<html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> <div class="moz-cite-prefix">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. <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72"> </pre> On 04/08/2013 15:28, Frans de waal wrote: </div> <blockquote cite="mid:CAALHhb-HAeO7FQRmWsfDjyRVrKTkygzdJ-QYYJHfkmdATdrMNg@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> On Aug 4, 2013 2:42 PM, "Jan Greeff" <<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:jan@verslank.net">jan@verslank.net</a>> 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, > > > > -- > ubuntu-za mailing list > <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:ubuntu-za@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-za@lists.ubuntu.com</a> > <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-za">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-za</a> </blockquote> </body> </html>