Re: [newbie] need help patching kernel
From: Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Subject: Re: [newbie] need help patching kernel Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 21:46:19 -0600 On Thursday 27 January 2005 09:27 pm, Mike Chalmers wrote: From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Subject: Re: [newbie] need help patching kernel Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 12:33:27 + On Thursday 27 January 2005 12:03, Mike Chalmers wrote: Thank you both. I went to the web site ftp://ftp.rediris.es/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake/10.1/i586/media/main / , that Derek recomended. I tried to install several of the 2.6.8 kernel's and I get this message- Some package requested cannot be installed: kernel-2.6.8.1.12mdk-1-1mdk.i586 (due to unsatisfied bootloader-utils[= 1.9]) do you agree ? I then tried to install one of the 2.4 kernels and it installed fine. So I do not know what to do? From, Mike Chalmers This is what I meant when I said the kernel might require other packages. This kernel was built for Mandrake 10.1, and because of differences in the two releases it is asking for a package not available in 10.0. I would not recommend trying to install the bootloader-utils package. That will very likely demand other packages ad infinitum. So if you want a newer kernel, then I think you are restricted to either compiling your own, or upgrading to Mdk 10.1 BTW: That 2.4 kernel you installed will now be your default kernel. Your 2.6.3 kernel will be an option in the Lilo menu. You can uninstall the kernel with the Software Uninstall GUI. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Alright, I installed Mandrake 10.1. Does it use XFree 86? If so what version? If not what does it use? From, Mike Chalmers _ Dont just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! http://search.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200636ave/direct/01/ It uses xorgx11 I think it is called. It is basically xfree86 but a branch that uses the original GNU license. XFree86 changed their license and made it a bit of a problem as far as free and open source folks are concerned. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com On the ATI website they have drivers for X.org. The problem is they are for the Xorg 6.8 and Mandrake 10.1 uses Xorg 6.7. Has Mandrake updated to Xorg 6.8 yet? If not are they planning to? From, Mike Chalmers _ On the road to retirement? Check out MSN Life Events for advice on how to get there! http://lifeevents.msn.com/category.aspx?cid=Retirement Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Connecting a Linux computer to a MS Windows network
On Friday 28 January 2005 02:28, Bryan Phinney wrote: snip Luckily for me, the screensaver was up and I use a generic one so Goober didn't even know what OS I was running. I booted back over to Windows, let it update and then switched right back to Linux. After that, I told them that I had installed VMWare (for Testing purposes) and that it just looked like I had Linux installed. With the McDonald's rejects that get hired for tech support these days, I am not too concerned that I am going to get outsmarted or called on it. If you don't have the drive space, get Mandrake Move (Live CD) or one of the other varieties, put your config files on a small folder set aside for the purpose and boot directly from the CD. If someone happens to come by, simply pull the plug, and complain that this is the 20th time today that Windows has crashed on your computer and I guarantee you won't see a tech around for another month. /snip Good one, Bryan ! To supplement : At my hospital, the techies are just those McDonald's rejects. They force me to have Windows on my office PC, which is impractical for a surgeon (working with a blood pressure way up in the paint cards makes my hands tremble). So, every morning I just throw my Knoppix into the cupholder and off we go. And I still refuse to help my colleagues out when their Windows boxes turn blue, 'cause I never use the crap. Now, just to keep the techies away from my PC, whenever I leave my office I just use this screensaver (see attached picture). Kaj Haulrich. -- *sent from a 100% Microsoft-free workstation* * http://haulrich.net * *Running Linux (Mandrake 10.1) - kernel 2.6.8* attachment: screenshot.gif Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] java
