[newbie] Updating with RPM drake

2005-04-06 Thread Owen
My installation is straight forward. Aside from updates from the mirror no other software has been installed or modified. For a few months I did not touched my Mandrake box. Now when I attempt to use RPM drake for updates I get messages with the error that the packages have bad signatures.

Re: [newbie] Updating with RPM drake

2005-04-06 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Owen wrote: My installation is straight forward. Aside from updates from the mirror no other software has been installed or modified. For a few months I did not touched my Mandrake box. Now when I attempt to use RPM drake for updates I get messages with the error that the packages have bad

Re: [newbie] Updating your Free Mandrakelinux

2005-03-27 Thread Robert Yu
http://www.zarb.org/~trem/easyurpmi/ Willl this site update my Linux? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

[newbie] Updating your Free Mandrakelinux

2005-03-26 Thread Robert Yu
What's a good way of updating your free version of Mandrake? I've only thought of two: - using a higher version of a Mandrake CD - updating through updating programs - others? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] Updating your Free Mandrakelinux

2005-03-26 Thread Greg Meyer
%^$#*^$ing gmail users :p On Saturday 26 March 2005 08:55 am, Robert Yu wrote: What's a good way of updating your free version of Mandrake? I've only thought of two: - using a higher version of a Mandrake CD - updating through updating programs - others? My favorite way is to change my

Re: [newbie] Updating Webmin.

2004-11-06 Thread Graham Watkins
Greg Meyer wrote: On Friday 05 November 2004 09:51 am, Stew Benedict wrote: On Thu, 4 Nov 2004, Simon Utley wrote: When I install the webmin update (webmin-1.121-4.2.100mdk.noarch) I find that I can access Webmin and all seems to work OK except I cannot access 'Scheduled Cron Jobs'. I get the

Re: [newbie] Updating Webmin.

2004-11-06 Thread Stew Benedict
On Sat, 6 Nov 2004, Graham Watkins wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: Stew, this bug exists in Cooker too. I reported it as bug #12129, so if you fix it in 10.0, please fix it in 10.1 and cooker also? I've just updated Webmin on my 9.2 installation and am having the same problem. Will

Re: [newbie] Updating Webmin.

2004-11-05 Thread Stew Benedict
On Thu, 4 Nov 2004, Simon Utley wrote: When I install the webmin update (webmin-1.121-4.2.100mdk.noarch) I find that I can access Webmin and all seems to work OK except I cannot access 'Scheduled Cron Jobs'. I get the following messageAn error occurred while loading

Re: [newbie] Updating Webmin.

2004-11-05 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Sat, 2004-11-06 at 01:51, Stew Benedict wrote: On Thu, 4 Nov 2004, Simon Utley wrote: When I install the webmin update (webmin-1.121-4.2.100mdk.noarch) I find that I can access Webmin and all seems to work OK except I cannot access 'Scheduled Cron Jobs'. I get the following messageAn

Re: [newbie] Updating Webmin.

2004-11-05 Thread Stew Benedict
On Sat, 6 Nov 2004, Stephen [ISO-8859-1] Kühn wrote: FYI: It is always best to upgrade/update Webmin THROUGH Webmin - sometimes doing it outside (via RPM or what have you) can break modules (of which cron is); therefore, when you want to update try to do so whilst in Webmin (along with

Re: [newbie] Updating Webmin.

2004-11-05 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Sat, 2004-11-06 at 02:37, Stew Benedict wrote: On Sat, 6 Nov 2004, Stephen [ISO-8859-1] Khn wrote: FYI: It is always best to upgrade/update Webmin THROUGH Webmin - sometimes doing it outside (via RPM or what have you) can break modules (of which cron is); therefore, when you want to

Re: [newbie] Updating Webmin.

2004-11-05 Thread Simon Utley
On Friday 05 Nov 2004 14:51, Stew Benedict wrote: On Thu, 4 Nov 2004, Simon Utley wrote: When I install the webmin update (webmin-1.121-4.2.100mdk.noarch) I find that I can access Webmin and all seems to work OK except I cannot access 'Scheduled Cron Jobs'. I get the following messageAn

Re: [newbie] Updating Webmin.

