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I want to use gnucash. However I am not familiar with the English terminalogy regarding finance. Now I wanted to start gnucash with the Dutch translation, which I believe is available for 2 reasons. Firstly the gnucash site is also in Dutch, and secondly when I look to the wiki regarding starting gnucash with a different language I see also the Dutch translation been specified.

The problem I have is that I cannot seem gnucash to startup with the Dutch translation using LANGUAGE=nl_NL.UTF8 LANG=nl_NL.UTF8 gnucash

Checking locale -a, I obtain:

C 
C.UTF-8 
en_AG 
en_AG.utf8 
en_AU.utf8 
en_BW.utf8 
en_CA.utf8
en_DK.utf8 
en_GB.utf8 
en_HK.utf8 
en_IE.utf8 
en_IN 
en_IN.utf8 
en_NG
en_NG.utf8 
en_NZ.utf8 
en_PH.utf8 
en_SG.utf8 
en_US.utf8 
en_ZA.utf8
en_ZM 
en_ZM.utf8 
en_ZW.utf8 
nl_AW 
nl_AW.utf8 
nl_BE.utf8 
nl_NL.utf8
POSIX

So why don't I get gnucash to startup with the Dutch language?

-edit- I installed all the Dutch language packages by

sudo apt-get install language-pack-nl language-pack-gnome-nl language-pack-nl-base language-pack-gnome-nl-base

Still no success unfortunately. However when I now tried to startup gnucash using LANGUAGE=nl gnucash I didn't get the warning The locale defined in the environment isn't supported. Falling back to the 'C' (US English) locale. However gnucash was still in English.

-edit2- Output of locale

LANG=nl_NL.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=nl:en
LC_CTYPE="nl_NL.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC=nl_NL.UTF-8
LC_TIME=nl_NL.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE="nl_NL.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY=nl_NL.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES="nl_NL.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER=nl_NL.UTF-8
LC_NAME=nl_NL.UTF-8
LC_ADDRESS=nl_NL.UTF-8
LC_TELEPHONE=nl_NL.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=nl_NL.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=nl_NL.UTF-8
LC_ALL=

I downloaded libHaru from http://libharu.org/. libHaru is a opensource pdf creator. Now in the INSTALL file says I only have to run ./configure && make && make install. When I run this I get the error bash: ./configure: No such file or directory. Yes I am in the correct same folder as where I extracted the files, there is however a file called configure.in which I guess has something to do with it.

Now next to how I can build libHaru I would like to know how I can build the examples. I only see a file CMakelist.txt doesn't each example need a make file on its own?

I have a problem with texlive. For some reason I couldn't load the siunitx package anymore. Because I had problems with Texlive before, I accidently installed 2 versions next to each other with them having path dependencies. For some reason I can't recall I then decided just to delete texlive by just removing all the folders in which tex was present.

Now I tried to reinstall texlive, https://askubuntu.com/a/163683/27480. But during the install the following error occured:

