This Week’s Show
I think this week’s show will be on how to find, install, find once installed, and remove applications. I think the biggest comment I hear about Linux is that it’s hard to install programs because of all the compiling usually required, and hard to find them once they are installed.
I’ll take us through how to install programs (via “tar balls” that may or may not require compiling and via the RPM and APT-GET package managers); where the silly things go once they’re installed; and how to remove them if you don’t want them any more.
I’m going to ping Mark Rais from ReallyLinux.com because I want to borrow pretty heavily from his stack of articles on this subject.
Should be a good show - if there’s anything specific you want me to cover off let me know and I’ll try to add it in.
June 24th, 2005 at 6:19 pm
Hi,
I’m exploring the world of Podcasting for the first time, and I have had some success downloading a few podcasts. I’m am now trying to find mpre interesting podcasts and I came upon your site. I can’t find out how to subscribe to your pod-cast (I am currently using a plug-in in Amarok, which requires simple copy-paste of feed address to a text file).
I have found your site a bit unclear - perhaps it’s the ‘RSS2′ button (I don’t use MSN, ‘bloglines’, my Yahoo, maybe there its a non audio podcast [??] -looks like text feeds/ I thought podcasts were always audio[?]).
This is just to suggest that you provide a simple ‘how-to’ section, an ‘about us’ sectioin and a ‘help’ section… e.g. ‘To subscribe to our podcast you to click on the (?) button, or copy and paste the following link to your podcast client …etc.
Many thanks for the opportunity to comment and good luck with your site.
Best regards,
Tony
June 24th, 2005 at 11:45 pm
Hi Tony,
Thanks for stopping by and welcome to podcasting :)
I’ve never used Amarok, but the subscribe feature of any podcatcher works in generally the same way. What you’re actually subscribing to is an RSS feed which contains (amongst other things) an ‘enclosure’ tag which contains the link to the podcast’s MP3 file. So, the RSS 2. button is indeed what you’re looking for - it links to the RSS feed Amarok needs.
You can either click the RSS button and then copy the resulting url (in the address field of your browser) to the Amarok subscribe function, or perhaps you can right-click the button and copy the url that way. Or failing that you can just do whatever procedures Amarok requires to add a feed and manually type in http://www.thepodcastnetwork.com/linuxuser/feed.
The other buttons like Bloglines, Yahoo, etc are just quick ways to subscribe to the show if you used those services.
Having said all this - I just went and checked to be sure and you’re right, the RSS button does appear to be broken at the moment. It doesn’t give you an RSS feed, it gives you the text of the blog.
Let me get someone to fix that. I’l post when it’s fixed.
July 5th, 2005 at 12:54 pm
whats the show’s email address so i can submit questions
July 5th, 2005 at 1:45 pm
Good question :)
I state it at the end of every show, but I guess I should put a link to it on the blog here as well.
It’s thelinuxusershow at gmail dot com (make the necessarily ‘at’ and ‘dot’ substitutions).
Jon