[newbie] Samba Server

2005-03-19 Thread Elwyn
Hiya Folks What I'd like to do is set up a shared area within our network that all our (family) music files are on, plus other bits and bobs, that will only share files for most of its hard drive. I've already got a working Samba place on this machine but I'm debating how to go about this.

Re: [newbie] Samba Server

2005-03-19 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 19 Mar 2005 08:33, Elwyn wrote: Hiya Folks What I'd like to do is set up a shared area within our network that all our (family) music files are on, plus other bits and bobs, that will only share files for most of its hard drive. I've already got a working Samba place on this

Re: [newbie] Trouble with Nvu 0.90

2005-03-19 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 17:02:24 -0500 Marv Boyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This isn't strictly a Mandrake issue; and I apologize beforehand if this has been recently addressed-- I've only just rejoined the list. Hopefully, there's someone here who's familiar with Nvu (http://nvu.com). I'm

Re: [newbie] KDE 3.4

2005-03-19 Thread Fajar Priyanto
On Saturday 19 March 2005 10:32 am, Miark wrote: On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 16:37:00 -0600, Leaf wrote: KDE 3.4 is out. There are SuSE, Fedora and Conectiva packages available, but no Mandrake rpms. Is there any way to urpmi them? Check Thac's RPMs http://rpm.nyvalls.se/10.1/RPMS/ , you

Re: [newbie] KDE 3.4

2005-03-19 Thread Fajar Priyanto
On Saturday 19 March 2005 10:32 am, Miark wrote: On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 16:37:00 -0600, Leaf wrote: KDE 3.4 is out. There are SuSE, Fedora and Conectiva packages available, but no Mandrake rpms. Is there any way to urpmi them? Check Thac's RPMs http://rpm.nyvalls.se/10.1/RPMS/ , you

Re: [newbie] KDE 3.4

2005-03-19 Thread Mr. Geek
Fajar Priyanto wrote: I'm going to do the upgrade.. wish me luck :) Luck! -- Mr. Geek Registered Linux User #190712 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club :

[newbie] MySQL DB Connection to Open Office

2005-03-19 Thread SOTL
Hi All Well I have ascertained that the principal reason that I am unable to connect to a DB using OO is that Java is not installed in OO. Java is installed on the computer but the OO-1.9 installation did not recognize this so now the first issue is how does one install Java into OO. Since

Re: [newbie] Samba Server

2005-03-19 Thread Elwyn
Alas my plans have gone a bit pear shaped. The machine destined to become a server, whilst quiet and with enough memory has transpired to not support the required drives. A variety of words spring to mind, most unrepeatable here ;( So the 80gb drive is going in this linux machine and I'll

Re: [newbie] KDE 3.4

2005-03-19 Thread Paul Smith
I do not know what is wrong, but after having added Thac as a media, when I run urpmi --auto-select nothing happens. Does the same happen with you? Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Re: One minor change - One major pain

2005-03-19 Thread Mr. Geek
Well, after a few hours of file-by-file comparison, I finally found the right icon. Turns out that it's called 'menuk-mdk.png'. A quick renaming of the icon I prefer (no, it's NOT the Windows 'Start' button!) and the problem was solved. Now, only 4 or 500 more icons to go, then I have to

Re: [newbie] Trouble with Nvu 0.90

2005-03-19 Thread Marv Boyes
I guess 9.2 just doesn't have the stones to do Nvu any more. Ah, well. 0.70 works _fairly_ well for me, though there are plenty of bugs. Thanks. Lee Wiggers wrote: On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 17:02:24 -0500 Marv Boyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This isn't strictly a Mandrake issue; and I apologize

[newbie] Adding Drives

2005-03-19 Thread Elwyn
Hiya Following on from my Samba Server question... I've fitted the drive, it's declared as hdb and I'd like to set it up for just files. I've tried to chose Journalised Etc3, ReiserFS, JFS or XFS. Which do I chose?? It would be nice if I can put it all as one partition?! Er, Thanks :) Elwyn

[newbie] src.rpm headaches.

2005-03-19 Thread James Henry Maiewski
Hello, I downloaded kdeutils-3.2.3-28.3.101mdk.src.rpm to see what I could see, but when I try to install it, it says everything already installed. If these are supposed to go in /usr(/local)/src they are empty. How is the installation of .src.rpm files supposed to work? With an

Re: [newbie] src.rpm headaches.

