Re: [newbie] Upgrading KDE

2005-03-03 Thread RickSisler
Derek Jennings ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thursday 03 March 2005 20:33, Phlod wrote: > > Hello everyone. This is my first posting to this list, and I'm quite > > pleased that this list exsists at all. Thanks for taking the time to > > read this. > > > > After searching through the list archi

Re: [newbie] Upgrading KDE

2005-03-03 Thread Phlod
Derek Jennings wrote: On Thursday 03 March 2005 20:33, Phlod wrote: Hello everyone. This is my first posting to this list, and I'm quite pleased that this list exsists at all. Thanks for taking the time to read this. After searching through the list archive, I couldn't find an answer to my que

Re: [newbie] Upgrading KDE

2005-03-03 Thread Derek Jennings
On Thursday 03 March 2005 20:33, Phlod wrote: > Hello everyone. This is my first posting to this list, and I'm quite > pleased that this list exsists at all. Thanks for taking the time to > read this. > > After searching through the list archive, I couldn't find an answer to > my question, so I t

Re: [newbie] Upgrading KDE

2005-03-03 Thread Dennis Myers
On Thursday 03 March 2005 02:33 pm, Phlod wrote: > Hello everyone. This is my first posting to this list, and I'm quite > pleased that this list exsists at all. Thanks for taking the time to > read this. > > After searching through the list archive, I couldn't find an answer to > my question, so

[newbie] Upgrading KDE

2005-03-03 Thread Phlod
Hello everyone. This is my first posting to this list, and I'm quite pleased that this list exsists at all. Thanks for taking the time to read this. After searching through the list archive, I couldn't find an answer to my question, so I thought I'd ask here. Please excuse me if this has be

Re: [newbie] Upgrading

2004-09-02 Thread JoeHill
On Thu, 02 Sep 2004 23:23:32 +0100 Nigel Wilkinson disseminated the following: > >> They've put you back on the meds, haven't they? > > > > You betcha, massive doses of Thorazine. > > > Is spam that targeted now, I only get spam for viagra, perhaps I should > make an appointment with my doctor.

Re: [newbie] Upgrading

2004-09-02 Thread Nigel Wilkinson
--On Tuesday, August 31, 2004 20:05:51 -0400 JoeHill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 19:50:14 -0400 Charles A Edwards disseminated the following: They've put you back on the meds, haven't they? You betcha, massive doses of Thorazine. Is spam that targeted now, I only get spam for

Re: [newbie] Upgrading

2004-08-31 Thread JoeHill
On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 19:50:14 -0400 Charles A Edwards disseminated the following: > They've put you back on the meds, haven't they? You betcha, massive doses of Thorazine. -- JoeHill RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 20:05:06 up 27 days, 19:49, 6 users, load average: 1.50, 1.52, 1.19 ++

Re: [newbie] Upgrading

2004-08-31 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 19:13:54 -0400 JoeHill wrote: > Thank you, come again! They've put you back on the meds, haven't they? Charles -- The second best policy is dishonesty. - Mandrake Linux 10.1 on PurpleDragon 2.6.8.1-4mdkenterprise http://www.eslrahc.com ---

Re: [newbie] Upgrading

2004-08-31 Thread JoeHill
On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 15:02:02 -0600 Wally Brown disseminated the following: > Does anyone know how I can upgrade my site to version 4.5.1 from 4.5 without > having to redo all my pages? Ok, you gotta be kiddin' me. Not only *HTML* but a *cutesy coloured background*??!! What's next, freakin' anim

Re: [newbie] Upgrading

2004-08-31 Thread et
On Tuesday 31 August 2004 17:02, Wally Brown wrote: > version 4.5.1 from 4.5 of what program? please don't send html-mail to this list (you wannna see what it looks like???) -- linux counter #167806 Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mand

[newbie] Upgrading

2004-08-31 Thread Wally Brown
Does anyone know how I can upgrade my site to version 4.5.1 from 4.5 without having to redo all my pages?  <> Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandra

Re: [newbie] Upgrading 10 CE to 10 Official ?

2004-08-07 Thread Dan Gordon
On Saturday 07 August 2004 10:11 pm, Carl J. Bauman wrote: > > > > That seemed to work for me. I changed sources and then ran "urpmi > > --auto-select --auto". This results in a pretty sizeable download, > > so you might want to reconsider this approach if you're not on some > > sort of broadband

[newbie] Upgrading 10 CE to 10 Official ?

