[newbie] Where are the compilers etc.?

2004-12-01 Thread Simon Roberts
Greetings all, I have probably missed something obvious, as I fear this is a really simple question: I've installed Mandrake 10.1, and was attempting to build some software on it that demands glib.h. I can see that glib2 is installed, but there's no header file for it anywhere on the system.

Re: [newbie] Where are the compilers etc.?

2004-12-01 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wednesday 01 December 2004 10:08, Simon Roberts wrote: Greetings all, I have probably missed something obvious, as I fear this is a really simple question: I've installed Mandrake 10.1, and was attempting to build some software on it that demands glib.h. I can see that glib2 is installed,

Re: [newbie] CD-RW Problem

2004-12-01 Thread Poogle
On Tuesday 30 Nov 2004 23:09, BJ Tracy wrote: Hi All, Well I have been trying to copy a couple of Cmas CD's to play in my vehicle and don't seem to be having any luck(running MDK 10.0). Every time it gets 91% done and gives the following: unknow error 254 listed below is the copy of the

Re: [newbie] Where are the compilers etc.?

2004-12-01 Thread Holger Schneider
For g++ you need to install the gcc-c++ package. The easiest way to do this is to set up your urpmi sources to look in a local mirror. You can find out how to best setup your urpmi sources at: http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/. Then just run urpmi gcc-c++ and it will download and install the correct

Re: [newbie] How to switch from one linux partition to another?

2004-12-01 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Originally before you installed 10.1, you had win98 and mandrake9.1 then you made a new installation in the free space of win98. When you did that you changed the partition table of the drive. So you need to find out which partition is what to start with. If you did default installs with

[newbie] Failure message during the boot of Mdk 10.1 CE

2004-12-01 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Hi. I recently created a new partition on my HD in which I installed Mdk 10.1 Community. Every time, during the boot I read the following message: Mounting other filesystems: mount: none already mounted or dev/pts busy

[newbie] 5 good reasons to install 10.1

2004-12-01 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All I have Mandrake 10 working on my computer and I have to say that I am quite satisfied with it. So, I would like to know why should one move to Mandrake 10.1. What are Mandrake 10.1's advantages compared to his older brother - Mandrake 10? Thanks in advance, Paul PS: I am GMail user;

Re: [newbie] Cannot enter KDE

2004-12-01 Thread Teilhard Knight
- Original Message - From: Rob Blomquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2004 11:04 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Cannot enter KDE On Tuesday 30 November 2004 7:40 pm, Teilhard Knight wrote: Hello: I just installed Mandrake 10.1 Official (Download), and

Re: [newbie] CD-RW Problem

2004-12-01 Thread BJ Tracy
On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 05:20, Poogle wrote: On Tuesday 30 Nov 2004 23:09, BJ Tracy wrote: Hi All, Well I have been trying to copy a couple of Cmas CD's to play in my vehicle and don't seem to be having any luck(running MDK 10.0). SNIP Sorry using K3b. BJ Every time it gets 91% done

Re: [newbie] 5 good reasons to install 10.1

2004-12-01 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 01 December 2004 12:06, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All I have Mandrake 10 working on my computer and I have to say that I am quite satisfied with it. So, I would like to know why should one move to Mandrake 10.1. What are Mandrake 10.1's advantages compared to his older brother -

Re: [newbie] 5 good reasons to install 10.1

2004-12-01 Thread Wojciech Podgrni
Uytkownik Paul Smith napisa: Dear All I have Mandrake 10 working on my computer and I have to say that I am quite satisfied with it. So, I would like to know why should one move to Mandrake 10.1. What are Mandrake 10.1's advantages compared to his older brother - Mandrake 10? Thanks in advance,

Re: [newbie] 5 good reasons to install 10.1

2004-12-01 Thread Wojciech Podgrni
Uytkownik Derek Jennings napisa: On Wednesday 01 December 2004 12:06, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All I have Mandrake 10 working on my computer and I have to say that I am quite satisfied with it. So, I would like to know why should one move to Mandrake 10.1. What are Mandrake 10.1's advantages

