Xubuntu 16.10 Issue Detected
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@stacksofplates said in Xubuntu 16.10 Issue Detected:
@scottalanmiller said in Xubuntu 16.10 Issue Detected:
@stacksofplates said in Xubuntu 16.10 Issue Detected:
Ya that was my whole point to this. Chrome adds the repos for you. I think he did have an issue, but apt-get install -f fixes the dependencies. That's still 100% easier than manually adding repos for someone who doesn't know how to do it.
Yes, what I think we wanted was for him to just stick to Chromium and FF. Both are in the OS repos and don't require mucking about with Google's additional repos. He just wants to do Android development and someone gave him a bad list of things to download that aren't what he needed.
Sure, but we didn't find out until later it was for Android development. I maybe gave too much credit thinking he needed Chrome for things like Netflix (one of the only reasons I use it).
That's why I have it, too.
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@scottalanmiller said in Xubuntu 16.10 Issue Detected:
@stacksofplates said in Xubuntu 16.10 Issue Detected:
@scottalanmiller said in Xubuntu 16.10 Issue Detected:
@stacksofplates said in Xubuntu 16.10 Issue Detected:
Ya that was my whole point to this. Chrome adds the repos for you. I think he did have an issue, but apt-get install -f fixes the dependencies. That's still 100% easier than manually adding repos for someone who doesn't know how to do it.
Yes, what I think we wanted was for him to just stick to Chromium and FF. Both are in the OS repos and don't require mucking about with Google's additional repos. He just wants to do Android development and someone gave him a bad list of things to download that aren't what he needed.
Sure, but we didn't find out until later it was for Android development. I maybe gave too much credit thinking he needed Chrome for things like Netflix (one of the only reasons I use it).
That's why I have it, too.
Right that's the only reason I know of why anyone uses it over Chromium. So again, maybe giving too much credit.
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@stacksofplates said in Xubuntu 16.10 Issue Detected:
@scottalanmiller said in Xubuntu 16.10 Issue Detected:
@stacksofplates said in Xubuntu 16.10 Issue Detected:
@scottalanmiller said in Xubuntu 16.10 Issue Detected:
@stacksofplates said in Xubuntu 16.10 Issue Detected:
Ya that was my whole point to this. Chrome adds the repos for you. I think he did have an issue, but apt-get install -f fixes the dependencies. That's still 100% easier than manually adding repos for someone who doesn't know how to do it.
Yes, what I think we wanted was for him to just stick to Chromium and FF. Both are in the OS repos and don't require mucking about with Google's additional repos. He just wants to do Android development and someone gave him a bad list of things to download that aren't what he needed.
Sure, but we didn't find out until later it was for Android development. I maybe gave too much credit thinking he needed Chrome for things like Netflix (one of the only reasons I use it).
That's why I have it, too.
Right that's the only reason I know of why anyone uses it over Chromium. So again, maybe giving too much credit.
Well we know that he doesn't have Internet access on the laptop and has to build it offline, so not likely to be any streaming service.
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@scottalanmiller said in Xubuntu 16.10 Issue Detected:
@stacksofplates said in Xubuntu 16.10 Issue Detected:
@scottalanmiller said in Xubuntu 16.10 Issue Detected:
@stacksofplates said in Xubuntu 16.10 Issue Detected:
@scottalanmiller said in Xubuntu 16.10 Issue Detected:
@stacksofplates said in Xubuntu 16.10 Issue Detected:
Ya that was my whole point to this. Chrome adds the repos for you. I think he did have an issue, but apt-get install -f fixes the dependencies. That's still 100% easier than manually adding repos for someone who doesn't know how to do it.
Yes, what I think we wanted was for him to just stick to Chromium and FF. Both are in the OS repos and don't require mucking about with Google's additional repos. He just wants to do Android development and someone gave him a bad list of things to download that aren't what he needed.
Sure, but we didn't find out until later it was for Android development. I maybe gave too much credit thinking he needed Chrome for things like Netflix (one of the only reasons I use it).
