so i went to download Wine in the additional software box and after i pressed 24 and enter a pop up window keeps comming up saying... Cant Install Wine. any idea why that could be ?  ???

I have a very recent Asus computer with an Atheros AR9485 wifi adapter. I have tested it with Lite and other Ubuntu variants. None of them recognize this adapter, yet it has been supported by Debian and the other distributions for years. Strangely, it does work in Manjero (I don't want to go there.....)

Does anybody know what to do in order to get wifi working?

(Thanks in advance.....)

I wanted to share my Linux Lite story with the rest of you.

I own a software application company. We program in C# and Silverlite and use both Azure and .Net environments. Last year we started hosting Azure on Ubuntu as an experiment. It worked out great. So I decided to put about a dozen machines on Linux for the employees who had non-technical jobs. I searched for a distro to use..... (Lots of protests though from the intended users.....)

I evaluated many distros but I found Linux Lite to be pretty intuitive and very flexible. So under lots of protests from my staff, I switched everyone to Lite. (I also faced a ton of hardware upgrades that Lite saved me from. I needed a lite weight Linux that was user friendly yet pretty complete....)

We started with version 1.8 and have now migrated to 2.0. It has been a year or so since the migration.

Of the 12 machines we migrated to Lite none of them have required much in the way of support. In fact, our real cost of support on a Windows PC is about $6,700 (CDN$) annually. With Linux Lite? About $1,200 annually.

And what about the users who protested so hard in the beginning? Eight of them are now running some version of Linux at home. (The other 4 have Macs....)

I am still a Linux Newbie in many ways. All of my machines were legacy machines. Happily I will not have to upgrade them for quite a while. To my staff, I am a genius. (Which by the way.... I am LOL!)

So Valtam I just wanted to say "thanks". I hope that by sharing my story, other people will become inspired to try the same thing.

As for that company from Redman? They are stunned.

It might be a good idea to consider including MD5 checksum utility in the repositories. A few weeks ago I have spent quite a while looking for one in Synaptic and on the web. The most popular seems to be GtkHash, but it can only compute checksums, it doesn't have "compare" function:

http://gtkhash.sourceforge.net/

I have eventually found one tool that can verify checksums, Checksums Calculator. It's portable, there is no installer, you just need to unzip it to a custom directory, set permissions and create menu shortcut:

http://www.sinf.gr/en/hashcalc.html

I started using Lite 1.0.8 about 7 months ago, my first immersion into Linux/Ubuntu. I recently fooled with Lubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 12.04, and Lite 2.0, figured I'm comfortable enough with Linux. I had problems with every one of those distros...mostly freeze ups, boot/startup problems and weird "scrambled" screens where I had to power off my pc altogether in order to fix it. With Lite 2.0 I had Firefox and XBMC issues, Lubuntu and XBMC didn't work, Ubuntu had me install hardware support then ceased to bootup.  I ended up reinstalling 1.0.8 and it is running like a dream. Stable, fast, smooth, not bulky...I didn't realize how well it works til I experimented with the other distros. 1.0.8 is awesome for the everyday desktop user, which is me. The slogan is true, "it just works"!

But my problem is...I can't get a grub menu to show up. I run sudo update-grub so I know my OS option is 6 arrow keys down but im looking at a black screen. My monitor says "frequency out of range" where the menu should be. Do I edit the settings thru gksudo leafpad command? The bootup/splash screen is my one fuss with LL.

When I try to change the image using 'desktop settings',
all my image files are greyed out so I can't select any of them.

Help, please.

Hello,

I want to open all .doc/.docx , .xls/.xlsx and .ppt/.pptx by default with Microsoft Office.
I installed Microsoft Office 2003 with Wine and it's working fine.

In Ubuntu or Linux Mint, you can just open a file (like .doc), select properties open with choose MS Word and clck 'set as default'.
In Linux Lite I could not find this option. (Btw. would be great if this feature would come with the next version )

Anyway there is the seccond option of editing the /usr/share/applications/defaults.list . So I tried this:

First I copied the starters of MS Office from the start menu into /usr/share/applications/ :

Microsoft Word:

PS: I personally like Libre Office, I am doing this for someone else 

Dear LL Team,

I have installed Wine update and run windows based flash tutorial CD's for my children, The video works grate (The tutorial is made by Flash) but the audio doesn't flow to System speaker. I went to the Configure Wine and set all the audio options to pulse audio still doesn't play to speaker.

I pressed the test audio tab in wine configure, no response.

The CD video & audio works fine with Windows

Any help to resolve this?

Arun

I removed Wine which leaves a lot of dead Menu Items . Most of them I deleted individually using >Settings > Menu > (Left Click ) Delete .-------- Is there any better way

I removed Libre Office and had to remove its dead Items

I (foolishly) tried Restore system configuration ---now in the Office Menu there are 3 Libre Office options which only give an error message as Office is gone .
When I check in the Office Menu Settings box the 3 Libre Office items are not available to un-tick .

Can they be removed easily - I tried a web search without finding the same scenario using the Wisker Menu . What I did glean, as usual with Linux the config files appear to be spread about and the whole subject is not average-user friendly 

If its easy to solve let me know but if not do not do not worry --I can easily turn a blind eye to the problem -- its easy for me as I have one good eye !

Colin

I have recently converted to Linux Lite 2.0 from Windows XP, and it looks like it can be a great os and computing experience.

However, when I click to Install Updates from the Menu, the black box that comes up tells me to enter my password on the bottom line, after a colon.  I try to do that, but it won't allow me to do so.  The green cursor rectangle just keeps blinking, not responding at all to anything I try to type in, using my keyboard.  So, apparently, no updates happen when I do this.

Also, when I go to Menu/System/Install Additional Software, that won't work either.  I enter my menu choice (it does take that), press enter, click yes to install, put in my password when prompted, and then it always comes back with an error message, saying that my selection could not be installed.

Have I missed something during the installation process that would cause these things?  Might I have a corrupted copy of Linux Lite 2.0 and need to download and install it all over again?  Can anybody give me any insight?

Thanks!!