[ubuntu-za] What went wrong?

Jan Greeff jan at verslank.net
Sun Aug 4 13:58:29 UTC 2013


Frans, Lifelines runs from a terminal. I don't see how I will ever be 
able to run my family tree via a terminal but thanks anyway.

On 04/08/2013 15:28, Frans de waal wrote:
>
>
> On Aug 4, 2013 2:42 PM, "Jan Greeff" <jan at verslank.net 
> <mailto:jan at verslank.net>> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Adrianna and Miles, thanks for the replies.
> >
> > After running the command, the basics were still running but there 
> was nothing appearing when I click on the settings/shutdown icon, the 
> dash/home button and a few other places that I cannot remember. Then I 
> rebooted and got an almost blank black screen with options like to 
> start in safe mode, but even these did not work so basically there was 
> nothing I could do.
> >
> > Since reloading Ubuntu 12.04 on a different partition, I can now 
> access the folders in the crippled partition.
> >
> > I need to use Legacy Genealogy
> For genealogy you may want to check out bouth lifelines and gramps in 
> the ubuntu repo's
>
> Not sure what nova loader does though
>
> and Nova Loader from Comb Communications on Windows. The latter also 
> needs USB support.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Jan
> >
> >
> >
> > On 04/08/2013 13:46, Adrianna Pińska wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I entered sudo apt-get purge virtualbox 4.2 and was left with a 
> crippled
> >>> machine.
> >>
> >> What does that mean? What isn't working?
> >>
> >>> Meanwhile I have been slowly coming to the conclusion that vbox, 
> wine and
> >>> all those tricks are just bad news - all of them bite you sooner 
> or later,
> >>> so now I am going to revert to Win xp on my wife's machine where I 
> will do
> >>> all the stuff that do not work on Ubuntu.
> >>
> >> What Windows apps do you still need to use?
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >
> >
> >
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