> On 8/29/14, Paul A. Crable <p...@crable.us> wrote: > Another reader reported he had encountered the same problem himself, but > traced it to some inadvertent action taken while logged into root. I > never did any operating from root, so it didn't apply.
Well, if not as root, then you must have messed up your local configs somewhere because ,like I said, apps do not disappear on GNU/Linux > Unfortunately, what this has pointed out to me is that I am going to have > to learn a lot more about how applications are located, installed, and > managed, than I ever had to to use Windows. I am not adverse to cracking > the books, but I worry that requiring this level of expertise makes > GNU/Linux less attractive to the general user. Yes, you will need to learn all that but it is all pretty easy and you do not need a book for that. I never used a book. Just google search and reading mailing lists, forums and articles here and there. Start with reading about these (to save some time on solving problems) : 0) environment variables like $HOME, $PATH, $LD_LIBRARY_PATH 1) apt-get and apt-cache 2) aptitude 3) lspci 4) lsmod 5) dmesg 6) /etc/profile 7) /etc/inittab 8) uname 9) window manager vs Desktop 10) file manager 11) tiled vs virtual window manager -- http://uttre.wordpress.com/ http://lispmachine.wordpress.com/2010/12/08/extract-of-programming/ _______________________________________________ gNewSense-users mailing list gNewSense-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users