[PLUG] Ubuntu to Debian Second Attempt - Day 2

drew wymore drew.wymore at gmail.com
Sun Nov 22 21:14:29 UTC 2009


On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 11:59 AM, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net>wrote:

> On Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:41:23 -0800
> drew wymore <drew.wymore at gmail.com> dijo:
>
> > On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 12:14 AM, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net
> >wrote:
>
> > > 2) Can't figure out how to install Xara Extreme. I found the
> > > instructions on the Xara website, but I didn't understand them and I'm
> > > sure I never went through all that stuff when I installed it on Ubuntu.
> > > Again, luckily, I rarely use it.
>
> > Did you download the auto package file or the tar.bz2 file? If you
> > downloaded the tar file, tar -jxvf will untar it and you can cd into the
> > directory and execute bin/xaraxl to run it. I'm sure you can create a
> > launcher for this task as well.
>
> Just now I downloaded the tar.bz2 file and untarred it to
> ~/Software/Xara/. From within the ~/Software/Xara/xaralx/bin folder ls
> says the xaralx file is there, but the command "xaralx" says there is
> no such command. Double clicking on it from Nautilus nothing happened
> at first, but then I discovered that I did not have permission to
> execute the file. After giving myself (and everyone else) permission to
> execute it via the Nautilus Properties dialog box, double clicking on
> it launches the splash screen, but that's as far as it gets. From the
> command line I still get "no such command." Nautilus describes xaralx
> as an executable file, but I'm not always convinced that Nautilus knows
> what it's talking about. From the command line its attributes are
> -rwxrwxrwx 1. I think that means that it is readable, writable, and
> executable by me, by anyone in my group, and by root. But I'm far from
> an expert on chmod.
>
> > > 5) Most important - I still haven't figured out how to get my bluetooth
> > > mouse working. I think the problem is in Debian because several of the
> > > buttons in the GUI do nothing at all. Like click on Setup New Device
> > > and nothing happens. I can find it from the command line with hcitool,
> > > but the connect command fails to connect it, even though the command
> > > executes without error.
>
> > I can't help with this since I don't have any bluetooth meece to use on
> my
> > laptop right now.
>
> I have two of them, and I can't get either one to work. When I turn
> them on a popup appears under the bluetooth icon in the gnome panel
> asking if I want to give it permission. But the only button on the
> popup is "OK," and clicking on it just makes the popup disappear. The
> mouse still does not work. From the command line "hcitool scan" finds
> whatever mouse(s) are turned on, but "hcitool cc <address>" just
> executes without error and without actually connecting the mouse.
>
> I think bluetooth in testing is seriously broken. The same thing
> happened when I installed testing the first time a month ago. At that
> time I installed Blueman, an alternative bluetooth manager. After
> installing it I was able to get the bluetooth mouse working, but after
> doing so I lost my window manager. I was never able to get the window
> manager working again. I'm not going near Blueman this time around. :(
>
> If I click on the bluetooth icon in the Gnome panel and then on Setup
> New Device a window is supposed to pop up with Forward/Back buttons to
> step you through finding the device and pairing it. But when I click on
> Setup New Device nothing happens. I suspect there is a missing package,
> but it seems strange that no one else on the Debian user list seems to
> have a problem with bluetooth.
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It's saying no command found because Sofware/Xara is not in your path. You
have to ./$command to get it to launch properly from the bin directory.



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