Re: [newbie] any nice person out there with the kde 3.2 for mdk9.2 rpms

2004-02-16 Thread Dan Gordon
On Mon, 16 Feb 2004 06:38:48 -0500 lanman wrote: Dan; Glad to hear that it worked out. I'm surprised that you never saw the bios data check successful line before. It's always there when the kernel is being decompressed. Linux checks the BIOS for hardware changes, BIOS updates, and to

RE: [newbie] any nice person out there with the kde 3.2 for mdk9.2 rpms

2004-02-15 Thread Dale Kosan
PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] any nice person out there with the kde 3.2 for mdk9.2 rpms On February 14, 2004 09:54 am, Dale Kosan wrote: No joy, tons of warnings about conflicts. This come from a stock 9.2 install. Could it maybe be my choice of mirrors and contrib.? Could you send me your

Re: [newbie] any nice person out there with the kde 3.2 for mdk9.2 rpms

2004-02-15 Thread lanman
On February 15, 2004 06:09 am, Dale Kosan wrote: Okay, here is what I did: Downloaded all of the rpms from your sight, put them all in a kde32 folder. Added that folder to my urpmi.cfg with urpmi.addmedia KDE32 file://home/dale/kde32/ with hdlist.cz, that went fine. Went into the

Re: [newbie] any nice person out there with the kde 3.2 for mdk9.2 rpms

2004-02-15 Thread Paul Kaplan
PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of lanman Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2004 10:02 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] any nice person out there with the kde 3.2 for mdk9.2 rpms On February 14, 2004 09:54 am, Dale Kosan wrote: No joy, tons of warnings about conflicts

Re: [newbie] any nice person out there with the kde 3.2 for mdk9.2 rpms

2004-02-15 Thread Dan Gordon
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 12:36:16 -0500 Dan Gordon wrote: Thanks lanman that got me going, everything works well. I do have two problems. Kdm is not behaving, no matter what wm i select i end up with icewm. If i select default i get kde 3.2. Does anyone know if there are some config files i

Re: [newbie] any nice person out there with the kde 3.2 for mdk9.2 rpms

2004-02-15 Thread lanman
On February 15, 2004 06:37 pm, Dan Gordon wrote: On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 12:36:16 -0500 Dan Gordon wrote: Thanks lanman that got me going, everything works well. I do have two problems. Kdm is not behaving, no matter what wm i select i end up with icewm. If i select default i get kde 3.2.

Re: [newbie] any nice person out there with the kde 3.2 for mdk9.2 rpms

2004-02-15 Thread Dan Gordon
On Sun, 15 Feb 2004 20:02:07 -0500 lanman wrote: Yo! Dan ! I'm fairly sure that if you un-install KDE 3.2 and re-install KDE 3.1 along with the MDKKDM rpm, you'll be able to log into KDE straight away in the normal fashion. I did install 3.2 on top of 3.1 the second time round. I have just

Re: [newbie] any nice person out there with the kde 3.2 for mdk9.2 rpms

2004-02-15 Thread Dan Gordon
On Sun, 15 Feb 2004 22:27:48 -0500 Dan Gordon wrote: I did install 3.2 on top of 3.1 the second time round. I have just installed MDKKDM, it worked right off but, on boot up im getting interface eth0 failed and system loger failed now i know that eth0 is up as i can ping browse and so on,

Re: [newbie] any nice person out there with the kde 3.2 for mdk9.2 rpms

2004-02-15 Thread Dan Gordon
On Sun, 15 Feb 2004 22:42:44 -0500 Dan Gordon wrote: More testing to come soon, I will try going back into kdm and xdm and see if i still get those errors. Will let you know my findings. Ok after changing from MDKKDM to KDM then to XDM and back to MDKKDM all seems to be fine now ??? Im not

RE: [newbie] any nice person out there with the kde 3.2 for mdk9.2 rpms

2004-02-14 Thread Dale Kosan
, 2004 7:44 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] any nice person out there with the kde 3.2 for mdk9.2 rpms On February 13, 2004 07:06 pm, Dale Kosan wrote: How did you add it to urpmi? Dale; You're best bet is to download the whole folder from my server as i have to shut it down

Re: [newbie] any nice person out there with the kde 3.2 for mdk9.2 rpms

2004-02-14 Thread lanman
PROTECTED] On Behalf Of lanman Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 7:44 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] any nice person out there with the kde 3.2 for mdk9.2 rpms On February 13, 2004 07:06 pm, Dale Kosan wrote: How did you add it to urpmi? Dale; You're best bet is to download

RE: [newbie] any nice person out there with the kde 3.2 for mdk9.2 rpms

2004-02-12 Thread Dale Kosan
So, has anyone been able to get it to work right? What steps did you use to do it? Thanks in advance Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] any nice person out there with the kde 3.2 for mdk9.2 rpms

2004-02-12 Thread Paul Kaplan
1. downloaded all the 9.2 rpms to a directory (including libs and qt3.2) 2. separated out those that I didn't want to install to a subdirectory 3. cd to the directory with the rpms you want to install 4. tested the remaining rpms with rpm -Uvh *.rpm --test 5. resolved the dependencies (some were

