iphitus

June 29, 2003

You might like this, it's something i wrote the other day

http://www.mandrakeusers.org/viewtopic.php?t=6090

All about getting RPMs for that program you want, has a lot of links to useful sites and has some quick and easy information on how to setup urpmi. I just added a way with a GUI tool you might like.

good luck with mandrake

James

June 29, 2003

Gtk-Gnutella is a P2P filesharing program on the gnutella network that was made with Gtk.

How would i change the ip to localhost?

Thanks

James

June 29, 2003

Hi

I've moved from enlightenment to Gnome for a while to try (and i'll probably stay), but when i start Gnome i get the below error message.

Could not look up internet address for dhcp-796-117.

This will prevent GNOME from operating correctly.

It may be possible to correct the problem by adding

dhcp-796-117 to the file /etc/hosts.

Everything works fine except Gtk-Gnutella

It's pointless adding it to my /etc/hosts file as it often changes.

I have cable internet with a dynamic ip.

Gtk-Gnutella gives me the below error and repeats it every 2 seconds (at commandline)

03/06/29 08:02:23 (WARNING): cannot resolve "dhcp-796-117": Unknown host

What can i do?

Is there a script that i could use to automatically update /etc/hosts?

James

June 29, 2003

The printer i have went paperweight in XP, that's why my dad gave it to me, i had Win98 only at the time. Now MDK/LFS/Win98 all on a 6gb HDD

June 29, 2003

Thanks :)

June 29, 2003

I had no problems with 9.1 and it fixed a lot of problems i had with 9.0

You're lucky your printer even works. My Canon BJC-5100 is classified as a PAPERWEIGHT

No, it won't work, mandrake say so and there is no driver in existence for linux. None of the similar models, like BJC4100 use the same protocol so i can't use their drivers and Canon won't give us any info. I have to use an old, HP660c or reboot into windows. I normally end up rebooting into windows. Not only that, the 5100 doesn't feed paper properly, i know someonelse who has it and has the same problems. I got it before i used linux.

Sorry to whinge

James

June 28, 2003

I don't think GTK (1) themes work. If they do, how did you do it?

My commonly used apps are mainly GTK2

I'm using Gnome 2.2, MDK 9.1. I'm looking for some darker themes.

Thanks again!!!

James

June 28, 2003

I've been looking for some GTK2 and Metacity themes for gnome. I just can't find the right combination and themes. Does anyone have a site other than art.gnome.org and themes.org with themes for these? Anyone got any reccomended combinations themes?

No Apple/Aqua themes thanks

Thanks in advance

James

June 28, 2003

cwshupe, tyme's idea is unfortunately off for now

But if you want to learn the nuts and bolts, Linux From Scratch, www.linuxfromscratch.org if you haven't aready done it, is great, i'm making one now. There's little programming involved, or at least i haven't come across any, and i've learnt loads.

Good luck

James

June 28, 2003

THE TOOLKIT

This site has just about every gui toolkit/framework and the like in toolkit history

For each toolkit it has a comment, what plaforms it works on (Linux/Winblows/Mac and more), a link(s) and license.

There are toolkits for Ada, Lisp, Fortran, Prolog, Pascal (including Delphi/Kylix) C#, C++, C and Java.

It also has a list of links to related sites.

The page is big and takes a sec to render in mozilla, your browser hasn't frozen. or maybe it's my slow computer.

Anyway this is THE SITE, for gui toolkits and frameworks.

James

June 28, 2003

I know many people out there pull out there hair with RPMs.

They can be so easy if you know what to do.

The first thing you should do is setup urpmi

With urpmi at a console you can simply type

su

Then your root password

Then

urpmi xmms

And it will download and install XMMS and dependencies for you.

Of course you can replace 'xmms' with abiword, gimp, xine, gaim and more.

eg urpmi freecraft

To allow urpmi to do the above you need to add sources to it

Here is a site which gives you the exact commands to type as root to add sources

Easy URPMI

http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/urpmiweb.php

THere is also a GUI tool to do the above. However I think it is only for Mandrake 9.1. It is called urpmi.setup

YOu can get an RPM at

http://rpmseek.com/rpm-dl/urpmi.setup-web-...PN:0:0:0:538383

Pick a mirror near you. For Australians you can get an rpm at ftp://public.ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/man...4mdk.noarch.rpm

It might need some extra rpms too. I reccomend the first way, with the command line, then maybe install urpmi.setup with urpmi urpmi.setup

However not everything is on the urpmi sources.

To find rpms for other programs not in urpmi's sources here are some great sites to get RPMS

www.rpmfind.net

rpm.pbone.net

www.rpmseek.com

Simply go to one of these sites and search for what you want.

Once you download it to install it

cd to the directory you downloaded it.

then either

urpmi rpmname.rpm

OR

rpm -i rpmname.rpm

urpmi will download the dependencies if you don't have them and they're on it's sources, rpm -i will give you an error if they're not on your computer.

