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[Donny George]

On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 12:14 AM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> On 07/04/2008 12:27 PM, Donny George wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 12:22 PM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> >
> >> On 07/04/2008 08:13 AM, Donny George wrote:
> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> Hey Noop
> >> >>
> >> >> surprise the desktop is back again, in fact after all the steps i
> forgot
> >> to
> >> >> do the xfix and i rebotted the system and there it was THE DESKTOP
> back
> >> >> again. oh my god u r just wonderful NOOP.
> >> >>
> >> >> but i have one more thing to ask, just to know what exactly i did
> here.
> >> i
> >> >> know update,upgrade but wats is the command fc-cache -fv,
> >> >> ubuntu-restricted-extras, i cudnt find much about them with google.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > but thank you so much noop. thank you so so much.
> >> >
> >> > wish a very great day
> >> >
> >> > donny
> >> >
> >> >
> >>
> >> It's magic :-) To be quite honest I've no clue to exactly what fixed
> >> it... xfix reconfgures your xorg.conf files using the new automagic xorg
> >> configuration packages included in Hardy (one I've yet to fully figure
> >> out).
> >>
> >> ubuntu-restricted-extras pulls in the msttcorefonts and ttf-opensymbol
> >> pulls in the true type fonts for OpenOffice, so I figured that between
> >> the two you might resolve the ttf-opensymbol font problem. fc-cache -fv
> >> regenerates all of your font cache files, so I asked you to do this to
> >> clean up any font cache files that may have been screwed up from your
> >> intial install failures. The 'f' option regenerates cache files, even if
> >> they seem to be up to date, and the 'v' option just gives you a verbose
> >> output so you can see what is going on. Information on fc-cache is here:
> >> http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/cmd/cmd.csp?path=f/fc-cache
> >> You can also see the options by entering (from a terminal)
> >>
> >> fc-cache --help
> >>
> >> Now that you have your desktop back, I would recommend going back and
> >> cleaning up:
> >>
> >> sudo apt-get update
> >> sudo apt-get upgrade
> >> sudo apt-get install --reinstall ubuntu-desktop
> >> sudo apt-get install -f
> >> [note: if you get errors, clean up the errors and repeat the command
> >> until you no longer get errors]
> >> sudo apt-get install --reinstall ttf-opensymbol
> >> sudo fc-cache -fv
> >>
>
> >
> >
> > hey noop
> >
> > are u sure u want me to clean it up
> >
> > i am so happy with the desktop being back and scared to even touch it :)
> >
> >
>
> I'd wait until monday :-). But, yes you really should just to be sure
> and none of the above will hurt anything. These you can do today:
>
> sudo apt-get update
> sudo apt-get upgrade
> sudo apt-get install -f
>
> If you get errors on 'install -f' and don't want to mess with them this
> weekend, cut and paste the output to the text editor and save the file
> so you will know what they were on Monday.  In fact, whenever you do
> stuff like this, I alway find it convenient to just open the text editor
> (leave it open while doing the commands) and copy & paste the terminal
> output into a file. That way I have a record of what was done and can go
> back later and review if necessary - even days later.
>
>
>
>
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hey noop

the update and upgrade commands went without error

 sudo apt-get install -f had an error

errors were encountered while processing: ttf-opensymbol
E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

donny
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