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i ran into some trouble with the out-of-the-box firefox version that comes with mandrake, so i uninstalled it in MCC, then i went to the mozilla site, downloaded the installer for the most recent version (1.04 i think), and manually installed it to /usr/local/firefox. now my life is perfect :)

PS: dont worry about the install, its pretty simple, no compiling, or anything. just make shure you install the package cstdlib++ first.

Hope this helps

i once installed some stuff using this method ( i guess ill work with other stuff)

1.- create a folder for the rpms youre goin to download

2.- download (manually and at your own pace) the rpms you need into this folder

3.- go to mcc-> and add a new repository pointing to the folder you created (select the local folder option)

viola! now go to install packages, and happy installing!

Hope this helps you

Thanks a lot, ill get right to it. (ill have to start by figuring out what this cooker stuff is :) )

BTW: can you giveme the url of the repository you used, or some other repository where i could find this rpms?

Thanks!

hi!, is it possible to upgrade my LE2005 installation with gnome 2.8 to gnome 2.10? (via rpms, not compiling)

does anyone know of a place to find rpms for gnome 2.10 for mandrake?

thanks!

thanks for your answers, if i may wonder a little bit off topic, i noticed that on the Gnome GDM control dialog, you can set settings for remote sessions, but how would i connect to GDM remotely? can someone please point me to a proper tutorial / article etc?

Thanks in advance

hello, i dont really have a problem, just a doubt. whats the point of setting up vncserver to run as a daemon (via mcc->system->services), if i still have to ssh to the box and type vncserver :1 ?

i mean, if i dont set it up as a daemon, and type vncserver:1 at my ssh terminal, wont it work just the same?

or even better, wouldnt it be the same to add this to the end of my /etc/profile?:

vncserver :1 -geometry 1024x768

https://mandrivausers.org/index.php?showtopic=4486

even tho those instructions are a bit old, now all you have to do is install 2 rpms, one for the core and one for the gui

i did it a few days ago and have been happily downloading non-stop since then :)

and about amule being better, well, i respect scarecrow´s opinion, but IMHO, amule crashes more often than a windows Me box with viruses on it :D

im kinda confused, (im sort of a newby to linux), i understand (i think) that once i arrive at command line (at the login prompt), im at level 3.

but wont running "startx" take me to level 4 and then level 5?

mhh, i havent noticed this before (duh!):

i start x manually via "startx" at the command prompt, and after i end the gnome session and drop back to command line, theres an error message:

(EE)Failed to load module "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.a" (once only module 136033803)

could this be related to the problem?

could someone please explain what this means and an idea of how to fix it? (i really dont like my boxes givvin me ANY kind of errors)

Thanks!

nope, user is a "standard" user belonging to users group and has no admin rights

i dont know if this will help you, but i used to have some trouble with firefox plugins as well, here what i did:

the problems ocurred with the firefox version INCLUDED with mandrake witch btw, is kinda old (1.02 i think), so what i did is,

1.- i went to mcc, uninstalled firefox

2.- downloaded the latest (1.04) version directly from the mozilla site, and installed it "manually". with the provided installer to /usr/local/firefox (as root of course)

3.- installed the plugins i needed directly in firefox->tools->addons (they all installed fine)

now everything is working smoothly :)

hope this helps you

yes, same user

Hi all, ibe setup LE2005 on a "server" computer witch runs 24/7 to provide file shares, prinnting, edonkey, etc. and since i dont usually work on this box directly (i use it mostly with VNC and ssh from other boxes), i removed the option to start X automatically (in MCC). and this is the problem:

if i setup mcc to DO start x automatically, everything works fine (as expected), however, if i set it to NOT start x automatically, and i start x manually by means of locally loggin in and typing "startx" at the command line, or remotely via ssh and vnc, then some of my gnome settings are messed up!, the items in my pannels are out of place, net applet doesnt run, session settings dont get saved if i ask to, etc. like i said before, this ONLY happens if i start x manually, if i let mandrake start x automatically then everything works fine.

my guess is that i should start x via a diffrent script (not startx) or that mandrake runs some other script besides startx to start x automatically.

Any idea of what could be wrong?

Thanks!

LOL guess youre right.

