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Re: what the hell?

From Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.misc
Subject Re: what the hell?
Date 2015-12-25 21:00 -0500
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Henry Wilson <HGW@home.com> writes:

> On Fri, 25 Dec 2015 16:16:25 +0000, J G Miller wrote:
>
>> On Friday, December 25th, 2015, at 15:54:12h +1100,
>> Henry G Wilson wrote:
>> 
>>> Thank you.  You were the only person who offered any worthwhile
>>> assistance.
>> 
>> You are most welcome -- the difficulty with issues like these is always
>> trying to find and deliver the necessary information and/or instructions
>> in a format which is clear and concise but sufficiently detailed.
>> 
>>> I finally got it up and running.
>> 
>> That is good news and remember that for all the hassle this has involved
>> you have learnt a bit about installing packages and any necessary
>> dependencies,
>> so it will come in useful for the future.
>
> Not so far.
>
>> If it was all too easy, you would probably forget ;+}
>
> There is a general problem with installing packages on linux.
> After downloading with software manager some appear with an icon in the 
> menu, others such as Google Earth do not.  

Contact the Google Earth developers.

> For instance I am looking for a good newsreader. I downloaded TIN to try 
> it. According to Software manager it IS installed....but where is it? I 
> can't find it. I tried terminal with no success. Why all this 
> inconsistency? Why can't Linux include the required commands in the 
> downloads and save people like me a lot of time and trouble?

It's got to be /usr/bin/tin.
More important, you should be able to open a terminal window
and type:

tin

Were you expecting the process to be more complicated?