[09:43|0] $ sudo apt-get install texlive-full
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Suggested packages:
  passivetex jadetex xmltex
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  texlive-full
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
22 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/37.3 kB of archives.
After this operation, 106 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Selecting previously unselected package texlive-full.
(Reading database ... 630109 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking texlive-full (from .../texlive-full_2012.20120611-3~ubuntu12.04.1_all.deb) ...
Setting up tex-common (3.13~ubuntu12.04.1) ...
Directory /etc/texmf/ not writeable. Exiting.
dpkg: error processing tex-common (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of cm-super:
 cm-super depends on tex-common (>= 2.00); however:
  Package tex-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing cm-super (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of context:
 context depends on tex-common (>= 3); however:
  Package tex-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing context (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of context-modules:
 context-modules depends on context (>> 2011); however:
  Package context is not configured yet.
 context-modules depends on tex-common (>= 3); however:
  Package tex-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing context-modules (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems pNo apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
                                                                                                                                     No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
                                                         No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
                                                                                                                       No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
                                                                                                                                                                                     No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
                                                             No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
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                                                                 No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
                                                                                                                               revent configuration of latex-cjk-chinese:
 latex-cjk-chinese depends on tex-common (>= 3); however:
  Package tex-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing latex-cjk-chinese (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of latex-cjk-japanese:
 latex-cjk-japanese depends on tex-common (>= 3); however:
  Package tex-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing latex-cjk-japanese (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of latex-cjk-korean:
 latex-cjk-korean depends on tex-common (>= 3); however:
  Package tex-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing latex-cjk-korean (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of latex-cjk-thai:
 latex-cjk-thai depends on tex-common (>= 3); however:
  Package tex-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing latex-cjk-thai (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of latex-cjk-all:
 latex-cjk-all depends on latex-cjk-chinese (>= 4.8.3+git20120621-1~ubuntu12.04.1); however:
  Package latex-cjk-chinese is not configured yet.
 latex-cjk-all depends on latex-cjk-japanese (>= 4.8.3+git20120621-1~ubuntu12.04.1); however:
  Package latex-cjk-japanese is not configured yet.
 latex-cjk-all depends on latex-cjk-korean (= 4.8.3+git20120621-1~ubuntu12.04.1); however:
  Package latex-cjk-korean is not configured yet.
 latex-cjk-all depends on latex-cjk-thai (= 4.8.3+git20120621-1~ubuntu12.04.1); however:
  Package latex-cjk-thai is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing latex-cjk-all (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of latex-fonts-thai-tlwg:
 latex-fonts-thai-tlwg depends on tex-common (>= 3); however:
  Package tex-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing latex-fonts-thai-tlwg (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Setting up m-tx (0.60d-5~ubuntu12.04.1) ...
warning: kpathsea: configuration file texmf.cnf not found in these directories: /etc/texmf/web2c:/usr/share/texlive/texmf/web2c:/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/web2c:/usr/local/share/texmf/web2c.
/var/lib/dpkg/info/m-tx.postinst: 17: /var/lib/dpkg/info/m-tx.postinst: $TEXMFMAIN/web2c/mktexupd: not found
dpkg: error processing m-tx (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 127
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of musixtex:
 musixtex depends on tex-common (>= 3); however:
  Package tex-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing musixtex (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Setting up pmx (2.6.18-2~ubuntu12.04.1) ...
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
                                                              No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
                                                                                                                            warning: kpathsea: configuration file texmf.cnf not found in these directories: /etc/texmf/web2c:/usr/share/texlive/texmf/web2c:/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/web2c:/usr/local/share/texmf/web2c.
/var/lib/dpkg/info/pmx.postinst: 16: /var/lib/dpkg/info/pmx.postinst: $TEXMFMAIN/web2c/mktexupd: not found
dpkg: error processing pmx (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 127
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of texlive-formats-extra:
 texlive-formats-extra depends on tex-common (>= 3); however:
  Package tex-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing texlive-formats-extra (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of texlive-lang-cjk:
 texlive-lang-cjk depends on tex-common (>= 3); however:
  Package tex-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing texlive-lang-cjk (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of texlive-lang-cyrillic:
 texlive-lang-cyrillic depends on tex-common (>= 3); however:
  Package tex-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing texlive-lang-cyrillic (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration ofNo apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
                                                                                                                No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
                                                                                                                                                                              No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
                                                      No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
                                                                                                                    No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
                                                                                                                                                                                  No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
                                                          No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
                                                                                                                        No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
                                                              No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
                                                                                                                            No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
     texlive-lang-czechslovak:
 texlive-lang-czechslovak depends on tex-common (>= 3); however:
  Package tex-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing texlive-lang-czechslovak (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of texlive-lang-polish:
 texlive-lang-polish depends on tex-common (>= 3); however:
  Package tex-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing texlive-lang-polish (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of texlive-xetex:
 texlive-xetex depends on tex-common (>= 3); however:
  Package tex-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing texlive-xetex (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of texlive-math-extra:
 texlive-math-extra depends on tex-common (>= 3); however:
  Package tex-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing texlive-math-extra (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of texlive-music:
 texlive-music depends on musixtex (>= 1:0.114-2); however:
  Package musixtex is not configured yet.
 texlive-music depends on tex-common (>= 3); however:
  Package tex-common is not configured yet.
 texlive-music depends on m-tx; however:
  Package m-tx is not configured yet.
 texlive-music depends on pmx; however:
  Package pmx is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing texlive-music (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of texlive-omega:
 texlive-omega depends on tex-common (>= 3); however:
  Package tex-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing texlive-omega (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of texlive-full:
 texlive-full depends on texlive-lang-czechslovak (>= 2012.20120516); however:
  Package texlive-lang-czechslovak is not configured yet.
 texlive-full depends on texlive-music (>= 2012.20120516); however:
  Package texlive-music is not configured yet.
 texlive-full depends on texlive-lang-cjk (>= 2012.20120516); however:
  Package texlive-lang-cjk is not configured yet.
 texlive-full depends on latex-cjk-all (>= 4.6.0+cvs20060714-2); however:
  Package latex-cjk-all is not configured yet.
 texlive-full depends on texlive-formats-extra (>= 2012.20120516); however:
  Package texlive-formats-extra is not configured yet.
 texlive-full depends on texlive-xetex (>= 2012.20120516); however:
  Package texlive-xetex is not configured yet.
 texlive-full depends on texlive-math-extra (>= 2012.20120516); however:
  Package texlive-math-extra is not configured yet.
 texlive-full depends on texlive-lang-polish (>= 2012.20120516); however:
  Package texlive-lang-polish is not configured yet.
 texlive-full depends on cm-super (>= 0.3.3-3); however:
  Package cm-super is not configured yet.
 texlive-full depends on texlive-omega (>= 2012.20120516); however:
  Package texlive-omega is not configured yet.
 texlive-full depends on texlive-lang-cyrillic (>= 2012.20120516); however:
  Package texlive-lang-cyrillic is not configured yet.
 texlive-full depends on context; however:
  Package context is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing texlive-full (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 tex-common
 cm-super
 context
 context-modules
 latex-cjk-chinese
 latex-cjk-japanese
 latex-cjk-korean
 latex-cjk-thai
 latex-cjk-all
 latex-fonts-thai-tlwg
 m-tx
 musixtex
 pmx
 texlive-formats-extra
 texlive-lang-cjk
 texlive-lang-cyrillic
 texlive-lang-czechslovak
 texlive-lang-polish
 texlive-xetex
 texlive-math-extra
 texlive-music
 texlive-omega
 texlive-full
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Since a while, 2 weeks, Dropbox does not startup anymore on my laptop running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS with GNOME shell.

