Hi everyone. I recently installed Linux Lite and I am quite new to linux in general. Before i installed Linux Lite i used windows 7 and all the files i needed i back them up in an old hard disk which i used as secondary on win 7. Now that i installed Linux Lite on my primary hard drive i want to retrieve my files and i was wondering if it may cause losing files when i connect the old hard disk to the mother board?

Hello People,a little bit of background:On the demise of Windows XP I switched to LUBUNTU 12.04 until that became inoperable & then "upgraded" to UBUNTU 14.something then 16.something each becoming increasingly inoperable with every update taken onboard it seemed until I decided that the lack of RAM might be the problem (this computer has .5 MB so hence the attempt to install Linux Lite).

Now to the present situation: I bought a Linux Lite DVD off a character on ebay (having given up in despair at using any other option for various reasons). It seems official & is for Linux Lite 2.6 so it says on the actual DVD & after a fashion managed to install the operating system but it won't allow updates or to be upgraded through the operating systems own facilities so thought I would try the command line terminal thing which it says is a simple way to upgrade just type "sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install lite-upgrade.series 2.8" (that being the most sensible option it seemed to me to get the latest one despite the previous attempt to install via the onboard application which only gave me the option to upgrade to 2.4? All a bit odd).Anyway on typing that command line it runs through a process I type in my password & it buzzes away a bit more & then comes to a standstill at " Linuxlite@linuxlite-PN121AA-ABU-mll80-uk:$" What the hell am I supposed to do then?

& while I have got your attention if somebody could explain why my keyboard continues to type " when I want @ & vica verser despite my making sure that the keyboard I use is English (UK) in the settings facility that would be very nice.

PS: I see in the box to the left I am apparently using Linux Lite 3.2.I certainly did'nt input that.

I am a complete newb... I did a clean install of Linux Lite 3.2. because I was having resource issues with Ubuntu 16.04.1 Everything seems to work fine... Firefox, YouTube, etc... I do have one serious issue though. When I open the main menu, theres just icons, no descriptions. I wanted to install the restricted extras. I know the package managers icon so I clicked it. It opened the dialog box asking for my password but the text displayed was missing and garbled. I put my password in anyway and the package manager opened but again... no text just check boxes. I don't know what to do now.

Hello,

I am writing a new post for my little Linux blog and need a little help please.

A Linux Distribution is shortened to Distro, when meaning more than one Distro is it -

1/ Distro's
2/ Distros
3/ Distros'
4/ Distro

It is telling me all are incorrect.

I am near to publishing it, just a bit more to do.

Hello,

I have an error -

Process as follows, I use Menu>Install Updates

It says these 2 updates are available -

1 :    Name: libcairo-gobject2 INSTALLED: 1.14.6-1 AVAILABLE: 1.15.2-0intel1
2 :    Name: python-crypto INSTALLED: 2.6.1-6ubuntu0.16.04.1 AVAILABLE: 2.6.1-6ubuntu0.16.04.2

Installing gives an error gui saying -
Linux Lite Updates have failed. For more information refer to:

/var/log/llupdates.log

The log file referred to says -
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
Calculating upgrade...
The following packages will be upgraded:
  libcairo-gobject2 python-crypto
2 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 379 kB of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
  libcairo-gobject2
E: There were unauthenticated packages and -y was used without --allow-unauthenticated

Edit -
I have used Lite Tweak and clean the packages, the python-crypto error has now gone.

I think the gobject error is the intel graphics stack as 1.15.2 is the newer version of this.
I have tried updating this using the gui from the menu that it added on install, it has updated version 1.14, but not updated to 1.15.
Rechecking Install updates the error remains for 1.15.2

http://www.linuxandubuntu.com/home/linux...tributions

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I am installing LL on a Toshiba netbook with 2 gb RAM. It had Windows 7 Starter on it and was in a state of uselessness. I will soon let you know how it goes.

Great job, Jerry!

http://www.linuxtoday.com/infrastructure...54513.html

Has anybody gotten TurboTax 2016 to work in LL 3.2 (preferably 64 bit) and, if so, how'd you do it?

I've tried following various instructions via console, Winetricks, and PlayOnLinux (all for both Wine v1.8 & 2.0) but I keep running into errors getting .NET 4 (required for TT 2016) to install.

I've slowly been migrating friends and family to LinuxLite as their Windows (mostly XP) machines fail - most of the time this is due to OS issues caused by spyware, adware, viruses, etc.  It's been going great so far, but now I've run into a situation where I'm moving a user over that historically very much needs an anti-virus solution in place.

So I'm wondering if anybody has suggestions for an on-access (or better, on-write) scanner what will work with LL 3.2.  I've tried the following so far:

• Sophos (couldn't figure out how to get it it to work - plus it took a ton of memory
  
• Comodo (couldn't get it to update due to Application Agent not running)
  
• ClamAV (doesn't support on-access)
  

I'd prefer to get Comodo working, but it seems to have some issues building the RedirFS kernel modules for real-time protection in certain kernels - with the specific error being:

Quote:dereferencing pointer to incomplete type ‘struct nameidata’
  path_put(&nd->path);

My fallback so far is ClamAV with a daily scan - but even that isn't great because it seems to only be able to schedule for a specfiic time, and this user shuts their box down when not in use so it could be days or weeks between ACTUAL scans.  So I guess a secondary question is:

• Can I tell ClamAV to run at OR FIRST CHANCE AFTER a specific time?
  

And finally, I'd love to find something that's free or not subscription based (mainly because this user isn't going to pay for it, and I don't want to have to do it for them) - but if that's not viable, what paid options have people used that actually work for them?

Thanks!