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True, you don't need the cat in this case. Realised too late, but I grabbed it from my bash history where I was concatenating several password-protected pdfs into one big one, and I forgot to delete the cat. Nice demoggification, Greg2 ! By the way, I think I'd use output FRUSTRATED2.pdf just so it doesn't overwrite the input file - check the output and if it's ok THEN delete the protected one. Not sure whether the tool is able to write out to the same file it's still reading from.

Do you know what the password is? If you do, it's easy using pdftk from the command line: pdftk protected.pdf input_pw sekritPassword cat output unprotected.pdf See pdftk --help for more examples. If you haven't got pdftk then just "urpmi pdftk". If you don't know what the password is, then I don't know the answer :P

Hey, you're right! :huh: I always thought the only difference was the package selection, so you could turn one into the other just by adding/removing packages. I can't see why the config files should need to be different... but you're right. I guess I learned something new! Sorry for adding confusion!

I can't believe it makes a difference whether it was installed from Free or from One, it's still the same system. The install process is different and the packages installed by default are different, but the repositories are the same. If you want to add additional software packages to your system, it should make NO difference where you installed from. The important thing is whether it is 2008.1 or 2009.0, not whether it was installed from a DVD or 3 CDs or whatever. No software I've installed has ever asked me whether I'm using Free or One or Powerpack.

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Sure it does. If you go into the GUI "Add / remove software", does it ask you to set up the repositories? I'm sure it did this in 2008.0. Then you just follow the instructions to set up your updates and your additional sources. If it doesn't ask you automatically, you should be able to go into the Media Manager from the menu and add them from there. Maybe remove all your previous repositories first just to be sure. The wizard should be clever enough to find suitable repositories for you, then you just select one near you and you're done. What you're doing is fine and should work. It really shouldn't take too long though (depending on your internet connection). Downloading the lists of packages should be pretty quick. If you want it even quicker, just select the "synthesis" lists which contain less information. It might take a little experimentation though - most repositories will be interested in hosting the 2009.0 and 2008.1 packages, and it might be that for your 2008.0 system they don't think it's worth keeping them any more. I don't know how frequently the repository lists are updated but it might be you have to try more than one to find one that is still holding the old 2008.0 code. (OK, not really old but more than a year old now and pretty soon will be 3 releases old)

Aha, well if you mean Bernese (with one "s") then you're right, that's very closed source. 24 thousand Francs for a single user licence! :o But it also lists as a requirement "# C++ compiler on Unix/Linux platforms for compiling the user interface." so it sounds like you need a compiler anyway. Don't compile Qt, just get it from the repositories (Look for Qt3 and also Qt3-devel). And it sounds like you'll need gcc and make too.

No problem, it was fun to play with it myself anyway. Looks smooth, plays nicely, there are just a few things which need getting used to (as you'd expect).But yay for cross-platform development, not even a recompile necessary to run on Mandriva / Debian / XP / Vista / OSX ! And even runs on that KDE4.2 live CD from Suse!

I'm curious, which GPS software are you trying to use? It might be that the software you want is already in the Mandriva repositories, so you don't even need to worry which other packages it needs. It will all be done for you automatically.

Great, thanks for the tip! The torrent is already screaming :)

Woohoo! I managed to get hold of a Macbook Pro today, and it had java 1.5 on it (interestingly it also had java3d already installed too, apparently by default?). Anyway, I had compiled my code to be 1.5 compatible and it ran without any problems :D Just double-clicked it, very nice. I think the touchpad thing would take some getting used to but a USB mouse worked fine, with right-click and scroll wheel and everything. So now I've got a couple of nice screenshots (Shift - Apple - 4 is the magic key combination, would you believe?) showing my app in OSX shinyness!

Well, this bug (which is over a year old) is still marked as "NEW", so I guess not. I don't know how many users would see the lack of this feature as a "deal-breaker" (ie enough of a reason not to use KDE4), rather than as an annoyance. I'd like to see a live CD with KDE 4.2 so I can try it out, I guess this will come out with 2009.1 (in March/April).

