Re: [newbie] Mandrake Control Center Missing and unable to install RPMs

2004-09-02 Thread Aron Smith
On Thursday 02 September 2004 04:01 am, warren wrote: Hi all, I using Mandrake 10.0 and have just rebooted my computer to discover that i have no mandrake control center / open office or Mozilla firefox - and no way of installing rpms or removing the lastest rpm i installed before the

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Control Center Missing and unable to install RPMs

2004-09-02 Thread warren
Aron Smith wrote: open a terminal type as root mcc if you get mandrake control center then open another terminal an as root type updatedb update-menus Thanks for the suggestion back so fast - but i tried that and: [EMAIL PROTECTED] dog]# mcc bash: mcc: command not found [EMAIL PROTECTED] dog]#

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Control Center Missing and unable to install RPMs

2004-09-02 Thread PM
On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 14:20, warren wrote: Aron Smith wrote: open a terminal type as root mcc if you get mandrake control center then open another terminal an as root type updatedb update-menus Thanks for the suggestion back so fast - but i tried that and: [EMAIL PROTECTED] dog]#

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Control Center Missing and unable to installRPMs

2004-09-02 Thread warren
PM wrote: what does /usr/bin/menudrake (as root in a terminal windows) give you? the menu manager came up - but still no way of adding the missing bits ( firefox is no longer in /usr/bin and i am guessing neither is the Open Office or Mandrake control utilities) I tried to install firefox again

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Control Center Missing and unable to install RPMs

2004-09-02 Thread Derek Jennings
On Thursday 02 September 2004 12:20, warren wrote: Aron Smith wrote: open a terminal type as root mcc if you get mandrake control center then open another terminal an as root type updatedb update-menus Thanks for the suggestion back so fast - but i tried that and: [EMAIL PROTECTED] dog]#

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Control Center Missing and unable to installRPMs

2004-09-02 Thread PM
On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 14:43, warren wrote: PM wrote: what does /usr/bin/menudrake (as root in a terminal windows) give you? the menu manager came up - but still no way of adding the missing bits ( firefox is no longer in /usr/bin and i am guessing neither is the Open Office or

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Control Center Missing and unable to install RPMs

2004-09-02 Thread warren
Derek Jennings wrote: Then reinstall drakconf In a root terminal urpmi drakconf If urpmi itself is missing then go to your install CD and find the urpmi RPM and install it with rpm -ivh urpmi.blah.blah.rpm Thanks Derek, I now have the MCC up again - but it only has 6 options in the main menu, i

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Control Center Missing and unable to install RPMs

2004-09-02 Thread PM
On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 15:19, warren wrote: Derek Jennings wrote: Then reinstall drakconf In a root terminal urpmi drakconf If urpmi itself is missing then go to your install CD and find the urpmi RPM and install it with rpm -ivh urpmi.blah.blah.rpm Thanks Derek, I now

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Control Center Missing and unable to install RPMs

2004-09-02 Thread warren
PM wrote: Thanks Derek, I now have the MCC up again - but it only has 6 options in the main menu, i am guesing i need to urpmi the name of the mandrake rpm package installer to add the software group of options to the menu. would you know what the name of that is? urpmi IS the mandrake rpm

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Control Center Missing and unable to install RPMs

2004-09-02 Thread Derek Jennings
On Thursday 02 September 2004 13:19, warren wrote: Derek Jennings wrote: Then reinstall drakconf In a root terminal urpmi drakconf If urpmi itself is missing then go to your install CD and find the urpmi RPM and install it with rpm -ivh urpmi.blah.blah.rpm Thanks Derek, I now

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Control Center Missing and unable to install RPMs

2004-09-02 Thread warren
Derek Jennings wrote: urpmi rpmdrake If anything else is missing the command urpmq drak should give you some clues. Software Management option is BACK!! Thanks Derek, Aron and PM. :-) Goodnight gentlemen (it´s 1am New Zealand time). Warren Want

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Control Center Missing and unable to install RPMs

2004-09-02 Thread PM
On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 15:32, warren wrote: PM wrote: Thanks Derek, I now have the MCC up again - but it only has 6 options in the main menu, i am guesing i need to urpmi the name of the mandrake rpm package installer to add the software group of options to the menu. would you know what

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Control Center Missing and unable to install RPMs

2004-09-02 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Thursday 02 September 2004 07:46, PM wrote: On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 15:32, warren wrote: PM wrote: snip now before I ballsed things up, I used to have a menu iten for software installation in this MCC menu. How do i get this back? When I check (using ls /usr/bin/drak* ) I get the

Terrorist Alert! Re: [newbie] Mandrake Control Center Missing and unable to install RPMs

2004-09-02 Thread Todd Slater
Since Eric and Joe seem to be asleep ;) http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MandrakeMailingListEtiquette On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 11:01:02PM +1200, warren wrote: Hi all, I using Mandrake 10.0 and have just rebooted my computer to discover that i have no mandrake control center / open

