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Just to be sure, is libglade2.0_0-devel installed? [rolf@localhost ~]$ urpmf libglade-2.0.pc libglade2.0_0-devel:/usr/lib/pkgconfig/libglade-2.0.pc [rolf@localhost ~]$ urpmq --sources libglade2.0_0-devel /mnt/hd//media/main4/libglade2.0_0-devel-2.4.2-1mdk.i586.rpm

John, I just now finally got an email notification that there were other replies in this thread (notification has been buggy for me), so I did not see your questions until now. [rolf@localhost ~]$ which gnome-control-center /usr/bin/gnome-control-center [rolf@localhost ~]$ rpm -qf /usr/bin/gnome-control-center gnome-control-center-2.8.2-6mdk What I think is that you need to have gnome-control-center installed, the alternate method I mentioned in my other post. On my machine, calling that program gives me the same window obtained from the menu path to 'Removable Storage'

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OK, urpmi knows about this package. Is it installed? $ rpm -q XFree86-compat-libs If not, did you try installing it? # urpmi XFree86-compat-libs

For some reason, urpmi/rpmdrake/MandrakeUpdate does not know about the updated version of libqt3. On my install of 2005, with updated urpmi database: [rolf@localhost ~]$ rpm -q qt3-common qt3-common-3.3.4-7.1.102mdk [rolf@localhost ~]$ rpm -q libqt3 libqt3-3.3.4-7.1.102mdk [rolf@localhost ~]$ su Password: [root@localhost rolf]# urpmq --sources libqt3 file://mnt/hd//media/main/libqt3-3.3.4-5mdk.i586.rpm ftp://ftp.ciril.fr/pub/linux/mandrakelinux/official/updates/LE2005/main_updates/. /libqt3-3.3.4-7.1.102mdk.i586.rpm It could be a case of needing urpmi.update, which you have done, or the mirror, which you have changed, both of which are already suggested. My use of urpmq --sources shows that the newer libqt3 is on at least one mirror. What does that comand show for you? What does urpmq --list-media show? If nothing else, it ought to work to get a copy of the newer libqt3 and, in the directory to which you have downloaded it, as root, do: # urpmi libqt3-3.3.4-7.1.102mdk qt3-common

Do you have this package? It's on my CD5, maybe it would be in an ftp 'main' source. This is from 2005 Club 6 CD download: [root@localhost rolf]# urpmf libXv.so.1 XFree86-compat-libs:/usr/X11R6/lib/libXv.so.1 XFree86-compat-libs:/usr/X11R6/lib/libXv.so.1.0 [root@localhost rolf]# urpmq --sources XFree86-compat-libs file://mnt/hd//media/main5/XFree86-compat-libs-4.1.0-4mdk.i586.rpm

I've had to bang away at installing grub on occasion; it just wouldn't seem to go the first time. I have never had luck with the gui but only tried it a couple of times. On the command line, there are a couple of ways to try. You have to be root. In /boot/grub, there is install.sh, a script for installing grub. You should cat it or view it in an editor to make sure it is correctly configured. Here is mine: $ cat /boot/grub/install.sh grub --device-map=/boot/grub/device.map --batch <<EOF install (hd1,6)/boot/grub/stage1 d (hd1,6) (hd1,6)/boot/grub/stage2 p (hd1,6)/boot/grub/menu.lst The d option specifies which device to install grub on. In my case, during install, I chose to install to my / partition. The MBR would be d (hd0) The other paths are the locations of stage1 and stage2; p is the location of the menu configuration file. Also, in /boot/grub, check device.map to make sure it is right. That has got off for me before. $ cat /boot/grub/device.map (fd0) /dev/fd0 (hd0) /dev/hda (hd1) /dev/hdb (hd2) /dev/hdg If all looks good, as root, try # sh /boot/grub/install.sh You can install from the grub shell but, also, check these two files as I think they might be used by the grub shell install. Start the shell, as root, by typing grub The commands to install grub to the MBR when the / device is hdb2 and quit the shell are: grub> root (hd1,1) grub> setup (hd0) grub> quit Sometimes running these installations will give you an error with a clue about where to look to fix it. Once, IIRC, installing grub only worked when I booted a rescue disk to command line, mounted my / partition, did a chroot to that partition, and ran the grub shell. See info grub

