2009/3/16 suranjan jii <[email protected]>: > Hello there! > > My name is Suranjan, and I am just new to Linux. I am a college professor in > Buxar, Bihar and am interested in spreading the news about Linux to all the > professors, staff, and students in our institution.
Welcome to the list and the community. > I myself just recently learned about Linux, and am keenly interested. I have > been searching an alternative to windows for a long time, and feel I have > finally found the answer here in Ubuntu. > > I do have three questions, the first of which is critical. If someone is > able to guide me about the second two as well, it will be a very great help > to me. > > 1. My internet connection is WLL, which is provided by VSNL. Kindly guide me > as to how to configure my Ubuntu (version 7.10, Gutsy) so that I can get on > line. Is any special software needed? The connection is via USB port. Try http://www.thinkdigit.com/forum/showthread.php?p=876989 > 2. SCIM is present in Gutsy, and I would like to use it with Hindi. I have > located the setup utility in System -> Preferences, but cannot get the > actual program to open. According to the setup utility, the program should > be triggered to open upon hitting "shift-space" or "ctrl-space", but upon > doing so nothing happens. Even when a text file is open. Check https://wiki.ubuntu.com/InputMethods/SCIM/Setup https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SCIM > 3. I have tried to install a linux spell-checker for use with Hindi which is > supposed to work in Ubuntu. It is called "aspell6-hi-0.02-0", and installs > in terminal using the commands "./configure", "make", and "sudo make > install". The configure command works fine, but when I give the "make" > command, I get an error "Nothing to be done for `all'", as seen below. > Please kindly guide as to how to correct this so that the "make" command > will work. > > :~/Desktop/aspell6-hi-0.02-0$ ./configure > Finding Dictionary file location ... /usr/lib/aspell > Finding Data file location ... /usr/lib/aspell > :~/Desktop/aspell6-hi-0.02-0$ make > make: Nothing to be done for `all'. > :~/Desktop/aspell6-hi-0.02-0$ No need to do all this. The package should be available in the repository itself. Just do sudo apt-get install aspell-hi or it maybe aspell6-hi -- Windows 95 has been operating for 2 hours, 32 minutes. No errors reported. CALL GUINESS BOOK ... -- ubuntu-in mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
