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#466 Post by edoc »

Thank you for your reply.

I can edit & save the PDF in LibreOffice.

Somewhere there must be an extension that equips LibreOffice to Export As a PDF to text ... I'll keep looking.

Thanks again.

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#467 Post by zaivala »

I have successfully installed LH64M on my Dell Optiplex 740 Enhanced, with 3 Gb of RAM. I had a problem getting the savefile to save, then found that either Ubuntu or Mint had formatted sda5 to some weird filesystem I'd never heard of; using GPartEd to reformat it ext4 solved the problem. And despite my n00bness, I managed to update Firefox and get it to run from the Browser button (although the icon changed and. I can't figure out how to change it back).

I've been having serious problems with getting any OS to run on this machine. It came with Ubuntu Karmic and upgraded all the way to Trusty...but then a tweak was found to be unwanted and I could not get it to revert. Since that event, I was unable to reinstall Ubuntu or install Mint, and was very happy to get LH6M to be so compliant.

So even an Aspie like me can get Mariner to run well. Any word on TaZoC's return and a Final version?

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#468 Post by gcmartin »

Hi @Edoc
edoc wrote:... I can edit & save the PDF in LibreOffice...
Saw this.

Hope this helps

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#469 Post by edoc »

There wasn't a link with "saw this"
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#470 Post by zaivala »

LibreOffice is not working... I have downloaded the SFS and have it in the correct directory, but something is happening. When I click on the icon, it says

File doesn't exist, or I can't acess it: /opt/libreoffice4.0/share/xdg/startcernter.desktop

When I go to the directory, /opt/libreoffice4.0/share/ is there but there is no xdg subdirectory. I've check "hidden files" just in case.

Any ideas?

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#471 Post by zaivala »

New issue: Configuring my printer.

I have a Brother MFC-465CN. Brother makes a printer driver for this printer, available as either a .DEB file or a .RPM file. I have no idea which one (or neither, or both) Lighthouse can read. CUPS has Brother printers built in, but not this model.

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#472 Post by gcmartin »

zaivala wrote:LibreOffice is not working... I have downloaded the SFS and have it in the correct directory, but something is happening. When I click on the icon, it says

File doesn't exist, or I can't acess it: /opt/libreoffice4.0/share/xdg/startcernter.desktop

When I go to the directory, /opt/libreoffice4.0/share/ is there but there is no xdg subdirectory. I've check "hidden files" just in case.

Any ideas?

Hugs,
Moss
Are you running "LH64 Mariner"? It has it all built-in. And when you boot from DVD, you "can" select which/all additions that you want loaded from the DVD. If you chose all, you have everything integrated upon arrival at desktop.

Let us know
P.S. Did you start from DVD or from some other approach?

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#473 Post by rcrsn51 »

@zaivala : I have no experience with Lighthouse, but there is information here about installing printers in Fatdog.

Beyond that, other LIghthouse regulars will need to give you support.

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#474 Post by zaivala »

The difference, besides Lighthouse being easier to understand in general than FatDog64, is that Lighthouse is based on Slax while FatDog64 is based on Ubuntu Precise... so installing a printer in FatDog64 would be "Get the .DEB" and I have no idea what file format is in Slax/Slackware. Hence the question.

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#475 Post by zaivala »

I also do not know how the CUPS info in slacko32 is any different from the one in the 64-bit version -- there are several MFC drivers in CUPS but not the one for this printer (as I think I mentioned already). In Puppy, I just downloaded the DEB version of the driver from Brother.

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Thunderbird 64 bit

#476 Post by Whitesnow »

As I love this puplet, I started a little support in my blog, repo and Puppy forum (first, QEMU: http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=88604).
Today is the time for another software, Thunderbird. Claws-mail built-in (my favourite) isn't compiled with OpenSSL support. So, I can't use as it is, I'd have to compile it and I haven't got time, right now.
Download Thunderbird package from my repository, PET section (see my sign for address).

Please, if you want to share, don't link directly my repo resources. They periodically will be overwritten by newer versions or can be moved for more efficient folder organization or for hosting reasons. Don't leave orphan links all over the web, browse repository instead (that is safe to link).


Enjoy! :)
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How to read Audio CD CDDA?

#477 Post by edoc »

I'm trying to copy some audio story files to a MP3 player so our son may more conveniently listen to them.

I cannot see them using the usual LH64 apps but VLC generates this:
VLC can't recognize the input's format:
The format of 'cdda:///dev/dvd' cannot be detected.
What app should I use for this, please?

I have a 32-bit Netbook and another laptop w/Linux I can try if not this 64-bit.

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#478 Post by rcrsn51 »

I cannot see them

edoc: You have omitted a rather important piece of information. Where are these story files? Are they tracks on an audio CD?

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#479 Post by edoc »

Yes, sorry, CD's.

Keeping the little guy occupied on drives is important to sanity - trying to store, handle, & change CD's in that cramped space is not good for sanity ...
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#480 Post by rcrsn51 »

Can VLC play the tracks as an audio CD? I am confused by the message:
The format of 'cdda:///dev/dvd' cannot be detected.
Keeping the little guy occupied on drives is important to sanity - trying to store, handle, & change CD's in that cramped space is not good for sanity ...
I don't understand this statement. Does it have anything to do with the task at hand?

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#481 Post by edoc »

No, VLC fails to play them with that error.

I tried DVD, audio CD, & SVCD/VCD

Every other multimedia app in LH64, CD Player/ripper, Pmusic, ripperX fails to see any content on the CD (Xine opens then closes quickly - no idea why).

"Drives" identifies the CD as an "audiocd".

Very odd ...
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#482 Post by rcrsn51 »

Where did these discs come from? Do they play OK in a standalone CD player? Maybe there is some kind of copy protection on them?

I read that cdparanoia can rip some types of copy protected CD.

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#483 Post by edoc »

They are from a series of children's stories.

Yes, they play fine on a cheap Sylvania portable CD/DVD player.

There is no label stating a copy protection scheme - but it's very possible.

I've never seen anything before that Linux could not at least look at ...
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#484 Post by rcrsn51 »

See my comment above about cdparanoia

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#485 Post by edoc »

My wife was handing me lunch as I was reading that ... skipped right over it! ;-)

cdparanoia worked!

THANKS!!!
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