Thursday, January 28, 2010

Ubuntu errors and solutions

Trying to install some invoicing programm made for debian, I had the fault of mixing some of the debian packets with ubuntu packets,

nothing happened after installing the software called Linex Empresa, but the appearing of the icons in the Applications menu did not seem to work at all,

Then I decided to uninstall those packets but without success, instead, I blocked somehow my system so it could not get anymore updated, nor the possibility of installing anymore software,

Well, this is linux, and there is always a solution for this kind of software,

what did I do? exactly make a simple search in Google with the system error output as a search query,

there was it..in Spanish language, just for me, like waiting to be found, every day I expend using linux, I learn something...

Well, I had some clues..then... but I could not still fix the problem,

Idea!! opened a terminal window, imput the commands to run as a superuser "root" in Ubuntu Server Karmic Koala this is "sudo bash"

and then I decided to use mc (midnight commander) some program similar (very) to the old Norton Utilities for MSDOS, nearly 20 years ago...

mc was fascinating oppening the .deb packets and not only that, I was able to read all the confing files of the distribution, then I did it manually, reinstalled the programm that the system could not reinstall and finished the process by running some weird command

#sudo apt-get install -f

voila! my system was ok again...

sometimes things are not so difficult as they appear..

The help about this I found in ubuntu forums has been there since 2007...

Thanks Ubuntu users for sharing so much knowledge...

At the end, I start just believing that Code is Poetry...

Thanks to all developers of this magic software that simply "Runs"

See you in Heavens...

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