John Kane <jrkrid...@yahoo.ca> writes: > Please but in. I am a newbie with Ubuntu and tend to blunder around. > Basically I have a dual boot Ubutu /Window 7. Some time ago I upgraded from > 11.? to 12.04 with apparently no problem. > > I have no real idea of what is correct or not-- I lack the partly intuitive > feel that I had for Windws after years of battling so I easily miss what is > or is not what one would expect and I am still a bit uncomfortable with the > terminal interface since the commands are not obvious to me. I have not used > a command line os since DOS about 2 decaded ago. > Hi John, I have helped a number of newbies with Ubuntu, and I have found that it is nearly always a mistake for them to try to install something 'by hand'. Always use the Ubuntu Software Center or Synaptic and you will never come to grief.
It is a common problem because of the way that Windows users are accustomed to installing software. There are safe ways to do 'by hand' installation of software, but you seldom need to do that with Ubuntu. Cheers, Alan > > > > > ________________________________ > From: David L. Johnson <david.john...@lehigh.edu> > To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org > Sent: Saturday, September 1, 2012 1:05:48 PM > Subject: Re: LyX andTeX Live: How to find and link a new latex version? > > > On 09/01/2012 11:22 AM, John Kane wrote: > > Sorry to butt in here, but these outputs seem very strange. This > looks to me like there is something very amiss with your system. > Now, I use debian, not ubuntu, but ubuntu is debian-based, so it > should not be all that different. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>john@john-K53U:~$ find / -path '/proc' -prune -perm /u=x,g=x,a=x ! -type d >>-name latex >>find: `/tmp/.esd-104': Permission denied >>find: `/tmp/pulse-2L9K88eMlGn7': Permission denied >>find: `/tmp/pulse-PKdhtXMmr18n': Permission denied >>find: `/etc/ppp/peers': Permission denied >>find: `/etc/chatscripts': Permission denied >>find: `/etc/cups/ssl': Permission denied > ... >> >>----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>Which seems to tell me nothing. But what do I know? >> > That seems to say that you don't have access to much of anything in > the system. How can that be? Maybe a regular user shouldn't be > able to write to some of those directories, but read?? > > I thought that this was a bit funny but I thought that maybe I need to use > sudo to actually write there. As I say, I know virtuallly nothing about how > linux works. > > So I may have a serious problem. On the other hand I don't seem to have any > obvious problems installing applications. For example I installed gnumeric > from either synaptics or the software centre a few day ago and just as a > quick test sudoapt-get install abiword seems to have worked fine just now. > > Thanks > > > -- David L. Johnson Deserves death! I daresay he does. Many that live > deserve death. > And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not > be too eager to deal out death in judgement. -- J. R. R. Tolkein -- Alan L Tyree http://www2.austlii.edu.au/~alan Tel: 04 2748 6206 sip:172...@iptel.org
