[ubuntu-in] hello! new to list-- 3 questions

[Mehul Ved]

2009/3/16 suranjan jii <suranjan.suranjan at gmail.com>:
> Hello there!
>
> My name is Suranjan, and I am just new to Linux. I am a college professor in
> Buxar, Bihar and am interested in spreading the news about Linux to all the
> professors, staff, and students in our institution.

Welcome to the list and the community.

> I myself just recently learned about Linux, and am keenly interested. I have
> been searching an alternative to windows for a long time, and feel I have
> finally found the answer here in Ubuntu.
>
> I do have three questions, the first of which is critical. If someone is
> able to guide me about the second two as well, it will be a very great help
> to me.
>
> 1. My internet connection is WLL, which is provided by VSNL. Kindly guide me
> as to how to configure my Ubuntu (version 7.10, Gutsy) so that I can get on
> line. Is any special software needed? The connection is via USB port.

Try http://www.thinkdigit.com/forum/showthread.php?p=876989

> 2. SCIM is present in Gutsy, and I would like to use it with Hindi. I have
> located the setup utility in System -> Preferences, but cannot get the
> actual program to open. According to the setup utility, the program should
> be triggered to open upon hitting "shift-space" or "ctrl-space", but upon
> doing so nothing happens. Even when a text file is open.

Check https://wiki.ubuntu.com/InputMethods/SCIM/Setup
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SCIM

> 3. I have tried to install a linux spell-checker for use with Hindi which is
> supposed to work in Ubuntu. It is called "aspell6-hi-0.02-0", and installs
> in terminal using the commands "./configure", "make", and "sudo make
> install". The configure command works fine, but when I give the "make"
> command, I get an error "Nothing to be done for `all'", as seen below.
> Please kindly guide as to how to correct this so that the "make" command
> will work.
>
> :~/Desktop/aspell6-hi-0.02-0$ ./configure
> Finding Dictionary file location ... /usr/lib/aspell
> Finding Data file location ... /usr/lib/aspell
> :~/Desktop/aspell6-hi-0.02-0$ make
> make: Nothing to be done for `all'.
> :~/Desktop/aspell6-hi-0.02-0$

No need to do all this. The package should be available in the
repository itself.
Just do
sudo apt-get install aspell-hi
or it maybe aspell6-hi

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