Ubuntu 11.04 on HP Pavilion DV5-2077CL

[Clay Weber]

On Saturday, July 02, 2011 12:09:33 PM Sid Boyce wrote:
> I wonder if anyone is using this laptop and what version of Ubuntu is
> installed.
> My brother installed 11.04 on his but could not launch apps such as
> libreoffice and others.
> Yesterday with the help of an expert as he described him spent 2 hours
> trying to get it working and failed, so he reinstalled Windows 7 but
> would really like to get Ubuntu working. Internet access and skype
> worked, but a bunch of other stuff failed to launch.
> Regards
> Sid.

*Kubuntu* should work just fine on that machine :) . Considering that a 
program like Skype works, as well as networking, seems to indicate something 
more along the lines of an install gone bad or incomplete. More information 
would be required to determine what the real problem is, but it initially 
sounds like some gui-related library or icons are missing or corrupted. Skype, 
for example, uses a completely different gui toolkit than what *Ubuntu*  and 
*Unity* use, which may explain why it opens and others do not.

Did the laptop run fine from a livecd session before the install?

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