[Scottish] Kubuntu help.....?

[willie]

On Sunday 11 March 2007 22:48, babaguy wrote:
> Dear SLUG,
>
excellent, we can read this stuff now :-)
> I have installed the KUBUNTU recommended by the Scribbler. I now cannot see
> how to install any programmes not included in the pre-selected lists ("KDE,
> GNOME, ANY SUITE")in Adept Package Manager/Updates.

OK , apologies if this seems irrelevant and pedantic at first.

Are you definately booting from the hard disk and have you removed the install 
CD from the drive?

copy the output from these commands into your next msg
at the command-line type 

uname -a

df -h
 
 let's check if you can get to a text editor of some sort.

at the command-line type 

/usr/bin/kate &

You may get some errors in the terminal but ignore them for now, KDE can be 
like that.KDE Advanced Text Editor 'kate' should open.
OK so far?



moving on ...

Are you definately running  Adept as root?


Select Adept from  Kmenu | System

Does it prompt you for your password?

OR

Back to the command line....

type 

sudo adept

Enter your password  as requested and look at Adept Package Manager again.

Any joy?


>
> Before any of your jump on me for not having R'd TFM, I *have* been R'ing
> TFM for the past two days. This morning I was on Marcel Gagne's site and
> another individual with exactly this problem has a post there - the only
> (remotely) helpful reply tells him to go into "Adept Package Manager >
> Manage packages..."
>
>
>
> The problem with this is that on my system the only option Adept Pkg. Mgr.
> presents me with is "Adept Package Manager>Quit?"

>
>
> I downloaded RealPlayer for Linux - it parked itself on the desktop (as
> things did in my dodgy Breezy Ubuntu) and then no matter what combination
> of commands I have been able to muster from the man pages, it still will
> not recognise where the pkg is - even if I put the equivalent of "It's on
> the desktop!" in the command -

this may be a .tgz file which isn't immediately useable by the Ubuntu package 
manager. Dont worry about it for now

>
> This Kubuntu also gives me the unsettling message "File protocal died
> suddenly." upon booting the desktop - also some other file process also  "
> - died suddenly." (I think this is just a dumb anomaly, because as soon as
> one clicks "Okay" it seems to carry on happily booting...)
>
Dunno    KDE can be like that sometimes -usually it carries on working 
apparently fine - someone else may sort this for you 

If you can paste the exact errors in the next msg it would help.

 ettiquette warning
Dont paste huge long 50+ line errors in list mailings unless specifically 
asked to.
 Learn how to send them as attachments to those who specifically ask for them
or make them available from your own webspace. There is no shame in using 
Windows to do this for now :-)

>
> Should I get ANOTHER Kubuntu, or - as Seago has suggested - Slackware, or
> what? These problems seems to be in the compiling of my particular
> packages/versions - I feel pretty sure most of you don't have an Adept
> Package Manager, for example, whose only FILE/ADEPT option is "Quit?"
>
Not just yet. The install CD will have an option to check the CD when you 
initially booted. Have you run that check? If not do it now. If its OK then 
it is highly unlikely that you have a corrupted install.
Stick with Kubuntu - its probably the most used distro in here for now I 
think. More folk can help and its pretty simple. 
>
> If you can offer any guidance, I'd appreciate it. (I've e-mailed one of the
> super users on Linux questions but got a reply regarding something else
> entirely asking me to write about another far more involved problem
> altogether.) I'd just like to download and install some software,
> please.....
Yeah I know, you just want to get on and its intensely frustrating. We've all 
been there for varying periods of time and its not nice.

<NEWSFLASH>
On the other hand, it seems you have been bothering lots of people in the 
Glasgow Open Source community with constant demands for  help.
Your recent reported behaviour means I have to reluctantly concur with the 
majority of folk here who think you are the kind of guy that gets honest 
masturbators a very bad name indeed.
Your address is now black-listed on my machines.

Now move slowly away from the keyboard and never ever go back near one,

Best Regards
Willie Fleming