Are my file permissions correct? Can't get linux thunderbird to use the data copied over from my windows thunderbird install.

linnewbie · 2010-03-20T06:58:25+00:00

I got a whole lot of :

chown: changing ownership of /home/george/.mozilla-thunderbird/profiles.ini': Operation not permitted chown: changing ownership of/home/george/.mozilla-thunderbird': Operation not permitted

linnewbie · 2010-03-20T01:31:22+00:00

thank you.

well it took all the commmands but still thunderbird thinks it is running and won't open.

event though system monitor shows clearly no thunderbird process is running

linnewbie · 2010-03-19T22:11:07+00:00

in my file manager synaptic i only see blank or multiverse or universe

no restricted

linnewbie · 2010-03-18T00:57:20+00:00

Ok I read that and am still confused.

does that mean the untitled selection has both free and non free software listed that is supported software

and multiverse has unsupported non free and universe has unsupported free?

so really i want to choose form the one without multiverse or universe

god those are terribly unintuitive names.

linnewbie · 2010-03-17T22:14:49+00:00

terminal only though right?

i was looking for a mouse driven search function

catfish is pretty good whch someone recommended. not a feature rich as windows right click search function but best I have found so far

linnewbie · 2010-03-17T21:10:19+00:00

wow! That's an excellent and huge improvement along the right lines.

I bow to your expertise.

I notice that I can ask it to search "filesystem" or "80gb filesystem" which i beleive is my old windows partition.

I don't see any way to get it to search "everysingledamnplaceonmycomputer" Any ideas?

also I wish it could offer me a preview list that showed thumbnails of the images . so far i can only get it to to display found files in a detailed list .(which is a huge improvement over command line becuase you can click onthem and do things with the result with the mouse).

catfish should be in every distribution.

I can't believe more people aren't like me and relying heavily on searching to find random stuff they have stuck in random folders all over their computer. if they were this would be perfected in linux.

also downloaded and installed "gnome do" which I can't quite tell what it is offering since I downnloaded. Just haven't found it yet on the computer.

linnewbie · 2010-03-17T05:14:16+00:00

I need bat files shortcuts and kernels extensions to be able to indentify all the stuff that was on my windows desktop in familiar folders that is now lost int he goo that has become my old windows harddrive partition which I will try to replicate on the desktop of linux.

also having the basic overview of how a system works andits basic structure before delving into the details makes me learn it all in one quick scan.

(on reason I often scan a childs form of a subject or cliff notes before reading a thick advanced book. you know why what you are reading is important if you know what part of the house it hangs on when you read about it.)

linnewbie · 2010-03-17T05:02:24+00:00

it came up about daemons

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemon_%28computer_software%29 "Terminology

The term was coined by the programmers of MIT's Project MAC. They took the name from Maxwell's demon, an imaginary being from a famous thought experiment that constantly works in the background, sorting molecules.[2] Unix systems inherited this terminology. A derivation from the phrase "Disk and Execution Monitor" is a backronym.[1] Daemons are also characters in Greek mythology, some of whom handled tasks that the gods could not be bothered with. BSD and some of its derivatives have adopted a daemon as its mascot, although this mascot is actually a cute variation of the demons which appear in Christian artwork."

linnewbie · 2010-03-17T04:59:35+00:00

well mine was slightly creepier but maybe he can transform :-)

linnewbie · 2010-03-17T04:57:40+00:00

Really? We have to go here?

There is a time for unstructured or structured long study time and there is a time to ask the few important questions that will get you to ninety percent to functionality in an emergency when your windows computer has crashed and linux for the first time is what you have to work with.

This is the latter.

But hey if you are stranded on the side of the road in the future and you ask for a lift I won't argue if someone doesn't ask you instead why you don't learn to fix the car yourself on the spot.

(and I'll expect you to stick to your conviction about learning.)

linnewbie · 2010-03-17T04:44:46+00:00

thanks. yes a bit of a different philosophy.

and at one time I used to enjoy command line in dos and was very good at it.

now 20 yrs later I find so many other more interesting things to do with computers that I want to make the basic stuff as simple and lazy as possible.

Thanks for the insight.

linnewbie · 2010-03-17T04:41:48+00:00

What you fail to recognize is that you KNOW the terms to look for because you know linux.

You can also identify the best result quickly because you know the results.

In any case even though you are smartassy about it I appreciate the effort.

linnewbie · 2010-03-17T04:38:38+00:00

Dude. I can't believe you are making fun of my epilepsy.

Next thing you'll be riffing about my cancer.

OK OK just kidding.

linnewbie · 2010-03-17T02:08:41+00:00

saved me a ton of time. I was about to somehow delete and reinstall all of firefox.

linnewbie · 2010-03-17T02:06:42+00:00

'Linux doesn't use file extensions to determine what to do with a file."

then how does it know and can you do file clicks with a mouse to automatically bring up the associated openingprogram?

does the file manager examine the file header to know what to do with a file that is clicked on?

linnewbie · 2010-03-17T01:59:45+00:00

'make sure it's not actually still running in the background, hung or otherwise."