hi all.ive just dwnloaded java j2re-1_4_1_01 linux i586-rpm.bin how do install it please.ive double clicked on it but nothing. -- Many Thanks To All Who Reply Best Wishes Dave Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] java
Dave Needham wrote: hi all.ive just dwnloaded java j2re-1_4_1_01 linux i586-rpm.bin how do install it please.ive double clicked on it but nothing. This may help (quoted from the readme file that helped with my own installation). Change details to match your own version no. of course. - Make the shell script executable % chmod +x j2re-1.4.2-01-linux-ARCH.bin (Replace ARCH with the architecture of your system, e.g. replace ARCH with i586 if your on an Intel system.) - Change to the directory you want to install into, e.g /usr/local % cd /usr/local - Extract the contents of the Java 2 SDK by running the shell script % ./j2re-1.4.2-01-linux-ARCH.bin (Replace ARCH with the architecture of your system, e.g. replace ARCH with i586 if your on an Intel system.) - Add j2re1.4.2/bin to PATH, e.g. if you installed into /usr/local % export PATH=/usr/local/j2re1.4.2/bin:$PATH Hope this helps. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Sagem 800e2/Mandrake 10.0 - New to linux
Hi, I'm facing a problem to connect to my DSL connection through the USB Sagem 800e2. It has been succesfully installed with the generic driver (Eagle) from Mandrake. The modem synchronises but cannot connect at all. Could be I didnt setup the connection well. So if you could guide me a bit about it. Second problem is that I cannot launch anything with WineX (which too succesfully installed as it appears in the Emulators menu). Got the WineX setup as well and writing the conf file. Still the same. Any help would be much appreciated. Thank you before hand. Regards, Christan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Connecting a Linux computer to a MS Windows network
Thanks for your replies. Paul On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 09:36:01 +0100, Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 28 January 2005 02:28, Bryan Phinney wrote: snip Luckily for me, the screensaver was up and I use a generic one so Goober didn't even know what OS I was running. I booted back over to Windows, let it update and then switched right back to Linux. After that, I told them that I had installed VMWare (for Testing purposes) and that it just looked like I had Linux installed. With the McDonald's rejects that get hired for tech support these days, I am not too concerned that I am going to get outsmarted or called on it. If you don't have the drive space, get Mandrake Move (Live CD) or one of the other varieties, put your config files on a small folder set aside for the purpose and boot directly from the CD. If someone happens to come by, simply pull the plug, and complain that this is the 20th time today that Windows has crashed on your computer and I guarantee you won't see a tech around for another month. /snip Good one, Bryan ! To supplement : At my hospital, the techies are just those McDonald's rejects. They force me to have Windows on my office PC, which is impractical for a surgeon (working with a blood pressure way up in the paint cards makes my hands tremble). So, every morning I just throw my Knoppix into the cupholder and off we go. And I still refuse to help my colleagues out when their Windows boxes turn blue, 'cause I never use the crap. Now, just to keep the techies away from my PC, whenever I leave my office I just use this screensaver (see attached picture). Kaj Haulrich. -- *sent from a 100% Microsoft-free workstation* * http://haulrich.net * *Running Linux (Mandrake 10.1) - kernel 2.6.8* Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] re sagem
hi christian i use the sagem dsl modem and have it working 100% i just added these ip addresses to the settings in control panel for my isp tiscali first dsn 214.74.112.66 scnd dns 80.225.252.178 third dns optional 80.225.252.178 let me no how you get on -- Many Thanks To All Who Reply Best Wishes Dave Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] re java
-- hi greham soory dont understand. how do i get a shell up to put comands in,need step by step please.new to linux. Many Thanks To All Who Reply Best Wishes Dave Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Removing KDE removes...everything?
