[ale] ubuntu install has no $PATH?

Tue Jul 26 14:51:36 EDT 2011

I don't think so. It says it's for i386.
On Jul 26, 2011 1:43 PM, "Rich Faulkner" <rfaulkner at 34thprs.org> wrote:
> 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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