On Ubuntu 10.10, if you get an error message as the following when trying to create audio CD from mp3: “Unable to handle the following files due to an unsupported format: You may manually convert these audio files to wave using another application supporting the audio format and then add the wave files to the K3b project.” Check if you have libk3b6-extracodecs installed, if not just; $ sudo apt-get install libk3b6-extracodecs...
On Debian: # apt-get install libnet-ldap-perl
Banshee just crashed on me with the following error message: <br /> [Info 20:44:59.949] Running Banshee 1.6.1: [Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (linux-gnu, x86_64) @ 2010-06-18 18:47:49 UTC]<br /> [Info 20:45:01.043] All services are started 0.949921<br /> Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation.<br /> System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException: Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation. ---> Mono.Data.Sqlite.SqliteException: <strong>The database disk image is malformed</strong><br /> database disk image is malformed<br /> at Mono....
$ mplayer -ass -sub subtitle.ass file.avi
Ever since I upgraded my Ubuntu desktop from 9.04 to 10.4, I have been having problems with Amarok dropping sound randomly. For example, if Amarok is playing the music and another program requires to use sound, Amarok will become silence. One solution to restore sound in Amarok is to kill pulseaudio and restart Amarok. It works, but very annoying. Fortunately, installing libxine1-gnome and configure Amarok to use Esound (ESD) instead of PulseAudio fixed the problem....
` update-alternatives –config editor` There are 7 alternatives which provide `editor’. Selection Alternative ———————————————– 1 /bin/ed 2 /bin/nano 3 /usr/bin/vim.tiny 4 /usr/bin/vim.basic 5 /usr/bin/nedit 6 /usr/bin/emacs21 7 /usr/bin/xemacs21 Press enter to keep the default[*], or type selection number: 6
You can do many things, but one of them has to be: check the bloody log file.
Look for line begins with Defaults, and append insults to the end. Save it, and clear the sudo session (sudo -K), and try sudo with a wrong password. 🙂 Source: Enable sudo insults for some laughs
Normally, I would install Scim and Anthy for Japanese input method on Debian. Recently, I found an easier way to achieve the same thing, which is to use IBus instead of Scim. Install ibus: sudo apt-get install ibus ibus-anthy ibus-gtk From the menu, System -> Preferences -> IBus Preference IBus Preference should detects that you have run IBus daemon yet, click “Yes” to run it. You’ll be asked to edit your ....
Update: Thanks to Jayen, there is a better way: $ lsb_release -a<br /> No LSB modules are available.<br /> Distributor ID: Ubuntu<br /> Description: Ubuntu 9.10<br /> Release: 9.10<br /> Codename: karmic<br /> — $ cat /etc/issue<br /> Debian GNU/Linux squeeze/sid n l<br /> Or <br /> $ cat /proc/version<br /> Linux version 2.6.32-trunk-686 (Debian 2.6.32-5) (ben@decadent.org.uk) (gcc version 4.3.4 (Debian 4.3.4-6) ) #1 SMP Sun Jan 10 06:32:16 UTC 2010<br /> Source: Which Linux Distro are you using?...