Okay, so I can add the new repositories but the stuff you get with then is almost non-existant! For example, I wanted Octave, so after I added all these new repositories I went to add software and looked for octave and found nothing!! I ended up downlolading the source code and compiling from source!!

I had to do this with Kile as well, there is nothing on these repositiries of use. I expected something like packman on SUSE.

Mat

I think I get your point Mat. I'm a casual (as in not tech smart) user of MDK. I started w/ 9.0 moved to 9.2 and now use 10.1. I have not really tried any other distros except for the occasional paniced use of KNOPPIX. But lately I've been thinking that I probably would have been better off changing horses at my last "upgrade." I feel a certain loyalty to MDK, and I enjoy the puzzles I have to solve, and I totally appreciate all the help this forum has given me, over and over again, amen. Damn, you folks are good! But I think next time (probably in a couple of years, or if I "upgrade" to something bigger than my 633mhz), anyway, I think next time I'll look around a bit and see if there's something out there that suits me better.

As per the above quote, one way I've figured out how to locate stuff I've just installed and then can't find, is to go to the Remove Software section of Rpmdrake, and in MDK 10.1, I click on the Maximum Information, find the program I just installed and highlight it, in the information window it will tell you where the hell it is.

I also looked for Firefox and couldn't find it in the easy URPM repositories, so I downloaded it from the Firefox website. If I remember right I had to download a tar.gz file that I unpacked and exported into a directory in my download directory on my desktop. The instructions on the Firefox website weren't the most explicit in the world so I ended up installing it right there, I guess. Afterward no icon shortcut appeared in the start menu or on the desktop. I was able to start it from a terminal, then found the icon "Firefox" in the Firefox folder draged and linked that to my desktop, and that's how I click to get into Firefox these days.

Which I guess is not so much "unstable" as humbling.

Matuk: I take it you didn't add the contrib repositories from easy-urpmi. *That* is where things like octave and kile are to be found.

I used version 10.0 for quite some time (having started with 7 and used 8 and 9). I tried 10.1 but hated it - IIRC I found it *much* slower than 10.0 and it wouldn't run some of the apps I needed for embedded software development.

I recently took the plunge and upgraded to Mandrake 2007 and am very impressed indeed. There is so much software that comes with it and that you can get from other places that I now only need Windows for Sony's awful Sonic Stage for when I want to put music on my HDD Walkman. I saw no decrease in speed from 10.0, although I should point out I'm using a 3GHz or so P4 and not a 633MHz device.

I have heard other people moan about Mandriva 2007, but I can only praise it.

I added every repository I could find. I ended up scrubbing my system of mandriva and I am now using Sabayon.

Mat

SO glad I found this forum, and this thread in particular.
And THANK YOU for explaining the easy urpmi use!
As a Linux user of about 4 days, and a MS teeth gnasher from way back, I fell in love with Mandriva Spring right away, but admit I was very close to going back to Windows, at least for awhile because I have printer issues I couldn't figure out due to the whole rpm/tar issue. It's total greek to me right now, and up to this thread had already put in an hour of search time trying to find the most basic info.
I have found that no matter how helpful some posters try to be, they forget some newbies are TOTALLY green, and have barely gotten past the fresh install from a LIVE DVD.
Thanks again, and try to keep us greenies in mind!

Try Gaim or Kopete. They do the same thing, more or less. Also, they work with Yahoo, AIM, ICQ... You can log into more than one account at a time even.

And, no ads. :-)

This is very true! I know Windows inside and out. Linux is about 90% mystery to me. I may understand the concepts, but I still need someone to walk me through the practical applications. In some ways, it's like teaching a child to walk.

I recently installed Mandriva after having used Suse 10.0 for about a year. I found this article most helpful in making the switch from Yast. However, I've run into a snag with dependencies. If I select a new program to add, it quickly gives me the list of dependencies--great!

However, should I decide that I don't want to install the program at this point (because, for example, I don't have time to download 100 mb of software right now), unchecking the original program only removes the original program. It doesn't remove the dependencies, which leaves me with 90 mb of software selected (minus the 10 mb for the original program).

How do I unselect all the dependencies--apart from going through every item in RPMDrake and unchecking one at a time?

Greetings,

This is my first post.

Somebody could help me? I want to install a file ".run" it's the last version of NVIDIA drivers for Linux. I do not have troubles with ".rpm or tar.gz"...But ".run" it's quite different for me.

I run Mandriva 2007 i586.
My pc is: Intel Pentium 3.2Gb (32 bits), 2 Gb RAM memmory, Asus motherboard, NVIDIA 6600 PCI-e 256MB.

Kind regards.

You right click on the file and in the permissions there is a box marked "is executable", make sure this has a cross in it. Depending on your distro you can click it to install or on the command line do sh ***.run and that should now work.

Mat

Hi Matuk!

Thanks for the advice, but appear this:

"ERROR: You appear to be running an X server; please exit X before
installing. For further details, please see the section INSTALLING
THE NVIDIA DRIVER in the README available on the Linux driver
download page at www.nvidia.com."


I don't know how to stop running X server. How can I do that? So sry i'm so noob

Kindest regards,
Uroplatus

So sorry,

My distro is Mandriva 2007 sping free

Regards,
Uro

The title of this thread bears no relation to contents.
Until now, ha.
Newbiveteran of 3 months here.
Mandriva 2009.1,KDE4, single OS
I have tarballs lying around, and still don't know what to do with them. Some are duplicated as normal looking folders in Documents. I may have done this. It seems it's not the best place for program files.

Anyway, how can I get them happening?


I will be able to retain helpful info better than previously, as I now have made a floating kwrite note which sits in minimized form in bottom bar, thus simulating the dearly departed [window$] Quicknote, and compensating for my clunky incompetence in staggering about in Dolphin.

http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Docs/Bas...ng_from_source

Jim