Re: [newbie] kword part of thread hijacking
On Sunday 16 January 2005 09:52 am, Steve Jeppesen wrote: On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 14:59:40 +0100 Martin Hardie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve I tried it with MCC but I only have the one partition set up (eg swap home and /) so I think I need to resize it with the boot disk to start with -NO? you are correct, I was unaware of what number and or active partitions currently in use. You would need to use a boot disk or something like MandrakeMove or Knoppix Live-CD in order to resize, then create a partition in the free space which is normally mounted and in use by your native O.S. my kword request was I downloaded it and installed it but it wont open Sorry about this one Martin, use Sylpheed-Claws myself. Little to no KDE stuff is installed on any of my systems. Don't shoot please,,list cop... anyway what happens if you in a console, as user type (without the quotes) kword -- 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] kword part of thread hijacking
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 16 Jan 2005 15:16, et wrote: On Sunday 16 January 2005 09:52 am, Steve Jeppesen wrote: my kword request was I downloaded it and installed it but it wont open Sorry about this one Martin, use Sylpheed-Claws myself. Little to no KDE stuff is installed on any of my systems. Don't shoot please,,list cop... anyway what happens if you in a console, as user type (without the quotes) kword And - when you say it won't open - is there any error message, or just an apparent attempt to open, which disappears after a while? Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFB6okbkFAvMr/nNX8RAtYaAJ9GGOVFUWSACP1UCwzfZuG2FRHjBgCgoOJC SGU9IkHtl5LkkW0BMuGFyvI= =CuwD -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] kword part of thread hijacking
On Sunday 16 January 2005 16:32, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 16 Jan 2005 15:16, et wrote: On Sunday 16 January 2005 09:52 am, Steve Jeppesen wrote: my kword request was I downloaded it and installed it but it wont open Sorry about this one Martin, use Sylpheed-Claws myself. Little to no KDE stuff is installed on any of my systems. Don't shoot please,,list cop... anyway what happens if you in a console, as user type (without the quotes) kword And - when you say it won't open - is there any error message, or just an apparent attempt to open, which disappears after a while? Anne this is what happens there is an apparent attempt to open and then nothing $ kword koffice (lib kofficecore): WARNING: /usr/lib/libkofficeui.so.2: undefined symbol: _ZN9KIconView22contentsDragEnterEventEP15QDragEnterEvent -- the riddle which man must solve, he can only solve in being, in being what he is and not something else http://auskadi.tk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] kword part of thread hijacking
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 16 Jan 2005 15:36, Martin Hardie wrote: what happens if you in a console, as user type (without the quotes) kword And - when you say it won't open - is there any error message, or just an apparent attempt to open, which disappears after a while? Anne this is what happens there is an apparent attempt to open and then nothing $ kword koffice (lib kofficecore): WARNING: /usr/lib/libkofficeui.so.2: undefined symbol: _ZN9KIconView22contentsDragEnterEventEP15QDragEnterEvent Sounds like missing libraries. When you say you downloaded it, where from? Did you use urpmi or Software Installer to install it, or some other method? Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFB6pCQkFAvMr/nNX8RAgTdAJ9j4W9JCfnXTgOoZF4aUwYPuV2Z4gCdEdW4 bPpp+qaBlyq9+m0OG+0F+po= =xP8z -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] kword part of thread hijacking
On Sunday 16 January 2005 17:04, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 16 Jan 2005 15:36, Martin Hardie wrote: what happens if you in a console, as user type (without the quotes) kword And - when you say it won't open - is there any error message, or just an apparent attempt to open, which disappears after a while? Anne this is what happens there is an apparent attempt to open and then nothing $ kword koffice (lib kofficecore): WARNING: /usr/lib/libkofficeui.so.2: undefined symbol: _ZN9KIconView22contentsDragEnterEventEP15QDragEnterEvent Sounds like missing libraries. When you say you downloaded it, where from? Did you use urpmi or Software Installer to install it, or some other method? Anne i used urpmi and got all the dependencies it wanted. But i suppose i could just uninstall and try again -- the riddle which man must solve, he can only solve in being, in being what he is and not something else http://auskadi.tk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] kword part of thread hijacking
