[Scottish] Kubuntu help.....?

[Kyle Gordon]

Sound advice, but one thing concerns me... this is Kubuntu. There should
be a menu at the bottom left, doing its best to imitate the Windows
start button.

Paul: Is there such a menu? If so, what is in it? There should be items
such as Internet, Multimedia, Office and others. Are they there?

Kyle


willie wrote:
> 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
>
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