Rodolfo Medina wrote:
in order to install w3m in my system (Mandrake 10.1 Community)
I'm trying to install the package openssl-0.9.7e.tar.gz, with:
$ ./config
$ make
$ make test
$ make install
as suggested in the install file,
but during the '$ make' step the following message went
I understand that giving as root a command like
urpmi.addmedia thac http://rpm.nyvalls.se/10.1/RPMS/ with ./hdlist.cz
, an urpmi repository will be set up in my system,
and after that the urpmf command will hopefully be able to find, e.g.,
that the gconf-2.0.pc subpackage belongs to the
frengoGorgia wrote:
My Mandrake 10.1 4-CDs came from LinuxC n.42
http://www.oltrelinux.com/
8^)
Yes, thank you, last month I bought that magazine and got the four CDs:
but it's Mdk 10.1 Community, and someone says that
community is a BETA version of Mandrake and not recommended for normal
use.
Rodolfo wrote:
I understand you're suggesting to install the package libGConf2_4-devel,
and thanks for your hint.
But still I wonder:
1) why didn't the command urpmf give that package's name?
2) how, without your hint, could I find it out?
That package's name neither appears in the package
Rodolfo wrote:
In 10 Gigabyte space I have 4 linux partitions
(besides the swap partition), each of them about 2.5 GB size.
One is the partition dedicated to the /home directory;
of the other three,
one contains a Mandrake installation whose bootloader is installed
in the
Hi, all the listers.
I downloaded and installed scim,
but am getting mad in trying to properly configure my system so to use scim.
My purpose is to input and read simplified and traditional chinese.
Any mandrake and scim users our there than can suggest
what lines on earth I should put into the
Rodolfo wrote:
In 10 Gigabyte space I have 4 linux partitions
(besides the swap partition), each of them about 2.5 GB size.
One is the partition dedicated to the /home directory;
of the other three,
one contains a Mandrake installation whose bootloader is installed
in
Rodolfo wrote:
I'm trying to install 'scim' in my Mandrake 10.1 system.
When I do '$ ./configure', the output contains the following:
checking for gconf-2.0 = 1.2.0... Package gconf-2.0 was not found in the
pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `gconf-2.0.pc'
to
Hi.
In 10 Gigabyte space I have 4 linux partitions (besides the swap partition),
each of them about 2.5 GB size.
One is the partition dedicated to the /home directory;
of the other three,
one contains a Mandrake installation whose bootloader is installed
in the MBR (Master
Hi.
I'm trying to install 'scim' in my Mandrake 10.1 system.
When I do '$ ./configure', the output contains the following:
checking for gconf-2.0 = 1.2.0... Package gconf-2.0 was not found in the
pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `gconf-2.0.pc'
to the
Deedee wrote:
I think you will find that OO Writer is a lot more stable than
MSWord and has as many features (all of which convert very nicely
to MSWord, even though MSWord converts in an iffy manner to other
things). The only real issue concerns VBS -- OO cannot convert it.
If you need VBS,
Hi, and happy holidays to all the listers.
1) Suppose I copied the file 'mypackage.tar.gz' into the ~/tmp directory
and within that directory I did: $ tar xzvf mypackage.tar.gz
$ cd mypackage'
$
Thanks JR, thanks Mikkel:
one more question:
will 'rpm -e' work also if I installed the package with urpmi?
Cheers,
Rodolfo
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Thanks to all who replied: Noel, SnapafunFrank, Mike, Deedee.
The matter looks not to be a simple one,
so I'll have to do further trials with Wine installation.
But, Deedee, after I read you say:
I've had excellent results working with MSWord documents on
Linux systems with OpenOffice.org Writer
Rodolfo wrote:
Does anybody have any experience about Wine, how to install it and how to
make it work?
I've had problems with it, and the help I got from the wine-users mailing
list didn't manage to solve them.
I installed Wine in order to run MS Word with it,
since *unfortunately* in job
Rodolfo wrote:
I'm trying to install abiword.
When it's the moment to do ./configure,
I get the following output:
checking for glib12-config... no
checking for glib-config... no
configure: error: * * * unable to find glib12-config or glib-config in
path!
* * *
, however I installed all the
Rodolfo Medina wrote:
I'm trying to install abiword.
Greg Meyer wrote:
Why compile from source? Chalres Edwards has updated abiword packages on
eslrahc.com.
http://www.eslrahc.com
Thanks indeed. I downloaded abiword 2.2.1 from the site you suggested.
