help with setup

[Billie Walsh]

On 01/14/2015 05:43 AM, Bill Vance wrote:
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> On Wed, 14 Jan 2015, Thomas wrote:
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>> On 2015/01/13 21:59, Bill Vance wrote:
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>>> On Tue, 13 Jan 2015, Thomas Blasejewicz wrote:
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>>>> Good evening
>>>> I would like to ask for help setting this thing (kubuntu) up.
>>>> I have been trying to get friendly with "linux" for YEARS and was 
>>>> forced to reinstall all sort of distros
>>>> a million times already, but never get through it without any 
>>>> problems.
>>>> And when I actually managed to set the OS up somehow, installing 
>>>> some piece of software has sent it MANY times
>>>> over the edge in a fashion, that at least I was not capable of 
>>>> recovering ... requiring reinstallation again and again ...
>>>>
>>>> Right now, I freshly installed kubuntu 14.04 (deleting everything 
>>>> else that was on the disk), after an installation of xubuntu 
>>>> ("tuxtrans" to be precise),
>>>> went wacko and I could not recover it.
>>>
>>> 14.04 Is known for being _very_ unfriendly to older 
>>> machines/processors,
>>> especially if they're AMD.  If that's the case here, you have only
>>> two options:  One is to upgrade, and try again.  The other is to 
>>> install
>>> 12.04 instead, which is stable, and works well on moderately older
>>> machines.  Both are LTS, (Long Term Support), versions, though 12.04 is
>>> coming down to the end of it's support time, which means no more 
>>> program
>>> updates after that.
>>>
>>> Bill
>>>
>> Thank you.
>> The machine is at home and I am at work, so I cannot really tell you 
>> the details, but:
>> Mouse notebook computer, 500 GB HDD, 4 GB RAM, 4-core Intel chip with 
>> 3.xxx GB clock speed ...
>> Is that considered to be "old" (old as in "useless")?
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> I wouldn't think so, though I have no experience with one of these.
> More below.
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>> I DID install kubuntu 14.04 from the SAME CD on a Dell Inspiron 1545 
>> with slightly less fancy specs
>> and there it works ... I would say almost "fine".
>> Including all the settings for the touch pad, the Japanese input 
>> system (Anthy), which I downloaded via Muon Package Manager.
>> On this Mouse computer the Muon Package Manager tells me, however, 
>> there IS NO Anthy in the sofware repositories.
>> That cannot be a hardware problem, can it?
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> I don't have a use for it, and so don't know.  Try to see if it has a
> web page.  If you're using google, try the following in your browsers
> search window:
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>    kubuntu+14.04+Anthy+.deb
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> The plus signs tell google to bring up _only_ those pages that have
> _all_ of the search words.  Other pages with just some of the search
> words can show up, but only after the others appear.
>
> Bill
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The muon package manager sucks. It doesn't show everything that is 
available. The first thing I ALWAYS do on a clean install is install 
Synaptic package manager. You have to do it in a terminal because Muon 
can't find it either.  I can't guarantee that what you want is in the 
repositories but if it is Synaptic will find it.

sudo apt-get install synaptic

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