When I run dropbox start -i in the console I get the following output.

  Starting Dropbox...Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/dropbox", line 1387, in <module>
    ret = main(sys.argv)
  File "/usr/bin/dropbox", line 1376, in main
    result = commands[argv[i]](argv[i+1:])
  File "/usr/bin/dropbox", line 1247, in start
    if not start_dropbox():
  File "/usr/bin/dropbox", line 731, in start_dropbox
    stderr=sys.stderr, stdout=f, close_fds=True)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 679, in __init__
    errread, errwrite)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 1249, in _execute_child
    raise child_exception
  OSError: [Errno 8] Exec format error

I already removed Dropbox and reinstalled it. What should I do to fix this?

Okay a college of mine just showed me that you could do

sudo apt-get install <type first letters of package> <TAB>

That it auto-completes the name of the package. Just for an example...

sudo apt-get install ged<TAB> results in sudo apt-get install gedit

Now I tried to do this but this does not work for me.

How can I solve this? Do I have to install a package? My college told me that he didn't install anything extra for it.

I'm trying to get MTP with the galaxy tab 2 7.0 working on my ubuntu installation. Such that I can access the files.

I tried to do what is described here:

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/12/how-to-connect-your-android-ice-cream-sandwich-phone-to-ubuntu-for-file-access

I however fail at executing one of the following commands

mtp-detect | grep idVendor
mtp-detect | grep idProduct

This fails

[20:42|0] $ mtp-detect | grep idVender
Device 0 (VID=04e8 and PID=6860) is a Samsung GT-P7310/P7510/N7000/I9100/Galaxy Tab 7.7/10.1/S2/Nexus/Note.
PTP_ERROR_IO: failed to open session, trying again after resetting USB interface
LIBMTP libusb: Attempt to reset device
LIBMTP PANIC: failed to open session on second attempt
Unable to open raw device 0
[20:44|0] $ mtp-detect | grep idProduct
Device 0 (VID=04e8 and PID=6860) is a Samsung GT-P7310/P7510/N7000/I9100/Galaxy Tab 7.7/10.1/S2/Nexus/Note.
PTP_ERROR_IO: failed to open session, trying again after resetting USB interface
LIBMTP libusb: Attempt to reset device
LIBMTP PANIC: failed to open session on second attempt
Unable to open raw device 0

Now my guess was was that the idVender is the same as the VID (04e8) and the idProduct is the same as PID (6860) Now I continued to work with those values and completed the tutorial. When finished I tried

android-connect

This returned

fuse: bad mount point `/media/GalaxyTab': Transport endpoint is not connected

Does anybody have a clue what to do? Also I want to note that when I connect my GalaxyTab 2 7.0 that I still get a pop-up of ubuntu that a device was connected. I also can still see the mapstructure, the problem however is is that all the folders have 0 bytes and do not have any subfolders. I can only see the folders in the root.

ps. I also checked a similar question and tried what is described in this answer https://askubuntu.com/a/88630/27480

-- 2012-09-18 -- Edit -- Using go-mtpfs, described in the first answer, http://linuxundich.de/de/android/mit-go-mtpfs-unter-linux-auf-android-handys-via-mtp-zugreifen/, I got the following for my Samsung Galaxy SII

[23:21|0] $ go-mtpfs android
2012/09/18 23:21:58 compiled against libmtp 1.1.3
Device 0 (VID=04e8 and PID=6865) is UNKNOWN.
Please report this VID/PID and the device model to the libmtp development team
2012/09/18 23:21:58 device unknown: unknown (04e8:6865) @ bus 1, dev 7
: 
ignoring usb_claim_interface = -6ignoring usb_claim_interface = -5PTP_ERROR_IO: failed to open session, trying again after resetting USB interface
LIBMTP libusb: Attempt to reset device
LIBMTP PANIC: failed to open session on second attempt
2012/09/18 23:22:18 rdev.open: open: open returned nil

For the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 it didnt work either...

