Good afternoon friends of LL

I would like to know how to install IRC

I have stored something called irssi but I do not know how it is configured and the
Information on the internet is very contradictory. Could someone help me?

Thank you very much

(Wasn't sure where to put this, but...)

I wish Linux Lite would be available in a KDE version as well.

I really am a KDE fan and love all the options it offers. Plus,
the KDE Connect works great with connecting your phone
to your desktop. I know you can do it on the XFCE desktop,
but i have had issues. It's not reliable.

Anyway, have you had any thoughts of adding another GUI
to this distro?

'lite-tweaks-super' returning the following error:

I will usually on first boot and while installing updates (from a console log in) use the administrator graphical log in to create a desktop user, which then becomes my default log in from second boot onwards (the policy being not to type an administrator password during an X11 session if at all possible, logging in to an administrator log in only from a console).

Now while applications like 'Install/Remove Software' and 'Users and Groups' correctly prompt for the password of the administrator log in even when logged in as a desktop user (they seem to be able to automatically deduce this somehow!), lite-* tools requiring an admin. log in assume an administrator is running the program in the first instance and duly prompt only for a password -- being logged in as a desktop user (without even any sudo rights) the program duly refuses to run.

I can however run lite-* admin. programs from a terminal as a desktop user, logging in as administrator with 'su -l <admin. user>' in the first instance, however it does leave the password exposed to key loggers (although running xterm selecting the 'Secure Keyboard' option is a way around this).

A default setting of number lock switched on when installing and then on first boot is probably OK for a keyboard with a separate number pad, but where the numeric keypad is embedded into the querty keyboard (typically laptops) it can be confusing for a good while (i.e., figuring out what is going on).

The default boot configuration can be set with the lite-tweak tool - the problem being knowledge of which is only serendipitously acquired.

Android-x86 - Porting Android to x86 http://www.android-x86.org

Remix OS http://www.jide.com/remixos

PheonixOS http://www.phoenixos.com/

PlayOnLinux will install Adobe Digital Editions DRM e-book (typically library books) reader which unfortunately stopped fully working (see https://www.playonlinux.com/en/app-2671-...ns_45.html) with the introduction of EPUB v3 in ADE v4.5 (all other features remain intact).

EPUB v3 e-books with DRM can however be read with a Calibre plugin.

Would this be in breach of Linux Lite illegal plugins policy?

If not I can post a tutorial on how to do this.

Is there a quick and easy way to add borders to windows - things can get confusing when windows have content of the same colour.

The Help Manual provides instruction for using dd to 'burn' the Linux Lite ISO to a USB stick. I think, perhaps, that most folks reading this in the manual are already using Linux Lite. But, irregardless, I submit that using UNetbootin to accomplish this is better.

Why?

When UNetbootin is used to burn the ISO, it leaves the USB stick completely writable.

This is very advantageous.

For example, such a stick allows me to not only carry my installer wherever I go, but also carry a large media collection, a bunch of ISOs, VM appliances, and my encrypted personal files, email and bookmarks with me as well!  With it, I can not only install an OS on a new computer but also conveniently restore onto it all of my 'baggage'. I use backup scripts to keep this content on the stick updated at regular intervals.

And whenever I want to update the stick with a new version of the OS, I don't have to re-format it. That is because I created on it a few folders into which I copied all of my baggage. So all I have to do is delete everything on the stick EXCEPT those folders. I can then use UNetbootin to burn a newer ISO onto the stick. I've been doing this now for quite some time without problem.

UNetbootin requires that the stick be prepared with standard FAT formatting. But this need be done only once.

The only thing that annoys me about the app is that the post-burn boot menu title is UNetbootin. However, due to the writability, this is easily rectified by editing the third line of syslinux.cfg on the stick to change 'UNetbootin' to something like 'Welcome to Linux Lite 3.2 64bit'. I have a item in my menu that does this for me, but it isn't much trouble to do it manually via leafpad in Thunar.

Consequently, it is not a waste of USB stick real estate to burn an ISO to a very large USB stick.

I have seen nothing about this use case on the Internet. I suggest that it might benefit some Help Manual readers to know about the advantages of UNetbootin used as an alternative to the dd method. And perhaps they should also know that this use case does not provide persistence for the installable OS.

Just come back to my laptop after installing 3.4 and completing stage 1 - Install Updates to find an error 1 message.  At the bottom of llupdate.log are the seemingly only lines that refer to an error and they say:

Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/linux-image-4.4.0-66-generic_4.4.0-66.87_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Is this serious? It's all Greek/Sesuto/Ukranian to me.

Comment is:
The otherwise helpful opening screen that tells of these three install steps is not persistent and could not be easily restarted after this problem.  Is it designed to halt all activity until this error resolved or did it just sort of ...happen... dunno why?

I am itching to see if my 2005 Satellite Pro will run this distro - it's grown glacial, even on XP.:-(