Greetings people,
...Yes it seems i am!
I'm also a music fancier, thus i tried to install Guayadeque player, using the sole alternative of downloading the .deb version and essaying to use gdebi to install. Then along came that debian curse they call «dependencies not satisfied», it read:" libglib 2.0.0 (>=2.41.1) -- whatever that pseudo-arythmetic 'mumbo-jumbo' means to inform with such a 'user-friendly' module!... So i went to synaptics and installed each and every item bearing the alfa-digit group of libglib 2.xxx xx and to my unpleasantry the resulting feedback was exactly the very same i above reproduce.
I Googled the issue and was presented with a bunch of options -- some of them bearing the discouraging under-tittle of 'not recommended', others pertaining to 32 bits only, others corresponding to 64 (my one rig basis) which i uneventfully installed only to obtain the said same veredict of "not satisfyable" -- Good grief!!!
Sick and tired of these finnickynesses of an "open Box" OS, i went and recurring to HD installing Peppermint SEVEN
in my rig -- and it all proceeded smooth, softly, although somewhat slow. Correction: very, very SLOW, untill it reached a beautifull beach landscape if not excecessively rocky, and that was all: NO PANNEL/S, NO START MENU --
nothing to stain the picturesque beach picture...
Mouse Right tapping, 'secret' keyboard combos such as ALT+F1 or F2 -- even ALt+Ctrl+Del. (deo gratiae), produced some expectations of results of a few brief DVD moves -- but nothing awaked Peppermint Seven to show some of its
hidden charms to a damsel in distress (me). Nothing. NOTHING.
I thought: well «it must be some crisis undercrippling my recent, stout, laptop» which i had previously asked a Geeky guy to place a multibooting loader (completely functional up to: Black Lab 8 and MINT 17.3 until today) so i powered off and experimented: no trouble in each and all the above distros including c:| Windows 7_Ultimate. Well, well so far, so good i concluded.
Stuborn as i am and this time going to the LIVE mode (instead of directly "INSTALL" as my first attempt, BUT...the
dreadful scene repeated before my stunned eyesight: the picture -- that's all i was allowed -- although this time with
a difference: NO MOUSE AVAILABLE !
I've occupied too much space and probably very few will read me to this end. I'm sorry. Will not repeat (its just my 1 outraged expression...) Perhaps Peppermint 7.5 or 8 will grace my expectations -- unless there's some "ressuscitating recipe", anyone would kindly provide -- but, please: no iddle queries.
Kind Regards,
Susa