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  1. I installed Mandriva 2007 and now when I try to run rails I get this error:

     

    /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:251:in `report_activate_error': RubyGem version error: activerecord(1.14.3 not = 1.14.4) (Gem::LoadError)

    from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:188:in `activate'

    from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:214:in `activate'

    from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:213:in `each'

    from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:213:in `activate'

    from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:66:in `active_gem_with_options'

    from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:59:in `require_gem'

    from /usr/bin/rails:17

     

     

    The official RPM is ruby-activerecord-1.14.3-2mdv2007.0 , but this is obviously the wrong version.

  2. I also think a clean install would be best, but I'm a bit worried that /home might get deleted during install, eventhough it's in a separate partition.

    Anyway, this is not a very good time for an upgrade, since Mandriva 2007 will be available in just a few months.

     

    Why is it so difficult to unisinstall RPMs? When I was trying to install all those packages that are required by libgtkhtml2, I installed libfreetype6.

    Now I want to uninstall it, but in order to do that I must uninstall a lot of packages that had been there for a long time before.

    If those packages require libfreetype6, how did they manage to function properly when libfreetype6 wasn't installed?

  3. Since urpmi refuses to install, I have to use rpm. I've downloaded the required RPMs and did:

     

    rpm -Uvh libgtkhtml2_0-devel-2.6.2-1mdk.i586.rpm libgail17-devel-1.6.6-1mdk.i586.rpm libgnome-vfs2_0-devel-2.6.2-7mdk.i586.rpm libgnomecanvas2_0-devel-2.6.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm libgnome-vfs2_0-2.6.2-7mdk.i586.rpm libbonobo2_0-devel-2.6.2-2mdk.i586.rpm libgtk+2.0_0-devel-2.4.9-9mdk.i586.rpm libxml2-devel-2.6.13-1mdk.i586.rpm libgtk+2.0_0-2.4.9-9mdk.i586.rpm libgtk+-x11-2.0_0-2.4.9-9mdk.i586.rpm libgdk_pixbuf2.0_0-devel-2.4.9-9mdk.i586.rpm libpango1.0_0-devel-1.4.1-1mdk.i586.rpm zlib1-devel-1.2.1.1-3mdk.i586.rpm libgdk_pixbuf2.0_0-2.4.9-9mdk.i586.rpm zlib1-1.2.1.1-3mdk.i586.rpm libgnome-vfs2_0-2.6.2-7.1.101mdk.i586.rpm libgtk+2.0_0-2.4.9-9.1.101mdk.i586.rpm libgtk+-x11-2.0_0-2.4.9-9.1.101mdk.i586.rpm libgdk_pixbuf2.0_0-2.4.9-9.1.101mdk.i586.rpm

     

    the result:

    warning: package libgnome-vfs2_0 = 2.6.2-7mdk was already added, replacing with libgnome-vfs2_0 <= 2.6.2-7.1.101mdk
    warning: package libgtk+2.0_0 = 2.4.9-9mdk was already added, replacing with libgtk+2.0_0 <= 2.4.9-9.1.101mdk
    warning: package libgtk+-x11-2.0_0 = 2.4.9-9mdk was already added, replacing with libgtk+-x11-2.0_0 <= 2.4.9-9.1.101mdk
    warning: package libgdk_pixbuf2.0_0 = 2.4.9-9mdk was already added, replacing with libgdk_pixbuf2.0_0 <= 2.4.9-9.1.101mdk
    error: Failed dependencies:
    	devel(libexpat) is needed by libgtkhtml2_0-devel-2.6.2-1mdk
    	devel(libfontconfig) is needed by libgtkhtml2_0-devel-2.6.2-1mdk
    	devel(libfreetype) is needed by libgtkhtml2_0-devel-2.6.2-1mdk
    	devel(libX11) is needed by libgtkhtml2_0-devel-2.6.2-1mdk
    	devel(libXcursor) is needed by libgtkhtml2_0-devel-2.6.2-1mdk
    	devel(libXext) is needed by libgtkhtml2_0-devel-2.6.2-1mdk
    	devel(libXft) is needed by libgtkhtml2_0-devel-2.6.2-1mdk
    	devel(libXi) is needed by libgtkhtml2_0-devel-2.6.2-1mdk
    	devel(libXinerama) is needed by libgtkhtml2_0-devel-2.6.2-1mdk
    	devel(libXrandr) is needed by libgtkhtml2_0-devel-2.6.2-1mdk
    	devel(libXrender) is needed by libgtkhtml2_0-devel-2.6.2-1mdk
    	devel(libexpat) is needed by libgail17-devel-1.6.6-1mdk
    	devel(libfontconfig) is needed by libgail17-devel-1.6.6-1mdk
    	devel(libfreetype) is needed by libgail17-devel-1.6.6-1mdk
    	devel(libX11) is needed by libgail17-devel-1.6.6-1mdk
    	devel(libXcursor) is needed by libgail17-devel-1.6.6-1mdk
    	devel(libXext) is needed by libgail17-devel-1.6.6-1mdk
    	devel(libXft) is needed by libgail17-devel-1.6.6-1mdk
    	devel(libXi) is needed by libgail17-devel-1.6.6-1mdk
    	devel(libXinerama) is needed by libgail17-devel-1.6.6-1mdk
    	devel(libXrandr) is needed by libgail17-devel-1.6.6-1mdk
    	devel(libXrender) is needed by libgail17-devel-1.6.6-1mdk
    	libgnome-vfs2_0 = 2.6.2-7mdk is needed by libgnome-vfs2_0-devel-2.6.2-7mdk
    	devel(libcrypto) is needed by libgnome-vfs2_0-devel-2.6.2-7mdk
    	devel(libssl) is needed by libgnome-vfs2_0-devel-2.6.2-7mdk
    	devel(libexpat) is needed by libgnomecanvas2_0-devel-2.6.1.1-1mdk
    	devel(libfontconfig) is needed by libgnomecanvas2_0-devel-2.6.1.1-1mdk
    	devel(libfreetype) is needed by libgnomecanvas2_0-devel-2.6.1.1-1mdk
    	devel(libX11) is needed by libgnomecanvas2_0-devel-2.6.1.1-1mdk
    	devel(libXcursor) is needed by libgnomecanvas2_0-devel-2.6.1.1-1mdk
    	devel(libXext) is needed by libgnomecanvas2_0-devel-2.6.1.1-1mdk
    	devel(libXft) is needed by libgnomecanvas2_0-devel-2.6.1.1-1mdk
    	devel(libXi) is needed by libgnomecanvas2_0-devel-2.6.1.1-1mdk
    	devel(libXinerama) is needed by libgnomecanvas2_0-devel-2.6.1.1-1mdk
    	devel(libXrandr) is needed by libgnomecanvas2_0-devel-2.6.1.1-1mdk
    	devel(libXrender) is needed by libgnomecanvas2_0-devel-2.6.1.1-1mdk
    	libgtk+2.0_0 = 2.4.9-9mdk is needed by libgtk+2.0_0-devel-2.4.9-9mdk
    	libgtk+-x11-2.0_0 = 2.4.9-9mdk is needed by libgtk+2.0_0-devel-2.4.9-9mdk
    	XFree86-devel is needed by libgtk+2.0_0-devel-2.4.9-9mdk
    	devel(libX11) is needed by libgtk+2.0_0-devel-2.4.9-9mdk
    	devel(libXcursor) is needed by libgtk+2.0_0-devel-2.4.9-9mdk
    	devel(libXext) is needed by libgtk+2.0_0-devel-2.4.9-9mdk
    	devel(libXft) is needed by libgtk+2.0_0-devel-2.4.9-9mdk
    	devel(libXi) is needed by libgtk+2.0_0-devel-2.4.9-9mdk
    	devel(libXinerama) is needed by libgtk+2.0_0-devel-2.4.9-9mdk
    	devel(libXrandr) is needed by libgtk+2.0_0-devel-2.4.9-9mdk
    	devel(libXrender) is needed by libgtk+2.0_0-devel-2.4.9-9mdk
    	devel(libexpat) is needed by libgtk+2.0_0-devel-2.4.9-9mdk
    	devel(libfontconfig) is needed by libgtk+2.0_0-devel-2.4.9-9mdk
    	devel(libfreetype) is needed by libgtk+2.0_0-devel-2.4.9-9mdk
    	libgdk_pixbuf2.0_0 = 2.4.9-9mdk is needed by libgdk_pixbuf2.0_0-devel-2.4.9-9mdk
    	devel(libX11) is needed by libgdk_pixbuf2.0_0-devel-2.4.9-9mdk
    	devel(libXext) is needed by libgdk_pixbuf2.0_0-devel-2.4.9-9mdk
    	freetype2-devel >= 2.1.3-4mdk is needed by libpango1.0_0-devel-1.4.1-1mdk
    	devel(libexpat) is needed by libpango1.0_0-devel-1.4.1-1mdk
    	devel(libfontconfig) is needed by libpango1.0_0-devel-1.4.1-1mdk
    	devel(libfreetype) is needed by libpango1.0_0-devel-1.4.1-1mdk
    	devel(libX11) is needed by libpango1.0_0-devel-1.4.1-1mdk
    	devel(libXext) is needed by libpango1.0_0-devel-1.4.1-1mdk
    	devel(libXft) is needed by libpango1.0_0-devel-1.4.1-1mdk
    	devel(libXrender) is needed by libpango1.0_0-devel-1.4.1-1mdk