That's why I have it, too.
Right that's the only reason I know of why anyone uses it over Chromium. So again, maybe giving too much credit.
Well we know that he doesn't have Internet access on the laptop and has to build it offline, so not likely to be any streaming service.
Right, until he gets the internet working. But he already has Firefox (default on every distro I've ever used, unless it's Midori) so I that was the only reason I could think of having Chrome.
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@stacksofplates said in Xubuntu 16.10 Issue Detected:
Right, until he gets the internet working.
No, it's not that. The wifi is just for the initial setup. The laptop is actually going to be used offline. He has many posts going back for months about this. He's stuck working in an offline situation all of the time.
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@stacksofplates said in Xubuntu 16.10 Issue Detected:
But he already has Firefox (default on every distro I've ever used, unless it's Midori) so I that was the only reason I could think of having Chrome.
My guess was that it was for Android development tools to work. Or just a random requirement from the same guy that told him to get the Windows versions of Java, Netbeans, VMware Workstation, etc.
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@scottalanmiller said in Xubuntu 16.10 Issue Detected:
@stacksofplates said in Xubuntu 16.10 Issue Detected:
Right, until he gets the internet working.
No, it's not that. The wifi is just for the initial setup. The laptop is actually going to be used offline. He has many posts going back for months about this. He's stuck working in an offline situation all of the time.
Ah I didn't see those. Well then never mind. I thought he was just offline because he didn't get the cell dongle working.
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@stacksofplates said in Xubuntu 16.10 Issue Detected:
@scottalanmiller said in Xubuntu 16.10 Issue Detected:
@stacksofplates said in Xubuntu 16.10 Issue Detected:
Right, until he gets the internet working.
No, it's not that. The wifi is just for the initial setup. The laptop is actually going to be used offline. He has many posts going back for months about this. He's stuck working in an offline situation all of the time.
Ah I didn't see those. Well then never mind. I thought he was just offline because he didn't get the cell dongle working.
That's his reason for the moment. But the dongle was after we told him that having some way to get Internet would make installing drivers easier because he was doing complicated things offline making them so much worse.
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@scottalanmiller said in Xubuntu 16.10 Issue Detected:
@stacksofplates said in Xubuntu 16.10 Issue Detected:
@scottalanmiller said in Xubuntu 16.10 Issue Detected:
@stacksofplates said in Xubuntu 16.10 Issue Detected:
Right, until he gets the internet working.
No, it's not that. The wifi is just for the initial setup. The laptop is actually going to be used offline. He has many posts going back for months about this. He's stuck working in an offline situation all of the time.
Ah I didn't see those. Well then never mind. I thought he was just offline because he didn't get the cell dongle working.
That's his reason for the moment. But the dongle was after we told him that having some way to get Internet would make installing drivers easier because he was doing complicated things offline making them so much worse.
Ya I didn't have any background context so I was just going off of what was in that specific thread and one other where he was having issues with the cell dongle.
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@stacksofplates said in Xubuntu 16.10 Issue Detected:
@scottalanmiller said in Xubuntu 16.10 Issue Detected:
@stacksofplates said in Xubuntu 16.10 Issue Detected:
@scottalanmiller said in Xubuntu 16.10 Issue Detected:
@stacksofplates said in Xubuntu 16.10 Issue Detected:
Right, until he gets the internet working.
No, it's not that. The wifi is just for the initial setup. The laptop is actually going to be used offline. He has many posts going back for months about this. He's stuck working in an offline situation all of the time.
Ah I didn't see those. Well then never mind. I thought he was just offline because he didn't get the cell dongle working.
That's his reason for the moment. But the dongle was after we told him that having some way to get Internet would make installing drivers easier because he was doing complicated things offline making them so much worse.
Ya I didn't have any background context so I was just going off of what was in that specific thread and one other where he was having issues with the cell dongle.
His info is spread out all over
He tends to hit a lot of topics all at once, then wait a bit, and a lot again. It's hard to keep track.