2004-08-04 Thread Dan Gordon
I want to upgrade one of my computers from 10 CE to 10 Official. Should I just change the sources at easy urpmi to do this or is there somthing else i should do ? TIA Regards, Dan Gordon -- Wed Aug 4 22:38:42 EDT 2004 22:38:42 up 1 day, 2:14, 0 users, load average: 0.01, 0.29, 0.20 I have

[newbie] upgrading to KDE3.2.3 problems

2004-07-12 Thread jesso1607
I upgraded KDE on my Mandrake 10 system from ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/3.2.3/Mandrake/RPMS Now Kmail does not work. None of the buttons are clickable. The "Pager" won't display apps. The system tray won't come up. What a pain! Anyone else experience this? __

Re: [newbie] upgrading from 9.2 to Cooker without cd's

2004-03-21 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 19 March 2004 09:10 pm, John Drouhard wrote: > I have another question about upgrading to 10.0 so I thought I'd start a > new thread. I have a local mirror of cooker. I would like to install it > so I could have 10 + all bugfixes so far. Howe

[newbie] upgrading from 9.2 to Cooker without cd's

2004-03-19 Thread John Drouhard
I have another question about upgrading to 10.0 so I thought I'd start a new thread. I have a local mirror of cooker. I would like to install it so I could have 10 + all bugfixes so far. However, I finally have my system set up perfectly, without any problems that I can see. I run my own 2.6 kernel

Re: [newbie] Upgrading to mdk 10

2004-02-15 Thread et
On Sunday 15 February 2004 05:16 pm, robin wrote: > Hoyt Bailey wrote: > > - Original Message - > > From: "Margot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Sunday, February 15, 2004 07:05 > > Subject: Re: [newbie]

Re: [newbie] Upgrading to mdk 10

2004-02-15 Thread robin
Hoyt Bailey wrote: - Original Message - From: "Margot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, February 15, 2004 07:05 Subject: Re: [newbie] Upgrading to mdk 10 aronsmith wrote: Just upgraded to mdk 10 any one know how to get KDE back? or Gnome

Re: [newbie] Upgrading to mdk 10

2004-02-15 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sunday 15 February 2004 8:16 am, aronsmith wrote: > > > > Apparently the KDE packages have been "rearranged" - I suggest you try > > rpmdrake via mcc, search for anything with kde in the name - I think you > > need kdebase, plus (probably lots of!) de

Re: [newbie] Upgrading to mdk 10

2004-02-15 Thread Hoyt Bailey
- Original Message - From: "Margot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, February 15, 2004 07:05 Subject: Re: [newbie] Upgrading to mdk 10 > aronsmith wrote: > > Just upgraded to mdk 10 any one know how to get KDE back? > > or

Re: [newbie] Upgrading to mdk 10

2004-02-15 Thread Margot
aronsmith wrote: Just upgraded to mdk 10 any one know how to get KDE back? or Gnome even IceWm is all that comes up. K mail crashes. whatv packages do I need? TIA smitty (who is more confused than ever) Apparently the KDE packages have been "rearranged" - I suggest you try rpmdrake via mcc, searc

[newbie] Upgrading to mdk 10

2004-02-14 Thread aronsmith
Just upgraded to mdk 10 any one know how to get KDE back? or Gnome even IceWm is all that comes up. K mail crashes. whatv packages do I need? TIA smitty (who is more confused than ever) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Upgrading Spamassassin

2004-01-23 Thread Chris
Ok, here comes probably a really dumb question. I'm running MDK 9.0 with SA 2.41. I'd like to upgrade to at least SA 2.55 however I also don't want to fsck up my system. SA 2.55 says it requires the following: * rpm-helper * perl-Mail-SpamAssassin * /bin/sh * /bin/sh * bas

RE: [newbie] Upgrading, backing up, and restoring data - moving from 9.1 to 9.2

2004-01-07 Thread Tango Echo
>-Original Message- >From: Derek Jennings [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 11:43 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [newbie] Upgrading, backing up, and restoring >data - moving from 9.1 to 9.2 > >On Wednesday 07 Jan 2004 4:13 pm,

Re: [newbie] Upgrading, backing up, and restoring data - moving from 9.1 to 9.2

2004-01-07 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 07 Jan 2004 4:13 pm, Tango Echo wrote: > Hi all, > > I've recently decided to take the plunge and use 9.2 > as my base OS. I'm performing a clean install on a > brand new hard drive. My old mdk 9.1 install still > resides on two old hard disks. My question is this: > > Is there a si

[newbie] Upgrading, backing up, and restoring data - moving from 9.1 to 9.2

2004-01-07 Thread Tango Echo
Hi all, I've recently decided to take the plunge and use 9.2 as my base OS. I'm performing a clean install on a brand new hard drive. My old mdk 9.1 install still resides on two old hard disks. My question is this: Is there a simple way to restore my data from 9.1? The main apps that need to

Re: NVIDIA_GLX and NVIDIA_kernel Re: XF86Config-4 and nvidia drivers Re: [newbie] upgrading nvidia kernel in a safe way...

