Re: [tlug] Japanese in Xandros

[Scott Robbins <scottro@example.com>]

On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 01:00:35PM +0900, CL wrote:
> Scott Robbins wrote:
> >On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 11:23:25AM +0900, CL wrote:
> >>Scott Robbins wrote:
> 
> >shouldn't type in the $.  
> 
> I think my first post ... (ahem) which you trashed ... DID use the word 
> "newbie" at least once and possibly "complete newbie" one other time. If it 
> helps, I am a certified COBOL, FORTRAN and JOVIAL programmer for the Burroughs 
> 3500 series and still remember the drill for exchanging vacuum tubes on a 
> running machine as well as what to do when a card sticks in the reader so that 
> you don't have to power down the tape drive ...

Right.  Well, you see I realized that with my ninja powers, so I was
more careless than I should have been.  :)




> 
> Yer gonna luv this ... did an apt-get install and Xandros can't find 
> scim-anthy.  At all.  Anywhere.  Try an apt-get install scim and Xandros 
> installs v.1.0.2 (from some time in early 2004 -- the Real World latest stable 
> is v1.4.7).  Try apt-get install anthy and get anthy 6300 (latest stable is 
> anthy 9100).


Hrrm, ok, not good.  

~I~ like Stephen's suggestion, use another flavor of Debian.  
I'm honestly not sure what to suggest.  Almost all the distributions
that I've played with in the last 6 months had a package for scim-anthy
which would pull in scim and anthy.  None, of course, were as old as the
versions you mention--they might not have had the very latest versions,
but they were relatively up to date. 


> pages that offer four or five servers.  I have looked for information on how to 
> input targets and can find where to make the entry but not how to state the 
> location.

Not knowing Xandros, I can't be sure, but is it possible that they have
additional sources (possibly listed on their web sites or forums) that
you can add to their /etc/apt/sources.list?


Last feeble hope would be that all three programs had a .deb package.  


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