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2002-11-29 Thread Ronnie Boyd
Thanks to all who offered me advice on LinNeighborhood, very much appreciated. After installing the suggested Development tools, LinNeighborhood installed ok. I can load it, scan the lan, and it lists the windows pc's it finds. However, although it finds the pc's, it lists only the names and NOT

[newbie]

2002-11-29 Thread Ronnie Boyd
Scratch the request below folks, just realised I had to change the username when browsing. Cheery -- Forwarded by Ronnie Boyd/UK/IBM on 29/11/2002 14:55 --- Ronnie Boyd/UK/IBM@[EMAIL PROTECTED] on 29/11/2002 14:42:01 Please respond to [EMAIL

[newbie] Problems getting bzip2 to work......

2002-11-28 Thread Ronnie Boyd
Hello there. I am a long term Windows user/tech support person who has recently installed Mandrake Linux, partly out of curiosity, partly because I feel it's the coming thing. I managed to install it, get it on our training LAN, mount drives and what not without any bother, but I've run into a

Re: [newbie] Problems getting bzip2 to work......

2002-11-28 Thread Ronnie Boyd
Thanks! The j switch did the job and unzipped the bz2 file, creating the LinNeighborhood directory without problem. However, when I then try the following commands, I get error messages ./configure make make install [root@derfel LinNeighborhood-0.6.5]# ./configure checking for a BSD compatible

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2002-11-28 Thread Ronnie Boyd
Have run into a dead end with LinNeighborhood and don't know what I'm doing wrong. Did the...tar -xjvf LinNeighborhood-0.6.5.tar.bz2 It creates the LinNeighborhood directory ok, but nothing else. I'm not sure if executable should be installed at this time in /usr/local/bin/ I try

Re: [newbie]

2002-11-28 Thread Ronnie Boyd
, Ronnie Boyd wrote: Have run into a dead end with LinNeighborhood and don't know what I'm doing wrong. Did you get Alan Shoemaker's post? I think you would be well to try it. In case you didn't, here is the important bit: /quote instead, why not download and install the mdk9 rpm file from one