2003-12-23 Thread Chad Harland
If your trying to have the NVIDIA drivers work in both 2.4 and 2.6 on the same machine it's easy enoughyou just need to use the same version of the kernel driver. eg 5328. you simply install the 2.4 one which updates glx to 5328 version. Then extract the source for the header for the kernel drive

NVIDIA_GLX and NVIDIA_kernel Re: XF86Config-4 and nvidia drivers Re: [newbie] upgrading nvidia kernel in a safe way...

2003-12-23 Thread Anguo
On Friday 19 Dec 2003 4:44 am, JoeHill wrote: > Can you not have two sets of drivers installed, kernel > *and* GLX, as long as they are installed into seperate > kernels? > > Seems to me, as I indicated below, he should be able to > install both kernel and GLX drivers and have 3D > acceleration in

Re: startx Re: init 3 Re: [newbie] upgrading nvidia kernel in a safe way...

2003-12-18 Thread JoeHill
On Fri, 19 Dec 2003 12:55:21 +0800 Anguo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Should I do startx before startkde? actually, you can just type "kde". -- JoeHill ++ ICQ # 280779813 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ The United States Drug Enforcement

Re: startx Re: init 3 Re: [newbie] upgrading nvidia kernel in a safe way...

2003-12-18 Thread Todd Slater
On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 12:55:21PM +0800, Anguo wrote: > yes, that's it. > > Once I have booted in console mode, how do I start KDE > again? > I see the following two commands: > startkde > startx > Should I do startx before startkde? If you haven't messed with your ~/.xsession (and

Re: XF86Config-4 and nvidia drivers (Re: [newbie] upgrading nvidia kernel in a safe way...

2003-12-18 Thread Anguo
On Friday 19 Dec 2003 4:30 am, JoeHill wrote: > Eventually, what you might want to do, once the new > kernel has proven itself stable and solid, is *uninstall* > the 4321 drivers and install the 4496 GLX binary. ok, I will try this. thanks Joe, Augustin -- Linux. The Future is Open. "Linux

startx Re: init 3 Re: [newbie] upgrading nvidia kernel in a safe way...

2003-12-18 Thread Anguo
On Friday 19 Dec 2003 2:42 am, robin wrote: > > When I do so, Linux starts in text mode but Mandrake > > always end up by starting X anyway without me doing > > anything. ??? > > Look in the Mandrake Control Center -> Hardware -> > XFdrake -> Options. You probably have it set to start X > automati

rpm -qil NVIDIA... Re: XF86Config-4 and nvidia drivers (Re: [newbie] upgrading nvidia kernel in a safe way...

2003-12-18 Thread Anguo
On Friday 19 Dec 2003 2:18 am, Pablo Vitoria wrote: > Can you send the output of: > rpm -qil NVIDIA_GLX-4321-3mdk > rpm -qil NVIDIA_kernel-2.4.22.21mdk-4496-2.2.92mdk > rpm -qil NVIDIA_kernel-2.4.21.0.13mdk-4321-3mdk Hello Pablo and everybody, Thanks to all who responded in this thread (Pablo, Jo

Re: XF86Config-4 and nvidia drivers Re: [newbie] upgrading nvidia kernel in a safe way...

2003-12-18 Thread John Richard Smith
JoeHill wrote: On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 22:19:27 + John Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So I'm astounded that you can get any nividia driver to work with "nvidia" instead of "nv" Strange, I must be lucky, I've never had one bit of trouble with the Nvidia drivers, other than never

Re: XF86Config-4 and nvidia drivers Re: [newbie] upgrading nvidia kernel in a safe way...

2003-12-18 Thread JoeHill
On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 22:19:27 + John Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So I'm astounded that you can get any nividia driver to work with > "nvidia" instead of "nv" Strange, I must be lucky, I've never had one bit of trouble with the Nvidia drivers, other than never being able to get

Re: XF86Config-4 and nvidia drivers Re: [newbie] upgrading nvidia kernel in a safe way...

2003-12-18 Thread John Richard Smith
H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Thursday 18 December 2003 17:38, John Richard Smith wrote: I didn't know that HarM, So how do you get the hardware acceleration going then, because if just "nvidia" nothing works ? John There's only one prerequisite: The binary nvidia-drivers for the kernel and the N

Re: XF86Config-4 and nvidia drivers Re: [newbie] upgrading nvidia kernel in a safe way...