     

    I have 2 problems:

    1. libgdk_pixbuf2.0_0-devel-2.4.9-9mdk needs ibgdk_pixbuf2.0_0 = 2.4.9-9mdk. Other packages need an updated version (2.4.9-9.1.101mdk)

    2. There is no XFree86-devel for Mandrake 10.1 . Searching rpm.pbone.net gave this list. As you can see, this package existed in Mandrake 10.0, but not in 10.1. Instead, there is a package called libxorg-x11-devel, but I'm not sure if it is indeed the same thing.

  4. I also found libgnome-vfs2_0-devel and libgail-gnome-devel, but not gnome-vfs2_0-devel or gail-gnome-devel. It seems that Mandrake/Mandriva adds this "lib" at the beginning, while other distributions don't. Why is that? Is there a difference?

    Maybe that's the cause for this situation. The RPM requires the wrong packages.

  5. Installation\ CD\ 1\ (cdrom1) removable://mnt/cdrom/media/main {
     hdlist: hdlist.Installation CD 1 (cdrom1).cz
     key-ids: 70771ff3
     removable: /dev/hdc
     with_hdlist: ../../media/media_info/hdlist1.cz
    }
    
    Installation\ CD\ 2\ (cdrom2) removable://mnt/cdrom/media/main2 {
     hdlist: hdlist.Installation CD 2 (cdrom2).cz
     key-ids: 70771ff3
     removable: /dev/hdc
     with_hdlist: ../../media/media_info/hdlist2.cz
    }
    
    Installation\ CD\ 3\ (cdrom3) removable://mnt/cdrom/media/main3 {
     hdlist: hdlist.Installation CD 3 (cdrom3).cz
     key-ids: 70771ff3
     removable: /dev/hdc
     with_hdlist: ../../media/media_info/hdlist3.cz
    }
    
    plf-nonfree ftp://ftp.free.fr/pub/Distributions_Linux/plf/mandrake/non-free/10.1 {
     hdlist: hdlist.plf-nonfree.cz
     key-ids: caba22ae
     list: list.plf-nonfree
     with_hdlist: hdlist.cz
    }
    
    jpackage ftp://ftp.ciril.fr/pub/linux/mandrakelinux/official/10.1/i586/media/jpackage {
     hdlist: hdlist.jpackage.cz
     key-ids: c431416d
     with_hdlist: media_info/hdlist.cz
    }
    
    plf-free ftp://ftp.free.fr/pub/Distributions_Linux/plf/mandriva/free/10.1/i586 {
     hdlist: hdlist.plf-free.cz
     key-ids: caba22ae
     list: list.plf-free
     with_hdlist: hdlist.cz
    }
    
