If you are among those brave (foolhardy?) enough to have already updated systems to Ubuntu’s Precise Pangolin, you may have encountered the following error while updating your system over the last 24 hours or so: Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/libreoffice-core_1%3a3.5.0~beta2-2ubuntu2_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Fortunately, there is a relatively easy …
Tag Archive: ubuntu
May
07
Twhirl’ing on Linux
I’m not a huge fan of some of the things Adobe has released over the last couple years, e.g. the uber-bloated Acrobat Reader, but I do like their Air product. Sadly, until a couple weeks ago it was unavailable for linux… but that has now changed! Adobe Labs have released an alpha of Adobe Air …
Nov
24
Miro and Sun Java Plugin errors on Gutsy
I installed Miro the new Democracy player on my Gutsy laptop today. Unfortunately, when I fired it up, it spewed a long list of errors ending in /usr/bin/python: symbol lookup error: /opt/sun-jdk-1.6.0.03/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so: undefined symbol: PR_NewMonitor Googling led me to this forum post, which references this bug report. All of which seem to point at the …