2003-12-18 Thread John Richard Smith
robin wrote: Anguo wrote: On Thursday 18 Dec 2003 6:22 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Pound to a penny you forgot to modify your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 Section "Device" Identifier "device1" VendorName "nVidia Corporation" BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce3 (generic)" Driver "nv"

Re: XF86Config-4 and nvidia drivers Re: [newbie] upgrading nvidia kernel in a safe way...

2003-12-18 Thread JoeHill
On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 19:11:28 +0100 "H.J.Bathoorn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > you have the choice of googling around, asking questions here, maybe > downloading more stuff from nvidia going over it all again, getting your 3D > going and learning a lot..or: > You leave it as it is, happy wit

RE: XF86Config-4 and nvidia drivers Re: [newbie] upgrading nvidia kernel in a safe way...

2003-12-18 Thread Dennis . R . Myers
Title: RE: XF86Config-4 and nvidia drivers Re: [newbie] upgrading nvidia kernel in a safe way... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of H.J.Bathoorn Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2003 11:06 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: XF86Config-4

Re: XF86Config-4 and nvidia drivers Re: [newbie] upgrading nvidia kernel in a safe way...

2003-12-18 Thread John Richard Smith
H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Thursday 18 December 2003 16:31, John Richard Smith wrote: Here is the relevant section in mine: Section "Device" Identifier "device1" VendorName "nVidia Corporation" BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce2 DDR (generic)" Driver "nvidia" Option "DPMS" EndSection you mean I

Re: XF86Config-4 and nvidia drivers Re: [newbie] upgrading nvidia kernel in a safe way...

2003-12-18 Thread Anguo
On Friday 19 Dec 2003 1:05 am, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: > On Thursday 18 December 2003 16:31, John Richard Smith wrote: > > >Here is the relevant section in mine: > > > > > >Section "Device" > > >Identifier "device1" > > >VendorName "nVidia Corporation" > > >BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce2 DDR (

Re: XF86Config-4 and nvidia drivers Re: [newbie] upgrading nvidia kernel in a safe way...

2003-12-18 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 18 December 2003 16:31, John Richard Smith wrote: > >Here is the relevant section in mine: > > > >Section "Device" > >Identifier "device1" > >VendorName "nVidia Corporation" > >BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce2 DDR (generic)" > >Driver "nvidia" > >Option "DPMS" > >EndSectio

Re: XF86Config-4 and nvidia drivers Re: [newbie] upgrading nvidia kernel in a safe way...

2003-12-18 Thread John Richard Smith
Anguo wrote: On Thursday 18 Dec 2003 6:22 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Pound to a penny you forgot to modify your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 Section "Device" Identifier "device1" VendorName "nVidia Corporation" BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce3 (generic)" Driver "nv" --- chan

XF86Config-4 and nvidia drivers Re: [newbie] upgrading nvidia kernel in a safe way...

2003-12-18 Thread Anguo
On Thursday 18 Dec 2003 6:22 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: > Pound to a penny you forgot to modify your > /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 > > Section "Device" > Identifier "device1" > VendorName "nVidia Corporation" > BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce3 (generic)" > Driver "nv" --- c

XF86Config-4 and nvidia drivers (Re: [newbie] upgrading nvidia kernel in a safe way...

2003-12-18 Thread Anguo
On Thursday 18 Dec 2003 5:29 pm, JoeHill wrote: > Yep. You shouldn't be in X when installing the Nvidia > drivers anyway. The reason, of course, that X won't start > with the new kenel, is that in your XF86Config-4 you have > it set to load the Nvidia driver. As long as the old > kernel is still lo

Re: [newbie] upgrading nvidia kernel in a safe way...

2003-12-18 Thread Anguo
On Thursday 18 Dec 2003 5:28 pm, jason pearl wrote: > > you mean that I should boot with new_kernel, and from > > the console do urpmi new_nvidia_driver. I should NOT do > > it from current_kernel. > hwo did u get that kernel? cuz i want it... urpmi > kernel-nvidia? Hello Jason, I was referring

init 3 Re: [newbie] upgrading nvidia kernel in a safe way...

2003-12-18 Thread Anguo
On Thursday 18 Dec 2003 6:51 pm, Adolfo Bello wrote: > If you boot directly to graphic mode: > init 3 When I do so, Linux starts in text mode but Mandrake always end up by starting X anyway without me doing anything. ??? Anguo -- Quote of the day: "MS bet the firm on .NET Sun bet

Re: [newbie] upgrading nvidia kernel in a safe way...