Re: [newbie] Failure message during the boot of Mdk 10.1 CE

2004-12-01 Thread Fajar Priyanto
On Wednesday 01 December 2004 06:58 pm, Rodolfo Medina wrote: I recently created a new partition on my HD in which I installed Mdk 10.1 Community. Every time, during the boot I read the following message: Mounting other filesystems: mount: none already mounted or dev/pts busy

[newbie] Compatible Software

2004-12-01 Thread BJ Tracy
Hi All, I'm looking for a compatible software package to replace Voxwire which is an MS OS package. REF: Voxwire is the premier provider of web conferencing technology for online meetings, online seminars and webinars. Standing by. TIA, B.J. Tracy Registered Linux User 364157

[newbie] ADSL router modem set up/445A Speedlink web station/Supanet/PPPoA

2004-12-01 Thread amalasingh
Guys, I need ur help regarding installing my ADSL router in my mandrake linux. It works with my windows. People say it should work as soon as we connect. But it doesnt. If you can tell me step by step instructions, that would be nice. The product is 445A Speedlink XDSL web station. The vendor

Re: [newbie] ADSL router modem set up/445A Speedlink web station/Supanet/PPPoA

2004-12-01 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 01 December 2004 16:01, amalasingh wrote: Guys, I need ur help regarding installing my ADSL router in my mandrake linux. It works with my windows. People say it should work as soon as we connect. But it doesnt. If you can tell me step by step instructions, that would be nice.

Re: [newbie] 5 good reasons to install 10.1

2004-12-01 Thread Greg Meyer
On Wednesday 01 December 2004 07:06 am, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All I have Mandrake 10 working on my computer and I have to say that I am quite satisfied with it. So, I would like to know why should one move to Mandrake 10.1. What are Mandrake 10.1's advantages compared to his older brother -

Re: Re: [newbie] Cannot enter KDE

2004-12-01 Thread Rob Blomquist
E138: Can't write viminfo file $HOME/.viminfo! I wouldn't concern yourself with this one. You are in single user mode, and $HOME is probably not set. Can you make up something of all of this? By the way, I added the line you suggest at the beginning and at the end and of the [general]

Re: [newbie] 5 good reasons to install 10.1

2004-12-01 Thread Greg Meyer
On Wednesday 01 December 2004 08:17 am, Wojciech Podgrni wrote: IIRC there was Magicdev in 10.0 already - so this is not a big change. But the default media player changed from Totem (in 10.0) to Kaffeine (in 10.1). Web plugin of the latter was a bit too intrusive so I uninstalled Kaffeine to

Re: [newbie] 5 good reasons to install 10.1

2004-12-01 Thread JoeHill
On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 13:09:31 + Derek Jennings disseminated the following: and inserting an audio CD will automatically start the CD player. Yuck, can you disable that without disabling Magicdev altogether? -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 13:42:23 up 10 days, 4:52, 10

Re: [newbie] Compatible Software

2004-12-01 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 01 Dec 2004 16:05, BJ Tracy wrote: Hi All, I'm looking for a compatible software package to replace Voxwire which is an MS OS package. REF: Voxwire is the premier provider of web conferencing technology for online meetings, online

Re: [newbie] ADSL router modem set up/445A Speedlink web station/Supanet/PPPoA

2004-12-01 Thread amalasingh
Derek, I am using Ethernet connection only. To my eyes, it looks that the computer connects to the Router correctly. I can see all the signals from Router and from the port. But I said The connection works in XP means it works in another computer at home. So may be some problems in my ethernet

Re: Re: [newbie] Cannot enter KDE

2004-12-01 Thread Teilhard Knight
- Original Message - From: Rob Blomquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 10:51 AM Subject: Re: Re: [newbie] Cannot enter KDE E138: Can't write viminfo file $HOME/.viminfo! I wouldn't concern yourself with this one. You are in single user mode,

Re: [newbie] Where are the compilers etc.?

2004-12-01 Thread Simon Roberts
Many thanks for input received, I've moved forward some. (I had entirely missed the urpmi tool; very useful.) I've now installed gcc-c++, kernel sources of the correct version, gtk+2, and all the dependent things that urpmi added to the list. When I say: urpmi glib or urpmi glib2 I'm

Re: [newbie] ADSL router modem set up/445A Speedlink web station/Supanet/PPPoA

2004-12-01 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
amalasingh wrote: Derek, I am using Ethernet connection only. To my eyes, it looks that the computer connects to the Router correctly. I can see all the signals from Router and from the port. But I said The connection works in XP means it works in another computer at home. So may be some problems

[newbie] Re: Where are the compilers etc.?

