On 5/31/19 2:58 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
Hope this is the right place to ask questions! I've come to OpenSuse Thunderbird after losing my PCLOS computer to some kind of glitch, and I don't like the latest version No such thing as "OpenSuse Thunderbird". There is "openSUSE" Linux, and
On 31/05/2019 03.17, Doug McGarrett wrote: there is "Thunderbird" in openSUSE Linux, and in Debian Linux, and in Windows 10, and in... Well, not in Android. Should have said Tumbleweed.
that PCLOS is putting out now--a lot of apps that I have used on a regular basis are gone, along with a lot of libs that I would need to get the apps back, but the libs are
not available. I wanted to stay with an rpm system to have at least something familiar, but I'm running into some real questions that I can't answer.
1: Where is the equivalent of the Synaptic Package Manager? There must be a list of everything available on the repo, and from which any one or more can be downloaded You don't need it.
First things first: what openSUSE release have you installed, and how? There is Leap 42.3 Leap 15.0 and Leap 15.1, and Tumbleweed.
The Tumbleweed version was downloaded 19 May 2019. I don't know what that version would be called. The desktop is KDE, and I have followed the instructions to make the applications selection look like the ancient Windows or the older PCLOS.
Second: What desktop have you installed? There is Plasma (aka KDE), there is Gnome, there is XFCE, and a few others that I forget their names.
Each one will manage your mouse correctly for you. In the case of gnome, there is one "gsynaptics".
Or are you, by any chance, deity forbid, trying to install openSUSE packages over PCLOSS? No help that road, as nobody has done that before.
I shrank the Windows partitions and created two blank data partitions and one swap, then installed Tumbleweed and let it select where to put things. I suspect that it used the larger partition for the boot / and the smaller for data, which seems the wrong way , but for now I'm leaving things the way they are. Using Thunderbird email program, and it automatically double-spaces everything.
2. Why can't I install any printers? I have provided my password TWICE,
but then it comes up forbidden? If I open CUPS and provide a password, will I have to install Just start up YaST, which will ask for the *root* password, and then follow your nose to the printer module :-)
Did that, but I'm over my head. The connection is the network connection, an RJ45 port on the computer that goes to the router, and all the printers (3) are connected to the router. I told YAST that one of the printers is an Epson WP4530, and it brought up a list of Epson printers, but the WP4530 is not on it, and apparently it can't find the Epson, which is my usual color printer and scanner. I haven't tried the two HPs--the usual letter-size LaserJet Pro, M201dw, the other an 11" x 17" color printer and scanner, HP OfficeJet Pro, 7740. I would not use the 7740 for general work, it's only for the B-size output. Obviously the network is functioning, since I can email over it and use Firefox, etc. YAST offers several connections, but I don't know which one is the RJ45. When I try to probe for the printers, it finds nothing, and I see a message that there is no print queue. I will have to find a way to make Thunderbird quit double-spacing! I could not make any headway with KPrint at all, that's why thunderbird, which I don't particularly care for. (Don't know if I'd prefer KPrint, since I can't install it.) Sorry that I'm such a dunce, but I'm snowed here! Thanx for your time and effort! --doug
a long string of instructions to install a printer? If so, where should the printer info (ppd from the manufacturer) be stored? (I have the instructions to install printers in PCLOS--- Puagh. You don't have to do any such thing.
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