[newbie] Getting packages...
Hi, I have a system running Mandrake 10.1. I tried installing samba 3.0.11 on the system, but it failed as follows: # urpmi samba samba-3.0.11-1.i386.rpm Some package requested cannot be installed: samba-3.0.11-1.i386 (due to unsatisfied liblber-2.2.so.7) Can anyone tell me how and from where I could liblber-2.2.so.7 package via urpmi? Thanks, Madhu Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] USB card reader problem
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: SnapafunFrank wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Frank suggested I install explore2fs and post the fstab file. Here it is /dev/hda5 / ext3 defaults 1 1 /dev/hda9 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda6 /mnt ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec,users 0 0 none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-15,sync,codepage=850 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows ntfs umask=0,nls=iso8859-15,ro 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda7 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/hda8 swap swap defaults 0 0 Regards Rosemary This is strange. You are mounting hda6 on /mnt, and then the CD-ROM is mounting on /mnt/cdrom. It is not normal proactice to mount anyting on /mnt, as you normaly have mount points for removable devices in this directory. In your case, your CD-ROM is mounted there, as well as your Windows partition. I would have to look into things a lot deeper, to see exactly what order things would get mounted, but I can picture all kinds of strange things going on here. If the Windows partition gets mounted before hda6, then you are probably going to lose access to it. I am not sure what is going to happen with the CD-ROM, but I would not be susprised if it failed to mount if there is not a cdrom directory in the base directory on hda6. What you may want to try is to boot the install CD in the rescue mode, drop to the console, and run: mount /dev/hda5 /mnt cd /mnt/etc mv fstab fstab.save grep -v hda6 fstab.save fstab cd umount /mnt reboot What you are doing is to mount your root partition, and change to what is normaly the /etc direcroty. You are then renaming fstab to fstab.save. The grep command is cheating a new fstab without the hda6 line in it. If you are more comfortable using vi instead of messing around with grep, and renaming files, use this instead. mount /dev/hda5 /mnt cd /mnt/etc cp fstab fstab.save vi fstab move down to line starting /dev/hda6 Enter i#Esc Enter :wq cd / umount /mnt eboot For the vi commands, do not enter the , and the Esc is the Esc key. Use the down arrow key to move down the hage. What you are doing is putting the # at the start of the line to comment it out. You do not realy need to make a backup copy of fstab, but I like to play it safe. Now, I don't know if this will fix the problem you are having, and we will have to discover what is going on with hda6, and where it should be mounted. But it is one problem that I do see, so fixing it should not hurt. (If it is susposed to be mounted of /usr, then we have to get it mounted correctly before the will boot correctly!) Mikkel OK Mikkel, I did not see it that way and submit that you know more about this than I but I'm not clear about this and wonder if Rosemary will be able to follow the logic you mention. First, I agree that hda6 as the /mnt directory is out of place, and wonder why the /mnt directory even has it's own partition. The directories inside my /mnt directory are afterall only to allow linking to partitions and/or devices. Hence my windows partition would be something like /dev/hdb1 /mnt/win with win being the partition and not mnt . I now see even more issues and can understand your concern so would ask how we could get the result printf from her windows side that would give us the same result we can get when we issue: # df when within our running system. eg: mine looks like this ~ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mnt]# df FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda5 966M 711M 206M 78% / /dev/hda1 966M 14M 903M 2% /boot /dev/hda6 9.4G 5.1G 4.0G 57% /usr /dev/hda8 9.4G 8.7G 730M 93% /home /dev/hda91020M 303M 666M 32% /var /dev/hda3 12G 1.3G 9.5G 13% /mnt/empty /dev/hda4 3.4G 2.7G 713M 80% /mnt/win_h /dev/hdb2 16M 2.3M 13M 16% /mnt/hdb2_boot /dev/hdb5 92M 55M 33M 63% /mnt/hdb5_root /dev/hdb6 92M 62M 25M 72% /mnt/hdb6_var /dev/hdb7 3.1G 1.9G 1.1G 64% /mnt/hdb7_usr /dev/hdb9 1.5G 1.4G 151M 91% /mnt/hdb9_home /dev/hdb1 14G 13G 1.2G 92% /mnt/win_c2 From this printf we would be able to determine the correct layout for /etc/fstab for her hard drive, and I agree, before she gets to cdrom, floppies, etc. [ An alternative is to get her up with the rescue option as you described above and take her step by step through the commands she needs to get us the relevant info. ~ your thoughts ? ] But I reiterate ~ /mnt should not be a partition on it's own ? Your thoughts here also please. Thinking back on some other posts of hers, I think it should be /data instead of /mnt. I am not sure how to explain about what would be going on here - it is not a newbie topic, as the logic is a bit hard to follow. The things is, you can
Re: [newbie] USB card reader problem
