Computer Help and Support

It turns out that Scalpel requires two other packages to compile ... both available from one guy ... on different Web sites. Of course, those packages require other packages .... five just to "configure" one library ... and after downloading those, of course I just get another error message (autopoint - command not found) when I try to run configure.

When you're trying to do an emergency recovery, you need tools that can be downloaded in one go, so you can focus on recovering the files, not diddling the recovery tools. R-Linux looks like it *should* do that, but it doesn't have all the commands the manual says it should. Apparently the manual for the freeware version was "edited down" from the manual for the $$$ version, and they "accidentally" did a sloppy job of it.

There are at least two packages worth looking at, both $$$ ware. If I had known to buy them at the time I bought the computer, I would have. Can't afford them now, so I keep trying to find something free that will work, and that doesn't require an experienced programmer & sysadmin's expertise to get running.