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On 08/02/14 05:40, Dan C wrote:

On Fri, 07 Feb 2014 21:18:14 +0000, Alfonso wrote:

What system (computer or otherwise) of equivalent complexity as Linux
does *NOT* sometimes require help? Why would you be so amazed/shocked
that it might require help? And, in my opinion, it is *VERY* useable
without any help, even for complete n00bs.

I got into serious problems 3 times in a week I was using first Lubuntu
and later Ubuntu with LXDE and have concluded that the most probable
reason is that I installed LibreOffice and uninstalled Abiword. It
appears that for reasons I don't understand that LXDE relies on some of
its default apps including Abiword and if you delete them it screws it
up. If you install and uninstall using the software centre it provides
you with no information. If you install LXDE using synaptic it tells you
that it will have to install this that and the other as well including
the default text editor, galculator and lxmusic. I don't know because I
haven't tried but I hope that if I tried to unistall any of these using
Synaptic it might just warn me that it would screw up LXDE - while the
software centre doesn't. Can you shed any light on why LXDE requires
certain applications to remain even if you don't need them.

I do not use LXDE and know nothing helpful about it. I prefer XFCE.

I suggest you *ALWAYS* use Synaptic for software package management, and *NEVER* use the abortion that is "Software Centre" for anything. Works
for me.

A lesson I learned the hard way :o(

Cheers
Alfonso

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