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 16 Jan 2005 17:08, Martin Hardie wrote: On Sunday 16 January 2005 17:04, Anne Wilson wrote: i used urpmi and got all the dependencies it wanted. But i suppose i could just uninstall and try again No, not yet. Part of the problem with kde apps is that the kde team decided recently to split things into more manageable chunks. It seems that one consequence is that sometimes you don't get everything you need, because it seems to assume that you will have it from another part of kde - maybe I'm wrong, but that's how it seems to me. Before you give up on this install, go into SoftwareInstaller and browse all files starting with k selecting any that look as though they have any interest for you. Some have obvious names like kdecore or kdebase or some such, but others are not obviously going to give you libs, yet they may well. Sit back while they install, and see if that makes any difference. Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFB6qr0kFAvMr/nNX8RArq3AJoDPEFgoLOKaeSwv09jg80zEqEm5QCcDlVe 65fgl7mPy6CfW7Xk32/QOjI= =JiJG -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] kword part of thread hijacking
On January 16, 2005 12:08 pm, Martin Hardie wrote: On Sunday 16 January 2005 17:04, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 16 Jan 2005 15:36, Martin Hardie wrote: what happens if you in a console, as user type (without the quotes) kword And - when you say it won't open - is there any error message, or just an apparent attempt to open, which disappears after a while? Anne this is what happens there is an apparent attempt to open and then nothing $ kword koffice (lib kofficecore): WARNING: /usr/lib/libkofficeui.so.2: undefined symbol: _ZN9KIconView22contentsDragEnterEventEP15QDragEnterEvent Sounds like missing libraries. When you say you downloaded it, where from? Did you use urpmi or Software Installer to install it, or some other method? Anne i used urpmi and got all the dependencies it wanted. But i suppose i could just uninstall and try again What you can do with Mandrake control center is open the software install program and do a search. In the drop down menu select in file name then type in libkofficeui.so.2 and it should tell you what package has that particular file in it. for me it was libkoffice2-progs HTH Regards, Dan Gordon -- Sun Jan 16 13:17:00 EST 2005 13:17:00 up 1 day, 17:05, 1 user, load average: 0.12, 0.12, 0.09 I bought some used paint. It was in the shape of a house. -- Steven Wright Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] kword part of thread hijacking
On Sunday 16 January 2005 06:57 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 16 Jan 2005 17:08, Martin Hardie wrote: On Sunday 16 January 2005 17:04, Anne Wilson wrote: i used urpmi and got all the dependencies it wanted. But i suppose i could just uninstall and try again No, not yet. Part of the problem with kde apps is that the kde team decided recently to split things into more manageable chunks. It seems that one consequence is that sometimes you don't get everything you need, because it seems to assume that you will have it from another part of kde - maybe I'm wrong, but that's how it seems to me. Before you give up on this install, go into SoftwareInstaller and browse all files starting with k selecting any that look as though they have any interest for you. Some have obvious names like kdecore or kdebase or some such, but others are not obviously going to give you libs, yet they may well. Sit back while they install, and see if that makes any difference. Anne Anne thanks i will put it on the agenda!! -- the riddle which man must solve, he can only solve in being, in being what he is and not something else http://auskadi.tk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] kword part of thread hijacking
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 16 Jan 2005 18:20, Dan Gordon wrote: On January 16, 2005 12:08 pm, Martin Hardie wrote: What you can do with Mandrake control center is open the software install program and do a search. In the drop down menu select in file name then type in libkofficeui.so.2 and it should tell you what package has that particular file in it. for me it was libkoffice2-progs Neat trick - I hadn't heard that before. Aimed generally, not at Dan - please snip wherever possible. Some readers are on dialup or limited bandwidth. Thanks. Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFB6rcgkFAvMr/nNX8RAjWaAJ9iwIFuGdXxRbzjLiglnnf/p3ONuwCfZMeh JC+uJ7QnRmQ7jjhPQ+o4HYc= =hr2N -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
