[newbie] Installing software problems
How do I install a software on Mandrake 9? I am a brand new user and I cannot figure out how to install any software or programs. I have a cd with slackware and other programs that I cannot install into Linux. I am getting frustrated, but I dont want to give up, so someone help me. Thanks. _ MSN 8 helps eliminate e-mail viruses. Get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing software problems
Do you have the installation discs from mandrake?? try the control center software manager. Or use urpmi and the name of the package. __ MSN 8 helps eliminate e-mail viruses. Get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing software problems
On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 19:37, al-hassan jagne wrote: How do I install a software on Mandrake 9? I am a brand new user and I cannot figure out how to install any software or programs. I have a cd with slackware and other programs that I cannot install into Linux. I am getting frustrated, but I dont want to give up, so someone help me. Thanks. Well, installation depends on the distribution or package format. If your program comes as a RPM then you need to go rpm -ivh package-name.rpm (no quotes and no signs). If you have the source RPM (RPMS), then you have to do a rpm --rebuild package-name-source.rpms. If you have the program as a tarball (*.tar.gz) then you should go with tar -zxvf package-name.tar.gz cd /to/directory/where/extracted and follow the instruction usually given in a README file or INSTALL file. Finally, if you got an installer (like Acrobat Reader or netscape-installer) follow their instructions :-) HTH Adolfo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing software problems
al-hassan jagne wrote: How do I install a software on Mandrake 9? I am a brand new user and I cannot figure out how to install any software or programs. I have a cd with slackware and other programs that I cannot install into Linux. I am getting frustrated, but I dont want to give up, so someone help me. Thanks. Forget your Slackware CD - if you've installed Mandrake, you must have a Mandrake CD (unless you did it with a net installation, in which case you have a link to the server you installed it from. Your friend here is the Mandrake Control Centre. If you're running KDE, you should have an icon on your toolbar which looks like a moitor with a star on it and a spanner in front. Click that, then click Software Management , then Install Software. You will then get a list of packages to install. If you want to install packages that aren't on your CD (or Internet mirror), just downlaod them, then open a terminal. Login as root (su) then move to the directory you dpwnloaded the file to. Type urpmi your_downloaded_file.rpm. That should install your file and any other files which are necessary. By the way, where are you from? I recognise al-hassan (as in Hassan and Hussein), but I've not seen the name Jagne before. Sir Robin -- Difficulty is a coin which the learned conjure with so as not to reveal the vanity of their studies. - Montaigne Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing software problems
On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 10:37, al-hassan jagne wrote: How do I install a software on Mandrake 9? I am a brand new user and I cannot figure out how to install any software or programs. I have a cd with slackware and other programs that I cannot install into Linux. I am getting frustrated, but I dont want to give up, so someone help me. Thanks. There are so many ways to do this - but if you could provide an example of something that you want to install, please post that - and we can make it very simple indeed! Peace! -- Mon Jan 20 17:55:00 EST 2003 5:55pm up 4 days, 3:38, 6 users, load average: 0.00, 0.12, 0.14 -- |____ | kuhn media australia| | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | | ;/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389| | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | -- linux user:267497 * RH 8.0 * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting -- Tragic heroes always moan when the gods take an interest in them, but it's the people the gods ignore who get the really tough deals. (Mort) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Installing software problems
Ok, this is my first installation from a tar.gz file, so it's all a bit complicated. I decided to take on a nice easy simple installation that would really help me - imwheel - which enables the wheel on your mouse. So, I managed to gzip and then tar, which created a directory. I cd'ed into the directory and then did ./configure, which made a makefile. When I type make I get this error entering directory /home/adam/download/imwheel-1.0.0pre1 gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -g -02 -c jax.c In file included from jax.c:2: jax.h:22: X11/Xlib.h: No such file or directory jax.h:22: X11/Xutil.h: No such file or directory jax.h:22: X11/Xresource.h: No such file or directory Then I get Error1 and it leaves the directory - any ideas? And incidentally, is there a way to copy some of the session from Konsole, so that I don't have to type it in the email? Thanks in advance Adam ps remember, I'm only 3 days into Linux - !! hehe __ Terrorist Attacks on U.S. - How can you help? Donate cash, emergency relief information http://dailynews.yahoo.com/fc/US/Emergency_Information/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Installing software problems
