[Trisquel-users] On my first download of Trisquel 7.0 LTS Belenos I got no md5sum file

2018-03-23 Thread erbperbp
Hello all Is that what is expected? Thank you for your time.

Re: [Trisquel-users] On my first download of Trisquel 7.0 LTS Belenos I got no md5sum file

2018-03-23 Thread erbperbp
I mean I didn't get any md5sum file to compare with. I got an alphanumeric string after typing the command on the appropriate CLI. But I don't know where to look for the md5sum file to compare with. Any idea about what coud have happened and about how to solve the problem? Thank you.

Re: [Trisquel-users] On my first download of Trisquel 7.0 LTS Belenos I got no md5sum file

2018-03-23 Thread erbperbp
Thank you loldier for your magic words! :-) I was aware of what you said but for some unexplainable reason I couldn't find the link that would allow me to download the checksum file. After reading your post and visiting the Sweden's ACC Computer Club (Umeå University) mirror (and thinking th

Re: [Trisquel-users] On my first download of Trisquel 7.0 LTS Belenos I got no md5sum file

2018-03-24 Thread erbperbp
loldier: Sorry for spending your time. Because I'm not a regular inhabitant of the digital world I don't allways keep in mind things I have heard or read before and act foolishly. Thank you for helping me to build a clear idea from what was a vague notion.

[Trisquel-users] Which is the easiest way of making an .html file with Trisquel Belenos?

2018-04-06 Thread erbperbp
In the O.S I have been using during these last 9 years it was an option of one of the browsers I could use. But I can't find something similar here. I'm enjoying Trisquel but missing things like this. How can I solve this problem wihtout returning to my old OS? Thank you in advance.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Which is the easiest way of making an .html file with Trisquel Belenos?

2018-04-09 Thread erbperbp
@ mason, loldier, Magic Banana Thank you very much. The data and questions with which you have contributed, have encouraged me to deepen my studies on .html editing. Considering the set of options I already knew and the new ones that you have suggested, I think, that for the time being, the b

[Trisquel-users] Flidas without installing

2018-08-24 Thread erbperbp
Hello everybody! Could you please tell me if it is possible to make Icedove (the e-mail client) work from a "Try Trisquel without installing" based Flidas.? Thank you for your time

Re: [Trisquel-users] Flidas without installing

2018-08-24 Thread erbperbp
@ chaosmonk: Thank you for trying to help! >>Have you tried and run into any particular problems? Yes, I have. And my attempts have always finished by receiving messages like these three: ! Username or password invalid ! Configuration could not be verified - is the username or

Re: [Trisquel-users] Flidas without installing

2018-08-24 Thread erbperbp
> Assuming that you are indeed typing your username and password correctly,< No doubts about that! > it's possible that the problem is that yahoo won't let you sign in with cookies disabled in Icedove.< That's a possibility I hadn't thought about. > Try temporarily enabling cookies in Icedove

Re: [Trisquel-users] Flidas without installing

2018-08-25 Thread erbperbp
@ loldier: Hello! Thank you for trying to help. Before chaosmonk's post I couldn't find the road. Now, if I don't misunderstand you, the road seems to have branched out simultaneously in at least 5 directions: 1)The issue of the disabled cookies in Icedove 2)The disk space facto

Re: [Trisquel-users] Flidas without installing

2018-08-27 Thread erbperbp
@ chaosmonk Please forgive me for this belated thanks message but I have spent much of the time since your last post here trying to balance the bad news with good ones. In spite of having achieved my goal the results have left me annoyed and bewildered. The bad news: 1)Everything I desc

Re: [Trisquel-users] Flidas without installing

2018-08-27 Thread erbperbp
Hello All my attempts since Tuesday, 21 August, 2018 16:10 CEST (UTC+2) were made after having "allowed apps that may use a less secure sign-in method" to access my Yahoo account. This means that before my first post on Sat, 08/25/2018 - 00:46 CEST (UTC+2), all my attempts had been made w

Re: [Trisquel-users] Flidas without installing

2018-08-27 Thread erbperbp
Sorry. In my last post where I wrote >This means that before my first post on Sat, 08/25/2018 - 00:46 CEST (UTC+2), all my attempts had been made...< You should read This means that before my first post on Sat, 08/25/2018 - 00:46 CEST (UTC+2), most of my attempts had been made...

[Trisquel-users] "Flidas without installing" and Sugar TOAST

2018-09-01 Thread erbperbp
Hello! Could someone please write about what would he advise a Trisquel user who wants to use Sugar TOAST on a "Try Trisquel without installing" based Flidas? Where could this user learn about the best way of teaming up these 2 systems? Thank you for your time.

