[Sussex] Hello

[Jon Fautley]

Linux Alchemist wrote:
> Hi Jon - good name

Thanks :)

> Nothing major really just lots of little bits, e.g.
> 
> i) I want to install MythTV, it was not that straight forward, having to 
> use some cool perl thing "perl -MCPAN -e shell". Not that I didnt enjoy 
> it just didnt know what I was doing? Didnt get it installed either!

What distro? If you've not got a specific distribution choice, take a 
look at: http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php

That HOWTO basically makes it as simple as installing Fedora Core 4, 
adding a couple of other options, and doing a:

yum install mythtv

I've done it, and hardware problems aside, it seems to work quite well.

> ii) I had a problem with LimeWire were it would only work with root access?

Strange. Depends how you installed it, I suppose. Besides, 
Limewire/Gnutella is so 2003 - BitTorrent, man! ;)

> iii) Is there a GPL'd Java Run Time Environment?

See posting from Nic - I avoid Java wherever possible :)


> Note to all - Any SLUG in Chichester?

Not I - I'm not even in Sussex any more! ;)

Cheers,

/j

> On 05/05/06, *Jon Fautley* <jfautley at redhat.com 
> <mailto:jfautley at redhat.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Linux Alchemist wrote:
>      > Hello fellow SLUG's
>      >
>      > New linux user here, played with a bit in the past, but now has
>     replaced
>      > my Microsoft system ; )
>      >
>      > I have a few mini projects, but i got niggles with all of them.
>     Solution
>      > ... INSTALLFEST!!! Is there any planed?
> 
>     Hmm... installfests...
> 
>     Well, while I've not been to a moot for a while, I don't really think
>     they're the venue for a proper installfest (no network connectivity,
>     lack of power and space, etc).
> 
>     I suppose if you wanted you could organise one on behalf of the LUG -
>     that's what open source is all about :D
> 
>     Whats the problem you're having? :)
> 
>     /j
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