Kubuntu on Mac - printers, gnucash

[Tyson Sawyer]

Stephen,

Thanks for the pointers.  This is my first encounter with a .deb based
system and so I don't know my way around as well.

I'm pretty sure that the printer problem is
cups/foomatic/gimp-print/something or other related and may have
nothing to do with Ubuntu or Mac.

Cheers!
Ty

On 6/28/06, Stephen Ryan <stephen.p.ryan at dartmouth.edu> wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-06-28 at 11:36 -0400, Tyson Sawyer wrote:
> > A friend of mine has a Mac G4 something or other.  She had been
> > running Yellow Dog on it, but we couldn't figure out how to get a new
> > printer working.  While reformatting everything anyway, we decided to
> > try kubuntu.
>
> ...
> (sorry, I'm no help with the printer; I've switched to a networked laser
> after realizing I was spending well over $1/page with the utterly crap
> Stylus Photo 820)
>
> > Gnu Cash:
> >
> > Any suggestions on finding a gnucash package that will run on this
> > system?  ...or strategies for finding packages that are not obviously
> > listed?  I find it easy to google for rpm packages for PCs.  I've been
> > less successful looking for deb packages for PPC.  rpmfind.net doesn't
> > do the trick for me. :-)
>
> Gnucash is part of Ubuntu; you'll need to add the "universe" repository,
> because it's not part of the officially-supported core, then you can
> install it either via "apt-get install gnucash" or searching for it in
> Synaptic.
>
> Detailed instructions for dapper:
> ---------------------------------
>
> Start Synaptic, click "Settings", then "Repositories".  That shows a
> list of channels; find and select "Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (binary)", then click
> "Edit".  Check the "Community maintained (Universe)" selection, then
> "OK", "Close", and "Reload".  After Synaptic downloads the new package
> lists, gnucash should be in the package list, easy to install.
>
> Alternative instructions, should work for any version of Ubuntu:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> >From a command prompt, run
> $ sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list
> (or run a different editor than nano; I'm not sure what the KDE text
> editor is called)
>
> In that file, there should be a line that looks roughly like this:
>
> deb http://(country code).archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ (release name) main
> (maybe some other words)
>
> Make sure the word "universe" appears on that line.
>
> Save and quit nano.  (nano uses Control-O, "WriteOut", for save)
>
> Now download the new package lists; alternatively, you could use
> Synaptic from here on out; that part of Synaptic hasn't changed as much
> as the interface to change the repositories has).
> $ sudo apt-get update
>
> ...and install gnucash:
> $ sudo apt-get install gnucash
> (say Yes to whatever the huge pile of stuff it will want to install)
>
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