[juneau-lug] Re: Fixed flash drive, new problems with Ubuntu
- From: "Stephen E. Bodnar" <sbodnar@xxxxxxx>
- To: juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 06:03:01 -0800
Nels - I'm assuming you are on broadband, GCI cable or
something similar. I've had problems with certain
servers too - I never could get a full uncorrupted
edubuntu even over the University wire where I work.
You may have to take a step back in time and just do
the old wget/checksum dance for emacs until you get a
clean one.
Stephen
Nels Tomlinson wrote:
> Stephen, I think that most of my install problems are on the server end;
> when I try to do apt-get update, the universe package file, in particular,
> arrives corrupted, and I've learned that emacs is in universe. So, once I
> can successfully do apt-get update, most of my problems will be solved.
> Nels
>
> On 6/15/07, Stephen E. Bodnar <sbodnar@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Nels:
>>
>> Maybe no one has built the .deb yet. Hard to believe, but
>> stranger things have happened! Maybe it's your turn...
>>
>> As to install, I'm on the server version so there is no X
>> let alone Nautilus, so install is just sudo apt-get install whatever
>> and I'm doing all the configuration I need through webmin from
>> a remote desktop - the server is down in the "hole" and I
>> hate listening to all that fan whine when I'm working.
>>
>> Stephen
>>
>> Nels Tomlinson wrote:
>>> Chris, I'm also really inpressed by Feisty. I plugged in my ancient
>> Palm
>>> Pilot, and there was a daemon listening when I hit the sync button. It
>> was
>>> never that easy when I was using Sarge. I think I might like Evolution,
>> if
>>> I can figure out what's happening to the email messages it downloads (I
>>> think that's a problem with Evolution), and why it can't find some of my
>>> accounts (that's probably my fault).
>>> Stephen, this was by far the easiest install, with the least
>> configuration,
>>> ever. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be any way to do much
>> additional
>>> configuration afterwards, either. I was hoping that I could find emacs
>> as a
>>> deb for Feisty and point apt at it, but I've installed from a tarball
>>> before. It sucks, but it's sort of do-able.
>>>
>>> I found where to get sloppy focus: it was in the windows section of the
>>> preferences menu. I still haven't found where to tell it to open a file
>>> with a single click rather than a double click.
>>>
>>> Nels
>>>
>>>
>>> On 6/15/07, Stephen E. Bodnar <sbodnar@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> Nels:
>>>>
>>>> There's a brand new version of Emacs stable out, June 2, 2007.
>>>> It's listed here: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/
>>>> so you can download it directly from the Gnu.
>>>>
>>>> I have Fiesty Fawn running on a server too and I'm
>>>> amazed how simple it is to install and configure.
>>>> At last!
>>>>
>>>> Stephen
>>>>
>>>> Nels Tomlinson wrote:
>>>>> Hello, All,
>>>>> I fixed that problem I was having with not being able to mount the
>> flash
>>>>> drive on Debian by installing Ubuntu Feisty Fawn. The flash drive now
>>>>> auto-mounts. I do have some new problems, though, and I'd surely
>>>> appreciate
>>>>> some insights.
>>>>>
>>>>> First, there seems to be no install candidate for emacs? I've tried
>> the
>>>>> main and U.S. repositories. Any ideas on where to find emacs? I'm
>> kind
>>>> of
>>>>> lost without it.
>>>>>
>>>>> Second, in KDE and Debian, I was able to use sloppy focus and single
>>>> clicks
>>>>> rather than double. Can I do that with Gnome and Ubuntu? Without
>>>> single
>>>>> clicks and sloppy focus, Gnome is too much like Windows for comfort.
>>>>>
>>>>> I do like having more modern versions of everything.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>
>>>>> Nels
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