[ale] ubuntu install has no $PATH?
Rich Faulkner
rfaulkner at 34thprs.org
Tue Jul 26 11:15:45 EDT 2011
Yeah! I had it in the OEM boxing (and may still - dunno). Didn't see
it at the GGG...silly me!
Thanks!
Do you have original media/boxing? I could come by to get it as I live
close by...
On Tue, 2011-07-26 at 10:54 -0400, Jim Kinney wrote:
> I still have corel linux here (packrat giveaway didn't get all the
> hiding places!). Want it?
>
> On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 10:42 AM, Rich Faulkner
> <rfaulkner at 34thprs.org> wrote:
> Ah, Photoshop. I can understand why he keeps to it. I'm a
> graphics guy
> too and although I can live w/o Photoshop I do prefer
> CorelDraw (which
> BTW did have a Linux distro back in the 90's called Corel
> Linux that
> included their graphics suite - or at least part of it). I
> keep a VM of
> windows around for CorelDraw 10 for which I'm partial. Not
> too big on
> Inkscape or Gimp so far but too used to the graphics tools
> that I've
> used for over over a decade and a half. Thus I see where he's
> coming
> from...
>
> ...hmmm...makes me wonder if I still have my copy of Corel
> Linux? I
> know I had Photo Paint to go with it...
>
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, 2011-07-26 at 10:32 -0400, Jim Kinney wrote:
> > So call with my friend last night and his solution was to
> blow away
> > the install and install fedora 14 and all the updates. A few
> google
> > checks on how to install rpmfusion multi-media-everything
> and adobe
> > flash with the yum repo from both and he's all good to go.
> >
> > The hardware is a 6 year old laptop with a dead battery and
> a totally
> > flaky keyboard and touchpad. Were this for him he would have
> thrown
> > out the laptop but it's for an elderly neighbor who wants to
> just use
> > gmail to keep up with the grandkids.
> >
> > I suspect the bad keyboard was an issue but have no way of
> testing as
> > he's out of town relative to me.
> >
> > Now if I can get him to STOP USING PHOTOSHOP (photographer)
> and use
> > the gimp (book: "the gimp for photographers" is at
> microcenter!) he'll
> > cut all ties and be fully in Linux land.
> >
> > On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 10:50 PM, Jim Kinney
> <jim.kinney at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > A friend who is a very green Linux user installed
> Ubuntu
> > (latest whatever version) and went to install adobe
> flash. It
> > required some command line-fu (which he didn't have)
> so he
> > called me.
> >
> > -> I'm not an ubuntu person <-
> >
> > So I was trying to find out what file type he was
> trying to
> > install so I asked hi to open a terminal (he was in
> the normal
> > X session) and run ls and tell me the name of the
> file he
> > downloaded.
> >
> > It errored with "no command or file by than name".
> So I had
> > him do a "pwd". Same error. Ditto on "echo $PATH"
> >
> > W T F !!!!!
> >
> > the command he _needed_ to run was sudo apt-get
> flash.....
> > but he couldn't recall if it was saved in the
> Downloads
> > directory or the home directory. So he tried to cd
> and it
> > failed.
> >
> > Unfortunately, we were talking over the cell phones
> while I
> > was in a busy and loud store so literally spelling
> out each
> > letter of a working PATH "alpha bravo charlie" style
> was not
> > going to happen.
> >
> > Now I have been pretty harsh on messed up distro
> stupids in
> > the past but I can't fathom how an install could
> complete and
> > leave no working path variables set.
> >
> > Any ideas how during an install (that appeared to
> conclude
> > correctly) Ubuntu could have left off PATH? More
> importantly,
> > ideas on how to NOT recreate this?
> >
> > --
> > --
> > James P. Kinney III
> >
> > As long as the general population is passive,
> apathetic,
> > diverted to consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable,
> then the
> > powerful can do as they please, and those who
> survive will be
> > left to contemplate the outcome.
> > - 2011 Noam Chomsky
> >
> > http://heretothereideas.blogspot.com/
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > --
> > James P. Kinney III
> >
> > As long as the general population is passive, apathetic,
> diverted to
> > consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful
> can do as
> > they please, and those who survive will be left to
> contemplate the
> > outcome.
> > - 2011 Noam Chomsky
> >
> > http://heretothereideas.blogspot.com/
> >
>
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> James P. Kinney III
>
> As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to
> consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as
> they please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the
> outcome.
> - 2011 Noam Chomsky
>
> http://heretothereideas.blogspot.com/
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