Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems

2005-01-22 Thread Julie Sloan
Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 22 Jan 2005 12:41, Lanman wrote: Don't forget to save your ".Mail" folder as well as your std.vcf file, documents and any other media or data you'd like to save. If you need help setting up a second hard drive on this PC, just holler back to the list or to me "off-lis

Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems

2005-01-22 Thread Julie Sloan
Lanman wrote: Julie; Margot asked me to drop in and lend a hand if possible. I've had a quick look at the thread in order to catch up. If I understand things clearly, you were trying to do a 10.0 update, but accidentally did an update using 10.1 sources and now several things are broken. Hi Lanm

Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems

2005-01-22 Thread Julie Sloan
Margot wrote: Julie, I suggest you start new threads for each new problem you encounter - I can't help with Kmail addressbook as I've never used Kmail, and I don't even use KDE - but if you start a thread marked "lost Kmail addressbook" I'm sure that someone here will be able to help you find it

Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems

2005-01-22 Thread Julie Sloan
Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 22 Jan 2005 04:35, Julie Sloan wrote: There should be a text file with that info in your ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail/addressbook or something like that I don't use kmail. Open it in a terminal and you should have your info. thank you Mike, but no, no addrbook in

Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems

2005-01-22 Thread Julie Sloan
Stephen Kühn wrote: On Sat, 2005-01-22 at 15:38, Julie Sloan wrote: when I run rpmdrake I get this: IF it were me, at this stage, I would backup what I could, and format the HD and start fresh. I came to the same conclusion after sleeping on it. Thankfully K3b still works! thanks, Julie

Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems

2005-01-21 Thread Julie Sloan
Stephen Kühn wrote: MCC won't open? Gnome is broken? That definitely sounds like some problems. Can you run rpmdrake? Does that do anything? Because I'm wondering if perl might be borked. when I run rpmdrake I get this: $ rpmdrake Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "gal

Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems

2005-01-21 Thread Julie Sloan
mike wrote: Julie Sloan wrote: Aron Smith wrote: On Friday 21 January 2005 02:13 pm, Julie Sloan wrote: fine so far, but then !AAACK!! restarting urpmi One of the following packages is needed: 1- masqmail-0.2.18-3mdk.i586 : Offline Mail Transfert Agent (to install) 2- ssmtp-2.60.7

Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems

2005-01-21 Thread Julie Sloan
Stephen Kühn wrote: On Sat, 2005-01-22 at 13:04, Julie Sloan wrote: KMail and Kontact will not open. My addressbook is in KMail. I am using Mozilla now, and that is fine, but I need to get into KMail to get my addresses and contact information! Cannot get into MCC No screensavers Gnome

Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems

2005-01-21 Thread Julie Sloan
Aron Smith wrote: On Friday 21 January 2005 02:13 pm, Julie Sloan wrote: restarting urpmi One of the following packages is needed: 1- masqmail-0.2.18-3mdk.i586 : Offline Mail Transfert Agent (to install) 2- ssmtp-2.60.7-1mdk.i586 : A minimal mail-transfer agent which forwards mail to an SMTP

Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems

2005-01-21 Thread Julie Sloan
Aron Smith wrote: On Friday 21 January 2005 02:13 pm, Julie Sloan wrote: fine so far, but then !AAACK!! restarting urpmi One of the following packages is needed: 1- masqmail-0.2.18-3mdk.i586 : Offline Mail Transfert Agent (to install) 2- ssmtp-2.60.7-1mdk.i586 : A minimal mail-transfer

Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems

2005-01-21 Thread Julie Sloan
Aron Smith wrote: On Friday 21 January 2005 08:42 am, Julie Sloan wrote: Aron Smith wrote: On Thursday 20 January 2005 09:26 pm, Julie Sloan wrote: Julie if I may chime in get 10.0 right first then try upgrading to 10.1 much easier BTW do you have broadband ? What I've done is in my igno

Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems

2005-01-21 Thread Julie Sloan
Aron Smith wrote: On Thursday 20 January 2005 09:26 pm, Julie Sloan wrote: Julie if I may chime in get 10.0 right first then try upgrading to 10.1 much easier BTW do you have broadband ? What I've done is in my ignorance begun updating 10.1 when what I had was six-month-old 10.0 installed

Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems

2005-01-20 Thread Julie Sloan
Julie if I may chime in get 10.0 right first then try upgrading to 10.1 much easier BTW do you have broadband ? What I've done is in my ignorance begun updating 10.1 when what I had was six-month-old 10.0 installed from discs. The 10.0 was fine :( until I messed it up with this "update." No

Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems

2005-01-20 Thread Julie Sloan
Aron Smith wrote: On Thursday 20 January 2005 04:52 pm, Julie Sloan wrote: I hate reverse gear, so if I can get some advice along the way I'll just plan to plow ahead... Julie if I may chime in get 10.0 right first then try upgrading to 10.1 much easier BTW do you have broadband ? Hi Aro

Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems

2005-01-20 Thread Julie Sloan
Lanman wrote: Margot wrote: Julie Sloan wrote: Aha. Yes. Oops. Help? Julie OK Julie, decision time! You have vital parts of Mandrake missing (Mandrake Control Center) as well as vital parts of KDE. You can go one of 2 ways: - Complete reinstall of 10.0 from the CDs (wipe out absolutely

Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems

2005-01-20 Thread Julie Sloan
Margot wrote: Julie Sloan wrote: Margot wrote: On another list you mentioned that you bought the Mandrake CDs last summer - as 10.1 didn't exist then, are the CDs for 10.0? Because you now say you're running 10.1 - did you just install 10.0 from the CDs and then set your urpmi s

Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems

2005-01-20 Thread Julie Sloan
Margot wrote: First, check what version of kdebase you have installed - if any! Open the Mandrake Control Center, Unable to run the command specified. The file or folder file:/usr/share/applnk-mdk/System/Configuration/Configure your computer.desktop does not exist. Then, report back here...

[newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems

2005-01-19 Thread Julie Sloan
Hi all - - I see this mentioned in the Cooker archives, May and December 2003, but if someone also posted a solution I either missed it or am too dense to recognize it for what it is. FWIW the archive subject lines are: [Cooker] urpmi bug or not? (probably something with virtual packages...) and

Re: [newbie] KDE won't open folders but Gnome will

2004-08-12 Thread Julie Sloan
On Thursday 12 August 2004 01:34 pm, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > On Thursday 12 August 2004 12:14, Julie Sloan wrote: > > > I've got a desktop set up just for stuff I need to > > read & learn (it's crammed full), > > I guess we all have such a file mine is 11.8MB

Re: [newbie] KDE won't open folders but Gnome will

2004-08-12 Thread Julie Sloan
On Wednesday 11 August 2004 06:12 pm, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > On Monday 09 August 2004 12:50, Julie Sloan wrote: > > thanks for your help.Right now I'm in command-line > > culture-shock, but luckily I don't have a deadline to get > > comfortable with it. > >

Re: [newbie] Connecting to the net

2004-08-10 Thread Julie Sloan
On Monday 09 August 2004 07:42 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote: > On Monday 09 August 2004 07:19 pm, jedson wrote: > >After working through the program, providing the info they > > wanted as well as I could, I clicked the button to test the > > connection. Got the message "The system doesn't seem to be > >

Re: [newbie] [OT] Oooooh! That's gotta hurt!

2004-08-09 Thread Julie Sloan
On Monday 09 August 2004 08:19 pm, JoeHill wrote: > On Mon, 9 Aug 2004 16:58:31 -0400 > > Julie Sloan disseminated the following: > > Maybe I'm just lucky? :) > > Very lucky. I have a saying, kinda nasty, but... > > 'Running XP without a firewall is like bend

Re: AW: [newbie] Email Client

2004-08-09 Thread Julie Sloan
On Monday 09 August 2004 06:03 pm, Sebastian Martin wrote: > If you use two different mail programms or just two different > installtions of the same email client, your solution would only > have the incomming mails in both programms, it would not help to > have a common history of the emails sent

Re: [newbie] [OT] Oooooh! That's gotta hurt!

2004-08-09 Thread Julie Sloan
On Monday 09 August 2004 03:08 pm, Thereidos wrote: > Dnia pon 9. sierpnia 2004 19:55, Julie Sloan napisaÅ: > > > > > > > So... if I do occasionally go online on the winxp side (but with > > the Mozilla or N7 browser) and I don't have IE on "quickstart&

Re: [newbie] [OT] Oooooh! That's gotta hurt!

2004-08-09 Thread Julie Sloan
On Monday 09 August 2004 04:18 pm, JoeHill wrote: > On Mon, 9 Aug 2004 15:23:23 -0400 > > > > > Well, all I can say is, my wife's machine is a default install > > of XP, has been for a few years, and we've never had a virus, > > worm, or otherwise. The only thing protecting the box is my > > firewa

Re: [newbie] Email Client

2004-08-09 Thread Julie Sloan
On Monday 09 August 2004 03:31 pm, Rob Toner wrote: > Wondering if anyone has been able to run a single email client > that can be used for both Windoze and Linux?I'm looking to > dual boot between Win 2K and Mandrake. However, maintaining two > seperate email clients is getting ugly. My IS

Re: [newbie] [OT] Oooooh! That's gotta hurt!

