camera not recognised

[norman]

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>    > Standard caution against downloading and installing applications from
>    > untrusted sources applies here.
>    > 
>    > Of course, there's always the options of compiling and installing
>    > libgphoto2 2.4.0 yourself, or just waiting and upgrading to gutsy when
>    > it's released.
>    > 
> I feel getting a card reader is the best option. 

My thanks to all for replying. There are some good ideas and the next
release of Ubuntu is not far away.

Norman