On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 11:12, JoeHill wrote: On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 21:56:35 -0500 JoeHill disseminated the following: I thought to myself, 'hey, I don't use KDE, why don't I just remove it?'. Well, according to MCC, that means uninstalling most of my system, including seemingly most of Gnome and it's associated lib's as well. WTF? ...just in case anyone was confused, this *is* actually a question, not just a shot at KDE, though I have to say I'd be really annoyed to find that Mandrake had so integrated everything with KDE that I can't have a working system without it :-\ Anyone have any info on this? Well, I've done full gnome only and fvwm only installs without KDE using 10.1, so it's obviously not impossible (and then promptly used the clean system for a kde3.3 install). It's probably something shared between gnome kde like mandrake-mime-types that is screwing things up. Try rebuilding the rpm database, then delete one kde module (but several rpms) at a time, i.e. remove kdeartworks, then kdeaddons, then kdepim, then kdeutils, etc... Leave stuff kdelibs, kdebase, etc until the very last. You may have to leave some libs packages lying around, but surely even you can't begrudge a few Mb :-) John. - Forget that new hard drive, save some lives instead, donate to the Red Cross: USA: https://www.redcross.org/donate/donation-form.asp UK: https://www.donate.bt.com/bt_form_dec.htm Oz: https://www.redcross.org.au/Donations/onlineTsunamiDonations.asp NZ: https://www.banqonit.com/proxypage.aspx?boiid=205 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] re java
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 28 Jan 2005 10:25, Dave Needham wrote: -- hi greham soory dont understand. how do i get a shell up to put comands in,need step by step please.new to linux. System Terminals Konsole OTOH, you probably have a black screen on your taskbar? That will start konsole. Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFB+htBkFAvMr/nNX8RAv/fAKCRxXXvmARvxLOyUDr1xjrMGPc1pQCglabK Pv6XwomT1RXqSy55SxjhAFg= =2uTY -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] re java
Dave Needham wrote: -- hi greham soory dont understand. how do i get a shell up to put comands in,need step by step please.new to linux. Hi Dave -don't have time for detailed instructions as I have to go out. I'd probably get them wrong anyway. Assuming you are in KDE, there is a little icon of a monitor on your taskbar towards the lefthand side. klick on this and you have a shell to type commands in. You should (I think) su to root for this (type su root without the quotes and enter root password at the prompt). Good luck There are some real geniuses here who pick this up and run with it. Over to you guys. Graham Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] What is happening with XFree86.
I had a couple of questions about XFree86 and was hoping that someone could answer them. -What is happening? -Are they still open source? -Is it that they are not dealing with major distibutions anymore? From, Mike Chalmers _ Dont just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! http://search.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200636ave/direct/01/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] urpmi locked
On Wednesday 26 January 2005 12:07 pm, Paul wrote: On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 14:27, Dave Needham wrote: -- here we go again.can some one help me unlock urpmi datebase as it is locked. su ps -A kill (replace ?s with number of urpmi or whatever) is the long way, can't think of the short way at the moment in console, type top you get a page of whatever is eating the most of your mem or proc power (in top, just type a capital M or P (no need for 'enter') to change the view from what eats the most CPU cycles to what is eating the most memory. once you decide what program you want to kill, hit the 'k' and then type in the proccess number and then hit enter. hit the space bar to refresh the readings and if the program you wanted to kill does not disappear, you may have to try a k then a 9 then your process number, as kill -15 is the default in top. -- linux counter #167806 (http://counter.li.org/) website=http://ed-tharp.kicks-ass.org; Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Unified login with Windows
I use an mdk10.1 laptop to connect to a W2K Server based network at work. (I have no administrator rights to the network.) Every time I need to mount a network volume (locally via samba) or access the MS Exchange mailserver, I need to enter my domain, username and password. Is there a simple way (is there more than one, and if so, what are the advantages/disadvantages of each) to let me login to my box once in the morning and have the login info passed to the network when needed? On the network side I need access to only one domain, which never changes (although I do occasionally attach my box to a simple home home network which obviously doesn't use that domain name). My network password is forced to change every 60 days and I handle the change via a rare W2K boot/login. TIA Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] re java