SnapafunFrank wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Frank suggested I install explore2fs and post the fstab file. Here it is /dev/hda5 / ext3 defaults 1 1 /dev/hda9 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda6 /mnt ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec,users 0 0 none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-15,sync,codepage=850 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows ntfs umask=0,nls=iso8859-15,ro 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda7 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/hda8 swap swap defaults 0 0 Regards Rosemary This is strange. You are mounting hda6 on /mnt, and then the CD-ROM is mounting on /mnt/cdrom. It is not normal proactice to mount anyting on /mnt, as you normaly have mount points for removable devices in this directory. In your case, your CD-ROM is mounted there, as well as your Windows partition. I would have to look into things a lot deeper, to see exactly what order things would get mounted, but I can picture all kinds of strange things going on here. If the Windows partition gets mounted before hda6, then you are probably going to lose access to it. I am not sure what is going to happen with the CD-ROM, but I would not be susprised if it failed to mount if there is not a cdrom directory in the base directory on hda6. What you may want to try is to boot the install CD in the rescue mode, drop to the console, and run: mount /dev/hda5 /mnt cd /mnt/etc mv fstab fstab.save grep -v hda6 fstab.save fstab cd umount /mnt reboot What you are doing is to mount your root partition, and change to what is normaly the /etc direcroty. You are then renaming fstab to fstab.save. The grep command is cheating a new fstab without the hda6 line in it. If you are more comfortable using vi instead of messing around with grep, and renaming files, use this instead. mount /dev/hda5 /mnt cd /mnt/etc cp fstab fstab.save vi fstab move down to line starting /dev/hda6 Enter i#Esc Enter :wq cd / umount /mnt eboot For the vi commands, do not enter the , and the Esc is the Esc key. Use the down arrow key to move down the hage. What you are doing is putting the # at the start of the line to comment it out. You do not realy need to make a backup copy of fstab, but I like to play it safe. Now, I don't know if this will fix the problem you are having, and we will have to discover what is going on with hda6, and where it should be mounted. But it is one problem that I do see, so fixing it should not hurt. (If it is susposed to be mounted of /usr, then we have to get it mounted correctly before the will boot correctly!) Mikkel OK Mikkel, I did not see it that way and submit that you know more about this than I but I'm not clear about this and wonder if Rosemary will be able to follow the logic you mention. And Rosemary is wondering about it too! :-) Not doing anything until I am off nights and recovered, and can think straight. Also see my other post re other possibilities of error ... First, I agree that hda6 as the /mnt directory is out of place, and wonder why the /mnt directory even has it's own partition. The directories inside my /mnt directory are afterall only to allow linking to partitions and/or devices. Hence my windows partition would be something like /dev/hdb1 /mnt/win with win being the partition and not mnt . I now see even more issues and can understand your concern so would ask how we could get the result printf from her windows side that would give us the same result we can get when we issue: # df when within our running system. eg: mine looks like this ~ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mnt]# df FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda5 966M 711M 206M 78% / /dev/hda1 966M 14M 903M 2% /boot /dev/hda6 9.4G 5.1G 4.0G 57% /usr /dev/hda8 9.4G 8.7G 730M 93% /home /dev/hda91020M 303M 666M 32% /var /dev/hda3 12G 1.3G 9.5G 13% /mnt/empty /dev/hda4 3.4G 2.7G 713M 80% /mnt/win_h /dev/hdb2 16M 2.3M 13M 16% /mnt/hdb2_boot /dev/hdb5 92M 55M 33M 63% /mnt/hdb5_root /dev/hdb6 92M 62M 25M 72% /mnt/hdb6_var /dev/hdb7 3.1G 1.9G 1.1G 64% /mnt/hdb7_usr /dev/hdb9 1.5G 1.4G 151M 91% /mnt/hdb9_home /dev/hdb1 14G 13G 1.2G 92% /mnt/win_c2 From this printf we would be able to determine the correct layout for /etc/fstab for her hard drive, and I agree, before she gets to cdrom, floppies, etc. [ An alternative is to get her up with the rescue option as you described above and take her step by step through the commands she needs to get us the relevant info. ~ your thoughts ? ] But I reiterate ~ /mnt should not be a partition on it's own ? Your thoughts here also please.
Re: [newbie] Getting packages...
On Thursday 24 March 2005 08:52, Madhusudan, R wrote: Hi, I have a system running Mandrake 10.1. I tried installing samba 3.0.11 on the system, but it failed as follows: # urpmi samba samba-3.0.11-1.i386.rpm Some package requested cannot be installed: samba-3.0.11-1.i386 (due to unsatisfied liblber-2.2.so.7) Can anyone tell me how and from where I could liblber-2.2.so.7 package via urpmi? Thanks, Madhu The latest version of Samba on the 10.1 update servers is samba-server-3.0.10.-0.1.101mdk You are trying to install what looks like a RedHat package. Is there a particular reason why you *have* to have 3.0.11 ? If you really must have samba-3.0.11 then you can get it in two ways. You can either upgrade your system to current 'Cooker' (probably not a good idea if this is a 'production' machine), or you can recompile the samba-3.0.11 src.rpm from Cooker for 10.1 You can get the src RPM from here ftp://ftp.rediris.es/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake-devel/cooker/SRPMS/main and instructions for compiling a src rpm from here http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-newbiem=110751580509076w=2 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
Re: [newbie] Getting packages...
