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10.04 LTS is not working properly cannot install software using software-center

Asked by Jayaraj

Recently i have installed Ubuntu 10.04 LTS version, but i am facing some problems to use the above OS.

1) I am not able to install the applications available in the software centre, it is showing the authentication failure even after entering the correct login password .

2)Video files like 3gp, avi, etc is not playing it is asking some plug in missing, but i am not able to install the plug in .

3) I am not able to install the updates available.....

Please help me to solve the above problems ...

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#1

Question 1)

Open a Terminal from the menu Applications->Accessories->Terminal

Tip: right click with mouse on the terminal title caption and select the item "Always on Top" doing this you will force the terminal window to stay on top of the other windows and you will find very easy to copy single row from this web page into the terminal...
Something more about using the terminal https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UsingTheTerminal

Then type or better copy and paste a row a time then press enter:
(Tip: select the single row to copy then right click into the terminal and to quick paste click with middle button of mouse )

sudo dpkg --configure -a
sudo apt-get -f install
sudo apt-get --fix-missing install
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo apt-get update

give your user password when requested, you don't see nothing when you type it, then press enter.

Please do this procedure then for the other questions please split them into single question

Hope this helps

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GREG T. (ubuntuer) said : 		#2

are you software sources set up

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Rajinder Sandhu (sandy744) said : 		#3

jayraj.....
most likely our indian software server is faulty it is not having the updates...I changed it manually to netherlands / Singapore because that was giving very good speed and alll the updates are there. So change the server in synaptic so that all the updates you get either from main server or any other but not from India
Install VLC Player as it has built in codec support by default so you will be able to play all popular formatsa
Updates will come automatically when you change the server.
That should solve your problem
Thanks
Rajinder

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