Re: [newbie] Mandrake Update

2001-04-06 Per discussione ai4a
s wrote: What Alan says is basically true, but if you're brave at heart, here's a method that can enable one to upgrade to glibc 2.2 on a 7.2 install. http://www.pclinuxonline.com/Help___How_To/Glibc-2_2/glibc-2_2.html I followed these instructions here except where they say do a --force

Re: [newbie-it] update-menus -v

2001-03-14 Per discussione Tommaso Leddi
I Update-menus[1106]: Running method:/etc/menu-methods//fvwm e dopo quest'ultima linea, tutto si blocca sino a che non faccio un Ctrl+C Non sembra che sia normale. Cosa devo fare? Ho notato anch'io che non riappare il prompt. Pero` non c'e` bisogno di un Control-C, basta un Return.

Re: [newbie-it] update-menus -v

2001-03-13 Per discussione Andrea Celli
Tommaso Leddi wrote: .. a proposito di update-menu: quando lancio questo comando mi viene stampato questo: Update-menus[1106]: Running method:/etc/menu-methods//fvwm e dopo quest'ultima linea, tutto si blocca sino a che non faccio un Ctrl+C Non

[newbie-it] update-menus -v

2001-03-12 Per discussione Tommaso Leddi
Io ho seguito la procedura "classica": $ rpm -Uvh *.rpm --nodeps $ rpm --rebuilddb $ update-menus -v a proposito di update-menu: quando lancio questo comando mi viene stampato questo: Update-menus[1106]: Dpkg not locking dpkg status area. Good. Update-menus[1106]: Reading installed

[newbie] Mandrake Update is broken...

2001-02-20 Per discussione Matt Schroeder
My Mandrake update worked fine for a couple weeks. I used it succesfully quite a few times. Now it loads up and when I tell it to update it's list it goes through the motions but nothing ever shows up. The modem even pulls data by the looks of things. Anyone got an idea what's wrong? --Matt

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Update Robot... Also pertains to thread titled Mandrake Update fails

2001-02-16 Per discussione Matt Schroeder
- Original Message - From: "Dave Horsfall" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 5:31 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake Update fails On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Dan LaBine wrote: Dave, I concur with Romna,...download the updates seperately from multip

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Update Robot... Also pertains to thread titled Mandrake Update fails

2001-02-16 Per discussione Matt Schroeder
My stupid email prog removed the link I had included to freshmeat... Here it is... http://freshmeat.net/projects/mandrakeupdaterobot/

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Update fails

2001-02-15 Per discussione H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 15 February 2001 02:41, you wrote: Dave Horsfall wrote: Mandrake 7.2 on a nondescript P133, 32Mb memory. order, instead of making a dependency tree). Anyone seen this? Try as I might, even with different mirrors, I get the same bland error message... Specifying

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Update fails

2001-02-15 Per discussione Matt Schroeder
I wonder if anyone has gotten their updates list down to nothing... --Matt - Original Message - From: "H.J.Bathoorn" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 11:44 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake Update fails On Thursday 15 February 2001 02:4

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Update fails

2001-02-15 Per discussione Romanator
Dave Horsfall wrote: On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Romanator wrote: Rather than using the update utility, I would recommend navigating to one of the many ftp sites and downloading the updates. Probably easier - thanks. Someone else mentioned it could be lack of memory - 32Mb can't quite cut

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Update fails

2001-02-14 Per discussione Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday 13 February 2001 10:52 pm, Dave Horsfall wrote: Mandrake 7.2 on a nondescript P133, 32Mb memory. I did a "developer" install (which doesn't install everything, as I later found) and tried to get the live updates with the GUI. It picks a site at random, and I select "Update All",

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Update fails

2001-02-14 Per discussione Dan LaBine
Dave, I concur with Romna,...download the updates seperately from multiple sites if necessary. Then install them in a logical sequence. Here's a tip that saved me a few times - When installing the KDE updates, make sure that you're running Gnome, and not KDE. In Drakconf, disable as many

[newbie] Mandrake update falis

2001-02-01 Per discussione Jorge Ramírez Llaca
Whenever I run Mandrake Update and select the programs i wan to update the hard drive's activity light goes on and my machine hangas after a minute or so. This happens every time Any ideas?

