Re: [opensuse] keeping a copy of installed rpms

2007-12-26 Thread Gavin Chester
On Wed, 2007-12-26 at 09:51 +0200, Dave Plater wrote: Don't know how you tried to set it up ... but, if you had populated your local cache under /var/lib/smart/cache/packages (and so on) with your own downloaded packages (after initial setup) it should have just worked to get your rpms

Re: [opensuse] keeping a copy of installed rpms

2007-12-25 Thread Gavin Chester
On Tue, 2007-12-25 at 10:29 +0200, Dave Plater wrote: Are you the same poster as several weeks ago? This very same topic came up a few weeks ago and elicited quite a few replies. My suggestion (that didn't suit the original poster) was to adopt the superior package manager smart. I have

Re: [opensuse] Gmail problem

2007-12-24 Thread Gavin Chester
On Sun, 2007-12-23 at 20:30 -0800, Carl Spitzer wrote: for about four weeks I can not get new email from this list since December 12. I am getting archive email from may june and july and I turned that setting off and only want to pop the new email since Dec 12 Is anyone else having this

Re: [opensuse] keeping a copy of installed rpms

2007-12-24 Thread Gavin Chester
On Sun, 2007-12-23 at 10:51 +0200, Dave Plater wrote: Is there a way of automatically keeping a copy of everything yast installs from online repositories? At the moment I have to download manually and restart yast after refreshing (createrepo) my local repo. Are you the same poster

Re: [opensuse] NEWBIE alert: installing an application on Suse 10.0

2007-12-06 Thread Gavin Chester
On Thu, 2007-12-06 at 06:39 -0500, Katheline Chapin wrote: I am really new to this. I downloaded the wrapper program to my computer, but am having difficulty installing it for the wireless actually the ethernet cable is not working either, but the card is recognized. I am taking a leap of

Re: [opensuse] SuSE 10.3 Cross Over MathType

2007-11-24 Thread Gavin Chester
On Fri, 2007-11-23 at 16:58 -0800, Maura Edelweiss Monville wrote: In the end of 2005 I installed CrossOver on my laptop running SuSE 9.3. It was necessary to produce plenty of slides (OO and PowerPoint are not completely compaticle when it comes to formulae containing math symbols and

Re: [opensuse] Re: save rpm files from online update

2007-11-24 Thread Gavin Chester
On Sun, 2007-11-25 at 00:45 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Saturday 2007-11-24 at 14:50 -0800, Timothy Cahill wrote: A fully configured Open-Suse build is several GB in size. I could download these files manually, but for gosh sakes, why

Re: [opensuse] CD titles artist how to?

2007-11-23 Thread Gavin Chester
On Thu, 2007-11-22 at 21:51 -0500, James Knott wrote: Teruel de Campo MD wrote: I made a wav files of vinyl records. Then I burned those wav using k3b. I fill the spaces for artist title etc. When I play it I only see track 1, track 2 etc. I have been searching in how this info is

Re: [opensuse] Problems with Smart?

2007-11-16 Thread gavin chester
On 16/11/2007, Aaron Kulkis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Phil Burness wrote: For several days now, while trying to upgrade using smart I get messages similar to this:- What does the SMART disk-drive health monitor have to do with upgrading? What might have been 'smart' is to avoid replying

Re: [opensuse] How to get SuSE 10.3 see my memory stick

2007-11-03 Thread Gavin Chester
On Thu, 2007-11-01 at 18:34 -0700, Joseph Loo wrote: On Thu, 2007-11-01 at 10:47 -0700, Maura Edelweiss Monville wrote: Yes. I have two USB memory sticks that I have used regularly with 9.3 ... Maura --- Sloan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maura Edelweiss Monville wrote: When I

[opensuse] gimpshop overtakes gimp after being removed

2007-10-29 Thread Gavin Chester
running opensuse10.2 and using smart to manage packages: I wanted to evaluate gimpshop for the sake of a friend who was uncomfortable with native gimp. So I removed gimp (as required, though you may say otherwise) and installed gimpshop from packman repos. It didn't perform as well as it was