2004-11-05 Thread Greg Meyer
On Friday 05 November 2004 09:51 am, Stew Benedict wrote: On Thu, 4 Nov 2004, Simon Utley wrote: When I install the webmin update (webmin-1.121-4.2.100mdk.noarch) I find that I can access Webmin and all seems to work OK except I cannot access 'Scheduled Cron Jobs'. I get the following

Re: [newbie] Updating Webmin.

2004-11-05 Thread Stew Benedict
On Sat, 6 Nov 2004, Stephen [ISO-8859-1] Kühn wrote: Webmin is standalone from the entire RPM system structure - bear in mind that it is autonomous to your distro - it is a tool that is able to adminster almost any *nix system - and can be kept from the local system's package database.

Re: [newbie] Updating Webmin.

2004-11-05 Thread Stew Benedict
On Fri, 5 Nov 2004, Greg Meyer wrote: On Friday 05 November 2004 09:51 am, Stew Benedict wrote: On Thu, 4 Nov 2004, Simon Utley wrote: When I install the webmin update (webmin-1.121-4.2.100mdk.noarch) I find that I can access Webmin and all seems to work OK except I cannot access

[newbie] Updating Webmin.

2004-11-04 Thread Simon Utley
When I install the webmin update (webmin-1.121-4.2.100mdk.noarch) I find that I can access Webmin and all seems to work OK except I cannot access 'Scheduled Cron Jobs'. I get the following messageAn error occurred while loading https://localhost:1/cron/index.cgi: Connection to host

[newbie] Updating MPlayer

2004-10-31 Thread JoeHill
I've seen that the version of MPlayer on the PLF repository is way ahead of mine. I'm currently running 9.2, and what I would like to do is upgrade to the latest version of *everything*, ie. all the codecs, etc. When I originally installed mplayer way back when, it automagically installed all

Re: [newbie] Updating the system after install

2004-10-01 Thread Derek Jennings
On Thursday 30 September 2004 23:22, Andrew Konosky wrote: Hello, I just downloaded the 1st install CD of Mandrake 10.1 community because I wanted to try out this distro. I have an old computer that some other distros seemed to have some trouble with, but MandrakeMove booted fine from CD, so

[newbie] Updating the system after install

2004-09-30 Thread Andrew Konosky
Hello, I just downloaded the 1st install CD of Mandrake 10.1 community because I wanted to try out this distro. I have an old computer that some other distros seemed to have some trouble with, but MandrakeMove booted fine from CD, so I deciced to try the full OS on it. Since I only installed

Re: [newbie] Updating the media cooker from the command line

2004-08-23 Thread Greg Meyer
On Monday 23 August 2004 07:18 am, Paul Smith wrote: How to update the media cooker from the command line? Assuming it is already set up and it is called cooker urpmi.update cooker -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?

Re: [newbie] Updating the media cooker from the command line

2004-08-23 Thread Paul Smith
Greg Meyer wrote: How to update the media cooker from the command line? Assuming it is already set up and it is called cooker urpmi.update cooker Thanks, Greg. That is what I was looking for. Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from

[newbie] Updating

2004-08-01 Thread SME Server Admin
Hi Folks Right, I'm on MDK10 and have found out that I have the basic version of KDE / Kontact so I'm looking to upgrade. ftp://ftp.sunsite.org.uk/sites/ftp.kde.org/kdeftp/stable/3.2.3/ is the place I've found to get the updates from. What program to I used to update? Or do I do it through

[newbie] updating the installed RPM DB!

2004-06-29 Thread GV
Hi, when installing new s/w by compiling the source in a 9.2 box, how is it possible to update the installed RPM DB and making the installed libraries viewable in the RpmDrake listing? Thanks for your help GV Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [newbie] updating the installed RPM DB!