Re: [newbie] KDE Update Problems

2001-01-26 Per discussione abe
actually, kde.org does have both .src.rpms and i586.rpms for mandrake 7.2 available. I downloaded and installed them last night. Abe Todd Flinders wrote: http://rpmfind.net reports this as "Mandrake Cooker":

[newbie] KDE Update Problems

2001-01-25 Per discussione Barry Premeaux
I reinstalled 7.2 recently which, naturally wiped out my KDE2.0.1 and KDE2.1beta updates. I didn't make backup copies of those files since I figured I could get them off the web. I wanted to start with the stable version of KDE2.0.1 but am having problems with kdelibs-2.0.1-2mdk.i586.rpm. It

Re: [newbie] KDE Update Problems

2001-01-25 Per discussione Dennis Myers
On Friday 26 January 2001 03:37 am, you wrote: I reinstalled 7.2 recently which, naturally wiped out my KDE2.0.1 and KDE2.1beta updates. I didn't make backup copies of those files since I figured I could get them off the web. I wanted to start with the stable version of KDE2.0.1 but am

[newbie] Kernel update?

2001-01-14 Per discussione Robert Beach
This is probably a stupid question for some of you on this list,(and I am new with linux), but what advantages do I get with updating the kernel from the 2.2.17 to 2.4.0? I would imagination it is a plus for the software, but I would just like to know. It said "Close all open windows and

Re: [newbie] Kernel update?

2001-01-14 Per discussione s
It's a hardware thing. If you have some hardware that may be better supported go for it. Otherwise, there are some drawbacks: No choice for power management, no graphical bootup, no supermount support, pmfirewall broken others. I'm sure there are probably some cures for the some of the

Re: [newbie] Mandrake update: fetching of mirror list failed

2000-12-29 Per discussione Tom Brinkman
On Thursday 28 December 2000 04:34 pm, Dr. Trevor J. Stocki wrote: Hi, I was trying to update my Linux 7.1 using the Mandrake Update program and I got the message: fetching of mirror list failed. I'd wait till after the holidays to see if it isn't just high load on the Net due to

Re: [newbie] Mandrake update: fetching of mirror list failed

2000-12-29 Per discussione Jeffrey Norris
I got that message dozens of times, but was finally able to get all the updates for my 7.2 On Friday 29 December 2000 09:38, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Thursday 28 December 2000 04:34 pm, Dr. Trevor J. Stocki wrote: Hi, I was trying to update my Linux 7.1 using the Mandrake Update

[newbie] Mandrake update: fetching of mirror list failed

2000-12-28 Per discussione Dr. Trevor J. Stocki
Hi, I was trying to update my Linux 7.1 using the Mandrake Update program and I got the message: fetching of mirror list failed. Then it just dumped me out of the program. I can ftp to places ok but my netscape needs a http proxy in order to work. How can I fix this problem? Can I

RE: [newbie] Mandrake update: fetching of mirror list failed

2000-12-28 Per discussione Jeff Norris
5:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Mandrake update: fetching of mirror list failed Hi, I was trying to update my Linux 7.1 using the Mandrake Update program and I got the message: fetching of mirror list failed. Then it just dumped me out of the program. I can ftp to places ok

Re: [newbie] KDE2.1 Update

2000-12-26 Per discussione Robert Maynord
A question: Don't the beta releases of KDE contain bugfix code? If so, doesn't this slow the KDE beta versions down? Robert On Tuesday 26 December 2000 11:09, you wrote: Tom Brinkman wrote: On Monday 25 December 2000 09:08 pm, Barry Premeaux wrote: Has anyone tried using Chris's

[newbie] Mandrake Update

2000-12-13 Per discussione Adam Willcox
I don't appear to have drakconf in my installation of mandrake 7.1. I couldn't find anything to download off of mandrake's site. I found an older version of drakconf floating around on the internet. From what I can gather DrakConf is the mandrake update program. Can anyone point me to the

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Update

2000-12-13 Per discussione Chris
Adam Willcox wrote: I don't appear to have drakconf in my installation of mandrake 7.1. I couldn't find anything to download off of mandrake's site. I found an older version of drakconf floating around on the internet. From what I can gather DrakConf is the mandrake update program. Can

