Re: help with installing browser and office as local apps on LTSP

2009-04-16 Thread Asmo Koskinen
Gavin McCullagh kirjoitti: > It's not clear to me whether this is because you have or have not set a > proxy. If you need to set one, you can do > > export http_proxy=http://proxyserver:port > apt-get update > > If you need to unset one you can check the environment variable is set

Re: help with installing browser and office as local apps on LTSP

2009-04-16 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, please post to the list rather than me personally. More people can help that way. Also don't attach RTF files, just paste the data into the email so it's easier to read. On Thu, 16 Apr 2009, graydebo...@tiscali.co.uk wrote: > Thanks for the advice. It appears that the server can get to th

Re: help with installing browser and office as local apps on LTSP

2009-04-16 Thread graydebo...@tiscali.co.uk
Gavin; Thanks for the advice. It appears that the server can get to the sources as I have run apt-get-update and ltsp-update-image this morning without any error. When switching to the chroot it seems unable to find the on-line sources. I cannot see any evidence of the chroot looking for a

Re: help with installing browser and office as local apps on LTSP

2009-04-15 Thread Gavin McCullagh
On Wed, 15 Apr 2009, graydebo...@tiscali.co.uk wrote: > Now I get stuck, sudo chroot /opt/ltsp/i386 apt-get install xterm > runs OK but changing the command to sudo chroot /opt/ltsp/i386 apt-get > install firefox or variations such as mozilla-firefox return couldn't > find package firefox.

help with installing browser and office as local apps on LTSP

2009-04-15 Thread graydebo...@tiscali.co.uk
In March Mr Koskinen demonstrated VLC running as a local app on Jaunty on this board. The basic instructions are at https://wiki.ubuntu. com/LTSPLocalAppSetup and should work with 8.10. There are expansions at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/GetMoreFromLocalApps but both rely on