Re: [PLUG] insufficient disk space error

2010-02-06 Thread Randy Stapilus
It turns out that was what I did. Without realizing it, I had filled the Linux partition nearly to the top with music files, and then when I did the LyX install, it filled totally. I got rid of the music files, and things seem to operating ok now. Randy Stapilus www.ridenbaugh.com Northwest

Re: [PLUG] insufficient disk space error

2010-02-06 Thread wes
Are you sure you didn't fill your hard drive or one of the partitions during the LyX install? How did you verify this? -wes On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 5:49 PM, Randy Stapilus wrote: > Getting some error messages and wondering if there's an easy fix. > > Dual booting with Windows XP, running the late

Re: [PLUG] Can't get gcc to compile...

2010-02-06 Thread Patrick J. Timlick
I can think of 2 things that might be wrong: 1) no gcc; check by typing gcc in a command line 2) permissions on install directory are incorrect check by 'cd'ing to your install directory, and typing "touch x" . You should get no errors. Let us know the results. -- Pat On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 2:

Re: [PLUG] resolved - problems in wake of botched Lyx install

2010-02-06 Thread Randy Stapilus
Thanks much for the help. Problem's resolved. I used apt-get purge to get rid of the Lyx install, and that worked fine. Didn't resolve entirely my other problem, which turned out to be a matter of my own stupidity: On my dual boot, I had a limited amount of space allocated for the Linux part

[PLUG] Can't get gcc to compile...

2010-02-06 Thread someone
lfs:~/mpfr$ env TERM=xterm LIBRARY_PATH=/tools/lib OLDPWD=/home/lfs LC_ALL=POSIX LFS=/home/lfs/LFS PATH=/tools/bin:/bin:/usr/bin PWD=/home/lfs/mpfr LFS_TGT=i686-lfs-linux-gnu PS1=\u:\w\$ SHLVL=1 HOME=/home/lfs _=/bin/env The only thing I added was the LIBRARY_PATH. I'm trying to follow the linu

Re: [PLUG] problems in wake of botched Lyx install

2010-02-06 Thread Tony Rick
On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 11:10 AM, Mike Connors wrote: > Randy Stapilus wrote: > > I guess I'm wondering first of all if there's some sort of system > > restore that takes me back to the pre-LyX install period? (The system > > had been working fine up until then.) Or what the next best, probably >

[PLUG] insufficient disk space error

2010-02-06 Thread Randy Stapilus
Getting some error messages and wondering if there's an easy fix. Dual booting with Windows XP, running the latest Linux Mint on an HP, 1gb/250gb hd. Nowhere close to using up the hard drive. After reading some earlier posts here about LyX I decided to give it a try, and tried installing the

Re: [PLUG] problems in wake of botched Lyx install

2010-02-06 Thread Mike Connors
Randy Stapilus wrote: > I guess I'm wondering first of all if there's some sort of system > restore that takes me back to the pre-LyX install period? (The system > had been working fine up until then.) Or what the next best, probably > meaning simplest, option might be? > "apt-get clean" w

Re: [PLUG] problems in wake of botched Lyx install

2010-02-06 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Sat, 6 Feb 2010 10:19:18 -0800 Randy Stapilus dijo: >Getting some error messages and wondering if there's an easy fix. > >Dual booting with Windows XP, running the latest Linux Mint on an HP, >1gb/250gb hd. Nowhere close to using up the hard drive. > >After reading some earlier posts here ab

Re: [PLUG] problems in wake of botched Lyx install

2010-02-06 Thread Rogan Creswick
On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 10:19 AM, Randy Stapilus wrote: > Writer, and tried saving a short text document. Got the message: > "OpenOffice.org could not save important internal formation due to > insufficient free disk space at the following location: /home/[my > home directory]/.openoffice.org/3/use

[PLUG] problems in wake of botched Lyx install

2010-02-06 Thread Randy Stapilus
Getting some error messages and wondering if there's an easy fix. Dual booting with Windows XP, running the latest Linux Mint on an HP, 1gb/250gb hd. Nowhere close to using up the hard drive. After reading some earlier posts here about LyX I decided to give it a try, and tried installing the

Re: [PLUG] Want to build a Linux based PVR...

2010-02-06 Thread Jim Beckett
Erik Lane wrote: >> It isn't the playback that consumes the CPU it is recording analog to disk. >> It has to encode it to MPEG2 before it sticks it on the disk. >> > > This is simply wrong. There is no requirement to compress the video to > MPEG of any variety before recording to disk. Both of