[ale] ubuntu install has no $PATH?
Rich Faulkner
rfaulkner at 34thprs.org
Tue Jul 26 12:22:25 EDT 2011
Tempting. That will run on PowerPC will it not?
On Tue, 2011-07-26 at 11:25 -0400, Jim Kinney wrote:
> Oops. My bad. What I was looking at (upside down and no glasses) was a
> box top that said Caldera Systems.
>
> It is a full Open Linux 2.3 from caldera systems. It has applixware
> 4.4.2, star office 5.1, and WordPerfect 8. Not the tool set you were
> looking for.
>
> You can still have it! It has the box, 3 cd's and the book. I have an
> applixware book I'll throw in for only double the money, $0!
>
> On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 11:15 AM, Rich Faulkner
> <rfaulkner at 34thprs.org> wrote:
> 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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> --
> 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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