Posts Tagged ‘ubuntu 10.04’

Ubuntu 10.04 Change the Panel Colors

- Ubuntu – It had been so long since I had done this … I almost forgot. Need to change the colors on the Gnome Panel? It’s easier than creating and editing a file.

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Firefox is already running, but is not responding

Today on my Ubuntu 10.04 machine I received the following error: “Firefox is already running, but is not responding”. I tried this article to clear my profile: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser_will_not_start_up, but it didn’t work. I tried: “killall firefox-bin” and it didn’t work [...]

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Ubuntu 10.04: My Desktop

I’m striving to completely move away from Windows even though I’m enamored with Windows 7. This is strictly due to the fact of the flexibility of Ubuntu. Here’s what I’ve put together and a pseudo step-by-step of what I installed.

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dpkg-gencontrol: error: current host architecture ‘amd64′ does not appear in package’s architecture list (i386)

Receiving this error trying to install an RPM on Ubuntu 64? I have an easy solution for you. “dpkg-gencontrol: error: current host architecture ‘amd64′ does not appear in package’s architecture list (i386)”

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adobe-flashplugin is virtual on 64bit Ubuntu 10.04

UPDATE: Ubuntu’s documentation page has changed, to say the following about the 64bit install: Adobe’s 64-bit trial has ended and the current version is not secure. Please use either flashplugin-nonfree (Hardy) or flashplugin-installer (Jaunty+) to install Flash on a 64 [...]

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