On Thursday 24 March 2005 10:52 am, Madhusudan, R wrote: Hi, I have a system running Mandrake 10.1. I tried installing samba 3.0.11 on the system, but it failed as follows: # urpmi samba samba-3.0.11-1.i386.rpm Some package requested cannot be installed: samba-3.0.11-1.i386 (due to unsatisfied liblber-2.2.so.7) Can anyone tell me how and from where I could liblber-2.2.so.7 package via urpmi? Thanks, Madhu liblber-2.2.so.7 can be for OpenLDAP libraries you can download it from http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/1712461/com/libldap2.2_7-2.2.23-3mdk.i586.rpm.html and also you can search for valuable rpms at http://rpm.pbone.net/ or http://www.rpmfind.net/ -- Best Regards Mohammed Badran -- Linux user #383467 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] USB card reader problem
Thought I'de better add this - Lilo options - linux, linux-nonf b, windows, 2681 -12, failsafe. 2681-12 is what gets me into Mandrake 10.1, or did. Rosemary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] Getting packages...
Hello Derek, Could you please point me to the update server from where I could pull down the samba kit? Thanks, Madhu -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Derek Jennings Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2005 3:05 PM To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Subject: Re: [newbie] Getting packages... On Thursday 24 March 2005 08:52, Madhusudan, R wrote: Hi, I have a system running Mandrake 10.1. I tried installing samba 3.0.11 on the system, but it failed as follows: # urpmi samba samba-3.0.11-1.i386.rpm Some package requested cannot be installed: samba-3.0.11-1.i386 (due to unsatisfied liblber-2.2.so.7) Can anyone tell me how and from where I could liblber-2.2.so.7 package via urpmi? Thanks, Madhu The latest version of Samba on the 10.1 update servers is samba-server-3.0.10.-0.1.101mdk You are trying to install what looks like a RedHat package. Is there a particular reason why you *have* to have 3.0.11 ? If you really must have samba-3.0.11 then you can get it in two ways. You can either upgrade your system to current 'Cooker' (probably not a good idea if this is a 'production' machine), or you can recompile the samba-3.0.11 src.rpm from Cooker for 10.1 You can get the src RPM from here ftp://ftp.rediris.es/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake-devel/cooker/SRPMS /main and instructions for compiling a src rpm from here http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-newbiem=110751580509076w=2 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
Re: [newbie] Getting packages...
On Thursday 24 March 2005 09:51, Madhusudan, R wrote: Hello Derek, Could you please point me to the update server from where I could pull down the samba kit? Thanks, Madhu SNIP It is on all the update servers. All you have to do is define an update urpmi source and then run the Software Install GUI to install samba if it is not already installed, or the Software Update GUI if it is already installed. If you do not have an update source defined yet go to http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ and follow the instructions to select one. (Tip: In linux copy/paste is highlight/press mouse wheel ) While you are there define sources for 'contrib' and 'plf' and you will have access to 100's of extra packages not on your CDs 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
RE: [newbie] Getting packages...
Hello, I downloaded the samba source RPM, and when I tried to install it on my system, it resulted in an error: # rpm -i samba-3.0.11-4mdk.src.rpm error: samba-3.0.11-4mdk.src.rpm: V3 DSA signature: BAD, key ID 26752624 error: samba-3.0.11-4mdk.src.rpm cannot be installed What am I doing wrong? Thanks, Madhu -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Derek Jennings Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2005 3:05 PM To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Subject: Re: [newbie] Getting packages... On Thursday 24 March 2005 08:52, Madhusudan, R wrote: Hi, I have a system running Mandrake 10.1. I tried installing samba 3.0.11 on the system, but it failed as follows: # urpmi samba samba-3.0.11-1.i386.rpm Some package requested cannot be installed: samba-3.0.11-1.i386 (due to unsatisfied liblber-2.2.so.7) Can anyone tell me how and from where I could liblber-2.2.so.7 package via urpmi? Thanks, Madhu The latest version of Samba on the 10.1 update servers is samba-server-3.0.10.-0.1.101mdk You are trying to install what looks like a RedHat package. Is there a particular reason why you *have* to have 3.0.11 ? If you really must have samba-3.0.11 then you can get it in two ways. You can either upgrade your system to current 'Cooker' (probably not a good idea if this is a 'production' machine), or you can recompile the samba-3.0.11 src.rpm from Cooker for 10.1 You can get the src RPM from here ftp://ftp.rediris.es/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake-devel/cooker/SRPMS /main and instructions for compiling a src rpm from here http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-newbiem=110751580509076w=2 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
Re: [newbie] Which Kernel For 10.1 ?
