[EdLUG] Chrome

Wed Mar 11 21:33:51 UTC 2015

"Pigeon fanciers". Heh. Everybody has their dirty little secrets.

Bob has turned up to a few of the Edinburgh Wikimeets; nice guy, but 
seriously into Openstreetmap these days. So much of that has been done 
on-foot around Edinburgh's old town that it beats Google maps in many 
areas.

As well as the private/incognito browsing option, Firefox supports a 
--profile <path> option which would allow you to have different launch 
icons for different usages. In all probability, Chrome/Chromium supports 
the same.

The completely stripped email thing on the list can be a little 
annoying; it'd be nice if the Name component from the sender's email 
address was included - say, suffixed with EdLUG - so attribution was at 
least visible, and the harvesting problem still avoided; but, not my 
listserv to play with (thank $deity).

Brian.

On 11.03.2015 22:00, ramkissoon anand wrote:
> Christian,
>
> The chap in the video is Bob Kerr, a one time EdLUG regular. I think
> he still follows the list on and off but in recent years he has been
> heavily involved with Openstreetmap.org
>
> Anand
>
> On 11 March 2015 at 18:10, Edinburgh Linux Users Group  wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Thanks to everyone who replied to this thread.  I have successfully
>> installed Chrome on my machine.  I also have Chromium, and
>> Firefox.  I primarily use Firefox, second is Chromium, and third is
>> Chrome.  I use three browsers because I have 3 gmail accounts, and
>> I use google drive in two of those accounts and google calendar in
>> one.  So I needed to be able to keep three browsers open
>> simultaneously. 
>>
>> I just wanted to thank you for your help.  I figured it out.  I
>> had somehow downloaded the 32-bit version of Ubuntu 14.04.  Lesson
>> learned:  if you are going to install 64 bit, be sure to google for
>> "14.04 64 bit download", rather than go to the Ubuntu download page
>> and just click.  Even though I am sure that I selected the 64 bit
>> version, I didnt confirm that I had a 64 bit version before
>> installing. 
>>
>> So I googled "14.04 64 bit download" and downloaded the correct
>> version.  I then installed it to the flash drive, and confirmed
>> that I had the correct version.  I used Nautilus to drill down to
>> the correct folder, but you could use the terminal to do the same
>> thing using ls:
>>
>> $ ls /media/device-name/dists/distro-name/main
>>
>> here is my new uname -m
>>
>> cje at laptop:~$ uname -m
>> x86_64
>>
>> success!
>>
>> Thanks again to all who replied.  My name is Christian Einfeldt,
>> and I am in San Francisco, California, but I subscribe to this list
>> because I visited Edinburgh to get footage for a movie about FOSS
>> called the Digital Tipping Point.  If you want to see a funny story
>> about how FOSS was used in Scotland, please go here and click on the
>> video on the main page.  The funny part starts at 1:19.  It has to
>> do with what you in Scotland call "pigeon fanciers".
>>
>> http://digitaltippingpoint.com/ [9]
>>
>> I dont know how I came up as anonymous in my posting.  I am
>> actually a relatively simple end user, who knows only about 20
>> script commands, and so I tend to make simple basic mistakes with
>> computer, such as downloading the wrong distro or subscribing
>> incorrectly to a list.  Which is why I use Ubuntu, because it has a
>> big community of simple end users like myself.
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 3:04 AM, Edinburgh Linux Users Group wrote:
>>
>>> Hello Anon,
>>>
>>> Can you supplement us with additional info? Everyones assuming
>>> your system specs from the ISO but it would be more useful to have
>>> what the system is actually claiming to be
>>>
>>> Open a Terminal (Ctrl + Alt + T) and type
>>>
>>>     uname -r
>>>     getconf LONG_BIT
>>>     cat /proc/cpuinfo
>>>
>>> Copy the resulting text on screen (select the text and
>>> right-click: copy)(ctrl + c will not work) and mail it. There
>>> should be no confidential info in this.
>>>
>>> Finally, in the same terminal window, type the previously
>>> recommended command to install Chromium (open source) instead of
>>> Chrome (not really open source), or open the Software Centre app
>>> and search for Chromium and install it that way.
>>>
>>> Hth
>>>
>>> --Tai
>>>
>>> // Sent from a mobile device; rogue typos may be lurking
>>>
>>> On 11 Mar 2015 09:52, "Edinburgh Linux Users Group" wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 11.03.2015 09:05, Edinburgh Linux Users Group wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 10.03.2015 22:51, Edinburgh Linux Users Group wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Just a quick, little, self-correction here.
>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
> 
> http://askubuntu.com/questions/510056/how-to-install-google-chrome-on-ubuntu-14-04
>>>>>> [1]
>>>>>> [1]
>>>>>
>>>>> $ sudo apt-get install chromium
>>>>
>>>> The package is chromium-browser, so:
>>>>
>>>> $ sudo apt-get install chromium-browser
>>>>
>>>> Itll likely be missing a few minor Google doodads, but be 99%
>>>> functionally the same.
>>>>
>>>> Working with something thats in the repositories is always
>>>> going to make keeping current easier.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Brian McNeil
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>>
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>
> Links:
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> [1]
> 
> http://askubuntu.com/questions/510056/how-to-install-google-chrome-on-ubuntu-14-04
> [2] http://wikinewsie.org
> [3] https://en.wikinews.org
> [4] mailto:EdLUG at lists.edlug.org.uk
> [5] https://lists.edlug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/edlug
> [6] mailto:edlug at lists.edlug.org.uk
> [7] mailto:EdLUG at lists.edlug.org.uk
> [8] https://lists.edlug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/edlug
> [9] http://digitaltippingpoint.com/
> [10] mailto:edlug at lists.edlug.org.uk
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