Re: [newbie] I feel so stupid

2003-06-17 Thread Inhabitant of Zion
Hi I tried that! It went like this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]# rpm -Uvh urpmi-4.3-15mdk.noarch.rpm error: failed dependencies: perl-URPM = 0.90-10mdk is needed by urpmi-4.3-15mdk perl(Locale::gettext) is needed by urpmi-4.3-15mdk perl(POSIX) is needed by urpmi-4.3-15mdk

Re: [newbie] I feel so stupid

2003-06-17 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday June 17 2003 12:59 am, Inhabitant of Zion wrote: I tried that! It went like this: many many dep failures snipped At this point I decided it was time to go make myself a nice strong cup of tea! John Maybe I wasn't clear enough. The latest version is in cooker and will only

Re: [newbie] I feel so stupid

2003-06-16 Thread Inhabitant of Zion
Hi Yes technically I gree. However I find that often it flags conflicts which are really dependancy problems. I think it gets confused sometimes with 3rd level dependancies (i.e. the dependancy for the rpm you are installing also need dependancies satisfying). Anybody else confirm correct me on

Re: [newbie] I feel so stupid

2003-06-16 Thread JoeHill
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 07:27:36 +0100 Inhabitant of Zion [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: However I find that often it flags conflicts which are really dependancy problems. I think it gets confused sometimes with 3rd level dependancies (i.e. the dependancy for the rpm you are installing also need

Re: [newbie] I feel so stupid

2003-06-16 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Monday June 16 2003 01:27 am, Inhabitant of Zion wrote: However I find that often it flags conflicts which are really dependancy problems. I think it gets confused sometimes with 3rd level dependancies (i.e. the dependancy for the rpm you are installing also need dependancies satisfying).

Re: [newbie] I feel so stupid

2003-06-16 Thread Inhabitant of Zion
9.2? Jeez you guys work hard! Don't seem very long at all since i downloaded 9.1. Its no wonder people like Miscrosoft look at Linux and think this is too good to be true. It really is. I like mandrake been using it since version 7 but only really got into it properly recently when I decided

Re: [newbie] I feel so stupid

2003-06-15 Thread Ralph Bagwell
Hi Joe, I have gaim up and working just fine with AOL,MSN and Yahoo messenger programs. I was never able to follow your instructions using urpmi - I tried : urpmi.addmedia texstar ftp://ftp.bahcesehir.edu.tr/pub/texstar/mandrake/9.1/rpms with hdlist.cz many times and never got it to work. I

Re: [newbie] I feel so stupid

2003-06-15 Thread JoeHill
On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 13:23:34 -0500 Ralph Bagwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Question is why is this not the preferred method of installing new software - ? Am I missing something ? *Normally* urpmi is a lot easier. Texstar has had problems with his mirrors intermittently over the last month or

Re: [newbie] I feel so stupid

2003-06-15 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 15 Jun 2003 7:23 pm, Ralph Bagwell wrote: Hi Joe, I have gaim up and working just fine with AOL,MSN and Yahoo messenger programs. I was never able to follow your instructions using urpmi - I tried : urpmi.addmedia texstar ftp://ftp.bahcesehir.edu.tr/pub/texstar/mandrake/9.1/rpms

Re: [newbie] I feel so stupid

2003-06-15 Thread revolt
Ralph Bagwell wrote: Hi Joe, I have gaim up and working just fine with AOL,MSN and Yahoo messenger programs. Glad to hear it. Hope it works well for you, it has for me on the few occassions i wanted to use it. I was never able to follow your instructions using urpmi - I tried : urpmi.addmedia

Re: [newbie] I feel so stupid

2003-06-14 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 10:40, Ralph Bagwell wrote: I am still embarrassed to post because you newbies seem light years ahead of me - oh well. I downloaded and installed with zero problems amsn a messenger program very like Windows Messenger. I actually swapped a few lines with a friend. I

Re: [newbie] I feel so stupid

2003-06-14 Thread Inhabitant of Zion
Hi Another great program for MSN and ICQ (and some other protocols too) is Kopete. You get to do everything with one program. If you have Mandrake 9.1 you can get the URPMI from the club site. I have version 6.2 on here and you get all the links in start menu (for those who need them). John

Re: [newbie] I feel so stupid

2003-06-14 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 14 Jun 2003 1:40 am, Ralph Bagwell wrote: I am still embarrassed to post because you newbies seem light years ahead of me - oh well. Some of us feel to be newbies for a *verrry* long time g But it's not so long since we took our first steps that we've forgotten g (PS Anne, I

Re: [newbie] I feel so stupid

2003-06-14 Thread Ralph Bagwell
Sure thing. My smb.conf file is at /etc/samba/ . It says under [printers] path = /var/spool/samba and yes my jobs are there. It also says workgroup = MDKGROUP under [global] Is this file editable? And does it config samba ? Ralph - could you look at /etc/smb.conf to see where it is locating

Re: [newbie] I feel so stupid

2003-06-14 Thread Ralph Bagwell
Thanks a lot Joe BUT: I have the program running but can only get AOL to work. I have only two options AOL/ICQ and TOC (whatever that is) as proocols available,. I was unable to follow your instructions on setting up the urpmi deal. But I now know how to make the amsn program run - which gives

Re: [newbie] I feel so stupid

2003-06-14 Thread Ralph Bagwell
Really great help derek - thanks ralph How do I get an icon on the desktop that runs the program ? ./amsn means run the application amsn which will be found in the current directory. It would also work if you typed /path/to/directory/amsn In Linux any file can be executable if the

Re: [newbie] I feel so stupid

2003-06-14 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 14 Jun 2003 2:57 pm, Ralph Bagwell wrote: Sure thing. My smb.conf file is at /etc/samba/ . It says under [printers] path = /var/spool/samba and yes my jobs are there. It also says workgroup = MDKGROUP under [global] Is this file editable? And does it config samba ? It does,

Re: [newbie] I feel so stupid

2003-06-14 Thread revolt
Ralph Bagwell wrote: Thanks a lot Joe BUT: I have the program running but can only get AOL to work. I have only two options AOL/ICQ and TOC (whatever that is) as proocols available,. I was unable to follow your instructions on setting up the urpmi deal. But I now know how to make the amsn

Re: [newbie] I feel so stupid

2003-06-13 Thread revolt
Ralph Bagwell wrote: I am still embarrassed to post because you newbies seem light years ahead of me - oh well. I downloaded and installed with zero problems amsn a messenger program very like Windows Messenger. I actually swapped a few lines with a friend. I closed Konqueror and promptly my