup but my point is, OP already told that the two machine will upgrade to 12.10 shortly... so they will be 2 update for the apps and distro version... so why dont just upgrade to 12.10?

jokerdino

Yes you are right. I was just stating live 12.10 also has alternate in it.

Mochan

@jokerdino What do I do...? Image:

![Alt text](~/Pictures/Webcam/Screenshot from 2012-10-07 20:37:15.png "Here...?")

UGH. How to attach photo...?

jokerdino

post link

since you have less than 100 rep, you won't have a upload button

upload on imgur.com and post the link here

2

Journeyman Geek

or in your quesrion so people can fix it ;p

Mochan

^ Too long to do that

Yay~ success~

jokerdino

9:42 AM

what the

install pastebinit and upload the file

Mochan

From doing this: grep ppa /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*

jokerdino

@mochan sudo apt-get install pastebinit

Mochan

@jokerdino Impossible. Remember my apt is stuffed.

jokerdino

@Mochan oh fail

apt-get download pastebinit

Mochan

@jokerdino You know it //cries

jokerdino

9:44 AM

sudo dpkg -i pastebinit*.deb

Takkat

paste.ubuntu.com

jokerdino

@Takkat i feel stupid

penreturn

:p

Takkat

feelings never tell the truth

Journeyman Geek

@Mochan: actually its pretty polite to do that, then you can get medium low rep users to edit, and everyone wins!

AbrahamVanHelpsing

9:45 AM

you have more than a few ppas installed...

jokerdino

@Takkat O:

Journeyman Geek

@Mochan: Thats the biggest source list I have seen ;p

Mochan

@jokerdino paste.ubuntu.com/1265311

@JourneymanGeek To cry?

jokerdino

let's remove them one by one

Mochan

Oh my God... I'm dreading this.

jokerdino

9:46 AM

wait, would ppa-purge work if apt is broken?

Journeyman Geek

@Mochan: If someone makes you cry, ask @jokerdino to beat them up

urg

Takkat

afaik its using aptitude

penreturn

my style remove > update :p

Mochan

@JourneymanGeek Haha. :P

Journeyman Geek

wouldn't backing up her info, then reinstalling it be a good idea? ;p

Mochan

9:46 AM

@penreturn +1

Journeyman Geek

If its that broken?

jokerdino

@JourneymanGeek oh dear. why oh why?

Journeyman Geek

Less variables.

penreturn

which one broken?

jokerdino

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Q: Video codec dependencies not met?

After trying to run a .M4A and a .MP4 (aren't they same thing?) I get a message saying I need to install extra codecs. When attempting to do this, I get an error window stating 'dependencies not met' for the codecs. The error report is this: The following packages have unmet dependencies: gstrea...

12.04 video dependencies codecs

Mochan

9:47 AM

Planning to do a fresh install with the release of 12.10

jokerdino

libapt etc

Journeyman Geek

then again, The only PPA I have is remastersys I think

Mochan

This one is probably more helpful (or extra detail, at least):

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Q: Dependencies not met on 12.04?

Possible Duplicate: apt-get broken, cannot fix or remove libapt-pkg4.12 Now I'm very aware that there are many questions out there that are quite similar to what I'm experiencing, but I have looked through many and I have not found a suitable answer. You are welcome to suggest question...

12.04 apt packages dependencies

jokerdino

what do you get for uname -m

Mochan

@jokerdino x86_64

I installed x64 bit -.-

jokerdino

9:49 AM

so we got a multiarch problem here

Mochan

@jokerdino -Fails to comprehend-

Takkat

BBL

jokerdino

@Takkat good idea

Mochan

*OT* Why is Gravatar so slow?! DX

Journeyman Geek

lol

Its cached .. in a lot of places

Mochan

9:50 AM

@JourneymanGeek I wish Ask Ubuntu didn't use it. Much happier to upload the same photo each time ;(

Journeyman Geek

also, there's a mispelling in your profile

lol

Ya, I know

Mochan

-.- Fail.

AbrahamVanHelpsing

@Mochan wishlist bug: all option for ppa-purge launchpad.net/ppa-purge

Journeyman Geek

but stuff mostly works, despite some unusual choices ;p

(like this site runs on windows/mssql ;p)

jokerdino

i could find that script for ppa-purgeing all

code.launchpad.net/~popey/+junk/purgealltheppas

found it

Mochan

9:52 AM

@JourneymanGeek Generally was generaly? Fixed.

Journeyman Geek

computers too ;p

Mochan

@JourneymanGeek Nuuu... going to fix... ;A;

Done~ Yay~

Journeyman Geek

XD

Your gravitar hasn't updated anywhere yet as far as I can tell

jokerdino

ok let's stop going off topic and fix your problem. or i am outta here and hope no one else helps you too :P

Journeyman Geek

XD

Mochan

9:53 AM

BTW. Thanks to all you hard-working brains for your help~ my condolences to you all~

jokerdino

what on earth is gravitar? :P

Journeyman Geek

me shuts up

Mochan

@jokerdino ;A;

Journeyman Geek

the site we use for avatars.

Mochan

@jokerdino Thing to upload avatars?

jokerdino

9:54 AM

oh

Mochan

XD

Journeyman Geek

also, a avatar thats so large it has its own gravitational field.

Mochan

@JourneymanGeek +1

jokerdino

@Mochan what have you done since your messed up apt question?

anything else, etc

Mochan

@jokerdino should I use the script above to kill all PPAs or will that be ineffective because of the APT?

@jokerdino Well. I was going to try to remove my PPAs to see if that worked... =.=

jokerdino

9:55 AM

the script will show the list of ppa-purge commands you can run. and then you run them one by one

Mochan

@jokerdino I want to die. Joking, guys

jokerdino

only i can joke. sulks

but you dont already have ppa-purge installed, do you?

Journeyman Geek

you could probably just pipe that to a .sh file, and then run the .sh file. If you're lazy and don't mind the slight risk of blowing stuff up further.

jokerdino

or you grab another script which runs each line one by one

Mochan

@jokerdino Haha. Ha. Ha-ha.

jokerdino

9:57 AM

that's what i did last time

Mochan

Seems risky. I'll do it! :DD

jokerdino

@Mochan haha, i am laughing now.

Mochan

So do I download the .sh file and run it (somehow)? -inexperienced-

Sorry to hassle all of you... :( Thank you for staying with me~

jokerdino

can someone use teamviewer on her laptop? :D

Mochan

@jokerdino =o=

penreturn

9:59 AM

servicing

AbrahamVanHelpsing

#!/bin/bash
# A script to remove all packages in a PPA and revert back to the normal
# distribution ones.
#
# AUTHORS: Robert Hooker (Sarvatt), Tormod Volden

# Defaults
ARCH=$(dpkg --print-architecture)
PPA_PKGS=$(mktemp)
REVERTS=$(mktemp)
trap "rm $PPA_PKGS $REVERTS" 0

# Functions to write output nicely.
write_msg() {
    echo "$*" | fold -s -w "${COLUMNS:-80}"
}

msg() {
	write_msg "$*"
}

warn() {
	write_msg "Warning:  $*" 1>&2
}

usage() {
	echo "Usage: sudo ppa-purge [options] <ppa:ppaowner>[/ppaname]"

Mochan

And view all my photos and Korean music. PSSH.

AbrahamVanHelpsing

that's ppa-purge

Journeyman Geek

lol

Mochan

@AbrahamVanHelpsing Copy and Paste into Terminal? Don't kill me

XD

Journeyman Geek

9:59 AM

/me wierdly has mostly dutch symphonic metal on his playlist lately. In english ;p

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