Grub Recovery After Installing Windows

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Many of us face the problem to boot to ubuntu when we install Windows over it as the system directly boots to windows on startup. So what to do this in case?How to recover the grub so that we can boot to the OS we want and not what the system wants. Here is a simple solution for the problem.

Step.1

Insert the Ubuntu Live CD, reboot your computer and at startup set your system to boot from CD and start a live session.
Live USB can also be used for this purpose.

Step.2

Open Terminal. Make sure you are connected to the internet. Now install boot-repair following the below mentioned steps:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yannubuntu/boot-repair
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install boot-repair

The boot-repair has successfully been installed to your system now.

Step.3

Now run boot-repair. For those who do not know how to run a program in Ubuntu, press super key(windows key is called super key in Ubuntu), a dash menu will appear, type-in boot-repair and run the program.

You can also run it by simply running the command <boot-repair &> in the terminal.

Step.4

Now boot-repair menu will appear on the screen click on the Recommended Repair, wiat for the process to complete and restart your computer.
Whoa! The GRUB menu has been successfully recovered.

How to Install Prezi on Ubuntu

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First of all install Adobe-Air.

Step.1: Download Adobe-Air-2.6


Step.2: Download getlibs-all.deb


Step.3: Install it. In terminal cd, to the directory you stored “getlibs-all.deb” and run the following command.

sudo dpkg -i getlibs-all.deb

It is useful for finding 32-bit libraries for 64-bit system.


Step.4: Now install libhal-storage1, lib32nss-mdns, and libgnome-keyring0 if it’s not installed.

sudo apt-get install libhal-storage1 libgnome-keyring0 lib32nss-mdns

Step.5: Now, we need to install all the missing 32-bit libraries that it will need.

sudo getlibs -l libhal-storage.so.1
sudo getlibs -l libgnome-keyring.so.0.1.1

Step.6: Now you need to link a couple of libraries.

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgnome-keyring.so.0 /usr/lib/libgnome-keyring.so.0

Step.7: Now run the actual Air installer. In terminal cd, to the directory you stored “AdobeAIRInstaller.bin” and run the following command.

chmod +x ./AdobeAIRInstaller.bin
sudo ./AdobeAIRInstaller.bin

This starts installing the Adobe-AIR on your system.


Now install Prezi

Step.1: Download the Prezi package.


Step.2: Open Adobe-Air in your computer and it will prompt you to choose a package.


Step.3: Select the downloaded “.air” package that you just downloaded and you are all set to install Prezi.