2004-08-09 Thread Julie Sloan
On Monday 09 August 2004 12:47 pm, JoeHill wrote: > I've had to roll back a few client's machines already when they > stopped functioning properly after doing a full 'Windows Update', > so I'm not surprised at this: > dumb question #8765432: I haven't used IE while online in years, but do have it

Re: [newbie] KDE won't open folders but Gnome will

2004-08-09 Thread Julie Sloan
On Monday 09 August 2004 12:30 pm, Charlie Mahan wrote: > On Sunday 08 August 2004 21:52:09, Julie Sloan wrote: > > > That was my fault. When I install a system one of the first things > I do is change the display manager from mdkkdm to kdm. don't tell me how - maybe I&

Re: [newbie] KDE won't open folders but Gnome will

2004-08-08 Thread Julie Sloan
On Sun, 2004-08-08 at 18:06, Stephen Kühn wrote: > On Mon, 2004-08-09 at 06:06, Julie Sloan wrote: > > Someone please point me in the right direction - Yesterday suddenly I > > wasn't able to open folders in the KDE GUI anymore. Hop on over to > > Gnome and they open j

Re: [newbie] KDE won't open folders but Gnome will

2004-08-08 Thread Julie Sloan
On Sun, 2004-08-08 at 17:25, Charlie Mahan wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sunday 08 August 2004 14:06:02, Julie Sloan wrote: > > Someone please point me in the right direction - Yesterday suddenly I > > wasn't able to open folders in

[newbie] KDE won't open folders but Gnome will

2004-08-08 Thread Julie Sloan
Someone please point me in the right direction - Yesterday suddenly I wasn't able to open folders in the KDE GUI anymore. Hop on over to Gnome and they open just fine. How did I screw this up? Uh, and how did I manage to change my line width to 45 characters (in Ximian)? thanks, J -- "...al

Re: [newbie] modem problems - speak slowly please

2004-08-06 Thread Julie Sloan
simon wrote: On Friday 06 Aug 2004 04:33, Julie Sloan wrote: now in GUI... in MCC -> hardware -> hardware ...the modem is *still* listed as "unknown device." in MCC -> network -> make new connection ...I tell it modem, com3 (yes, 3), automatic on the IP, DNS, etc Julie, a

Re: [newbie] modem problems - speak slowly please

2004-08-06 Thread Julie Sloan
simon wrote: On Friday 06 Aug 2004 04:33, Julie Sloan wrote: The modem's a conexant hsf and I've d/l'd the apropriate driver from the linuxant site into the window$ partition Hi Julie, I have a Conexant modem running on Mdk10. It is an hcf modem and I also downloaded the

Re: [newbie] modem problems - speak slowly please

2004-08-06 Thread Julie Sloan
Bryan Phinney wrote: http://pricewatch.com and search for external 56k modem and you will find a list of places that are currently selling a cendyne external serial modem for around $17 US. Granted, that is not a top of the line modem, but it uses an equivalent chipset to a Zoom external seria

Re: [newbie] modem problems - speak slowly please

2004-08-06 Thread Julie Sloan
Bryan Phinney wrote: On Friday 06 August 2004 05:54 am, simon wrote: Julie, as the Mandrake Control Centre didn't recognise my hcf modem, it would not configure my internet connection properly. I used Kppp dialer instead and manually configured (most settings are default). http://pricewatch.com a

Re: [newbie] tools for partitioning and formatting hard drive(diatribe alert)

2004-08-06 Thread Julie Sloan
Margot wrote: Julie Sloan wrote: PS I am here because someone on the linuxchix mailing list said this is a good forum for newbies Glad you made it over here, Julie - welcome! Margot Thanks for pointing me here, Margot - you probably thought I forgot. That's why I seem to have so much cl

Re: [newbie] tools for partitioning and formatting hard drive(diatribe alert)

2004-08-05 Thread Julie Sloan
Tomas Tudja wrote: 1. you really are not? I can't believe that :> ! Well, 1) I haven't been here very long (just today) ...and 2) I'm 99.9% sure you speak english better than I speak your first language. 2. I am running winxp2k2 in vmware virtual machine. Vmware is running on mdk10.1. Connectio

Re: [newbie] tools for partitioning and formatting hard drive(diatribe alert)

2004-08-05 Thread Julie Sloan
Tomas Tudja wrote: Are really everybody upset because of me? I just wanted to demonstrate the topic. I though it will be a good help for the people to understand the problem. I'm not :) BTW what is wrong with outlook? Aha even I can answer that. Outlook Express is the most virus-prone program

[newbie] modem problems - speak slowly please

2004-08-05 Thread Julie Sloan
Hi - my first post to this forum. I've been trying to inhale all the information out there and so far have made it through just a few of the info & man pages. I'm on mandrake 10.0 official, got both KDE and Gnome running (but trying to make this work from the KDE GUI) dual booting with WinXP

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