If it helps, I can see koffice, koffice-krita and a bunch of libkrita* packages in the 2008.1 repos. I don't know which version of Mandriva the OP has? Also I don't know if the 2008.1 packages would install on 2009.0, I guess not since there must be a reason why it's not included in the 2009 repos... Edit: Ok, I guess the OP must have 2009 from the package name...

Great, thanks tyme! I'll send you the jar file by PM. It would be nice to check it with a "normal" OSX (Is 64-bit normal?). Has anyone else got a standard java 5 install on Mac OSX just to check that this jar file I've got also works on there?

No, I think everyone is just busy answering your criticism. The noise to signal ratio is rising in this thread and it seems the OP has disappeared, so despite our questions we're not yet able to offer alternatives.

Thanks all, now thanks to mubbles I've got the French, the Italian and the Polish completed! Only the Spanish left, but I've still got testing to do so there's plenty of time...

Sounds to me like it can't find /usr/bin/make. Check whether it's there or not, and if not you probably need to install make using urpmi.

I'm curious whether it's possible to run Java 6 on Mac OSX, because apparently OSX already comes bundled with Java 5 and on the Sun java download page there are no Macs in the platform selection box. Also, this Apple page seems to suggest that version 6 only runs on 64-bit, Intel Macs. Does anybody use Java 6 on Mac OSX? Does anyone use Java 5 instead? Would anyone like to volunteer to try out running a jar file to see whether it runs ok on the Mac?

That's why I asked, Reiver! That's why I said, we're not going to try and talk the OP out of it if they really do know what they're doing.I think it's fair to say that in general it's dangerous and unnecessary, but in the OP's case that may not matter. So that's why I didn't pre-judge them, but instead I asked to make sure.

Very funny post, RevJack, but I don't know whether the OP shares your obstinacy in the face of reason. That's why I asked, just to make sure that Kiran was indeed acting on "freedom of choice" and that he/she understood that it is dangerous and unnecessary. If that is understood, then of course he/she's free to do it (although we'd prefer it if he/she doesn't eat us alive....)

Rather than saying "Anyone who tells me to not login as root will be eaten alive.", how about answering the questions, do you know that this is a bad idea? Do you understand why doing this is not recommended at all?

I'm afraid I'm an old-fashioned QWERTY person and I've never quite grasped the difference between the "normal" symmetric apostrophes and those left and right ones. When I'm writing emails or web pages or computer code I always just use 'these ones'. I know OpenOffice tries to help me out by auto-replacing them with the asymmetric ones but I think most web pages and computer programs are too lazy to use them. Certainly they don't bother me. I don't think it would be any problem to replace them, as long as they were made completely consistent within one language. Anyway, thanks YinYeti and thanks tux99, thanks to you two I've got completed texts for both French and Italian, that's brilliant! If anyone else wants to help out with the Spanish or the Polish you're still very welcome!!

That's brilliant, Yves, thank you very much! Perfect! As for the characters, yes “Êtes-vous sûr ?†is no problem - I can change these. I'm not sure what you mean by “l'ajout†instead of “l’ajout†- is it just the apostrophe which is different? I can hardly see it. Interesting that you used "ajouter" for the creation of a new point, but "créer" for the averaging - but I think there will always be these little subtleties. Thanks very much for taking the time to do this, and especially so quick - that's great! And you spotted some more which I didn't notice when making this thread - super! @ianw - your help would be gratefully received, if you would like to, you can fill in the ones you're fairly sure of and then just leave the rest - it would still be a help! Same goes as for the French, either see the texts I posted above and reply in this thread, or look at the wiki page for items with a blank in the fourth column.

Thanks very much! I've PM'd it to you, but it's almost exactly the same as the French set above. @Spiny: Thanks for the move! I should have seen that.