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Update

2000-12-13 Per discussione Alan Shoemaker
Adam Willcox wrote: I don't appear to have drakconf in my installation of mandrake 7.1. I couldn't find anything to download off of mandrake's site. I found an older version of drakconf floating around on the internet. From what I can gather DrakConf is the mandrake update program. Can

[newbie] ftp update doesn't work

2000-12-11 Per discussione Sven Heinicke
Nobody followed up, but I figured out my problem. I was running MandrakeUpdate from an NFS mounted directory. If I move do a local directory, like / and try run MandrakeUpdate it works. I don't know why it matters as it doesn't seem to write anything to that directory but it matters.

[newbie] ftp update doesn't work

2000-12-08 Per discussione Sven Heinicke
On an package updated Mandrake 7.2 system I have a copy of the Mandrake 7.2 and updates, I made these available to the local network via Mandrake 7.2's anonftp package. I just installed another system over the network via FTP but when I try to use MandrakeUpdate to update the latest packages it

Re: [newbie] KDE update RPMs

2000-12-07 Per discussione s
Hi, thanks for your list. I had tried to update using the update link on the desktop (twice) and just messed things up something fierce. I had to re-install from the cds both times. Did you not have any trouble? Is there some sequence or method that works better than others? Would

[newbie] KDE update

2000-12-07 Per discussione -michael-
I am updating KDE from the RPM's referenced earlier in the stream. This am when I tried I wrecked kmail somehow, so i reinstalled (well, it's not quite that simple, but anyway)- I have installed 7.2 devel/expert. So qt2.2.2 went fine, as did libical-0.20d-1. I am not even going with the next few

[newbie] Mandrake update.

2000-12-07 Per discussione Tom Webster
I've just installed my first Linux OS, Mandrake 7.0 which I installed form a DVD. Now I want to update it, however when I run the update program on the desktop it just displays "compiling mirror list" until it times out. I am on a LAN behind a proxy. I set up my proxy settings in netscape

[newbie] KDE update RPMs

2000-12-05 Per discussione -michael-
Didn't see it on this list, bvut I'm sure someone here will like to take advantage of these easily installed RPMs to fix some minor KDE challenges. Thanks, Tom. (and of course, Chris Molnar) ftp://nebsllc.com/pub/KDE_UPDATE -- -michael- RLU# 175480

RE: [newbie] KDE update RPMs

2000-12-05 Per discussione Mike Cochrane (MC)
? Mike -Original Message- From: -michael- [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2000 11:10 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] KDE update RPMs Didn't see it on this list, bvut I'm sure someone here will like to take advantage of these easily installed RPMs to fix

Re: [newbie] KDE update RPMs

2000-12-05 Per discussione michael
I am only pointing the way...one better than me can answer that question. "Mike Cochrane (MC)" wrote: Thanks, Michael! I've just installed Mandrake 7.2 with KDE 2.0pre. Which of the .RPMs would you recommend I up-date? I've got dial-up access to the Net and don't necessarily want to

Re: [newbie] KDE update RPMs

2000-12-05 Per discussione Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday 05 December 2000 11:10 am, -michael- wrote: Didn't see it on this list, bvut I'm sure someone here will like to take advantage of these easily installed RPMs to fix some minor KDE challenges. Thanks, Tom. (and of course, Chris Molnar) ftp://nebsllc.com/pub/KDE_UPDATE That's

Re: [newbie] KDE update RPMs

2000-12-05 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
I have been using these new RPMs since the day they were released and I can tell you that they are great. I could never get Mandrake's standard KDE2 (in the download version, not the Wallmart one) to run stably for me. With this version, I get a heap of bugfixes as well as new features! Sure,

[newbie] Mandrake Update

2000-11-21 Per discussione Philip Ferguson
Hello. I've recently found the need to update my rpms and I thought that the Madrake update tool would be good. However, when I try to update, I find that whenever I select a package, it is dependent on almost all of the others. This is fine and I don't have any quams with just updating

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Update

2000-11-12 Per discussione patrick
Romanator wrote: Jon Dowd wrote: On Saturday 11 November 2000 18:31, patrick wrote: what is happening to mandrake. i havent been on this newbiew thing for awhile and it seems that mandrake by changing so much of the basic linux stuff may have published a bad version. is anybody

[newbie] Mandrake Update

2000-11-11 Per discussione Carl Kehley
Help, this is getting very frustrating. Bought the Walmart 7.2, Mandrake Update worked. Upgraded to newer version of the updater, updated grpmi, and can't get any updates. The updater goes through the routine, flashes, and then updates the information for all the stuff I can't get.

