Jay's questions

I have been using recoll for awhile. And I absolutely love it. I have it indexed all my journals, ebooks, pictures, videos and also a wild bunch of pdf's from all over the internet. Topics spanning from movie reviews to computer algorithms and mediterranean recipes. Infact, for me recoll has kind of replaced google in the sense that .. I search my local instance of recoll first and only when I don't get anything relevant, I open up google in a new tab and start searching..

The only problem is .. I'm still not sure how well to search using recoll. I went through the documentation and it is a bit confusing. I mean it supports a rich query syntax and all.

So I was wondering if anyone has any idea of how to effectively search using recoll? What modifiers can I use and such? And what exactly do all those modifiers mean? There is 'l', 'p', 'o' and a few others. Some of these modifiers support appending numbers to them like 'o10' for instance. The documentation is not very clear about what exactly that means. Sometimes, it seems like turning off 'stemming' gives me better results. But I'm not exactly sure.

Could someone more enlightened, enlighten me? Thanks

I am trying to uninstall synaptic. I prefer using apt-get and other command line tools to manage my packages. So I do not need synaptic and the software manager. I'm trying to remove both of them using apt-get.

Its a new box. Recently installed Linux Mint mate 15. After installation, the only thing I did was,

sudo apt-get update and sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

After that, I did this command for removing synaptic,

sudo apt-get remove --purge synaptic

But this gives me a very weird output,

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  apturl-kde icoutils kate-data katepart kde-runtime kde-runtime-data kdelibs-bin kdelibs5-data kdelibs5-plugins kdesudo kdoctools kubuntu-debug-installer
  libattica0.4 libdlrestrictions1 libkactivities-bin libkactivities-models1 libkactivities6 libkatepartinterfaces4 libkcmutils4 libkde3support4 libkdeclarative5
  libkdecore5 libkdesu5 libkdeui5 libkdewebkit5 libkdnssd4 libkemoticons4 libkfile4 libkhtml5 libkidletime4 libkio5 libkjsapi4 libkjsembed4 libkmediaplayer4
  libknewstuff3-4 libknotifyconfig4 libkntlm4 libkparts4 libkpty4 libkrosscore4 libktexteditor4 libkxmlrpcclient4 libnepomuk4 libnepomukcore4abi1 libnepomukquery4a
  libnepomukutils4 libntrack-qt4-1 libntrack0 libphonon4 libplasma3 libpolkit-qt-1-1 libpoppler-qt4-4 libqapt2 libqapt2-runtime libqca2 libqt4-qt3support libsolid4
  libsoprano4 libstreamanalyzer0 libstreams0 libthreadweaver4 libvirtodbc0 nepomuk-core nepomuk-core-data ntrack-module-libnl-0 odbcinst odbcinst1debian2
  oxygen-icon-theme phonon phonon-backend-gstreamer plasma-scriptengine-javascript qapt-batch shared-desktop-ontologies soprano-daemon virtuoso-minimal
  virtuoso-opensource-6.1-bin virtuoso-opensource-6.1-common
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
  apturl-kde icoutils kate-data katepart kde-runtime kde-runtime-data kdelibs-bin kdelibs5-data kdelibs5-plugins kdesudo kdoctools kubuntu-debug-installer
  libattica0.4 libdlrestrictions1 libkactivities-bin libkactivities-models1 libkactivities6 libkatepartinterfaces4 libkcmutils4 libkde3support4 libkdeclarative5
  libkdecore5 libkdesu5 libkdeui5 libkdewebkit5 libkdnssd4 libkemoticons4 libkfile4 libkhtml5 libkidletime4 libkio5 libkjsapi4 libkjsembed4 libkmediaplayer4
  libknewstuff3-4 libknotifyconfig4 libkntlm4 libkparts4 libkpty4 libkrosscore4 libktexteditor4 libkxmlrpcclient4 libnepomuk4 libnepomukcore4abi1 libnepomukquery4a
  libnepomukutils4 libntrack-qt4-1 libntrack0 libphonon4 libplasma3 libpolkit-qt-1-1 libpoppler-qt4-4 libqapt2 libqapt2-runtime libqca2 libqt4-qt3support libsolid4
  libsoprano4 libstreamanalyzer0 libstreams0 libthreadweaver4 libvirtodbc0 libxml2-utils nepomuk-core nepomuk-core-data ntrack-module-libnl-0 odbcinst
  odbcinst1debian2 oxygen-icon-theme phonon phonon-backend-gstreamer plasma-scriptengine-javascript qapt-batch shared-desktop-ontologies soprano-daemon
  virtuoso-minimal virtuoso-opensource-6.1-bin virtuoso-opensource-6.1-common
Suggested packages:
  libterm-readline-gnu-perl libterm-readline-perl-perl djvulibre-bin finger hspell libqca2-plugin-cyrus-sasl libqca2-plugin-gnupg libqca2-plugin-ossl
  phonon-backend-vlc phonon-backend-xine phonon-backend-mplayer
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  aptoncd* apturl* mintupdate* mintwelcome* synaptic*
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  apturl-kde icoutils kate-data katepart kde-runtime kde-runtime-data kdelibs-bin kdelibs5-data kdelibs5-plugins kdesudo kdoctools kubuntu-debug-installer
  libattica0.4 libdlrestrictions1 libkactivities-bin libkactivities-models1 libkactivities6 libkatepartinterfaces4 libkcmutils4 libkde3support4 libkdeclarative5
  libkdecore5 libkdesu5 libkdeui5 libkdewebkit5 libkdnssd4 libkemoticons4 libkfile4 libkhtml5 libkidletime4 libkio5 libkjsapi4 libkjsembed4 libkmediaplayer4
  libknewstuff3-4 libknotifyconfig4 libkntlm4 libkparts4 libkpty4 libkrosscore4 libktexteditor4 libkxmlrpcclient4 libnepomuk4 libnepomukcore4abi1 libnepomukquery4a
  libnepomukutils4 libntrack-qt4-1 libntrack0 libphonon4 libplasma3 libpolkit-qt-1-1 libpoppler-qt4-4 libqapt2 libqapt2-runtime libqca2 libqt4-qt3support libsolid4
  libsoprano4 libstreamanalyzer0 libstreams0 libthreadweaver4 libvirtodbc0 libxml2-utils nepomuk-core nepomuk-core-data ntrack-module-libnl-0 odbcinst
  odbcinst1debian2 oxygen-icon-theme phonon phonon-backend-gstreamer plasma-scriptengine-javascript qapt-batch shared-desktop-ontologies soprano-daemon
  virtuoso-minimal virtuoso-opensource-6.1-bin virtuoso-opensource-6.1-common
0 upgraded, 78 newly installed, 5 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 60.9 MB of archives.
After this operation, 146 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n
Abort.

