[ubuntu-uk] After XP - an experience re Ubuntu and printer

2014-05-04 Thread alan c
Just a snippet to report a nice experience. Below is a quote from a *novice* who had been currently using only XP on a very old PC. With suggestions from me and others, he purchased a low end naked Novatech PC after himself discussing his need with Novatech (and finding they said this PC would be

Re: [ubuntu-uk] After XP - an experience re Ubuntu and printer

2014-05-04 Thread Peter Smout
On 04/05/14 12:13, alan c wrote: Just a snippet to report a nice experience. Below is a quote from a *novice* who had been currently using only XP on a very old PC. With suggestions from me and others, he purchased a low end naked Novatech PC after himself discussing his need with Novatech (and

[ubuntu-uk] Comparing installed packages

2014-05-04 Thread Mark Fraser
I've got 4 computers here that I would like to compare the installed packages on each one together. I've done dpkg --get-selection installed.txt on each computer, but now I'm trying to merge each one into a single file and leave a space where a package isn't installed. Instead of:

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Comparing installed packages

2014-05-04 Thread Joe Alam
Hi, There's probably a far better way that someone with some more experience will suggest, but the first thing that came to mind is to write a little program/script that does the following: - read all the files, into their own list of packages - combine the lists, filling a list of package