2003-12-18 Thread John Richard Smith
Anguo wrote: Hello, From searching the archives of this list and doing a lot of reading, I know that kernel images are installed side by side. So now I have:vmlinuz-2.4.22-21mdkvmlinuz-2.4.21-0.13mdkMy question concern the nvidia driver. I have downloaded from the club: NVIDIA_kernel-2.4.22

Re: [newbie] upgrading nvidia kernel in a safe way...

2003-12-18 Thread Adolfo Bello
On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 05:40, jason pearl wrote: > On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 02:29, JoeHill wrote: > > On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 17:17:26 +0800 > > Anguo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > you mean that I should boot with new_kernel, and from the > > > console do urpmi new_nvidia_driver. I should NOT do i

Re: [newbie] upgrading nvidia kernel in a safe way...

2003-12-18 Thread jason pearl
On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 02:29, JoeHill wrote: > On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 17:17:26 +0800 > Anguo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > you mean that I should boot with new_kernel, and from the > > console do urpmi new_nvidia_driver. I should NOT do it from > > current_kernel. > > Just to be on the safe sid

Re: [newbie] upgrading nvidia kernel in a safe way...

2003-12-18 Thread JoeHill
On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 17:17:26 +0800 Anguo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > you mean that I should boot with new_kernel, and from the > console do urpmi new_nvidia_driver. I should NOT do it from > current_kernel. Just to be on the safe side. I would bet dollars to doughnuts that the Nvidia RPM "kno

Re: [newbie] upgrading nvidia kernel in a safe way...

2003-12-18 Thread jason pearl
On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 02:17, Anguo wrote: > On Thursday 18 Dec 2003 4:55 pm, JoeHill wrote: > > > but I am hesitating to urpmi it, because I don't > > > understand how it would affect my current setup. > > > If after installing the nvidia driver, there are any > > > problem, I need to be able to bo

Re: [newbie] upgrading nvidia kernel in a safe way...

2003-12-18 Thread Anguo
On Thursday 18 Dec 2003 4:55 pm, JoeHill wrote: > > but I am hesitating to urpmi it, because I don't > > understand how it would affect my current setup. > > If after installing the nvidia driver, there are any > > problem, I need to be able to boot with the old kernel > > (the one I am using now).

Re: [newbie] upgrading nvidia kernel in a safe way...

2003-12-18 Thread JoeHill
On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 16:39:22 +0800 Anguo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My question concern the nvidia driver. I have downloaded > from the club: > NVIDIA_kernel-2.4.22.21mdk-4496-2.2.92mdk.i586.rpm > > but I am hesitating to urpmi it, because I don't understand > how it would affect my c

[newbie] upgrading nvidia kernel in a safe way...

2003-12-18 Thread Anguo
Hello, At last, I've come around to upgrading my kernel, after upgrading all the other applications to 9.2 when it came out. I got a fright when mandrake wouldn't boot (actually, it did but X didn't start, which comes to the same for me). My lilo.conf was a bit mixed up, but I managed to boot

Re: [newbie] upgrading glibc? possible?

2003-11-12 Thread HaywireMac
On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 10:13:50 +0700 Fajar Priyanto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > Can I upgrade glibc using rpm Uvh? > Or what is the proper way? IIRC, glibc is *it*. Your whole system is built based on that version of glibc, so changing it would break your system, not just a few packages, but the

Re: [newbie] upgrading glibc? possible?

2003-11-11 Thread Dennis Myers
On Tuesday 11 November 2003 09:13 pm, Fajar Priyanto wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Dear all, > When I tried to install esmtp4.1.1, it asked for a newer glibc. > Mine is glibc-devel-2.2.5-16mdk and glibc-2.2.5-16mdk on mdk9.0 > It asked for glibc-2.3.1-10mdk.i586.rpm >

[newbie] upgrading glibc? possible?

2003-11-11 Thread Fajar Priyanto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear all, When I tried to install esmtp4.1.1, it asked for a newer glibc. Mine is glibc-devel-2.2.5-16mdk and glibc-2.2.5-16mdk on mdk9.0 It asked for glibc-2.3.1-10mdk.i586.rpm Can I upgrade glibc using rpm Uvh? Or what is the proper way? Thanks. -

Re: [newbie] Upgrading KDE

2003-11-11 Thread Scott Naylor
On Tuesday 11 November 2003 10:45 am, Derek Jennings wrote: > It is a lesson I learned myself the hard way :-( > > > Mixing packages from different releases is a seriously bad idea. > Particularly with libraries on which a whole lot of other packages depend. > In order to resolve the dependencies y

