completely helpless

[markg...@gmail.com]

hello I am not very good with computers. I am trying to help a kid with his raspberry pi. We dont have internet on the raspberry pi (running rasbian - a linux os) but we do have it on a laptop (running windows).

we downloaded the linux version of the mnemosyne project on the windows machine and we tried to transfer it to a usb, then from the usb to the raspberry pi.
heres the errors along the way:

-when transferring to the usb from the windows laptop
"Are you sure you want to copy without its properties? the file mnemosyne project-2.3.5.tar.gz has properties that cant be copied to the new location."
and it gives the options of "yes", "skip", and "cancel"
We press yes and it copies. We then put the usb into the raspberry pi.

-when we tried to extract the file (either to the usb or the desktop), a pop up box with the header Xarchiver 0.5.4 comes up. it just says "an error occurred while accessing the archive". Yet the folder is still extracted.

-when we enter the folder, we double click on the icon for install and an error comes up "Invalid desktop entry file: '/home/pi/Desktop/Mnemosyne-2.3.4/mnemosyne.desktop'

we feel this program would be very useful for study and it is the raspberry pi machine that is best suited for that.
Please help us to solve this problem.

[Peter Bienstman]

Hi,

I don't have a raspberry pi, but I can image it's quite complicated to set up custom software on it. I have no experience with Xarchiver and "an error occurred while accessing the archive". Perhaps there's a raspberry pi forum you could ask for assistance? Or extract the archive using 'tar xvfz mnemosyne project-2.3.5.tar.gz'? On Windows, you can install custom software with 1 click, but on linux system, it's a whole other story, and not very userfriendly...

Peter

[Francesco Ariis]

On Fri, Mar 04, 2016 at 10:31:48AM -0800, markg...@gmail.com wrote:
> hello I am not very good with computers. I am trying to help a kid with

> his raspberry pi. [..]

Hello Mark,
mnemosyne should be present in your raspberrypi repos already
(i.e. there is no need to compile it from source).

Just open a terminal [1] and type `sudo apt-get install mnemosyne`
(without the backticks) and you should be ok.

See if this helps and report back!
-F

[1] https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/usage/terminal/

[markg...@gmail.com]

thanks for the quick reply francesco, I tried that and a load of errors came up. most started with "failed to fetch" and some url. does this mean the raspberry pi needs to be connected to the internet to do this - mine cant.

[Francesco Ariis]

It does, yes. Is there any way for you to get temporary internet access
to the rPI (any ethernet cable at home/work/friend place would do)?

There is an alternative process but it demands more work (downloading
manually the relevant packet from raspian and all its dependencies).

[markg...@gmail.com]

Hi Francesco. I managed to get temporary access for the rPi.
It was talking about extra packages that would be installed and then I said yes to continue. It then gaave a load of errors.

They all have the general format of this sample:

Er http://mirrordirector.rasbian.org/raspian/ jessie/main libqt python-webob all 1.4-2

thanks for helping. it may be every few days that i get access to the internet to check this

[Francesco Ariis]

Hello Mark,

you need to be more specific with the error messages (a good way
would be to past it somewhere [1] so you can later have a link handy
when you write your email).

Next time I would do this:

- check whether the internet connection is actually working
(open the browser and launch a search)
- if so, type `sudo apt-get update`
- then type `sudo apt-get install mnemosyne`

And finally report back ;) I am sure we can do it
-F

[1] like http://paste.debian.net/