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Wayne Burkett (http://dionidium.com) wrote:
Keith (http://keithdevens.com/) wrote:
Sunday, April 10, 2005
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$ apt-get install msttcorefonts
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Package msttcorefonts is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package msttcorefonts has no installation candidate
$
And Synaptic doesn't even list it. It is listed in the user guide, so you're not crazy...
Hey, any clue on why I can't mount my NTFS drive?
$ mount /dev/hdg1 /mnt/hd20g/ -t ntfs -o umask=0222
Seems to succeed but then when I ls /mnt/hd20g it shows nothing. And, what's the umask for? You think it's necessary?
Keith (http://keithdevens.com/) wrote:
Hey, any clue on why I can't mount my NTFS drive?
Nix that. For some reason it worked after a reboot. mount -a didn't do the job, but a reboot did. Who knows.
asdf wrote:
Trillian? Why not use Gaim?
Wayne Burkett (http://dionidium.com) wrote:
Ah, I forgot to mention that you'll first need to enable the multiverse repository.
Then:
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts
Keith (http://keithdevens.com/) wrote:
You beat me... I was going to comment that I figured out that I needed to enable the multiverse, but I didn't get a chance. Thanks for your help. I was able to do it straight from Synaptic, btw.
So... I assume you use Ubuntu as your primary OS? You've been happy with it?
Wayne Burkett (http://dionidium.com) wrote:
Yes and yes. Multimedia support took a bit of work and it really stinks that there's no Audio CD burning GUI and I'm not really loving Nautilus and ...
But I'm nitpicking. I've been quite happy with it.
Keith (http://keithdevens.com/) wrote:
I have two main gripes right now. First, is that it just seems slower than Windows, which really bugs me. Application launching, even loading web pages in Firefox. Also, I haven't been able to figure out how to install the NVidia-specific drivers -- when I followed the instructions in the guide X wouldn't restart, so I had to revert back to the backed-up config. What's ironic is that's something I had no problem doing in Gentoo 
Also, I can't get the menu editor to work right -- it won't delete entries, and I don't know how to change the default app for a given file type.
TheHighChild wrote:
Hi,
as for your gripes
Yes, firefox is a little sluggish. I use Mozilla Suite instead, it runs great.
as for the nvidia drivers. You should have nvidia-glx-config. Just do this
nvidia-glx-config enable
restart x with a ctrl + alt + bckspc and you should be good.
As for the problem with the KDE menu, I had the same issue. No idea why and I found no fix but a reinstall. Keep looking though, I am just a noob, there has to be an answer somewhere.
daniel stoddart (http://wyclif.net/) wrote:
I know this thread is old, but I just saw it 'cos it went back to the top of the sidebar b/c of the above comment.
I'm wondering why you would miss Trillian? Trillian is a hog, and since I don't like chat clients with enormous footprints, I use Gaim. It's more actively developed, too.
Then again, perhaps you don't like anything linked with Jabber.
Keith (http://keithdevens.com/) wrote:
I've tried Gaim a bunch of times and always found it to be very unstable. Trillian's not that much of a hog, and I like it a lot. Oh, and actually I use Jabber with Trillian to connect to Google Talk.
TheHighChild wrote:
Gaim with the jabber protocol also supports Google Talk.
gaim is great but the logging feature is in dire need of revamping.
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You might want to grab the Microsoft TrueType core fonts. Use Synaptic or
$ sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts