Monthly Archives: December 2007

CD-ROM drive goes missing in Ubuntu (sometimes)

I had this problem where the CD-ROM icon would vanish from Places in nautilus but was still accessible if I typed /cdrom into the location bar. I could also browse the CD manually using the terminal. Going to computer:/// in the location bar would show the CD-ROM but trying to open it gave the error: [...]

Using synaptic to install from offline repositories

I dumped my openoffice.org installation in an attempt to correct a self-inflicted font problem in the user interface. This procedure was a simple matter of going to System | Administration | Synaptic Package Manager and creating a search to find all the installed openoffice.org packages. I chose the packages, Marked them for Removal and clicked [...]

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