Thanks man!

thanks for your reply, ibe followed the proceedure explained there, and (hopefully) i wont get those annoyng files anymore, however, theres something i dont understand. If i understood correctly, those files are core dumps made when an app crashes, but ibe never since i installed linux had an app crash in any way (God bless linux), so why do they appear if nothin crashed in the first place?

hello all, after (finally) successfully and completely installing & configuring LE2005 (10.2) on my laptop, ibe finally started using it to do some work, and ibe noticed some files "misteriously" appearing in my home folder, these are:

core.13465, core.28101, and several other core.### files. they all have an icon of a little green bomb, and they are quite large in size! one of them is 74MB!! i know i dint put them there, so where did they come from? can i delete them? and, how do i stop them from appearing? is this the work of the devil? should i spill some holly water on my box??? :)

thanks!

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even tho i dont use kde (i use gnome), i used to be a fan of smb4k too, till i discovered LinNeighborhood, much faster and nicer (and i think it consumes a lot less resources than smb4k does) when i ran smb4k it took a while for it to load, and my box seemed kinda slower, not the case with LinNeighborhood.

i sugest you give it a try

yes, but, what happens when i use blackbox or windowmaker or whatever?

is there a way to tell mandrake to ALLWAYS, no matter what desktop env im using, *ALLWAYS* use firefox as the default browser? or do i have to configure each desktop env. to use firefox?

ibe just answered my own question.

ibe added this to /etc/profile:

BROWSER = /usr/local/firefox/firefox
export BROWSER

now typing echo $BROWSER gives me what i expect:

/usr/local/firefox/firefox

thanks again for your help

Thanks for your answer

global environment variables can go in /etc/bashrc or /etc/profile.d

/etc/bashrc sais:

#System wide functions and aliases
#Environment stuff goes in /etc/profile

so i went to etc/profile and added my stuff at the end.

Works fine. (solved) Thanks a Lot! :)

use gconf-editor to define the default browser

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yes, but, what happens when i use blackbox or windowmaker or whatever?

is there a way to tell mandrake to ALLWAYS, no matter what desktop env im using, *ALLWAYS* use firefox as the default browser? or do i have to configure each desktop env. to use firefox?

Once again, Thank you for your answer (and your patience for this newby :) )

either this is a bug in mandiva, or i really havent gotten the hang of linux yet...

ibe been told that if i want something to get done at startup (globaly - for all users), i should put it in the file /etc/rc.local, this is "confirmed" by the file itself, cause if i open it it sais:

# This script will be executed *after* all the other init scripts.
# You can put your own initialization stuff here if you dont
# want to do the full Sys V style init stuff.

the deal is this:

ibe tried experimenting with this file adding this to it:

touch /home/erd/madeby.rclocal

and it works as expected, after i reboot the system, i got a file madeby.rclocal in my home dir.

however... if i add this instead:

set SOMEVAR=/usr/local/someapp/someapp
export SOMEVAR

or...

export SOMEVAR=/usr/local/someapp/someapp

after i reboot the system, if i type

echo $SOMEVAR

i get absolutely NOTHING!

this brings me back to a question ibe been asking for a while,

how in Gods name, can i globally define an eviroment variable???

BTW: the "default" browser defining system doesnt work if i installed firefox myself, even after setting the default browser to point to it in gnome control panel. (for example, the menu item to run swat does not work at all), so i would really like to completely get rid of this www-browser stuff and simply point BROWSER to firefox ALLWAYS, regardless of anything else. but i also cant get this done.

:(

thanks!

groovy! :) thanks guys

hi! how do you change the background image shown during the lilo selection menu?

(2005 LE 2.5)

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lol, ok thanks again!

if i edited rc.local and point $BROWSER to firefix there, it got un-set by some other script and pointed to /usr/bin/web-browser

so i edited web-browser to use firefox, an viola! :)

hi, im sorry to be sucha P.I.T.A. on this, but i just cant get it done.

i need to know wich file sets the $BROWSER variable on start up, i know this is done somwhere allready because if i type:

echo $BROWSER

i get: /usr/bin/www-browser

i know i could add my own line to some startup script like .bash_profile or something, but i need to know where its ALLREADY set, ibe looked at dozens of files in etc and in $HOME, but i cant find it!

so, does anyone know in wich file madrake sets the $BROWSER variable? so i can edit it to point somewhere else instead of /usr/bin/www-browser?

another solution i can think of is: is there an ultility in linux mandrake that allows me to "scan" all files in a given directory for one that contains some specific text? so that i could for example do a search for all files in /etc looking for one whos contents include the word $BROWSER?

once again, im sorry to bother so much with this, but i really need to get it fixed

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