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[Karl Larsen]

Donny George wrote:
> 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 :)
>
>   
    Don't touch a thing. This ends the longest running subject in Ubuntu 
history :-)

Karl


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