Thread: CMN goes Linux

Originally Posted by friscofrankie

I have yet to see a package manger that installs applications or libraries under /usr/local/ they will usually mix them up under /usr, with libs in /usr/lib and executables under /usr/bin. maybe some apps will go under the /opt directory tree.

Absolutely, they will install the shit in about everywhere, the /opt being the most annoying, or worst breaking compatibilities if you had dared installed your own version of a bin somewhere under /usr/bin

basically you lose control of your setup and have to hope that some fuckwit did the proprer testing before deploying the package, since they can't do as it's an impossible task to have it 100% right

Originally Posted by NickA

you talk CMN through manually compiling his software, I'll teach him how to use a package manager.

very easy, even a retard like CMN with enough training could do it

cd package-XXXX ; more README ; ./configure --prefix=/usr/local etc...

make ; make install

Done !!!

well, that was easy.


how do i make the font bigger though.

the writing on teakdoor is all small.

i have got azureus running, but when i click on download torrent, the firefox thingummy that shows you what file you have downloaded is very different to the one in windows.

i don't seem to have the option of just clicking on the torrent file to open it.

Originally Posted by Butterfly

Absolutely, they will install the shit in about everywhere, the /opt being the most annoying, or worst breaking compatibilities if you had dared installed your own version of a bin somewhere under /usr/bin

Most distros comply to the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard

: http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html

and install apps and lib according to this standard. Old executables and libs (including deps) are deleted when you update a pkg.

And about /opt, it's rarely used by most pkg managers:

Code:

[wallalai[at]desktop ~]$ ls -al /opt
total 8
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 2008-03-19 20:21 ./
drwxr-xr-x 20 root adm  4096 2008-06-09 11:54 ../

also, i need all my windows passwords for torrent sites and forums.

is there any way of getting them from windows without booting into my windows system?

also, how do i make vlc my default media player and azureus my default torrent client?

^^ When you download a torrent the firefox's dialog box will pop and you have to chose "Open with" and then browse where your azureus executable is (/usr/bin/azureus or /usr/local/bin/azureus); then you can choose "Always open with" in the pop-up window.

Actually if the .torrent is downloaded it should be in /home/chiangmainoon/.azureus/torrents. From there right-click on the .torrent file and choose: open with.

To make vlc your default video app right-click on any video file type and like for torrents "Open with" then "always use this program" in the dialog box.

About passwords for torrents and forums I don't know, I never register them in firefox.

Originally Posted by Wallalai

To make vlc your default video app right-click on any video file type and like for torrents "Open with" then "always use this program" in the dialog box.

thank you.

Originally Posted by Wallalai

To make vlc your default video app right-click on any video file type and like for torrents "Open with" then "always use this program" in the dialog box.

i don't get that option unfortunately.

Originally Posted by friscofrankie

Probably not; you might just want to change your passwords to something yu can remembe

sod that, i can't even remember my names on some of the forums let alone the password.

i like this ubuntu thing though.

very sleek.

i think i'll keep using it.

Originally Posted by ChiangMai noon

chatting to a chap down the pub the other day and he told me the new ubuntu system was the easiest for non tek heads to use.

think I'll give it a go.

Originally Posted by ChiangMai noon

i like this ubuntu thing though.

very sleek.

i think i'll keep using it.

That chap is pleased that you are pleased.


JxP

^
was that you?

bugger me.

small bloody world.



is it my co-incidence that i have installed at a time when the internet is sharp? or is browsing much quicker than in windows?

btw, i must thank jardine for helping me out with the install.

love the add/delete programmes function.

needn't fuck around with google searches or anything.

Some sites save your password encrypted in cookies others may not store them and then you save them in your password manager or whatever. This you cannot retrieve so create new passwords and try to remember them long enough to log in using windows and ubuntu

Originally Posted by friscofrankie

and then you save them in your password manager

do i have one of them?

^ Included by default in Firefox

Originally Posted by Wallalai

^ Included by default in Firefox

never to fukk.


how do i find it?

Originally Posted by ChiangMai noon

i don't get that option unfortunately.

Which file manager are you using?

On most of them you right click the file, then click on properties. It will have something like this...



click on the tools icon on the right, then you'll get....



Move the application (vlc) that you want to the top of the list, or add it if it isn't there.

If you don't get anything like this, tell me which file manager you are using.

For firefox, go to Edit-Preferences-Contebt-Files types and click on "manage"

Find TORRENT, click on change action, click on "open with this app" then click on browse, find /usr/bin/azureus (I think) and click on that.

When you log in a site with a username and password Firefox will ask you if you want to : remember, or not this time, or never for this site.

Originally Posted by ChiangMai noon

never to fukk. how do i find it?

edit-preferences-security-password- click on "show passwords"

then click "show passwords" again

Originally Posted by NickA

If you don't get anything like this, tell me which file manager you are using.

jardine, help......

nik asked me a nasty question.