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On 19/07/11 21:48, Jack Oley wrote:
Rob, Dan, Martijn and Grant, Thanks for the useful information. Navigating to the Dowloads folder (d'oh) and then using the command, tar zxpvf eldy23.tar.gz, it looked like the file was extracted but I cannot see it anywhere in the applications list or the system preferences. The programme is Eldy, a user interface designed for old folk (and what a charming name it has). It's not in the Ub software centre, the Synaptic Pkg Mgr and it's not an option when I log in. Bit of a strange one... I did see in the Downloads file, these: checkConnessioneImg credits_it.txt eldy_checkconnessione_en.html eldy_checkconnessione.html eldy.jar jpg_examples lib license_it.txt note_eldy2.3_it.txt privacy_it.txt credits_en.txt eldy23 eldy_checkconnessione_fr.html eldy_checkconnessione_nl.html eldy.sh lang license_en.txt note_eldy2.3_en.txt privacy_en.txt sound ... so I looked at (cat) *eldy.sh* and saw this:* *checkConnessioneImg credits_it.txt eldy_checkconnessione_en.html eldy_checkconnessione.html eldy.jar jpg_examples lib license_it.txt note_eldy2.3_it.txt privacy_it.txt credits_en.txt eldy23 eldy_checkconnessione_fr.html eldy_checkconnessione_nl.html eldy.sh lang license_en.txt note_eldy2.3_en.txt privacy_en.txt sound* *Am I getting closer..?!*
Yep you're a bit closer.When you extract a .tar.gz file or build something from source generally it will not automatically install itself. Sometimes there is an install script which you may need to run as root (or with the sudo command) and other times you may need to run the make command with the install option (this can be the case if you build something from the source code).
From what you have listed it looks like it might just need extracting into a folder and then to run it you need to run the eldy.sh file, but I haven't downloaded it so I'm not entirely sure.
I do remember seeing something about this though, there was a company in the UK selling a PC running Ubuntu with this on top.
I'll give it a download and have a play.Oh and there is also a howto page which might offer more instructions on how to install it (although if you're looking for ease of use for yourself then this might not be the best way of going about it, it looks like it might be complicated to get running).
The howto page can be found here: http://howtos.eldy.net/ Rob -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq