Re: [newbie] make: command not found
you have either of the following scenarios: 1) you dont have the make utility. try to look for it in the following directories /usr/bin /usr/local/bin if its not still there then install the package (if you dont have the installation cd then go to rpmfind.net adn search for 'make'). 2) you have it and dont have execute permissions. if this is the case then change the file attrributes by using the chmod command (i think you have to be root). chmod 766 /location/of/the/file/make 3) make exists in your system with the appropriate permission but isnt in your path. try adding the following in your .bashrc file: export PATH=$PATH: or if make is (usually ) installed in /usr/bin , reverse the order of $PATH and the directory containing make. HTH. "g.sanders" wrote: > while trying to compile a program, I ran into this: > > theano@localhost pari]$ make gp > bash: make: command not found > > how do I fix this? > -- "Programming, an artform that fights back." = Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer Millennium Software, Incorporated 25/F Equitable-PCI Tower ADB Avenue cor. Poveda St. Ortigas Center, Pasig City Tel# 638-3070 loc. 72 Fax# 638-3079 = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Help me with Mandrake 8.1 bootloader and other problems
I installed Mandrake 8 on my computer that I recently put together from scratch. I chose to install the text-based LILO. When it booted up, it got to the "LI" and it hung right there. I downloaded Mandrake 8.1. During the install this time, it said "Installation of bootloader failed. The following error occurred: Syntax error near line 6 in file/etc/lilo.conf" So when it went back to installing the bootloader again in the install, I chose to install GRUB. GRUB worked fine. So I thought, I'll see if I can install LILO now that GRUB works. I went to Mandrake Control Center and installed LILO. Lilo did the same thing again and stopped at the LI. So, I booted from the floppy, and installed GRUB again from the Mandrake Control Center. Now GRUB doesn't work. It hangs after displaying "GRUB GRUB" on startup. I can boot fine from the floppy though. Is there another way to re-install the bootloader? Is there a way to install Mandrake without changing my current configuration? I have some more general questions: How do I adjust the volume in Mandrake Linux? I'm running KDE. The startup sound always blasts out of my speakers when I login. Is there a "Task Manager" in Linux, like there is in Windows2000? I typed "top" but there are too many processes to display in the window. How do I see all the processes? When it crashes, what do I do? Hit the reset button? It crashed, and I didn't know what to press. Is Kmovie buggier than hell? It won't play most of my music videos, and if I choose to open another movie file when I'm playing something, it crashes. Is there a better movie player for Linux? Why can I only use traceroute when I'm logged in as root? How do I allow normal users to use traceroute? When I click on the "Home" icon in my home directory, it goes to "/mnt/cdrom2" for some reason. When in Konquerer, and I click the Home icon, it goes to my home directory though. How do I make it so when I click the desktop icon, it goes to "/home/ddeham"? Finally, I know this is asking a lot, but is there any way I can watch TV with my ATI All In Wonder Radeon card in Linux? Answers to any of these questions would be appreciated. Thanks, Daniel Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] re: staroffice
Dave i did default install and clicked on soffice still will not open like linux but installing software will take a little time for me. Thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Easier reading
On Thursday 08 November 2001 12:04, Dan wrote: > Look, I'm not trying to tell anybody what to do, I just think it > would be helpful to more than just me to get a big majority of > replies top posted for quicker reading. This is my vote against top posting. I hate reading replies that I don't know what they are replying to. The reader has to scroll down to the bottom to find out what the previous person said that the current person is commenting on. *** Powered by SuSE Linux 7.2 Professional KDE 2.1.2 KMail 1.2 Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MANDRAKE 8.1 INSTALL PROBLEMS
don't know about the mobo, but if mandrake doesn't run on amd i have been running 7.2 then 8.0 and now 8.1 by the grace of a greater power. ;) runs far better on this amd 750 than win 2000 runs on my pent 750. On Thursday 08 November 2001 17:07, you spoke unto me thusly: > > Can Mandrake 8.1 work on AMD ? Or it only works on Intel ? > -- Sometimes I just slip of into my own little word, but atleast they know me there. shane registered linux user #101606 @ http://counter.li.org/ http://www.mystic-light.net/personal/ Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 http://dmoz.org cause humans do it better! Link different. Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Star office ?
