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[NoOp]

On 07/04/2008 08:13 AM, Donny George wrote:

>>
>> Hey Noop
>>
>> surprise the desktop is back again, in fact after all the steps i forgot to
>> do the xfix and i rebotted the system and there it was THE DESKTOP back
>> again. oh my god u r just wonderful NOOP.
>>
>> but i have one more thing to ask, just to know what exactly i did here. i
>> know update,upgrade but wats is the command fc-cache -fv,
>> ubuntu-restricted-extras, i cudnt find much about them with google.
> 
> 
> but thank you so much noop. thank you so so much.
> 
> wish a very great day
> 
> donny
> 
> 

It's magic :-) To be quite honest I've no clue to exactly what fixed
it... xfix reconfgures your xorg.conf files using the new automagic xorg
configuration packages included in Hardy (one I've yet to fully figure
out).

ubuntu-restricted-extras pulls in the msttcorefonts and ttf-opensymbol
pulls in the true type fonts for OpenOffice, so I figured that between
the two you might resolve the ttf-opensymbol font problem. fc-cache -fv
regenerates all of your font cache files, so I asked you to do this to
clean up any font cache files that may have been screwed up from your
intial install failures. The 'f' option regenerates cache files, even if
they seem to be up to date, and the 'v' option just gives you a verbose
output so you can see what is going on. Information on fc-cache is here:
http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/cmd/cmd.csp?path=f/fc-cache
You can also see the options by entering (from a terminal)

fc-cache --help

Now that you have your desktop back, I would recommend going back and
cleaning up:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install --reinstall ubuntu-desktop
sudo apt-get install -f
[note: if you get errors, clean up the errors and repeat the command
until you no longer get errors]
sudo apt-get install --reinstall ttf-opensymbol
sudo fc-cache -fv