Re: [school-discuss] Edubuntu & a W2000 pblm

["R.M.Deal" <deal@xxxxxxxx>]

Thanks, Garry, for the response

> Try (in a terminal) 'apt-get install build-essentials' . This will 
> install all you need. Otherwise to install packages in a friendly way 
> run 'synaptic'. It is in system > administration.

OK.  The 'build-essentials' sounds like just what I need.  Alex 
Chekholko sent me some more details privately as well.  It is great to have
a supportive community of this particular kind of change agents.  It was 
useful to recognize in my initial automatic response when I couldn't 
compile source package ("what, there is no make in this @&*^!^% Ubuntu 
system?") just the type of initial reaction we get from teachers when we 
try to introduce them to LINUX in any form.

> >    [description of a W2000 boot pblm in a school library]
>
> Sorry can't help with this one. 

I'm of course not surprised.  With the little info I gave, I doubt if 
anyone could have helped.  I spent hours on that machine yesterday, 
removing
any drivers related to sound production to no avail.  Time to reinstall 
W2000 if I can find the appropriate disks - difficult when machines are 
'gifts'.

Yesterday I also explored Ubuntu some more.  It took me quite some time 
to find a Konquerer-type window which was buried (IMHO) in a menu where 
I didn't expect to find it.  I wanted to use it to see how Ubuntu would 
respond to a double click on the icon for a file, a debian package file 
for 'make'.  That made more sense  for a non-command-line user than my 
earlier attempts to execute that file using 'aptitude install'.

   Best, Ralph