Re: [newbie] US Patents coming to a place near you...

2005-02-16 Thread Michaël Van Dorpe
While I agree that this is an important issue and that you are all on the right side, I think that you cannot deny that talking about the EU-politburo is FUD as well. Giving examples of patents on sandwiches, one-click ordering systems or browser-plugins is not the way to go either, however stupid

[newbie] Alt-F2 Openoffice

2005-01-24 Thread Michaël Van Dorpe
I just removed Openoffice 1.1.3 from my system, downloaded the latest 1.9.etc snapshot and installed it. I found out I can open Openoffice by Alt-F2 'soffice'. However, this is a pure coincidence that I found out about this. What is the right way to find out about this? Is there a list of

Re: [newbie] Alt-F2 Openoffice

2005-01-24 Thread Michaël Van Dorpe
Thanks to the both of you, that was very helpfull. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: Fwd: [newbie] first linux install: double clicking 'home' doesn't do anything

2005-01-23 Thread Michaël Van Dorpe
The packages are downloaded to /var/cache/urpmi/rpms and removed when the install is finished. Check that directory (you will need to su to root) and if you have a slew of packages there try to install them, one at a time, until you see which packages can't be installed. This should tell you

[newbie] man, man, man

2005-01-23 Thread Michaël Van Dorpe
Quick question: when I type 'man man' in Konsole, and I don't want to read it, but instead I want to go to 'man rpm', how do I do that? The only way I found to do that now was starting a new Konsole session... there surely must be a better way, no? Thanks!

Re: [newbie] man, man, man

2005-01-23 Thread Michaël Van Dorpe
type man rpm instad of man man That was just an example... imagine I first want to read 'man rpm' and then I want to go to 'man man'... Do I have to close the first man for that? I was expecting a $ at the end of the last page of any man I am reading... I guess my question is not very clear,

Re: [newbie] man, man, man

2005-01-23 Thread Michaël Van Dorpe
If you are using KDE then enter #rpm in the Konqueror URL line and you will see the manual. oh, that looks much better! Thank you, I'll use Konqueror for this from now on... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

[newbie] first linux install: double clicking 'home' doesn't do anything

2005-01-22 Thread Michaël Van Dorpe
I just removed Windows XP pro from my Dell Inspiron 5100 (PIV 2.4, 512MB ram) and installed Mandrake 10.1 'powerpack'. The 'starter guide' said I would find Mozilla in Internet/Browsers, but that is not the case. So, I tried to launch Konqueror from the, uhm, (*looks in manual*), oh yes, the

Fwd: [newbie] first linux install: double clicking 'home' doesn't do anything

2005-01-22 Thread Michaël Van Dorpe
of an e-mail to the whole list. Thanks for your help! -- Forwarded message -- From: Rick Kunath [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 15:07:43 -0500 Subject: Re: [newbie] first linux install: double clicking 'home' doesn't do anything To: Michaël Van Dorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Fwd: [newbie] first linux install: double clicking 'home' doesn't do anything

2005-01-22 Thread Michaël Van Dorpe
You need Security and Bug Fixes. It's a bit download, that first time, but it won't ever be as big a that again. So I downloaded the 191 files or 691MB... unfortunately one of those files was corrupted or something, and I tried to install (and download) those security and bug fixes in batches

Re: Fwd: [newbie] first linux install: double clicking 'home' doesn't do anything

2005-01-22 Thread Michaël Van Dorpe
David E. Fox wrote: install these, I get messages about invalid signatures and even when I ignore those, the installation still doesn't work. You usually can ignore the sigs. But what error messages do you get when you try installing these files? I installed most of the bug fixes and