On Thu, 2001-11-08 at 21:09, Harry Ablejoy wrote: > Hi need a little help. Installed star office 6.0 but not anywhere on my > desktop kde . I can't make it work at all any help please Harry, If you did a default install of StarOffice 6.0, then it is installed into /usr/local/staroffice6.0/. From this directory, you can go to the program subdirectory, and run soffice to launch Star Office. If you did a network install (using the /net switch when running the installer), then go to the same program subdirectory, and run setup. This will allow you to install a minimal configuration (about 1.4 MB) into your home directory, with a staroffice6.0 directory created, and you can then launch soffice from there. Hope this helps, Dave -- "When anyone says `theoretically,' they really mean `not really.'" -- David Parnas msg81046/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] Easier reading
OK and I agree with Randy's comments. skinky -- But what ... is it good for? (Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip) On Fri, 09 Nov 2001 06:04, Dan Jacobs wrote: | I know many will dislike this idea, but I'm gonna keep track of the | responses, and give the results when the thread is done. | | Please vote in your reply by clearly stating either OK, No Way!, or | Doesn't matter in your reply. | | Would you care if most of the reply messages on _this_ list were top | posted? The reason I'm asking is because unless I make my mail | programs reading fonts incredibly tiny, I cannot get to the replies | unless I take the time to scroll down the message. | | Incredibly time consuming action? Nope, unless you are 1,000 messages | behind, or don't have alot of time to scroll down every message, it | adds up pretty quick then. | | Look, I'm not trying to tell anybody what to do, I just think it would | be helpful to more than just me to get a big majority of replies top | posted for quicker reading. | | What do ya think? | | | Diesel Dan | http://DieselDan.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Star office ?
Hi need a little help. Installed star office 6.0 but not anywhere on my desktop kde . I can't make it work at all any help please Thanks Harry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hard Disk surface scan
Hi Poogle, Sorry. The correct link should be ; http://www.seagate.com/support/seatools/ B.R. Stephen Liu At 04:05 PM 11/8/2001 +, you wrote: >On Wednesday 07 November 2001 21:04 pm, you wrote: > > Can anyone tell me how to do a surface scan on a hard disk, known to > > contain bad sectors? I'm gonna retire it from use at the company I work > > for, and donate it to a friend, so he can try out Mandrake. As the bad > > spots seems to be isolated, and not growing (I don't know if it took a > > knock or what), it may be stable for quite a while in this condition. But, > > I would like to be able to perform a periodic surface scan, to make sure > > the condition doesn't worsen. Thanks. > >I came a cross this in a mag today so I haven't tried it but it says it works >with drives other than their own http://www.seatools.seagate.com >-- > >Poogle >Registered Linux user 182657 (added to sig for the benefit of those irritated >by it) > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Installation with 24 megs of ram?
If a firewall is all you are looking for you should be able to do it. I am running Mandrake SNF on a NEC versa 4200 with 24 meg Ingo -Original Message- From: g [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2001 6:53 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Installation with 24 megs of ram? Eric Caron wrote: > > That's what I wanted for this box. Just a little firewall if all you want is a firewall, try coyote or another _firewall_ version of linux. you do not need all that is in a a standard os to run firewall. tc,hago. g . =+= think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save storage. send text email.. =+= if you are proud to be an american, then buy "made in america". =+= Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Old Hard Disk..
