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Getting rid of a Dropbox error message on a Linux-powered PC

September 24, 2012 Leave a response Shortlink

One of my PC’s has ended up becoming a testing ground for a number of Linux distributions. The list has included openSUSE, Fedora, Arch and LMDE with Sabayon being the latest incumbent. From Arch onwards in that list though, a [...]

Removing VMware Player from Linux Mint Debian Edition

August 4, 2012 Leave a response Shortlink

A whole slew of updates have appear for my Linux Mint Debian Edition PC. However, to instate them, I needed to remove VMware Player and this is the command to do so: sudo vmware-installer -u vmware-player It worked in my [...]

Changing from Nouveau to Nvidia Graphics Drivers on Linux Mint Debian Edition 64-bit

April 22, 2012 1 Response Shortlink

One way of doing this is to go to the Nvidia website and download the latest file from the relevant page on there. Then, the next stage is to restart your PC and choose rescue mode instead of the more [...]

Synchronising package selections between Linux Mint and Linux Mint Debian Edition

April 18, 2012 Leave a response Shortlink

To generate the package list on the GNOME version of Linux Mint, I used the Backup Tool. It simply was a matter of using the Backup Software Selection button and telling it where to put the file that it generates. [...]

Uninstalling VirtualBox Guest Additions on a Linux Guest OS

April 8, 2012 Leave a response Shortlink

Within the last few days, I updated my Linux Mint Debian Edition virtual machine installation to Update 4. Between not following the instructions so closely and problems with the update server, a re-installation preceded the update itself. When all was [...]