[Newbies] Beginner's List Question

[Michael Rice]

On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 7:52 AM, Michael Rice <limitcase at gmail.com> wrote:
> That being said, double-clicking the "squeak.sh" in the extracted
all-in-one
> folder should get everything running, or give you error messages that
Google
> could help with.
>
> Double-clicking doesn't work in my Fedora 19 Linux. Must do this instead:
>
> 1) Find the icon that looks like a terminal; open it to type a command on
> the "command line"
> 2) Go to the Squeak-All-In-One folder using the cd (change directory)
> command
> 2) Type "./squeak.sh &" (omit the quotes) and the enter key

If you can do that shouldn't Fedora 19 Linux let the user double-click
on a shell script in its File-Manager to execute it?  It seems Ubuntu
does..

I've been using Fedora since a friend sent me a copy of Fedora Core 2. I've
tried many other Linux distros but none, so far, came as close to meeting
my needs. So I can live without the double-clicking. If you can't, you're
free to choose another Linux, there are hundreds to choose from.

Michael




On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 7:52 PM, Chris Muller <asqueaker at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 7:52 AM, Michael Rice <limitcase at gmail.com> wrote:
> > That being said, double-clicking the "squeak.sh" in the extracted
> all-in-one
> > folder should get everything running, or give you error messages that
> Google
> > could help with.
> >
> > Double-clicking doesn't work in my Fedora 19 Linux. Must do this instead:
> >
> > 1) Find the icon that looks like a terminal; open it to type a command on
> > the "command line"
> > 2) Go to the Squeak-All-In-One folder using the cd (change directory)
> > command
> > 2) Type "./squeak.sh &" (omit the quotes) and the enter key
>
> If you can do that shouldn't Fedora 19 Linux let the user double-click
> on a shell script in its File-Manager to execute it?  It seems Ubuntu
> does..
>
>
> >
> > Michael
> >
> > On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 3:21 AM, Tim Retz <human.shield.117 at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> The squeak mailing list is happy to help you with problems that have to
> do
> >> with squeak. This assumes you know the basics of how to install/use a
> >> program on your computer. While there are basic instructions for
> Windows and
> >> MacOS, there aren't for Linux for a few reasons: both Windows and Mac
> are
> >> very mainstream OS's, and so they have very unified ways of installing
> >> things. Also, there is really only 1 or 2 ways to install something on
> one
> >> of those systems. This is not the case with Linux. The Linux way of
> doing
> >> things focuses on the super old school UNIX mentality that the person
> using
> >> the system knows what they're doing better than any program or
> developer can
> >> guess, and so the power, and responsibility, is in your hands.
> >>
> >> "...or you can just give them the source code, and have them figure it
> >> out. Linux users aren't retarded." - a friend of mine giving another
> friend
> >> advice on releasing some software.
> >>
> >> I mention this because, if you use Linux, it's the user's responsibility
> >> to know (or figure out) how to get a piece of software working. Whether
> you
> >> need too look up something using the man pages, or ask a question on
> your
> >> distribution's forums, "How do I get <insert_program_name_here> to run?"
> >> isn't really a question for the squeak community if you're on a Linux
> >> machine.
> >>
> >> Pardon my ranting, I'm a little drunk and bored, and saw this message on
> >> my phone, thinking "What the hell. *shrug*"
> >>
> >> That being said, double-clicking the "squeak.sh" in the extracted
> >> all-in-one folder should get everything running, or give you error
> messages
> >> that Google could help with.
> >>
> >> On Jan 24, 2015 11:00 PM, "Kirk Fraser" <overcomer.man at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I finally found the responses to my email that never arrived in my
> inbox
> >>> yet by looking in the Archive.  Thanks.
> >>>
> >>> Apparently my question needs to be restated in better jargon.  So here
> >>> goes:
> >>> A beginner might want to start Squeak on a Linux machine.  The
> Beginner's
> >>> heading has no information for a beginner using Linux. Yet the claim is
> >>> Squeak works on both Windows and Linux.  So how does a beginner do it?
> >>>
> >>> Casey says take a flying leap and eventually you'll get it.
> >>> Bert says there are easy to follow instructions to do it.
> >>>
> >>> Where are these easy to follow instructions for beginners?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Kirk W. Fraser
> >>> www.JesusGospelChurch.com - Replace the fraud churches with the true
> >>> church.
> >>> http://freetom.info - Example of False Justice common in America
> >>>
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