You are correct I was using "apt get" as slang for "do whatever it is under your Linux distro to install software" But I will try to be more sensitive to the non-Debian distro's users tendency to get butthurt by every last Linux guide out there on the Internet that tells people to fix problems on Linux by installing software with apt-get. After all, it's very important to rename the software installers on different distros otherwise people might get the idea that Linux distros are all just plain old Linux with a GUI wrapper...<eyeroll>
I will point out that most people don't even think BSD Unix has anything to do with the Linux world and that practically NO Linux people acknowledge any sort of debt at all to BSD much less understand Linux wouldn't have ever existed if it hadn't been for BSD, so if anyone's going to get butthurt by Debian-centrism it's ME!!! LOL I doubted Russell would be interested in any case but I wanted to throw out the idea in case he might have been. If he had asked I would have actually looked up the process for Slackware and posted links. One of the central ideas behind Unix is that EVERY Unix system is it's own server. Unix MUA's are NOT supposed to be written to reach out over the Internet and talk to a smart host. They are SUPPOSED to pass the email to the local mailer which then handles the task of getting it from the machine to wherever it's supposed to go. The fact that you can load Thunderbird on any given Linux distro and the FIRST option that it gives you when setting up an account is to talk to some OTHER server than it's very own MTA running locally, is a measure of just how Windowized that most Linux "workstations" are these days and how much the Linux userbase has unconsciously adopted the Microsoft Mantra that the workstation is supposed to be dumb as a post while the real work goes on elsewhere (preferably on their servers that you pay lots of money t them for using) Dennis Ritchie would be rolling over in his grave if he saw the state of things with Unix today. Sigh. Once Microsoft realized that the majority of the Linux userbase was no different than the Mac or the Windows userbase and just wanted to use their machines as glorified dumb terminals that could display artwork on the desktop, and were completely happy running neutered machines, that's when they suddenly loved Linux. Give the babies their bottles and let them be happy seeing "Linux" on their desktop while the real work is done on an IIS server running on Server 2022 in a cloud somewhere. And Google is no different (especially about the money part) other than the real work is done on an NGINX server somewhere not IIS.... Sigh. Ted -----Original Message----- From: PLUG <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Ben Koenig Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2023 10:30 PM To: Portland Linux/Unix Group <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [PLUG] Sending a Google-Earth Pro image via email I'm sorry, but what exactly is the point of asking what distro someone uses, only to completely disregard what they tell you? Distros are defined by their package manager so unless slackware is debian based it probably doesn't use apt..... Regardless this isn't some fancy MUA thing. Google Earth simply wants to generate an email and load it into the user's client of choice. On my system it only offers thunderbird, but doesn't see kmail or any of the commandline options because it wasn't designed to look for every mail client ever created. I don't know what system it's using to find the client, might be some sort of XDG standard they are looking for. The workaround is to save the file to disk, then attach to an email you composed in the client of your choice. If google doesn't want to see your client. -Ben ------- Original Message ------- On Thursday, May 18th, 2023 at 9:28 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt <[email protected]> wrote: > If you do an apt get install postfix and during the setup set it to send mail > to a "smartmailer" ie: your ISP then you should be able to use the MUAs on > the system. > > Ted > > -----Original Message----- > From: PLUG [email protected] On Behalf Of Rich Shepard > > Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2023 6:11 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [PLUG] Sending a Google-Earth Pro image via email > > On Fri, 19 May 2023, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > > What is the operating system/version/make/model/year of Linux you are using? > > > Ted, > > Slackware64-15.0 the most current production distribution. > > Rich