hi.. i have some questions about configuring HD's .. i have two HD's one is 6 GB big, and it has windoze installed. the other one is 30 GB and it's for linux. but i have a third one, .. one i took from an old 486 pc, 514 MB, and i use it for backups, like, i plug it in, fill it with some stuff, and then i take it out and put it in a drawer.. the other day i found that linux had some problems accessing this old can, during boot sequence, it detects all IDE devices, HDA1 6440 MB, HDB 3 MB, cdrom .. and hdd .. ... and it stays there.. waiting. then it says something like "irq timeout"... something to do with UDMA access, i think. but that is the problem, i guess. this HD is not UDMA. so how do i tell linux not to use UDMA for that disk? thanks!! Damian. ( i do this so you dont have to read the ads.. ;oP ) hehe. bye. _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing Ximian Gnome :- Redcarpet fail
Thanks Charles Stephen At 01:55 PM 11/8/2001 -0500, you wrote: >On Thu, 08 Nov 2001 23:54:01 +0800 >Stephen Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi All People, > > > > I succeeded downloading RedCarpet installer but failed to install it. I > > tried both Ximian site and Planet site (Australia) downloading the > > installer successfully but failed to proceed further during installation > > with following warning pop-up > > > > Application "/var/cache/redcarpet/installer-rpm-glibc2.2-i386" (process > > 2319) has crashed due to a fatal error. (Segmentation fault) > > (gnome-terminal Crash at 210.3.35.70) > > > > PC config : - AMD K2 350, Hard disc 3.6G, RAM 128 MB > > OS : Mandrake-Linux 8.1 > > > > Package: gnome-core Version: 2.1.8 > > > > Any suggestion ? > > > > >Stephen > >8.1 is not yet supported by Ximian. >Only 8.0 and earlier. > >If by chance you could get it to install it would break your system. >There are too many differeances, #1 being devfs, between 8.0 and 8.1. > >If you want a cuurent distro on which to run Ximian try RH 7.2 > >Ximian has made some nice additions since I last ran it. >Opera channel, Star Office, Loki Games. >I still prefer the Mandrake gnome. > >Charles > > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] RED ALERT! BIG EMERGENCY! NEED A FILE RECOVERY TOOL!
try the Linux Ext2fs Undeletion mini-HOWTO. its included in the howto-package of Mandrake. its a long shot but worth a try. ciao! On Thu, 8 Nov 2001 12:45:34 -0500, "Kevin Fonner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yes the linux system and windows system were on seperate systems on the network. Windows was accessing my home directory via samaba. The linux system is actually running. My home directoryhad all the files deleted in it. I have logged on as root. and the only files in my home are the one's windows created. Everything else (roughly 12 gigs!) was deleted!! Kevin Fonner Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- "Programming, an artform that fights back." === Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer 25/F Equitable-PCI Tower ADB Ave. cor. Poveda St., Ortigas Center, Pasig City, Philippines 1605 Tel no: (632) 6383070 loc 75 === Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installation with 24 megs of ram?
On Thursday 08 November 2001 09:04 am, Anthony (¦w±e¥¿) wrote:
> Actually, I think if you stick to command line mode 24MB should be
> adequate. It's the eye candy that really demands all that memory.
>
> Anthony
Nope, IRRC, it's got more to do with havin enough ram to kick
start the necessary ramdisk, 32 mb min for Mandrake. Spartan Linux
distros could of course do with less. IIRC, my first (floppy) Linux
version ran on 4mb ram. But that was before my time ;>
('man mkinitrd')
" mkinitrd creates filesystem images which are suitable for use as
Linux initial ramdisk (initrd) images. Such images are often used
for preloading the block device modules (such as IDE, SCSI or RAID)
which are needed to access the root filesystem .. "
I should'a stayed out'a this ... I've had at least 128mb for years,
overclocked ;)
--
Tom Brinkman Galveston Bay, USA
chmod +x /bin/Laden.al-Qaeda.Taliban
>
> Tom Brinkman wrote:
> > On Thursday 08 November 2001 08:24 am, Eric Caron wrote:
> > > I tried to install mandrake linux on a pentium 100 with 24 megs
> > > of ram and I couldn't get to the end of the installation. The
> > > packages are installed, but either when configuring the network
> > > parameters or when installing lilo (depends on if I choose low,
> > > medium or high security), the installation dies with a
> > > segfault, saying I don't have enough memory.
> >
> > AFAIK from lurking on the cooker list, 32 mb ram is bare
> > minimum to install Mandrake.
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Re: [newbie] Easier reading
On Thursday 08 November 2001 12:04 pm, Dan Jacobs wrote: > Would you care if most of the reply messages on _this_ list were > top posted? Doesn't matter -- Tom Brinkman Galveston Bay, USA chmod +x /bin/Laden.al-Qaeda.Taliban Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Copy & Paste
On Thu, 2001-11-08 at 14:50, Michel Clasquin wrote: > On Thursday 08 November 2001 14:34, you wrote: > > I'm using Mandrake 8.1 and have a problem with Copy and Paste commands, > > they don't seem to work at all between applications and only > > occasionally within an application. The info copied does appear in the > > clipboard, but will not Paste. This is true of apps like Evolution and > > Sylpheed. > > You are probably trying to paste between KDE, Gnome and other X apps, > which can be a real pain in the ass, because they don't generally use the > same paste buffer (They could if they really wanted to...). No, within the same applications, in this case Evolution or Sylpheed. In their defense, they're both in early development, BUT... > > BUT, 95% of the time, what you want to paste is just plain text. So try > this: select the text to be pasted with the mouse. Don't hit CTL-C. Move > the focus to (click with the mouse in) another window, but be careful not > to move the mouse with the button down and create a selection in the new > window. Hit the mouse *middle* button to paste the text in. If you have a > 2-button mouse, hit left and right button simultaneously. In a standard > installation you can even paste to and from terminals like this. ...THIS WORKS! Thanks for the tip. > > It takes about 5 minutes to get used to this, after which there will be > much slapping of foreheads and exclaiming "But this is so much easier than > windows!" I find cutting and pasting in windows intolerably clumsy now. > > For example, If I click on a URL in Kmail, it automagically opens it in > Konqueror, which is fine. But if I want to open it in Mozilla, I select > the address in Kmail, FIRE up Mozilla and middleclick the address into the > Mozilla's address edit box. > > Try it. You'll like it. > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] PAM Questions
PAM authenticates processes. There should be no need to attempt to modify KDM's usage of PAM. What problem are you having... -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Dan Ferris |Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2001 6:16 PM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: [newbie] PAM Questions | | |Two PAM questions... | |1. What does pam_stack do? | |2. Which file do you have to edit to change kdm's behavior with PAM? | |please respond directly: | |mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | |TIA, | Dan | | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] MANDRAKE 8.1 INSTALL PROBLEMS
Title: Message -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Matt KoppelmanSent: Thursday, November 08, 2001 7:11 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [newbie] MANDRAKE 8.1 INSTALL PROBLEMS ok i am installing mandrake 8.1 iso on a clean, brand new machine. its an athlon 1.3 - i am having a few problems with it.. the machine has connectivity on my network, but keeps popping up this message at the prompt. "Probable Hardware Bug: clock timer configuration lost - probably a VIA686a motherboard. --- Yes, Linux has identified a real problem with your motherboard. The Clock Timer chip doesn't work properly on your motherboard (and on almost all motherboards equipped with Windbond clock chips, such as most VIA, and ALiMagik based boards). This results in erroneous interrupt driven clock timer pulses. This upsets timing events and time dependant functions. Linux (thankfully) tries to deal with this. Windows cannot (heh, heh). There is not much you can do about this other than turning off the logs for this... --- heres my second problem.. i have installe dlinux about 10 times on this thing.. every time i install, things that SHOULD be there are not.. like plain ol 'ftp' or 'drakxservices' - i cant find any of these on the computer. i KNOW i specified ftp to install from the beginning, and i also have done reccomended and expert installs. --- The installer is a bit confusing. When you say plain ol "ftp" are you referring to the client or the server software? If the latter, there is more than one FTP server package available in the distro. I.E Pro-FTP and WU-FTP, etc. Try rpm -qa | grep ftp to see what actually was installed. Note: the installer seems to miss about 50% of the available packages on the CDs. Go into the software manager to find the rest. I ended up copying all 3 CD's to the hard drive and point the manager to the directories to avoid the constant swapping of CD's needed to install a lot of the packages and dependancies. --- i have installed mandrake linux numerous times problem-free, but not 8.1 as of yet.. anyone have any ideas? or should i take the damn server back? :) --- 8.1 is pretty good and very stable, but does many things differently. This may add to your frustrations. -JMS
Re: [newbie] Mozilla 9.5
On Thu, 2001-11-08 at 16:01, Tom Brinkman wrote: > On Thursday 08 November 2001 10:38 am, Dave Sherman wrote: > > > One thing with upgrading Mozilla, be aware that Mandrake installs > > it in a non-standard location. > >I beg to differ > > Mozilla wants to install to > > /usr/local/mozilla, but Mandrake puts it in /usr/lib/mozilla -- > > why, I don't know. > > Do Google on 'Linux Standard Base' > > Mandrake puts moz where it belongs. >~ $ which mozilla > /usr/bin/mozilla I'm not talking about the plain binary, but the installation directory. Dave -- Fifth Law of Applied Terror: If you are given an open-book exam, you will forget your book. Corollary: If you are given a take-home exam, you will forget where you live. msg81033/pgp1.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] Installation with 24 megs of ram?