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Update

2000-11-11 Per discussione patrick
Carl Kehley wrote: Help, this is getting very frustrating. Bought the Walmart 7.2, Mandrake Update worked. Upgraded to newer version of the updater, updated grpmi, and can't get any updates. The updater goes through the routine, flashes, and then updates the information for all the stuff

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Update

2000-11-11 Per discussione patrick
Jon Dowd wrote: On Saturday 11 November 2000 18:31, patrick wrote: what is happening to mandrake. i havent been on this newbiew thing for awhile and it seems that mandrake by changing so much of the basic linux stuff may have published a bad version. is anybody else getting this or it

[newbie] Mandrake Update

2000-10-15 Per discussione Christian A Strømmen [Number1/NumeroUno]
I'm using Mandrake 7.2beta3 and when using the MandrakeUpdate program and pressing "Update List", I get a message saying "Cannot retrieve the list of packages to update. Try with an other mirror." The mirrors I have listed under Preferences, Source are:

[newbie] Tulip update and config

2000-10-06 Per discussione zc
Hi, The Tulip driver for download from: ftp://ftp.scyld.com/pub/network/netdriver-2.0.src.rpm comes with these instructions. # Transfer the Scyld PCI Netdriver package rpm -i ftp://ftp.scyld.com/pub/network/netdriver-2.0.src.rpm # Build the binary version for your kernel cd

[newbie] kernel update

2000-09-18 Per discussione Lance Borden
Hey, I've been following the thread about updating the kernel, and would like to update the kernel on my system, but y'all haven't mentioned anything about the LILO in the emails. Once you install a new kernel, don't you have to go in and change a setting somewhere so that the machine will boot

[newbie] mandrake update falling over

2000-09-11 Per discussione bascule
every time i run mandrake update i choose a file to update, it downloads but when the download bar indicates the file has fully arrived nothing happens, if i examine the file size in kfm i discover that the download has started again even thopugh the progress bar says full, i have manually

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Update

2000-09-03 Per discussione Harry Flaxman
Paaul, Wwill give it a shot. I appreciate your help. Harry Paul wrote: On Sat, 2 Sep 2000, Harry Flaxman wrote: Still getting the error message 'can't fetch list of servers'. The program doesn't even appear to go out across the net. I've tried it from the terminal, and from

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Update

2000-09-03 Per discussione Harry Flaxman
Paul, Thanks, the clean install of maandrake update worked for me. -- ___ Harry Flaxman | Reg Linux User 182484 http://web.meganet.net/hflaxman ICQ # 22086907 | Reg Linux System 80769

[newbie] Mandrake Update

2000-09-02 Per discussione Harry Flaxman
Still no go on mandrake update. What is the command from the terminal screen to run this beast. The last time I checked it, a month ago, it was working perfectly out of kde. Now it's coming up saying it can't find a list of servers. Someone suggested I run it from a terminal, only thing is, I

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Update

2000-09-02 Per discussione Paul
On Sat, 2 Sep 2000, Harry Flaxman wrote: As 'root' run MandrakeUpdate (case sensitive). Works for me: [root@internet temp]# which MandrakeUpdate /usr/X11R6/bin/MandrakeUpdate Paul Still no go on mandrake update. What is the command from the terminal screen to run this beast. The last time I

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Update

2000-09-02 Per discussione Harry Flaxman
Still getting the error message 'can't fetch list of servers'. The program doesn't even appear to go out across the net. I've tried it from the terminal, and from drakconf.both as root. This has me baffled. Harry Paul wrote: On Sat, 2 Sep 2000, Harry Flaxman wrote: As 'root' run

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Update

2000-09-02 Per discussione Paul
On Sat, 2 Sep 2000, Harry Flaxman wrote: Still getting the error message 'can't fetch list of servers'. The program doesn't even appear to go out across the net. I've tried it from the terminal, and from drakconf.both as root. This has me baffled. Harry Hi Harry, I remember this

RE:[newbie] Mandrake Update

2000-09-01 Per discussione JOSE A MIRLES
I was having the same problem, so I ran it from a xterm window. Seems, that since I had no KDE libs installed it would not run. I was strictly sticking to Gnome and ManDrake perfers KDE. Once I installed the required Libs, it ran well. José A. Mirles

Re: [newbie] Netscape Update ?!

