Accessing Usenet News Groups

[Liam Proven]

On 10 July 2012 13:41, GaryT <taig at melbpc.org.au> wrote:
> Would someone help please.
>
> OS is Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid)
>
> I installed Pan newsreader from the Software Centre, completed the Server
> configuration details, user name and password etc but when started, Pan does
> not access the server. It is supposed to download and display a list of
> available newsgroups.
>
> The same details I use to access the server from a different Linux machine
> (Intrepid) using Agent running on Wine and everything works perfectly but
> that's an entirely different installation. I mention it only to confirm that
> the login details and the IP address are correct.
>
> Reading widely I saw it mentioned in several places that someone in a
> similar situation needed to have the gtk libraries installed. Checking with
> the Synaptic Package manager I find there are 3 lots of GTK2 Theme Engine
> libraries installed and a dozen or more gtk libraries NOT installed.  There
> is also a bunch of GTK2 libraries NOT installed.
>
> Am I heading in the right direction?
> If yes, Which libraries SHOULD be installed?
> If not, where else could the problem be?

Try with Thunderbird.

This will help determine if it is a network problem.

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