Re: [newbie] Upgrading KDE

2003-11-11 Thread Derek Jennings
SNIP > > Looking at the mirrors I see that libqt3-devel-3.2.2-5mdk is on Cooker > > and was only put there on 7th November So you have installed a package > > for Mandrake 10.0 on a 9.1 system. > > > > Result - > > > > -Dependency Hell- > > > > derek > > I know what you mean about dependency hell,

Re: [newbie] Upgrading KDE

2003-11-10 Thread Scott Naylor
> OK so it looks like your urpmi.addmedia commands worked. Only point is that > the definition for your CD sources seems to be screwed up. Possibly because > you changed your CD-ROM to be ide-scsi You can correct that using the > Software Sources GUI in Mandrake control centre. > > 2nd point. If y

Re: [newbie] Upgrading KDE

2003-11-10 Thread Scott Naylor
On Sunday 09 November 2003 8:20 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: > On Sunday 09 Nov 2003 11:57 pm, Scott Naylor wrote: > > On Sunday 09 November 2003 4:32 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: > > > On Sunday 09 November 2003 09:23 am, Scott Naylor wrote: > > > > Just a small question, what would be the easiest way to up

Re: [newbie] Upgrading KDE

2003-11-09 Thread John
On Sunday 09 November 2003 08:43 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > On Monday 10 November 2003 12:20 am, Derek Jennings wrote: > > > > > Yes there is. > > It is called urpmi and it is posted about almost every day! > > > > For the third time today. > > > > Go to http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/index.php > >

Re: [newbie] Upgrading KDE

2003-11-09 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Monday 10 November 2003 12:20 am, Derek Jennings wrote: > Yes there is. > It is called urpmi and it is posted about almost every day! > > For the third time today. > > Go to http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/index.php > > Define an online source for Texstar and install KDE using > rpmdrake. All th

Re: [newbie] Upgrading KDE

2003-11-09 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 09 Nov 2003 11:57 pm, Scott Naylor wrote: > On Sunday 09 November 2003 4:32 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: > > On Sunday 09 November 2003 09:23 am, Scott Naylor wrote: > > > Just a small question, what would be the easiest way to upgrade KDE 3.1 > > > to its newest release in Mandrake 9.1? I tried

Re: [newbie] Upgrading KDE

2003-11-09 Thread Scott Naylor
On Sunday 09 November 2003 4:32 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: > On Sunday 09 November 2003 09:23 am, Scott Naylor wrote: > > Just a small question, what would be the easiest way to upgrade KDE 3.1 > > to its newest release in Mandrake 9.1? I tried a couple of things before, > > but it didn't go so well. >

Re: [newbie] Upgrading KDE

2003-11-09 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 09 November 2003 09:23 am, Scott Naylor wrote: > Just a small question, what would be the easiest way to upgrade KDE 3.1 to > its newest release in Mandrake 9.1? I tried a couple of things before, but > it didn't go so well. Get 3.1.4 in Mandrake RPMS from Texstar's 91 repository. http:

[newbie] Upgrading KDE

2003-11-09 Thread Scott Naylor
Just a small question, what would be the easiest way to upgrade KDE 3.1 to its newest release in Mandrake 9.1? I tried a couple of things before, but it didn't go so well. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] upgrading on twiki

2003-10-15 Thread Eric Huff
Recently there was a flurry on expert on how to upgrade, so i compiled it and put it here: http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/UrpmiUpgrade If i got anything wrong, please let me know or fix it. (i plan to use the page when i get around to upgrading!) eric -- Mandrake HowTo's & More:

Re: [newbie] Upgrading to 9.2?

2003-10-03 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 03 Oct 2003 3:25 am, Teilhard Knight wrote: > I recently installed version 9.1 both in a desktop computer and in my > laptop. Do you think it is all right to just erase and install 9.2 in both > machines? I am specially concerned with my wireless access to Internet. Are > there any improv

[newbie] Upgrading to 9.2?

2003-10-02 Thread Teilhard Knight
I recently installed version 9.1 both in a desktop computer and in my laptop. Do you think it is all right to just erase and install 9.2 in both machines? I am specially concerned with my wireless access to Internet. Are there any improvement for that? Derek: I am sorry I have had a lot of work, a

RE: [newbie] Upgrading KDE 3.0.5a to 3.1

2003-09-19 Thread Aron Smith
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Re: [newbie] Upgrading glibc on mdk8.1? Possible?

2003-09-11 Thread HaywireMac
On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 19:21:59 -0400 "Eric Caron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > What is the limit to the upgrade process before you have to upgrade to > a newer distro? Your whole system is built on that version of glibc. AFAIK, there is no way to upgrade glibc without upgrading every single packa

[newbie] Upgrading glibc on mdk8.1? Possible?

