[Novalug] scp double failure

[Beartooth]

On Fri, 22 May 2009, Nick Danger wrote:

> Beartooth wrote:
>
>>  	I tried again, spelling things out, and discovered that 0
>> had crept in for 1. Here are the two commands that finally
>> worked, or seemed to. (But now I have another trouble: the
>> machine connects, but some apps think it doesn't -- and won't let
>> me install OpenOffice...)
>>
>> [tslg at BBB ~]$ scp -rv 192.168.1.104:/home/tslg/*
>> 192.168.1.105:/home/tslg
>>
>>          followed by
>>
>> scp -rv 192.168.1.104:/home/tslg/.* 192.168.1.105:/home/tslg
>
> I don't follow. You were scp'ing and now talking about installing open
> office? And you are having some kind of general connectivity issue?

 	That double-damned little launcher that looks like two 
staggered monitors, and that I can't remove from the panel, 
*thinks* it isn't connecting. (The white X on red stays there 
permanently.) It apparently tattles to gnome-packagekit; if you 
can get that started, it works. Yum also works. Once I figured 
what name to call OOo-writer by, yum install did the job.

 	What I had forgotten to mention was that Jo uses her 
machine mainly to write whodunits. She used abiword for the first 
one, but the masters of abiword got tired of me, and cut me off. 
So I shifted her to OOo.

 	As of this morning, my machine BBB (the one with the 
biggest hard drive) has OOo-writer and seems to have her whole 
home directory. I made a DVD from it (the whole thing is only a 
little over 1 GB), and will make another directly from her 
machine. Then I'll try out meld, or something, and try to make 
sure both are the same -- and we can put a DVD in the safe 
deposit.

 	(And no, none is published yet. She keeps sending them to 
likely-seeming agents, but we can't tell if any read them.)

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