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For some reason, I've been having a lot of trouble with program depencies when installing programs from source tarballs. As an example, I downloaded the libcdio tarball, got it installed with no problems, then I downloaded the vcdimager tarball, when running the configure script, it tells me that the libcdio package wasn't found even though I know it's there. I've had the same problem with other programs, even after installing the required packages in the proper places, the configure script won't find it. Could it be that I download the tarballs and install them in my home directory? That's the only thing I could figure. [moved from Software by spinynorman]

well, resizing the partition has become a moot point, i went ahead and formatted the whole thing, started having some screwy problems with it, all my fault, to be sure! the live cd is pretty cool though, if ever i need to use someone else's pc for a bit, i can use the cd to take my linux with me! again, thanks for everyone's help.

thanks!

i do so love this os! i'm thinking about starting my own web page, kinda feeling my way through proftpd, httpd and apachectl, before i go through my isp and start paying big money for web hosting services & domain names, can anyone point me to a comprehensive, newbie manual page for http and ftp servers? any information will be greatly appreciated! [moved from Software by spinynorman]

Ok, I had a ton of trouble finding the source for the 2.6 kernel I was running, so I downloaded the kernel 2.6.14.1 source, compiled and installed it, and got it up and running. Unfortunately, the initial problem, installing my modem, was still present under the new kernel because I couldn't find the correct drivers for 2.6 kernels, so I compiled and installed kernel 2.4.27, installed my modem, and my system works just fine! Thanks for everyone's help, now I think I'm going to go uninstall any Microsoft products and format the harddrive they were residing on!

Ok, that helped. Unfortunately, when I downloaded the Mandrake installation cd's, it only came with the kernel source for a 2.4 kernel, it doesn't have the kernel source for 2.6 on it. I downloaded the kernel source for 2.6.14.3, configured it, made and installed the modules, installed the kernel and got it to boot, but there's no display. I used both make menuconfig and make oldconfig, neither one helps. Any suggestions?

I'm definately a Linux newbie so please don't laugh! I've been having trouble getting online with my current Linux distro (Mandrake 10.1 Official), after reading the news at linmodems I got rid of my ESS modem and got a Stratitec with support for 2.4 kernels and higher (my kernel version is 2.6.8.1). After trying to build the module, the output said it couldn't find the kernel headers (and I wonder if this would cause all the problems I've had trying to configure, compile, make, build or install anything else). I have the original 3 installation disks, can anyone tell me how and where to find and install the kernel headers? Any help would be much appreciated, for now my adventures in Linux and Windows programming is fun and games but school starts soon and the more I learn beforehand the easier things will be when class starts! [moved from Software by spinynorman]