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 28 Jan 2005 11:15, Graham Watkins wrote: Assuming you are in KDE, there is a little icon of a monitor on your taskbar towards the lefthand side. klick on this and you have a shell to type commands in. You should (I think) su to root for this (type su root without the quotes and enter root password at the prompt). Good luck There are some real geniuses here who pick this up and run with it. Not claiming to be one of the geniuses ;-) But - Type 'su' and you can enter root commands. To get out, back to your own shell, type 'exit'. Better, though, is to use the menu Session New Root Session. This will open in a tab and you will always know by the colour whether you are using the root session or user one. Again, 'exit' is the way to close the session. Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFB+iQEkFAvMr/nNX8RAsOqAJ48Plu5DbCQt4wDpL1N/Si7/4dwigCeJyU1 mc3qP/SK6/vdIAw864NDCDI= =tkKu -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Connecting a Linux computer to a MS Windows network
On Friday 28 January 2005 12:36 am, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Friday 28 January 2005 02:28, Bryan Phinney wrote: snip Luckily for me, the screensaver was up and I use a generic one so Goober didn't even know what OS I was running. I booted back over to Windows, let it update and then switched right back to Linux. After that, I told them that I had installed VMWare (for Testing purposes) and that it just looked like I had Linux installed. With the McDonald's rejects that get hired for tech support these days, I am not too concerned that I am going to get outsmarted or called on it. If you don't have the drive space, get Mandrake Move (Live CD) or one of the other varieties, put your config files on a small folder set aside for the purpose and boot directly from the CD. If someone happens to come by, simply pull the plug, and complain that this is the 20th time today that Windows has crashed on your computer and I guarantee you won't see a tech around for another month. /snip Good one, Bryan ! To supplement : At my hospital, the techies are just those McDonald's rejects. They force me to have Windows on my office PC, which is impractical for a surgeon (working with a blood pressure way up in the paint cards makes my hands tremble). So, every morning I just throw my Knoppix into the cupholder and off we go. And I still refuse to help my colleagues out when their Windows boxes turn blue, 'cause I never use the crap. Now, just to keep the techies away from my PC, whenever I leave my office I just use this screensaver (see attached picture). Kaj Haulrich. Sneaky.. I like it :-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Le mot maudit -- just a test
On Thursday 27 January 2005 01:43 pm, N. B. Day wrote: Just a test to see if my posts aren't getting through because of something in my sig. This one has the sig. naw,, it's just your looks -- linux counter #167806 (http://counter.li.org/) website=http://ed-tharp.kicks-ass.org; Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] re java
Dave Needham wrote: -- hi greham soory dont understand. how do i get a shell up to put comands in,need step by step please.new to linux. Hi Dave -don't have time for detailed instructions as I have to go out. I'd probably get them wrong anyway. Assuming you are in KDE, there is a little icon of a monitor on your taskbar towards the lefthand side. klick on this and you have a shell to type commands in. You should (I think) su to root for this (type su root without the quotes and enter root password at the prompt). Good luck There are some real geniuses here who can pick this up and run with it. Over to you guys. Graham Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] re sagem
Dave, Thank you for the tips but it is not working neither. My ISP is Wanadoo.mu (MU stands for Mauritius) I already have input the DSN (202.123.2.6 202.123.2.11 respectively) and still cannot connect. If someone has a tips on how to get the modem to work, would be much appreciated. Thank you before hand. Regards, Christan. On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 10:22:29 +, Dave Needham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi christian i use the sagem dsl modem and have it working 100% i just added these ip addresses to the settings in control panel for my isp tiscali first dsn 214.74.112.66 scnd dns 80.225.252.178 third dns optional 80.225.252.178 let me no how you get on -- Many Thanks To All Who Reply Best Wishes Dave Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Powershell and $TERM
Op Fri, 28 Jan 2005 02:09:39 -0500 schreef Miark: In a bash-script it would look like this: TERM=vt100 MicroEMACS # Insert proper command if this is wrong. Ah, that's good. But there are other things that need it too, such as less and god knows what else. Is there a way to export the variable permanently? Yup. If you need it for your user-id only, add this to your ~/.bash_profile: TERM=vt100 export $TERM Logout, login and it is in your environment. If you need it for everyone on your machine, add the lines to /etc/profile. Good luck! Paul -- My wife's other car is a broom. http://www.nlpagan.net/linux.php Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] What is happening with XFree86.
On Friday 28 January 2005 06:20 am, Mike Chalmers wrote: I had a couple of questions about XFree86 and was hoping that someone could answer them. -What is happening? -Are they still open source? -Is it that they are not dealing with major distibutions anymore? All I know is that it is the distributions that are not dealing with them, as opposed to the other way around. XFree86 changed it's licence to be a little more restrictive, and the GNU / open source advocates didn't like it. I'm sure if you visit their website, you can view the licence. Xorg is being maintained by former XFree programmers and then some, who were unhappy with the progress and direction of XFree. Many features such as windows transparency and DRI were actually coded, but couldn't get included in the main project for some reason. Since all that code was waiting in the wings, Xorg is going in leaps and bounds. Regards, Jarlath Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Program to search the Internet for torrents
Dear All I am looking for a program to search the Internet for torrents. Is there such a thing for Linux? Thanks in advance, Paul PS: Since I am a GMail user, please be sure that you reply to the list. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Connecting a Linux computer to a MS Windows network
--- Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 28 January 2005 02:28, Bryan Phinney wrote: snip Luckily for me, the screensaver was up and I use a generic one so Goober didn't even know what OS I was running. I booted back over to Windows, let it update and then switched right back to Linux. After that, I told them that I had installed VMWare (for Testing purposes) and that it just looked like I had Linux installed. With the McDonald's rejects that get hired for tech support these days, I am not too concerned that I am going to get outsmarted or called on it. If you don't have the drive space, get Mandrake Move (Live CD) or one of the other varieties, put your config files on a small folder set aside for the purpose and boot directly from the CD. If someone happens to come by, simply pull the plug, and complain that this is the 20th time today that Windows has crashed on your computer and I guarantee you won't see a tech around for another month. /snip Good one, Bryan ! To supplement : At my hospital, the techies are just those McDonald's rejects. They force me to have Windows on my office PC, which is impractical for a surgeon (working with a blood pressure way up in the paint cards makes my hands tremble). So, every morning I just throw my Knoppix into the cupholder and off we go. And I still refuse to help my colleagues out when their Windows boxes turn blue, 'cause I never use the crap. Now, just to keep the techies away from my PC, whenever I leave my office I just use this screensaver (see attached picture). Kaj Haulrich. Love it. Classic! If they by any chance reboot, the Knoppix is gone, anyway. Pretty slick. LX __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: Powershell and $TERM
Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When I try to run MicroEMACS in Powershell, I get Environment variable TERM not defined! So if I TERM=vt100 and then export TERM all is well. Unless I close and open it again, that is. How do I make this change permanent without affecting other working term emulators which I still use regularly? Miark Does Powershell have a .rc file? For instance, bash has .bashrc, where one may place initialization commands to be run whenever a shell start. Dave Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Powershell and $TERM
On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 16:36:17 +0100, Paul wrote: Ah, that's good. But there are other things that need it too, such as less and god knows what else. Is there a way to export the variable permanently? Yup. If you need it for your user-id only, add this to your ~/.bash_profile: TERM=vt100 export $TERM Logout, login and it is in your environment. If you need it for everyone on your machine, add the lines to /etc/profile. Hmm, that looks like it should work, but for some reason, it doesn't. Odd. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Powershell and $TERM
On 28 Jan 2005 12:23:38 -0500, J. wrote: Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When I try to run MicroEMACS in Powershell, I get Environment variable TERM not defined! So if I TERM=vt100 and then export TERM all is well. Unless I close and open it again, that is. How do I make this change permanent without affecting other working term emulators which I still use regularly? Miark Does Powershell have a .rc file? It does, but I've gone through the docs and it doesn't have the ability to set variables--at least not that I could see. It only sets built in preferences. Well, for the time being, I'm going to have to give up and just use konsole instead. It's slow to open, but it's my term em of choice, so I can't complain. I still love XFCE 4.2, even if I can't use Powershell. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Powershell and $TERM
Op Fri, 28 Jan 2005 17:02:41 -0500 schreef Miark: TERM=vt100 export $TERM Logout, login and it is in your environment. If you need it for everyone on your machine, add the lines to /etc/profile. Hmm, that looks like it should work, but for some reason, it doesn't. Odd. Whoops... I see I made a slight typo. The export command does not need the $ in front of the variable. So, perhaps you could try this with export TERM and see if that works. Sorry about that! Paul -- My wife's other car is a broom. http://www.nlpagan.net/linux.php Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Archives