Re: [newbie] any nice person out there with the kde 3.2 for mdk9.2 rpms

2004-02-12 Thread lanman
On February 12, 2004 06:09 am, Dale Kosan wrote: So, has anyone been able to get it to work right? What steps did you use to do it? Thanks in advance First, I'd like to apoligise to anyone who took my advice when installing KDE 3.2. I made a serious Boo-Boo when i said that you could

Re: [newbie] any nice person out there with the kde 3.2 for mdk9.2 rpms

2004-02-12 Thread Dan Gordon
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 07:24:45 -0500 lanman wrote: That should work flawlessly, unless you try to force something that shouldn't be installed. As soon as that's done, run MenuDrake to refresh your KDE desktop menu listing. I'm now running KDE 3.2 and it's running perfectly. Thanks

Re: [newbie] any nice person out there with the kde 3.2 for mdk9.2 rpms

2004-02-12 Thread robin
Dan Gordon wrote: On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 07:24:45 -0500 lanman wrote: That should work flawlessly, unless you try to force something that shouldn't be installed. As soon as that's done, run MenuDrake to refresh your KDE desktop menu listing. I'm now running KDE 3.2 and it's running perfectly.

RE: [newbie] any nice person out there with the kde 3.2 for mdk9.2 rpms

2004-02-12 Thread Dale Kosan
How did you add it to urpmi? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dan Gordon Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 12:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] any nice person out there with the kde 3.2 for mdk9.2 rpms On Thu, 12 Feb

Re: [newbie] any nice person out there with the kde 3.2 for mdk9.2 rpms

2004-02-12 Thread lanman
On February 13, 2004 07:06 pm, Dale Kosan wrote: How did you add it to urpmi? Dale; You're best bet is to download the whole folder from my server as i have to shut it down on Saturday. Once you have it on your PC, then use the following command which assumes that your KDE32 folder is in

Re: [newbie] any nice person out there with the kde 3.2 for mdk9.2 rpms

2004-02-12 Thread anton
lanman wrote: On February 13, 2004 07:06 pm, Dale Kosan wrote: How did you add it to urpmi? Dale; You're best bet is to download the whole folder from my server as i have to shut it down on Saturday. Once you have it on your PC, then use the following command which assumes that your KDE32

Re: [newbie] any nice person out there with the kde 3.2 for mdk9.2 rpms

2004-02-11 Thread anton
In the meantime. Do I need to uninstall kde 3.1.3 first, or can I just go straight for the urpmi *? Cheers It had to go anyway, so I just uninstalled it. This is being written from kde 3.2. Good stuff, though I will be changing the ugly MDK star back to the K as soon as I can be bothered!

Re: [newbie] any nice person out there with the kde 3.2 for mdk9.2 rpms

2004-02-11 Thread Lanman
So! You're moving to Canada then? Grin! Lanman *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 2/11/2004 at 4:47 PM anton wrote: ftp://ftp.maximumlans.com Log in as newbie with password newbie Cheers Heaps I seem to have them all. It only took 12-13 hours! Yippi! In two months I leave

Re: [newbie] any nice person out there with the kde 3.2 for mdk9.2 rpms

2004-02-11 Thread robin
Dan Gordon wrote: On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 18:04:20 -0500 Lanman wrote: Try logging into Gnome to delete your old KDE packages and to install the new ones. It worked perfectly for me. Hm ok I will give that a try, when I have some time. I had been trying from XFce4. I had a similar problem and

Re: [newbie] any nice person out there with the kde 3.2 for mdk9.2 rpms

2004-02-11 Thread Dan Gordon
On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 16:22:25 +0200 robin wrote: I think removing 3.1.3 automatically removes k3b because of dependency's, IE kde needs to be there before k3b. Yes, the problem was that it wouldn't reinstall afterwards because of conflicts. Thats a bummer, have you had a look at

Re: [newbie] any nice person out there with the kde 3.2 for mdk9.2 rpms

2004-02-11 Thread lanman
On Wednesday 11 February 2004 12:00, Dan Gordon wrote: On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 16:22:25 +0200 robin wrote: I think removing 3.1.3 automatically removes k3b because of dependency's, IE kde needs to be there before k3b. Yes, the problem was that it wouldn't reinstall afterwards because of

Re: [newbie] any nice person out there with the kde 3.2 for mdk9.2 rpms

2004-02-11 Thread robin
lanman wrote: On Wednesday 11 February 2004 12:00, Dan Gordon wrote: On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 16:22:25 +0200 robin wrote: I think removing 3.1.3 automatically removes k3b because of dependency's, IE kde needs to be there before k3b. Yes, the problem was that it wouldn't reinstall afterwards because

Re: [newbie] any nice person out there with the kde 3.2 for mdk9.2 rpms

2004-02-10 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 10 February 2004 06:18, Greg Meyer wrote: The package structure was changed significantly with 3.2 so that a straight upgrade from 3.1.3 will not be possible. For instance, kmail moved from kdenetwork to kdepim, so you cannot upgrade kdenetwork-kmail to kdepim-kmail. Try removing

