Re: [ubuntu-uk] Truly, a vanilla install

2009-03-15 Thread Tony Arnold
Rowan, Rowan Berkeley wrote: It makes it sound as if I can't be bothered to read the help notes before taking up people's time, which is not the case. I was just tired. I have read the help notes now, and it seems that solid colour in the icon boxes means a package is broken, and that

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Truly, a vanilla install

2009-03-15 Thread Kev
Firefox is a metapackage - whatever the exact description of that entails I know not. I just think of metapackages as boxes with other 'stuff' in - not very technical but it get's me by :) - similarly ubuntu-desktop (and kubuntu-desktop, xubuntu-desktop) are metapackages. Firefox-3.0 is actually

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Truly, a vanilla install

2009-03-15 Thread Kev
And because I forgot - while complete removal will remove the configuration files as well it doesn;t to my knowledge deal with any personal configs in your home directory Kev Kev wrote: Firefox is a metapackage - whatever the exact description of that entails I know not. I just think of

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Truly, a vanilla install

2009-03-15 Thread Sean Miller
On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 9:41 AM, Kev ubu...@talktalk.net wrote: And because I forgot - while complete removal will remove the configuration files as well it doesn;t to my knowledge deal with any personal configs in your home directory I don't think plug-ins get installed in the home directory,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Truly, a vanilla install

2009-03-15 Thread mac
Sean Miller wrote: I don't think plug-ins get installed in the home directory, do they? If so, then it presumably would be easy to ditch them... just an rm -rf .mozilla or whatever the directory is... next time Firefox starts it can re-configure itself back to default. AFAIK, your whole

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Truly, a vanilla install

2009-03-15 Thread Rowan Berkeley
That sounds so straightforward, even I couldn't mess it up :-) On Sun, 2009-03-15 at 10:24 +, mac wrote: Sean Miller wrote: I don't think plug-ins get installed in the home directory, do they? If so, then it presumably would be easy to ditch them... just an rm -rf .mozilla or

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Truly, a vanilla install

2009-03-15 Thread Kev
I was talking more generally - not mozilla specific Kev Sean Miller wrote: On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 9:41 AM, Kev ubu...@talktalk.net wrote: And because I forgot - while complete removal will remove the configuration files as well it doesn;t to my knowledge deal with any personal configs in

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Truly, a vanilla install

2009-03-15 Thread Rowan Berkeley
I don't seem to have a /home/$USER/ folder. There's nothing in /home/ except /Rowan/, and nothing in /Rowan/ except /examples/. I did see a folder called /Lost Found/ but it disappeared when I tried to open it, after telling me I didn't have permission to do so. On Sun, 2009-03-15 at 10:24

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Truly, a vanilla install

2009-03-15 Thread Rowan Berkeley
no, I had to tick show hidden files first, I see it now.' On Sun, 2009-03-15 at 10:24 +, mac wrote: Sean Miller wrote: I don't think plug-ins get installed in the home directory, do they? If so, then it presumably would be easy to ditch them... just an rm -rf .mozilla or whatever

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Truly, a vanilla install

2009-03-15 Thread Simon Wears
Your $USER folder IS /Rowan - $USER is a term for 'your username here'. .mozilla is a hidden folder ( as is any folder beginning in a . ), so open up /home/Rowan and press ctrl + H, I think, to show all hidden folders. Press this key combo again to hide them. Simon Wears munkyju...@gmail.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Truly, a vanilla install

2009-03-15 Thread Rowan Berkeley
There's 32 items in that default folder,four of which are folders. I need to identify the specific ones I can and should remove, eventually. On Sun, 2009-03-15 at 10:24 +, mac wrote: Sean Miller wrote: I don't think plug-ins get installed in the home directory, do they? If so, then it

Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC won't support Linux

2009-03-15 Thread Dean Sas
On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 22:06, red rik_bol...@btinternet.com wrote: To follow on with a thought from Paul. No 10 website has a place where you can put a petition up for the government to read and others can sign it. As the BBC is a publicly funded organization and it is answerable to the

[ubuntu-uk] [OT] Test

2009-03-15 Thread Josh Holland
Test, please disregard -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC won't support Linux

2009-03-15 Thread Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
Quoting Dean Sas d...@deansas.org: On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 22:06, red rik_bol...@btinternet.com wrote: To follow on with a thought from Paul. No 10 website has a place where you can put a petition up for the government to read and others can sign it. As the BBC is a publicly funded