Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Printing from Linux, Kubuntu/Ubuntu

Tim and Frank,
As an answer to your kind responding:
In fact I had made a live-DVD to check my PC's (64bit) co-operation with 
Ubuntu14.04.1.
My intention is to first install Ubuntu on a VirtualBox because errors 
are then easier to correct and
after that perhaps do a dual-boot install  (I am an expert on making 
errors).
And got some real 'challenges':  my system is 64bit/8GB RAM/2 TB HD 
(virtualization enabled) but the
Ubuntu(64bit) did not accept to install (memory instruction error???) so 
I re-installed VM&Ubuntu as 32bit.
The install is now OK but the Ubuntu is very very sloooow.
My printer does not work either.

I know -- this not a LO-issue, so I must try to get help from Ubuntu-forum.
Best regards
Pertti Rönnberg



On 25.1.2015 12:12, Tim---Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote:
> Is there any need to have Linux in a VirtualBox or could you just boot 
> to Linux on your computer - as a dual booting one?
>
> I run laptops with Win7 [pro and home] with Ubuntu on one and Linux 
> Mint on another.
>
> There are some things I need to run on Windows, that are easier to use 
> than any Linux counterpart.  But my default booting for these laptops 
> is Linux.  I went to Linux as my default OS in the Spring of 2010 , 
> when I bought this desktop.  I originally was using Linux before that 
> on "spare" system when the cost of buying the needed software using 
> Windows was getting too much for my budget. I found the needed 
> software "functions and applications" for free with Linux [Ubuntu and 
> others].  Actually I defaulted to Ubuntu since its Live CD was the 
> only one that allowed my HP laptop's audio to work "out of the box".
>
> As for old brains, well after 3 strokes, I am lucky my younger brain 
> still works.  I think "healthy exercise" for the brain is important, 
> whether you are in you 40's or 80's.  My wife has end-stage 
> Alzheimer's and I really know the importance in keeping you mind as 
> active as you can to help reduce the effects of age on your mental 
> abilities.
>
> I am a little "slower" in doing things due to an illness that just 
> will not go away, but I am learning to live with it, just like 
> learning to live with what the strokes left me to work with.
>
>
> On 01/24/2015 08:55 AM, Pertti Rönnberg wrote:
> > Frank,
> > Thank you very much for your soon reply  -- I was just working on the 
> > installations.
> > The printer seems to be working on the Windows so let us hope it will 
> > work OK with the VirtualBox&Ubuntu too.
> >
> > Earlier 10-15years ago I used Windows&Ubuntu parallell but then I had 
> > to rebuild my PC completely and for some reason
> > never installed the Ubuntu again - perhaps too complicated -- but I 
> > never gave up the idea skipping windows.
> > Now I re-installed system&programs again and decided to start working 
> > with Ubuntu again.
> > Next step is to learn using Apache&SQLite for my need of databases. I 
> > used to work with MSAccess but am not interested in
> > spending money on purchasing and was told that SQLite is easier and 
> > not so heavy as MySQL. Do not know yet.
> > Anyway I find this interesting and think it is a healthy exercise for 
> > an old brain too (75y)
> >
> > So any guides and ideas how I shall proceed to get SQLite(3) to run 
> > in Ubuntu are welcome.
> > Kind regards
> > Pertti Rönnberg
> >
> >
> > On 24.1.2015 14:22, CVAlkan wrote:
> > > Pertti:
> > >
> > > If you are running Ubuntu (or anything else as far as I know) in a 
> > > Virtual
> > > Box, you don't have access to any hardware unless it is recognized 
> > > by the
> > > host system. But if your printer functions properly on the host 
> > > system (and
> > > you set up virtualbox carefully), it should work fine on Ubuntu.
> > >
> > > The issues I encounter all seem to be related to LOWriter, so if you 
> > > have no
> > > issues with that on your host, it seems to me fairly likely that you 
> > > should
> > > be ok. In any case, if it doesn't work you haven't lost anything.
> > >
> > > Just as a matter of curiosity, are you looking to a linux distro 
> > > just to use
> > > SQLite and Apache? Or was there some other consideration driving that
> > > choice?
> > >
> > > Frank
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > View this message in context: 
> > > http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Printing-from-Linux-Kubuntu-Ubuntu-tp4136908p4137269.html
> > > Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.


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