2004-06-29 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
GV wrote: Hi, when installing new s/w by compiling the source in a 9.2 box, how is it possible to update the installed RPM DB and making the installed libraries viewable in the RpmDrake listing? Thanks for your help GV The correct way to do it is to create a spec file, and build an RPM from the

[newbie] Updating 10.0

2004-06-20 Thread Preston Smith
I apologize for this question but I can not figure out how to update my newly installed Mandrake 10.0. The Mandrake Updates Applet in the lower right corner tells me there are no updates available. It seems from what I have read that there have been updates since the 10.0 ISo files were

[newbie] updating mysql using urpmi

2004-05-08 Thread Fajar Priyanto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, If I update mysql using urpmi, will it delete all my databases and privileges? Thanks. - -- Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | http://linux.arinet.org 22:38:32 up 3:27, Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 public key:

Re: [newbie] updating mysql using urpmi

2004-05-08 Thread Paul
Op Sat, 8 May 2004 22:39:52 +0700 schreef Fajar Priyanto: If I update mysql using urpmi, will it delete all my databases and privileges? Thanks. No, it would only update the software. Paul -- Stay light, but trust gravity! http://www.nlpagan.net/linux.htm Have you visited

[newbie] Updating: ftp vs. http

2004-04-21 Thread Travis Crook
Hi all, I am trying to add sources via urpmi. When I try and add a source that is ftp it times out - no matter which one I use. When I try a source that is http, it connects no problem and adds the source. Any ideas as to why? I am behind a firewall but haven't seen ftp problems using

Re: [newbie] Updating: ftp vs. http

2004-04-21 Thread Greg Meyer
On Wednesday 21 April 2004 02:22 pm, Travis Crook wrote: Hi all, I am trying to add sources via urpmi. When I try and add a source that is ftp it times out - no matter which one I use. When I try a source that is http, it connects no problem and adds the source. Any ideas as to why?

[newbie] updating rc1

2004-02-28 Thread Troy Thomas Hall
I updated rc1 via cooker as greg suggested, and for some reason it wants to put kde 3 on there when I am sure I read that its deprecated now. Anyone have a clue? -- Troy T. Hall Registered Linux User #342150 Mandrake Club Member Abilene, KS. Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] updating rc1

2004-02-28 Thread Greg Meyer
On Saturday 28 February 2004 01:47 pm, Troy Thomas Hall wrote: I updated rc1 via cooker as greg suggested, and for some reason it wants to put kde 3 on there when I am sure I read that its deprecated now. Anyone have a clue? What's the exact error? Current KDE in Cooker s/b 3.2 -- /g Want

Re: [newbie] updating rc1

2004-02-28 Thread Troy Thomas Hall
Greg Meyer wrote: On Saturday 28 February 2004 01:47 pm, Troy Thomas Hall wrote: I updated rc1 via cooker as greg suggested, and for some reason it wants to put kde 3 on there when I am sure I read that its deprecated now. Anyone have a clue? What's the exact error? Current KDE in Cooker

Re: [newbie] updating rc1

2004-02-28 Thread Greg Meyer
On Saturday 28 February 2004 02:54 pm, Troy Thomas Hall wrote: What's the exact error? Current KDE in Cooker s/b 3.2 ok, I thought it was supposed to be 4.x now. Nope 3.2 is the latest and greatest. -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

[newbie] Updating LaTeX

2004-02-15 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All Is there some wizard to update LaTeX? Thank you a lot in advance! Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Updating LaTeX

2004-02-15 Thread robin
Paul Smith wrote: Dear All Is there some wizard to update LaTeX? Thank you a lot in advance! If you mean that you've installed new packages within your LaTeX distro, the update command (as root) is texhash. If you're talking about updating LaTeX itself, I don't know. Probably best to wipe

Re: [newbie] Updating LaTeX

2004-02-15 Thread Paul Smith
If you mean that you've installed new packages within your LaTeX distro, the update command (as root) is texhash. If you're talking about updating LaTeX itself, I don't know. Probably best to wipe your old distribution and start from fresh. Thanks, Robin! I mean something like what happens with

[newbie] updating Gaim on MDK9.2

2004-01-12 Thread aidanh
Hi guys, Has anybody out there updated to the latest version of gaim? I have downloaded the lates RPM to suit MDK9.2 but I get an error when I try to run it. Installation failed: file /usr/lib/libgaim-remote.so.0.0.0 from install of gaim-0.75-0mdk9.2 conflicts with file from