2003-09-11 Thread Eric Caron
Hi everybody, Many times, when I want to install new apps (whether in rpm format or by building from source), I need a newer version of glibc. For example: error: failed dependencies: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3) Is there a way to install these libraries without breaking the system? I don't wan

Re: [newbie] upgrading to XFree86 4.3.0

2003-06-17 Thread Greg Meyer
On Tuesday 17 June 2003 07:50 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > I am looking to upgrade to 4.3.0 on my Dell laptop running LM9. I > downloaded all the rpms from the cooker but I'm not sure if it will install > correctly on Mandrake 9. The reason for this is that I upgraded to a M9 > Radeon card

[newbie] upgrading to XFree86 4.3.0

2003-06-17 Thread basic
Hi, I am looking to upgrade to 4.3.0 on my Dell laptop running LM9. I downloaded all the rpms from the cooker but I'm not sure if it will install correctly on Mandrake 9. The reason for this is that I upgraded to a M9 Radeon card and 4.2.0 doesn't have support for it. Apparently drivers are bui

Re: [newbie] upgrading from 9.0 to 9.1

2003-03-29 Thread Simone Cortesi
On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 16:05, Derek Jennings wrote: > > Which is the exact way to upgrade from 9.0 to 9.1? where do I read more > > about upgrading? is there any way I can know that mandrake is actually > > upgrading my system instead of installing it clean. > During the install, I think it is aft

Re: [newbie] upgrading from 9.0 to 9.1

2003-03-28 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Fri, 28 Mar 2003 15:05:49 + Derek Jennings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > During the install, I think it is after you have set up your mouse a > screen appears which asks if you are upgrading or installing. > In any case nothing is written to your hard drive until the partition > section.

Re: [newbie] upgrading from 9.0 to 9.1

2003-03-28 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 28 Mar 2003 12:54 pm, Simone Cortesi wrote: > Hi, > > this is my first try to upgrade mandrake from a previous installation, > at the moment i'm running 9.0, I already have the 3 ISOs of 9.1. > > My filesystem is as follows: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] simone]$ df > Filesystem 1K-bloc

[newbie] upgrading from 9.0 to 9.1

2003-03-28 Thread Simone Cortesi
Hi, this is my first try to upgrade mandrake from a previous installation, at the moment i'm running 9.0, I already have the 3 ISOs of 9.1. My filesystem is as follows: [EMAIL PROTECTED] simone]$ df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda5 3723338

Re: [newbie] Upgrading GTK+

2003-03-03 Thread Richard Urwin
On Sunday 02 Mar 2003 7:13 pm, Charles A Edwards wrote: > The 2 are not natively compatible. > If you upgrade to GTK2++ then none of your current apps which require > GTK++ will work. It was my understanding that GTK++1 and GTK++2 would co-exist OK. ie two shared libraries foo.2.x.x.so and foo.1.x

Re: [newbie] Upgrading GTK+

2003-03-03 Thread Richard Urwin
On Sunday 02 Mar 2003 7:14 pm, Robert Wideman wrote: > If you uninstall any window widget you will be uninstalling 90% of your > GUI. You update a shared library by updating it via rpm's. It will test > first if it can be updated and tell you any issues. Use the rpm -Uvh > --test rpm-filename.rpm

RE: [newbie] Upgrading GTK+

2003-03-02 Thread Robert Wideman
>> Any comments on my original query? >> I ask because, on my KMail at least, the thread has been >> hijacked by another >> subject... or two. >> >> Thanks, and sorry to eat bandwidth it it isn't necessary. >> >> On Sunday 02 Mar 2003 10:08 am, Richard Urwin wrote: >> > I was trying to install the

Re: [newbie] Upgrading GTK+

2003-03-02 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Sun, 2 Mar 2003 18:30:24 + Richard Urwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Any comments on my original query? > I ask because, on my KMail at least, the thread has been hijacked by > another subject... or two. The 2 are not natively compatible. If you upgrade to GTK2++ then none of your current

Re: [newbie] Upgrading GTK+

2003-03-02 Thread Richard Urwin
Any comments on my original query? I ask because, on my KMail at least, the thread has been hijacked by another subject... or two. Thanks, and sorry to eat bandwidth it it isn't necessary. On Sunday 02 Mar 2003 10:08 am, Richard Urwin wrote: > I was trying to install the latest sources of Glade,

