RE: Newbie but nevertheless sincere- replacing Xandros GUI on Asus 900a with KDE
This has been a real adventure. The good news is, it's incredibly easy to recover the factory settings on this machine. Shut it down, press and hold F9, and a menu will come up that gives three options, one of which is to recover the factory settings. It takes about 30 seconds. The bad news is, after I made the whole conversion (rather successfully, I might add) I turned off the machine and went to another hotspot and, although I had the little blue light that said I had a signal, I couldn't get the browser (any browser- I tried a few) to hook up to the signal. That may be because of the process that I followed to free up disk space. These machines only have 4G of disk space, and it can be difficult and frustrating to try to decide what to delete. I honestly do not know why my connection went away. I do know that I deleted the email, iGoogle, and Wikipedia helpers. I'm 57 and have been doing Windows for a long time so I suspect that it was because I deleted the AOL helper. I would ask that this get posted far and wide so that someone would please help me configure my internet connection after I get the KDE installed again. Oddly enough, I have not been able to latch on to ambient unlocked signals with this machine at all, and of course I would like to do that. I was just told that many routers are firewalled, which I didn't know because I lived in an apartment complex that had an open signal. I wouldn't mind advice about locating and hooking up though. So I did none of this from the terminal. I went into synaptic and deleted everything I thought I could delete safely, like StarOffice and the games. One quick thing about the games is that for some reason if I tried to delete Sudoku, it hung up the whole process. Don't try to delete Sudoku. I won't list the other things I deleted in synaptic (“remove completely”). Just be careful. Then again, it's easy to recover factory settings. I just added the repository deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free and installed kicker and ksmserver from there. I'm pretty sure that wine is in that repository, but if not, it's not hard to find. For me, installing wine from the repository worked a lot better. It is a cranky program, and there is a popup window that says that it's buggy and often hard to deal with. I wanted to install wine so that I could install Cricket Broadband. I haven't been able to do that, and I've gotten mixed reviews about the service. If I manage to install it I'll post that too- it's the only prepaid broadband wireless service there is, but it may not even be worth it. I am now waiting for someone generous to explain to me how to configure an internet connection in KDE before I can make the final change. I had to go back to factory settings to get hooked up. So again, I just deleted everything I could from the hard drive, put in that repository, and installed it from that repository. I'm going to find and install wine separately before I make the change back to KDE, just to avoid any problems with that. I did all this without any use of the terminal or any commands, because of the terminal command problems I wrote about above. In KDE, the Debian command su worked okay, but now that it's back to Xandros, I'm having the same problems with the terminal. And of course, you're on your own with this. KDE is really nice once installed, but, again, you're on your own. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/RE%3A-Newbie-but-nevertheless-sincere--replacing-Xandros-GUI-on-Asus-900a-with-KDE-tp21836105p21923769.html Sent from the Debian KDE mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
RE: Newbie but nevertheless sincere- replacing Xandros GUI on Asus 900a with KDE
Ana- Thank you for getting back to me. I have an Asus eee 900a which is a really really nice little machine. It was $200 at Best Buy (USA) with a variant of Xandros, and $240 with Windows XP. The GUI off-the-shelf, however, is made for five-year-olds and/or third world countries. The manufacturer has disabled the option to use the advanced desktop, and what I've read is that an accessible advanced desktop can be created with KDE Kicker and ksmserver. That's what I'm trying to do. I did write newbie in the subject line- I just began studying command paths from Konsole yesterday evening. So I've been trying to create a command path that points to the tars that I've downloaded. I basically just want to be able to get into the repositories that contain KDE (panel) kicker and ksmserver. I think I've tried the one you suggest, lenny, but I'm baffled by the i386 question and why that's happening. I know that i386 is an older architecture, and there are things in there that I probably need- but when I create the links to those repositories I get that error message. I will work on learning command-line better (so far I've not been able to do much from command-line) and I guess I'll try the stable lenny repository. Thanks. (Danke schoen?) Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 01:29:07 +0100 From: a...@debian.org To: cautiouscow...@msn.com CC: debian-qt-...@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Newbie but nevertheless sincere- replacing Xandros GUI on Asus 900a with KDE Hi Bill, On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 04:38:49PM -0700, Bill Maher wrote:Hello-I've been attempting to do the above, but I get error messages regarding libraries and 1386's.file:///export/repository/gnusolaris1/ kdelibs trunk gives me: file:///export/repository/gnusolaris1/dists/kdelibs/trunk/binary-i386/Packages.gz: File not foundI also get:W: Couldn't stat source package list file: kdelibs/trunk Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/_export_repository_gnusolaris1_dists_kdelibs_trunk_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)I guess I'm looking for the repository that these i386 packages are in.None of the how to articles regarding changing the easy desktop GUI work for me. Those are all written for the eee 701, and I have a 900a. The answer to this is not on the net.So if you could point me to these repositories, and any other repositories that are stable and might have neat things in them, I'd appreciate it. First, KDE users mailint list is: http://lists.debian.org/debian-kde/ Second, what does contain yout /etc/apt/sources.list and what kde (and debian suite: stable, testing, unstable) do you want to install? Debian repositories are something like: deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ lenny main Please, continue in the user's mailing list. Ana _ Windows Live™: Keep your life in sync. http://windowslive.com/howitworks?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_t1_allup_howitworks_022009
Re: Newbie but nevertheless sincere- replacing Xandros GUI on Asus 900a with KDE
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 3:51 PM, Bill Maher cautiouscow...@msn.com wrote: The GUI off-the-shelf, however, is made for five-year-olds and/or third world countries. And by that you mean...? That maybe people from third world countries have the intellect of five year olds?
Newbie but nevertheless sincere- replacing Xandros GUI on Asus 900a with KDE
Hello- I've been attempting to do the above, but I get error messages regarding libraries and 1386's. file:///export/repository/gnusolaris1/ kdelibs trunk gives me: file:///export/repository/gnusolaris1/dists/kdelibs/trunk/binary-i386/Packages.gz: File not found I also get: W: Couldn't stat source package list file: kdelibs/trunk Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/_export_repository_gnusolaris1_dists_kdelibs_trunk_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) I guess I'm looking for the repository that these i386 packages are in. None of the how to articles regarding changing the easy desktop GUI work for me. Those are all written for the eee 701, and I have a 900a. The answer to this is not on the net. So if you could point me to these repositories, and any other repositories that are stable and might have neat things in them, I'd appreciate it. Thanks. _ Windows Live™ Hotmail®…more than just e-mail. http://windowslive.com/howitworks?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_t2_hm_justgotbetter_howitworks_012009
Re: Newbie but nevertheless sincere- replacing Xandros GUI on Asus 900a with KDE
Hi Bill, On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 04:38:49PM -0700, Bill Maher wrote: Hello- I've been attempting to do the above, but I get error messages regarding libraries and 1386's. file:///export/repository/gnusolaris1/ kdelibs trunk gives me: file:///export/repository/gnusolaris1/dists/kdelibs/trunk/binary-i386/Packages.gz: File not found I also get: W: Couldn't stat source package list file: kdelibs/trunk Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/_export_repository_gnusolaris1_dists_kdelibs_trunk_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) I guess I'm looking for the repository that these i386 packages are in. None of the how to articles regarding changing the easy desktop GUI work for me. Those are all written for the eee 701, and I have a 900a. The answer to this is not on the net. So if you could point me to these repositories, and any other repositories that are stable and might have neat things in them, I'd appreciate it. First, KDE users mailint list is: http://lists.debian.org/debian-kde/ Second, what does contain yout /etc/apt/sources.list and what kde (and debian suite: stable, testing, unstable) do you want to install? Debian repositories are something like: deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ lenny main Please, continue in the user's mailing list. Ana -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-qt-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