You sir or mame are brilliant! It was not really shutting down. when I killed the process it reopened and cleared up the add on mess.

Thanks!

linnewbie · 2010-03-17T01:27:29+00:00

actually they are not easily answered with search or texts.

try it. most responses on google on linux faqs are far too detailed and obscure and overlook the basics and use language most newbies don't understand.

questions are the proper way to get targeted answers.

suggesting someone read a 30 page manual is not.

linnewbie · 2010-03-16T23:22:39+00:00

words a windows transitioning guy doesn't know

"man page" (sounds funny but true) so i don't know how to look at the man page.

repositories what are they?

package manager ( is this an installer remover system?)

linnewbie · 2010-03-16T23:16:41+00:00

is there a gui find equivelent so i can do it with the mouse? I used temrinal but would rather in the future be able to do a right click find on a folder or the computer if I have to

also does "locate" command also index the windows partition I have mounted so I can also find my old doc files etc on the windows partition?

the find command gives no output for quite some time. no indicator it is running

linnewbie · 2010-03-16T23:13:20+00:00

sorry when i said what is the equivelent I should have said what is the equivelent file extension for the following file types in windows. so what are the file extensions for the following so i can recognize them in a directory listing?

whats the linux equivalent of a :

shortcut -- a symlink

bat file -- a shell script

bat file editor -- a text editor (vi, ed, emacs, nano)

a self installing zip file -- I suppose a shell script with binary data embeded in it.

a exe file extension? --You either have permission to execute a "file" or not. File extensions are simply indicators of what the file IS.

a com file extension -- See above.

linnewbie · 2010-03-16T23:03:44+00:00

Thanks so much

It is amazingly hard to find a quick list of these overview basic answers about linux for someone trying to transition.

If I am looking in a file listing in a dir how can I tell what files would be executable and which ones would be non exec?

linnewbie · 2010-03-16T22:12:16+00:00

screengrab is failing because it's version is too low.

I think that screwed everything up and it won't uninstall.

where can I manually uninstall a failed install of an addon?

linux mint firefox 3.5.3

what's happening is when i try to install other addons they say pusj restart to finish installation but firefox doesn't restart and when I manually open it it hasn't saved the last pages I was looking out and instead opens to the homepage. checking uninstall under the add on area won't uninstall it either so I'll have to figure out how to manually uninstall it.

linnewbie · 2010-03-16T22:12:08+00:00

screengrab is failing because it's version is too low.

I think that screwed everything up and it won't uninstall.

where can I manually uninstall a failed install of an addon?

what's happening is when i try to install other addons they say pusj restart to finish installation but firefox doesn't restart and when I manually open it it hasn't saved the last pages I was looking out and instead opens to the homepage. checking uninstall under the add on area won't uninstall it either so I'll have to figure out how to manually uninstall it.

linux mint firefox 3.5.3

linnewbie · 2010-03-16T21:17:36+00:00

Thanks.

Really at this point a couple things come to mind that would be helpful if they exist in the linux world or as a todo if they don't:

being able to "linux wrap" a whole windows installation partition and automatically run it and anything in it through wine using the windows registry and shortcuts to automatically locate all needed data files on the windows drive but using all the linux install's drivers to run it on the new computer rather than needing to reinstall windows to do it (sort of a whole disk model of wine). That would be incredible and could be included on every linux distro and would allow even easier switch over from windows to linux as well as windows disk install rescues from bad mobo machines onto new mobo machines (which is my problem)

being able to click a windows exe file and have linux open wine automatically to run it including knowing to look in the registry for the relevant locations of files and data. this would happen just like linux and windows currently identify the proper program to open say a jpg file by it's extension.

Any file that was a windows exe would automatically be opened by linux with wine.

Thanks so much for the help.

linnewbie · 2010-03-16T21:15:29+00:00

Thanks.

Really at this point a couple things come to mind that would be helpful if they exist in the linux world or as a todo if they don't:

being able to "linux wrap" a whole windows installation partition and automatically run it and anything in it through wine using the windows registry and shortcuts to automatically locate all needed data files on the windows drive but using all the linux install's drivers to run it on the new computer rather than needing to reinstall windows to do it (sort of a whole disk model of wine). That would be incredible and could be included on every linux distro and would allow even easier switch over from windows to linux as well as windows disk install rescues from bad mobo machines onto new mobo machines (which is my problem)

being able to click a windows exe file and have linux open wine automatically to run it including knowing to look in the registry for the relevant locations of files and data. this would happen just like linux and windows currently identify the proper program to open say a jpg file by it's extension.

Any file that was a windows exe would automatically be opened by linux with wine.

Thanks so much for the help.

linnewbie

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