[clug] Ubuntu Netbook Edition - simple question (hopefully)

[Scott Ferguson]

 On Sun, 15 Aug 2010 20:43:32 +1000 Sanders King
<sanders_at_mupanda.com>  wrote
> Hey All,
>
> I recently tested Ubuntu Netbook within VirtualBox and liked many features
> especially the 'singleton' launch of applications. (i.e. If you try to
> launch an application a second time you just get focus put back to the
> already launched copy.)
>
> I thought that this would suit my forgetful grey-haired mother and so I
> installed Ubuntu 10.04 for her and then used Synaptic to install
> ubuntu-netbook-* and netbook-launcher-efl.  I thought that this would give
> me the same result as installing Ubuntu Netbook Edition, however I am not
> getting applications launched as singletons (and some other minor
> differences).  I have compared version numbers of the various bits to those
> in the VirtualBox install and I can't see any differences.
>
> It seems crazy to me reinstall Ubuntu Netbook Edition just to solve this
> problem (and go through another round of automatic updates).
>
> I Googled and came up with nothing useful.  Does anybody have any ideas?
>
> Cheers
>
> Sanders
>

An afterthought... you may in fact already have the required packages.
I suspect Ubuntu uses perl to implement singleton - check your installed
packages for perl.
If it's there, and you haven't selected it (as part of a web server
package for instance) then check the Ubuntu forums, or the following
link for more information.
http://ldn.linuxfoundation.org/column/a-half-dozen-ways-script-a-singleton-application-only-one-right

Let us know how you fare - I'd be interested in implementing for
Iceweasel in a Debian build for my impatient gray-haired mother.

Cheers