2005-03-19 Thread Greg Meyer
On Saturday 19 March 2005 09:01 am, James Henry Maiewski wrote: Hello, I downloaded kdeutils-3.2.3-28.3.101mdk.src.rpm to see what I could see, but when I try to install it, it says everything already installed. If these are supposed to go in /usr(/local)/src they are empty. How is

Re: [newbie] pdfripimage_script

2005-03-19 Thread RickSisler
Bill Winegarden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi, I have been trying to get this script working. Running the script on a small pdf file with three images results only in a copy.pdf that is optionally rm'd. However, there are no jpg's created. Has anyone used this script? It is about 30 or 40

Re: [newbie] src.rpm headaches.

2005-03-19 Thread Tom
James Henry Maiewski wrote: Hello, I downloaded kdeutils-3.2.3-28.3.101mdk.src.rpm to see what I could see, but when I try to install it, it says everything already installed. If these are supposed to go in /usr(/local)/src they are empty. How is the installation of .src.rpm files supposed

Re: [newbie] Updates

2005-03-19 Thread Smiley
On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 22:31:49 -0500 Julie Sloan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, since I have lots of room and empty partitions and all that, would it be feasible, practical, educational, destructive, or just plain stupid to have both 10.0 and 10.2 running on this box (along with nasty old WinXP)

Re: [newbie] Adding Drives

2005-03-19 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Elwyn wrote: Hiya Following on from my Samba Server question... I've fitted the drive, it's declared as hdb and I'd like to set it up for just files. I've tried to chose Journalised Etc3, ReiserFS, JFS or XFS. Which do I chose?? It would be nice if I can put it all as one partition?! Er, Thanks

Re: [newbie] Adding Drives

2005-03-19 Thread Elwyn
On Saturday 19 Mar 2005 15:25, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: What Journalized file system to pick is not a cut and dried decision. It depends on what kinds of data you are going to put on the drive, and who you are asking the question. So you will need to provide more information before you can

Re: [newbie] Samba Server

2005-03-19 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Elwyn wrote: Hiya Folks What I'd like to do is set up a shared area within our network that all our (family) music files are on, plus other bits and bobs, that will only share files for most of its hard drive. I've already got a working Samba place on this machine but I'm debating how to go

Re: [newbie] KDE 3.4

2005-03-19 Thread Pablo Ortuzar
On Saturday 19 March 2005 14:07, Paul Smith wrote: I do not know what is wrong, but after having added Thac as a media, when I run urpmi --auto-select nothing happens. Does the same happen with you? Paul No. 204 packages were going to be installed. Due to missed dependencies, none was.

Re: [newbie] Adding Drives

2005-03-19 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Elwyn wrote: On Saturday 19 Mar 2005 15:25, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: What Journalized file system to pick is not a cut and dried decision. It depends on what kinds of data you are going to put on the drive, and who you are asking the question. So you will need to provide more information before

Re: [newbie] src.rpm headaches.

2005-03-19 Thread Greg Meyer
On Saturday 19 March 2005 10:05 am, Tom wrote: James Henry Maiewski wrote: Hello, I downloaded kdeutils-3.2.3-28.3.101mdk.src.rpm to see what I could see, but when I try to install it, it says everything already installed. If these are supposed to go in /usr(/local)/src they are

Re: [newbie] KDE 3.4

2005-03-19 Thread Miark
On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 19:18:17 +0700, Fajar wrote: The last time I used Thac's RPMs for KDE, it was a nightmare, as it was for at least a few other people. Any reason to expect similar problems with 3.4 RPMs? I'm going to do the upgrade.. wish me luck :) You bet! Were you one those who

Re: [newbie] Adding Drives

2005-03-19 Thread Elwyn
On Saturday 19 Mar 2005 15:52, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Well, ext3 is probably a good choice. But I am not an expert on journalized file systems... As for the mount point, you do NOT want to use /usr for this. This option if for someone that is running out of room on /, and is adding space

Re: [newbie] Samba Server

2005-03-19 Thread Elwyn
Thanks, I'll keep looking into options... Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] KDE 3.4

2005-03-19 Thread Paul Smith
On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 16:44:36 +0100, Pablo Ortuzar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do not know what is wrong, but after having added Thac as a media, when I run urpmi --auto-select nothing happens. Does the same happen with you? No. 204 packages were going to be installed. Due to missed