Re: [newbie] updating Gaim on MDK9.2

2004-01-12 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 23:42:29 +0800 aidanh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anybody out there updated to the latest version of gaim? I have downloaded the lates RPM to suit MDK9.2 Dl the 9.2 gaim-0.75 rpms from my site and you will not have a problem. You will need to get

Re: [newbie] Updating, dependencies, etc

2003-11-22 Thread Melissa Reese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Greg, On Thursday, November 20, 2003, at 11:47:17 AM PST, you wrote: Yes. Put them all on one disk, ... I'm still a little confused (my natural state)... What exactly do you mean by them all? At the MDK ftp updates site, there is a folder

Re: [newbie] Updating, dependencies, etc

2003-11-22 Thread Melissa Reese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Me, On Saturday, November 22, 2003, at 12:58:34 PM PST, I wrote: Then, I added each of those new directories to the list of places to look for updated files. Here's how I added the new directories: K menu, then to

Re: [newbie] Updating, dependencies, etc

2003-11-22 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Saturday 22 November 2003 2:03 pm, Melissa Reese wrote: chop Hi Me, Oh! Also... In the where I'm defining the path to the directories, there's an option I don't understand: [ ] relative path to synthesis/hdlist In your case, and from what

Re: [newbie] Updating, dependencies, etc

2003-11-22 Thread Greg Meyer
On Saturday 22 November 2003 04:03 pm, Melissa Reese wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Me, On Saturday, November 22, 2003, at 12:58:34 PM PST, I wrote: Then, I added each of those new directories to the list of places to look for updated files. Here's how I added

Re: [newbie] Updating, dependencies, etc

2003-11-22 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Saturday 22 November 2003 1:58 pm, Melissa Reese wrote: Hi Greg, On Thursday, November 20, 2003, at 11:47:17 AM PST, you wrote: Yes. Put them all on one disk, ... I'm still a little confused (my natural state)... What exactly do you mean by

Re: [newbie] Updating, dependencies, etc

2003-11-22 Thread Melissa Reese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Charlie, On Saturday, November 22, 2003, at 1:23:56 PM PST, you wrote: urpmi.update -a urpmi --auto-select enter Thanks...that worked well. Now though... After that update session, several menu items were missing. I then used the following

Re: [newbie] Updating, dependencies, etc

2003-11-22 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Saturday 22 November 2003 9:49 pm, Melissa Reese wrote: Hi Charlie, On Saturday, November 22, 2003, at 1:23:56 PM PST, you wrote: urpmi.update -a urpmi --auto-select enter Thanks...that worked well. Now though... After that update session,

Re: [newbie] Updating urpmi database on 9.2

2003-11-14 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Friday 14 November 2003 12:47 pm, Margot wrote: I was using urpmi the other night and received a message that I should update my database. I thought the command I used to use for this on 9.0 was 'updatedb', but I tried all 3 ways (as user, su and

Re: [newbie] Updating urpmi database on 9.2

2003-11-14 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Friday 14 November 2003 12:47 pm, Margot wrote: I was using urpmi the other night and received a message that I should update my database. I thought the command I used to use for this on 9.0 was 'updatedb', but I tried all 3 ways (as user, su and

Re: [newbie] Updating urpmi database on 9.2

2003-11-14 Thread Margot
Charlie M. wrote: Hi; What's the address you're using, and for which mirror Margot? Some tree structures are possibly changed due to the complete release of 9.2, and the URL may have to be changed to reflect that. This happens because the mirrors are a voluntary thing, and some only keep the

Re: [newbie] Updating urpmi database on 9.2

2003-11-14 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 14 Nov 2003 7:47 pm, Margot wrote: I was using urpmi the other night and received a message that I should update my database. I thought the command I used to use for this on 9.0 was 'updatedb', but I tried all 3 ways (as user, su and root) and got the response 'command not found'.

