[newbie] problem with make
Hi all, Although being a sole Linux user about a year ago now I had to move back to windoze for work reasons and how quickly we forget. Anyway back now how it has all improved WOW!!! I have a small problem though. I installed last week Mandrake 7.1 and upgraded to 8.0 with a free disk on Linux Format magazine I had knocking around. However when I want to install any tar.gz file I get problems when doing a make. As an example I am trying to install KOffice 1.1 but when doing a make I get that it cannot find the command g++. I did a whereis and found that G++ is installed and the executable is in /usr/bin so why can it not find it? I have had this problem also with other programs I try to install some say it is with cc others with gcc yet they all reside in /usr/bin. Any advice will be appreciated. Thanks and it's nice to be back. -- Andrew Scotchmer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] problem with make
Cheers Paul, no I cannot run g++ nor any of the others. -- Andrew Scotchmer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] problem with make
Did the user's execute bit fall over in all /usr/bin? Can you run that stuff as root? All of the executables in /usr/bin do run when typing in the command, eg: $ mozilla, and up pops the browser. The only problems seem to be with these applications mentioned before which interestingly have a flashing red background. Even as root I get the same message as I do as a user: bash: g++: command not found -- Andrew Scotchmer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Flash5 in Wine?
Hi, Can anyone tell me if it is possible to use Flash% by Macromedia in wine? Thanks, Andrew
Re: [newbie] Flash5 in Wine?
On Mon, 06 Nov 2000, you wrote: Why use Wine when Macromedia has a plugin for Linux? http://sdc.shockwave.com/shockwave/download/alternates/ I'm not after the plugin. I already have that. What I meant was, and I'm sorry for the misunderstanding, can wine run the Flash application? The actual WYSIWYG Flash editor where you can create you one web animations. Andrew Hi, Can anyone tell me if it is possible to use Flash% by Macromedia in wine? Thanks, Andrew -- Anthony http://binaryfusion.net Press any key to continue, or any other key to quit.
[newbie] wine prob with IE5
Hi, I've read on the net that it is possible to run IE5 under wine. it even had a screenshot to prove it! However after downloading the IE5setup.exe file and running wine I get an error message. Has anyone got |IE5 to run with wine? Andrew
Re: [newbie] Windows
On Sat, 04 Nov 2000, you wrote: Can we pirate copy of your bank, credit card and cell phone? Romanator Took the words right out of my mouth Romanator, Come on Goldenpi, if you are so committed to freedom and sharing of information, cough up your details! On a serious note though, we must remember that, although we are apart of something very speacial, the linux and open source movement, not everyone is as enlightened. However this does not mean we have to rip them off. Bill Gates, at the end of the day, is a success. He does not seem to support the open source movement but that is his right. Everyone has a right to follow their own way of doing things,make a living and be a success. Just because it doesn't fit in with our way of thinking does not mean we should think they are wrong or believe ourselves clever because we rip them off by copying there creations. In other words, if you believe that your practises are in line with those of fellow open sourcers, you have a lot to learn. Concentrate more on learning how to create your own equivilant software than spending time ripping off others. Or maybe is that the problem, you tried and failed and so thought stuff you. Andrew Goldenpi wrote: I do pirate copies of everything. So what? Take visual basic which can cost hundreds of pound. I do it for £1 + disk. Microsoft probably cound trace me, but why would they want to? I do copies of software in school and im not big enough to bother them. I am running a project to make manuals and books available for free over the internet. www.carjam.ic24.net/james/index.html (or was it index.htm? Must check). Currently there is very little. Just one good book, 3 junk books to fill space and a few manuals. It would be easeier if my scanner hadn't broke. Please donate any soft-copy manuals you have. Sorry, no win2k manual. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2000 5:25 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Windows In a message dated 02-Nov-00 04:47:33 Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: That's not exactly something I'd announce on a public mailing list. who in here supports microshaft making money??? with crapy software!! besides they would have to do some serious searching to find me. and although ms has lots of money everyone i know pirates that stuff, if it is worth pirating, no ones making money, i dont have a tech manual that comes with the software, so last i checked it was still legal. it all depends on how you do things
Re: [newbie] Problems fixed
Nice to see you back Paul. Have a nice time? Andrew
Re: [newbie] Internet in the UK