2000-08-21 Per discussione Anthony
Red Hat issued one Saturday. Expect a Mandrake version Netscape within the week I'd guess, although I'm not really sure what the difference is between the two. I've copied at pasted it below: I still haven't heard any alerts about a need to upgrade to 4.75, so I'm leaving it be for now. I

Re: [newbie] Netscape Update ?!

2000-08-21 Per discussione Mark Weaver
bascule wrote: hi, i just read your post and wondered, what is ns-install? is it a install routine that comes with 4.75? bascule root wrote: I have Mandrake 7.0, which came with Netscape 4.7 and 40-bit encryption. I need 128, so I downloaded the current 4.75/128 from

Re: [newbie] Netscape Update ?!

2000-08-21 Per discussione Mark Weaver
Greg Stewart wrote: In the past that is how it's been (occasionally--they change things around from time to time)... did you download a tarball from netscape? I still haven't heard any alerts about a need to upgrade to 4.75, so I'm leaving it be for now. I tried NS6.0pre2 and find it

RE: [newbie] Netscape Update ?!

2000-08-20 Per discussione Welker Donald P NPRI
Thanks, that worked once I found kpackage. How many package managers does this beast have, anyway? -Original Message- From: Harry Flaxman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, August 18, 2000 9:37 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Netscape Update ?! Remove

RE: [newbie] Netscape Update ?!

2000-08-20 Per discussione Paul
On Sun, 20 Aug 2000, Welker Donald P NPRI wrote: Thanks, that worked once I found kpackage. How many package managers does this beast have, anyway? Kpackage, RPMdrake, GnoRPM, RPM. Enough, I guess, for everyone to choose :) Paul -- Silence is a little bit of heaven descending to earth )0(

Re: [newbie] Netscape Update ?!

2000-08-20 Per discussione Greg Stewart
In the past that is how it's been (occasionally--they change things around from time to time)... did you download a tarball from netscape? I still haven't heard any alerts about a need to upgrade to 4.75, so I'm leaving it be for now. I tried NS6.0pre2 and find it unbearably slow...although it

Re: [newbie] kernel update error

2000-08-06 Per discussione Anthony
Yep, make those soft links. A flashing red link means that the link is broken, and that it doesn't point to an existing file. So once you fix those links LILO should work just fine. I (again assume) that System.map-2.2.16-9mdksecure needs to be linked to System.map@ and

[newbie] kernel update error

2000-08-03 Per discussione Victor Richardson
I just tried to update my 2.2.15-4mdk kernel to 2.2.16-9mdksecure by RPM and I think something is jacked up. I used Mandrake updater to install 2.2.16-9mdksecure kernel and 2.2.16-9-docs like Mandrakeuser.org says on it's upgrade page, although I didn't allow it to install the kernel-headers rpm

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Update on 7.1

2000-07-29 Per discussione Roderick F.Lazaro
On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, you wrote: My guess would be to take a look in /tmp. I know the Red Hat update stores it's files there. Just ran the update program for the first time in 7.1 and noticed that about half the packages wouldn't install. There were error messages saying that the

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Update on 7.1

2000-07-25 Per discussione Romanator
Harry Flaxman wrote: Just ran the update program for the first time in 7.1 and noticed that about half the packages wouldn't install. There were error messages saying that the packages conflict with other packages. I'm just wondering if it's better to do this manually? Where would the

Re: [newbie] Auto Update in MDK 7.1 problems

2000-07-13 Per discussione Roderick F. Lazaro
I think you should rebuild you rpm database, use: rpm --rebuilddb Hope that helps...

Re: [newbie] Menu update command?

