Muon hangs...

If muon hangs during an update, you may need to fix the software index used by apt

This index is located at /etc/apt/sources.list

In the command window (konsole) type

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install -f

Setting Up Computer for Kevin and Bernie...

Support info on motherboard


Motherboard: ASUS P5N-E SLI

Picture with heat sink removed

 

picture of the bottom of the heat sink 

OS: Kubuntu 13.10

March 20, 2014

Upgrade 12.04 to 12.10...

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/QuantalUpgrades/Kubuntu

Documentation, Kubuntu...

These are the distributions of Kubuntu  (added Mar. 17, 2014)

http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=kubuntu
 


This is where the versions of Kubuntu are listed:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kubuntu



This is a great page to start reading...

http://www.kubuntuforums.net/showthread.php?41698-HOWTO-find-Kubuntu-s-manual-reference-guide-documentation-help

http://userbase.kde.org/KHelpCenter

https://wiki.kubuntu.org/Kubuntu/Documentation

This is where the docs are kept, and how they are updated....

https://wiki.kubuntu.org/Kubuntu/Documentation/Repository

http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/

Bazar in 5 mins...

http://doc.bazaar.canonical.com/bzr.dev/en/mini-tutorial/index.html

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Installed bzr on kubuntu 13.10

chad@chad13:~/Kubuntu Docs$ bzr branch lp:kubuntu-docs

You have not informed bzr of your Launchpad ID, and you must do this to

write to Launchpad or access private data.  See "bzr help launchpad-login".

Branched 409 revisions.                                                        

chad@chad13:~/Kubuntu Docs$ ls

kubuntu-docs

chad@chad13:~/Kubuntu Docs$ ssh-keygen -t rsa

Generating public/private rsa key pair.

Enter file in which to save the key (/home/chad/.ssh/id_rsa): mykey.txt

Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase):

Enter same passphrase again:

Your identification has been saved in mykey.txt.

Your public key has been saved in mykey.txt.pub.

The key fingerprint is:

12:98:44:ac:cc:72:18:a0:80:93:f3:95:63:58:57:2c chad@chad13

The key's randomart image is:

+--[ RSA 2048]----+

|=. =+..o.        |

|O ..*+E .        |

|.O +o...         |

|o *    .         |

| o    . S        |

|       .         |

|                 |

|                 |

|                 |

+-----------------+

chad@chad13:~/Kubuntu Docs$

Kubuntu Version, how to get it....

lsb_release -a

note the underscore!

e.g.

chad@ubuntu:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS
Release:        12.04
Codename:       precise

Test Version-- 13.10, saucy, updated Mar. 9 2014....

chad@chad13:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 13.10
Release:        13.10
Codename:       saucy
chad@chad13:~$

updated test system tonight to 13.10: saucy