Re: [opensuse] gimpshop overtakes gimp after being removed

2007-10-29 Thread Gavin Chester
On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 12:57 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote: The Monday 2007-10-29 at 19:56 +0900, Gavin Chester wrote: I've no idea how to clean my system of the gimpshop scourge and get gimp working again (it did work just fine before this). Any ideas? Try rpm -q --last | less to find out

Re: [opensuse] gimpshop overtakes gimp after being removed

2007-10-29 Thread Gavin Chester
On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 09:16 -0400, Carl Hartung wrote: The bottom line is I had to uninstall everything gimp related and then install only the newer version. I feel for your troubles :-( But mine aren't as system-wide and I don't run gnome. See my other reply where removing all gimp

Re: [opensuse] Burned DVDs all Coasters!

2007-10-22 Thread Gavin Chester
On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 13:40 +0100, G T Smith wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robert Smits wrote: I'm running OpenSuse 10.2 on one of my desktops, which also has a dvd writer. Lately, whenever I burn a data DVD with K3B, the program goes through all the

Re: [opensuse] switch fvwm to xfce

2007-07-24 Thread Gavin Chester
On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 19:28 -0500, Rajko M. wrote: On Tuesday 24 July 2007 18:07, Gordon J. Holtslander wrote: I've just installed opensuse 10.2 on an old machine - 500 Mhz chip with 384 MG RAM I selected a minimal X with xfce desktop. Once installed , X runs with fvwm rather then

Re: [opensuse] konqueror browser [SOLVED]

2007-07-15 Thread Gavin Chester
On Sun, 2007-07-15 at 07:29 +0200, Raymond wrote: On Sunday 15 July 2007 06:02:29 you wrote: On Sat, 2007-07-14 at 20:30 -0400, Michael Derek Barnett wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gavin Chester wrote: I know this is a shot in the dark for you all, but I am

[opensuse] konqueror browser

2007-07-14 Thread Gavin Chester
I know this is a shot in the dark for you all, but I am at a loss completely ... No matter what settings I try I can't get konqueror to connect to the web. No problems with any other browser or transfer process, just konqueror. I've checked proxy settings (none needed), I've checked it's not set

Re: [opensuse] konqueror browser

2007-07-14 Thread Gavin Chester
On Sat, 2007-07-14 at 18:13 +0200, Anders Johansson wrote: On Saturday 14 July 2007 17:53:25 Gavin Chester wrote: I know this is a shot in the dark for you all, but I am at a loss completely ... No matter what settings I try I can't get konqueror to connect to the web. No problems

Re: [opensuse] konqueror browser

2007-07-14 Thread Gavin Chester
On Sat, 2007-07-14 at 20:30 -0400, Michael Derek Barnett wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gavin Chester wrote: I know this is a shot in the dark for you all, but I am at a loss completely ... No matter what settings I try I can't get konqueror to connect

Re: [opensuse] konqueror browser

2007-07-14 Thread Gavin Chester
On Sun, 2007-07-15 at 01:36 +0200, Theo v. Werkhoven wrote: Sat, 14 Jul 2007, by [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I know this is a shot in the dark for you all, but I am at a loss completely ... No matter what settings I try I can't get konqueror to connect to the web. No problems with any other

Re: [opensuse] Re: WMV plugin question

2007-07-08 Thread Gavin Chester
On Sun, 2007-07-08 at 11:28 +0200, James Hatridge wrote: Hi Joe et al, On Saturday 07 July 2007 21:32, joe wrote: James Hatridge wrote: Hi all,, I've looked around and can't figure this out. I would like to see videos with wmv format. Where can I get the plugin for this? Maybe

Re: [opensuse] Re: WMV plugin question

2007-07-08 Thread Gavin Chester
On Sun, 2007-07-08 at 15:30 +0200, Clayton wrote: build from source, anyway). Then go out and separately get libdvdcss from another site. Why would you do that? Install MPlayer from the repos (the ones already mentioned) and then also include the w32codecs from the exact same