Terrorist Alert! Re: [newbie] Mandrake Control Center Missing and unable to install RPMs

2004-09-02 Thread flesh.99
On Thu, 2 Sep 2004 10:13:27 -0400, Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since Eric and Joe seem to be asleep ;) http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MandrakeMailingListEtiquette On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 11:01:02PM +1200, warren wrote: Hi all, I using Mandrake 10.0 and have just

Re: Terrorist Alert! Re: [newbie] Mandrake Control Center Missing and unable to install RPMs

2004-09-02 Thread Todd Slater
On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 11:19:30AM -0500, flesh.99 wrote: On Thu, 2 Sep 2004 10:13:27 -0400, Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since Eric and Joe seem to be asleep ;) http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MandrakeMailingListEtiquette On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 11:01:02PM +1200,

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Control Center Missing and unable to install RPMs

2004-09-02 Thread warren
PM wrote: When I check (using ls /usr/bin/drak* ) I get the results: /usr/bin/drakbug* /usr/bin/draklocale@ /usr/bin/drakrpm-remove@ /usr/bin/drakconf*/usr/bin/drakrpm@ /usr/bin/drakrpm-update@ /usr/bin/drakhelp*/usr/bin/drakrpm-edit-media@

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Control Center - 10 Official

2004-05-17 Thread Ed Chadwick
On Monday 17 May 2004 15:09, lake-wind wrote: I just finished an installation of Mandrake 10 official and can't find the Mandrake Control Center (drakconf) anywhere. Anyone have an idea why it didn't install and how to install it? I just had the same problem. Assuming you've got your sources

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Control Center - 10 Official

2004-05-17 Thread Marc
On Monday 17 May 2004 02:09 pm, lake-wind wrote: I just finished an installation of Mandrake 10 official and can't find the Mandrake Control Center (drakconf) anywhere. Anyone have an idea why it didn't install and how to install it? It is probably installed. You sound new to ML so I will

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Control Center - 10 Official

2004-05-17 Thread lake-wind
On Monday 17 May 2004 03:45 pm, Marc wrote: On Monday 17 May 2004 02:09 pm, lake-wind wrote: I just finished an installation of Mandrake 10 official and can't find the Mandrake Control Center (drakconf) anywhere. Anyone have an idea why it didn't install and how to install it? It is

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Control Center - 10 Official

2004-05-17 Thread LtCdData
still on community here but ever since 9.x ive had similar issues with stuff not getting installed that should have been... you seem to have to manually add them in at install time or the not so clever installer can decide for you not to install all sorts anyway just go through your

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Control Center - 10 Official

2004-05-17 Thread lake-wind
Thanks for replying. I only had the cd sources set up for urpmi and prior to my post, when I tried urpmi drakconf I got an error message stating there was no such package. So, apparently on my 5 cd set, drakconf does not exist. I took your advice, set up my sources from one of the mirrors, ran

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Control Center - 10 Official

2004-05-17 Thread Ed Chadwick
On May 17, 2004, at 4:44 PM, lake-wind wrote: Thanks for replying. I only had the cd sources set up for urpmi and prior to my post, when I tried urpmi drakconf I got an error message stating there was no such package. So, apparently on my 5 cd set, drakconf does not exist. I took your

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Control Center - 10 Official

2004-05-17 Thread frankieh
Marc wrote: On Monday 17 May 2004 02:09 pm, lake-wind wrote: I just finished an installation of Mandrake 10 official and can't find the Mandrake Control Center (drakconf) anywhere. Anyone have an idea why it didn't install and how to install it? It is probably installed. You sound new to ML so

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Control Center 9.1 and URPMIs

2003-05-30 Thread Joe Hill
On Thu, 29 May 2003 07:58:01 -0500 The Other [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Thanks for the assistance. One of the main reasons I came to Linux was to be able to keep my OS current without spending an arm and a leg every 2 years. I love having *capacity* and *no limits*, even if I don't use

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Control Center problems

2003-01-06 Thread Russ
Seems to have worked :-) Thanks Russ Hi again. I got nothing to do tonight. Is it too obvious? ;o) I opened up /usr/sbin/mcc to check it out... can you tell me if this solves your problem? first, open up a terminal and su to root. from that terminal, open your preferred text editor.

