Re: Installing alternative browser
Hi there. You can use Opera by making a symlink from the existing libstdc++ library to the one Opera is looking for ... it should be happy enough then :) Opera works well enough, but you might want to give Galeon a try as well. I believe it is Mozilla's Gecko rendering engine (truly probably the best around) embedded within a very light-weight GTK+ app, w/o all the XUL fluff that Mozilla has (fluff is a relative term ... I happen to like Mozilla) Hope this helps Brice J. B. Schatz wrote: Has anyone experimented with installing alternate internet browsers into the GNOME desktop environment? I'm looking for a slim and trim (young and beautiful..?) replacement for Mozilla -- a lumbering monster indeed! I experimented with the KDE environment for a couple of weeks but now I've moved over to GNOME and like it much better except that one of the disappointments has been the default internet browsers. I decided to try the latest available version of Opera (opera-static-5.0-1.ppc.rpm) but rpm installation in bash advises that the required libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3 is missing. Other than not having found this missing component, I'm not sure what other problems I might end up facing so I decided to query the good gurus of the Cooker-PPC. Thanks for any advise and insight. Barry -- WebProjkt, Inc. VP, Director of Internet Technology http://www.webprojkt.com/
Re: Cooker PPC is back online
On Mon, 15 Oct 2001, Jerry Goldstein wrote: On 10/15/01 12:57 PM, Stew Benedict spoketh: There will be no 8.1PPC, although if you get into cooker early on, you'll effectively have an 8.1 system. Cooker will be a march towards 8.2PPC, which hopefully will be released close to the x86 release. Once I get the installer online, you'll be able to create your own install images from the cooker tree. Stew, For us relative newbies, would it be at all possible for you to put together very detailed instructions (perhaps on your web page) as to how to create the install images for this ongoing 8.1 cooker? Do we need to download those 100's of rpms in the cooker development directory each time revisions are made? You mention if you get into cooker early on... What does this mean in terms of keeping up with the revisions? These are the kinds of things we'd need to know to participate in the cooker development. In the last few months I've become very interested in Linux on the Mac and chose Mandrake to focus on. I've learned a lot, but have a very long way to go. I'd love to experience the progression from 8.0 to 8.2 with the various cooker stages, but without these detailed instructions, I'm sure I'll be completely lost. Thanks very much for your work in bringing Linux to the Mac and I hope you'll have time to do the above. Jerry Absolutely Jerry, Not tonight, but I'll follow up tomorrow with a little HowTo. You won't need to update all the RPM's each time, just use a mirroring tool such as wget to get the latest changes. Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoftOH/TN, USA http://perso.mandrakesoft.com/~sbenedict/ PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/demos/PPC/FAQ/
Re: Cooker PPC is back online
On 10/15/01 7:17 PM, Stew Benedict spoketh: Stew, For us relative newbies, would it be at all possible for you to put together very detailed instructions (perhaps on your web page) as to how to create the install images for this ongoing 8.1 cooker? Do we need to download those 100's of rpms in the cooker development directory each time revisions are made? You mention if you get into cooker early on... What does this mean in terms of keeping up with the revisions? These are the kinds of things we'd need to know to participate in the cooker development. In the last few months I've become very interested in Linux on the Mac and chose Mandrake to focus on. I've learned a lot, but have a very long way to go. I'd love to experience the progression from 8.0 to 8.2 with the various cooker stages, but without these detailed instructions, I'm sure I'll be completely lost. Thanks very much for your work in bringing Linux to the Mac and I hope you'll have time to do the above. Jerry Absolutely Jerry, Not tonight, but I'll follow up tomorrow with a little HowTo. You won't need to update all the RPM's each time, just use a mirroring tool such as wget to get the latest changes. Stew Benedict Thanks very much Stew. I'm sure all of us newcomers will appreciate it. No rush obviously. Whenever you get the time. Please be sure to explain wget :-) Jerry
Re: Commented out #define's in the kernel headers
On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 09:25:18PM -0700, Ben Reser wrote: This is preventing libgpio from building on ppc and preventing me from getting gphoto2 from working. Of course a couple days ago when I started fiddling with this Stew hadn't started updating the cooker rpms. So of course like an idiot before posting this I didn't bother to go see if he'd recompiled these rpms. Now to cross my fingers and hope this works on the 8.0 ppc system. -- Ben Reser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ben.reser.org To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence. Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting. -Chinese philosopher Sun Tzu