Re: [opensuse] A Smart Question

2007-06-27 Thread Gavin Chester
On Sun, 2007-06-24 at 21:02 +0100, Bob Williams wrote: On Sunday 24 June 2007 18:28:01 Patrick Shanahan wrote: * Bob Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] [06-24-07 12:57]: If I use smart to install packages, do I have to run suseconfig afterwards? Depends on whether the packager of the rpm

Re: [opensuse] Filesystem becomes read-only

2007-05-31 Thread Gavin Chester
On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 10:05 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 04:42 +0800, Gavin Chester wrote: On Wed, 2007-05-30 at 10:43 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 10:24 -0600, Tim Donnelly wrote: -snip- I can't say for sure, but SUSE 10.1 Boxed Novell

Re: [opensuse] Filesystem becomes read-only

2007-05-30 Thread Gavin Chester
On Wed, 2007-05-30 at 10:43 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 10:24 -0600, Tim Donnelly wrote: I am using Suse 10.2 on two different machines. One is a new Dell Poweredge 2970, the other is an older (2002) no-name server. I have the same problem with two machines, one

Re: [opensuse] Configuring Evolution

2007-05-06 Thread Gavin Chester
On Sat, 2007-05-05 at 20:44 +0530, Bikram Chatterjee wrote: Hi, It seems I finally got it worked. Thanks for all your help. I want to share the information here: for any future reference to anybody. If I might help, the correct way to do this is as follows: 1/ make sure you have enabled

Re: [opensuse] Ooffice startup error

2007-04-30 Thread Gavin Chester
On Mon, 2007-04-30 at 07:07 -0600, Pueblo Native wrote: Are you downloading it, or installing it as a RPM? The latter should eliminate any of those problems. Can't go wrong with that advice, but the only thing I would add is to switch to 'smart' for package management. Once you add the useful

Re: [opensuse] installed-desktops

2007-04-19 Thread Gavin Chester
On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 12:57 -0700, Robert Lewis wrote: If I bring up Yast Click on: Online Update Configuration This brings up: Novell Customer Center Configuration Clicked on Details... This brought up: Not the solution you were expecting, but the way to solve this problem is to forget

Re: [opensuse] DVD ripping software for suse 10.2

2007-04-19 Thread Gavin Chester
On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 09:02 +0200, Verner Kjærsgaard wrote: Onsdag 18 april 2007 08:27 skrev Tommy Lim KW: Hi, Any free and good DVD ripping software for Suse 10.2? Recommend please... Regards, Tommy Depends on whether you just want to rip to hard drive or then also burn to a dvd

switch user - was Re: [opensuse] Multi-user desktop question

2007-04-11 Thread Gavin Chester
On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 14:37 +0200, Will Stephenson wrote: On Wednesday 11 April 2007, Mark Goldstein said: (I'm using KDE menu style, but almost sure there is the same option in SuSE style). openSUSE menu button-Leave-Switch User-... Will FYI: Having multiple sessions open for

Re: [opensuse] adding hard drives and such

2007-04-04 Thread Gavin Chester
On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 06:35 +0800, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote: dwain wrote: I am planning on adding a third hard drive to my mix. I will be buying 2 new larger ones, one for root and one for home and i would like to use the third one as a swap drive. Swap is typically 2x your RAM. I

[opensuse] suse config after smart upgrade

2007-04-03 Thread Gavin Chester
I saw someone on a forum recommend that you keep your suse system configuration files informed and updated of the changes to your packages by executing these two commands as superuser AFTER doing your smart install or upgrade: # SuSEconfig and then #ldconfig NOTE: the

Re: [opensuse] making mplayer work

2007-04-03 Thread Gavin Chester
On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 00:33 -0400, Larry Stotler wrote: -- Forwarded message -- From: Larry Stotler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Apr 3, 2007 11:41 AM Subject: Re: [opensuse] making mplayer work To: dwain [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 4/3/07, dwain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I

Re: [opensuse] WIN32 Codecs

2007-04-01 Thread Gavin Chester
On Sun, 2007-04-01 at 21:35 -0400, William Biggs wrote: How do I install WIN32 Codecs and get them to work ? They have to be unpacked into a specific directory to be found by mplayer and others. See the readme file that came with the sources - or use a package manager like 'smart' and it will