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Old 02-13-2012, 12:17 PM   #1
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A few diff mint issues?


Whats up, just joined the forum. I downloaded mint the other day and got it running. I'm having a few misc issues though. Here's a list of my problems. Thanks for any help you can offer.

1. I think I'm running mint 11 but I'm not positive. I look at system info and it doesn't say what version i'm running.

2. I can't find a control panel anywhere and the only preferences that I can find is if I right click at the bottom right on the workplace switcher.

3. I don't have a menu button at the bottom left hand side. Someone suggested try alt+F2 and "killall gnome-panel" That removed the applications/places/clock/current internet connection. I then tried "gconftool-2 --recursive-unset /apps/panel
rm -fr ~/.gconf/apps/panel
killall gnome-panel" as well to reset to default. That made no change at all.

4. My last problem is I can't install the software center. I was told it comes preinstalled but can't find it anywhere either.

This is a screen shot of my desktop. Thanks

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Old 02-14-2012, 09:20 PM   #2
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A few diff mint issues?
Whats up, just joined the forum. I downloaded mint the other day and got it running.
Welcome!


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I'm having a few misc issues though. Here's a list of my problems. Thanks for any help you can offer.

1. I think I'm running mint 11 but I'm not positive. I look at system info and it doesn't say what version i'm running.
Since you have no menu to bring up terminal you may login to a shell and find out which Version:

Ctl+Alt+F3 (F2, F5, F6, F7) login as user and issue this:

---user@host$ cat /etc/*version*

That should return the version Katya, Liza or Julia. (Beginners should use Mint 11 first. --v.12 is confusing)

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2. I can't find a control panel anywhere and the only preferences that I can find is if I right click at the bottom right on the workplace switcher.
???? Did you linstall Mint/LXDE? or Gnome? You should have them right now.


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3. I don't have a menu button at the bottom left hand side. Someone suggested try alt+F2 and "killall gnome-panel" That removed the applications/places/clock/current internet connection. I then tried "gconftool-2 --recursive-unset /apps/panel
rm -fr ~/.gconf/apps/panel
killall gnome-panel" as well to reset to default. That made no change at all.
4. My last problem is I can't install the software center. I was told it comes preinstalled but can't find it anywhere either.
Overall: your installation is a wreckage. Clean install again.

Hope this helps.
 
  


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