Learning curves

[kengr]

I am slowing getting the Linux box (as yet unnamed) set up the way I want.

First hurdle was updates. It'd been almost a year since Doug set it up for me, so it needed just a few... 255. Took some digging to figure out why I couldn't run the system updater. It was easy to discover that something else had a lock on the pkg files. Not so easy to figure out what/why.

After chasing some dead ends trying to see what the program was *doing*, I stumbled across Muon Package Manager in the Applications. That was the key.

Next I got about half of the things updated before getting an error message. Which had a button to click for details but did nothing.

I tried updating subsets of the stuff that needed updating. No luck. Finally, I decided to try a reboot. That was the trick. Got a message about "unattended upgrade in progress during shutdown. Do not turn off computer." So I switched back to the main Windoze box and did stuff. When I checked back much later, I had a login screen. The rest of the updates installed just fine.

I managed to install Beyond Compare (my preferred file manager) without any problems. Still trying to figure out how to install my preferred antivirus program (F-Prot) After reading the readme, I think I know what I need to do, just need to figure out how to do that. (missing bottom ruugs, strike again)

I also need to work on accessing my NAS boxes, and shared drives on the Windows boxes. And on setting up WINE or the like to run a few programs.

I'll get there. Kinda have to, because I am *not* going to go to windows 10.

Comments

[siliconshaman]

Missing bottom rungs is the one thing I hate about Linux. There are so many 'help' guides out there that assume you know steps 0-3 and skip a couple of others because 'everyone knows that' ... essentially meaning that it either doesn't work or you need to read about fifteen other guides to build a complete picture by filling in the gaps.

[kengr]

Yeah the online help for accessing the NAS stuff and/or Windoze shares tells me to open certain things. Fine. Then it tells me to click on options that don't *exist*. and this is actually help *for* Ubuntu (Kubuntu shouldn't be *that* different, right?)

And my internet access started by using Lynx on a friend's Unix box back in the 80s. I also had Usenet acccess. and I was using a terminal for much of that. Had to set up my own termcap for the computer I was using most at the time.