Re: [Scottish] Which distro

2006-12-21 Thread Joseph Kerr
Hi, How did you install gnome on your kde system. I would like to get gimp working in kde. Thanks. joe On 12/7/06, Gordon JC Pearce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Alistair J Ross wrote: > I have Gnome installed on my Kubuntu system for 'just in case' use. > > I started it up once to debug a soun

Re: [Scottish] Which distro

2006-12-21 Thread Kevin McDermott
Hi Joseph, You should only need to "apt-get install gimp" and it will take care of things for you... Kevin ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish

Re: [Scottish] Which distro

2006-12-21 Thread Joseph Kerr
Hi Kevin, I have tried installing gimp from kde and I get the error message break install. joe On 12/21/06, Kevin McDermott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Joseph, You should only need to "apt-get install gimp" and it will take care of things for you... Kevin

Re: [Scottish] Which distro

2006-12-21 Thread stephen donaldson
sudo aptitude install ubuntu-desktop should do the trick Use aptitude because it will make it easier to uninstall should u choose.. The /ubuntu-desktop/ metapackage will install the standard Ubuntu version of Gnome with the appropriate artwork and defaults favored by Ubuntu. A good link http:

Re: [Scottish] Which distro

2006-12-21 Thread Joseph Kerr
Hi, I will give this a try. SInce I have you online perhaps you can help with another problem. Whenever I attempt activate an application like Kate from the prompt using sudo kate I receive an error unable to connect to X server. I have also attempted to install the kdeveloper app but I receive a

Re: [Scottish] Which distro

2006-12-21 Thread stephen donaldson
Kate should just run without sudo (unless you want it as root) so what are you trying to do? I'm at a loss re the X libraries location unknown, was it a clean install with no errors? Steve __ Stephen Donaldson General Manager OpenOZ Pty Ltd RedHat Certified Engineer

Re: [Scottish] Which distro

2006-12-21 Thread Ben Thorp
> > I will give this a try. SInce I have you online perhaps you can help > with another problem. Whenever I attempt activate an application like > Kate from the prompt using sudo kate I receive an error unable to > connect to X server. That's because the root user doesn't have permission to access

Re: [Scottish] Which distro

2006-12-21 Thread Joseph Kerr
Sometimes I want to edit a file as root. I believe that the install was clean. Is there any utility I can execute that will return a status for the X system. I will reinstall the kdeveloper app this evening and take note of the error. joe On 12/21/06, stephen donaldson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: [Scottish] Which distro

2006-12-21 Thread Kenny Duffus
On Thursday 21 December 2006 13:17, Ben Thorp wrote: > > I will give this a try. SInce I have you online perhaps you can help > > with another problem. Whenever I attempt activate an application like > > Kate from the prompt using sudo kate I receive an error unable to > > connect to X server. > >

Re: [Scottish] Free monitor

2006-12-21 Thread Kyle Gordon
The monitor is now going in the bin. Carted the damn thing about all day today and brought it to Scotlug. Maybe I took it for granted that a potential taker would turn up. Silly me. Joste: the Haynes manual from 3 months ago has been handed back to Gordon. Kyle On Friday 15 December 2006 00:37