2004-12-01 Thread Björn Lundin
Simon Roberts wrote: Many thanks for input received, I've moved forward some. (I had entirely missed the urpmi tool; very useful.) I've now installed gcc-c++, kernel sources of the correct version, gtk+2, and all the dependent things that urpmi added to the list. When I say: urpmi glib

Re: [newbie] ADSL router modem set up/445A Speedlink web station/Supanet/PPPoA

2004-12-01 Thread amalasingh
No. It has 4 Ethernet ports and a USB port. Also, when I try to connect Linux PC, I disconnect the windows PC, since they are in different rooms. - Original Message - From: Mikkel L. Ellertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 7:24 PM Subject:

Re: [newbie] Cannot enter KDE

2004-12-01 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 01 Dec 2004 19:23, Teilhard Knight wrote: I'll do what you say, I just want to be sure the right command is urpm*e*. Sorry, I'm a newbie and never came across to it. urpme uninstalls (think of erase) urpmi installs Go to the TWiki

Re: [newbie] ADSL router modem set up/445A Speedlink web station/Supanet/PPPoA

2004-12-01 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 01 Dec 2004 19:37, amalasingh wrote: No. It has 4 Ethernet ports and a USB port. Also, when I try to connect Linux PC, I disconnect the windows PC, since they are in different rooms. Maybe I'm not understanding you, but can't you

Re: [newbie] ADSL router modem set up/445A Speedlink web station/Supanet/PPPoA

2004-12-01 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 01 December 2004 19:07, amalasingh wrote: - Original Message - From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] ADSL router modem set up/445A Speedlink web station/Supanet/PPPoA On Wednesday 01 December 2004 16:01, amalasingh wrote: Guys, I need ur

[newbie] mjpegtools dependencies

2004-12-01 Thread Peter Watson
Using 10.1 OE I need mjpegtools to use kino. Its not on my cd's but I found mjpegtools-1.6.2-7mdk.i586.rpm on the mandrake 10.1 main mirrors, however I can't urpmi this due to unsatisfied libmplex2-1.6.so.0. I also found mjpegtools-1.6.2-8mdk.i586.rpm on rpm.pbone, but I get the same

Re: [newbie] Cannot enter KDE

2004-12-01 Thread Teilhard Knight
- Original Message - From: Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 1:58 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Cannot enter KDE -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 01 Dec 2004 19:23, Teilhard Knight wrote: I'll do what you say, I

Re: [newbie] ADSL router modem set up/445A Speedlink web station/Supanet/PPPoA

2004-12-01 Thread amalasingh
Anne/Derek, Tnx for your responses. http://10.0.0.2 works fine with Windows. First time it looks for user name password. Then we can configure the webstation. I went to configure hardware and selected Ethernet Card. Ran Config Tool- ADSL Connection-DHCP etc. Mozilla says connection refused

[newbie] Thanks Re: Where are the compilers etc.?

2004-12-01 Thread Simon Roberts
Wonderful, thanks. I had gtk+2 but not libgtk??!! So what I knew I had installed wasn't what it wanted anyway. Thanks for the help with the urpmi command, and to Anne for the link to the Wiki site. My compile seems to be running now, so fingers crossed I should be OK now. Thanks again to all,

[newbie] Spam assassin with Thunderbird

2004-12-01 Thread Tango Echo
How easy is to setup Spam assassin for Thunderbird? I'm runnning 10.0 and have found that the spam abilities in thunderbird are far from sufficient... Is it easy enough for someone to supply the steps or can you point me to a good doc for (a quick) setup? Thanks!

