Re: [Trisquel-users] LibreOffice Alternative

2020-01-19 Thread andyprough
Oh goodness. Yes definitely get on the latest LO. Go to the LO site, download the deb version for your architecture, extract the resulting tar.gz file, change directory into the resulting LibreOffice folder and then into the DEBS folder, and run this command: sudo apt install *.deb Or if

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel/General Computing Terminology Resource

2020-01-19 Thread Ade Malsasa Akbar
Hello jaisgossman, you are welcome. I am really glad to hear your opinion!

Re: [Trisquel-users] LibreOffice Alternative

2020-01-19 Thread Ade Malsasa Akbar
Freely as in freedom licensed office suite I know other than LibreOffice are Calligra Suite (https://www.calligra.org) and ONLYOFFICE (https://www.onlyoffice.com). Still, I recommend LibreOffice for you.

Re: [Trisquel-users] LibreOffice Alternative

2020-01-19 Thread behmen
Oh wow. I am on libreoffice 5, how did you update with Trisquel?

Re: [Trisquel-users] 3D printing with free software

2020-01-19 Thread incendiario
I own a Prusa (specificly model MK2). Firmware for all their printers is released under GPL 3.0 . They also have a slicer, PrusaSlicer, that is libre software (forked from Slic3r). Their newest printer, MK3S, is $ 750.00 USD according to their site. They also released a smaller printer

Re: [Trisquel-users] Cannot install Keyman

2020-01-19 Thread ark
Hello! python3-keyman-config is only available on ubuntu 19.04 and earlier, since Etiona (which is the newer version to be released) is based on 18.04, the package is not available. Maybe you'll like to contribute a MR to backport it. Cheers!

Re: [Trisquel-users] LibreOffice Alternative

2020-01-19 Thread ark
Maybe use the latest release of LibreOffice?

Re: [Trisquel-users] LibreOffice Alternative

2020-01-19 Thread andyprough
OnlyOffice can usually do it.

[Trisquel-users] Cannot install Keyman

2020-01-19 Thread Caleb Herbert
I'm trying to install Keyman from the directions on their website. https://keyman.com/linux/ cal@bender:~$ sudo apt install keyman onboard [sudo] password for cal: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This

Re: [Trisquel-users] LibreOffice Alternative

2020-01-19 Thread leoo
What possible reason does your recipient have for supposedly needing the document you send him to be in .docx? Why not just send it to him in Open Document Format (.odt)? MS Office can open, edit, and save to ODF formats - no need other than freedom (which is of course huge but set the

[Trisquel-users] Re : restoring individual files from backup

2020-01-19 Thread lcerf
That one (the worst I know of, in Trisquel 8), the one about having an error message ("An operation is already pending") when you plug an external hard drive where the backup should be made (opening the "Backup" main window actually starts the backup, and other smaller bugs (such as the fact

Re: [Trisquel-users] Re : restoring individual files from backup

2020-01-19 Thread mason
> I believed the rather detrimental change was justified by Déjà Dup > (and possibly duplicity) not being maintained: we were doomed to > suffer from its bugs for the foreseeable future. Nevertheless, I > discovered it is not the case: deja-dup is still being maintained in Debian,[1] so I don't

[Trisquel-users] Re : running cat without a direction

2020-01-19 Thread lcerf
'cat' is running. It is waiting for you to type the content to write to the standard output (the terminal, if not redirected) because you have not given it any file in argument(s) and because, as always for POSIX commands, the standard input (the keyboard, if not redirected) is the default.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Re : restoring individual files from backup

2020-01-19 Thread mason
> Do you know if Déjà Dup was tested again for Trisquel 9? Were the > bugs still present? If not, what justified the the choice of Back In > Time? Is that choice definitive? I actually did not realize that deja-dup is not installed by default in Trisquel 9, because I upgraded from Trisquel 8.

[Trisquel-users] Re : restoring individual files from backup

2020-01-19 Thread lcerf
I missed that post: sorry. I actually faced the same problem (Déjà Dup taking apparently forever to restore a past version of a file) some time ago, using Nautilus. I do not remember how I solved it. Maybe running deja-dup from the command line (since I imagine it is the first thing I

Re: [Trisquel-users] running cat without a direction

2020-01-19 Thread jaisgossman
so is it just waiting for a further command? or is it actually running the cat program somehow?

Re: [Trisquel-users] running cat without a direction

2020-01-19 Thread jaisgossman
cancelling the command, I guess that's what I was indirectly trying to learn here. thanks!

Re: [Trisquel-users] running cat without a direction

2020-01-19 Thread jaisgossman
mop the cat

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel/General Computing Terminology Resource

2020-01-19 Thread jaisgossman
This a great list! I only have clicked computerhope thus far, but by the titles, I can see these will be very helpful. Thank you

Re: [Trisquel-users] restoring individual files from backup

2020-01-19 Thread mason
> I would like to recover a directory which I deleted from my Desktop > directory several months ago. My understanding is that I should be > able to do this in Caja by right clicking and selecting "Restore > Missing Files..." When I do this, a window pops up which says that it > is scanning for

Re: [Trisquel-users] Linphone doesn't work

2020-01-19 Thread mason
Trisquel 9's version of Linphone is now available in Trisquel 8's backports repository. Make sure that you have the backports repository enabled (let me know if you need help with this), install the new version, and let me know if you run into the same issue. signature.asc Description: PGP

Re: [Trisquel-users] 3D printing with free software

2020-01-19 Thread fredo
Check here if you find something that suits your needs or a link to such a free software project : https://www.instructables.com/howto/3D+printer/

Re: [Trisquel-users] Setting ip a server part II (at least)

2020-01-19 Thread fredo
What do you need this server to do? I recommend installing and setting up what you need as you need it. Precisely you may not need mysql, or any other database server if you only plan to host html files, or plan top use a flat-file CMS, like PluXml. Apache and the latest version of php is a

Re: [Trisquel-users] Setting ip a server part II (at least)

2020-01-19 Thread mason
> I have installed mysql-server but ran into one problem. According to > https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-linux-apache-mysql-php-lamp-stack-ubuntu-18-04 What do you need this server to do? I recommend installing and setting up what you need as you need it. You may

Re: [Trisquel-users] Setting ip a server part II (at least)

2020-01-19 Thread jbahn
I still haven't figured out the gpg verification. So far I am using a full Trisquel 8.0 installation. I have successfully installed Apache2. I have installed mysql-server but ran into one problem. According to

Re: [Trisquel-users] Setting ip a server part II (at least)

2020-01-19 Thread jbahn
Next step is to verify the file with gpg. But there seems to be no .asc file (see https://trisquel.info/en/issues/25533#comment-146241)

Re: [Trisquel-users] LibreOffice Alternative

2020-01-19 Thread behmen
Thanks. I really can't help it the person that I'm sending the translation to needs it in .docx and he needs to be able to edit it through word. I did, in fairness, try and convince him to use libreoffice. He just wouldn't budge. I can already save in .docx thats not a problem, but perhaps