2000-07-12 Per discussione Tom Brinkman
On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, you wrote: Hi again Tom, When I was sure that I had all the changes done that I wanted to make I ran that menu update, however nothing changed. All the menus in Afterstep are the same as they were out of the box. I looked at some other menu files that already existed

Re: [newbie] Menu update command?

2000-07-12 Per discussione Mark Weaver
Good heavens! I wasn't using Kmenuedit. Iw as doing it manually using mc and vi. I'll try it with Kmenuedit as root and see what happens. Tom Brinkman wrote: On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, you wrote: Hi again Tom, When I was sure that I had all the changes done that I wanted to make I ran that

Re: [newbie] Menu update command?

2000-07-12 Per discussione Paul
On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Tom Brinkman wrote: Did you make all the changes from root's desktop? I've found that su'ing to root as user and running kmenuedit doesn't work. Worked with 7.0, but not 7.1 and the new menu system. It doesn't??? I wonder what's different between your system and mine,

Re: [newbie] Menu update command?

2000-07-12 Per discussione Tom Brinkman
On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, you wrote: On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Tom Brinkman wrote: Did you make all the changes from root's desktop? I've found that su'ing to root as user and running kmenuedit doesn't work. Worked with 7.0, but not 7.1 and the new menu system. It doesn't??? I wonder what's

Re: [newbie] Menu update command?

2000-07-12 Per discussione Mark Weaver
I used to dual-boot, but run primarily, (99% of the time) Linux. The other partition is Win98. About the only thing I use it for anymore is two graphics programs and an HTML editor that I just love. HomeSite 4.5. Other than that I live and breath Linux anymore. I love the stability, power,

Re: [newbie] Menu update command?

2000-07-12 Per discussione Paul
On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Tom Brinkman wrote: It doesn't??? I wonder what's different between your system and mine, a few days ago I noticed something missing from the menu, did 'su' to root, ran kmenuedit and everything went smoothly... There's just beginning a discussion among the

Re: [newbie] Menu update command?

2000-07-11 Per discussione Mark Weaver
Awesome! thanks Tom! -- Mark I love my Linux Box... REASON # 2 ...X-windows is just a suedonym. Registered Linux user # 182496 On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, you wrote: Hi list, I wonder if someone could refresh my memory. I can't seem

[newbie] Menu update command?

2000-07-10 Per discussione Mark Weaver
Hi list, I wonder if someone could refresh my memory. I can't seem to remember what the command is to update the menus. thanks, Mark

Re: [newbie] Menu update command?

2000-07-10 Per discussione Tom Brinkman
On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, you wrote: Hi list, I wonder if someone could refresh my memory. I can't seem to remember what the command is to update the menus. thanks, Mark jogged my memory Mark, thank you I believe it's 'update-menus' there's both a man and info page for it. I

[newbie] Kernel update

2000-07-07 Per discussione Victor Richardson
I just used Mandrake Update in version 7.1 for the first time and everything went smoothly (I assume). It updated a lot of packages, but the one I am most interested in is the new kernel 2.2.16-9mdk. I looked in /etc/lilo.conf and there are two new entries: * Add by install-kernel

Re: [newbie] Lost Update Icon

2000-07-06 Per discussione Alan Shoemaker
Damthe desktop icon is an applications kdelnk to the program /usr/X11R6/bin/MandrakeUpdate. Alan "Gentile, Sam" wrote: For some reason, the "Update" icon is gone from my KDE desktop. I can't seem to find the program either. How do I do this? Sam Gentile Principal Software Engineer

[newbie] Mandrake update and new kernel?

2000-07-02 Per discussione Mark Weaver
For the first time since installing Mandrake 7.1 I've used the Update utility. It works real nice, and I downloaded the latest kernel. Mostly cause I heard there was a problem with the one that shipped with Mandrake 7.1. I'm assuming that it installed, but when I rebooted I noticed that it was

Re: [newbie] Mandrake update and new kernel?

2000-07-02 Per discussione Romanator
I tried the update and removed the last entry from/boot/Grub/Menu.1st Every thing works fine. Roman Tom Brinkman wrote: On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, you wrote: For the first time since installing Mandrake 7.1 I've used the Update utility. It works real nice, and I downloaded the latest

Re: [newbie] Mandrake update and new kernel?