In Menu > System > Configuration > Hardware > Removable Storage, there is an entry for importing photos when the digital camera is connected. This module is also available in gnome-control-center

My only question is whether the last urpmi command you give uses the path to the neuroscope.rpm file. In other words, Tab completion should work for you: type part of the urpmi command, including the first part of the path to the rpm file, which would just be the name of the rpm, if you are in that directory, and pressing Tab will fill in the rest of the command. The one error I know is common is not to give the correct path/name to urpmi of an rpm that is not part of the urpmi sources. Otherwise, I am not familiar with the cause of that error; maybe a search at www.google.com would be helpful.

If you report more explicitly What you are trying to accomplish What are the steps you take to accomplish that What are the results you expect and What were the actual results, including a copy of any error messages, as the general format of a request for help, others will have a better chance of understanding what your situation is and recognizing a solution. In other words, What are the exact commands you use or steps you take? What are the results, including error messages? What are the results of the commands I suggested you try? for example.

[rolf@localhost ~]$ urpmf libmp3lame.so liblame0:/usr/lib/libmp3lame.so.0 liblame0:/usr/lib/libmp3lame.so.0.0.0 liblame0-devel:/usr/lib/libmp3lame.so liblame0:/usr/lib/libmp3lame.so.0 liblame0:/usr/lib/libmp3lame.so.0.0.0 liblame0-devel:/usr/lib/libmp3lame.so lib64lame0:/usr/lib64/libmp3lame.so.0 lib64lame0:/usr/lib64/libmp3lame.so.0.0.0 lib64lame0-devel:/usr/lib64/libmp3lame.so [rolf@localhost ~]$ su Password: [root@localhost rolf]# urpmq --sources [B]urpmi liblame0-devel[/B] liblame0-devel ftp://ftp.free.fr/pub/Distributions_Linux/plf/mandrake/free/10.2/./i586/ liblame0-devel-3.96.1-1plf.i586.rpm This shows the package containing that file to be in the PLF free sources. Add a plf-free, contrib, and plf-nonfree urpmi source by following the directions at http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ Be sure to hit the buttons labelled 'Proceed to step 2', etc. after each step or it won't work correctly. Then, as root, urpmi liblame0-devel

Package manager (rpmdrake) in Sytem > Configuration > Packaging under Menu is a gui front-end to the urpmi family of commands. Once you learn how to use the commands in a terminal, I think you will find them to be quicker and more flexible than the gui. Here's a demo: [rolf@localhost ~]$ urpmq neuroscope no package named neuroscope Apparently, neuroscope is a 'third-party' non-Mandriva rpm. It still might be possible to install it cleanly. There is a complaint about a missing dependency, however. Use urpmf to search for a package containing that dependency: [rolf@localhost ~]$ urpmf libXinerama.so libxorg-x11:/usr/X11R6/lib/libXinerama.so.1 libxorg-x11:/usr/X11R6/lib/libXinerama.so.1.0 libxorg-x11-devel:/usr/X11R6/lib/libXinerama.so libxorg-x11:/usr/X11R6/lib/libXinerama.so.1 libxorg-x11:/usr/X11R6/lib/libXinerama.so.1.0 libxorg-x11-devel:/usr/X11R6/lib/libXinerama.so There is a package in my urpmi database containing this file. I can find out what urpmi repository contains it. Some ftp sources are password-protected, so urpmq will hide this information from an unprivileged user and I use root to execute this command: [root@localhost rolf]# urpmq --sources libxorg-x11-devel file://mnt/hd//media/main2/libxorg-x11-devel-6.8.2-7mdk.i586.rpm ftp://ftp.ciril.fr/pub/linux/mandrakelinux/official/updates/LE2005/main_updates/ ./libxorg-x11-devel-6.8.2-7.1.102mdk.i586.rpm This shows the package to be on CD2 and that it has an update, probably security-related. Therefore, if you install this package, you should run MandrakeUpdate to get the updated version installed. If you have a MandrakeUpdate source configured, you can get the ftp file that makes urpmi aware that there is a new update in the repository: # urpmi.update --update This command updates the list for media marked update, such as the security updates source. Now, assuming you have urpmi sources configured for the install media, including CD3, and and a MandrakeUpdate source, one urpmi command ought to install neuroscope and its dependencies. You can see what are the configured media in Software Media Manager or with: [rolf@localhost ~]$ urpmq --list-media Installation CD1 (disk1) Installation CD2 (disk2) Installation CD3 (disk3) Drivers and Plugins Special Club CD4 (disk4) Drivers and Plugins Special Club CD4 (disk5) Drivers and Plugins Special Club CD4 (disk6) Drivers and Plugins Special Club CD4 (disk7) Drivers and Plugins Special Club CD4 (disk8) Silver Club Extra CD5 (disk9) Silver Club Extra CD6 (disk10) Silver Club Extra CD6 (disk11) simonzone plf-free plf-nonfree updates contrib club.comm_i586_2005LimitedEdition As I said, this shows an updates source, I have updated that source, and, in the directory containing the neuroscope rpm, I would do: # urpmi full_name_of_neuroscope.rpm In theory, this would install neuroscope and its dependencies, including the updated package(s) on the ftp updates repository. I don't know if this analysis interprets your situation accurately but HIH.