But I had already installed from
In two recent messages on this mailing list
it came out the importance of the linux command 'urpmf'
to find out what package a certain missing file belongs to:
when, during an installation, I get a message that complains
about the absence of a certain file, let's call it my_file,
all I have to do
Hi.
Suppose that a large text file has been slightly modified by another person,
and I want to find out 'a posteriori' what changes were done.
Is there a linux command (or set of commands) that can compare the two files
and tell what lines are different from one another?
Thanks,
Rodolfo
Hi.
Is it possible, and how?,
to leave a user blocked in his/her home directory,
without the possibility to get off it
and see the system directories
nor the other users's home directories?
Thanks,
Rodolfo
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Rodolfo Medina wrote:
Hi.
Is it possible, and how?,
to leave a user blocked in his/her home directory,
without the possibility to get off it
and see the system directories
nor the other users's home directories?
Thanks,
Rodolfo
Kaj Haulrich wrote:
Yes. Go to the Mandrake Control
I'm trying to install abiword.
When it's the moment to do ./configure,
I get the following output:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] abi]# ./configure
loading cache ./config.cache
checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking whether make
Hi.
The OpenOffice Writer is quite compatible with Microsoft Word,
but not at 100%: when you save a file with Writer, and then open it with
Word,
some information turns out to be lost or modified.
Isn't there in the Linux world
any application that be *completely* Microsoft Word compatible?
Hi.
On my PC I have both Windows 98 and Linux Mandrake.
I notice that the screen image under Windows fills completely the monitor,
whereas under Linux it is a bit more little:
the screen is not completely covered by the image,
a little border remains black: up, down and on the side.
Can this be
Hi.
In Mdk 10.1 Community, with KDE:
I don't manage to set the Konqueror toolbars as I want:
when I open Konqueror it always shows the same toolbars,
i.e. the Main and the Location toolbar.
Then I tick onto the 'Show Extra Toolbar' option,
but when I reopen Konqueror my choice is not saved.
Rodolfo Medina wrote:
On my PC I have both Windows 98 and Linux Mandrake.
I notice that the screen image under Windows fills completely the monitor,
whereas under Linux it is a bit more little:
the screen is not completely covered by the image,
a little border remains black: up, down
Rodolfo Medina wrote:
On my PC I have both Windows 98 and Linux Mandrake.
I notice that the screen image under Windows fills completely the
monitor, whereas under Linux it is a bit more little:
the screen is not completely covered by the image,
a little border remains black: up, down
Rodolfo Medina wrote:
In Mdk 10.1 Community, with KDE:
I don't manage to set the Konqueror toolbars as I want:
when I open Konqueror it always shows the same toolbars,
i.e. the Main and the Location toolbar.
Then I tick onto the 'Show Extra Toolbar' option,
but when I reopen Konqueror my
Rodolfo wrote:
The OpenOffice Writer is quite compatible with Microsoft Word,
but not at 100%: when you save a file with Writer,
and then open it with Word,
some information turns out to be lost or modified.
Isn't there in the Linux world
any application that be *completely* Microsoft Word
John Bowden wrote:
Glad I could be of assistance. You will have to reajust the settings when
you
boot into windoz though.
John, this time you're wrong:
with my pleasant surprise, this was not necessary (at least it seems so):
now I can switch between windoz and linux with the screen perfectly
Rodolfo wrote:
The OpenOffice Writer is quite compatible with Microsoft Word, but
not at 100%: when you save a file with Writer, and then open it with
Word, some information turns out to be lost or modified. Isn't there
in the Linux world any application that be *completely* Microsoft
Rodolfo wrote:
Everything seems to have gone well,
now when booting I can choose if going into linux or linux2,
and the new partition has not modified the old one,
except for one thing:
in the old partition I have to reinstall the modem,
i.e. rerun the modem driver.
Why? Does anybody know?
Hi.
I used to have Mdk 9.1; then I did a new partition in which I installed Mdk
10.1 CE.
Because of something wrong I did in the installation, it influenced 9.1,
which became 10.1, with its old 2.4.21-0.13mdk kernel changed
into new 2.6.8.1-10mdk 10.1 kernel.
Is it possible to have the old kernel
Suppose I've upgraded from Mdk 9.1 to 10.1,
but then I regret.
Isn't it possible to completely restore 9.1 back,
as it was before, including the kernel?
Bye,
Rodolfo
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Originally before you installed 10.1, you had win98 and mandrake9.1
then you made a new installation in the free space of win98.
When you did that you changed the partition table of the drive.
