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Howto: Reinstall Grub using Ubuntu Live CD
11 Mar 2010I recently installed Fedora 12 on my desktop alongside Ubuntu Karmic and Windows 7, however doing so I overwrite my grub which meant my Ubuntu system was hidden. To fix this is pretty simple..
Insert your Ubuntu 9.10 Live CD
Click “Try Ubuntu without any changes to your computer”
Once loaded click Applications > Accessories > Terminal
sudo fdisk [...]
Error: Dependency is not satisfiable: libstdc++5
This is a simple fix, just grab the libstdc++5 package for your architecture from here:
http://packages.debian.org/stable/base/libstdc++5
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- Tags: 9.10, debian, dependency, error, karmic, library, libstdc++5, Ubuntu
Start Up Times – Windows 7 vs Ubuntu Karmic
8 Dec 2009Windows 7 vs. Ubuntu Karmic
57.7s – 30.4s
I Just saw the Windows 7 advert for how quick they have made Windows 7 boot so I did a simple test on my laptop by comparing the times taken to load up Windows 7 and Ubuntu Karmic, I loaded grub and stopped it loading either OS by pressing [...]
Yesterday I was having trouble installing OpenCV on Ubuntu Karmic, but now it’s compiled and loading programs with GUI’s .
Heres how I got it installed:
First install some needed packages
sudo apt-get install build-essential libgtk2.0-dev
Now you need to grab FFmpeg for the install to work
svn checkout svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk ffmpeg
The svn didn’t work for [...]
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- Tags: 9.10, compile, computer vision, ffmpg, gtk, howto, install, karmic, Linux, machine vision, opencv, Ubuntu, vision
UPDATE
I now have it working and wrote a guide of how I got it to work -
http://alexsleat.com/2009/12/02/howto-install-opencv-in-ubuntu-karmic-9-10/
END UPDATE
I found a great guide on getting OpenCV to install on Ubuntu Karmic (9.10) – http://ivkin.net/2009/11/installing-opencv-2-0-on-ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala/
Most the comments show the guide works however I have a couple of problems:
Firstly when reloading the libraries to make opencv show up
ldconfig [...]
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- Tags: 9.10, computer vision, howto, install, karmic, Linux, machine vision, opencv, Ubuntu, vision
Enable Ctrl + Alt + Backspace to Restart X in Ubuntu Karmic
In: Ubuntu
20 Nov 2009To enable Ctrl + Alt + Backspace to restart the X server under Ubuntu Karmic Koala (9.10) do the following:
System > Preferences > Keyboard
Then under “Layouts” click on the “Layout Options…” button to bring up a new window
About halfway down this list is the “Key sequence to kill the X server” clicking on that reveals [...]
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Hi, my name is Alex Sleat. On this site I will share my thoughts, ideas, things I find online and projects I'm doing at university or at home. I am currently studying Robotics BSc at the University of the West of England (UWE). I'm intrested in all things tech, web, gadgets, gaming, films and baseball.
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