Pete Moscatt wrote: Thanks Mr Geek (I like the name...), Pete Nice of you to notice. I got fed up with being called a 'Geek' all the time, so I decided to add the 'Mr' in the hopes it might make people respect me more. Unfortunately, it hasn't helped much, but at least it brings a smile to a few faces now and then! Sigh. Besides, it's like they say,when you're this old, they call you Mister! Grin! -- Mr. Geek Registered Linux User #190712 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Getting packages...
On Thursday 24 March 2005 11:00, Madhusudan, R wrote: Hello, I downloaded the samba source RPM, and when I tried to install it on my system, it resulted in an error: # rpm -i samba-3.0.11-4mdk.src.rpm error: samba-3.0.11-4mdk.src.rpm: V3 DSA signature: BAD, key ID 26752624 error: samba-3.0.11-4mdk.src.rpm cannot be installed What am I doing wrong? Thanks, Madhu First you should be installing as a user not root. Second you must have the directory structure defined in your /home as described in that link I gave you. Do not worry about the bad signature. That just means you do not have the Cooker GPG signature on your keyring. 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
Re: [newbie] Getting packages...
On Thursday 24 March 2005 07:38 am, Derek Jennings wrote: First you should be installing as a user not root. Derek, I'm confused about this - no normal user on any of my systems has the right to install or delete (system) software - this is a root privilege, (rpm group?), from my understanding. Of course they can install and delete in their own /home directory. Did I miss something? Thanks. -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] Getting packages...
Hi, Second you must have the directory structure defined in your /home as described in that link I gave you. Sorry, but I didn't quite get this. Thanks, Madhu -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Derek Jennings Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2005 6:08 PM To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Subject: Re: [newbie] Getting packages... On Thursday 24 March 2005 11:00, Madhusudan, R wrote: Hello, I downloaded the samba source RPM, and when I tried to install it on my system, it resulted in an error: # rpm -i samba-3.0.11-4mdk.src.rpm error: samba-3.0.11-4mdk.src.rpm: V3 DSA signature: BAD, key ID 26752624 error: samba-3.0.11-4mdk.src.rpm cannot be installed What am I doing wrong? Thanks, Madhu First you should be installing as a user not root. Second you must have the directory structure defined in your /home as described in that link I gave you. Do not worry about the bad signature. That just means you do not have the Cooker GPG signature on your keyring. 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
Re: [newbie] K Mail question
On Wednesday 23 March 2005 23:35, Aron Smith wrote: k Mail is opening ok but when you shut it down there is a pop under that tells you KDEInit could not launch kontact-kmail.sh OK so whats wrong? You open Kmail by opening Kmail. You did not open Kmail by opening Kcontact first. If you do not want the error message open Kcontact and that will take you directly to Kmail Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] MP3 player half capacity
Hello, I have a small mp3 player with 254 mb storage. But I can only use half of it 124 mb. I checked for hydden files or so but with no success. I tried to format the device but also no changes. Did some one have the same problem? Thanks Christophe -- Rhein Christophe Ankara - Turquie [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ou [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Message envoyé depuis un portable tournant à 100 % sous linux Mandrake 10.1 et des logiciels libres. Compteur linux #383434 (http://counter.li.org/) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] win4lin
Hello, Since I can not watch dvds on my laptop ( and I tried...) and I need Asymetrix Toolbook to create educational material. How can I install win 98 ( I have the cd for it) on my machine who is completely dedicated to MDK 10.1 community. I saw a win4lin kernel, what is the purpose of it? Is it easy to install windows under MDK when you have one 60 GB HD on a acer Aspire 1680 notebook? I'm sorry to do that but I have to work too :-D ...from time to time! Thank you Christophe -- Rhein Christophe Ankara - Turquie [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ou [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Message envoyé depuis un portable tournant à 100 % sous linux Mandrake 10.1 et des logiciels libres. Compteur linux #383434 (http://counter.li.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] MP3 player half capacity
On Thursday 24 March 2005 06:23 am, Christophe wrote: Hello, I have a small mp3 player with 254 mb storage. But I can only use half of it 124 mb. I checked for hydden files or so but with no success. I tried to format the device but also no changes. Did some one have the same problem? Thanks Christophe I have had this problem A lot of the DRMed players wind upkeeping a copy of whatever you put into them in the base memory strangely the MMC cards can be used to full capacity Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] win4lin
On Thursday 24 Mar 2005 14:32, Christophe wrote: Hello, Since I can not watch dvds on my laptop ( and I tried...) It certainly can be done. Of course it depends whether you have the time to troubleshoot your problem. and I need Asymetrix Toolbook to create educational material. I don't know the program, so I don't know whether it can be run under wine (free). Win4Lin will definitely run it if it runs under Win98. Check out netraverse.com for more details. You need the 5.1 version. How can I install win 98 ( I have the cd for it) on my machine who is completely dedicated to MDK 10.1 community. I saw a win4lin kernel, what is the purpose of it? Is it easy to install windows under MDK when you have one 60 GB HD on a acer Aspire 1680 notebook? I'm about to do an install on my desktop machine. The only problem I see is in matching the kernel you are running. Downloading the Win4Lin installer will check whether your kernel is one that they directly support. If it isn't you will have to look at other possibilities (that's what I have to do today). Once you are over that hurdle, installing the windows distro is easy. Configuration is easy enough if you read the docs. It certainly makes life easier if you have apps you need - but it is not free, although I don't think it's extortionate, considering what software for windows normally costs. I'm sorry to do that but I have to work too :-D ...from time to time! No apology necessary - and I certainly know the feeling :-) Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels pgpmajh6pM0dd.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] Getting packages...
