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Tag Archives: HowTo
HowTo Fix: The file ‘/path/file.exe’ is not marked as executable.
The file ‘/path/file.exe’ is not marked as executable. If this was downloaded or copied form an untrusted source, it may be dangerous to run. For more details, read about the executable bit. While re-installing Spotify on my Desktop I came … Continue reading
HowTo Fix: “There is a problem with your sound card. Spotify can’t play music.” (Wine)
Quite a few times I have encountered this problem, which I think is caused when the soundcard was recently used by another program and might still be busy but it means Spotify can’t play music, so a quick fix for … Continue reading
HowTo: Stop Ubuntu Checking For Automatic Updates
At work I can’t afford to have my Ubuntu system update and possibly wipe out some important libraries I need, and I get pretty tired of closing the Update Manager every time it decides I need to update so here’s … Continue reading
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
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
HowTo: Simple Tesseract Usage Guide (OCR)
Install: (Ubuntu 9.10) sudo apt-get install tesseract-ocr tesseract-ocr-eng Preparing Images for Tesseract with GIMP: Load an image with text into GIMP Image > Mode > make the image RGB or Grayscale. Tools > Color Tools > Threshold > pick a value … Continue reading
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
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
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