I've seen that error before but can't remember why. Did you search at www.google.com? Otherwise, are you using kppp to configure the connection? I have had the best luck with that. It is the kdenetwork-kppp package, which you might have to install (as root): urpmi kdenetwork-kppp

Many of these dependencies are libraries or shared objects (.so files) that can be used by more than one program, like dynamically linked libraries (.dll's) in Windows. They can be compiled into the program (statically-linked) but this makes the program larger, which, when these files are needed by a number of programs, makes a distro (> 4 G for a Mandriva Power Pack, not including Club apps, PLF, etc.) quickly impractically large. http://www.answers.com/topic/library-computer-science It is a bad idea to use --force or --nodeps with rpm, unless you are sure it will do no harm. The usual outcome is a broken system, as dependencies mean just that, they are needed for the software to work. In this case, I think it was allright, as the dependency was installed, ultimately. The clean way to resolve 'circular dependencies' is to give multiple arguments to rpm: rpm -ivh /path/to/package1.rpm /path/to/package2.rpm You can also give a list of packages to urpmi. In fact, when some of the dependencies are known to urpmi, you can give the main package as one argument, which gets the known dependencies installed automatically, and a list of paths to the dependencies that urpmi doesn't have in its sources database: urpmi abiword /path/to/dependency1.rpm /path/to/dependency2.rpm

A caveat on the Easyurpmi site configurator: there are buttons, 'Proceed to step 2', 'Proceed to step 3' that are not obiously so and they need to be pressed after you make the choice(s) for that section, or the configurator will use the default settings, which are for the latest, I believe.

The change in importing windows fonts has irritated me, too, but you don't have to add each one by one. IIRC, in the add font dialog, navigate to Fonts/ in windows, select the first font in the list, hold down Shift and select the last font, which selects all the fonts, then add. Something like that.

I wouldn't expect --expert to make that kind of a difference. Maybe move xorg.conf somewhere else (mv) so that the whole file gets re-written. I am inferring that will happen from the top of the file: # File generated by XFdrake. but can't guarantee, so don't erase the original.

I think I would recommend you boot up, login as root, and, if the desktop used to be your default boot up runlevel, change to runlevel 3, first: init 3 then, start the X configuration program: XFdrake --expert You can set the values for your card, monitor, resolution and I would expect the xorg.conf file to get written with the correct modeline. When that is done, try going to the desktop with init 5

It looks to me like the driver was built for an older version of this library. I don't know what to tell you. Ask ati for a driver built against the new library. Some people try making a link named as the file being sought and pointing to the new file that is installed (and run ldconfig), hoping for backward compatibility, but that is a bit dodgy, IMO. Might or might not work for you. Did you look at the 10.1 libstdc rpms? If they happen to be the right version (they might or might not install in parallel), you might try to downgrade to that and all dependencies with rpm -Uvh --oldpackage but I doubt that would work. Looks like 2005 is too new for ati's driver.