On Thursday 24 March 2005 12:51, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Thursday 24 March 2005 07:38 am, Derek Jennings wrote: First you should be installing as a user not root. Derek, I'm confused about this - no normal user on any of my systems has the right to install or delete (system) software - this is a root privilege, (rpm group?), from my understanding. Of course they can install and delete in their own /home directory. Did I miss something? Thanks. This is a src.rpm installing it simply puts the source tarball in ~/rpm/SOURCES and the .spec file in ~/rpm/SPECS where they can be compiled with an rpmbuild command (also as user). Once compiled a binary rpm package appears in ~/rpm/RPMS/i586 which then has to be installed as root. 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
Re: [newbie] MP3 player half capacity
Aron Smith wrote: On Thursday 24 March 2005 06:23 am, Christophe wrote: Hello, I have a small mp3 player with 254 mb storage. But I can only use half of it 124 mb. I checked for hydden files or so but with no success. I tried to format the device but also no changes. Did some one have the same problem? Thanks Christophe I have had this problem A lot of the DRMed players wind upkeeping a copy of whatever you put into them in the base memory strangely the MMC cards can be used to full capacity Sorry but I don't understand what you try to tell me. Thanks Christophe -- Rhein Christophe Ankara - Turquie [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ou [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Message envoyé depuis un portable tournant à 100 % sous linux Mandrake 10.1 et des logiciels libres. Compteur linux #383434 (http://counter.li.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] Getting packages...
On Thursday 24 March 2005 13:04, Madhusudan, R wrote: Hi, Second you must have the directory structure defined in your /home as described in that link I gave you. Sorry, but I didn't quite get this. Thanks, Madhu I gave you the link http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-newbiem=110751580509076w=2 That tells you to create these directories in your /home (~ is shorthand for your home directory) ~/rpm ~/rpm/BUILD ~/rpm/SPECS ~/rpm/SOURCES ~/rpm/RPMS ~/rpm/RPMS/i586 ~/rpm/RPMS/noarch ~/rpm/RPMS/i386 ~/rpm/RPMS/i686 ~/rpm/RPMS/athlon ~/rpm/SRPMS ~/rpm/tmp When you install the src.rpm (as a user) it will unpack the source code into ~/rpm/SOURCES After compiling the src.rpm (with 'rpmbuild -bb samba.spec'), a compiled rpm will appear in ~/rpm/RPMS/i586 If those directories do not exist installing the src.rpm will fail. 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
Re: [newbie] Getting packages...
On Thursday 24 March 2005 10:12 am, Derek Jennings wrote: This is a src.rpm installing it simply puts the source tarball in ~/rpm/SOURCES and the .spec file in ~/rpm/SPECS where they can be compiled with an rpmbuild command (also as user). Once compiled a binary rpm package appears in ~/rpm/RPMS/i586 which then has to be installed as root. derek Ah, that explains it. Thanks! :-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] K Mail question
On Thursday 24 March 2005 20:29, SOTL wrote: On Wednesday 23 March 2005 23:35, Aron Smith wrote: k Mail is opening ok but when you shut it down there is a pop under that tells you KDEInit could not launch kontact-kmail.sh OK so whats wrong? You open Kmail by opening Kmail. You did not open Kmail by opening Kcontact first. If you do not want the error message open Kcontact and that will take you directly to Kmail Oh wow! I've been googling for this error all my life. Thanks you very much SOTL. -- Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | http://linux2.arinet.org 23:13:40 up 53 min, Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Official) for i586 public key: https://www.arinet.org/fajar-pub.key Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Getting packages...
