error messages installing .deb file

[Danny Colligan]

>
> Does anyone know a way of copying text in Terminal to the clipboard so I
> can paste it into a document in Openoffice Writer or whatever thing for
> reading text?
> I ask because with me being Totally Blind reviewing the error messages
> when I type the terminal command to install the package when trying to
> install Network Manager seems a bit long winded, it is not as simple as
> doing CTRLA and going into something like Nano or VI or even going back
> to the Gnome Desktop and pasting it into Writer and someone seemed a bit
> impatient with me as a new user because I couldn't say what the error
> messages were when trying to install this .deb package I got using
> Firefox in Windows.
> I started to write it out but I kept getting lost trying to review it.
> It was some kind of dependency error where files I think like libnl1.
> libnm-util or something like that and there was another package name
> wcouldn't be installed and it seemed to be questioning the need for
> these 3 files.
> I am still a bit of a Newby to Ubuntu and have only managed to install
> one package so far when I was at my LUG which was the S-Backup
> application which unfortunately didn't work with speech or it didn't
> with the early version of Orca I had.
> The chap trying to help me install Ubuntu on my Desktop took away my
> Edgy disk that I managed to burn to see if it was causing the problems I
> was having with installing it ie the Grub not being installed on the
> hard drive so I haven't got my Edgy Desktop CD and don't have any CDs to
> burn a new copy on as most of the disks I have are DVDs.


Normally, the way to cut and paste in Ubuntu is by simply highlighting
text.  Paste by hitting the scroll wheel on your mouse, or the left and
right mouse button at the same time.  This is the most convenient way to cut
and paste from the terminal, and the only way I know of.  There are some
drawbacks to this method: when you close a window that you just copied from,
the copied content from that window on the clipboard is also lost; also,
it's very easy to accidentally highlight other things, especially in the
terminal.  One solution to the first problem is the GNOME Clipboard
Daemon... see this thread:
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-10319.html

There is a separate clipboard that can be controlled with more Windows-ish
key combos like CTRL+C, CTRL+V and CTRL+X.  Don't try and use this with a
terminal, though... CTRL+C will send a keyboard interrupt, for instance.

Danny Colligan
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