Greetings All

I've been testing Linux Lite for about 2 weeks and just finished installing it on my HTPC (what I'm typing on  now). I've been exclusively using Linux for the past 18 months and still consider myself a Noob with Linux.

I started out with Ubuntu 14.04 and was amazed how well it worked (installed on 3 computers 1 laptop, 1 desktop and 1 HTPC) but after about 3 months got bored with the Unity desktop so off to Distrowatch I went. I quickly settled on Linux Mint Mate (the other OS on this dual boot HTPC). I've tested the top 20 on Distrowatch and always went back to Mint Mate but I'm always curious about other flavors, that is how I ended up here.

I like the looks of LL, and so far I've been able to do what I wanted with little effort, I prefer Firefox so to get Netflix and Amazon Prime video to work I had to do the Pipelight and user agent thing, but it works as expected.

Skype, Chrome with Hola extension, Wine, and Kaffeine all work as expected. Hiccups have been System monitor, Netspeed and weather, but I'll figure this out in time.

Anyways, I wanted to sign up and say "Hey All" and give props to the coders, Job well done.

AFM

Greetings.  Yesterday I decided to modify my notebook running 32-bit LL 2.6 so I could add a second set of partitions to do a bit of distro-hopping.  I installed AntiX-15, but the grub bootloader got screwed up, likely due to an error I made while doing the install and I could not boot up LL.

So I re-installed LL 2.6 from a usb stick without formatting either the root or home partitions.  It went OK until the installer could not re-install previously installed packages.  When I went to use Lite Software I got an error message because certain repositories were not available (404 errors).  I could get into the Synaptic PM and used it and the command line to do some of the re-installs, updates, and upgrades.  However, the repository problem remained, keeping me from using the (I assume) scripts in the Control Center for Lite Software and Updates.

I did some research here on the forum and as a result went to Synaptic and unchecked these repositories:

http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/trusty main
http://dl.google.com/linux/talkplugin/deb/trusty main
http://repo.linuxliteos.com/linuxlite/trusty main

There was still a public key unavailable error for a fourth one, http://extras.ubuntu.com trusty, but now I could run Lite Software and Updates.  So I'm back in business, but I am concerned about having to uncheck those repositories, especially the LL one on your website.  They are for 32 bit machines.  Is there something in my installation screwed up because I didn't reformat, or did some script get clobbered?  Should I do a re-install again but format the root parition?  Or is there a simpler fix?

Thanks for any insight you might have.

Best regards,
Andy

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[size=1em]Trying to finish off a build of a Intel NUC for a friend, not a lot of time due to work.[/size]
[size=1em]Anyway, [/size]
[size=1em]The NUC is "Dual Booting" LL2.8(with Kernel 4.2) & Win7 in legacy mode, after some hair pulling, and then finding out the BIOS is bugged.[/size]

[size=1em]I now want to add Linux Mint,[/size]
[size=1em]So that it "Triple Boots" but I remember reading LL grub does something special to make it easier to "Dual Boot" with Windows.[/size]

[size=1em]So I have to admit I'm not quite sure what will happen if I now install Linux Mint..??[/size]
[size=1em]Will I loose the Grub that currently shows LL & Win7, or will Mint just be added.??[/size]
[size=1em]Do I install it, and immediately run "Grub Repair", or run a LL "Live" and do something..??[/size]

[size=1em]Any pointers on how to do this would be appreciated.[/size]

[size=1em]Thanks...[/size]

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How do I add Canon MG2922 Driver??  I searched for the driver and found "2900 series" driver, but nothing happens when I attempt to print.

Just loaded LL 2.6.  Dell wireless card 1395 is not recognized. Works fine on XP. Can someone help me?  I am ready to remove MS XP as soon as I can get this card working. I love this OS. My computer is a Dell Vostro 2510. 

I'm not sure if someone posted this already, but I've found this neat command line feature a while back.

Maybe you all already know about this, who knows.

Let's say you want to type in inside terminal: "sudo apt-get autoremove --purge", but instead, you can just type in "!1".

All you have to do is:

1) Open ".bash_history" located in /home/yourname/
2) Type in to the first line: sudo apt-get autoremove --purge



3) Save, and you are done!
4) Now open your terminal, and for example type: !1 skype (And it will completely wipe out your skype including it's configuration files and all dependencies installed with it).

For example when I want to update my system, I just open my terminal and type in: !1, and then my password. Fast, easy.
Whatever you add to second line in ".bash_history" will be !2 and so on.



Just please don't run the update command I have without knowing what you are doing. Linux Lite devs recommend not to run dist-upgrade.



I'm sure there are ways to bind the command lines to your keyboard macros, But I haven't found how to do that yet.

I hope this tutorial is helpful to someone.

This has reared its ugly head again while running LL 2.6.

This started about three days ago and yesterday removed chrome from LL 2.6 and reinstalled.

Its still happening.

Grateful for any advice.

Jocklad

My old desktop computer used to run Windows 7 but I have wiped the hard drive and now have only Linux Lite installed.
This is great for me but my wife does not like the Linux system and would like to have the Windows 7 installed as well.
I have no idea about using gparted program to set up the hard drive so I can install windows and need someone to give me step by step instructions on how to do it.
Looking at the Gparted set up is really putting me off of trying in case I ruin what I already have installed.

Please help me as the wife is threatening to buy a new windows computer if I cannot sort it out.

Thanks

John