So you need to find out which partition is what to start with.
If you did default installs with
Hi.
I recently created a new partition on my HD in which I installed Mdk 10.1
Community.
Every time, during the boot I read the following message:
Mounting other filesystems: mount: none already mounted or dev/pts busy
Rodolfo Medina wrote:
On my 40 Gigabyte hard disk I used to have two partitions:
one (30 GB) containig Windows 98 and the other (10 GB) with Linux Mandrake
9.1.
Now I created a third partition with another 10 GB token off Windows,
and in it I installed successfully Mandrake Community 10.1.
When I
Thanks, Duncan, thanks, Mikkel:
the matter turns out to be a difficult one!
Duncan wrote:
All you need is to create an entry in /etc/fstab. Give it a different
mount point. Copy the entry for /home and change it so that the device
entry is correct and the mount point is different. Make sure
You have a working 10.1 you could just add 9.1 to your 10.1 lilo.conf
Heres an aproach that has worked for me.
You can boot to your 10.1 and mount the 9.1 side.
[root]# mkdir /mnt/mdk9.1
[root]# mount /dev/hda7 /mnt/mdk9.1
Now cd to /mnt/mdk9.1 and take a look make sure it is the /
directory
Hi.
On my 40 Gigabyte hard disk I used to have two partitions:
one (30 GB) containig Windows 98 and the other (10 GB) with Linux Mandrake
9.1.
Now I created a third partition with another 10 GB token off Windows,
and in it I installed successfully Mandrake Community 10.1.
The actual partition
Hi.
I already posted this message, getting no answer.
I'm trying again: maybe this time someone will read it
that can provide help.
--
When I log into my system (Mandrake Linux 9.1) as root,
the following message appears:
Already in
Hi, all.
I have Mandrake Linux 9.1.
When navigating in Internet with Konqueror,
if I want to save a web page I choose the 'Save As...' item from the
'Location' menu.
But all those small images that usually accompany and decorate a web page
are not saved, so when I come back to read it it looks
Thanks to Anne and Joe who kindly replied.
Anne wrote:
IIRC it saves the page as whatever.html, but
also saves a folder with a similar name, into which all referenced files -
pics and so on - are saved. If you don't realise that and move the file to
a
more permanent location, but don't move
John wrote:
Ctrl + P with mouse cursor over web page I want.
upcomes the dialogue window.
choose 'file' enter
then save wherever you choose
print and it creates a nice little .ps file
of the web page to view in a viewer.
Joe wrote:
...not 'save', but 'print' (from the menu, or Ctrl-P).
Rodolfo Medina wrote:
Hi.
Does it exist a linux command (or a sequence of commands)
that looks into a file
and delete one line if there are two equal?
Todd Slater replied:
uniq is the closest thing I know, but it requires lines to be sorted.
Todd
Bjrn Lundin repied:
If you don't
Hi.
Does it exist a linux command (or a sequence of commands)
that looks into a file
and delete one line if there are two equal?
Thanks,
Rodolfo
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Hi.
Does it exist a linux command (or a sequence of commands)
that looks into a file
and delete one line if there are two equal?
Thanks,
Rodolfo
Or simply deletes strings within several files within a directory? [
Similar to Find and Replace only across multiple documents at the same
time. ]
Rodolfo Medina wrote:
Hi.
Does it exist a linux command (or a sequence of commands)
that looks into a file
and delete one line if there are two equal?
Todd Slater replied:
uniq is the closest thing I know, but it requires lines to be sorted.
Todd
Bjrn Lundin repied:
If you don't
Hi, all.
When I log into my system (Mandrake Linux 9.1) as root,
the following message appears:
Already in UTF8 mode
, and some latin characters, such as à, è, ù, etc, are not displayed.
Any suggestion about how to work this problem out?
Thanks,
Rodolfo
On my PC I have Mandrake 9.1, and I use KDE as graphical enviromnment.
Does anybody know how I can save a KDE session?
Thanks indeed,
Rodolfo
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On my PC I have Mandrake 9.1, and I use KDE as graphical enviromnment.
Does anybody know how I can save a KDE session?
Thanks indeed,
Rodolfo
Hi Rodolfo
Under Configure your Desktop there is an option which is called
Components / Session management and there you have
Hi Rodolfo
if you change the settings you will see in the kde menu just on top of
the option log out and lock screen the 'new' option safe session.
This option is only visible to my knowledge of you change the session
management.
Alex
Thanks: your suggestion was right.
From the kde menu, I went
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