ubuntu-users Digest, Vol 57, Issue 183

[sg1]

On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 21:12 +0800, sg1 wrote:
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> Hi
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> Every one keeps on saying that there Grand Mother and six year old son
> can use Ubunta, the problem is that it is easy to install and use email
> and surfing the web but when it comes to installing programs is next to
> impossible, I do not mean the add/remove programs, but programs that
> have been independently written, one waste so much time on trying to
> install the programs with out any success like collabcad.
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> The instructions said quote "After downloading the file, type the
> following command 
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> tar xvzf collabcad.tgz 
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> This will install CollabCAD on your system by creating the directory
> called ccad.
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> Typed in "tar xvzf collabcad.tgz" into terminal window and just error
> messages appeared.
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> There is no where on the help menu or web page that tells anyone on how
> to use the terminal properly to install programs.
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> I spent hours trying to use terminal or days to be more honest, all
> these web site tell you how to install these programs but just errors
> occur.
> I went to the Ubunta home page to find out how to use the IRC chat
> channel without any success the help pages just keep going around in
> circles that do not tell you how to install or how to use the programs.
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> I think it is just quicker to go back to XP.
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> On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 12:00 +0100, ubuntu-users-request at lists.ubuntu.com
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> >    1. Re: The future of Ubuntu Linux.... Will it make Micky$oft go
> >       bankrupt? (Graham Todd)
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> > On Sat, 2009-05-09 at 16:45 +0800, Claire Taylor wrote:
> Yes it is :-)
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> > sg1 wrote:
> > > Hi
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> > > Dose your email work?
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> > > Craig
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> > Message: 1
> > Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 11:57:08 +0100
> > From: Graham Todd <grahamtodd2 at googlemail.com>
> > Subject: Re: The future of Ubuntu Linux.... Will it make Micky$oft go
> > 	bankrupt?
> > To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> > Message-ID: <20090512115708.42111130 at graham-desktop>
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> > On Tue, 12 May 2009 10:57:23 +0300
> > Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > Only version 2.x of Skype, which is far behind the Windows version in
> > > terms of features. Recently Skype had a contest that to enter required
> > > one to use the Windows version of Skype only to enter: Linux Skype
> > > users could not participate.
> > [snipped]
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> > I don't know why uses on Linux persist in using Skype.  SIP can be used
> > by a wide variety of softphones (eg. ekigia, twinkle, linphone, etc),
> > there are wide variety of providers, and usually I find the audio
> > better.
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> > My provider of choice, Freespeech, has an offer of a free Voip gateway
> > at the moment, to connect home phones to the Voip services.
> > (http://www.freespeech.co.uk/home/index.html)
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> > SIP is a wholly free protocol (as in unfettered) and I do not see the
> > need to use Skype for anything else but circumstances (such as the
> > office system) where you can't ditch it.
> > 
> > -- 
> > 
> > Graham Todd
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