Sometimes urpmi doesn't have rpms for the dependencies.

This is where most people get frustrated, a string of dependencies.

To find rpms of dependencies

I go to www.rpmseek.com

then select

'what provides'

'includes file' or

'package name'

depending on what's needed.

Then just put your search term in the box below.

Tip: Often if you have an newer version of the dependency and the program wants an older one and programs or the system depend on the newer one, or vice versa, look for a compat rpm.

eg libpng3-compat

You've finally got all the software you want but it's been a few weeks/months since you installed it all. To update it all, all you need to do is su to root and type

urpmi --auto-select

This however will give you some complaints about GPG signatures(see below) on the files.

To automatically ignore this, instead of the above use:

urpmi --auto-select --no-verify-rpm --auto

Hope this helps, if you can't find an RPM that'll work, post here on MDK Users, email me rcxau(at)yahoo.com.au or your best option: compile from source.

GPG signatures: Often you will be asked whether or not to install an RPM because urpmi can't verify the signature. Most of the time this its fine to install it. I always do.

Good Luck!!!

James

EDIT: Added command to update

EDIT: Added urpmi.setup

June 27, 2003

upgrade to 9.1

if you have urpmi with sources added, rpms will no longer drive you mad.

All you do is "urpmi evolution" and it will download and install the evolution RPM and dependencies. Like apt.

EDIT: To make RPMS really easy, see my mini-Howto

http://www.mandrakeusers.org/viewtopic.php?t=6090

RPMs are probably driving you mad because you have an old MDK and most of the RPMS now have precompiled binaries using GLibc2.3. Which are almost useless on 8.1. And a lot of it's out of date which means that when you install a new program. it'll probably want a string of dependencies cause your current version is out of date. i had these problems too with MDK8.2.

And also what is also an option is Linux From Scratch, ok you don't want to compile, but it's a helluva lot of fun, work and is rewarding. YOu learn a lot too. I'm about 1/3 of the way through one.

Try MDK 9.1, i did, it's great.

Anyway, my 4 AU cents (us 2 cents)

James

June 26, 2003

Step 1: RELAX

i've browsed this site in text mode too, it's terrible!!

did you by any chance change the option in MCC that prompts.

"Do you want X to start at startup"

I did once, same thing happened.

What were you doing before you restarted, changing settings, installing apps, or normal use(whatever that may be).

Outside possibility, but hey, who knows

June 26, 2003

Hey free coasters...............

June 26, 2003

Gimp like the g in 'grab

June 26, 2003

Thanks

I'm not sure whether i'm going to reinstall Windows, i don't have a lot of data, less than a CD, a while ago i backed up a lot of it via USB to another computer and burnt it. MIght be able to do that again. I'll see. I've also been putting off buying the burner, so maybe now's a good time. I just don't know if it's worth it, the computer's old, 300mhz, 160ram, 6gb hdd, and i get a laptop next year.

Thanks all

I'll let you know what happens

James

June 26, 2003

HELP, i'm logged in as james and am starting programs as james. However i'm getting those messages. When i login to GNOME it starts RXVT for me. I'm right now in RXVT using Lynx to browse this site. What can i do to stop these problems!! I can't start any programs!! HELP!!

Thanks

James

June 25, 2003

What about python? For GUI you can use things like Tkinter and PyGTK.

I've had experience with C++ in Windows but i wanted to try python. It's easier too. There's no compile but on a linux system you just chmod the script executable, it also needs to inludt the path to python at the top. I think the line is #/usr/bin/python

There is a good site for GUI toolkits for All platforms at

http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Vis...84/guitool.html

Good luck

James

June 25, 2003

isn't there a place you can change it in MCC?

MCC -> Boot -> DrakBoot

hope it works

james

June 25, 2003

Thanks Tyme

June 25, 2003

hello all

What is the gnome equivalent of the windows startup folder?

Thanks in advance :D

James

June 25, 2003

I'm logged in as james, and am trying to run commands as james. Nothing, not the enlightenment middle button menu or anything work. It's not so much of a problem at the moment, i'm trying Gnome again for a while.

Thanks, will try your suggestions next time it happens

James

June 24, 2003

Suns java, doesn't do the path for you. I have the same problem. I'll get round to it sometime, it;s on my list of things to-do.

June 24, 2003

Hope this helps

go to

http://www.linux.org/dist/list.html

Select platform, language, and category.

It'll give you a list of distros you can use or might be suitable.

James

Edit: I think Palms, or at least recent ones are M68 in that platform drop down list. Another site is http://uclinux.org/ it's dedicated to linux on palm

June 24, 2003

hi

Sometimes when i've been using the computer and i try to start a program. It won't start. I run it from the commandline and i get an error. Here are the errors from some of my commonly used programs:

Evolution

[james@localhost james]$ evolution