Re: [Trisquel-users] "Flidas without installing" and Sugar TOAST

2018-09-02 Thread erbperbp
@ loldier I'll try with the trisquel-sugar package as soon as I can. Thank you!

Re: [Trisquel-users] "Flidas without installing" and Sugar TOAST

2018-09-03 Thread erbperbp
Hello! I'm failing in my attempt to use Sugar TOAST by means of the installation of the trisquel-sugar package with Synaptic. Eleven ""404 Not Found [IP: 176.31.119.109 80]" messages have appeared with the message that I have copied after the eleven curved closing brackets that follow. 0

Re: [Trisquel-users] "Flidas without installing" and Sugar TOAST

2018-09-03 Thread erbperbp
This is what I get from my mate-terminal... trisquel@trisquel:~$ sudo apt install trisquel-sugar Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these: The following packages have unmet dependencies: p

Re: [Trisquel-users] "Flidas without installing" and Sugar TOAST

2018-09-03 Thread erbperbp
@ loldier @chaosmonk I think I have derailed and I need some context to get back on track. I'm not sure if in your last posts you are suggesting that (for SUGAR TOAST installment) I should use the CLI terminal as a complement (of Synaptic) or as a replacement of Synaptic. It would be of gr

Re: [Trisquel-users] "Flidas without installing" and Sugar TOAST

2018-09-09 Thread erbperbp
@loldier: Dear Sir I'm not sure if I understood correctly your last post, but I have kept its words in mind ever since I read it. Though I haven't succeeded in launching Sugar Toast yet, I feel your help has put me back on the tracks. Your words have drifted my thoughts and readings towards t

[Trisquel-users] Does the "Deepness of the location of a file" matter when using Flidas?

2018-10-10 Thread erbperbp
I have a problem with Flidas I don't know how to explain without using what I call the "deepness of the location of a file". Do you understand me when I use that expression to make my question?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Does the "Deepness of the location of a file" matter when using Flidas?

2018-10-10 Thread erbperbp
For example, I would say that initrd.img is not deeply located in the file structure because its location is / I would also say that it is located in the first level of deepness. On the other hand, I would say that dao.h 's location is quite deep, because its location is /usr/include/libsprea

Re: [Trisquel-users] Does the "Deepness of the location of a file" matter when using Flidas?

2018-10-10 Thread erbperbp
I discovered the problem when trying to link an .HTML document that is at the 16th level of deepness to another .HTML document that is also at the same level of deepness but of another folder. I have linked other .HTML documents before without problems. I currently don't recall the deepness

Re: [Trisquel-users] Does the "Deepness of the location of a file" matter when using Flidas?

2018-10-10 Thread erbperbp
Thank you for asking I'm getting an error and I don't know if long paths are compatible with Flidas. This is what I would like to know: Does Flidas have some limit regarding the length of the paths that are used with it?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Does the "Deepness of the location of a file" matter when using Flidas?

2018-10-10 Thread erbperbp
@ loldier Thank you for trying to help. I have made so many attempts to solve the problem and changes in the address of the starting link that currently when I click on it I'm not receiving an error screen and I am able to access folders that have a much longer path than the one with which t

Re: [Trisquel-users] Does the "Deepness of the location of a file" matter when using Flidas?

2018-10-10 Thread erbperbp
@ Magic Banana Thank you for the link! I also distrust my keyboard skills and therefore I haven't ruled typos out. But I also suspect of the shallowness of my knowledge on links and on the way in which I configured the storage media I am using. I am trying to gather evidence about these factor

Re: [Trisquel-users] Does the "Deepness of the location of a file" matter when using Flidas?

2018-10-10 Thread erbperbp
@ loldier This is the sort of reply I received from Abrowser when the problem began

Re: [Trisquel-users] Does the "Deepness of the location of a file" matter when using Flidas?

2018-10-16 Thread erbperbp
Hello Chaosmonk Though I want to thank all who have tried to help me with this problem, I'm specially addressing you because when reading this topic before sending this message I discovered that despite the information I provided in my messages from Thu, 11/10/2018 - 00:39 UTC+1 and from Thu

Re: [Trisquel-users] Does the "Deepness of the location of a file" matter when using Flidas?

2018-10-16 Thread erbperbp
I have posted a message thanking you all and apologizing to chaosmonk.