That's what I wanted for this box. Just a little firewall, no gui, no nothing. The installation program itself was in text mode because of the lack of ram. But it crashed at the end anyway... Gonna have to try red hat of one of the bsd family members. Thanks - Original Message - From: "Anthony (¦w±e¥¿)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2001 9:04 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Installation with 24 megs of ram? > Actually, I think if you stick to command line mode 24MB should be > adequate. It's the eye candy that really demands all that memory. > > Anthony > > Tom Brinkman wrote: > > > > On Thursday 08 November 2001 08:24 am, Eric Caron wrote: > > > > > I tried to install mandrake linux on a pentium 100 with 24 megs of > > > ram and I couldn't get to the end of the installation. The > > > packages are installed, but either when configuring the network > > > parameters or when installing lilo (depends on if I choose low, > > > medium or high security), the installation dies with a segfault, > > > saying I don't have enough memory. > > > > AFAIK from lurking on the cooker list, 32 mb ram is bare minimum > > to install Mandrake. > > -- > > Tom Brinkman Galveston Bay, USA > >chmod +x /bin/Laden.al-Qaeda.Taliban > > > > > Name: message.footer > >message.footerType: Plain Text (text/plain) > > Encoding: 8bit > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installation with 24 megs of ram?
On Thursday 08 November 2001 13:30, you wrote: > On Thursday 08 November 2001 08:24 am, Eric Caron wrote: > > I tried to install mandrake linux on a pentium 100 with 24 megs of > > ram and I couldn't get to the end of the installation. The > > packages are installed, but either when configuring the network > > parameters or when installing lilo (depends on if I choose low, > > medium or high security), the installation dies with a segfault, > > saying I don't have enough memory. > > AFAIK from lurking on the cooker list, 32 mb ram is bare minimum > to install Mandrake. I managed to get mdk7.0 on to a p133 thinkpad with 16 mb, after I upgraded to 32 mb, mdk 7.1 was workable -in both cases using the text based install-. I actually managed to install 8.1 on it, but even working solely textbased brought back memories of windows3.1 :( On the other hand; at least you get plenty of time to boil a pot of coffee ;) Usable installations with acceptable speed were/are upto mdk.7.1, Suse 6.4, slackware 7.1. I would have liked to check out a few more distribs, but the parport- or pcmcia-CDdrive is a real killer at install. You might take it a bit higher but then don't use heavyweight desktops like KDE or Gnome. Especially KDE> 1.2 is deadly slow. Anything higher is "swap till you drop" Good luck Harm Bathoorn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] PAM Questions
Two PAM questions... 1. What does pam_stack do? 2. Which file do you have to edit to change kdm's behavior with PAM? please respond directly: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] TIA, Dan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] avi files
Mplayer ( http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/ ) On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, mnu wrote: > > Does anyone know of any program that would allow me to view .avi files in > linux? > > Thanks > > Meg > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mozilla 9.5
On Thursday 08 November 2001 10:38 am, Dave Sherman wrote: > One thing with upgrading Mozilla, be aware that Mandrake installs > it in a non-standard location. I beg to differ Mozilla wants to install to > /usr/local/mozilla, but Mandrake puts it in /usr/lib/mozilla -- > why, I don't know. Do Google on 'Linux Standard Base' Mandrake puts moz where it belongs. ~ $ which mozilla /usr/bin/mozilla -- Tom Brinkman Galveston Bay, USA chmod +x /bin/Laden.al-Qaeda.Taliban Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] MANDRAKE 8.1 INSTALL PROBLEMS
ok i am installing mandrake 8.1 iso on a clean, brand new machine. its an athlon 1.3 - i am having a few problems with it.. the machine has connectivity on my network, but keeps popping up this message at the prompt. "Probable Hardware Bug: clock timer configuration lost - probably a VIA686a motherboard. heres my second problem.. i have installe dlinux about 10 times on this thing.. every time i install, things that SHOULD be there are not.. like plain ol 'ftp' or 'drakxservices' - i cant find any of these on the computer. i KNOW i specified ftp to install from the beginning, and i also have done reccomended and expert installs. i have installed mandrake linux numerous times problem-free, but not 8.1 as of yet.. anyone have any ideas? or should i take the damn server back? :) if you respond to this, please cc my personal address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - sometimes its hard to find things in the barrage of posts on here.. thanks!