Re: [newbie] Updating urpmi database on 9.2

2003-11-14 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Friday 14 November 2003 2:54 pm, Margot wrote: snip Being really stupid here (as usual!) but I can't find the command to give the URLs for my sources. Tried [EMAIL PROTECTED] margot]# urpmq --list-media But only got this list of the names of the

Re: [newbie] Updating urpmi database on 9.2

2003-11-14 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Friday 14 November 2003 3:07 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: On Friday 14 Nov 2003 7:47 pm, Margot wrote: I was using urpmi the other night and received a message that I should update my database. I thought the command I used to use for this on 9.0

Re: [newbie] Updating urpmi database on 9.2

2003-11-14 Thread Margot
Derek Jennings wrote: On Friday 14 Nov 2003 7:47 pm, Margot wrote: I was using urpmi the other night and received a message that I should update my database. I thought the command I used to use for this on 9.0 was 'updatedb', but I tried all 3 ways (as user, su and root) and got the response

Re: [newbie] Updating urpmi database on 9.2

2003-11-14 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 14 Nov 2003 10:52 pm, Margot wrote: Still puzzled though - even though 'updatedb' was the wrong command for what I wanted to do, as it is a valid command, why didn't it run? Even though it would not have done what I wanted, surely it should have done *something*? Margot It is

Re: [newbie] Updating urpmi database on 9.2

2003-11-14 Thread Margot
Derek Jennings wrote: On Friday 14 Nov 2003 10:52 pm, Margot wrote: Still puzzled though - even though 'updatedb' was the wrong command for what I wanted to do, as it is a valid command, why didn't it run? Even though it would not have done what I wanted, surely it should have done *something*?

[newbie] Updating to Mdk9.1 and OLD needed software!

2003-10-02 Thread Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas
Hi! I was going to upgrade my mdk9.0 Linux box, when I realized that I cannot installed Netscape v4.76 (required from my bank!) on mdk9.1! It is *only* a library problem or what? I've d/l the new soft from Netscape, tried version 2.2 and 2.0 (kernels). TIA Ricardo Castanho --

Re: [newbie] Updating to Mdk9.1 and OLD needed software!

2003-10-02 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 02 Oct 2003 1:13 pm, Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas wrote: Hi! I was going to upgrade my mdk9.0 Linux box, when I realized that I cannot installed Netscape v4.76 (required from my bank!) on mdk9.1! It is *only* a library problem or what? I've d/l the new soft from

Re: [newbie] Updating URPMI itself.

2003-09-16 Thread Liechti
i have no direct answer to your question, but i seem to recall have a look at rpmseek.com: http://rpmseek.com/rpm-pl/urpmi.html?hl=comcs=urpmi:PN:0:0:0:0 remo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Updating URPMI itself.

2003-09-16 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 September 15, 2003 11:34 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Stormjumper. My system is in a big mess already (see [newbie] Installation problem) and I need my urpmi to continue to work. I cannot take the risk of messing up my system even more.

Re: [newbie] Updating URPMI itself.

2003-09-16 Thread Brant Fitzsimmons
- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 12:54 Subject: [newbie] Updating URPMI itself. Hi, The HOWTOs I read show me how to use urpmi to update programs. I need to update urpmi itself. Will it be safe to update urpmi the way I

[newbie] updating x86

2003-09-16 Thread d2ci1fj g1nf24
Hi, I am using x86 version 4.3.0. I need to update it and do not know how. Would somebody tell me how to update it? _ Fast, faster, fastest: Upgrade to Cable or DSL today! https://broadband.msn.com Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [newbie] updating x86 [OT]

2003-09-16 Thread Liechti
you're using a funny name... :p d2ci1fj g1nf24 remo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] updating x86 [OT]

2003-09-16 Thread d2ci1fj g1nf24
From: Liechti [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] updating x86 [OT] Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 08:50:38 +0200 you're using a funny name... :p d2ci1fj g1nf24 remo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

[newbie] updating x86 with fix

2003-09-16 Thread d2ci1fj g1nf24
Hi, I am trying to update x86, I am using 4.3.0. I do not know what to download and how to install it. Would somebody tell me how to install it in detail? From,

Re: [newbie] updating x86 [OT]

2003-09-16 Thread ed tharp
On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 04:14, d2ci1fj g1nf24 wrote: From: Liechti [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] updating x86 [OT] Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 08:50:38 +0200 you're using a funny name... :p d2ci1fj g1nf24 remo Want to buy

Re: [newbie] updating x86 [OT]

2003-09-16 Thread Aron Smith
On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 01:14, d2ci1fj g1nf24 wrote: From: Liechti [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] updating x86 [OT] Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 08:50:38 +0200 you're using a funny name... :p d2ci1fj g1nf24 remo Want to buy

[newbie] Updating URPMI itself.