[23:31|0] $ go-mtpfs android
2012/09/18 23:31:03 compiled against libmtp 1.1.3
Device 0 (VID=04e8 and PID=6860) is a Samsung GT-P7310/P7510/N7000/I9100/Galaxy Tab 7.7/10.1/S2/Nexus/Note.
2012/09/18 23:31:03 device Samsung: GT-P7310/P7510/N7000/I9100/Galaxy Tab 7.7/10.1/S2/Nexus/Note (04e8:6860) @ bus 1, dev 11
: 
PTP_ERROR_IO: failed to open session, trying again after resetting USB interface
LIBMTP libusb: Attempt to reset device
LIBMTP PANIC: failed to open session on second attempt
2012/09/18 23:33:04 rdev.open: open: open returned nil

jmtpfs didn't work either :-(

[23:42|0] $ jmtpfs ~/android/
Device 0 (VID=04e8 and PID=6860) is a Samsung GT-P7310/P7510/N7000/I9100/Galaxy Tab 7.7/10.1/S2/Nexus/Note.
PTP_ERROR_IO: failed to open session, trying again after resetting USB interface
LIBMTP libusb: Attempt to reset device
LIBMTP PANIC: failed to open session on second attempt
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'MtpErrorCantOpenDevice'
  what():  Can't open device
Aborted (core dumped)

In my search for fixing the issue I posted here, How to set wifi driver settings to prefer 5 GHz channel above 2.4 GHz, I thought that it might be a good idea to update the drivers.

I have a "Intel 82567LM Gigabit Network Connection" and "Intel Wifi Link 5100 AGN" I went to search for linux drivers. I then found this driver, http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&DwnldID=15817&lang=eng&OSVersion=Linux*&DownloadType=Drivers. I installed it. Now after a reboot I find out my network connection is broken and can not get access to internet anymore. It seems the driver is incompatible :(

Now is it possible to fix this issue? Or might it better just to reinstall ubuntu?

Relevant images:

Currently I'm in a new building of my university. In this building my wifi often breaks down and then restores connection again. This is really irritating since it happens a lot.

Now as a coincidence there were some tech guys running around here and where asking everyone if the wifi was doing fine. I told them that my wifi tears down all the time and then reconnects. They figured out that my wifi is switching all the time between the 2.4 GHz channel and 5 GHz channel. They asked me if I could acces the driver settings of my wireless card. Unfortunately I don't know how to do this is in either Linux or Windows. And unfortunately again they only knew the windows solution xD.

So I hope somebody can tell me how I tell my wifi that it should stay on the 5 GHz network and not disconnect and switch to the 2.4 GHz channel?

-edit-

@arhimed, firstly thank you for your help.

I just tried what you said. It is some what different for me. I can't seem to save the settings when I change the setting and choose to use only the 5 GHz band.

"Network connections"->"Select the appropriate wireless network and click edit"->"In the wireless tab"->"Change the mode from infrastructure to ad-hoc"->"Choose 5 GHz band"

However when I want to change the mode from infrastructure to ad-hoc the "save" button tells me that I have to authenticate myself. However I get no pop-up asking me for a password. Using sudo gnome-control-center didn't help either. I could still not save it. Also a error occured then in the terminal:

** (nm-connection-editor:5577): WARNING **: Invalid setting Wireless Security: Security not compatible with Ad-Hoc mode

Hopefully this is some useful info for you to help me further.

I created a virtual machine for ubuntu 12.04. I then installed GNOME3 from the software center, How do I install and use the latest version of GNOME?. However after install I don't get the new gnome shell, in the terminal gnome-shell --version tells me that I'm using the latest version, 3.4.1.

My interface now looks like this:

Does anybody have an idea why I do not get the latest gnome shell?

@Histo yes but why I don't have this interface?

Does someone know if it is possible to bind a command to a button which will reveal the onscreen keyboard? (Note: The onscreen keyboard has already be started.)

Currently when I want to reveal the onscreen keyboard, I have to click the keyboard icon in the tray bar. This is not very convenient mainly because the onscreen keyboard does not reveal itself when you are yet still focused on a text field. Hence I want to bind it to a button.

When I enable the "screen keyboard" from the accessibility next to that the GNOME onscreen keyboard is started onboard is also opened. Is there a way to prevent this?!

I added a Google account to the "online accounts" manager of Ubuntu. My Google account has 3 calendars. One private, school and work. Currently only the items from my private calendar are shown in the GNOME 3.2 calendar. I would however very much like to display my school calendar as well in the GNOME 3.2 calendar. Is this possible? If the answer is yes, how can I do this?

PS. When this is not possible where can I comment to request this as a new feature of the upcoming GNOME version?