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    Debian installation Problem

    I'm 74.
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    Debian installation Problem

    I am old. But my doctor says I have excellent vision and hearing......for my age. Whatever that means.
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    Debian installation Problem

    I installed Ubuntu 19.10\Eoan Ermine using a flash drive which I had from before. I looked for an iso file for Debian and was not successful. My failure. I downloaded debian-10.2.0-amd64-netinst again but that is not the file I needed as it didn't work. Anyway, I am happy with 19.10\Eoan...
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    Debian installation Problem

    I hope this is the right place. I downloaded debian-10.2.0-amd64-netinst to a flash drive. Then burned it to a cd. I ran the cd and it seemed to go through an installation procedure. When it got to the end it said remove the cd and it will finish installing. All I get now is a blinking...
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    Help Installing Programs in Ubuntu 19.10 GNOME

    I did get "arduino" installed. Don't know how I did it. I clicked on the four choices, Arduino, arduino-builder, arduino-core, and one more. As I closed the open screens there it was. One more to figure out! maybe "Synaptic Package Manager" did it. I don't know.
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    Help Installing Programs in Ubuntu 19.10 GNOME

    I couldn't get Synaptic Package Manager to download. I printed out the instructions and will be more diligent in installing instructions. I also printed out the other instructions. Thanks for your patience!
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    Installing a Program Called Arduino

    Thanks for the reply! If I choose "extract" I get a screen with a green choice at the top of the right side that says "extract". If I click on that it shows "extraction completed successfully, close, show the files". If I select "show the files" I get a small box that temporarily says...
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    Installing a Program Called Arduino

    I downloaded a program called "arduino-1.8.10-linuxaarch64.tar.xz. When I click on "downloads" I get the icon. If I left double click I get "Reading "arduino-1.8.10-linuxaarch64.tar.xz". This gets me to "arduino-1.8.10". If I left double click I get 14 choices. If I right click I get choices...
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    Five Little squares That Appear On My Screen

    Yes. The last 7-8 times I have not gotten the squares:D
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    Five Little squares That Appear On My Screen

    That's it. What is Gnome 3.34.1-?
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    Five Little squares That Appear On My Screen

    In the terminal after the $ I typed $DESKTOP_SESSION and just DESKTOP_SESSION. It said command not found.
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    Five Little squares That Appear On My Screen

    I tried to do a screen shot. No luck. So I'm typing it. Ubuntu 19.10 Device name xxxxxxEX58-UD3R Memory 15.6 GB Processor Intel core I7cpu [email protected] Graphics GeForce GT 630/PCle/SSE2 GNOME 3.34.1 OS type 64-bit Disk 320.1GB Is that what you want?
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    Five Little squares That Appear On My Screen

    If you mean the "software update" app. Yes, several times. If updating the "System" means something else then I don't know.
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    Five Little squares That Appear On My Screen

    ou can check that you have GNOME either from the Desktop Environment or from Terminal, as per this article http://tipsonubuntu.com/2019/05/30/check-gnome-version-ubuntu-18-04-higher/ If you don't have GNOME, then you will have one of Ubuntu MATE Ubuntu Budgie or Ubuntu Kylin I get "GNOME...
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    Five Little squares That Appear On My Screen

    Well Vrai, it is during the boot process. The last 5 or 6 times booting up, no squares. This morning squares again. Wizardfromoz I will check out the posts for sure. Thanks!
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    Five Little squares That Appear On My Screen

    Thank you! I will read the info. No squares yet. I hope you are not in the fire danger.
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    Five Little squares That Appear On My Screen

    Well, this is embarrassing. Each of the last ten times I have booted up the computer the squares appeared. This time they are gone. I have no idea why. I didn't do anything different. I guess I need to find a tutorial on how to open a file and get it to run.
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    Help Installing Programs in Ubuntu 19.10 GNOME

    I have downloaded three or four programs and don't know how to open them. They are "F-engrave", "arduino", "ugs-platform-app" and others. I am assuming there is a way for opening them up. For example "arduino" If I right click the first option is "Open with archive Manager". Clicking on...
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    Five Little squares That Appear On My Screen

    I guess I will just uninstall what I have and try reinstalling it since I have no idea what else to do.
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