ubuntu-users Digest, Vol 57, Issue 183

[sg1]

Hi

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.

The instructions said quote "After downloading the file, type the
following command 

tar xvzf collabcad.tgz 

This will install CollabCAD on your system by creating the directory
called ccad.

Typed in "tar xvzf collabcad.tgz" into terminal window and just error
messages appeared.

There is no where on the help menu or web page that tells anyone on how
to use the terminal properly to install programs.

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.

I think it is just quicker to go back to XP.

Thanks Craig




















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> On Sat, 2009-05-09 at 16:45 +0800, Claire Taylor wrote:
Yes it is :-)
> 
> sg1 wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > Dose your email work?
> >
> >
> > Craig
> >
> >
> >   
> 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
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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]
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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)
> 
> 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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