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Post by Ratae on Nov 26, 2013 23:55:02 GMT
Grrrrrrrr ... I've just wasted an hour trying to do summat that didn't need doing!  So, I have a pdf document that I want to save on this Linux machine. No problemo thinks I, until that is I took a look at which pdf viewer was installed on Linux Mint! Couldn't see one. Strange thinks I, there was one on Ubunto, Evince it was called. So yer boy looks in the package manager for Evince, ain't there.  Still no problem thinks I, I'll install using the apt-get thingy in the terminal. Does that, but can't see it in the package manager. Hmmmm, does a bit of googling and finds out that in Linux Mint, the default pdf viewer is called Atril.....looks for it in the package manager and it ain't there. But anyway, getting properly pissed off, I saved the pdf file in the 'Documents' folder, double clicked it and it opened with 'Documents Viewer' Well wtf is going on here thinks I! A bit more googling and it becomes plainer. It seems that Evince works ok with Linux Mint, but not if you have the Mate desktop edition (as do I)  More googling and I discover that for the Mate desktop edition, Evince has been twiddled with and renamed (yep yer've gorrit)... . Atril And the final insult is, that when I look again at this 'Document Viewer' the 'Help' menu tells me that it really is the 'Atril' one. So.....after all that pissing about, I already had the pdf reader that I needed.  Sometimes...Linux does make it very hard for anyone to love it!  |
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