Re: Kubuntu 6.06 , Firefox. install

Rein A. Smit wrote:
Roger Haxton wrote:


On Friday 22 September 2006 00:40, Rein A. Smit wrote:


Hi Tod,


Thanks for info.

I am not at the machine with Kubuntu, so will answer
whether Firefox is there or not. But I looked for it
whether it had been installed with the standard install
and did not find it. Could be well my mistake.

Let me address the Ubuntu/Kubuntu issue.

I wanted to put Ubuntu on an old Pentium 200 MHz with 1024
Mb. Again, I knew that would be marginal but did not think
it would be THAT marginal. Never got it to work in Xwindows.

So then I went to the P4 machine and as my previous experience is
with KDE, I decided for the Kubuntu version.

I am well aware that there is Office and Spread sheets and tons
of other programs. What I intended to say is that if I click on
a .pdf or .doc or mp3 or what have you, as an active link in a
WEB page, I want the browser to be able to handle that. ( such
as open Adobe reader or some .ppt reader, mp3 player etc ) without
having to download the file then open Adobe by hand.

http://www.konqueror.org/

Konqueror does do these functions I noticed now.

Firefox is, as is Netscape and IE with all its other drawbacks.

Will get back on whether Firefox is installed or not. If nothing
else, on a version to be used on the WEB, I should think that a browser
as Firefox, would be listed under "Internet", and it is not in Kubuntu.



Rein,

IIRC, Kubuntu doesn't come pre-installed with Firefox as KDE is designed to
use Konq rather than some other browser. Personally, I always start with an
Ubuntu install then make sure I have enabled the universe and multiverse
repositories then do a sudo aptitude update and sudo aptitude install
kubuntu-desktop. This installs everything that installs with kubuntu into my
ubuntu and I now have the choice of GNOME or KDE as my WM. I have also gone
the other way and installed Kubuntu first and then did sudo aptitude install
ubuntu-desktop. Of course if you don't want gnome and everything else that
the ubuntu desktop provides, you can do just sudo aptitude install firefox
(thunderbird, etc, etc). FWIW, adept is the graphical package manager that
is installed by default in Kubuntu, but I prefer synaptic, so even if I don't
install the entire ubuntu-desktop on my kubuntu machine, I definitely install
synaptic for when I want a graphical package manager. Once you have the
universe and multiverse repositories enabled, poke around in there and see
everything that is available to install. Oh, the other nice thing is the
add/remove programs from the main kubuntu menu. When I use the one for KDE,
I make sure the drop down box says any suite so I can see both GNOME and KDE
packages and check the boxes for unsupported and proprietary software. Very
nice selection that is a snap to download and install. Another tip as I use
my laptop a lot rather than a desktop is I adjust my /etc/apt/sources.list
file to comment out the cdrom that way I can install software and it doesn't
ever prompt me for the cd as it just downloads everything it needs.

Hope this helps your foray into (k)ubuntu as I love it and run it on all my
machines.



Hi Roger,


Thanks for the info and idea's

I decided to start from scratch and loaded Ubuntu. I am not sure what
happened when I loaded Kubuntu, but this time I had my NIC enabled and
as soon as the loading /installation was ready, Firefox came up with a
nice help / introduction Ubuntu site. Very Nice! I am not sure why this
did not happen with Kubuntu.

The installation process is a lot more intuitive and very nice and
smooth. I haven't tried all your other suggestions but at this point
I am converted!. Indeed it is nice.

I will add the Kubuntu softrware and go from there. Got my Firefox
running fine under Gnome. Have email going as well as FTP and the rest
should go fine, I hope.


Thanks again, a big help.

Regards,

Rein Smit.


Hi Roger,


Got Kubuntu added, and Firefox/Konqueror working. You did mention
being able to select between Ubuntu and Kubuntu or perhaps
between Gnome and KDE. Where do you set this? GDM ?


Regards,

Rein Smit













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