2003-09-15 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, The HOWTOs I read show me how to use urpmi to update programs. I need to update urpmi itself. Will it be safe to update urpmi the way I update other programs; using urpmi itself? If that is not safe then how do I update urpmi? The HOWTOs do not give me an answer to these questions. Thanx,

Re: [newbie] Updating URPMI itself.

2003-09-15 Thread Stormjumper
, September 16, 2003 12:54 Subject: [newbie] Updating URPMI itself. Hi, The HOWTOs I read show me how to use urpmi to update programs. I need to update urpmi itself. Will it be safe to update urpmi the way I update other programs; using urpmi itself? If that is not safe then how do I update

Re: [newbie] Updating URPMI itself.

2003-09-15 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 12:54 Subject: [newbie] Updating URPMI itself. Hi, The HOWTOs I read show me how to use urpmi to update programs. I need to update urpmi itself. Will it be safe to update urpmi the way I updateother programs; using urpmi

Re: [newbie] Updating GTK

2003-03-12 Thread civileme
On Tuesday 11 March 2003 10:01 pm, Anders Lind wrote: Hello, is there a simple way to update GTK to version 2 on a Mandrake 8.2-system, the thing is that I do not wish to do it package by package, although timewise I would have the time to fix that. This is a thing where I find the

Re: [newbie] Updating GTK

2003-03-12 Thread Anders Lind
On Tue, 11 Mar 2003 23:06:46 -0900 civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well if you are using the 9.0 or later GTK2 then you must rebuild from source each blessed package (put them all in one dedicated directory and Uuummas I stated before it is a 8.2 system I am working however on

[newbie] Updating GTK

2003-03-11 Thread Anders Lind
Hello, is there a simple way to update GTK to version 2 on a Mandrake 8.2-system, the thing is that I do not wish to do it package by package, although timewise I would have the time to fix that. This is a thing where I find the RPM-system inferior to for example FreeBSD's portsystem. Cheers

RE: [newbie] Updating GTK

2003-03-11 Thread Robert Wideman
is there a simple way to update GTK to version 2 on a Mandrake 8.2-system, the thing is that I do not wish to do it package by package, although timewise I would have the time to fix that. This is a thing where I find the RPM-system inferior to for example FreeBSD's portsystem. OMG,

[newbie] Updating Mozilla

2003-03-10 Thread Warren Post
I now have Mozilla 0.98 and Galeon 1.0.3, which came as RPMs with Mandrake 8.2. I need to update them to more recent version. In the case of Mozilla, I need also to install the Spanish language pack, which I have been unable to do with 0.98. As best I can tell from reading previous messages on

Re: [newbie] Updating Mozilla

2003-03-10 Thread Greg Meyer
On Monday 10 March 2003 10:51 am, Warren Post wrote: I now have Mozilla 0.98 and Galeon 1.0.3, which came as RPMs with Mandrake 8.2. I need to update them to more recent version. In the case of Mozilla, I need also to install the Spanish language pack, which I have been unable to do with 0.98.

