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[Donny George]

On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 12:22 PM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> 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
>
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hey noop

are u sure u want me to clean it up

i am so happy with the desktop being back and scared to even touch it :)
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