[newbie] Checking the Internet activity

2005-03-19 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All Is there some way of seeing the Internet activity, i.e., the number of the connections and the implied programs? Thanks in advance, Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join

[newbie] KDE unable to start

2005-03-19 Thread Carlton Matthew
On my other PC I get teh message:- error trying to start KDE No write access to '/home/carlton/.ICEauthority' KDE is unable to start. On further investigation, the file appears to be owned by root how do I change ownership back to carlton? Thanks In Advance Carlton

Re: [newbie] Recommended DVD's for K3b

2005-03-19 Thread John or Margaret Montgomery
On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 11:44:07 -0600 Tom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nope! 'Big name', or well know brand names mean very little, more often, absolutely nothin! Practically no brand name media are made by the advertised vendor. The only way to know for sure who actually makes the disk

Re: [newbie] src.rpm headaches.

2005-03-19 Thread Tom
Greg Meyer wrote: On Saturday 19 March 2005 10:05 am, Tom wrote: James Henry Maiewski wrote: Hello, I downloaded kdeutils-3.2.3-28.3.101mdk.src.rpm to see what I could see, but when I try to install it, it says everything already installed. If these are supposed to go in /usr(/local)/src

Re: [newbie] src.rpm headaches.

2005-03-19 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Tom wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: On Saturday 19 March 2005 10:05 am, Tom wrote: James Henry Maiewski wrote: Hello, I downloaded kdeutils-3.2.3-28.3.101mdk.src.rpm to see what I could see, but when I try to install it, it says everything already installed. If these are supposed to go in

Re: [newbie] Checking the Internet activity

2005-03-19 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Sun, 2005-03-20 at 05:24, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All Is there some way of seeing the Internet activity, i.e., the number of the connections and the implied programs? Thanks in advance, Paul urpmi iptraf ...also trafshow, etherape, ethereal, nessus... -- stephen kuhn mobile:

[newbie] Updated plugins for Claws2

2005-03-19 Thread Charles A Edwards
Additional plugins for claws2 now available sylpheed-claws2-cachesaver-plugin-1.9.6_0.5-0.1010.1mdk.i586.rpm sylpheed-claws2-maildir-plugin-1.9.6_0.7-0.1010.1mdk.i586.rpm sylpheed-claws2-mailmbox-plugin-1.9.6_1.0-0.1010.1mdk.i586.rpm

[newbie] Cant find the printer

2005-03-19 Thread Carlton Matthew
Following previous advice, I added the line lp to the file /etc/modprobe.preload lsmod now gives [EMAIL PROTECTED] carlton]# lsmod Module Size Used by md5 3584 1 ipv6 230916 10 autofs415268 0 i810_audio 33236 0

Re: [newbie] Checking the Internet activity

2005-03-19 Thread Paul Smith
On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 06:07:22 +1100, Stephen Kühn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there some way of seeing the Internet activity, i.e., the number of the connections and the implied programs? urpmi iptraf ...also trafshow, etherape, ethereal, nessus... Thanks, Stephen and Mikkel. Paul

Re: [newbie] src.rpm headaches.

2005-03-19 Thread Tom
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Tom wrote: hmmm... tell me more. # rpm --rebuild mplayer-fonts-1.0-10mdk.src.rpm ... snip ... Wrote: /usr/src/RPM/RPMS/noarch/mplayer-fonts-1.0-10mdk.noarch.rpm Executing(%clean): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.1910 + umask 022 + cd /usr/src/RPM/BUILD + cd

Re: [newbie] Recommended DVD's for K3b

2005-03-19 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 19 Mar 2005 18:25, John or Margaret Montgomery wrote: On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 11:44:07 -0600 Tom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nope! 'Big name', or well know brand names mean very little, more often, absolutely nothin! Practically no brand name media are made by the advertised

Re: [newbie] src.rpm headaches.