2000-07-02 Per discussione Romanator
Mark, Click on the KDE Control Panel Center icon. Which kernel version do you have. The patch was recently put on the rpmfind ftp site kernel update 2000 2.2.16-9mdk. After it installs, an entry will be made to /boot/Grub/Menu.1st file. The next time you reboot, Grub will show 2.2.16-9mdk.

Re: [newbie] Mandrake update and new kernel?

2000-07-02 Per discussione Mark Weaver
Hi Tom, Thanks for the info. I think there was a problem with the first attempt at updating cause I tried it again a little later and this time only grabed the newer kernel. the Update utility took care of downloading AND installing the new kernel. As soon as I rebooted this time the new kernel

Re: [newbie] Netscape update for mdk 7.02

2000-05-11 Per discussione Michael
I checked to see if it was installed and it came back as 4.70 so I redid the install cmd, this time from an eterminal and it gave me failed dependencies: mozilla-fonts = 2310-3mdk is needed by netscape-common-4.72-14mdk netscape-common = 4.70 is needed by netscape-navigator-4.70-6mdk

Re: [newbie] Netscape update for mdk 7.02

2000-05-10 Per discussione David BAUDENS
Michael écrivit : Well, I may have been a bit hasty with the adulation(see my previous post). RPMfind says I have netscape 4.70-6mdk. When I look at hte list of packages , the only mdk specific one i see is 4.61 stable-1mdk. The 4.72's seem to be for redhat. ??? Version 4.73 (menus are

Re: [newbie] Netscape update for mdk 7.02

2000-05-10 Per discussione Alan Shoemaker
Michaelwhen you click on the link that produces the garbage, hold down the shift key as you click. Alan Michael wrote: David (Mr. Smartypants from France) wrote: Michael écrivit : Well, I may have been a bit hasty with the adulation(see my previous post). RPMfind says I have

Re: [newbie] Netscape update for mdk 7.02

2000-05-10 Per discussione Michael
David (Mr. Smartypants from France) wrote: Michael crivit : > Well, I may have been a bit hasty with the adulation(see my previous > post). > RPMfind says I have netscape 4.70-6mdk. When I look at hte list of > packages , the only mdk specific one i see is > 4.61 stable-1mdk. The 4.72's seem to

Re: [newbie] Netscape update for mdk 7.02

2000-05-10 Per discussione Bob
Alan, Is this post an indication of the Mandrake 7.02 netscape 4.7 rpm as being no good?? I just removed the common and navigator with xrpm, after three days of attempting to figure out why I could not access the files. The rpm's made available 7.02 aren't of any use. On Wed, 10 May

Re: [newbie] Netscape update for mdk 7.02

2000-05-10 Per discussione Bob
Well, The the ftp sunset does not have the version 4.72 of Netscape. n Wed, 10 May 2000, you wrote: Michaelwhen you click on the link that produces the garbage, hold down the shift key as you click. Alan Michael wrote: David (Mr. Smartypants from France) wrote:

Re: [newbie] Netscape update for mdk 7.02

2000-05-10 Per discussione Rial Juan
With that kind of attitude, I suggest you stick to Microsoft products. Go ahead, remove mandrake from your computer, see if anyone cares. If that's supposed to be a threat, it's definately a hylarious one... Keep it up, you're funny. Hey, if you guys don't make this any clearer(easier?) I will

[newbie] Netscape update for mdk 7.02

2000-05-10 Per discussione Michael
Well, I may have been a bit hasty with the adulation(see my previous post). RPMfind says I have netscape 4.70-6mdk. When I look at hte list of packages , the only mdk specific one i see is 4.61 stable-1mdk. The 4.72's seem to be for redhat. -michael-

[newbie] Enlightenment update

2000-04-30 Per discussione Nickolay Belostotsky
Hello! When I try to upgrande E from 0.16.3 to .4: rpm -Uvh name it says: broken dependencies: fnlib = 0.5 needed ... (a translation from Russian, not sure) What's wrong?