Re: [newbie] Updating Mozilla

2003-03-10 Thread Raffaele Belardi
I normally upgrade using the tarball from mozilla.org. 1. delete /usr/local/mozilla (don't know if it is necessary) 2. run the mozilla-installer you downloaded and untarred, as root 3. run mozilla as root, exit after it starts 4. run as normal user. 5. update the links to the plugins (Flash,

Re: [newbie] Updating Mozilla

2003-03-10 Thread Warren Post
So far, so good, with thanks to Raffaele and Todd for suggesting that I use a tarball and not RPM. I had to kill my /user/.mozilla file before the Spanish language pack would work, but that's no problem. Thanks again. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to

Re: [newbie] Updating libraries

2002-12-09 Thread Martin L. Johansen
On Monday 09 December 2002 08:55, Ray Henry wrote: Yeah, that's what started all this trouble. Over 8 hours to finally get it installed, after having to figure out that Mandrake was lying to me. And now, more hours to get the modem working again :/ Bummer :/ Here my Quanta worked from

Re: [newbie] Updating libraries

2002-12-09 Thread Jerry
On 08 Dec 2002 17:00:55 -0600 Ray Henry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, this is EXTREMELY frustrating, an annoying time-consuming process the RedHat has been kind enough to deal with through their auto-updating. Regardless, Mandrake 8.2 comes with support for a number of devices that

Re: [newbie] Updating libraries

2002-12-09 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 18:55, Ray Henry wrote: Yes, I am a bitter man. I miss my OS/2, and I want it back, dammit! :| OS/2 running Felix, hacked OS/2Win applications (when really really needed) - mwith 2 x 16 port digiboards w/ octopus' to a modem per line...64mb of RAM, three 540mb

Re: [newbie] Updating libraries

2002-12-09 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 09 Dec 2002 3:09 am, Todd Slater wrote: On Mon, 9 Dec 2002 01:47:49 + Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You need to discover urpmi The command urpmi gcc (as root) will do all you need. Then read up about urpmi at

Re: [newbie] Updating libraries

2002-12-09 Thread Todd Slater
On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 10:42:05AM +, Derek Jennings wrote: On Monday 09 Dec 2002 3:09 am, Todd Slater wrote: snip Not related to gcc but gtk2+, pango, and a few other packages--would urpmi work for that, too? If I have apps compiled using the older gtk (1.2), is an upgrade going to

[newbie] Updating libraries

2002-12-08 Thread Ray Henry
OK, this is EXTREMELY frustrating, an annoying time-consuming process the RedHat has been kind enough to deal with through their auto-updating. Regardless, Mandrake 8.2 comes with support for a number of devices that RedHat doesn't. Here's my problem: All I want to do is install an HTML

Re: [newbie] Updating libraries

2002-12-08 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 10:00, Ray Henry wrote: OK, this is EXTREMELY frustrating, an annoying time-consuming process the RedHat has been kind enough to deal with through their auto-updating. Regardless, Mandrake 8.2 comes with support for a number of devices that RedHat doesn't. Here's

Re: [newbie] Updating libraries

2002-12-08 Thread Robin Turner
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 10:00, Ray Henry wrote: OK, this is EXTREMELY frustrating, an annoying time-consuming process the RedHat has been kind enough to deal with through their auto-updating. Regardless, Mandrake 8.2 comes with support for a number of devices that RedHat

Re: [newbie] Updating libraries

2002-12-08 Thread Derek Jennings
You need to discover urpmi The command urpmi gcc (as root) will do all you need. Then read up about urpmi at http://www.pclinuxonline.com/modules.php?name=Newsfile=articlesid=3558 http://www.pclinuxonline.com/modules.php?name=Newsfile=articlesid=3460 derek On Sunday 08 Dec 2002 11:00 pm,

Re: [newbie] Updating libraries

2002-12-08 Thread Todd Slater
On Mon, 9 Dec 2002 01:47:49 + Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You need to discover urpmi The command urpmi gcc (as root) will do all you need. Then read up about urpmi at http://www.pclinuxonline.com/modules.php?name=Newsfile=articlesid=3558

Re: [newbie] Updating libraries

2002-12-08 Thread Michael Adams
On Mon, 09 Dec 2002 12:08, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 10:00, Ray Henry wrote: OK, this is EXTREMELY frustrating, an annoying time-consuming process the RedHat has been kind enough to deal with through their auto-updating. Regardless, Mandrake 8.2 comes with support for a

Re: [newbie] Updating libraries

2002-12-08 Thread Ray Henry
On Sun, 2002-12-08 at 22:55, Michael Adams wrote: Or Bluefish Or for a gui one try Mozilla Composer or OpenOffice.org or StarOffice All on the CD's Yeah, well You know I was hoping for something better than Composer... Anyway, finally figured out what I was doing wrong. Not using the