2005-03-19 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Tom wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Tom wrote: hmmm... tell me more. # rpm --rebuild mplayer-fonts-1.0-10mdk.src.rpm ... snip ... Wrote: /usr/src/RPM/RPMS/noarch/mplayer-fonts-1.0-10mdk.noarch.rpm Executing(%clean): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.1910 + umask 022 + cd /usr/src/RPM/BUILD + cd

[newbie] Getting a screen-shot of the current window

2005-03-19 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All Could somebody please tell me how to get a screen-shot of the current window? Thanks in advance, Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club :

Re: [newbie] KDE unable to start

2005-03-19 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 19 Mar 2005 18:44, Carlton Matthew wrote: On my other PC I get teh message:- error trying to start KDE No write access to '/home/carlton/.ICEauthority' KDE is unable to start. On further investigation, the file appears to be owned by root how do I change ownership back to

Re: [newbie] Cant find the printer

2005-03-19 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 19 Mar 2005 19:28, Carlton Matthew wrote: Following previous advice, I added the line lp to the file /etc/modprobe.preload lsmod now gives [EMAIL PROTECTED] carlton]# lsmod Module Size Used by md5 3584 1 ipv6 230916 10

Re: [newbie] src.rpm headaches.

2005-03-19 Thread James Henry Maiewski
Hello, I thank you both for this information, but I'm not getting anything out of this package. the rpm --rebuild gives: error: kdeutils-3.2.3-28.3.101mdk.src.rpm cannot be installed the same happens with rpmbuild --rebuild (both as root and otherwise). I assume that the

Re: [newbie] Getting a screen-shot of the current window

2005-03-19 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 19 Mar 2005 19:49, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All Could somebody please tell me how to get a screen-shot of the current window? Ksnapshot - can take screen or window. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet?

Re: [newbie] Recommended DVD's for K3b

2005-03-19 Thread Tom
John or Margaret Montgomery wrote: On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 11:44:07 -0600 Tom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nope! 'Big name', or well know brand names mean very little, more often, absolutely nothin! Practically no brand name media are made by the advertised vendor. The only way to know for sure

Re: [newbie] Cant find the printer

2005-03-19 Thread Carlton Matthew
gt;From: Anne Wilson lt;[EMAIL PROTECTED]gt; gt;Reply-To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com gt;To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com gt;Subject: Re: [newbie] Cant find the printer gt;Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 19:50:51 + gt; gt;On Saturday 19 Mar 2005 19:28, Carlton Matthew wrote: gt; gt; Following previous

Re: [newbie] Recommended DVD's for K3b

2005-03-19 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Tom wrote: John or Margaret Montgomery wrote: On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 11:44:07 -0600 Tom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nope! 'Big name', or well know brand names mean very little, more often, absolutely nothin! Practically no brand name media are made by the advertised vendor. The only way to

Re: [newbie] src.rpm headaches.

2005-03-19 Thread Tom
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Tom wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Tom wrote: hmmm... tell me more. # rpm --rebuild mplayer-fonts-1.0-10mdk.src.rpm ... snip ... Wrote: /usr/src/RPM/RPMS/noarch/mplayer-fonts-1.0-10mdk.noarch.rpm Executing(%clean): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.1910 + umask 022

Re: [newbie] src.rpm headaches.

2005-03-19 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
James Henry Maiewski wrote: Hello, I thank you both for this information, but I'm not getting anything out of this package. the rpm --rebuild gives: error: kdeutils-3.2.3-28.3.101mdk.src.rpm cannot be installed the same happens with rpmbuild --rebuild (both as root and otherwise). I assume

Re: [newbie] src.rpm headaches.

2005-03-19 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Tom wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Well, on my 10.1 system, they are actualy in /usr/lib/rom/rpmpopt-4.2.2 and if I wanted to track it down, there is probably another file symlinked to it, that is defined in rpmrc, but I don't feel like going through all the effort. There are a lot of

Re: [newbie] Cant find the printer

2005-03-19 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Carlton Matthew wrote: Following previous advice, I added the line lp to the file /etc/modprobe.preload lsmod now gives [EMAIL PROTECTED] carlton]# lsmod Module Size Used by md5 3584 1 ipv6 230916 10 autofs415268 0

Re: [newbie] src.rpm headaches.

2005-03-19 Thread James Henry Maiewski
On Saturday 19 March 2005 3:12 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: What happens if you run rpm --checksig kdeutils-3.2.3-28.3.101mdk.src.rpm? This will check the package. Mikkel kdeutils-3.2-18.1.100mdk.src.rpm: (SHA1) DSA sha1 md5 (GPG) NOT OK (MISSING KEYS: GPG#22458a98) oh oh spaghetti-o!

Re: [newbie] Getting a screen-shot of the current window

2005-03-19 Thread riccardo
On Saturday 19 March 2005 07:49 pm, Paul Smith wrote: how to get a screen-shot of the current window? Ksnapshot will do fine ~ thus . . . Alt F2 [will open a 'Run' menu] enter: Ksnapshot . . . hit Enter best rgds ___

Re: [newbie] src.rpm headaches.

