Issues

Channel 4 4OD

Program stopping after adverts:

sudo apt-get install hal

Dual Boot - Linux and Windows

From Fix Incorrect Clock Settings in Windows When Dual-Booting with OS X or Linux

Run regedit.exe, navigate to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\TimeZoneInformation

Right click anywhere in the right pane and hit New, DWORD (32-bit) Value. Name it RealTimeIsUniversal, then double click on it and give it a value of 1.

Flash

Wasn’t working in Firefox:

sudo apt-get remove --purge flashplugin-nonfree
sudo apt-get remove --purge flashplugin-installer
sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree

Re-start Firefox.

Language

Soon after installing Gnome, my language switch to Chinese (or Japanese or something I couldn’t read):

Edit ~/.pam_environment file and chang these two variables:

LANGUAGE="en_GB:en"
LANG="en_GB.UTF-8"

Packages - you have held broken packages

Trying to install Java plugin using the normal Ubuntu update process:

E:Unable to install you have held broken packages.

To solve the problem, I followed these instructions: Ubuntu yelp package Questions Question #100167

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