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simple commandline is ps -A or top

From the commandline or terminal use the chkconfig and service commands. To find out more about them, from a commandline do

service --help

chkconfig --help

requiem: that preference doesn't exist in 2.6, IIRC.

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sure it does

always has for me

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sorry about that, I was thinking gtk2-2.6 :woops:

sure it does

always has for me

there is a fluxbox in contrib which is where urpmi was looking and could not connect using curl

curl is the app that urpmi uses to browse and download packages

optionally, you can tell it to use wget but curl is just fine

the command to update your entire urpmi database is urpmi.update -a

try again because the fluxbaox rpm is there and it is the same version. curl, as the error indicates, just couldn't connect. mirror must have been down. It happens.

forgot to tell you, if you haven't figured it out yet, that to avoid this, if you want to overwrite your current glib, you compile with ./configure --prefix=/usr so that the app or lib will install to /usr/lib instead of /usr/local/lib. /usr/local is the default for tarballs.

Why are you compiling GLIB from source?

 

GLIB would already be installed on your system.

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some people like to have fun and learn

Gtk can't find glib because /usr/local/lib is not in /etc/ld.so.conf by default. You have to add it and run ldconfig from the commandline. Just make sure you put the right path to glib in /usr/local there. This is how you can install different versions of dependencies to get the app you want, which is sometimes necessary if you play around a lot. You can also tell the app or lib you are compiling where these other apps and libs are. Check out ./configure --help

/etc/ld.so.conf

include ld.so.conf.d/*.conf
/usr/lib/qt3/lib
/usr/X11R6/lib
/usr/local/lib

First of all they said that the install will not delete anything, like my files and stuff.  Well they were wrong, it deleted a website that I was working so hard at in /var/www/apache-default

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gconf-editor>apps>magicdev

and disable everything

see if that helps

that's why I said 'base devel' :D

kernel-source doesn't have devel dependencies (atleast, not the last time i installed it...), it's only dep should be...well...the kernel...

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when is that last time you installed mandrake, opened rpmdrake, searched for kernel, selected kernel-source? guess what happens and what has always happened? (I've ran mandrake for over 3 years) you get a popup asking if it is ok to intall its deps ;) the kernel-source is useless without make, autoconf etc.

glad to here it is on the cds now

domtar: the only thing you need to build drivers is kernel-source, which _is_ on the CDs now I think (though it fell off temporarily for 10.0, IIRC). You don't actually need any xorg devel stuff to build drivers, I think the OP was just getting it pulled in by the wacky RPMs he was trying to install.

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I didn't know or don't know if it is now included or not and was just stating it should be, but that's obvious.

ho ho ho nice!

(except the blown up shots with bad font)

From the initial commands you gave, I see you're trying to install some fairly mixed up packages. That xorg RPM is not from 10.1, and the libpng you're installing looks like some kind of backport for 10.1 from the name of the package (did you get it from Club?)

 

I'd suggest you wipe the heck out of all the packages you've downloaded and go back to basics. Remove all your urpmi media (urpmi.removemedia -a) , go to Easy URPMI, tell it you have 10.1 Official and want a main media and a contrib media, run the commands it gives you, and type 'urpmi libxorg-x11-devel' as root. Now 'urpmi kernel-source'. Now install the nvidia driver.

 

We don't install -devel packages by default because most users don't need them. This is why we split them up in the first place; the majority of MDK users never compile a program and thus never have any need for the stuff in the -devel packages, thus by splitting them out we can save a lot of space on their hard disks and our release CDs. (You're not getting anywhere _near_ all of MDK on 3 CDs, and you still can't quite squeeze the whole thing on one DVD, IIRC, so space is at something of a premium).

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I disagree, most need the base devel at minimum for drivers. Nvidia etc...

aslo, then, looks like mandrake needs to go back to 4 cd's ;) and quit spimp'n on the average user in hopes to make a sale ;)

I also noticed, with your first terminal output, that you were installing an .src.rpm. Again, remove everything in the rpm cache and urpmi config, get a real mandrake mirror, and try again. There's nothing wrong with rpm distros or urpmi, once you learn the rules.

create a new user any name will do just so you can view the initial files that are created and know the few that should not be deleted

technically most of those can be deleted but you will at least get a better idea of what you can do in a users directory

How big is your swap and how much RAM do you have? It sounds to me like you either need a larger swap or a second swap depending on which is easier to acheive.

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