Re: [newbie] ADSL router modem set up/445A Speedlink web station/Supanet/PPPoA

2004-12-01 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 01 December 2004 21:22, amalasingh wrote: Anne/Derek, Tnx for your responses. http://10.0.0.2 works fine with Windows. First time it looks for user name password. Then we can configure the webstation. I went to configure hardware and selected Ethernet Card. Ran Config

Re: [newbie] mjpegtools dependencies

2004-12-01 Thread JoeHill
On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 21:27:37 + Peter Watson disseminated the following: Using 10.1 OE I need mjpegtools to use kino. Its not on my cd's but I found mjpegtools-1.6.2-7mdk.i586.rpm on the mandrake 10.1 main mirrors, however I can't urpmi this due to unsatisfied libmplex2-1.6.so.0. I

Re: [newbie] ADSL router modem set up/445A Speedlink web station/Supanet/PPPoA

2004-12-01 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 01 Dec 2004 21:22, amalasingh wrote: Anne/Derek, Tnx for your responses. http://10.0.0.2 works fine with Windows. First time it looks for user name password. Then we can configure the webstation. OK - so sit looks as though

Re: [newbie] mjpegtools dependencies

2004-12-01 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 01 Dec 2004 21:27, Peter Watson wrote: Using 10.1 OE I need mjpegtools to use kino. Its not on my cd's but I found mjpegtools-1.6.2-7mdk.i586.rpm on the mandrake 10.1 main mirrors, however I can't urpmi this due to unsatisfied

Re: [newbie] grip not ripping in 10.1

2004-12-01 Thread RickSisler
RickSisler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: RickSisler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Greg Meyer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sunday 28 November 2004 11:47 pm, RickSisler wrote: Raffaele BELARDI ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Grip did work in 10.0 (and in 9.0, 9.1 etc). Now it appears to rip the

[newbie] (OT) I hate to be asking this... (Windows Related)

2004-12-01 Thread Amy
Okay, so here's what's going on. I had ~thought~ I'd sold my dad on letting me install Mandrake for him instead of windows when we formatted his box to take care of the serious infestation he has going in the thing... however, since I'd gotten him to agree, he's changed his mind *Grumbles* So now

Re: [newbie] (OT) I hate to be asking this... (Windows Related)

2004-12-01 Thread Simon Roberts
Build him a firewall out of a $150 PC (P-III 400 or similar), or use one of those router/switches that includes NAT. The D-Link ones, with an 802.11b wireless thing and NAT are about $50, and will probably keep a lot more out (leave the wireless disabled unless you really want it) than you'll

Re: [newbie] (OT) I hate to be asking this... (Windows Related)

2004-12-01 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Wednesday 01 December 2004 19:33, Amy wrote: So what I need from you guys? I remember there was a thread where one of the members of our list was struggling with a windows computer for something school related for his daughter. In the process of the discussion, someone mentioned a site

Re: [newbie] (OT) I hate to be asking this... (Windows Related)

2004-12-01 Thread JoeHill
On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 20:10:11 -0500 Bryan Phinney disseminated the following: Then, install win, leave the modems and net cards disconnected, install all of those apps along with the patches and then you should be okay for about 2 weeks before the machine gets compromised. LOL! You always give

Re: [newbie] (OT) I hate to be asking this... (Windows Related)

2004-12-01 Thread JoeHill
On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 16:33:53 -0800 Amy disseminated the following: however, since I'd gotten him to agree, he's changed his mind *Grumbles* I know he's your dad, and you want to help him, but there is a term you may be familiar with: 'enabler', and you may or may not want to be one of those.

Re: [newbie] (OT) I hate to be asking this... (Windows Related)

2004-12-01 Thread JoeHill
On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 20:10:11 -0500 Bryan Phinney disseminated the following: 2 weeks before the machine gets compromised. ...I must say though (not bragging, by any stretch), that I do have a Windows XP box running on my LAN, default install, *no Service Packs installed*, just running AVG, and

[newbie] MS Searchbot

2004-12-01 Thread JoeHill
Was just following a thread on another list, thought I'd give y'all a heads up that run webservers. Seems this IP: 207.46.98.47 is an MS searchbot that is indexing web pages for its 'Google-killer' search engine. I'm reading a how-to now on .htaccess ;-) -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 /

[newbie] Automounting a USB memory stick

2004-12-01 Thread Paul Kaplan
When I insert a USB memory stick into the USB port under a newly installed mdk 10.1, it doesn't mount or appear on the desktop. I have to manually mount using mount -t vfat /dev/sdb1 /mnt/removable. Even then, the device is neither readable or writable by a normal user unless I create an

