[Scottish] Kubuntu help.....?

[babaguy]

Dear Scribbler, Kyle, William and Willie, 



Thank you for the sound advice. I will do my best to follow all of it and should be occupied and out of your inboxes for some time!

But seriously, there isn't any need for name-calling or rudeness. I have never been anything but courteous (if slow, by your lights), and grateful for all your time and help, as I am now. It may be worthwhile remembering that there are at least nine different types of intelligence, and each learns better in some ways than others. 

For example, some may learn more quickly by hearing, some by seeing, some by reading, some by physically doing, and so on. I am, and have been, doing my best with these distros, no matter what it may seem to any of you. I hope the moderator of this list wags a finger at those whose exasperation drives them to hurl personal epithets. However, from my POV, no offense taken. And the Kubuntu is much easier to deal with than the Breezy (hole-y?) version of Ubuntu I struggled with before.....Thanks again, all,   Paul 











 --- On Mon 03/12, Kyle Gordon < kyle at lodge.glasgownet.com > wrote:

From: Kyle Gordon [mailto: kyle at lodge.glasgownet.com]

To: babaguy at myway.com

Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 09:14:48 +0000

Subject: Re: [Scottish] Kubuntu help.....?



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?Kylewillie 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>> _______________________________________________> Scottish mailing list> Scottish at mailman.lug.org.uk> https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish>>   

_______________________________________________
No banners. No pop-ups. No kidding.
Make My Way  your home on the Web - http://www.myway.com