Originally Posted by sandipkrsharma

hi...need urgent help pls!!

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Originally Posted by rebhana

In principle you could move any directory into /home/user (though not into MyDocs) and symlink to it - provided you have space there to spare. I would choose directories on the basis that it would make sense to share them between different Debian images. Besides /usr/share/doc I would consider /usr/share/texmf-texlive.

Originally Posted by rebhana

Playing around with calibre I must say I like this program more and more. Although really sluggish on startup, it seems to be a nice news reader which has a large and interesting repertoire of web sites providing news, which one can download into e-book format for later perusal. It also has a cool animation for flipping through book covers. Thanks extendedping for drawing my attention to it!

I also can report that upgrading calibre to 0.7.18 as provided by Debian sid is no problem. Below is a screenshot of that version.

Originally Posted by mscion

Hi, This version of calibre definitely looks nicer than the earlier version
posted but I am unable to find it. How do I directly install
using apt-get from the sid repository?

Originally Posted by rebhana

You have to edit /etc/apt/soures.list and uncomment the line with "sid" in it. Then

Code:

apt-get update
apt-get install calibre
apt-get clean

Thereafter you should not forget of putting the "#" back.

Btw, the central picture with flipping book covers is also there in version 0.7.7, when you click the appropriate button in the lower right. The general outlay has however changed.

And, yes, version numbers are not like decimal numbers.

Originally Posted by rebhana

I have previously shown how xmaxima, an open-source symbolic math program runs under Easy Debian's LXDE window manager. Maxima is not as powerful as Wolfram's Mathematica or Maple, but comes surprisingly close. If you often need higher math, you might be interested in having maxima as an app on your N900.

Now I have discovered that there is an alternative GUI for maxima, wxmaxima, which has the advantage that it also runs nicely with debbie and is much more convenient to use. It can be installed from lenny-backports by

Code:

apt-get -t lenny-backports install wxmaxima

Maxima commands are executed by Shift+Return, provided one has selected "Enter evaluates cells" in the configure menu and xbindkeys is running (the "Set Deb HW Keys" icon). If the configure menu is too much scrambled under debbie, you can also do it from LXDE.

Producing a file /usr/share/applications/hildon/wxmaxima.desktop with content

Code:

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=wxMaxima
GenericName=wxMaxima
Exec=debbie "xbindkeys; wxmaxima"
Icon=maxima-icon
X-Osso-Type=application/x-executable
X-HildonDesk-ShowInToolbar=true
Terminal=true
Type=Application
StartupNotify=true

gives a pocket symbolic math calculator that can be easily launched. A nice maxima icon is obtained by copying (one line!)

Code:

cp /.debian/usr/share/pixmaps/maxima-icon.png /usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/hildon/

Here are two screenshots. The first shows an indefinite integration, and an embedded 3d plot; the second the same 3d plot rendered with "openmath" option, which opens the plot in a separate window, where one can rotate it with stylus or finger!

Originally Posted by Jef91

I have wxMaxima installed and I have the application launcher created, however I cannot get shift+enter to evaluate the cell like it should (I've tried running debbie xbindkeys and the fix lxde keyboard from my menu - neither work)

Am I doing something wrong?

Regards,
~Jeff Hoogland