Hello there. I am a long term Windows user/tech support person who has recently installed Mandrake Linux, partly out of curiosity, partly because I feel it's the coming thing. I managed to install it, get it on our training LAN, mount drives and what not without any bother, but I've run into a spot of trouble trying to set up LinNeighborhood. Now, I downloaded the LinNeighborhood rpm, and it seemed to install ok, leaving me with some entries at the root. I found a web page detailing what must be done to properly unzip and install the Linneighborhood-0.6.5.tar.bz2 file, which is:
tar -xzvf LinNeighborhood-0.6.5.tar.gz cd LinNeighborhood-0.6.5 ./configure make make install The problem is that when I enter the first line I get a 'not in gzip format' message. I figured, ok then, I'll install bzip2. This is where I've ground to a halt. I installed bzip2 from files from a webpage, couldn't get it to work. Then tried to install bzip2 from the Mandrake cd, it reported that bzip2 was already installed. I changed the 'file associations' to point any .gz or bz or bz2 files towards the bzip2 app, but still no joy. Where am I going wrong? Why is it that bzip2 doesn't appear anywhere on the start menu, or why is it that if I create a desktop link to /usr/bin/bzip2, nothing happens when I click on it? And if bzip2 really is installed, why can't I get past the 'not in gzip format' bit. Why doesn't bzip2 unzip the file instead of gzip refusing to? I installed Mandrake Linux 9.0 for the first time 10 days ago. I'm using the KDE gui. The pc is a Compaq EVO P4, with 256mb ram. Please help a Linux novice out? All the best Ronnie
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