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Control Center problems

2003-01-05 Thread K. Spress
try being logged in as a regular user and go to terminal and SU see if that works or just log in as root. Hi All, I was going to add some users but when I tried to access the Users I get this error message: Cannot lock user lib, file /etc/ptmp or /etc/gtmp exist I have accessed it before

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Control Center problems

2003-01-05 Thread Damian Gatabria
On Monday 06 January 2003 04:56, Russ wrote: Hi All, I was going to add some users but when I tried to access the Users I get this error message: Cannot lock user lib, file /etc/ptmp or /etc/gtmp exist I have accessed it before so I know it worked at one time. Any ideas as to what

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Control Center problems

2003-01-05 Thread Russ
Thanks for responding so quickly :-) Deleting the files worked but when I tried to log back in it gave me the same error. I deleted them again and it worked. You say they should only be there when MCC is running. Why do you think they are not deleting themselves when I close MCC? Thanks Russ On

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Control Center problems

2003-01-05 Thread Damian Gatabria
On Monday 06 January 2003 05:39, Russ wrote: Thanks for responding so quickly :-) Deleting the files worked but when I tried to log back in it gave me the same error. I deleted them again and it worked. You say they should only be there when MCC is running. Why do you think they are not

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Control Center problems

2003-01-05 Thread Damian Gatabria
On Monday 06 January 2003 02:56, Damian Gatabria wrote: On Monday 06 January 2003 05:39, Russ wrote: Thanks for responding so quickly :-) Deleting the files worked but when I tried to log back in it gave me the same error. I deleted them again and it worked. You say they should only be

Re: [newbie] Mandrake control center

2002-12-30 Thread Anthony Abby
When I want to start the Mandrake control center the root password is asked but the program itself will not start. What is wrong ? Freddy You enter root's correct password, click ok and MCC still doesn't open? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] Mandrake control center

2002-12-30 Thread Adrien Verlee
Op maandag 30 december 2002 12:22, schreef [EMAIL PROTECTED]: When I want to start the Mandrake control center the root password is asked but the program itself will not start. Consult the archives here. It is a bug in connection to the language choice (Did you take Dutch?). Try to update, if

RE: [newbie] Mandrake control center

2002-12-30 Thread Freddy Baert
with linux so I will have a lot of questions. Freddy -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Adrien Verlee Sent: maandag 30 december 2002 16:43 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake control center Op maandag 30 december 2002 12

Re: [newbie] Mandrake control center

2002-12-30 Thread Adrien Verlee
Op maandag 30 december 2002 16:47, schreef Freddy Baert: I installed Dutch as standard language, with englisch I was afraid of having a wrong keyboard. Is it better to reinstall and take englisch as standard language ? Try first to update. In the menu: Configuration - Packets - update Mandrake.

Re: [newbie] Mandrake control center

2002-12-30 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2002-12-30 at 22:22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I want to start the Mandrake control center the root password is asked but the program itself will not start. What is wrong ? Freddy Have you tried to start it by logging IN as the root user and seeing if it works? If it doesn't,

Re: [newbie] Mandrake control center

2002-12-30 Thread Adrien Verlee
Op maandag 30 december 2002 22:36, schreef Stephen Kuhn: Try logging in as the root user and seeing if that's working...then the next step! It is a bug! See: http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=k3kp9.155434%248o4.24153%40afrodite.telenet-ops.beoe=UTF8output=gplain -- Adrien Want to buy

Re: [newbie] mandrake control center unreachable

2002-11-16 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2002-11-17 at 05:00, ivette brusselmans wrote: reinstalled mandarke 90 and still same problem, but now when I type 'mcc' in console, follwoing message appears: invalid cast from (NULL) pointer to 'GtkObject' at /usr/bin/mcc line 857 Can't call method set_active on undefined value

Re: [newbie] mandrake control center unreachable

2002-11-16 Thread ivette brusselmans
it was a complete installation, from 3 cd's I burned after downloading the ISO's and controlling download with MD5. MD5 Numbers matched. From: Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] mandrake control center unreachable Date: 17

Re: [newbie] mandrake control center unreachable

2002-11-16 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2002-11-17 at 06:36, ivette brusselmans wrote: it was a complete installation, from 3 cd's I burned after downloading the ISO's and controlling download with MD5. MD5 Numbers matched. But that doesn't necessarily mean that everything's truly loaded. I'm wondering about how your

RE: [newbie] Mandrake Control Center firewall

2001-09-23 Thread Dylan Taylor
When I try this, I get the following error: Can't locate Bastille_Tk.pm in @INC How do I resolve this? TIA -Original Message- From: Dennis Myers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2001 8:52 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake Control Center

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Control Center firewall

2001-09-23 Thread Dennis Myers
PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake Control Center firewall On Saturday 22 September 2001 19:35, you wrote: I have setup my firewall (iptables) with the control center in mandrake 8. It works great untill I reboot and I see that all are set back to allow all. What is up with that? How

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Control Center firewall

2001-09-23 Thread Paul
In reply to Dylan's words, written Sun, 23 Sep 2001 13:42:14 -0700 When I try this, I get the following error: Can't locate Bastille_Tk.pm in @INC How do I resolve this? TIA At www.bastille.org (or something like that) you can find this one, and also another you need (both in RPM). Paul --

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Control Center firewall

2001-09-22 Thread Dennis Myers
On Saturday 22 September 2001 19:35, you wrote: I have setup my firewall (iptables) with the control center in mandrake 8. It works great untill I reboot and I see that all are set back to allow all. What is up with that? How do I get the rules to stick?