Using Legacy on Ubuntu Linux

[Redroger]

Thanks Downside, will try that, a complication might well be that I have the Linux run from virtual box.

[newbe_nz]

I can use Legacy charting OK but not legacy itself.
I will go to windows and put the other from C drive on my memory stick and transfer it over.

Hopefully it will work

Thanks downside for all your wonderful help

Newbe

[newbe_nz]

Still not able to open any of my gedcoms on legacy at all.

I still get the runtime error 445

newbe

[downside]

I can use Legacy charting OK

Which data file did you use? 

Did it search for files and then load one?

[newbe_nz]

it took too long so I canceled out of it and just loaded a gedcom

I have no idea what i am doing wrong

Newbe

[downside]

It might be a permissions thing.  Copy your gedcom file into your /home/smithie directory from your USB drive.  You may need to be logged in as root (super user) to accomplish this.  When you look at the gedcom file

Who is the owner of the file?
Is it in your user name or is the owner root?

What are the permissions?
e.g. -rw-rw-rw

[newbe_nz]

I am the owner of the gedcom

In permissions it has
Owner - that is me
access - read and right

Group - That is me
access - read only

others - nothing
access - read only

newbe

[downside]

The permissions seem to be OK

-rwr--r--

As long as you have 3 r's  it should be OK.

Have you tried copying a gedcom file from your C drive to your /home directory without using the USB drive?  Use a file manager like Konquerer to copy one over.

I don't know if that will make a difference but in the past when you copied files that were created on a Windows system you had to convert them before they were usable on a Linux system - even text files.

[newbe_nz]

I have not tried that and am not sure how to do it.

The permissions seem to be OK

-rwr--r--

As long as you have 3 r's  it should be OK.

Have you tried copying a gedcom file from your C drive to your /home directory without using the USB drive?  Use a file manager like Konquerer to copy one over.

I am not sure how to  use the file manager either as i seem to muck things up

Newbe