How do I list the packages that are recommended by my current set of installed packages, but for whatever reason weren't installed?
I want to find a list of all packages with the Priority: field set to Required. These are packages that are normally installed on every system, however I've recently discovered that they aren't necessarily installed for foreign architectures using multiarch. What's the best way to find these packages?
I keep getting weird errors from launchpad when I try and copy the Maverick packages to Natty for the PPA. I select the wine1.3 package (not in Ubuntu), select "copy to this PPA", and then select "rebuild the resulting binaries". This error emerges:
The following source cannot be copied:
wine1.3 1.3.11-0ubuntu1 in maverick (same version already has published binaries in the destination archive)
I have no idea what this error means but apparently it doesn't mean there are binaries in the destination archive.
Ever since I've been asking this question, the predominant answer has been something to the effect of "well one day we'll have free drivers so we can just ignore the problem"
But, in the meantime, NVidia-settings has been so awful it's been scaring users away from Ubuntu for the past 4 years. If you have multiple monitors, or want to change resolution, NVidia-settings gives a horrible experience. On multiple occasions I've seen it, singlehandedly, convince a user that Linux was "not ready".
Most of the stuff in there doesn't even make sense -- for instance there's a completely useless "write to xorg.conf" button that is incredibly scary.
So what can we do?
Obviously this is the kind of major decision that would require public feedback and a meeting of the technical board, but I can't seem to find the minutes from the meeting it was discussed.
Were there UDS sessions? A thread on the mailing list? I admit I wasn't paying as much attention as I could have, but I was a bit surprised when Mark made the announcement at this developer summit. I got there halfway through the first day, and by that point most people were acting as though making netbook edition the default was a foregone conclusion, so I figure I must have missed something.