You've got sources configured for 2005 main, updates, and both plf (10.2 is the same as 2005). Probably, updating to some of the 2005 packages has hosed your perl-urpm. I have heard of that problem before, so searching on that error message at google might turn something up about that. As to how many packages of 2005 you have installed and how to recover from that, maybe look at this: http://forum.mandrivaclub.com/viewtopic.php?p=140223#140223

What are the contents of /boot and /etc/lilo.conf? $ ll /boot $ cat /etc/lilo.conf

If you use urpmi /path/to/fglrx64_6_8_0-8.12.10-1.rpm and your main sources are configured, the dependency should get installed automatically. What does urpmq --list-media give you? I am running the i586 release, so things might be slightly different for you. When I look for the library you need on my release with the urpmi family of tools: [rolf@localhost ~]$ urpmf libstdc++.so.5 libstdc++5:/usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5 libstdc++5:/usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5.0.6 [rolf@localhost ~]$ su Password: [root@localhost rolf]# urpmq --sources libstdc++5 file://mnt/hd//media/main/libstdc++5-3.3.4-4mdk.i586.rpm ftp://ftp.ciril.fr/pub/linux/mandrakelinux/official/2005/i586/media /contrib/libstdc++5-3.3.4-4mdk.i586.rpm This shows the needed package both in the main sources (on CD1) and in contrib/ for 2005 i586. If I were you, I would look in both places for your architecture. You should already have your main sources configured for urpmi, unless you did urpmi.removemedia -a at some point. If that is the case and the main sources do not show up in the output to urpmq --list-media and you have the CDs or DVD, put disk 1 in the reader and do, as root: urpmi.addmedia --distrib removable://mnt/cdrom or whatever is the path to your reader. I think it is best to use the local sources for main than to download from ftp every time you need one of those packages but you could use the ftp source at the configurator at http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ if you wanted. At Easyurpmi, make sure you select the correct architecture and push the 'Proceed to step 2' and 'Proceed to step 3' buttons to get it to work right. Also, in System > Configuration > Packaging > Software Media Manager, select your configured source and select Edit to check the path to the mirror, to make sure you have the right architecture configured for each of your sources.

What is your version of Mandriva and the output of the following command? $ cat /etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg

I think pmpatrick has a good point about the capabilities of a knoppix live CD for accessing and burning your files in a gui environment. As for whether a re-install overwrites the files you need, that depends. Usually, these would be personal files, emails, mpegs, documents, etc. which are stored in your /home/<username> directory. If you have created a separate /home partition at install or separate /data, /music, for example, partitions where the important files are located, you can choose not to format these partitions during a reinstall and you will not lose the data on them. If, however, /home is not on a separate partition, it will get formatted when you reinstall as install formats / and, in this case, /home is just a directory (folder) on the / partition and gets erased. Do you have an nvidia card? Not having X configured correctly is a common cause of the gui not displaying. The message you are getting is that X is already started. IOW, you are in runlevel 5, the gui, desktop environment. One thing you can try is to switch to runlevel 3, when logged in as root, by typing init 3 When that is complete, as root, try init 5 or, as either user startx to see what the messages will be. If X is still not working, get to runlevel 3, as root, with the init 3 command and reconfigure your X server, having at hand your monitor and video specs, by typing, as root XFdrake --expert After you have completed that, try init 5 again. In case you have trouble finding the exact video adapter you are using, you might try the generic vesa driver, which runs at reduced video capabilities, like Safe Mode, but gives you a gui to muck around in. That reminds me, the default boot menu will have non-fb and failsafe entries, which you might try.

It is not clear to me what your problem is but, if you want hunches, I think I would have at least the one line in your /etc/hosts: $ cat /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost You could add that with vi. There are ways of copying and moving files, folders, on the command line, if it comes down to that. One more hunch, if you know the proper settings for your network, now, would be to try runnning the network wizard by logging in as root and doing drakconnect