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It's-a-me Wubi! - Page 1

It's-a-me Wubi!

Posted by: fivex
Date: 2008-05-24 01:38:20
I just installed xubuntu using wubi!. Now I'm going to try it out!
EDIT:I'm in xubuntu now!
EDIT2:How do you install wine?!

Re: It's-a-me Wubi!

Posted by: shaggs
Date: 2009-02-22 21:38:16
Sorry for bumping.

sudo apt-get install wine wine-utils

Open up Terminal and type all of that (or cut and paste)
into there as it is, press enter and you're good to go.

Reply or PM if anything goes wrong.

Re: It's-a-me Wubi!

Posted by: Ketsuban
Date: 2009-02-23 12:34:14
The better version:

su -
apt-get install wine
apt-get install wine-utils
exit
wine &

Re: It's-a-me Wubi!

Posted by: agusganog
Date: 2009-02-24 15:14:35
I recently installed Ubuntu with wubi, and I was wondering if there is anything I should be aware of or any applications I should get.

Re: It's-a-me Wubi!

Posted by: Bent`
Date: 2009-02-24 18:30:10

I recently installed Ubuntu with wubi, and I was wondering if there is anything I should be aware of or any applications I should get.

I suppose it depends on what you want to do. Need a word processor? Install Abiword. Need an emulator? Try out a few different ones to see which ones work best.

If you do any programming, learning one of the major UNIX text editors (vi/Vim or Emacs) might be a worthwhile exercise to improve your productivity. You?ll never go back to Notepad again.

Re: It's-a-me Wubi!

Posted by: Ketsuban
Date: 2009-02-24 20:40:29
I use KEdit in KDE or gEdit in GNOME.  vi and Emacs have too many shortcuts to remember.

Re: It's-a-me Wubi!

Posted by: Abwayax
Date: 2009-02-24 20:53:34
I tried to use Wubi to install Ubuntu on my portable hard disk. Somehow I corrupted the boot record of the main hard disk, which sucked. Eventually I just found Windows 2000 and installed it. Maybe I'll try it again, on my main disk (which is where I guess it is supposed to be used). I also tried to use unetbootin to install Ubuntu on the portable drive, but I guess portable HDs are in a different class than USB flash drives?

Eh, guess that makes me… a Wubi noobie. :-/

Re: It's-a-me Wubi!

Posted by: Bent`
Date: 2009-02-24 21:15:53
I?ve never used Wubi, but livecds are always an option for portable Linux. They don?t affect your hard disk at all AFAIK. Of course, that?s assuming your computer can boot from CD, but what PC can?t these days?

Re: It's-a-me Wubi!

Posted by: agusganog
Date: 2009-02-24 21:38:25


I recently installed Ubuntu with wubi, and I was wondering if there is anything I should be aware of or any applications I should get.

I suppose it depends on what you want to do. Need a word processor? Install Abiword. Need an emulator? Try out a few different ones to see which ones work best.

If you do any programming, learning one of the major UNIX text editors (vi/Vim or Emacs) might be a worthwhile exercise to improve your productivity. You?ll never go back to Notepad again.


Thanks a lot. I am having problems installing Flash Player though. I have tried what seems like every combination of downloaded files/terminal commands to no avail. Do any of you guys have something I could try?

Re: It's-a-me Wubi!

Posted by: Abwayax
Date: 2009-02-25 00:03:42
The flash player is nonfree sofware. Have you added the "nonfree" repository to your apt sources list?

Re: It's-a-me Wubi!

Posted by: agusganog
Date: 2009-02-25 15:25:17
You lost me.

EDIT: Never mind. I just installed Opera, which came with a flash plugin. Thanks for trying to help though.

Re: It's-a-me Wubi!

Posted by: shaggs
Date: 2009-02-26 19:36:11

The better version:

su -
apt-get install wine
apt-get install wine-utils
exit
wine &


Nice try fucking idiot, but mine installs both in one line.

Re: It's-a-me Wubi!

Posted by: fivex
Date: 2009-03-05 01:27:33

Sorry for bumping.

sudo apt-get install wine wine-utils

Open up Terminal and type all of that (or cut and paste)
into there as it is, press enter and you're good to go.

Reply or PM if anything goes wrong.


That's what I was typing, but it didn't work.
Anywaym I don't have it on my laptop anymore sadly.

Re: It's-a-me Wubi!

Posted by: shaggs
Date: 2009-03-06 16:55:09


Sorry for bumping.

sudo apt-get install wine wine-utils

Open up Terminal and type all of that (or cut and paste)
into there as it is, press enter and you're good to go.

Reply or PM if anything goes wrong.


That's what I was typing, but it didn't work.
Anywaym I don't have it on my laptop anymore sadly.

So you no longer have Xubuntu?

Re: It's-a-me Wubi!

Posted by: fivex
Date: 2009-03-08 01:05:59



Sorry for bumping.

sudo apt-get install wine wine-utils

Open up Terminal and type all of that (or cut and paste)
into there as it is, press enter and you're good to go.

Reply or PM if anything goes wrong.


That's what I was typing, but it didn't work.
Anywaym I don't have it on my laptop anymore sadly.

So you no longer have Xubuntu?
No