Re: [newbie] any nice person out there with the kde 3.2 for mdk9.2 rpms

2004-02-10 Thread Dan Gordon
On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 00:18:35 -0500 Greg Meyer wrote: The package structure was changed significantly with 3.2 so that a straight upgrade from 3.1.3 will not be possible. For instance, kmail moved from kdenetwork to kdepim, so you cannot upgrade kdenetwork-kmail to kdepim-kmail. Try

Re: [newbie] any nice person out there with the kde 3.2 for mdk9.2 rpms

2004-02-10 Thread robin
Dan Gordon wrote: On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 00:18:35 -0500 Greg Meyer wrote: The package structure was changed significantly with 3.2 so that a straight upgrade from 3.1.3 will not be possible. For instance, kmail moved from kdenetwork to kdepim, so you cannot upgrade kdenetwork-kmail to kdepim-kmail.

Re: [newbie] any nice person out there with the kde 3.2 for mdk9.2 rpms

2004-02-10 Thread Lanman
Try logging into Gnome to delete your old KDE packages and to install the new ones. It worked perfectly for me. Lanman *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 2/11/2004 at 12:34 AM robin wrote: Dan Gordon wrote: On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 00:18:35 -0500 Greg Meyer wrote: The package structure

Re: [newbie] any nice person out there with the kde 3.2 for mdk9.2 rpms

2004-02-10 Thread John Drouhard
On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 11:07:37 -0500 Dan Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 00:18:35 -0500 Greg Meyer wrote: The package structure was changed significantly with 3.2 so that a straight upgrade from 3.1.3 will not be possible. For instance, kmail moved from kdenetwork to

Re: [newbie] any nice person out there with the kde 3.2 for mdk9.2 rpms

2004-02-10 Thread Dan Gordon
On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 18:04:20 -0500 Lanman wrote: Try logging into Gnome to delete your old KDE packages and to install the new ones. It worked perfectly for me. Hm ok I will give that a try, when I have some time. I had been trying from XFce4. I had a similar problem and solved it

Re: [newbie] any nice person out there with the kde 3.2 for mdk9.2 rpms

2004-02-10 Thread Dan Gordon
On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 17:52:31 -0600 John Drouhard wrote: To make aterm keep a whole bunch of lines, execute aterm like this: aterm -sl 5000 If you run it from the Mandrake menu, edit /usr/lib/apps/Mandrake/Terminals/ATerm/AppRun to include that option. Thanks I'm writing that one

Re: [newbie] any nice person out there with the kde 3.2 for mdk9.2 rpms

2004-02-10 Thread anton
ftp://ftp.maximumlans.com Log in as newbie with password newbie Cheers Heaps I seem to have them all. It only took 12-13 hours! Yippi! In two months I leave this dark hole to the light of telco competition (in a foreign land)! Hurraaah! Cheap broadband! In the meantime. Do I need to

Re: [newbie] any nice person out there with the kde 3.2 for mdk9.2 rpms

2004-02-09 Thread Paul Kaplan
ftp://mandrake.contactel.cz/people/bluehawk/kde32-92 ftp://mandrake.contactel.cz/people/bluehawk/kde32-92 These links were provided in the feedback to the note on pclinuxonline.com. Paul On Monday 09 February 2004 05:30 am, anton wrote: Is there someone out there with a webserver and a nice

Re: [newbie] any nice person out there with the kde 3.2 for mdk9.2 rpms

2004-02-09 Thread Lanman
Anton; One Any Nice Person coming right up. To all those interested, my ftp server has been set for KDE 3.2 RPM downloads. These RPM's are for Mandrake 9.2. Be careful though. I only have 800K upload abilities. Here's the link. ftp://ftp.maximumlans.com Log in as newbie with password newbie

Re: [newbie] any nice person out there with the kde 3.2 for mdk9.2 rpms

2004-02-09 Thread Dan Gordon
On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 00:04:01 -0500 Dan Gordon wrote: Thanks John, I tried this and also urpmi * but get this message each time. [EMAIL PROTECTED] kde32]# urpmi ./*rpm Some package requested cannot be installed: kdebase-3.2-1mdk.i586 kdegraphics-3.2-1mdk.i586 kdenetwork-3.2-1mdk.i586

Re: [newbie] any nice person out there with the kde 3.2 for mdk9.2 rpms

2004-02-09 Thread Greg Meyer
On Tuesday 10 February 2004 12:04 am, Dan Gordon wrote: On Mon, 9 Feb 2004 22:37:23 -0600 John Drouhard wrote: Ok maybe a dumb question but, I have all the files in a directory by themselves, what is the proper way to install them? change into the directory with the rpm's, become root

[newbie] any nice person out there with the kde 3.2 for mdk9.2 rpms

2004-02-08 Thread anton
Is there someone out there with a webserver and a nice traffic policy like to mirror this so this guys server doesn't get bogged down? And so unlucky b'stards like me on dialup can have a go without leaving the rest of the community waiting for ... well, days?