2005-03-19 Thread Tom
James Henry Maiewski wrote: Hello, I thank you both for this information, but I'm not getting anything out of this package. the rpm --rebuild gives: error: kdeutils-3.2.3-28.3.101mdk.src.rpm cannot be installed the same happens with rpmbuild --rebuild (both as root and otherwise). I assume

[newbie] still Cant find the printer :

2005-03-19 Thread Carlton Matthew
gt;Does /proc/sys/dev/parport/parport0/autoprobe show anything? /proc/sys/dev/parport/parport0/autoprobe is empty. PS the printer works fine under winXP gt;From: quot;Mikkel L. Ellertsonquot; lt;[EMAIL PROTECTED]gt; gt;Reply-To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com gt;To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com

Re: [newbie] Recommended DVD's for K3b

2005-03-19 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 19 Mar 2005 20:08, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: I usually put a pretty printed label on them anyway, so that is less of a problem. But one day I would like to get one of the printers that will print directly on CDs/DVDs. But they require printable CD blanks anyway. (I do have a bunch

Re: [newbie] Cant find the printer

2005-03-19 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 19 Mar 2005 20:07, Carlton Matthew wrote: gt;From: Anne Wilson lt;[EMAIL PROTECTED]gt; gt;Reply-To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com gt;To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com gt;Subject: Re: [newbie] Cant find the printer gt;Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 19:50:51 + gt; gt;On Saturday 19 Mar 2005

Re: [newbie] Getting a screen-shot of the current window

2005-03-19 Thread Paul Smith
On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 20:39:54 +, riccardo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: how to get a screen-shot of the current window? Ksnapshot will do fine Thanks, Anne and Riccardo. Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from

[newbie] Turn off computer only ends the session

2005-03-19 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All After having installed KDE 3.4 (which works fine), when I select turn off computer, it only ends the session. Any ideas? Thanks in advance, Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] src.rpm headaches.

2005-03-19 Thread Tom
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Tom wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Well, on my 10.1 system, they are actualy in /usr/lib/rom/rpmpopt-4.2.2 and if I wanted to track it down, there is probably another file symlinked to it, that is defined in rpmrc, but I don't feel like going through all the

Re: [newbie] src.rpm headaches.

2005-03-19 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Tom wrote: That was mostly for my own curiousity, specially since Greg an Mikkel have some misgiving about usin 'rpm --rebuild' All I can say is Works for Me an always has I think the point is more that rpm --rebuild is calling rpmbuild to do the work. Because if this, if you do not

RE: [newbie] Getting a screen-shot of the current window

2005-03-19 Thread Carlton Matthew
Paul Ksnapshot is the program you require. Carlton gt;From: Paul Smith lt;[EMAIL PROTECTED]gt; gt;Reply-To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com gt;To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com gt;Subject: [newbie] Getting a screen-shot of the current window gt;Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 19:49:01 + gt; gt;Dear All gt;

Re: [newbie] still Cant find the printer :

2005-03-19 Thread Anne Wilson
Carlton - most of us on this list use only plain text. Html is *very* ugly and difficult to read in a text-only reader. Please, for the list, don't use it. Anne On Saturday 19 Mar 2005 20:50, Carlton Matthew wrote: gt;Does /proc/sys/dev/parport/parport0/autoprobe show anything?

Re: [newbie] Recommended DVD's for K3b

2005-03-19 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 19 Mar 2005 20:08, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: I usually put a pretty printed label on them anyway, so that is less of a problem. But one day I would like to get one of the printers that will print directly on CDs/DVDs. But they require printable CD blanks anyway. (I

[newbie] Urpmi TWiki out of date

2005-03-19 Thread hackhound
Greetings, I was just looking at the Urpmi TWiki at http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/UsingUrpmi and It says to copy the base/ and Mandrake/ directories to a foler you create on the hard drive. My CDs (10.1) do not have these two folders, which leads me to believe the TWiki is out of

[newbie] printer problem solved

2005-03-19 Thread Carlton Matthew
using printer set-up in expert mode located the printer. Thanks for the help everyone Carlton Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] src.rpm headaches.

