Looking to use Linux (Ubuntu?)

Have you switched on the multiverse in Software Sources ?

I also Wouldn't have removed Empathy before installing emesene.


btw.. don't type in commands... c & p them !!

Keep plugging at it. If you can't suss it here then register on UbuntuForums and ask there.
 
Yeah I copy pasted all those commands so far.

I tried using the facebook plugin for pidgin... guess what. That doesn't work either! So it's not just MSN protocol. Something's fudging all these IM clients up.
 
Try

Code: 
sudo aptitude install python-msn
This fixed the exact same issue for me. It's basically a missing library for the MSN protocol. ;) If that doesn't work then try:

Code: 
sudo apt-get remove telepathy-butterfly

Empathy (and others) should now use telepathy-haze by default which should solve the problem.
 
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post errors or explain what you have tried and what the problem is do you think.

also search on ubuntu forums and linux questions forums cause it is more likely than not that somone has had exactly the same problem.

not pushing you away but those places got me up and running, it is a pain when you first start cause it is such a change, you find that everything you want to install requires google searches and reading and reading .. :/
 
I have done 8+ hours of reading through the Ubuntu forums since I got it last night! Hundreds of people have had the same issue as me, with hundreds of different solutions. It shouldn't have to be like this. With every hour that passes that this simple little task becomes herculean, I become more frustrated and more inclined to spend £70 on Windows 7 and simply forget Ubuntu ever existed. Right now I don't want to do that if I know the alternatives are just as good, but I am extremely discouraged.

This is such nonsense.
 
It's not just MSN accounts, facebook and AOL accounts don't seem to work either. I've given up on it for now, as I can still use the facebook site chat. Been looking around the OS' other features as I haven't properly done that yet. So far I've got Wine downloaded, and managed to get Spotify working :D

Hopefully I'll be able to get WoW working on it too - I've seen people run it successfully. I'd be in Nirvana then.
 
wow is easy to get working apparently.

Maybe download linux mint and see if that fixes your issues, it's ubuntu with a new skin and some codecs. Maybe, just maybe it will fix your other issues.
 
Might try that sometime. I'm currently trying to figure out how to disable the bass speaker for my sound set up - it's a 6.1 surround setup but I only have the three front speakers plugged in plus the bass. When I play music, it comes from all of them which is nice, because Vista and 7 only used the front left and right ones. So now I'm stuck with 4 speakers instead of 2, but I want to disable the bass, any ideas? It's absolutely thumping down even on quiet songs.

I go on to system - preferences - sound, but it's not very customizable at all. Output only lets me select HDMI or Analog Stereo (which is currently enabled). Any programs out there where it would for example, graphically display my speaker setup and I can pick the ones I want to disable? Much like Realtek's programs for Windows.
 
Tried that, there's a myriad of speaker options, for front, sides, the lot but not the bass speaker :confused: funny that, as the bass speaker is considered the most integral of the bunch. I can't exactly just unplug the bass speaker either, it acts as the central unit for the other speakers.
 
this is why unfortunately many people are put off by linux.. the small niggles that you are experiencing can put people off for good. and leave a bad taste in their mouth. im suprised you haven't lost your rag with it yet!

don't get me wrong, im not anti linux, i love using it, its just these minor niggles and bugs put me off switching for good.

i think you may be better off trying mint rather than ubuntu. that seems to work better out the box (for me anyway)
 
I tried sorting the whole instant messaging thing again. It gets extremely super weird now. I tried both of my MSN accounts - one gmail and one hotmail - on all the online web messengers on the first page of the google search for them. Every single one of them got an authentication failure. All the IM clients on Ubuntu got an authentication failure too.

Yet on my sister's Windows laptop, I can log in her Windows Live messenger and on the web messengers just fine. How bizarre :confused:
 
Weird that people put up with niggles from windows without complaint.

Mint's certainly worth a shot. Have you run memtest on the computer recently?

^That is (also) weird.
 
The fact that it comes with Internet Explorer, no antivirus, not that many pre installed programs and no easy access to new ones, its instability compared to *nix based OSes?
 
no easy access to new programs? have you been to softpedia? anti virus is not needed unless you're downloading rubbish off limewire or torrent sites. IE is uninstallable in windows 7.

windows 7 is also very stable. from what ive experienced so far.

dont get me wrong i want linux to do better than windows. but unfortunately at the moment, it doesn't :(
 
I think they both have their good and bad points. I've been using Windows for years, and only ever gave Linux a small shot every now and then. I'd like to try the other side now. Despite the very bad start I'm willing to put more time into it.

I have to agree with the easy access to new features and programs on the Linux side of things (Ubuntu at least) - you can go either into Software Centre or Synaptic, do a search and every program that's available for the OS is there for the taking, instead of doing individual website and program searches. It's something Windows really could use. Ubuntu also came with a myriad of programs, such as a media player, bittorrent client, web browser, office software, image editing software, and so on. So I haven't actually installed anything that I would need to get back to my old Windows routine.

If I had the minor problems sorted, such as the instant messaging conundrum and the inability to specify which speakers should and shouldn't play - I really could not justify spending money on any alternatives, unless it was for gaming. It's just that compared to Windows, it's nearly impossible to see exactly where the problem lies.
 
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