Re: [newbie] Updating libraries

2002-12-08 Thread Martin L. Johansen
On Monday 09 December 2002 08:29, Ray Henry wrote: Yeah, well You know I was hoping for something better than Composer... That's an easy one..: Quanta Plus from KDE3 Now I just have to try to figure out what broke my modem in the process. KdeprintFax now returns invalid modem

Re: [newbie] Updating libraries

2002-12-08 Thread Ray Henry
On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 01:36, Martin L. Johansen wrote: That's an easy one..: Quanta Plus from KDE3 Yeah, that's what started all this trouble. Over 8 hours to finally get it installed, after having to figure out that Mandrake was lying to me. And now, more hours to get the modem working

SV: [newbie] updating the kernel

2002-12-01 Thread Anders Lind
Or you could just download the latest kernel rpm and simnply rpm -Uvh kernelname.rpm Yes that would be possible also, but then he misses the chance to configure it to his own liking /Anders Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: SV: [newbie] updating the kernel

2002-12-01 Thread Anthony Abby
On Sun, 2002-12-01 at 05:23, Anders Lind wrote: Or you could just download the latest kernel rpm and simnply rpm -Uvh kernelname.rpm Yes that would be possible also, but then he misses the chance to configure it to his own liking Well I suppose he could download the .src rpm and

SV: SV: [newbie] updating the kernel

2002-12-01 Thread Anders Lind
Well I suppose he could download the .src rpm and configure it if he chooses, then build it to rpm, then install it. Yes, I think so toobut it would be unnecissary to build it to rpm unless he wants to save that exact configuration of course. /Anders Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: SV: [newbie] updating the kernel

2002-12-01 Thread Charles A Edwards
On 01 Dec 2002 08:07:04 -0500 Anthony Abby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well I suppose he could download the .src rpm and configure it if he chooses, then build it to rpm, then install it. The operative and VERY IMPORTANT word here is INSTALL the new kernel. NEVER UPGRADE or use Uvh with a kernel.

Re: SV: [newbie] updating the kernel

2002-12-01 Thread Anthony Abby
On Sun, 2002-12-01 at 08:27, Charles A Edwards wrote: On 01 Dec 2002 08:07:04 -0500 Anthony Abby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well I suppose he could download the .src rpm and configure it if he chooses, then build it to rpm, then install it. The operative and VERY IMPORTANT word here is

RE: SV: [newbie] updating the kernel

2002-12-01 Thread walt
Have downloaded the source kernel. Will attempt to install the new one soon. Wish me luck LOL Walt -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Charles A Edwards Sent: Sunday, December 01, 2002 8:27 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: SV: [newbie

Re: SV: [newbie] updating the kernel

2002-12-01 Thread Charles A Edwards
On 01 Dec 2002 08:24:53 -0500 Anthony Abby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why would that be? I've done it many times without problem. If there is a problem with your new kernel and it will not boot then you are screwed since you have no other kernel with which you can boot. If on the other hand

Re: SV: [newbie] updating the kernel

2002-12-01 Thread Anthony Abby
If there is a problem with your new kernel and it will not boot then you are screwed since you have no other kernel with which you can boot. If on the other hand you have installed your new kernel using -ivh then your old kernel still exist and is still bootable. Using -ivh for all kernel

Re: SV: [newbie] updating the kernel

2002-12-01 Thread Charles A Edwards
On 01 Dec 2002 09:27:51 -0500 Anthony Abby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ahh, got it, but I usually keep a boot disk around also. Never had to use it though. Be very glad because it would not work. If the disk was made from the old kernel then it no longer exists, i.e no img or anything else

Re: SV: [newbie] updating the kernel

2002-12-01 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sunday December 1 2002 08:27 am, Anthony Abby wrote: Charles wrote: If there is a problem with your new kernel and it will not boot then you are screwed since you have no other kernel with which you can boot. If on the other hand you have installed your new kernel using -ivh then

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