hi all, i am wondering if its possible to comminucate with friends in command line. something like messenger in comand line.
many thanks

hallo
my name is david and i am 16 years old. i started linux ubuntu about a year ago. i spend quite a lots of time on it, researching and learning different things about linux and unix. can you tell me please is there any way i could earn some pocket money with linux from home while i am spending time on it.
i am in school as well and i dont want to work part time on something else because after i cant spend time on linux. can you suggest me what to do please.
thank you very much appreciate it.

thank you very much for your help guys. i v done it. i updated my system offline and i also changed server link for updates and that solved. thank you very much appreciate it lol

oh i did reboot my laptop but it the same thing coming up all the time. i think there is some kind of bug or something like that. cos i cant remove or install anything.

sorry but what do you mean by rebooting client?

thank you very much for trying to help but it didnt work. this come up as a result;

(Reading database ... dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting:
unable to open files list file for package `linux-restricted-modules-2.6.27-11-generic': Stale NFS file handle
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)

hi all. i v got linux ubuntu 9.04 on my laptop and every time i try to uninstall something or install it wont let. it wont even let me to install updates. on update list i v got gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad but i cant put tick on it and it also says that its a distribution update. so every time i try to install updates or install some software or uninstall something this comes up in terminal:

(reading database ... dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting:
unable to open files list file for package 'linux-restricted-modules-2.6.17-11-generic' : stale NFS file handle
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:

can you help me please. thanks a lot.