Comments on: I used to be a PC, now I’m Linux

By: tara

tara — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 07:49:09 +0000

Hey Branflakes, I miss you and hope you’re well.

I’m using Hardy. I have F-Spot Photo Manager installed. I thought it was a photo organizer, but indeed you’re right. It does the basic photo editing things that I need.

I also had problems installing Wine, but I’ll give it another shot.

Thanks!

By: Branflakes from Canada

Branflakes from Canada — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 07:15:57 +0000

There are other choices for graphics work, especially for lighter fare, like (what sounds like) photo management. You don’t mention whether you’re running Hardy (Ubuntu 8.04) or Intrepid (8.10), but my Hardy install includes the F-Spot photo editor by default. Have you tried it? Does it meet your needs any better?

The second choice might be to install Wine, a API compatibility layer that will let you install and run many Windows applications. It’s not available under ‘Add/Remove Programs’, but you can install it from System => Administration => Synaptic Package Manager. You’ll need to enter your password to get access.

Then, scroll down the big list to ‘wine’ (or just type in wine, and it will find it for you), right-click and choose ‘Mark for Installation’. It will probably bring up a window called ‘Mark additional changes’ that list some additional packages that will need to be installed. Agree to that list. Then choose ‘Apply’. It will whir and click and install some packages.

After Wine is installed, you can download the IrfanView installer, and run it just like you would in Windows.

Not all programs work under Wine, but there are some positive reports of IrfanView running well under Wine in Ubuntu.

Good luck, and welcome to Linux. Hope life in Aotearoa is treating you well.

By: CHB District Libraries

CHB District Libraries — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:26:49 +0000

Onya. I find it’s by playing and trying stuff that you get the answers.

By: tara

tara — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 18:19:23 +0000

Thanks! I followed similar instructions here but it didn't work. I tried again and was successful. Yay!

By: CHB District Libraries

CHB District Libraries — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 09:39:47 +0000

I used this to get tweetdeck on. I needed to update to the latest Adobe Air first tho.

Open a Terminal and browse to where you downloaded the installer file (at the time of this post it was called â€œAdobeAIRInstaller.binâ€)
Type chmod +x AdobeAIRInstaller.bin and press Enter
Type sudo ./AdobeAIRInstaller.bin and press Enter
Enter your password and this will launch the installer. Follow the prompts accordingly.
Now go here and download the TweetDeck Air file:
http://www.tweetdeck.com/beta/
Open with Adobe Air and install the application by following the prompts. You will need your Admin password.