So I wanted to give Anki a try on (K)Ubuntu Intrepid but now I found this:

http://code.google.com/p/anki/issues/detail?id=111
http://groups.google.com/group/ankisrs/b...t&q=ubuntu#

Has this gotten fixed? Any Ubuntu users on this board? Does Anki work on Ubuntu 8.10 or not?

I see there is a DEB file on http://www.ichi2.net/anki/download/index.html so I'm confused...

(I'm running the 64bit version of Ubuntu 8.10...)

Anki works brilliantly on 8.04 (32-bit)

Sorry if that doesn't answer your question but you have the option of installing 8.04 and avoiding months of problems with a new release.

Well, I'm already on 8.10 and downgrading all my system to 8.04 just because of one app would be kind of weird. In the thread it says Anki should work for the 64bit version but the bug in Launchpad - https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sourc...bug/254228 - is still not fixed...?!

Anki runs perfectly (as it always has) on my installation of Ubuntu 8.10. I don't think Kubuntu 64bit should be any different.

Aww, okay. So this sounds good. I'll give it a go! Thanks!

Yeah, those reports are kinda... old. I had a lot of problems when I updated to 8.10 a couple of weeks ago. I've since ironed them out (save for the networking red x glitch). Anki's working perfectly too.

Anki works perfectly on Ubuntu 8.10. Don't know about Kubuntu nor 64bit though.

A lot of Linux users on this forum. What's with that. I've always meant to try it, but never got around to it.

I'm running Anki fine on Ubuntu 8.10 too.

nest0r - download Ubuntu from the website and install it on your PC. When your PC starts you'll be able to choose every time whether to boot into Windows or Ubuntu.

The programs I already use are the same in Ubuntu: VLC Media Player, Firefox, Anki, uTorrent.

A lot of Windows users too. What's with that?

It feels like inertia at work - lots of people just stick with the default without trying out alternatives, even though the alternatives might be better for them.

zodiac Wrote:A lot of Windows users too. What's with that?

It feels like inertia at work - lots of people just stick with the default without trying out alternatives, even though the alternatives might be better for them.

I use both ^_^. I gave MAC a try as well -froze a lot -gave it up. Don't ask how.

Also, I use Ubuntu 64 so I can attest to anki working on a 64-bit OS.

I run Win, OS X and Linux, have been doing for years. All of them have their uses (Though windows is in all honesty not good for much more than gaming...)

I just installed Anki from the deb (needed to install a few other things from apt) and then loaded one of my online decks with no problem. I then closed anki and loaded it back up and my deck came up fine again.

Kubuntu 8.10 64-bit here.

What's your exact problem? I couldn't tell from the links you sent.

Just one thing I had to figure out at first: if you want anki to play audio files you have to install the "pygame" package. For some reason this is not in the installation instructions nor in the deb requirements.

nac_est Wrote:Just one thing I had to figure out at first: if you want anki to play audio files you have to install the "pygame" package. For some reason this is not in the installation instructions nor in the deb requirements.

Yeah, if you start Anki from the terminal, it tells you pygame is missing if it is.

How is this called in Ubuntu? Is it in the repos?

Quote:fish@fishbook:~$ sudo apt-get install pygame
[sudo] password for fish:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package pygame

stoked Wrote:How is this called in Ubuntu? Is it in the repos?

Quote:fish@fishbook:~$ sudo apt-get install pygame
[sudo] password for fish:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package pygame

It's installed by default in Ubuntu I think...

It's called python-pygame (universe repo). I had to install it manually, I think. I hadn't tried starting it from the terminal though, that's cool. ^^

wccrawford Wrote:What's your exact problem? I couldn't tell from the links you sent.

I'm new to Anki and didn't really have a problem. It's just that I had read that bug report (which seems to be linked to Anki somehow and still isn't fixed in upstream) so I was reluctant to start using the app. I wouldn't be fun to lose your cards due to database errors and such, that's why I asked here first.

And yes, python-pygame is indeed in universe. So I'm ready for Anki now. Thanks!

stoked Wrote:

wccrawford Wrote:What's your exact problem? I couldn't tell from the links you sent.

I'm new to Anki and didn't really have a problem. It's just that I had read that bug report (which seems to be linked to Anki somehow and still isn't fixed in upstream) so I was reluctant to start using the app. I wouldn't be fun to lose your cards due to database errors and such, that's why I asked here first.

And yes, python-pygame is indeed in universe. So I'm ready for Anki now. Thanks!

Don't worry, that bug was fixed in Anki 0.9.9.5. Just download the .deb from the site and it will work perfectly.

Since then Ubuntu has updated to a new Anki package 0.9.9.x, which works flawlessly.
So if you haven't already, do a "sudo apt-get install anki".

By the way, the latest release requires mplayer for sound, and pygame is not used anymore (since it had trouble playing many audio files)

resolve Wrote:By the way, the latest release requires mplayer for sound, and pygame is not used anymore (since it had trouble playing many audio files)

Does that mean there's a way to map (bind?) a pause key to the mplayer.exe that Anki uses? I'm a n00b.

resolve Wrote:By the way, the latest release requires mplayer for sound, and pygame is not used anymore (since it had trouble playing many audio files)

Well then, forget about pygame