I see I did download Raw Therapee, but it was a tar file, and not a complete package. It has a failed dependency. Also installed in my home directory, shades of windows! Think I will reboot to Ubuntu and look some more at this.
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Posted 3 years ago #
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That is not my problem. I have a failed dependency on gtkmm 2.14, which may be provided by gtk 2.12. I can't get those in Mint 8 from the normal repositories. When I switched to Kubuntu 9.10, I was able to add the needed package, and all was fine. I opened and ran rt for a short time. I can see it will have a learning curve.
I does show you are right about the benefit of Ubuntu itself vs a derivative. I may install Kubuntu 10.04 beta in the partition that kubuntu 9.10 is using, and start switching to that. It just occurred to me last night 10.04, it is April, the time is here! I think this is supposed to be an LTS version, so should be good.
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It is an LTS version (the only kind I run, personally), and it's very nice IMO. I think Lucid is an apt moniker for it. They've really polished it up nicely. I'm not sure about the Kubuntu version, as when I tried KDE on it, it still had issues (I used to be a big KDE fan, but gave up on it when they didn't do anything to maintain the KDE 3.5.x series while working on KDE4 even though 3.5.x had lots of bugs). I found I actually really like how gnome works in Ubuntu, since Ubuntu fixed all the things I couldn't stand about Gnome in their distro's version of it. You might want to give the gnome-based version of Ubuntu a try too: you might find you like it. I'm pretty sure it's a lot more polished than the KDE desktop in Kubuntu, since Kubuntu is only an unofficial release.
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Solid_liq, I just installed the 10.04 Ubuntu beta this morning. Have not booted to it yet, wanted to check what's up this morning before trying that. I also have to get a new hard drive, may add it as a second one. I have been up against the 16 partition limit for about a year, and need to do something. Plus with the new camera, I have used up my available space. So I have computer work to do!
Edit: I have 10.04 Ubuntu running, and am in it now.
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I did not like it at all! I thought the colors were very poor, the black at the top, in the title bar was really bad, and moving the max/min/close to the right was unreasonable. I also don't like the default theme. But it was a bad computer day. the internet seemed very slow today, and the update manager needed to get 312 MB of updates. That took a long time.
I got the min/max/close moved to the left so it is near where the scroll bar and cursor normally are. Changing the theme might help a lot. The software manager seemed very nice for choosing software, but not so good about telling you what will happen. When I asked it to install k-mail, it did not give me a clue about how many other things it would need. I knew it would need a bunch of KDE dependencies, but I think it should have given me warning that I was asking for a lot and it would take time. Some people might not have known that. That is my first impression, and my first impression is often wrong.
I bought a new hard drive today. That D300s finished off the space on my existing one. I have taken about 2500 photos with it in the last couple of weeks. I should not need LVM, there is no excuse except poor house cleaning that I have 16 partitions.
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It was Ubuntu. I am used to the look and feel of Kubuntu. My thinking was to install the Ubuntu version, as it is the 'real thing'. Then add KDE on top of that, and use whichever I wanted at the time. I still might go that route, I have done it in the past.
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I have now configured a pretty decent Gnome desktop with Lucid beta 2. However, I cannot figure out how to assign applications to specific desktops. I want mail to open in desktop 1, firefox in desktop 2, and so on. It must be easy, I just don't know the 'Gnome way'. In KDE I would just set it in the control panel.
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Yay! I am on RC now ! not much different but it seems snappier .. but It may just be me :-) lol
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