Re: [newbie] Installation with 24 megs of ram?
Eric Caron wrote: > > That's what I wanted for this box. Just a little firewall if all you want is a firewall, try coyote or another _firewall_ version of linux. you do not need all that is in a a standard os to run firewall. tc,hago. g . =+= think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save storage. send text email.. =+= if you are proud to be an american, then buy "made in america". =+= Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Removing Packages (Dependencies)
On Thursday 08 November 2001 11:58, Michel Clasquin wrote: > On Thursday 08 November 2001 20:25, you wrote: > > I was trying to remove the version of Mozilla (0.8) that was included > > with LM 8.0 so I could "clean install" 0.9.5 instead. When I went into > > RPMDrake and typed in Mozilla and hit Remove, it came back with a whole > > list of other packages that it wanted to remove also, because of > > "dependencies." Among these were things like gnucash and nautilus and > > about a dozen others that I don't want to remove. Is there an answer for > > this? Should I just delete the Mozilla directory instead of using the > > software manager? Thanks for any assistance. > > fire up a terminal > su to root > rpm --test -e --nodeps mozilla > > If no anguished error messages arrive, repeat without the --test Thanks Michel I did that, at first it said it couldn't remove the /usr/lib/mozilla directories since they weren't empty, but I went in later and deleted them anyway. Now I've finished installing 0.9.5. Thanks again. Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; name="message.footer" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: -- Bryce Hardy (Santa Rosa, CA) [EMAIL PROTECTED] --->>>"Arbeit Macht Nicht So Frei!"<<<--- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Easier reading
OK! (to top posting) It would be good if the first few lines of a post gave as much useful information as possible. That's not always easy to do, especially if you reply to detail(s) of a previous post and must position each reply near an appropriate quote from the previous post. Nevertheless, I think it is a good thing to strive for. Also, snip as much of the previous post as possible. Leave close to the minimum that is required for context. Just my $.02. Randy Kramer Dan Jacobs wrote: > Would you care if most of the reply messages on _this_ list were top > posted? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Removing Packages (Dependencies)
On Thursday 08 November 2001 20:25, you wrote: > I was trying to remove the version of Mozilla (0.8) that was included > with LM 8.0 so I could "clean install" 0.9.5 instead. When I went into > RPMDrake and typed in Mozilla and hit Remove, it came back with a whole > list of other packages that it wanted to remove also, because of > "dependencies." Among these were things like gnucash and nautilus and > about a dozen others that I don't want to remove. Is there an answer for > this? Should I just delete the Mozilla directory instead of using the > software manager? Thanks for any assistance. fire up a terminal su to root rpm --test -e --nodeps mozilla If no anguished error messages arrive, repeat without the --test -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za http://www.geocities.com/clasqm This message was posted from a Microsoft-free PC f u cn rd ths, u cn gt a gd jb n nx dmnstrtn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] avi files
On Thursday 08 November 2001 01:11 pm, mnu wrote: > Does anyone know of any program that would allow me to view .avi > files in linux? > Meg Meg , I'm sure you'll get many replies to this, so I'll just give you my experience. mplayer ... works great! You can get a Mandrake developer's rpm from http://lis.snv.jussieu.fr/~rousse/linux/plf/ (look down towards the bottom of the page for the mplayer files). You will need to d/l some win32 dll's, but they're readily available for free d/l. Otherwise, installation is quick an' simple. Read the doc, an it'll tell you where to put 'em, how to use mplayer. Works so well, I haven't tried anything else, altho I here some braggin 'bout avifile too. Both are available at the above link. ( bob'a boo! ;) -- Tom Brinkman Galveston Bay, USA chmod +x /bin/Laden.al-Qaeda.Taliban Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Copy & Paste
