Julie Sloan wrote:
OK Julie, decision time! You have vital parts of Mandrake missing (Mandrake Control Center) as well as vital parts of KDE. You can go one of 2 ways:Margot wrote:
On another list you mentioned that you bought the Mandrake CDs last summer - as 10.1 didn't exist then, are the CDs for 10.0? Because you now say you're running 10.1 - did you just install 10.0 from the CDs and then set your urpmi sources for version 10.1? This would account for the huge volume of "updates" you've been getting, and might also explain some of the problems you've been having.
Aha. Yes. Oops. Help?
- Complete reinstall of 10.0 from the CDs (wipe out absolutely everything!), set urpmi sources for 10.0 and end up with a working, fully-updated 10.0 system - this is the easy option!
- Continue with 10.1, searching for vital parts and installing them manually, and tweaking the configuration gradually as you go - this will be a lot of hard work, but a good "learning experience"!
Have a think, work out how brave you're feeling, and let us know.
Without a doubt, I'd rather go the "install manually and tweak" route, but I'm going to need a lot of hand-holding along the way.
BTW I've located my mailboxes - all with weird names but oh well, I can get the data out of them now - - but where is my KMail addresbook? All I've found so far is "recently used" addresses, which is nicely more than I had a few hours ago but still not the entire mailing list, not to mention the individual information I had stashed on each card.
I know I said on another list that a crash might do me a favor, because of how widely and randomly my notes are scattered, but still, I'd hate to lose what I have compiled.
Yes, if I can rebuild this mess I'll be real happy.
My screensavers have gone into hiding also, and I can't log into the Gnome GUI at all.
thanks, Julie
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