On Thursday 24 March 2005 23:15, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Thursday 24 March 2005 10:12 am, Derek Jennings wrote: This is a src.rpm installing it simply puts the source tarball in ~/rpm/SOURCES and the .spec file in ~/rpm/SPECS where they can be compiled with an rpmbuild command (also as user). Once compiled a binary rpm package appears in ~/rpm/RPMS/i586 which then has to be installed as root. derek Ah, that explains it. Thanks! :-) Or if we use root, the rebuild command will put the rpm file directly in /usr/src/RPMS/i586 etc -- Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | http://linux2.arinet.org 23:17:35 up 57 min, Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Official) for i586 public key: https://www.arinet.org/fajar-pub.key Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] MySQL File Location
SOTL wrote: Well I change the datadir in mysql-max and I have generated numerous versions of my.cnf directing MySQL to my desired directory each change causing MySQL refused to run. So I keep playing around with mysql-max and found that there is a second place where the config file does a test of the datadir so I changed that. At that point MySQL would open and did switch data directories. Continued to play with MySQL, making and deleting DB et. i.e. all the things a newbie does with a book and a new program. Then, I shut the box down for the night and went home. It is after all only a test box at this time but it is damn noise so to keep the piece down it goes. Anyway, firing it up the next afternoon I was amassed to discover that MySQL would not open with the same old error message that it could not find the data directory. I the reset the data directory to the original settings and MySQL again started working. So, there are at least 3 places that you MUST change the data directory at in configuration files in order to change the data directory. Best best is to do it by symbolic link as no newbie is going to figure out how to do it in configuration files. My only comment: How quaint, how 1950s that there exist programs in which one can not select the data directory. Frank PS. Thanks for the help. It is definitely appreciated. Frank, One thing to keep in mind, when changing things in the file in /etc/rc.d/init.d - You have to stop and restart MySQL before they take effect. The values in the script are only read at startup. You should probably learn about the service command. If you are using mysql, then you would run service mysql start to start it, service mysql stop to stop it, and service mysql restart to test your changes. If you use mysql-max, then use that in mlace of mysql in the service command. You may also be having a problem because on not understanding how the script works. Not every instruction in the script get run. It does tests, and if a value is set, then it skips part of the code. This is why you see references to /etc/my.cnf in the script, even though creating or changing this file has no affect on MySQL. This is because that part of the script does not get accessed on a Mandrake box. So you will want to be carefull aboout changing things in the script. The values that you would want to change are always at the beginning of the line, and normaly have a comment block before them. 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] MP3 player half capacity
On Thursday 24 March 2005 07:39 am, Christophe wrote: Aron Smith wrote: On Thursday 24 March 2005 06:23 am, Christophe wrote: Hello, I have a small mp3 player with 254 mb storage. But I can only use half of it 124 mb. I checked for hydden files or so but with no success. I tried to format the device but also no changes. Did some one have the same problem? Thanks Christophe I have had this problem A lot of the DRMed players wind upkeeping a copy of whatever you put into them in the base memory strangely the MMC cards can be used to full capacity Sorry but I don't understand what you try to tell me. Thanks Christophe The last two players that I had had a hidden directory on them where the Win$ux Digital Rights Managment software was located this keeps a list of what you download to it when you remove the song the W$ software deletes it is your player on this list? http://tuxmobil.org/player_linux_survey_creative.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Security updates for new MD10.1
Please excuse my newness... I tried to do the updates for my i686 machine, but it says that the website is uncontactable. Where can I find a list of update mirrors. I have googled but can not find any. I tried to update using KDE's update thingy. Also Mandrake Online cannot connect to its servers. I cannot figure this out. I am not behind a firewall or proxy, all settings are correct as I am emailing from the system right now through a web browser. I can ftp from the command line as well. My network settings are correct. Would I be best sorting out why these don't work or just getting a mirror list. If mirrors are the way forward, please can I have a link to somewhere that I can read to tell me about adding a security update medium. Thanks Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.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] i586 v's i686
Pete Moscatt wrote: What's the difference between i585 and i686 which I see in some of the filename of some RPM's ? Pete Well, assuming that i585 is a typo, and shoud be i586, the it is the processor the RPM is optimised for. A i586 will run on a Pemtium (or equivelent) and newer processor, but an i686 requires a Pentium II or newer. There are also i486, k6 and athlon RPMs, but you don't see them as often. i386 are the most common type, and will run on anyting from a 386 to a P4. There are two places where using software optimised for a specific processor pay off the most. The kernel, and the glibc libraries. 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] Security updates for new MD10.1
On Thursday 24 Mar 2005 17:50, DAN WALKER wrote: Please excuse my newness... I tried to do the updates for my i686 machine, but it says that the website is uncontactable. Where can I find a list of update mirrors. I have googled but can not find any. Hi, Dan. Open Mandrake Control Center, Software Management, Media Manager and remove the Update source. Then go to easyurpmi.zarb.org and follow the instructions on that page to set new sources. While you are there, set up a source for plf, and I would recommend setting one for every group on there. You can select them all at once, then the page will come back with a long command that you paste into a root console. You should have no problems after that. If you don't know unix-style cut-and-paste, ask here. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels pgphtZA3FIQ71.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] win4lin
On Thursday 24 March 2005 15:32, Christophe wrote: Hello, Since I can not watch dvds on my laptop ( and I tried...) and I need Asymetrix Toolbook to create educational material. How can I install win 98 ( I have the cd for it) on my machine who is completely dedicated to MDK 10.1 community. I saw a win4lin kernel, what is the purpose of it? Is it easy to install windows under MDK when you have one 60 GB HD on a acer Aspire 1680 notebook? I'm sorry to do that but I have to work too :-D ...from time to time! Thank you Christophe Cristophe, Take into account that: if MDK doesn't see your DVD drive then win4lin will not see it either!! Your best bet is to get your DVD working or...install Windows on it's own partition and double-boot. Adding windows is no big deal except that it'll(windows) want to use your first partitionwhich is prolly taken by Linux. Tell us what's wrong with your DVD player i.e. exactly what you think is not working so we can help you fix it. AFAIK acers don't have very exotic DVD-players so we should get it working and that way it'll work on win4lin too. Saving you the new Windows install humbug:) -- Good luck, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Which Kernel For 10.1 ?