2005-03-19 Thread Tom
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Tom wrote: That was mostly for my own curiousity, specially since Greg an Mikkel have some misgiving about usin 'rpm --rebuild' All I can say is Works for Me an always has I think the point is more that rpm --rebuild is calling rpmbuild to do the work.

Re: [newbie] Getting a screen-shot of the current window

2005-03-19 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Saturday 19 March 2005 21:39, riccardo wrote: On Saturday 19 March 2005 07:49 pm, Paul Smith wrote: how to get a screen-shot of the current window? Ksnapshot will do fine ~ thus . . . Alt F2 [will open a 'Run' menu] enter: Ksnapshot . . . hit Enter best rgds

Re: [newbie] Recommended DVD's for K3b

2005-03-19 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 19 Mar 2005 21:13, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 19 Mar 2005 20:08, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: I usually put a pretty printed label on them anyway, so that is less of a problem. But one day I would like to get one of the printers that will print

[newbie] bad signatures

2005-03-19 Thread Carlton Matthew
Why Do I get bad signatures when attempting to upgrade packages using mandrakelinux update ? shouldn't this be the safest plave to get the software from Carlton Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] KDE 3.4

2005-03-19 Thread Pablo Ortuzar
On Saturday 19 March 2005 18:05, Paul Smith wrote: On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 16:44:36 +0100, Pablo Ortuzar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do not know what is wrong, but after having added Thac as a media, when I run urpmi --auto-select nothing happens. Does the same happen with you?

Re: [newbie] src.rpm headaches.

2005-03-19 Thread Greg Meyer
On Saturday 19 March 2005 01:59 pm, Tom wrote: 'hatched'? not sure what you mean Greg. I know what you meant, but I was just making light of the fact that you used the word contained when describing the src.rpm. I was trying to be funny. The src.rpm will build _all_ the rpms contained in

Re: [newbie] src.rpm headaches.

2005-03-19 Thread Greg Meyer
On Saturday 19 March 2005 01:59 pm, Tom wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: Not to be too picky, but technically, rpm is deprecated and rpmbuild --rebuild is preferred because it has been split into separate packages. hmmm... tell me more. # rpm --rebuild mplayer-fonts-1.0-10mdk.src.rpm ...

Re: [newbie] Getting a screen-shot of the current window

2005-03-19 Thread Aron Smith
On Sat, 2005-03-19 at 19:49 +, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All Could somebody please tell me how to get a screen-shot of the current window? Thanks in advance, Paul try ksnapshot Plain text document attachment (message.footer) Want

Re: [newbie] KDE 3.4

2005-03-19 Thread Mr. Geek
Guys, you're beating yourselves up for nothing on this. After you add Thac's RPM's to urpmi, take a moment to install the ICE desktop or some other one. Chances are that you'll have at least 2 desktop environments installed anyway. Log out of KDE, and log back in as root or a normal user, but

[newbie] Re: mp3s to wav/cd burning

2005-03-19 Thread Björn Lundin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, What do people use for making music cds from mp3s? if you like the cli, make wavs with this script, You do need sox and mpg123. from there burn the wavs as usual [EMAIL PROTECTED] mp3_lisa]$ cat /home/bnl/music/tools/mp32wav #!/bin/bash # mp32wav

Re: [newbie] bad signatures

2005-03-19 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Carlton Matthew wrote: Why Do I get bad signatures when attempting to upgrade packages using mandrakelinux update ? shouldn't this be the safest plave to get the software from Carlton It should be. Do you get it for all packages? One thing to watch for - it will give you the bad signature

Re: [newbie] Getting a screen-shot of the current window

2005-03-19 Thread Paul Smith
On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 18:03:50 -0500, Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could somebody please tell me how to get a screen-shot of the current window? try ksnapshot Thanks to all who have answered. Paul Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [newbie] src.rpm headaches.

2005-03-19 Thread Tom
Greg Meyer wrote: On Saturday 19 March 2005 01:59 pm, Tom wrote: Â Â 'hatched'? Â not sure what you mean Greg. I know what you meant, but I was just making light of the fact that you used the word contained when describing the src.rpm. I was trying to be funny. The src.rpm will build _all_

[newbie] External Harddrive question

2005-03-19 Thread Andrewd
OK, Here is what I have 80gig harddrive which I have place in a external case I cretaed a 6gig partition within Windows XP What I want to do on the external HD Create a 20gig partition - for work related files etc Create a 14gig partition - for work related files etc Create a 40gig partition

