On Wednesday 24 Aug 2011, Peter Merchant wrote: > How good is your linux installation?
Well. Not bad by and large, but to answer your three queries: > I still have three problems that are preventing me from getting rid of M > $. > > 1. I need XP for my scanner, which is so old and odd that it is not > supported in Linux. Can't help you with this one; I've never used a scanner that was particularly hard to set up under Linux. I've had two scanners attached to my boxes over the years; an old Epson with a SCSI interface and my current HP J4680. I recall that the Epson worked fine with a bit of jiggery-pokery. I remember taking it to one of our Installfests at Bournemouth Uni (probably the 2002 one). My J4680 'just worked'. The hplip package gives me as many features as a Windows user and is *much* easier to install and set up than the software provided for Windows. Despite HP's current PC woes, I've had nothing but praise for their printers/scanners. > 2. I cannot get Google Earth to work. Nearly there, application is > running, but no earth. That's an interesting one. I recall installing Google Earth when it first came to Linux some years ago. I can't remember how, but it installed and worked fine. I think I did it by downloading the package on Google's site. I never bothered to reinstall when I did a clean upgrage aome time ago. I just installed it again using Ralph's 'deb building package'. This created a deb file for me (with hundreds of warnings about filenames and versions not being found) and the deb installed cleanly. However, I'm obviously missing a font because I only get lots of squares instead of chars in the dialogue boxes. The earth is there OK though. > 3. Downloading library ebooks. They come as an ascm XML file, that is > used by Adobe to download the epub document, that I can then import into > Calibre. But under linux I cannot get the epub document. That seems to > be something that has not been done in linux yet. Hmmm; I'm not sure I understand what isn't working here. At first I thought that you couldn't load epub files into Calibre, but I think you are saying that there is no Adobe app on Linux to download the epub. Calibre certainly works with epub files (that's it's reason for being), so I'm assuming the latter. Will the Adobe App work under wine? If the App you use is Digital Editions, then V 1.7 was given Platinmum status on April 22nd see http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=15545&iTestingId=43373. -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2011-09-06 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