As you can see, apt-get is trying to install the same packages that it is asking me to autoremove.

Could someone please tell me, how to uninstall synaptic properly? Or am I missing something?

Just for the record, I also did, sudo apt-get autoremove --purge like it asked me to ... and this is what I got,

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 6 not upgraded.

Every once in a while the interface on the ubuntu box becomes unresponsive. The box has natty installed. The main menu on the top left and the taskbar icons on the top right cannot be clicked on. The only thing that can be done is to close any running applications and restart the system. Is there a more elegant solution? Somehow, this aspect of restarting the entire system just to get a functioning interface defeats the purpose of using linux.

Any help is kindly appreciated.

Thanks.

Could someone please help me with how I can list the packages that were manually installed within a certain time frame. For instance, If I want to see a list of packages that were manually installed in the past 2 months..how may I go about doing it?

Than you

I am using Ubuntu Natty. I want to transfer files to and from my samsung galaxy which is running froyo. But every time I try to transfer a file from my Samsung Galaxy phone to Ubuntu natty I get the message

Remote device rejected your request

on my phone. I don't know what to do about it. Can someone please help me or point me in the right direction?

I have icedtea6-plugin installed on my Ubuntu box. The weird thing is, when I am browsing the internet, certain websites are able to use Java and some websites don't. For instance, I am able to log in to my bank at http://www.nordea.dk/ ; they use a Java applet to authenticate the user.

But when I try to use http://keepvid.com/; it says Loading Java Applet. And then after a minute or two it says:

Error: Please click here to download Java, If you already have Java, please restart your browser and try again.

I've tried to restart my computer, closed and opened Chromium Browser. But it didn't work also.

Could someone please point me in the right direction to solve this problem?

Thanks.