[newbie] Java and konqueror

2004-12-01 Thread Paul Kaplan
I installed jre-1.5.0 from sun onto mdk 10.1. I am able to get the java plugin to work for firefox 1.0 and for opera 7.54, but not for konqueror. I tried having konqueror look for the java plugin in /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox-1.0/plugins/ /usr/java/jre1.5.0/plugin/i386/ns7/ and

[newbie] USB mouse

2004-12-01 Thread Paul Kaplan
I have a laptop setup with an external keyboard and a wireless mouse attached to a powered USB hub. The wireless mouse doesn't work unless I unplug it and reattach to the hub. How can I get it to be seen without the unplug/plug excercise? TIA Paul

Re: [newbie] (OT) I hate to be asking this... (Windows Related)

2004-12-01 Thread Brenda O'Hagan
On Thursday 02 December 2004 15:24, JoeHill wrote: ...I must say though (not bragging, by any stretch), that I do have a Windows XP box running on my LAN, default install, *no Service Packs installed*, just running AVG, and it's never been in any way compromised, not even with spyware. I can

Re: [newbie] (OT) I hate to be asking this... (Windows Related)

2004-12-01 Thread JoeHill
On Thu, 2 Dec 2004 15:41:33 +1300 Brenda O'Hagan disseminated the following: On your LAN? That's usually the difference. A windows boxen behind something else (such as a router, or a linux box) is much much safer than a windows boxen with an internal connection to the internet (such as an

Re: [newbie] MS Searchbot

2004-12-01 Thread Dan Gordon
On Wednesday 01 December 2004 09:33 pm, JoeHill wrote: Was just following a thread on another list, thought I'd give y'all a heads up that run webservers. Seems this IP: 207.46.98.47 is an MS searchbot that is indexing web pages for its 'Google-killer' search engine. I'm reading a how-to

Re: [newbie] How to switch from one linux partition to another?

2004-12-01 Thread mike
Rodolfo Medina wrote: Originally before you installed 10.1, you had win98 and mandrake9.1 then you made a new installation in the free space of win98. When you did that you changed the partition table of the drive. So you need to find out which partition is what to start with. If you did default

Re: [newbie] (OT) I hate to be asking this... (Windows Related)

2004-12-01 Thread Brenda O'Hagan
it depends... if there's something there claiming that port, and you trust that software, then why not??? open port 80, and send it to apache on windowsdoesn't do any harm. (though why you'd want to run apache on windows i dunno). it's all the other RPC ports that the worms exploit. (at least

Re: [newbie] DVD Burners

2004-12-01 Thread Dennis Myers
On Tuesday 30 November 2004 03:40 pm, Todd Slater wrote: On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 01:48:58PM -0500, BJ Tracy wrote: Hi All, Running MDK 10.0 and want to upgrade my box to a DVD-RW. I have looked at the list of certified DVD's but was wondering if there is really a compatibility problem

Re: [newbie] DVD Burners

2004-12-01 Thread Duncan Anderson
Hi everyone On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 01:48:58PM -0500, BJ Tracy wrote: I'm looking to do the same thing. Newegg has Liteon's for between $60 and $70 and I've heard that these are good (recommended by a few folks at work) but I don't see any info when I search the hardware compatibility on the

Re: [newbie] Where are the compilers etc.?

2004-12-01 Thread Greg Meyer
On Wednesday 01 December 2004 02:24 pm, Simon Roberts wrote: Many thanks for input received, I've moved forward some. (I had entirely missed the urpmi tool; very useful.) I've now installed gcc-c++, kernel sources of the correct version, gtk+2, and all the dependent things that urpmi added to

Re: [newbie] Where are the compilers etc.?

2004-12-01 Thread Bambang Gunawan
On Thu, 2 Dec 2004 00:24:33 -0500, Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /* snip */ How about libglib or libglib2 -- /g /* snip */ glib.h is header file and usually in devel package HTH Bambang Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] Where are the compilers etc.?

2004-12-01 Thread Teddy Widhi
Hi, You can find in Mandrake Control Center for software installer with fill the search by name using 'devel' you take devel package with similar your problem. for example. gtk-2.0.-devel.xxmdk.rpm,glibc-xx-devel.mdk.rpm and etc. ok hope it help. Thank you. Teddy Widhi Laksono On Thu, 2