Mr. Geek wrote: Pete Moscatt wrote: Thanks Mr Geek (I like the name...), Pete Nice of you to notice. I got fed up with being called a 'Geek' all the time, so I decided to add the 'Mr' in the hopes it might make people respect me more. Unfortunately, it hasn't helped much, but at least it brings a smile to a few faces now and then! Sigh. Besides, it's like they say,when you're this old, they call you Mister! Grin! I like your real name better, though ;-) -- Regards Margot *-*-*-* Sent using Thunderbird on a 100% Microsoft-Free Computer Registered Linux User 307617 http://counter.li.org Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Community) for i586 kernel 2.6.8.1-24mdk ~~~ You will always get the greatest recognition for the job you least like. ~~~ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] PC-to-Phone Rates
Hello, Skype and Gnomeeting PC-to-Phone rates can be compared here: http://www.skype.com/products/skypeout/rates/ http://www.diamondcard.us/exec/voip-rep-acc-type -- Pablo Ortúzar Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Security updates for new MD10.1
That worked a treat. Thank you very much. I can't believe that this is not documented and easy to find somewhere. I looked all over the place but found the answer here thanks to you, anne. Cheers, Dan --- Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 24 Mar 2005 17:50, DAN WALKER wrote: Please excuse my newness... I tried to do the updates for my i686 machine, but it says that the website is uncontactable. Where can I find a list of update mirrors. I have googled but can not find any. Hi, Dan. Open Mandrake Control Center, Software Management, Media Manager and remove the Update source. Then go to easyurpmi.zarb.org and follow the instructions on that page to set new sources. While you are there, set up a source for plf, and I would recommend setting one for every group on there. You can select them all at once, then the page will come back with a long command that you paste into a root console. You should have no problems after that. If you don't know unix-style cut-and-paste, ask here. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.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] Learning Mandrake in the UK
Are there any good reasonable priced courses, books or similar in the UK that I may attend? I want to learn how to run this thing. I am using it as a web server. I want to know all about setting the security up, making my machine hard to hack etc. It is connected to a 34Mbit connection to the net so someone would love to abuse it. Thanks Dan Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.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] Learning Mandrake in the UK
On Thursday 24 March 2005 04:07 pm, DAN WALKER wrote: Are there any good reasonable priced courses, books or similar in the UK that I may attend? I want to learn how to run this thing. I am using it as a web server. I want to know all about setting the security up, making my machine hard to hack etc. It is connected to a 34Mbit connection to the net so someone would love to abuse it. Thanks Dan Do you have rute urpmi rute I read my dead tree copy a lot Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.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] Firefox not playing nice with slashdot
Firefox will not open a link on slashdot has anyone else had this problem other sites seem to be ok Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Learning Mandrake in the UK
DAN WALKER wrote: Are there any good reasonable priced courses, books or similar in the UK that I may attend? I want to learn how to run this thing. I am using it as a web server. I want to know all about setting the security up, making my machine hard to hack etc. It is connected to a 34Mbit connection to the net so someone would love to abuse it. Thanks Dan You didn't say where you are in the UK, but have a look here and see if there's a LUG near you: http://www.lug.org.uk/lugs/index.php -- Regards Margot *-*-*-* Sent using Thunderbird on a 100% Microsoft-Free Computer Registered Linux User 307617 http://counter.li.org Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Community) for i586 kernel 2.6.8.1-24mdk ~~~ It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help. -- Miss Manners ~~~ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Missing file using Wine
Cameron MacDonald ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Dennis Myers wrote: On Wednesday 23 March 2005 08:18 pm, Cameron MacDonald wrote: I'm trying to use a text/graphics database program for automotive waveforms called Aeswave. Since it is for Windows I'm using Wine to run it. I had no trouble installing it (Thank you , Wine!), but when I run Aeswave, it tells me I'm missing ddeml.dll. I found a ddeml.dll.so in /usr/lib/wine, and copied it to file:/home/cam/.wine/drive_c/aeswave, but that didn't do squat. Being a true newbie, I'm not sure where this file should go, or what the .so means. Thanks in advance for any help [.snip.] In the meantime, i found out that .so means a shared file. But that still doesn't explain why it is not being seen. Cam Hi, I think you've got a wine *builtin dll file and it shouldn't be necessary to move it anywhere other than where it is. try this .. add a config option for aeswave in the ~/.wine/config file Put the correct executable filename for Aeswave.exe or whatever, and chose an appropriate windows version [ win2k or winxp ] ;Windows version [AppDefaults\\Aeswave.exe\\Version] Windows = win2k [AppDefaults\\Aeswave.exe\\DllOverrides] *Aeswave.exe = builtin, native This may help ?? I hope ;) Also try WINEDEBUG .. it may help get more info .. $ WINEDEBUG=+loaddll wine path/to/Aeswave.exe Have a look here too: http://www.winehq.org/site/docs/wine-user/index http://www.winehq.org/site/docs/wine-user/config-dll http://www.winehq.org/site/helping-applications http://frankscorner.org/ Thats about as far as i got in configuration of wine but maybe ask the wine mailing list or google for more .. -- RickS 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
