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hi everyone
wife bought me an acer aspire one with linux operating system. fine for going on the net and things like that but downloading is difficult. havent a clue. it s not like windows. i i also want to download a photo program called gimp, but havent a clue. anybody have any idea step by step guide. also there is a newer version of firefox. mine is version 2
any help much appreciated. like i said i dont have a clue about computing or computing/tech talk.
cheeers

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Whats it running - Linpus?

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wouldnt have a clue ksh,
actually just been on system and it says linpus linux lite v 1.0.9
thanks

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This might help Ten tweaks for a new Acer Aspire One • Register Hardware it shows you how to install Gimp in step 4, you need to do step 3 first though.

Step 10 shows you how to get Firefox 3.

It looks like you will be having fun ;)


Who said you don't need to be a cli geek to use Linux these days? ;)

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thanks for that neil, seems like its gonna help a lot.
cheers

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All in Neils link then :)
Whole new learning curve for you, stick with it, you'll get the hang of it.

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A very steep learning curve :D

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Tried that distro for 1 day, couldn't get my wireless internet working with it yet I can get it to work with Fedora which its based on :confused:

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i hope so, its like starting again after being a windows user for years:)

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I like steep, its faster :D

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But do you really learn anything by typing stuff into the cli from a website.

It looks like I will have fun getting Ubuntu to work on my Samsung NC10 Ubuntu on the Samsung NC10

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THIS PAGE will come in handy for you, any programs you used in windows you should be able to find its equivalent on there, when you find it, go to your package manager and do a search and install it from there, if it's not in there give us a shout on here and someone will help with other ways of installing it.

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Depends if you take notice of what your typing, a good starting place for anyone trying Linux are the terminal tutorials, I learnt a lot from browsing and trying things from them, don't need to do it though, dare say you can manage perfectly well without it, I wanted to learn some of it though.

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I have been playing with Ubuntu on a couple of PC's I set up at work. The whole package manager instead of just download and install seams odd to me

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A little different I got to admit but its all there in the same place, you don't have to use it do you, just a sure way of knowing what you install is tried and tested, not just installing any old junk that won't work. Theres an option in Windows, ADD/remove programs, we've all used it for removing, how many use it for adding?? not too many - just the same for using the package manager :)

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You'd rather have any old software company packaging dodgy dlls that are also used by lots of other programs with zero integration testing?

One thing about Linux package manager is that it completely manages all the shared libraries in a sensible maner. YOu also haven't got any of this "whats a decent program to do X'. Go into package manager and all programs are listed with their descriptions that is fully searchable. No messing with CD's or anything, totally up to date, properly tested, organised.

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Which is great until you find yourself on a PC without internet ability like I was.

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so the network drivers weren't automagically installed........................

Is this your NC10 we are talking about?

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nope a couple of IBM netvista PC's I set up at work. No net connection as they were intended to sit on an internal network we setup in the workshop as a test bed only.

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I miss this part of Ubuntu massively when I'm not using it.

Sudo apt-get install program

Fantastic quick and simple way of downloading programs! Love it. Providing it's well known package they're available offline from the CD too.

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so does the apt-get method looks on the install cd?

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no it downloads it
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so is it hard work without an internet connection to install software and do updates?

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Yes if you have it in the drive. It's the first place it looks.

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To be more correct, it depends on what you have set up as software repositories. By default the CD is there as a final resort of Internet repositories are unavailable.

You can even create a local repository if you so desire on a local network and manage what versions are in it. If say your company has an n-1 policy for software versions then this is the easiest way of manageing it.

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This thread went a bit off topic. Here is some info on the Acer Aspire One - known as AA1.

Aspire One - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AspireOne
Acer Aspire One - openSUSE

If you do a bit of reading you will find out that many of these netbooks are quite poorly supported still in standard Linux distributions, unless it's just a laptop thing. Many have wifi, audio and webcam driver issues. Most of these can be worked around and if you decide to install a full blown Linux distro then there is a lot of info out there. I have been finding about my Samsung NC10 which I intend dual booting with windows XP and some flavour of Linux, probably Ubuntu as there appears to be most support for the NC10's at the moment. I can not manage without windows so it will have to stay.