[newbie] Upgrading GTK+

2003-03-02 Thread Richard Urwin
I was trying to install the latest sources of Glade, and found that it needed a newer version of GTK+ v2 than the mdk9.0 default install provides. This involves compiling glib, atk, pango and gtk+. I can compile and install glib, but one of the others detects that I have two copies of glib installe

[newbie] Upgrading xmms

2002-12-17 Thread George Baker
Is it possible to upgrade xmms to a newer version on MDK 7.0? I have downloaded xmms 1.2.7. - MDK 7.0 came with xmms 0.9.5.1. I see I need glib 1.2.2 or better. Can I download the necessary libraries and then compile the new xmms? George Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 083 4666192 "The soul would ha

Re: [newbie] Upgrading. (Was questions on apt-get). Probably O/T

2002-12-01 Thread RCD
> I tried Debian (potato) about a year ago, and found was horrendous to install. > It eventually installed in "text" mode, but then it took me a week to get it > running in X! Even then, I was having all sorts of problems. Definitely not > for the newbie or even the semi-newbie, in my opinion.

[newbie] Upgrading. (Was questions on apt-get). Probably O/T

2002-12-01 Thread Keith Powell
On Sunday 01 December 2002 07:11, RCD wrote: >>> SNIP <<< > The one really awsome thing about debian and I'm not bashing mandrake > at all is their upgrade, update system. Using apt-get you can upgrade your > system to a testing version, or unstable version and then back again > (although go

Re: [newbie] Upgrading KDE

2002-11-07 Thread Anthony Abby
>Dear ALL, > >I have LM 9 with the KDE3 and would like to upgrade to 3.04. I have not done >this before, so how does one do this in Mandrake? > >Thanks for the help. > >Sincerely, It's really simple. One way is to download all the rpms that you want to upgrade (minus the *-devel-* stuff, unle

Re: [newbie] Upgrading KDE

2002-11-07 Thread Robin Ballantine
On Thursday 07 November 2002 5:44 pm, Marcia wrote: > Dear ALL, > > I have LM 9 with the KDE3 and would like to upgrade to 3.04. I have not > done this before, so how does one do this in Mandrake? > > Thanks for the help. > > Sincerely, > > Marcia The easiest way would be to use the precompiled r

[newbie] Upgrading KDE

2002-11-07 Thread Marcia
Dear ALL, I have LM 9 with the KDE3 and would like to upgrade to 3.04. I have not done this before, so how does one do this in Mandrake? Thanks for the help. Sincerely, Marcia Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Upgrading

2002-09-30 Thread Robin Turner
Chris wrote: >I ordered the 9.0 Power Pack the other night, when it comes in what is the >best way to upgrade? Install over the old 8.2 or backup my /home partition, >clean off the drive, install 9.0 and then restore my home partiton. > On my office box I did a clean sweep because I wanted to

Re: [newbie] Upgrading

2002-09-30 Thread Alastair Scott
On Sun, 29 Sep 2002 16:44:40 -0500 Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I ordered the 9.0 Power Pack the other night, when it comes in what is the > best way to upgrade? Install over the old 8.2 or backup my /home partition, > clean off the drive, install 9.0 and then restore my home partiton.

[newbie] Upgrading

2002-09-29 Thread Chris
I ordered the 9.0 Power Pack the other night, when it comes in what is the best way to upgrade? Install over the old 8.2 or backup my /home partition, clean off the drive, install 9.0 and then restore my home partiton. Also, does anyone know if 9.0 supports the HP Scanjet 4400c or will I stil

RE: [newbie] Upgrading from 7.1 to 8.2

2002-08-26 Thread Andre Stevens
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RE: [newbie] Upgrading from 7.1 to 8.2

2002-08-26 Thread Franki
: Monday, 26 August 2002 7:25 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Re: [newbie] Upgrading from 7.1 to 8.2 Ok. Thank you Gavin. Now another question: how do we do a "fresh" install? What files (or directories) should I delete? Should I format the hard drive and

Re: [newbie] Upgrading from 7.1 to 8.2

2002-08-26 Thread Andre Stevens
Ok. Thank you Gavin. Now another question: how do we do a "fresh" install? What files (or directories) should I delete? Should I format the hard drive and start from scratch (if so how would I retain my home directory as you suggest)? AndreDo You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance - Get real-time stock quo

Re: [newbie] Upgrading from 7.1 to 8.2

2002-08-25 Thread Operator
Andre, That's a nice jump your thinking about making, I would suggest 1st. backing up your IMPORTANT FILES, next do a fresh install..(do NOT delete your home directory (if important info is there) during the install!!) I've tried to do an update before from 7.2 to 8.0 and I ran into some file

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