On Thursday 08 November 2001 14:34, you wrote: > I'm using Mandrake 8.1 and have a problem with Copy and Paste commands, > they don't seem to work at all between applications and only > occasionally within an application. The info copied does appear in the > clipboard, but will not Paste. This is true of apps like Evolution and > Sylpheed. You are probably trying to paste between KDE, Gnome and other X apps, which can be a real pain in the ass, because they don't generally use the same paste buffer (They could if they really wanted to...). BUT, 95% of the time, what you want to paste is just plain text. So try this: select the text to be pasted with the mouse. Don't hit CTL-C. Move the focus to (click with the mouse in) another window, but be careful not to move the mouse with the button down and create a selection in the new window. Hit the mouse *middle* button to paste the text in. If you have a 2-button mouse, hit left and right button simultaneously. In a standard installation you can even paste to and from terminals like this. It takes about 5 minutes to get used to this, after which there will be much slapping of foreheads and exclaiming "But this is so much easier than windows!" I find cutting and pasting in windows intolerably clumsy now. For example, If I click on a URL in Kmail, it automagically opens it in Konqueror, which is fine. But if I want to open it in Mozilla, I select the address in Kmail, FIRE up Mozilla and middleclick the address into the Mozilla's address edit box. Try it. You'll like it. -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za http://www.geocities.com/clasqm This message was posted from a Microsoft-free PC f u cn rd ths, u cn gt a gd jb n nx dmnstrtn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installation with 24 megs of ram?
Actually, I think if you stick to command line mode 24MB should be adequate. It's the eye candy that really demands all that memory. Anthony Tom Brinkman wrote: > > On Thursday 08 November 2001 08:24 am, Eric Caron wrote: > > > I tried to install mandrake linux on a pentium 100 with 24 megs of > > ram and I couldn't get to the end of the installation. The > > packages are installed, but either when configuring the network > > parameters or when installing lilo (depends on if I choose low, > > medium or high security), the installation dies with a segfault, > > saying I don't have enough memory. > > AFAIK from lurking on the cooker list, 32 mb ram is bare minimum > to install Mandrake. > -- > Tom Brinkman Galveston Bay, USA >chmod +x /bin/Laden.al-Qaeda.Taliban > > > Name: message.footer >message.footerType: Plain Text (text/plain) > Encoding: 8bit Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Cert Advisory (CA-2001-30) concerning Mandrake and lpd
yes, i have heard of it. from what i understand (but do not take this as meaning i know anything :) it can allow anyone who can connect to your computer to execute code as if they were the person sharing a printer. if you do not have a shared printer or have a firewall blocking it to outside addresses, or are using 7.2 or newer, don't worry about it. if you have win2000 and a sharedprinter be more worried. that is current and allows "root." ;) On Thursday 08 November 2001 06:10, you spoke unto me thusly: > > A friend recently sent me a copy of a Cert advisory concerning a potential > security risk involving lpd. Among the linux distros listed, Mandrake > 6.0, 6.1, 7.0, 7.1 were included. Since Mandrake 8.0 and 8.1 were not > listed, I take it they are not sensitive to the issue at hand, but as a > matter of curiousity, has anybody else in the list heard of this issue? > If so, can you explain in layman's terms what is the potential risk? > > If people are interested I can forward the alert to the list or email it > to interested individuals. Thanks... > > Dexter -- When everyone agrees around here, it means that something must be wrong. shane registered linux user #101606 @ http://counter.li.org/ http://www.mystic-light.net/personal/ Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 http://dmoz.org cause humans do it better! Link different. Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Removing Packages (Dependancies)
I want to remove the version of Mozilla that was pre-installed in my LM 8.0 so I can download the latest version. But when I go into RPMDrake and type in Mozilla and hit "Remove" it comes back with a list of over a dozen other packages that it wants to remove also because of "dependencies". Among these are things like gnumeric and nautilus and others that I definately don't want to remove. What's the best way to proceed to remove only Mozilla? -- Bryce Hardy (Santa Rosa, CA) [EMAIL PROTECTED] --->>>"Arbeit Macht Nicht So Frei!"<<<--- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] login problem with 8.1
