READ ME - FOR NEW LINPUS LINUX USERS

[KiNG]

As requested by a member on the board

Basic things you need to know using Linpus - if your a total linux beginner, read further reading below.

To activated advanced mode - goes into the real operating system of linpus, allows you add/remove programs etc..
see here - viewtopic.php?f=13&t=28

Package Manager - add/remove software
Once the advanced mode has been activated, under System you will find Add/Remove Software which is the Red Hat/Fedora Packet Manager. You will need your password (the one you set up during installation) to access it. Now you can install programs.

Opening shell terminal open a terminal (alt F2) on acer aspire one
http://linuxreviews.org/beginner/#toc5


Further reading
http://www.reallylinux.com/docs/windowstolinux.shtml
http://linuxreviews.org/beginner/
http://www.linux.ie/newusers/beginners-linux-guide/

Thx to all the members who has posted the above information, credit to them

[glibdud]

Packet Manager - add/remove software
Once the advanced mode has been activated, under System you will find Add/Remove Software which is the Red Hat/Fedora Packet Manager. You will need your password (the one you set up during installation) to access it. Now you can install programs.

Packet Manager should probably be Package Manager.

[anz]

Sorry for that question, but should be software updated by the package manager (or yum/yumex) or/and with the "Live Update"?

[jango]

good question...

[BlackLagoon]

Sorry for that question, but should be software updated by the package manager (or yum/yumex) or/and with the "Live Update"?

I think Acer intended that people only use their Live Update function. Still, upgrading to generic Fedora 8 packages with yum does work most of the time, but you risk overwriting customizations that Linpus/Acer have done... Most commonly, it will cause icons to disappear from the Desktop, or replace them with low resolution versions, but one update (probably the HAL daemon) caused the flash card reader to stop working. In general, these issues are fixable if you know what you're doing - even got the card reader back after adding a policy entry for it - but there's always a risk.

[jjoshua]

I think you can help me a lot BlackLagoon. I did Live Update. Then I did yum and it had a lot of dependency errors. So i did yum and excluded about 10 things cause thats about how many errors it had. It did about 500megs of updates. I reset and I don't have my desktop. I have the search bar and black. It turns to white with colored speckles and often retains whatever I put over it. I also lost my right click menu that I had enabled. The wireless loses the password I type in every reboot. And the SD card doesn't work. I hadn't tested it before though. I have a 4gb Extreme III. I don't know that much about Linux, but wouldn't mind learning. Should I try to reformat or do you think someone on here might be able to help me a bit? I can still call up programs from alt f12 and do file explorer and terminal that way.

[BlackLagoon]

So i did yum and excluded about 10 things cause thats about how many errors it had. It did about 500megs of updates. I reset and I don't have my desktop. I have the search bar and black. It turns to white with colored speckles and often retains whatever I put over it. I also lost my right click menu that I had enabled. The wireless loses the password I type in every reboot. And the SD card doesn't work.

I think the desktop was killed by the GTK library update. Not sure if it's possible to get the old one back, but you can at least get the standard XFCE desktop instead by doing alt-F2 and running

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xfdesktop-xfce

This will get you a regular Windows-esque desktop and give you back the right-click menu.

As for the card reader, I think that's caused by the HAL update. You need to edit the policy configuration file and add an entry for it. Run:

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sudo mousepad /etc/PolicyKit/PolicyKit.conf

and add the following near the end of the file, between </match> and </config>:

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<match action="org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-removable">
   <return result="yes" />
</match>

Not sure about your wireless issue, don't think I've updated that program myself.

[jjoshua]

I ran the script, and then did a thing to make the home key work from that thread, and then did your trick to make the SD work. However, I can't figure out how to combine the SD to the SSD any ideas?

[Fuerst]

HI, BEFORE YOU CONTINUE READING: I HAVE BEEN ABLE TO SOLVE THE BIG MODEM PROBLEM THANKS TO VALUABLE ADVISE GIVEN BY MEMBERS OF THIS AND ONE GERMAN LINUX-FORUM
THANKS!!

Hallo King,
thank you for all the work and time you put into that site here.

what frustrates me, however, is the fact, that despite all those years, this system Linux has even more become a secret weapon for people who like to PLAY with a computer and not work.

At a time when windows has finally managed to become stable and pretty user friendly, Linux seems more and more to turn into a little game for people who like to waste time just on getting the machine running at all.

I still will give it a try but am on the verge of getting rid of it, and I must blame also Acer for it, who are selling a machine in 2008 WITHOUT Skype software and WITHOUT a working and installed driver for HSDPA/UMTS modems. It really is a scandal and a shame.

Don't get me wrong: I really love that little computer, although the touch-pad is not at all ideal.

If it only had a reasonably well functioning software on it

kind regards
Christian

[BlackLagoon]

The top post here needs to be updated... The package manager/yum will no longer work properly until you run the following:

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sudo yum update fedora-release

Then, the next time you run yum, you need to accept the new package key.