Comments on: How to Install Globalmenu-panel-applet on Ubuntu 9.04

By: Jose'

Jose' — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 14:55:59 +0000

You still type in your password. it doesn’t show, but type in your login password and hit enter, then it will complete the install

By: Angelo Oliveira

Angelo Oliveira — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 23:33:59 +0000

I have followed the steps in your guide and i have installed the menu applet on ubuntu 9.0.4 running gnome, and it just shows a simple little menu on the top bar. I want to make it look like mac os x, just like in the picture. I have just dewindowed myself and i am grateful, but it means there’s lots to learn. Do i have to get the mac style menus and add the to globalmenu?

By: disable

disable — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 08:14:25 +0000

@Jyri thanks! purge && install really helps

By: Jyri

Jyri — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 08:22:26 +0000

I found solution:
sudo apt-get remove globalmenu* –purge
sudo apt-get install gnome-globalmenu

After that it installed ok!

By: Jyri

Jyri — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 08:17:10 +0000

I have tried to install Global menu several times, but it gives me every time same error:
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/gnome-globalmenu_0.7.5-0ubuntu1~ppa1_all.deb (–unpack):
trying to overwrite `/usr/share/doc/gnome-globalmenu/README’, which is also in package gnome2-globalmenu-applet
Processing triggers for man-db …
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/gnome-globalmenu-common_0.7.5-0ubuntu1~ppa1_all.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/gnome-globalmenu_0.7.5-0ubuntu1~ppa1_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

What could be the reason / solution?

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 04:34:35 +0000

With thisp piece of code “$ wget http://gnome2-globalmenu.googlecode.com/files/GlobalMenuKey.gpg && sudo apt-key add GlobalMenuKey.gpg ” it comes up with this line of code “[sudo] password for swenflea:”

P.S. wont let me type my password, HELP!!!