Category Archives: Ubuntu

HowTo: Fix “An error occurred while mounting” – Ubuntu Lucid (10.04)

An error occurred while mounting /dev/bus/usb (and/or) An error occurred while mounting /proc/bus/usb Press S to skip mounting or M for manual recovery If you are seeing this error on boot an easy way to get rid: sudo gedit /etc/fstab … Continue reading

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HowTo: Fix Jumping/Skipping Sound in Spotify under Wine – Ubuntu Karmic (9.10)

The sound in Spotify was jumping or skipping much like a scratched disk would. After a little investigation I found a couple of ways to fix it with people saying one worked but the other didn’t for them. (Solution 2 … Continue reading

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Howto: Reinstall Grub using Ubuntu Live CD

I 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 … Continue reading

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Yet Another OpenCV/Karmic error – symbol lookup error: /usr/local/lib/libhighgui.so.4

symbol lookup error: /usr/local/lib/libhighgui.so.4: undefined symbol: av_free_packet To fix it simply make sure /usr/local/lib is in your library path by using the following command: export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

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Howto fix: “error while loading shared libraries”

While installing opencv on an older version of debian for work I kept getting an error while loading shared libraries which turned out to be a pretty easy fix, just finding the libraries and adding them to the dynamic linker. … Continue reading

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Error: Dependency is not satisfiable: libstdc++5 (Ubuntu Karmic)

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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HowTo: Install Player/Stage in Ubuntu Karmic (9.10)

UPDATE: There is a much easier way of installing player/stage in Ubuntu 9.10 as pointed out by Arkapravo in the comments, however this is the 2.0.4-3.3ubuntu3 where as of 21/May/2010 the latest version is 3.0.1 if this causes any issues … Continue reading

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HowTo: Install OpenCV in Ubuntu Karmic (9.10)

Heres how I got OpenCV 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 me, probably something to … Continue reading

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Problems Installing OpenCV in Ubuntu Karmic (9.10)

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 … Continue reading

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