[newbie] configuring advx (apache) on Mandrake
Dear all, is there anyway i can configure ADVX on Mandrake easily without going through it's many conf files and without using webmin? is there a gui based, wizard based or something??? i have a problem setting up vitual host (name host not ip host). i downloaded apache docs but unfortunately Mandrake uses the modified version of apache which left me hanging like a dry leave. May I make some suggestions to all nice developers out there who sacrifice their time to OpenSource software... 1. At the same time during development, create an easy to read and follow on how to set up and use the particular software for beginners. 2. Create a wizard systen or step-step procedure to set up the software. Just a basic setup will do. For advance settings, users should read the manual and tinker with the conf file themselves. about a week ago, exactly 40 days after I installed Mandrake Linux on all this small office PC, they asked me to removed Mandrake, except server, and install Windows XP. Reasons, except to type letters browse the net, users unable to modified certain settings because it's hard to do so and there's no easy way to do it. i am sad but passe is passe. Thanks Joe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] configuring advx (apache) on Mandrake
On Thursday 24 March 2005 09:45 pm, Joe wrote: Dear all, is there anyway i can configure ADVX on Mandrake easily without going through it's many conf files and without using webmin? is there a gui based, wizard based or something??? There are server setup wizards in the Mandrake Control Center if you have them installed, I think the package name is drakwizard. i have a problem setting up vitual host (name host not ip host). i downloaded apache docs but unfortunately Mandrake uses the modified version of apache which left me hanging like a dry leave. May I make some suggestions to all nice developers out there who sacrifice their time to OpenSource software... 1. At the same time during development, create an easy to read and follow on how to set up and use the particular software for beginners. Sorry, in my experience it is impossible for developers to do this, most just don't have the skill. This kind of documentation requires somebody with excellent writing skills to learn the software and then sit with someone that doesn't know it to determine what is important to be documented. A time consuming and laborious task. You are asking for a lot. 2. Create a wizard systen or step-step procedure to set up the software. Just a basic setup will do. For advance settings, users should read the manual and tinker with the conf file themselves. Well, setting up virtual hosts is a pretty advanced usage of apache, so what you are asking is kind of difficult. In my experience, the default config files in mdk rarely have to be touched for basic setup. It's only the advanced stuff that requires editing config files. Isn't that what you are asking for. about a week ago, exactly 40 days after I installed Mandrake Linux on all this small office PC, they asked me to removed Mandrake, except server, and install Windows XP. Reasons, except to type letters browse the net, users unable to modified certain settings because it's hard to do so and there's no easy way to do it. i am sad but passe is passe. Well, that sounds suspiciously like they didn't want Mandrake to begin with and let you install it as an experiment, and they were just looking for an excuse to make you take it off. I can't think of what settings office personnel should need easy access to if the machines are set up properly to begin with, and for those I can think of, if you know where to go, it is easy, but maybe not familiar, so perhaps training and expectations was the falldown here, not ease of use. You should give some specific examples, because I am sure the people on this list could deconstruct them all for you very quickly. -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Firefox not playing nice with slashdot
Aron Smith wrote: Firefox will not open a link on slashdot has anyone else had this problem other sites seem to be ok Using Firefox 1.0.2 at the moment and links seem to open ok. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Firefox not playing nice with slashdot
Op Thu, 24 Mar 2005 16:35:23 -0800 schreef Aron Smith: Firefox will not open a link on slashdot has anyone else had this problem other sites seem to be ok Running 1.0.0. and I have no problems with it. ?? Paul -- At the end, it's not the words of our enemies that you will remember but the silence of your friends that you will remember. - Dr. Martin Ruther King 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] Assistance from newbies needed
Hello newbies, I'd appreciate comments regarding the utility of the following: http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/EmerGencies Is it helpful? Is it understandable? What else would be most helpful to a newcomer? [given the VERY limited space available] What do you think? -- Thanks, rikona mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Firefox not playing nice with slashdot
On Thursday 24 March 2005 09:40 pm, Paul wrote: Op Thu, 24 Mar 2005 16:35:23 -0800 schreef Aron Smith: Firefox will not open a link on slashdot has anyone else had this problem other sites seem to be ok Running 1.0.0. and I have no problems with it. ?? That's what I'm running ..strange Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