I realize that this has been asked before but can someone give me the add for the newbie archives please. Thanks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Powershell and $TERM
Miark wrote: On 28 Jan 2005 12:23:38 -0500, J. wrote: Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When I try to run MicroEMACS in Powershell, I get Environment variable TERM not defined! So if I TERM=vt100 and then export TERM all is well. Unless I close and open it again, that is. How do I make this change permanent without affecting other working term emulators which I still use regularly? Miark Does Powershell have a .rc file? It does, but I've gone through the docs and it doesn't have the ability to set variables--at least not that I could see. It only sets built in preferences. Well, for the time being, I'm going to have to give up and just use konsole instead. It's slow to open, but it's my term em of choice, so I can't complain. I still love XFCE 4.2, even if I can't use Powershell. Miark Does Powershell set TERM to any value? If it sets it to a terminal type that isn't defined, there is hope... If TERM isn't defined, you may be able to add something to .bashrc - something like (untested) if [ ! $TERM ] ; then export TERM=xterm ; fi Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Archives
On Saturday 29 January 2005 00:09, Noel McG. wrote: I realize that this has been asked before but can someone give me the add for the newbie archives please. Thanks. http://www.mail-archive.com/newbie@linux-mandrake.com/maillist.html Kaj Haulrich. -- *sent from a 100% Microsoft-free workstation* * http://haulrich.net * *Running Linux (Mandrake 10.1) - kernel 2.6.8* Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Archives
Noel McG. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I realize that this has been asked before but can someone give me the add for the newbie archives please. Thanks. The Community twiki has many .. http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MailingLists#Mailing_List_Archives HTH .. -- RickS Registered Linux user #338463 Mdk 10.1 OE - Linux 2.6.8.1-12mdk@ http://counter.li.org gpg --recv-keys --keyserver www.keyserver.net 0x24AABE61 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Powershell and $TERM
On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 23:17:58 +0100, Paul wrote: Op Fri, 28 Jan 2005 17:02:41 -0500 schreef Miark: TERM=vt100 export $TERM Logout, login and it is in your environment. If you need it for everyone on your machine, add the lines to /etc/profile. Hmm, that looks like it should work, but for some reason, it doesn't. Odd. Whoops... I see I made a slight typo. The export command does not need the $ in front of the variable. So, perhaps you could try this with export TERM and see if that works. Sorry about that! Ya, tried that too. No go! :-( Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Powershell and $TERM -- SUCCESS!
On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 17:17:57 -0600, Mikkel wrote: Miark wrote: Does Powershell set TERM to any value? If it sets it to a terminal type that isn't defined, there is hope... If TERM isn't defined, you may be able to add something to .bashrc - something like (untested) if [ ! $TERM ] ; then export TERM=xterm ; fi An echo $TERM replied dumb so I thought it did define one, but I tried your trick in .bashrc and voila! It works!! Thanks a bunch! Thanks to Paul, too, for the different ideas. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Powershell and $TERM -- SPOKE TOO SOON
On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 21:25:14 -0500, Miark wrote: On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 17:17:57 -0600, Mikkel wrote: Miark wrote: Does Powershell set TERM to any value? If it sets it to a terminal type that isn't defined, there is hope... If TERM isn't defined, you may be able to add something to .bashrc - something like (untested) if [ ! $TERM ] ; then export TERM=xterm ; fi An echo $TERM replied dumb so I thought it did define one, but I tried your trick in .bashrc and voila! It works!! Okay, false alarm. During my test, I opened powershell _from_ konsole, so it worked because konsole exported TERM. When I opened powershell from the XFCE launch bar directly, it failed. So I'm back to square one. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Thunderbird problem
I still have Thunderbird on my system, but when I tried to access new mail screen opened with dialog to set up an account. Somehow I lost the existing account I had been using for a few days and all folders and addresses. Is the problem with my ISP or in/on my 10.1 system? I'll try Evolution, Thanks for your help, Andy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Evolution fails to install
Trying to install Evloution, unable to install: Due to unsatisfied libgnutls.so.11 Is there something I can do to solve this? Thanks, Andy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Powershell and $TERM -- SPOKE TOO SOON
On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 21:29:44 -0500 Miark wrote: When I opened powershell from the XFCE launch bar directly, Try using this as the command in the Xfce entry powershell TERM=vt100 export TERM Charles -- : - cut in regexps I don't think we reached consensus on that. We're still backtracking... -- Larry Wall in [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Mandrake Linux 10.2 on PurpleDragon 2.6.10-1mdkenterprise http://www.eslrahc.com - pgp1VNSAFBUXn.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] Re: Powershell and $TERM -- SPOKE TOO SOON
