[SWLUG] Ubuntu - the fixings

[Pete Prior]

Rhys Sage wrote:
> Looks like Ubuntu's working well. I plugged in a USB
> flash media reader and it reads my CF cards. It keeps
> asking if I want to import photos though and only
> wants to import my jpeg files rather than my mov and
> avi files. How do I get it to do all of them
> automatically?

MOV and AVI files aren't photos..

> 
> I've copied (via CF card) the RPM file for gnucash.
> How do I make it work on Ubuntu? So far I found that
> the RPM is the same as a zip file on Windows (with
> loads of folders inside, one curiously being called
> "etc"). Can I have simple blow-by-blow instructions on
> this please? Once I've done it once, I might be able
> to do it again.


Ubuntu doesn't use rpms.  Ubuntu uses .deb files.

As I said, do sudo apt-get install gnucash and it will sort out all the 
dependencies for you (one file is not enough - around 35 additional 
packages are needed - hence the suggestion to enable net access on the 
machine)
.
The alternative is to note what it wants to install, download all the 
.debs from an ubuntu archive mirror, and then move the .debs to 
/var/cache/apt/archive/ and rerun the sudo apt-get install gnucash command.

Pete