[AktiviX-discuss] Breaking ubuntu...

[Dan Olner]

Hia, 

Cheers... it's working with POP as mail server... er, which is odd.

But next problem: apologies if this is the wrong list...

I tried to install Thunderbird, and am still having fun learning how to
install stuff with linux.  Some of it's straightforward enough, and some
of it is horrendous.

But now I seem to have broken something.

I did this: I thought I needed the thunderbird app files in the usr/bin
folder, since that's where apps go...? But it was CHMOD'd to 755, so I
changed to 777 using SUDO to pretend to be root.

Now it won't let me change it back, even when using SUDO, and it's not
letting me run the synaptic package manager any more.  I get this:

sudo: must be setuid root

When I try to CHMOD back to 755

EEK! What have I done? (it suddenly occurs to me I should have just
moved the file using SUDO... ah well...)

So - 

1. What should do about usr/bin? Where should I be putting apps?

2. Is there a good guide somewhere for beginner peeps like me, coz at
the minute it's all google n forums, which is proving messy. (Me n a
friend have already broken everything and had to re-install once when
trying to get a local MySQL server going...)

3. Which list should I be pestering?

Cheers!

Dan
---



On Fri, 2005-10-07 at 13:21 +0100, john levin wrote:
> dan at aktivix.org wrote:
> > Allo,
> > 
> > Next daft question from Ubuntu / linux novice.
> > 
> > Ubuntu going beautifully on me work puter - but been trying to get my mail from
> > the aktivix server through the evolution mail client that comes with it.
> > 
> > Settings should be the same as Thunderbird (on my windows machine at home) and
> > I've run through the instructions at 
> > 
> > http://en.wiki.aktivix.org/AktiviX:Help:Mail
> > 
> > Outgoing seems fine, but it won't work for getting mail from the server...
> > 
> > Has anyone tried with evolution before? Any ideas?
> > 
> > Could meet someone on and IRC channel if you send me a link...
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> > Dan
> 
> Which version of Ubuntu are you using? Warty, Hoary or a Breezy preview?
> Is your system up to date? (Use Synaptic from the System > 
> Administration menu)
> The instructions on the wiki are for Kmail, so there may be subtle 
> differences with Evolution.
> Personally, I use Thunderbird on my Ubuntu boxes, for a number of 
> reasons, but I don't use Evolution because I found it very buggy. That 
> said I haven't used it for about a year, so I presume it's improved 
> since then. If you're already using Thunderbird, you might want to use 
> Synaptic to install that and have the same program across your desktops. 
> (It should be on the Ubuntu CD, if you don't have net access.)
> 
> HTH
> 
> John
>