On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 22:23:46 -0500, Charles wrote: When I opened powershell from the XFCE launch bar directly, Try using this as the command in the Xfce entry powershell TERM=vt100 export TERM Promising, but no. :-/ Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Powershell and $TERM -- SPOKE TOO SOON
Miark wrote: On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 21:25:14 -0500, Miark wrote: On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 17:17:57 -0600, Mikkel wrote: Miark wrote: Does Powershell set TERM to any value? If it sets it to a terminal type that isn't defined, there is hope... If TERM isn't defined, you may be able to add something to .bashrc - something like (untested) if [ ! $TERM ] ; then export TERM=xterm ; fi An echo $TERM replied dumb so I thought it did define one, but I tried your trick in .bashrc and voila! It works!! Okay, false alarm. During my test, I opened powershell _from_ konsole, so it worked because konsole exported TERM. When I opened powershell from the XFCE launch bar directly, it failed. So I'm back to square one. Miark Well, that is easy to fix. Change it to: if [ $TERM = dumb ] ; then export TERM=xterm ; fi One thing to keep in mind - if Powerterm is setting TERM to dumb, then it probably does not support some of the terminal functions of xterm. So some programs may not work correctly. There really is a terminal definition called dumb, with its own description of terminal capabilities. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Evolution fails to install
On Friday 28 January 2005 09:11 pm, Andy Yankovich wrote: Trying to install Evloution, unable to install: Due to unsatisfied libgnutls.so.11 Is there something I can do to solve this? Thanks, Andy If you go here : http://rpmfind.net/ type in the libgnutls.so.11 and then click search it will bring up the main lib file that that piece is in. Chances are it is on your disks but you can also urpmi that lib. I find this a good way to discover where .so. files live. Maybe someone has a better method? HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Powershell and $TERM -- REALLY SOLVED!
Well, that is easy to fix. Change it to: if [ $TERM = dumb ] ; then export TERM=xterm ; fi _THAT_ did it!! Hurray! One thing to keep in mind - if Powerterm is setting TERM to dumb, then it probably does not support some of the terminal functions of xterm. So some programs may not work correctly. There really is a terminal definition called dumb, with its own description of terminal capabilities. At this point I only really care about less, clear, and MicroEMACS, and they all seem to work fine so far, so I'm happy as a proverbial pig. Thanks much! Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Powershell and $TERM -- SPOKE TOO SOON
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Miark wrote: On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 21:25:14 -0500, Miark wrote: On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 17:17:57 -0600, Mikkel wrote: Miark wrote: Does Powershell set TERM to any value? If it sets it to a terminal type that isn't defined, there is hope... If TERM isn't defined, you may be able to add something to .bashrc - something like (untested) if [ ! $TERM ] ; then export TERM=xterm ; fi An echo $TERM replied dumb so I thought it did define one, but I tried your trick in .bashrc and voila! It works!! Okay, false alarm. During my test, I opened powershell _from_ konsole, so it worked because konsole exported TERM. When I opened powershell from the XFCE launch bar directly, it failed. So I'm back to square one. Miark Well, that is easy to fix. Change it to: if [ $TERM = dumb ] ; then export TERM=xterm ; fi One thing to keep in mind - if Powerterm is setting TERM to dumb, then it probably does not support some of the terminal functions of xterm. So some programs may not work correctly. There really is a terminal definition called dumb, with its own description of terminal capabilities. On looking at this, I realized that I didn't explain what the first and second versions do. I usually try to explain when I post on the newbie list... On the first version, the [ ! $TERM ] test checks to see if the variable $TERM has a value. the ! before $TERM basicly inverts the test, so you execute the commands if $TERM in not set. So if $TERM=xterm, $TERM=dumb, , or $TERM is set to anything else, you do not change it. On the new version, [ $TERM=dumb ] says check if $TERM is set to dumb, and if it is, change it to xterm. The export TERM=xterm does two things in one command. It sets $TERM to xterm, and exports it so that the value stays set after .bashrc is run. If you do not export the value, then it is lost as soon as the script exits. One other point - this will only work if you are using bash as your shell. This is the default on MDK, but you can change it. If you do, then .bashrc is no longer run when you open a terminal window... Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Archives
Thanks. - Original Message - From: Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Sent: Friday, January 28, 2005 11:23 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Archives On Saturday 29 January 2005 00:09, Noel McG. wrote: I realize that this has been asked before but can someone give me the add for the newbie archives please. Thanks. http://www.mail-archive.com/newbie@linux-mandrake.com/maillist.html Kaj Haulrich. -- *sent from a 100% Microsoft-free workstation* * http://haulrich.net * *Running Linux (Mandrake 10.1) - kernel 2.6.8* Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