Hi all, I am having a small problem, recently I installed 8.1 on a box, and installed 2.4.12-5 kernel.. all went well. So anyway, I started by using msec to increase security to high.,.. and started opening all the stuff that I needed. then I added amavis and started setting it up as a server.. then I thought I should restart it,, when I did, I get the login screen, (console not x) and when I try to log in, it tells me who the last login was (me) but won't go to a prompt. so I booted rescue, and changed msec to 3 and then 2, both to no avail. I can't log in,, I also changed all the passwords and tried to log in again, no difference.. I am abit lost here, anyone have any suggestions.. neither root or my user account will login ... which suggests its not a password issue.. any help would be much appreciated. rgds Frank === Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] avi files
Title: RE: [newbie] avi files If you've got Mandrake8.1 there ia a program called xmovie. If you don't have it go to sourceforge with the address http://xine.sourceforge.net and download an excellent media player. It's still in beta, but it should help you. Cheers and good luck. Craig Williamson -Original Message- From: mnu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 7:12 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] avi files Does anyone know of any program that would allow me to view .avi files in linux? Thanks Meg
Re: [newbie] Installing Ximian Gnome :- Redcarpet fail
On Thu, 08 Nov 2001 23:54:01 +0800 Stephen Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All People, > > I succeeded downloading RedCarpet installer but failed to install it. I > tried both Ximian site and Planet site (Australia) downloading the > installer successfully but failed to proceed further during installation > with following warning pop-up > > Application "/var/cache/redcarpet/installer-rpm-glibc2.2-i386" (process > 2319) has crashed due to a fatal error. (Segmentation fault) > (gnome-terminal Crash at 210.3.35.70) > > PC config : - AMD K2 350, Hard disc 3.6G, RAM 128 MB > OS : Mandrake-Linux 8.1 > > Package: gnome-core Version: 2.1.8 > > Any suggestion ? > Stephen 8.1 is not yet supported by Ximian. Only 8.0 and earlier. If by chance you could get it to install it would break your system. There are too many differeances, #1 being devfs, between 8.0 and 8.1. If you want a cuurent distro on which to run Ximian try RH 7.2 Ximian has made some nice additions since I last ran it. Opera channel, Star Office, Loki Games. I still prefer the Mandrake gnome. Charles Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ATI Rage 128 and 8.1
Sorry, don't have a fix for you. Just wanted to tell you that I have 2 ATI Rage 128 card running fine with both Mandrake 8.1 and RedHat. One is Rage Fury and the other one is Rage 128 Pro. Running XFree86 4.1.0 if I remember correctly. Robin - Original Message - From: "lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2001 11:37 PM Subject: [newbie] ATI Rage 128 and 8.1 > Hi Folks, > > Having a helluva time here getting x to config. I'm getting "x-respawning too > fast "errors pretty consistantly. Seems that I saw a fix for this somewhere > but can't seem to find it now. > > Anyone have any ideas here ? If I can't get a handle on it by this evening I > think I'll try another video card, or perhaps SUSE. > > Thank you very much for your time. > > Lee > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] avi files
In reply to mnu's words, written Fri, 9 Nov 2001 02:11:38 +0800 > >Does anyone know of any program that would allow me to view .avi files in >linux? Mplayer. You can find it through SourceForge: http://mplayer.sourceforge.net The only thing I found about installing it is to pass the argument to disable compiler version checking in ./configure, as it doesn't seem to like gcc 2.96. Do './configure --help' for the exact syntax of that. The resulting binary executes fine, despite the admonition not to bother sending bug requests. Paul -- I want to die in my sleep, like my grandfather. Not screaming like the passengers in his bus... http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 8.0 - Sylpheed 0.6.3 claws Open Source, Open Minds. Linux. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