    updates ftp://ftp.ens-cachan.fr/mirror/Mandrakelinux/official/updates/10.1/main_updates {
     hdlist: hdlist.updates.cz
     key-ids: 22458a98
     list: list.updates
     update
     with_hdlist: media_info/hdlist.cz
    }
    
    main ftp://ftp.ens-cachan.fr/mirror/Mandrakelinux/official/10.1/i586/media/main {
     hdlist: hdlist.main.cz
     key-ids: 70771ff3
     with_hdlist: media_info/hdlist.cz
    }
    
    contrib ftp://ftp.ens-cachan.fr/mirror/Mandrakelinux/official/10.1/i586/media/contrib {
     hdlist: hdlist.contrib.cz
     key-ids: 78d019f5
     with_hdlist: media_info/hdlist.cz
    }

  6. If I have some other version already installed, then "rpm -qa | grep libgtkhtml" should find it, but it doesn't. It does find libgtkhtml2_0-2.6.2-1mdk , libgtkhtml1.1_3-1.1.10-6mdk and libgtkhtml-3.1_11-3.2.4-1.1.101mdk , but I need

    libgtkhtml2_0-devel-2.6.2-1mdk .

    Is it possible that these packages can't coexist?

    Do I have to uninstall libgtkhtml2_0-2.6.2-1mdk? I'd rather not, because it means I also have to uninstall essential packages like gnome-media , gnome-panel and gnome-session.

  7. I know that using urpmi is better than using rpm , but urpmi thinks for some reason that "Everything already installed" .

    rpm -vv --rebuilddb didn't change anything. :dry:

  8. I have Mandrake 10.1 and I'm trying to install the package libgtkhtml2_0-devel .

    When I tried to install it using rpmdrake , I got this message:

     

    Sorry, the following package(s) can't be selected.

    libgtkhtml2_0-devel-2.6.2-1mdk

     

    Then I tried urpmi libgtkhtml2_0-devel , which gave this message:

     

    Everything already installed

     

    but the query

    rpm -qa | grep libgtkhtml

    returned:

     

    libgtkhtml2_0-2.6.2-1mdk

    libgtkhtml-3.1_11-3.2.4-1.1.101mdk

    libgtkhtml1.1_3-1.1.10-6mdk

     

    As you can see, libgtkhtml2_0-devel was not there.

    So I found libgtkhtml2_0-devel-2.6.2-1mdk on the net, downloaded it and tried to install it with

    rpm -Uvh libgtkhtml2_0-devel-2.6.2-1mdk.i586.rpm

    Which produced this:

     

    error: Failed dependencies:

    gail-devel is needed by libgtkhtml2_0-devel-2.6.2-1mdk

    gnome-vfs2-devel is needed by libgtkhtml2_0-devel-2.6.2-1mdk

    devel(libart_lgpl_2) is needed by libgtkhtml2_0-devel-2.6.2-1mdk

    devel(libatk-1.0) is needed by libgtkhtml2_0-devel-2.6.2-1mdk

    devel(libexpat) is needed by libgtkhtml2_0-devel-2.6.2-1mdk

    devel(libfontconfig) is needed by libgtkhtml2_0-devel-2.6.2-1mdk

    devel(libfreetype) is needed by libgtkhtml2_0-devel-2.6.2-1mdk

    devel(libgailutil) is needed by libgtkhtml2_0-devel-2.6.2-1mdk

    devel(libgdk_pixbuf-2.0) is needed by libgtkhtml2_0-devel-2.6.2-1mdk

    devel(libgdk-x11-2.0) is needed by libgtkhtml2_0-devel-2.6.2-1mdk

    devel(libgnomecanvas-2) is needed by libgtkhtml2_0-devel-2.6.2-1mdk

    devel(libgtk-x11-2.0) is needed by libgtkhtml2_0-devel-2.6.2-1mdk

    devel(libpango-1.0) is needed by libgtkhtml2_0-devel-2.6.2-1mdk

    devel(libpangoft2-1.0) is needed by libgtkhtml2_0-devel-2.6.2-1mdk

    devel(libpangox-1.0) is needed by libgtkhtml2_0-devel-2.6.2-1mdk

    devel(libpangoxft-1.0) is needed by libgtkhtml2_0-devel-2.6.2-1mdk

    devel(libX11) is needed by libgtkhtml2_0-devel-2.6.2-1mdk

    devel(libXcursor) is needed by libgtkhtml2_0-devel-2.6.2-1mdk

    devel(libXext) is needed by libgtkhtml2_0-devel-2.6.2-1mdk

    devel(libXft) is needed by libgtkhtml2_0-devel-2.6.2-1mdk

    devel(libXi) is needed by libgtkhtml2_0-devel-2.6.2-1mdk

    devel(libXinerama) is needed by libgtkhtml2_0-devel-2.6.2-1mdk

    devel(libxml2) is needed by libgtkhtml2_0-devel-2.6.2-1mdk

    devel(libXrandr) is needed by libgtkhtml2_0-devel-2.6.2-1mdk

    devel(libXrender) is needed by libgtkhtml2_0-devel-2.6.2-1mdk

    devel(libz) is needed by libgtkhtml2_0-devel-2.6.2-1mdk

     

     

    Now, rpmdrake doesn't find gail-devel, while urpmi again says "Everything already installed" , but rpm -qa gail returns:

     

    libgail-gnome-1.0.6-1mdk

    gail-1.6.6-1mdk

    libgail17-1.6.6-1mdk

     

    and if that's not weird enough , although the last rpm (libgail17-1.6.6-1mdk) is installed, rpmdrake shows it on the list packages that can be installed.

     

     

    please :help:

  9. I've been using Samba for some time and it was working just fine. Today when I wrote smb:/ in Konqueror as I always do, I got this error: "Unable to find any workgroups in your local machine". Even if there was a problem accessing another machine on the network, which is possible, the name of the workgroup should have been displayed.

    What could cause this change and how do I fix it?

  10. I have phpMyAdmin 2.6.0 and I need to work with MySQL databases which contain strings in foreign languages. In order to be able to read the strings, I need to set phpMyAdmin interface to ISO encoding, but in the language list there are only unicode options. Changing the encoding of the browser doesn't help.

    How do I add more encoding options ?

  11. I am still unable to get it to work right. I have no problem accessing Linux from Windows. Accessing Windows from Linux is a different story.

    Sometimes it works fine, but suddenly I am asked for a username and a password. No matter what I put in, access is denied. I've tried restarting Samba, restarting Shorewall , log out of Linux, Log out of Windows - sometimes it helps, sometimes not. Sometimes I don't do anything and I get access again.

    Another strange thing is that when I try to copy certain files from the Windows box to the Linux box, I get a message saying "could not read smb:/...". When I use Windows to copy them to Linux, nothing like this happens. I couldn't figure out what makes those files different from other files. Most of them are binaries, but not all of them.

  12. I configured the Linux firewall at MCC to allow Samba service, but only after disabling the firewall I could access the other PC. I also had to disable the Windows XP firewall (ICF).

    I edited shorewall/rules according to www.shorewall.net/samba.htm, but it doesn't work well. I can access Windows from Linux, but not the other way around, even though ICF is disabled.

     

     

    EDIT: I installed a new firewall on my Windows box and it fixed the problem. The funny thing is that without a firewall it didn't work.

  13. you can add as many user as u like in your samba box, and then add that in your smbpassd file.. then use that username to access from your windows box..

     

    How do I use that username from Windows? Do I need to create a new Windows account with the same username?

    I have Windows XP.

  14. I've read "NT-06: How-To set up Samba Networking" and followed the instructions, but I'm having problems with it.

    Do I need to add a new Linux user named like the Windows user before I use smbpasswd? When I didn't do that, I got an error, so I added a new user and it helped, but I would like other users to use Samba, not just the one with the Windows user name.

    Anyway, even when I log-in with this user, I can't get Samba to work right.

    When I write smb:/ in Konqueror, I can see the workgroup. I click on it and then I see two directories , "localhost" and the name of the Windows PC. When I click on the first I get a message "The file or folder smb://localhost/ does not exist". When I click on the second I get "Could not connect to host".

    When I try to access Samba from the Windows PC, I get a message saying the workgroup is not accessible.

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