Re: [newbie] Enlightenment update

2000-04-30 Per discussione flupke
It means you're missing some of the features included in the newer version of fnlib. Download and install the latest imlib version from http://ww.enlightenment.org and it will work. HTH Flupke On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, Nickolay Belostotsky wrote: Hello! When I try to upgrande E from 0.16.3 to .4:

RE: [newbie] imwheel update

2000-04-18 Per discussione Fabio Rossi
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 17 April 2000 18:57 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] imwheel update Dear all, after installing the imwheel update, the wheel is working only in root. If a login with a diferent user and I try to start it with the command imwheel -k I

RE: [newbie] imwheel update

2000-04-18 Per discussione Fabio Rossi
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 17 April 2000 18:57 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] imwheel update Dear all, after installing the imwheel update, the wheel is working only in root. If a login with a diferent user and I try to start it with the command imwheel -k I

RE: [newbie] imwheel update

2000-04-17 Per discussione Oliver Stieber
have you tried loading imwheel at boot. -Original Message- From: Fabio [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 17 April 2000 18:57 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] imwheel update Dear all, after installing the imwheel update, the wheel is working only in root. If a login

[newbie] Mandrake update

2000-03-22 Per discussione Claus Atzenbeck
There is an update for nmh. I've tried to get it via Mandrake Update programm, but I failed: Everytime (no matter what ftp server) I got the error message (translated to English): "An error occured by downloading nmh-1.0.3.-1mdk.i586.rmp" Where is the problem? Claus. -- Atzenbeck. Data

Re: [newbie] Mandrake update

2000-03-22 Per discussione cyberclay
On Wed, 22 Mar 2000 06:09:56 Claus Atzenbeck wrote: "An error occured by downloading nmh-1.0.3.-1mdk.i586.rmp" Where is the problem? Hey, It would appear to be because your program is attempting to download a file with a "rmp" extension, as opposed to an "rpm" extension. Regards,

Re: [newbie] Mouse Update

2000-02-24 Per discussione FlipZ
how i need to know how to use drakx with no mouse. my ps/2 port is detected and it sacrews me up. thanks! FlipZ - Original Message - From: Paul Eppley [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2000 10:44 PM Subject: [newbie] Mouse Update I figured

[newbie] Mouse Update

2000-02-23 Per discussione Paul Eppley
I figured out how to use DrakX in text mode, but my mouse still doesn't work at all in Linux. Paul Eppley http://users.nni.com/Paul_Eppley

[newbie] mandrake update

2000-01-07 Per discussione sean
Hi all, Quick question about the linux-madrake update tool. I D/L'd the updates no problems and it seemed to install, in the messeges that accompany the chocies the 2.2.13 Kernel info said that it reqiures /etc/lilo.conf be updated by hand, hers my current configuration; boot=/dev/hda

[newbie] Auto update headaches

1999-12-23 Per discussione mshirley
Fresh install of 6.0, setup modem, etc. Run auto update. Wait all night for downloads. Multiple errors. Some file conflicts with BeroFTP. Some things need to be forced due to conflicts with existing files. The auto update icon is a good idea, but let's face it, Newbies are not gonna have a

Re: [newbie] kernel-update loaded, but installed?

1999-11-30 Per discussione Ernest N. Wilcox Jr.
On Sat, 27 Nov 1999,Chris Hanning wrote: | Hi, I'm a newbie - my first mail was sent a few hours ago and I see | Ive signed it root, e-mail : hostname etc | | Well, the problem with downloading the kernel update has me puzzled | quite frankly. I tried another ftp and it didn't skip me

Re: [newbie] Kernel Update

1999-11-29 Per discussione Dennis Robertson
Axalon Bloodstone wrote: On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, Dennis Robertson wrote: Hello list, I have been absent during a re-install of L-M6.1 to try to cure my problem with kppp disabling my desktop. I decided to go for broke and updated the kernel etc with the Mandrake update function on the

RE: [newbie] Kernel Update

1999-11-29 Per discussione Díaz Leiva, Pedro
Title: RE: [newbie] Kernel Update This is an e-mail example that I've received today. -Mensaje original- De: Dennis Robertson [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Enviado el: lunes 29 de noviembre de 1999 13:09 Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Asunto:Re: [newbie] Kernel Update Axalon Bloodstone

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