-- 
Dan Espen

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what the hell? HGW <hw@...> - 2015-12-24 08:36 +1100
  Re: what the hell? Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be.invalid> - 2015-12-23 22:46 +0100
  Re: what the hell? Jens Stuckelberger <Jens_Stuckelberger@nowhere.net> - 2015-12-23 23:58 +0000
  Re: what the hell? William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2015-12-24 00:28 +0000
    Re: what the hell? Henry Wilson <HGW@home.com> - 2015-12-24 11:43 +0000
      Re: what the hell? "D. Lowe" <d.lowe@openmailbox.org> - 2015-12-24 11:57 +0000
        Re: what the hell? "D. Lowe" <d.lowe@openmailbox.org> - 2015-12-24 12:00 +0000
          Re: what the hell? Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2015-12-24 08:01 -0600
          Re: what the hell? "Carlos E.R." <cer@invalid.es> - 2015-12-24 15:02 +0100
            Re: what the hell? Andreas Kohlbach <decem15.8.ankman@spamgourmet.net> - 2015-12-24 17:19 -0500
              Re: what the hell? "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@invalid.es> - 2016-01-05 12:36 +0100
                Re: what the hell? Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2016-01-05 18:46 +0000
      Re: what the hell? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2015-12-24 12:22 +0000
      Re: what the hell? Kara M'bola <maxupixu@in.val.it> - 2015-12-24 12:23 +0000
        Re: what the hell? "john@wexfordpress.com" <john@wexfordpress.com> - 2016-01-05 10:53 -0800
          Re: what the hell? Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2016-01-05 19:16 +0000
            Re: what the hell? "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@invalid.es> - 2016-01-06 00:40 +0100
              Re: what the hell? Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2016-01-06 03:13 +0000
      Re: what the hell? Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be.invalid> - 2015-12-24 13:52 +0100
        Re: what the hell? Andreas Kohlbach <decem15.8.ankman@spamgourmet.net> - 2015-12-24 17:23 -0500
      Re: what the hell? "Carlos E.R." <cer@invalid.es> - 2015-12-24 15:05 +0100
        Re: what the hell? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2015-12-24 14:24 +0000
          Re: what the hell? "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@invalid.es> - 2016-01-05 12:38 +0100
        Re: what the hell? Andreas Kohlbach <decem15.8.ankman@spamgourmet.net> - 2015-12-24 17:28 -0500
          Re: what the hell? William Poaster <wp@dev.null> - 2015-12-25 16:51 +0000
      Re: what the hell? ray carter <ray@zianet.com> - 2015-12-24 15:23 +0000
      Re: what the hell? Jens Stuckelberger <Jens_Stuckelberger@nowhere.net> - 2015-12-24 16:52 +0000
        Re: what the hell? Doug Laidlaw <doug@douglaidlaw.net> - 2015-12-25 04:16 +1100
      Re: what the hell? Keith Keller <kkeller-usenet@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> - 2015-12-24 09:35 -0800
      Re: what the hell? William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2015-12-24 18:23 +0000
      Re: what the hell? Howard S Shubs <howard@shubs.net> - 2015-12-24 23:20 +0000
        Re: what the hell? Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2015-12-24 15:27 -0800
        Re: what the hell? HGW <hw@...> - 2015-12-25 12:18 +1100
          Re: what the hell? Keith Keller <kkeller-usenet@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> - 2015-12-24 17:29 -0800
          Re: what the hell? J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2015-12-25 02:39 +0000
            Re: what the hell? HGW <hw@...> - 2015-12-25 15:54 +1100
              Re: what the hell? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2015-12-25 09:41 +0000
                Re: what the hell? Henry Wilson <HGW@home.com> - 2015-12-25 11:18 +0000
              Re: what the hell? J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2015-12-25 16:16 +0000
                Re: what the hell? Henry Wilson <HGW@home.com> - 2015-12-25 19:35 +0000
                Re: what the hell? Kara M'bola <maxupixu@in.val.it> - 2015-12-25 19:48 +0000
                Re: what the hell? Henry Wilson <HGW@home.com> - 2015-12-25 21:02 +0000
                Re: what the hell? Kara M'bola <maxupixu@in.val.it> - 2015-12-25 21:47 +0000
                Re: what the hell? John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2015-12-25 15:43 -0600
                Re: what the hell? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2015-12-26 10:42 +0000
                Re: what the hell? J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2015-12-25 21:08 +0000
                Re: what the hell? pureheart@pacbell.net - 2015-12-30 09:23 -0800
                Re: what the hell? Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2015-12-25 15:22 -0600
                Re: what the hell? J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2015-12-25 21:50 +0000
                Re: what the hell? Chick Tower <c.tower@deadspam.com> - 2015-12-27 03:50 +0000
                Re: what the hell? Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2015-12-25 21:00 -0500
                Re: what the hell? Henry Wilson <HGW@home.com> - 2015-12-26 03:55 +0000
                Re: what the hell? Keith Keller <kkeller-usenet@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> - 2015-12-25 20:52 -0800
                Re: what the hell? John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2015-12-26 10:01 -0600
                Re: what the hell? Keith Keller <kkeller-usenet@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> - 2015-12-26 11:41 -0800
                Re: what the hell? Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2015-12-26 00:16 -0600
                Re: what the hell? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2015-12-26 10:47 +0000
                Re: what the hell? Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2015-12-26 13:40 -0500
                Re: what the hell? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2015-12-26 19:38 +0000
                Re: what the hell? Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2015-12-26 16:27 -0500
                Re: what the hell? Kara M'bola <maxupixu@in.val.it> - 2015-12-26 11:40 +0000
                Re: what the hell? Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2015-12-26 13:32 -0500
                Re: what the hell? HGW <HG@...> - 2015-12-27 00:41 +0000
                Re: what the hell? Chick Tower <c.tower@deadspam.com> - 2015-12-27 20:24 +0000
                Re: what the hell? John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2015-12-27 15:36 -0600
                Re: what the hell? "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@invalid.es> - 2016-01-05 12:54 +0100
                Re: what the hell? John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2016-01-05 08:01 -0600
                Re: what the hell? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2016-01-05 14:29 +0000
                Re: what the hell? Chick Tower <c.tower@deadspam.com> - 2015-12-27 03:50 +0000
          Re: what the hell? William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2015-12-25 10:06 +0000
            Re: what the hell? Henry Wilson <HGW@home.com> - 2015-12-25 11:22 +0000
              Re: what the hell? William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2015-12-25 16:03 +0000
                Re: what the hell? HGW <HG@...> - 2015-12-27 00:41 +0000
                Re: what the hell? William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2015-12-27 00:47 +0000
        Re: what the hell? HGW <hw@...> - 2015-12-25 12:20 +1100
  Re: what the hell? "john@wexfordpress.com" <john@wexfordpress.com> - 2016-01-05 10:43 -0800
    Re: what the hell? William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2016-01-05 19:50 +0000

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