What happens when one clicks on "Thank" below a posters profile image? Do they receive a thank you for the help?

Following Misko_2083's tutorial on how to install software using terminal, I am attempting to install gnucash-2.6.15. From the gnucash website I can find no easy install package like I am used to with windows, but I did download something called gnucash-2.6.15.tar.bz2, so I found the section in the tutorial explaining how to install from source code, and then the subsection regarding .bz2 files.
   
Extracting the file went well enough, but when i entered the ./configure command I got to the point where it said that something was not found (glib=2.0), and so I ran the command, "sudo apt-get install glib-2.0", which seemed to run but then finished with:

"N: Ignoring file '20auto-upgrades.ucf-dist' in directory '/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/' as it has an invalid filename extension"

I then ran the "make" command and got the following: "make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop."

And that is where I am presently at...stumped.
Is it normal to have to go through all this to get such a common program installed?

This is not a bug, just a brief mention of a recent test with a dual boot (Windows 10, LL) machine. The Ubu rescue disk does not pick up the LL description entry in grub correctly. Had to enter it manually after I purposely crashed Windows 10 into BSOD by interrupting updates with a hard shutdown in order to make it necessary to reinstall Windows boot to MBR to get out of recovery mode. Don't recommend Ubu for recovery for LL lost boot on dual boot Windows 10. Also LL live disk method recovers LL boot but only reverts to BSOD boot for Windows 10. Supergrub 2 (Rescatux) recovered LL boot correctly but also sent Windows back to BSOD (pointed to stalled recovery again.) Made me chuckle at myself a little at that point, realizing immediately both had actually recovered the grub menu. In dual boot certain Windows BSOD situations, those that require restoring Windows MBR, even though grub still remains there, most users will have to enter grub entries for LL manually from the grub menu, or a terminal if they want their Windows boot to remain unchanged. Rescue disks will only muck things up. It is easier for new users to keep a copy of the LL grub config file to refer to. I have often thought that a minimal fat32 partition could be setup at installation to store grub text entries for later use by inexperienced users with dual boot situations. Even though I can edit grub from Windows 10 if necessary new users of course would not be able to. I don't think the most commonly used rescue disks are good for new users dual booting with Windows 10 when BSOD situations occur with Windows because their failure will generally cause the users to purchase unnecessary Windows repair tools in order to fix their systems. I don't think we should recommend methods that encourage more income for MS. Also since Windows 10, most of the advice about mounted partitions and flags is bunk and changing them with NTFS tools from Linux will not pull Windows 10 out of BSOD recovery mode boot, just reproduce it infinitely. BSOD mode is a post grub menu, switched MBR mode.  All that is needed is a Windows 7,8, or 10 install disk to reinstall the MBR which it finds immediately, not more MS purchases, but of course that ruins the LL grub boot menu entry because Windows does not recognize ext4 partitions though it does recognize the grub menu already there in its MBR. Easiest to keep a copy of LL's grub menu entry. Also root continues to be a nuisance in Ubu recovery instances, and the no passwd root terminal does not work anymore. There is a certain insane paranoia about personal (in the room) security seizing developers these days for no good reason. Makes sense for some countries I guess, but it is an absolutely false and trivial suggestion that taking away these normal nix repair tools is an improvement to OS security. Nothing is better than encryption period. Everything else is a waste of time, and becoming a nuisance for IT people, and one that costs ordinary users more money. Desktop Linux should get off the stupid in the room security bandwagon altogether, and just advise encryption for security. What can the inexperienced user do with Ubu, but create a root user and password in advance, and of course that scares away most users because of the error messages when doing so. LL should get on its own bandwagon and eliminate this issue in its distro. It is simply NOT a security issue for Desktop Linux.

TC     

I am hoping someone can help me

I have an Asus Eee PC netbook which, between being nagged by Microsoft into a failed Windows 10 upgrade and then being abandoned by Asus, had no OS or desktop - the device was essentially dead. I ran 'Darik's Boot and Nuke' overnight which wiped the entire hard drive of everything, that got me a functioning machine - I burned Linux Lite onto a DVD using another computer, plugged in a USB DVD player into the netbook and quickly installed Linux Lite. I moved flawlessly onto the internet for updates, optional software etc and was really happy

However, when I restart it keeps asking me to plug in bootable media and hit any key. The boot up settings in BIOS are the hard drive first then the USB port. If I plug in the DVD drive 'bootable media' it reinstalls the Linux Lite from the start. So at the moment it only works until I switch the netbook off, then I have to start over

It seems that the Linux Lite has, somehow, not become bootable from the HDD ... any ideas ? I am certain I have done something wrong somewhere but have no clue on how to progress

Hello all,
First time installing Linux Lite on my laptop. My wife is using LL from 1 year, I think.
Until now used Ubuntu but wanted to try something else.
I've started to install different applications after installing the LL. Example: installed Synapse but remove it after some minutes because I like Kupfer more. But the icon of Synapse, or the place where the icon was remained in the xfce4-indicator-plugin.
Also the prime-indicator has a big icon, as you can see in the image bellow.

Question: how can I remove the icon that is missing and replace the big one with an other?



Thanks

EDIT: the image from left side of the picture disappeared after a restart, but the big icon remained the same size.

Hello,

I have an HP Laser Jet Pro MFP M225DW  and today I went to scan a document and it says Failed To Scan - Unable to connect to scanner.

The printer works fine. Why is it that I cannot scan a document?

Please help

ok now here an weird thing - wallpaper will not stay anymore? i dont know how to fix it ???

So I'm running multiple machines with Linux Lite and all of them we're having issues getting the microphone base silence to remain static; if it gets too loud, it jumps up to try to compensate for it - this is incredibly counterproductive for what we're trying to do. The machines are all generally POS, but they work just well enough for what we want them to do.

We're running 3.2, but I'm not positive if it's Final or not. Does anyone know how to force the Silence base to remain where we want it?

I have only find two interviews that Jerry has done. http://www.everydaylinuxuser.com/2014/03...jerry.html and www.mylinuxrig.com/post/147704035099/the-linux-setup-jerry-bezencon-linux-lite. I am sure plenty of Linux users would like to see video interviews with Jerry. I am sure there are plenty of You Tubers who would like to interview Jerry.

How about some interviews, Jerry?  ;D