[newbie] RPMDrake

2005-03-19 Thread Robert Yu
After using noclean to keep the files into the directory, how will I be able to access the directory as normal user? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club :

Re: [newbie] FAT question

2005-03-19 Thread SnapafunFrank
Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Friday 18 March 2005 11:39, SnapafunFrank wrote: H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Friday 18 March 2005 09:47, SnapafunFrank wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Kaj Haulrich wrote: I've just got my hands on a 160 GB external USB hard disk. Now, this

Re: [newbie] FAT question

2005-03-19 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
SnapafunFrank wrote: One thing this newbie read somewhere is that /dev/sda? are not formatable ?? Can someone clarify this ? Ah... here it is: A key such as KERNEL=sd?1 would match KERNEL names such as sda1, sdb1, sdc1, and equally importantly, it will not match KERNEL names such as sda, sdb,

Re: [newbie] connecting camera using the PTP protocol

2005-03-19 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
On Saturday 19 Mar 2005 20:37, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 19 Mar 2005 02:18, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Yes - following the johnwyles instructions gives me the display on the camera as he describes ie USB connect, PTP. I've checked and double checked and libphoto2, gphoto2 and gtkam

Re: [newbie] connecting camera using the PTP protocol

2005-03-19 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
On Saturday 19 Mar 2005 15:53, Philippe Landau wrote: Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: I think, though, that if I plug on myself, I will continue going to Win for this function. Camera Sony DSC-W1/W12 nice camera, and officially supports MacOS X so unix/linux. you could simplify your

Re: [newbie] connecting camera using the PTP protocol

2005-03-19 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: On Saturday 19 Mar 2005 20:37, Anne Wilson wrote: Does HardDrake recognise the camera? Have you tried booting with it plugged in? (Not that you'd have to do that every time, but it sometimes helps to get something recognised in the first place.) I have often found

Re: [newbie] Doomed: KDE 3.4

2005-03-19 Thread fajarpri
Well, guys.. i'm doomed. After downloading the packages all night, urpmi cannot install kdebase libkde-common because of conflicts with kde3.2. Out of frustation, i removed kde3.2. :(( And now repeating the process again of downloading the packages all night.

memory card readers on USB (Re: [newbie] connecting camera using the PTP protocol

2005-03-19 Thread Philippe Landau
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: I think, though, that if I plug on myself, I will continue going to Win for this function. Camera Sony DSC-W1/W12 nice camera, and officially supports MacOS X so unix/linux. you could simplify your task by just connecting a (Memory Stick) card reader to your computer.

Re: [newbie] Doomed: KDE 3.4

2005-03-19 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, guys.. i'm doomed. After downloading the packages all night, urpmi cannot install kdebase libkde-common because of conflicts with kde3.2. Out of frustation, i removed kde3.2. :(( And now repeating the process again of downloading the packages all night. It cleared

Re: [newbie] connecting camera using the PTP protocol

2005-03-19 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
On Sunday 20 Mar 2005 13:51, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: On Saturday 19 Mar 2005 20:37, Anne Wilson wrote: Does HardDrake recognise the camera? Have you tried booting with it plugged in? (Not that you'd have to do that every time, but it sometimes helps to get

Re: memory card readers on USB (Re: [newbie] connecting camera using the PTP protocol

2005-03-19 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
On Sunday 20 Mar 2005 14:03, Philippe Landau wrote: Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: I think, though, that if I plug on myself, I will continue going to Win for this function. Camera Sony DSC-W1/W12 nice camera, and officially supports MacOS X so unix/linux. you could simplify your task

Re: [newbie] Which package contains GTK+ 1.2 or higher in 10.1

2005-03-19 Thread frengoGorgia
Il lun, 2005-03-14 alle 14:49, Antony Paul ha scritto: Hi all, I tried to compile gcvs availiable from wincvs.org. While configuring it is saying that checking for GTK - version = 1.2.0... no *** The gtk-config script installed by GTK could not be found *** If GTK was installed in

Re: memory card readers on USB (Re: [newbie] connecting camera using the PTP protocol

2005-03-19 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
On Sunday 20 Mar 2005 14:54, Philippe Landau wrote: you could simplify your task by just connecting a (Memory Stick) card reader to your computer. your camera support USB 1 and the much faster USB 2. Found a card reader - NZ$30 and linux compatible. Probably will buy one great. people

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2005-03-19 Thread Prem Vilas Fortran Rara
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