Re: Ubuntu-quality Digest, Vol 75, Issue 7
I suggest you look into that before saying Sorry this just won't work. Unless you have some other basis for your argument that you aren't sharing? Actually, yes, I do have some other basis. I have used Puppy for a long time, and at one time wrote a fix for a problem they had. Both people who sent me negative mails have obviously admitted Lubuntu would be a very minimal, low function, core distro on such a minimal computer. And, I never said Lubuntu, I said Ubuntu, a full service distro. Puppy lets you do a wide range of activities, even at the older versions. I so stand by my statement. However, I am bailing from this mail list as soon as I figure out how. Enough is enough. You folks remind me of the early days of Linux. I thought we were past that. On Wed, 2014-01-08 at 16:13 +, ubuntu-quality-requ...@lists.ubuntu.com wrote: I suggest you look into that before saying Sorry this just won't work. Unless you have some other basis for your argument that you aren't sharing? -- Ubuntu-quality mailing list Ubuntu-quality@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-quality
LyX download size
Here is the list of LyX dependencies on 10.04, list obtained by apt-get remove and then cancel: The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: texlive-extra-utils texlive-base texlive-pictures-doc texlive-fonts-recommended doc-base texlive-pstricks-doc dvipng lmodern texlive-common texlive-latex-extra-doc libaiksaurus-1.2-0c2a texlive-pstricks luatex preview-latex-style ttf-lyx prosper tipa texlive-latex-recommended-doc texlive-latex-base-doc libkpathsea5 libboost-signals1.40.0 libt1-5 libaiksaurus-1.2-data texlive-latex-extra texlive-binaries lyx-common libmldbm-perl libuuid-perl pgf texlive-latex-recommended texlive-generic-recommended texlive-latex-base texlive-fonts-recommended-doc libfreezethaw-perl ps2eps latex-beamer texlive-luatex texlive-font-utils latex-xcolor texlive-doc-base tex-common lacheck texlive-pictures I remember LyX as having a really big download, but don't have a computer to dink with. I have used LyX to produce a book. Message: 5 Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2012 23:04:25 +0300 From: Merhebi, Bob bobmerh...@gmail.com To: ubuntu-qa@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: LyX in Precise: too big Message-ID: 4f7b57c9.9060...@gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Hello guys, Today I thought i'd install LyX to test it out on Precise, but I was shocked with its download size. I didn't install!!! Here's what I asked in the LyX mailing list: I've been testing Ubuntu12.04 lately just now I was thinking of using LyX on it. TO my big surprise the LyX requires a large download of ~450 MB+. I am shocked!!! IS that the true size? If not mistaken I recall that on 10.04 it required ~ 25MB. Am I mistaken? Is there something wrong? And here's two replies I got: 1) The download from Ubuntu was probably a debug build. These are much larger than the release build. You might want to contact the Ubuntu project and let them know that the build is much larger than expected. Another idea is that they may have changed the LaTeX dependencies. If so, it might be downloading a lot of extra TeX packages that aren't needed. Regardless, I would definitely get in touch with the Ubuntu project. To the best of my knowledge, they don't subscribe to this list, and it's something that they will want to hear about. 2) I am also suspecting that your total download size contains a bunch of LaTeX dependencies It is worth noting that LyX 2.0.3 that is currently installed on my Lucid (by ppa) has a total size of 10.5MB, while that in Precise's Software Center is about 450MB (download) 700MB+ (install). So I thought I'd get your thoughts on this on how to proceed! Who how (launchpad?) should be notified about this? thanks -- Sincerely Yours, -Merhebi, Bob Thunderbird Signature -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-qa/attachments/20120403/7e9e3573/attachment-0001.html -- next part -- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 554 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-qa/attachments/20120403/7e9e3573/attachment-0001.pgp -- -- Ubuntu-qa mailing list Ubuntu-qa@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-qa
Slow DSL
I think you have been given a good solution to slow service, Bob. But, another option depending upon your exact problem is the command wget. wget -c url.iso lets you stop download and start again at your convenience. You can download a few MB, and start again, even many days later, with no data lost, as long as the iso has not been changed. It expects to find previous downloads in the directory where the terminal is setting, and if it is not there, will restart the download. It seems to me, by defective memory, that there are mirrored images of a small net iso which is designed to download other things desired. But, I can't remember if Ubuntu actually lets you select which packages to download, like debian does or not. On Fri, 2011-09-16 at 12:00 +, ubuntu-qa-requ...@lists.ubuntu.com wrote: Send Ubuntu-qa mailing list submissions to ubuntu-qa@lists.ubuntu.com To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-qa or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to ubuntu-qa-requ...@lists.ubuntu.com You can reach the person managing the list at ubuntu-qa-ow...@lists.ubuntu.com When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of Ubuntu-qa digest... Today's Topics: 1. New Member: help (BOB Merhebi) 2. Re: New Member: help (Phill Whiteside) -- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 19:53:53 +0300 From: BOB Merhebi bobmerh...@gmail.com To: ubuntu-qa@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: New Member: help Message-ID: 4e722da1.2000...@gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Hello, I'm Bob have been using Ubuntu for the past several years. Currently using 10.04 LTS possibly waiting for 12.04 (LTS ?). As much as I'd like to be part of the laptop testing team, the issue of downloading the iso is an obstacle. MY connection speed bandwidth is a DSL but is very limited; is there an alternative solution ? thanks -- Sincerely Yours, -Ibrahim (Bob) Merhebi Thunderbird Signature -- Message: 2 Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 21:11:53 +0100 From: Phill Whiteside phi...@ubuntu.com To: BOB Merhebi bobmerh...@gmail.com Cc: ubuntu-qa@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: Re: New Member: help Message-ID: CAD5cqVgkgBsBbm=BzAa1mGUdrNMo5Csw+ad4Lf_v2=C=kcz...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Hi Bob, thanks for the interest you have shown in assisting. The good news is that there is a method to keep your images up to date without need to download a completely fresh iso each time. It is covered at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ZsyncCdImage which also mentions the excellent ubuntu-qa-tools. Regards, Phill. On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 5:53 PM, BOB Merhebi bobmerh...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I'm Bob have been using Ubuntu for the past several years. Currently using 10.04 LTS possibly waiting for 12.04 (LTS ?). As much as I'd like to be part of the laptop testing team, the issue of downloading the iso is an obstacle. MY connection speed bandwidth is a DSL but is very limited; is there an alternative solution ? thanks -- Sincerely Yours, -Ibrahim (Bob) Merhebi Thunderbird Signature -- Ubuntu-qa mailing list Ubuntu-qa@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-qa -- https://wiki.ubuntu.com/phillw -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-qa/attachments/20110915/bde18a82/attachment-0001.html -- -- Ubuntu-qa mailing list Ubuntu-qa@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-qa
Updates to 10.04 okay, but...
I have two machines, an old desktop which had 9.10 on it. I updated it online, and it worked okay but no audio for youtube. I finally realized something in the mixer was shut off. This was a minor problem for an experienced user, but could be bad for a newbie. That machine seems to work okay, and the Firefox browser scrolls smoothly with the up and down arrows. (I had this problem on my main machine with 9.10.) On the main machine, I first cloned the entire HD to an external HD just in case, because this one has all the good stuff on it. It updated fine. The Firefox browser still scrolls in a very unpleasant manner. Further stated, it is simply not acceptable. So, it is not something in the 1500+ files updated. So, I installed via CD ISO to an empty partition. This one, Firefox scrolls perfectly. To be frank, I have no idea where to start. I may look at plugins or extensions and see if removing something helps. I would prefer to solve the problem if I can, but with no ideas where to start and some serious deadlines on personal projects, I don't know how well I will do. In general 10.04 looks fine. I have a lot of work to get the other partition working exactly as I want. I will let y'all know if I find something on the scrolling problem. -- Ubuntu-qa mailing list Ubuntu-qa@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-qa
Keep a close eye on Firefox for Lucid
I just got an automatic download for Firefox 3.6.3 on 9.10, and I tell you it is murdered on my Dell Vostro A860 laptop. We sure don't want anything like that shipped on Lucid. I will also be looking at it as best as I can. Originally, Firefox would scroll down the page well, with Page up or Page down, or up and down arrows. Then, I started having problems with Digg. If the cursor touched a share icon, it wouldn't move and I had to reclick the page to scroll at all. Then, it got worse like now. I downloaded a scroll smoother, and though it still worked clumsily, it started working again. Last week, when I got an update note, it changed from 3.6.2 to 3.6.3. Since then it has been so bad I am thinking of installing Opera which should be not needed. I tried Smooth scroller again. I tried turning on and off auto scrolling and smoothing, in the preferences menu. Down arrow takes to the bottom, then it won't go up again. Page down moves one little jump, then you need to click the page again, then one more little jump. with the cursor in the up/down bar at the right, it sometimes goes up and down, but that means when I look at a snapshot sequence, I have to keep moving the arrow back and forth, a lot of work on a laptop with sense pad. Sometimes, even with auto-scrolling turned off, when I click on the up/down bar, it takes off running all the way to the end as if I had autoscrolling on, and nothing I do will stop it. As I said, I will do my best on Beta, but if something like this gets out in Lucid, we are going to get a lot of negative reviews, and a lot of newbs are going to walk away. As I said, I will do my best on 10.04 to make sure nothing like this gets shipped. It is disgusting. -- Ubuntu-qa mailing list Ubuntu-qa@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-qa
Second problem on firefox, sorry, forgot.
I forgot. Also now depending upon where the cursor is, I get a big blinking bar all the way to the bottom, sometimes it is real wide. This started at the same time. I can eliminate it by clicking elsewhere. Reminder this is in Firefox 3.6.3 automatic update on 9.10, but that means there is some sick Firefox stuff out there just as we are ready to finalize 10.04. -- Ubuntu-qa mailing list Ubuntu-qa@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-qa
