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  3. Firefox [solved]

    in Software

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    I'm sure that this is a very simple process, but I can't do it. I've downloaded a plug-in for FF but don't know where to put it (so that FF can install the thing). I'm using LE2005 and FF is version 1.0.4 (I think; it says 1.0.2 but I upgraded it to get SessionSaver to work).  Any tips, please

    So it's an xpi file? If yes then just open the file in FF (File\Open file).

  9. Mandriva Linux Install Tutorial

    in Everything Linux

    Posted · Edited by dexter11

    Who knows what happened to Linux flash editors? Which ones are there?

    Whatabout open source players, glpflash? Does hanes' tutorial work with them?

    I know about only one Linux flash editor f4l. You can see here what happened with it. The guy is still working on it sometemes though.

    The last time I heard gplflash wasn't interactive so it didn't handled mouseclicks etc. But that was a long ago.

  10. Permission Denied

    in Networking

    Posted

    First go to the run menu and type in kdesu kwrite

    then open the file /etc/samba/smb.conf

     

    if you are in a console you could try the following

     

    su

    then type in the root password then use your favorite editor

    When a try to open "/etc/samba/smb.conf" as root, I get the "permission denied" line. So, how do I get past this?

    Check the permissions of the file:

    ls -l /etc/samba/smb.conf

    If there's no permission for root then give it using the chmod command.

  12. Mandriva Linux Install Tutorial

    in Everything Linux

    Posted

    Great work, but I'm afraid in vain.

    Due to unlucky Mandy policy making, 2006 is absolutely beta quality, and as such tottally unsuitable for new Linux users. Maybe after a couple of months- but for now it's plain bad- for everyone.

    For one thing: whoever had the bright idea to use xorg-cvs as the distro's xserver should be shot publicly at the largest Paris square.

    You can thank it to Intel AFAIK. They are the main sponsors of 2006 and Xorg cvs was used to add support for some Intel chipsets. Info was on the club forum so it's not official.

  14. Switching OS

    in Installing Mandriva

    Posted

    That mplayer package has a bad signature. It's a security feature that shows the package you are about to install is really from the source you have downloaded and noone tinkered with it. But in this release Mandriva screwed up a lot of package signatures so prepare to meet more of them until they fix it.

  16. 2006-official

    in Everything Linux

    Posted

    Last I heard, it was meant to be early November, there's still no date available at qa.mandriva.com!  Although they are taking a good bruising from the club members at the moment over a few major bugs, only one of which you will get a work around from the Errata, the other two you need forums like this to get answers for!  Maybe, and just maybe they are actually listening to the club and postponing the release until at least the Xorg bugs are killed, maybe, just maybe!

    Currently it seems the Xorg bugs will be solved in December when the final Xorg will be released so it's not really an option to wait to Xorg.

  19. Switching OS

    in Installing Mandriva

    Posted

    Just to make sure of some things. How did you install java? did you give this name to the java directory: jre-1_5_0_05-linux-i586.rpm ?

    I'm trying to say if you downloaded the rpm.bin file, and it seems you did, you have to install the rpm file after unpacking the bin file.

  21. Switching OS

    in Installing Mandriva

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    I don't think that /usr/java exists by default so you have to create it (by the mkdir command). Second most of these steps can be made using a GUI like konqueror. As a newbie you should probably use that. Just launch konqueror with root privileges (open a terminal, type "su", give root password, type konqueror). In konqueror you can navigate anywhere in the system. So you can go to /usr right click and choose "create new" (or something like that, sorry I'm not using English GUI), choose directory from the list, give the name (java) and you're ready with the first part.

     

    As you're coming from the Windows world you will notice that Linux uses different principles in a lot of things. One of these is the filesystem, other is the installation. In Windows you could do everything since you're admin by default, except deleting the Windows directory. To install something you had to download the program and install it. In the installation process the program created its own directory where it put everything related to that program (well in almost all cases). In Linux the file system is as is you can't do anything you want since you're a regular user by default, except in your home dir.

    The stucture of the file system is defined. There are /bin, /sbin, /usr etc directories in every Linux system. The files are placed in the directory structure by their role/properties, eg system executables (cd, tar etc) are in /bin, system executables that only root can use (like fdisk) are in /sbin. The executables of the programs you installed are most of the times in /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin.

    Linux systems have package managers which is a central installation/uninstallition utility (Mandriva has rpmdrake, System\Configuration\Packaging in the menu). Linux distros have central source of softwares on ftp servers called repositories. You can setup the package managers to use those ftp servers and then you can just choose from the list what you want to install the package manager does the rest. This is the prefered way of installition especially for a newbie since if you use the Windows method you'll soon meet dependency hell which is probably the biggest disadvantage of the opensource world.

    Unfortunately Java is propietary software so it's not in Mandriva packages unless you're a club member. If you want to setup those ftp servers visit easyurpmi.zarb.org. Main and contrib are the basic source of Mandriva software. More than 10G of software is there.

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