On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, you wrote: I think that the problem is that i have no DNS listed in the PPP properties, the problem is that i don't know the IP address of the DNS which freeserve uses. Can anyone tell me, or give me the IP address of a different DNS which i could use, (i am under the impression that any valid DNS will do, is this so?) Any help would be greatly appreciated. Jamie Hi Jamie, I've pinged www.freeserve.co.uk and received the IP address: 195.92.249.48 Try it out and see. Anyother Ip addresses for sites that you may wish to know can be found using the ping command in a terminal. ie: ping www.freeserve.co.uk Andrew
[newbie] star office pluggins
Hi, Does anyone know of how I can get the Star Office browser to accept Java and Flash web pages in it's browser. When in graphical mode I usually use the integrated desktop to do everything, however though the browser seems to be super quick there is no support for either Java or Flash? Cheers in advance Andrew
Re: [newbie] Root Password
On Thu, 04 May 2000, you wrote: Anyone know anything about how to set super permissions to a user without giving them the root password, or the authority to change the root password once they are granted super user permissions. Thanks in advance. Dave Hi Dave. Well I'm quite new to all of this myself. It sounds as though you may have forgotten your root password and therefore want to give your user account SU privilages so as to select a new one. If this is so I think you may struggle. Before any permissions can be given you must first be in root which of course requires the password. Maybe someone knows of a hack to get round this. Good luck -- Scotchpie registered linux user: 175478
Re: [newbie] Linux Mandrake 7.0 with Packard Bell Monitor
On Wed, 03 May 2000, you wrote: Hi, Hopefully someone can help me. I've used Linux for a while, but am new to Mandrake...I know the usual advice with Packard Bell monitors is to get another monitorin this situation I cannot. I've only been able to get a *very* minimal installation/configuration of X going...can anyone point me to anymore resources...don't seem to find anything at all on the Mandrake site. Hi Tim, I'm supprised at the minimal config. I'm running a Packard bell civic 300 with 64M of RAM, a vodoo 3dfx card and a packardbell monitor at 32 bit true colour, 800x600 resolution just perfectly. I'll have a look through my installation procedures again and check it out. If you could give more info it would be good (your card for example-before I had a maxi gamer pheonix2 without success and had to resort to the minimum settings) Bye for now -- Scotchpie
[newbie]
Thanks for the help with the c problem. ./program name worked a treat. Just downloaded the preview release of netscape 6 but does anyone no how to place this on the desktop? I've made the icon and in proerties-execute I've typed /home/andrew/package/netscape %f but nothing happens. At the moment I'm having to open konsole, cd into package and type ./netscape for it to fire up. cheers -- scotchpie
[newbie] Netscape6 on desktop?
Thanks for the help with the c problem. ./program name worked a treat. Just downloaded the preview release of netscape 6 but does anyone no how to place this on the desktop? I've made the icon and in proerties-execute I've typed /home/andrew/package/netscape %f but nothing happens. At the moment I'm having to open konsole, cd into package and type ./netscape for it to fire up. cheers -- scotchpie --- -- scotchpie
[newbie] C programming problem
Can anyone help? I have decided to learn C and have followed the examples in the books C in 24 hours by Tony Zhang and Running Linux by Welsh and co. The problem is, after following the text for the first program very carefully (I used vi ) I compiled the program with gcc -o hello hello.c as I was told to. This worked fine and when I went to test it with the command hello at the prompt it came back that hello is not a command. I can not understand my mistake as I have followed the book to the letter. In saying that, if I start up x and open my home file, click on hello and then close x the phrase 'hello world' (it is my first program) appears above the prompt. Why can it not appear when I type I hello at the prompt as the two books mention? -- scotchpie
Re: [newbie] HTML Editor/Quantaplus
Thats all I have Paul and it works for me I can get there with plain Netscape 4.7 nothing special... Paul )0(---)0( A gentleman is someone who remembers his wifes birthday but not her age. )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]]-)0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403 -- scotchpie
Re: [newbie] Modem Insatallation - Help -
Hi Miguel Firstly I'm no guru but have you checked if it is a winmodem (most internal modems are)? If so it would be doubtfull if you could use it. If not click on setup in the kppp window followed by the device tag at the top. My settings for Modem device can either be /dev/ttyS0 or/dev/cuao Try these and see. I left the others as they were, changing only the conection speed to match my modem (57600). hope it all works, it did for me. -- Scotchpie On Sat, 29 Apr 2000, you wrote: Hi !! I just installed Mandrake 7.0. (This is my very first Linux installation). I have an internal modem: US Robotics 56K, ISA, COM3, IRQ 5 . When I try to connect with my ISP (using KPPP) I receive the messages: Modem Ready Sorry, the modem doesn't respond Can somebody give me some tips.. Thanks. Regards, Miguel