[Trisquel-users] Has someone else experienced the same problem with mtpaint and his Trisquel8?

2019-11-18 Thread erbperbp
Suddenly, since about last April, I haven't been able to use mtpaint because the gnome-app-install (g-a-i) constantly says the installation fails due to a problem. The failure has always been accompanied by and announcements that say that "some of the packages could not be retrieved from the se

Re: [Trisquel-users] Has someone else experienced the same problem with mtpaint and his Trisquel8?

2019-11-19 Thread erbperbp
Thank you both. With loldier's tip, I solved the problem. Sorry for the delayed answer. Because I'm almost an illiterate user, I'm not sure I fully understand nadebula's post. As soon as as I have some free time I will try to verify if I understood him correctly or not. Again, thank you very

Re: [Trisquel-users] Has someone else experienced the same problem with mtpaint and his Trisquel8?

2019-11-21 Thread erbperbp
@nadebula.1984 >Sorry for the inconvenience. Please don't feel sorry... These words of yours >Oops, then the problem was because that you haven't updated the repository for some time, and therefore the old version of certain dependency was removed from the mirror server. Because I frequent

[Trisquel-users] Bug report in the right place?

2019-11-24 Thread erbperbp
I'm on Trisquel8, and have tried to use a printer I have used before with other GNU/LINUX operating systems without problems. Because I can't use it with Trisquel8 I have traveled the following path up to its end: Trisquel's Main Menu/System/Administration/Printers/Printers-localhost→Help/Troubl

Re: [Trisquel-users] Bug report in the right place?

2019-11-25 Thread erbperbp
Thank you for your help :-) I will use the data in your post as a basis for my next steps.

[Trisquel-users] Are there easily measurable images of the earth with Trisquel Flidas?

2019-12-02 Thread erbperbp
I'm using Trisquel since about 18 months and I have used Trisquel Flidas almost exclusively during these last 7 months. One of the things I mostly miss of my old operating systems is that with them I could use Google Earth with its ruler that allowed me to measure, almost to the inch, the dis

Re: [Trisquel-users] Are there easily measurable images of the earth with Trisquel Flidas?

2019-12-02 Thread erbperbp
@ chaosmonk & @Beko Thank you for your answers. Marble seems to be exactly what I'm looking for. I would like to pay you back for your help but I'm an only an old unprosperous IT student who is struggling to get out of digital illiteracy with the burden of little time and a flat learning curve

Re: [Trisquel-users] Are there easily measurable images of the earth with Trisquel Flidas?

2019-12-03 Thread erbperbp
>I started out not knowing any of this stuff either. I'm still learning, >but after a few years, I now know enough that I can help other people >who are where I was back then. In a few years, you will too. For now, >just keep learning, and keep asking for help when you need it. That's >what this f

[Trisquel-users] Communicating to computer illiterates who use proprietary software

2020-05-05 Thread erbperbp
At least for the last decade I have only used GNU-LINUX programs and Gnumeric has been one that has given me the most satisfaction. I'm using Flidas almost since it was launched. Now I need to share some of the data I keep on Gnumeric spreadsheets with people whose computing knowledge is ev

Re: [Trisquel-users] Communicating to computer illiterates who use proprietary software

2020-05-05 Thread erbperbp
I really don't know if recipients will want to modify what I am sending them. I would't mind if they want to do so. That's why I thought of sending them an editable spreadsheet and not a pdf file. I want to make things for them as easier as possible. Don't you think that sending an xlsx file wil

Re: [Trisquel-users] Communicating to computer illiterates who use proprietary software

2020-05-05 Thread erbperbp
@ boba Thank you for your 2 last replies. Your response has been more than highly satisfactory. If I knew how to use rating system of this forum I would give you the highest score

Re: [Trisquel-users] Communicating to computer illiterates who use proprietary software

2020-05-05 Thread erbperbp
>Please don't use the term "computer illiterate". >Illiterate person is the one who can't read and/or write. >The term "computer illiterate" doesn't make any sense and sounds disrespectful. Interesting comment. If I have time I will start a thread on that subject in "The Troll Lounge" folder

[Trisquel-users] Best file system for storing devices to be used with Trisquel Flidas

2020-05-27 Thread erbperbp
Which is/are it/they? Why? Thanks in advance for your opinion.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Best file system for storing devices to be used with Trisquel Flidas

2020-05-28 Thread erbperbp
@Magic Banana: Thank you for your comment @Centurino: Thank you for your comment. @Jaret: as far as I can remember it means data corruption due to aging of the storing media.