Sounds like you don't have the X development headers installed. Check on your Mandrake discs and install the RPM's. Steve Flynn NOP Data Migration Ops Analyst * 01603 687386 -Original Message- From: Adam Cripps [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, September 15, 2001 11:41 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[newbie] Installing software problems Ok, this is my first installation from a tar.gz file, so it's all a bit complicated. I decided to take on a nice easy simple installation that would really help me - imwheel - which enables the wheel on your mouse. So, I managed to gzip and then tar, which created a directory. I cd'ed into the directory and then did ./configure, which made a makefile. When I type make I get this error entering directory /home/adam/download/imwheel-1.0.0pre1 gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -g -02 -c jax.c In file included from jax.c:2: jax.h:22: X11/Xlib.h: No such file or directory jax.h:22: X11/Xutil.h: No such file or directory jax.h:22: X11/Xresource.h: No such file or directory Then I get Error1 and it leaves the directory - any ideas? And incidentally, is there a way to copy some of the session from Konsole, so that I don't have to type it in the email? Thanks in advance Adam ps remember, I'm only 3 days into Linux - !! hehe __ Terrorist Attacks on U.S. - How can you help? Donate cash, emergency relief information http://dailynews.yahoo.com/fc/US/Emergency_Information/ File: message.footer ** This email and any files sent with it are intended only for the named recipient. If you are not the named recipient please telephone/email the sender immediately. You should not disclose the content or take/retain/distribute any copies. ** Norwich Union Life Pensions Limited Registered Office 2 Rougier Street York YO90 1UU Registered in England Number 3253947 A member of the Norwich Union Marketing Group which is regulated by the Personal Investment Authority. Member of the Association of British Insurers. For further Enquires 01603 622200 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Installing software problems
Apologies, I'm dialled in to work and attempting to persuade an IBM
mainframe to play ball with me. I think I'm winning, but at the expense of
concise and clear answers to the list! :-(
If anyone out there has ever done any condition code processing in JCL,
they'll understand how twisted my mind is getting!
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Erm, Steve Flynn's reply was correct although I felt perhaps a bit
brief
and lacking in detail in case others are wondering and not sure how
to
do it.
Firstly you'll need to insert your cds, and mount your cdrom ('mount
/mnt/cdrom' probably -- you may need to be 'root' to do it.) Then
you'll need to change to the rpms directory which I think from
memory
are /mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS/ . You might want to check that. the
'ls'
command is your friend. Anyhow, you'll be looking for a .rpm file
along
the lines of XFree86-devel-something-something.rpm
I can't remember the specific name but it's something like that,
just then do
rpm -ivh Xfree86-devel-something-something.rpm
You'll probably need to be root to do this.
You should see something like
Xfree86-devel
Then go back and compile your package...
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Re: [newbie] Installing software problems
/home/adam/download/imwheel-1.0.0pre1 gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -g -02 -c jax.c In file included from jax.c:2: jax.h:22: X11/Xlib.h: No such file or directory jax.h:22: X11/Xutil.h: No such file or directory jax.h:22: X11/Xresource.h: No such file or directory It appears you didn't install the X development includes and libraries. You need to look for an X11-devel rpm and install it. Adam David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing software problems
if you highlight the text in konsole with a mouse and then middle(both click fro 2 button mice)click in your message the highlughted text should be pasted in, alternatively highlight and use ctrl-c and then click in your message and ctrl-v the former will often work where ctrl-etc doesn't, for example pasting into everybuddy chat windows requires a mouse middle(double) click bascule On Saturday 15 September 2001 12:41 pm, you wrote: And incidentally, is there a way to copy some of the session from Konsole, so that I don't have to type it in the email? Thanks in advance Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing software problems
that reads terribly, by 'both' and 'double' clicking i mean pressing both buttons of a 2 button mouse, at the same time, once bascule On Saturday 15 September 2001 7:38 pm, you wrote: if you highlight the text in konsole with a mouse and then middle(both click fro 2 button mice)click in your message the highlughted text should be pasted in, alternatively highlight and use ctrl-c and then click in your message and ctrl-v the former will often work where ctrl-etc doesn't, for example pasting into everybuddy chat windows requires a mouse middle(double) click Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Installing software problems
Erm, Steve Flynn's reply was correct although I felt perhaps a bit brief
and lacking in detail in case others are wondering and not sure how to
do it.
Firstly you'll need to insert your cds, and mount your cdrom ('mount
/mnt/cdrom' probably -- you may need to be 'root' to do it.) Then
you'll need to change to the rpms directory which I think from memory
are /mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS/ . You might want to check that. the 'ls'
command is your friend. Anyhow, you'll be looking for a .rpm file along
the lines of XFree86-devel-something-something.rpm
I can't remember the specific name but it's something like that,
just then do
rpm -ivh Xfree86-devel-something-something.rpm
You'll probably need to be root to do this.
You should see something like
Xfree86-devel
Then go back and compile your package...
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