Ultimate Edition 2.8 need some help...

Basil Chupin blchupin at iinet.net.au
Tue Jul 13 03:16:30 UTC 2010


On 13/07/10 12:56, NoOp wrote:
> On 07/12/2010 07:39 PM, Basil Chupin wrote:
>    
>> On 13/07/10 12:28, NoOp wrote:
>>      
>>> On 07/12/2010 06:49 PM, Basil Chupin wrote:
>>> ...
>>>
>>>        
>>>> I can see that Noop has already responded (I couldn't last night- it was
>>>> my biddie-byes time :-) ) but here is a "simple" solution:
>>>>
>>>> boot into Recovery Mode;
>>>>
>>>> select As root with console;
>>>>
>>>> start mc (ie Midnight Coomander) - just type in 'mc'<Enter>;
>>>>
>>>>          
>>> Right...
>>>
>>> $ apt-cache policy mc
>>> mc:
>>>     Installed: (none)
>>>     Candidate: 3:4.7.0-1ubuntu2
>>>     Version table:
>>>        3:4.7.0-1ubuntu2 0
>>>           500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/universe Packages
>>>
>>> *Please* if you insist on posting these, please think first.
>>>
>>> 1:) it's unlikely that the OP will have mc installed, it's a universe
>>> package&   would need to be installed from universe.
>>>
>>>        
>> In Ultimate Edition, which is what the OP is using, mc (Midnight
>> Commander) is installed by default.
>>
>>      
> My apologies; I was not aware of that.
>    

Is OK.


> That said, nvidia-173 does not support GeForce4 according to the package
> description.
>    

The main thing was to get him going as quickly as possible. I have the 
MX440 on another computer and I was pretty sure that I have 173 for it; 
on my wife's computer there is the 5500 and that certainly won't work 
with anything above 173.


BC

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