What do you mean when you say that Firefox won’t allow you to copy and paste pictures? If there is a picture on a web page, you should be able to right-click and select Copy or Save As. You can then Paste whatever you copied into a graphics program (like gimp or eog).
You can’t run your Windows printer software on Linux. You have to use the Linux drivers. Click Applications —> System Tools —> Printers. This is called CUPS (Common Unix Printer System). You should be able to setup your printer through CUPS. There are some printers that do not have drivers or have drivers that don’t work very well.
I’m writing this through Ubuntu 7.10/Firefox. I have no problem copying pictures with Firefox. Simply right click and select ‘Save Image As’.
As for printers, you have to use Linux drivers. Go to System/Administration/Printing and select the New Printer icon at top-left. You’ll have to tell it the make/model # of your printer. Be aware; some printers don’t have Linux drivers.
You can’t install Windows software on Linux. The only way to get Windows applications to run is by running an application such as Wine, Virtual Box, VM Ware or Crossover. But I don’t know whether that would relate to installing a printer. Haven’t tried that...
Sorry, I should have responded to this in my first reply. Linux/Ubuntu is a lot different than Windows. The underlying file structure is different, and the way Ubuntu (and other Linux GUI's) present the desktop is different. Frankly, it takes some getting used to, but once familiar, is easy to navigate.
As with anything else, a little time invested in playing around with it will be rewarded.
You state you now have a PC with Linux/Ubuntu installed. Is this a new PC? Is this the only operating system on the PC? If so, you may be able to configure a dual boot situation where Windows can reside on the PC with Linux (you'd have to partition the hard drive, adding a Fat32 or NTFS partition for Windows). Once that's done, Linux will recognize that partition but Windows will not recognize the Linux partition.
Mine is a dual boot configuration. I can use Open Office (on Ubuntu) to run/create Microsoft Office documents and store them on my NTFS partition. I can also run some Windows applications because I have Virtual Box installed.
Fully automatic printer installation
Printers are now automatically configured by merely plugging them in and turning them on. Printer setup cannot get any easier!
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printer-auto-detection.png
Lexmark Z23 printer
I have an old Lexmark Z23 printer, and it takes a little extra work to get it running.
1.
sudo apt-get install alien libstdc++5
wget -c -P /tmp/ http://www.downloaddelivery.com/srfilecache/CJLZ35LE-CUPS-2.0-1.TAR.GZ
pushd /tmp
tar -xvzf CJLZ35LE-CUPS-2.0-1.TAR.GZ
tail -n +143 lexmarkz35-CUPS-2.0-1.gz.sh > install.tar.gz
tar -xvzf install.tar.gz
sudo alien —to-deb *.rpm
sudo dpkg -i *.deb
sudo ldconfig
popd
cd /usr/share/cups/model
sudo gunzip Lexmark-Z35-lxz35cj-cups.ppd.gz
sudo /etc/init.d/cupsys restart
2.
gksudo /usr/bin/system-config-printer
and then click the “New Printer” button.
3. If the printer is connected directly to the computer via USB, select “Lexmark Z23-33 USB #n” and click “Forward”.
4. If the printer is to be accessed via the network, select “Other”, and enter
http://$SERVER:631/printers/$PRINTER
where $SERVER is the server URL or IP address and $PRINTER is the printer name on the server, and then click “Forward”. You can find the names of the shared printer on a server by visiting the following URL in your web browser:
where $SERVER is the server URL or IP address.
5. Select the “Provide PPD File” radio button, and click the button initially labeled “None”, and navigate to /usr/share/cups/model and choose the file named Lexmark-Z35-lxz35cj-cups.ppd.
HP printers
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-583143.html
Epson printers
http://search.earthlink.net/search?q=install+epson+printer+gutsy&area=earthlink-ws&channel=broadband&FD=0&;
Fully automatic printer installation
Printers are now automatically configured by merely plugging them in and turning them on. Printer setup cannot get any easier!
*
printer-auto-detection.png
Lexmark Z23 printer
I have an old Lexmark Z23 printer, and it takes a little extra work to get it running.
1.
sudo apt-get install alien libstdc++5
wget -c -P /tmp/ http://www.downloaddelivery.com/srfilecache/CJLZ35LE-CUPS-2.0-1.TAR.GZ
pushd /tmp
tar -xvzf CJLZ35LE-CUPS-2.0-1.TAR.GZ
tail -n +143 lexmarkz35-CUPS-2.0-1.gz.sh > install.tar.gz
tar -xvzf install.tar.gz
sudo alien —to-deb *.rpm
sudo dpkg -i *.deb
sudo ldconfig
popd
cd /usr/share/cups/model
sudo gunzip Lexmark-Z35-lxz35cj-cups.ppd.gz
sudo /etc/init.d/cupsys restart
2.
gksudo /usr/bin/system-config-printer
and then click the “New Printer” button.
3. If the printer is connected directly to the computer via USB, select “Lexmark Z23-33 USB #n” and click “Forward”.
4. If the printer is to be accessed via the network, select “Other”, and enter
http://$SERVER:631/printers/$PRINTER
where $SERVER is the server URL or IP address and $PRINTER is the printer name on the server, and then click “Forward”. You can find the names of the shared printer on a server by visiting the following URL in your web browser:
where $SERVER is the server URL or IP address.
5. Select the “Provide PPD File” radio button, and click the button initially labeled “None”, and navigate to /usr/share/cups/model and choose the file named Lexmark-Z35-lxz35cj-cups.ppd.
HP printers
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-583143.html
Epson printers
http://search.earthlink.net/search?q=install+epson+printer+gutsy&area=earthlink-ws&channel=broadband&FD=0&;;
sorry for double post