Re: Linuk Newbie - RecXara free trial - moved / lost programs
Hi Tiggy:
Bill is right. Xara LX probably is not the problem. It's recommended to try to install first through your package manager from your distribution's (Ubuntu Gutsy in this case) repositories and I think Ubuntu is using the Synaptic package manager. Then if it isn't in the repositories, use an autopackage. Then there is compiling your own. There is another possibility or two, also, for installing packages but not going to toss too much at you right now.
Uninstall either using Bill's suggestion, or through Synaptic (if your friend has shown you how to use it) then reinstall using Synaptic. Would think it's in the Gutsy repositories, you may have to go into "preferences", then "repositories" (I believe) and click on the box to check the "non-free" repository or one the other unchecked repositories, if that's where the Xara LX package is listed.
You didn't mention what you were trying to do when you got the "playlist finished" message. There is a post on the Ubuntu forums that mentions one of your symptoms:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...ylist+finished
See if that helps any. If not you might want to register there and talk about your Amarok symptoms. They may well be able to better help you with Amarok than we can. Now those Xara LX specific questions, we can help with.
Let me correct one misunderstanding you have. Xara LX IS NOT a trial. It was released to the Linux community to develop for the various Linux distributions. "Trial" software implies "try for a given period of time, before you buy it". Xara LX is yours to use for as long as you can run it.
Let me also state that the "non-free" repositories do not mean that you need to pay someone for that software, it just means that the companies that make the software normally charge for most of their products. That one confused me when I first started using Linux.
Good luck with sorting this one out!
Scott
Last edited by Shaman; 05 November 2007 at 03:51 AM.
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