Q. I was on my laptop the other day playing a game, when my computer suddenly and instantly powered off. I assumed it was an windows update. But it simply just powered off. I have an acer aspire laptop so when I went to turn it back on the acer screen showed up and then the screen went black with a blinking underscore in the upper left corner.
I've attempted to find solutions only in resulting with Safe Mode Booting, System restores, and Windows 7 disks. I can perform none of these actions. Safe mode booting does not work I've tried, I don't have a windows 7 disk, And I cannot perform a system restore. Does anybody have any simple answers for me?
I've attempted to find solutions only in resulting with Safe Mode Booting, System restores, and Windows 7 disks. I can perform none of these actions. Safe mode booting does not work I've tried, I don't have a windows 7 disk, And I cannot perform a system restore. Does anybody have any simple answers for me?
A. Sounds like you lost the hard drive. If you can get into BIOS but not boot to anything then the hard drive is not responding. If you have another puter that you can download a ISO and burn it to a CD you can use the link below to boot your laptop and test things and try to recover your data. If your laptop boots from the CD and everything seems to work but you can not get to your hard drive your out of luck.
The link below walks you thru downloading Linux and how to use it to get to the hard drive.
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/use-ubuntu-live-cd-to-backup-files-from-your-dead-windows-computer/
The link below walks you thru downloading Linux and how to use it to get to the hard drive.
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/use-ubuntu-live-cd-to-backup-files-from-your-dead-windows-computer/
How can I fix Mozilla Firefox?
Q. I the past few days, my firefox has been showing some weird actions. Certain ads like Travian, Gaming harbor, etc. has been randomly showing up in a new window. It is quite annoying and it makes my computer slower. Any suggestions?
A. First, make sure you have your pop-up blocker activated. I'm using Linux, and Firefox under Linux has a slightly different menu than under Windows, so I'm not sure where you can find the option under Windows.
Under Linux, it's Edit >> Preferences >> Content ; tick the option Block pop-up windows.
Under Windows it may be something like Tools >> Options or Tools >> Preferences, followed by Content ; again, tick the option Block pop-up windows.
If the tick was already there (i.e., the pop-up blocker was already activated), you may have adware on your computer. Download an adware remover and run it. Do NOT download adware from a site that has pop ups itself, as you're likely to only install MORE adware and/or viruses. Instead, go to legitimate sites like tucows.com or download.com, and select a program that has a lot of positive reviews.
Under Linux, it's Edit >> Preferences >> Content ; tick the option Block pop-up windows.
Under Windows it may be something like Tools >> Options or Tools >> Preferences, followed by Content ; again, tick the option Block pop-up windows.
If the tick was already there (i.e., the pop-up blocker was already activated), you may have adware on your computer. Download an adware remover and run it. Do NOT download adware from a site that has pop ups itself, as you're likely to only install MORE adware and/or viruses. Instead, go to legitimate sites like tucows.com or download.com, and select a program that has a lot of positive reviews.
how do you install a program in SUSE Linux?
Q. Ive tried tarballs and the executable ones, forgot the name of the extention.
None of them seem to install correctly, i always am missing a dependency or somthing.
What might I be doing wrong? I'm running in root. I just clean installed the OS, shouldn't it come with a method to install software?
Could you walk me through an installation that has worked on your SUSE linux machine?
None of them seem to install correctly, i always am missing a dependency or somthing.
What might I be doing wrong? I'm running in root. I just clean installed the OS, shouldn't it come with a method to install software?
Could you walk me through an installation that has worked on your SUSE linux machine?
A. Suse uses yast2 to install RPMs, go to kmenu>system>control centre(yast)>software management
a window will come up, in the top left is a button called filter, if you click on the dropdown arrow and choose package groups, this will give a list of the package groups in the left hand pane and list the programmes in the right hand pane. If you click on a group the programme list will change to show the programmes in that group, just check the box for the ones you want to install and click accept (bottom right), Suse will prompt you for the install CDs.
If you know the name of the programme you want to install from the CDs type it's name in the search box, make sure you type it correctly.
This is usefull if there are dependencies and suse has them on disk. You can also uninstall programmes here by clicking the tick box until a dustbin appears in it then click accept (be carefull not to unistall any system critical programmes like kernel or some of the libraries).
for more info on this go to kmenu>suse help centre & type installing software in the search bar and the 1st 2 items should cover this.
For software not on the CDs, I would prefer to download a RPM, try and get one that is specific to the suse version you are running, just google for it. when you have downloaded it just click on it (in konqueror) and then click on the install with yast button.
You probably aren't doing anything wrong installing tarballs, because you are getting dependency issues so the ./config, make, make install commands are running ok. You only need to be root for make install to install the programme on the whole system for all users although usually this is the case. After you have extracted the tar ball (right click on it and select actions>extract to (or extract here), it's a good idea to check out the readme or install file to see if there are any special installation requirements, then open a terminal and:
cd (to the directory the programm is in)
./configure
make
su
(root password)
make install
you can then type make clean (you don't need to do this) to clean up the installation files. If you have any dependency issues check the output for the libraries needed then search for them either on the installation CDs using software management or google for them.
Hope this helps if you have any specific problem with a programme email me, also join this forum for help with Suse.
http://www.suseforums.net/index.php?&&CODE=autologin&fromreg=1
This all may seem a little complicated but there are sound reasons why linux works this way.
a window will come up, in the top left is a button called filter, if you click on the dropdown arrow and choose package groups, this will give a list of the package groups in the left hand pane and list the programmes in the right hand pane. If you click on a group the programme list will change to show the programmes in that group, just check the box for the ones you want to install and click accept (bottom right), Suse will prompt you for the install CDs.
If you know the name of the programme you want to install from the CDs type it's name in the search box, make sure you type it correctly.
This is usefull if there are dependencies and suse has them on disk. You can also uninstall programmes here by clicking the tick box until a dustbin appears in it then click accept (be carefull not to unistall any system critical programmes like kernel or some of the libraries).
for more info on this go to kmenu>suse help centre & type installing software in the search bar and the 1st 2 items should cover this.
For software not on the CDs, I would prefer to download a RPM, try and get one that is specific to the suse version you are running, just google for it. when you have downloaded it just click on it (in konqueror) and then click on the install with yast button.
You probably aren't doing anything wrong installing tarballs, because you are getting dependency issues so the ./config, make, make install commands are running ok. You only need to be root for make install to install the programme on the whole system for all users although usually this is the case. After you have extracted the tar ball (right click on it and select actions>extract to (or extract here), it's a good idea to check out the readme or install file to see if there are any special installation requirements, then open a terminal and:
cd (to the directory the programm is in)
./configure
make
su
(root password)
make install
you can then type make clean (you don't need to do this) to clean up the installation files. If you have any dependency issues check the output for the libraries needed then search for them either on the installation CDs using software management or google for them.
Hope this helps if you have any specific problem with a programme email me, also join this forum for help with Suse.
http://www.suseforums.net/index.php?&&CODE=autologin&fromreg=1
This all may seem a little complicated but there are sound reasons why linux works this way.
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