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  3. Is Mandrivausers dead?

    in Everything Linux

    Posted · Edited by jkerr82508

    4.4.3 is in /main/release, 4.4.5 is in /main/updates. I suspect that the 4.4.5 version is missing a dependency or dependencies.

     

    When you update, you'll get the 4.4.5 version, probably with the required dependencies, since the original packages are already installed.

     

    Jim

     

    Edit: Scratch that - I've just installed the 4.4.5 version - and the games all showed up in the menu. It seems that the problem may be with your system or the mirror that you are using.

  7. Kmail Address Book Does Not Work

    in Installing Mandriva

    Posted · Edited by jkerr82508

    From memory this is what I did to move my kmail mail store to thunderbird:

     

    1. Since I was using kmail's default maildir format, I had to convert each folder into mbox format.

     

    For each existing folder I created a new mbox folder (e.g. for "Friends" a new "Friends2"). (When you create a new folder in kmail, you are asked to select a format.) Then I copied all of the emails in Friends to Friends2.

     

    To make them easier to find, I copied these new mbox files from ~./kde4/share/apps/kmail/mail to a new folder ~/kmail-mbox-files.

     

    Of course, if you are already using the mbox format, then that is all unnecessary.

     

    2. Then I installed the ImportExportTool extension for thunderbird, and imported the mbox files into thunderbird following the general idea of the instructions here:

     

    http://kb.mozillazine.org/Importing_folders#Install_the_ImportExportTool_extension

     

    Once you've installed the extension in thunderbird, you can scroll down to the "Import the Folders" section on that page. The intervening sections don't apply in this case.

     

     

     

    Bruno Cornec (a Mandriva/Mageia contributor) has written a script:

     

    http://brunocornec.wordpress.com/2011/01/10/migrating-from-kmail-to-thunderbird/

     

    I have no personal experience of using that.

     

    Jim

  8. Kmail Address Book Does Not Work

    in Installing Mandriva

    Posted · Edited by jkerr82508

    When I first installed 2010.1, I spent close to a day, googling and experimenting before I got the address book working properly. Then I read that more of KDE (including kmail's email client itself) was going to be "integrated" with the nepomuk-strigi-akonadi-mysql monster. Apparently this is so that we can all share our data with the world. No thanks - I don't want to share my data with anyone! I switched to Gnome 2 and now use thunderbird for email (the conversion of existing files was not as difficult as I expected) - it's not "integrated" with anything and runs on most platforms.

     

    If, as has been suggested, Gnome 3 is going down this "integrated" and "sharing" road, then I'll be trying XFCE or even LXDE. I just want a stable platform on which I can run a few applications and store my personal files.

     

    Jim

     

    Edit: I posted what I did to get kmail addressbook working in 2010.1. Scroll down to the fourth post in this thread:

     

    http://forum.mandriva.com/en/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=131070

     

    It seems to have helped a few people. I've no idea if it is still relevant for the latest incarnation of KDE4.

  13. Confused system

    in Software

    Posted · Edited by jkerr82508

    2010.2 and 2010.1 are the same. When mdv released updated 2010.1 iso's in December, they decided to call them 2010.2. (They've admitted that it would have been better to call them 2010.1.1 or some such, since there never was a real 2010.2 release.)

     

    All updates to 2010.1 are now labelled 2010.2.

     

    Jim

  14. All Mandriva Servers Down?

    in Everything Linux

    Posted · Edited by jkerr82508

    Mandriva Club was abolished years ago. The main Mandriva web site is at:

     

    http://www.mandriva.com/

     

    and the Forum is at:

     

    http://forum.mandriva.com/

     

    I don't recall either being down at any time in the past week, but they may have been at some point.

     

    If you're referring to the mirrors. Someone (or something) at Mandriva zapped the entire primary mirror.

     

    http://lists.mandriva.com/cooker/2011-02/msg00344.php

     

    Jim

  16. How do I shift to manual updates check on 2010.2?

    in Software

    Posted

    Thanks. Simple solution. Re-enabled my sources, and the first thing that happens is an update notice.... Too fast for me to right click on it

    Are you saying that the red applet appears and then disappears almost immediately? I don't recall ever hearing of that behaviour before. Usually once the red applet appears, it remains visible until the user takes action.

     

    Jim

  18. KMail, Akonadi, MySQL, D-Bus ... driving me nuts!

    in Software

    Posted

    When I first installed 2010.1, I spent several hours finding out how to get the Address Book functioning properly. I decided (after using KDE for 8 years) to abandon KDE before the Nepomuk-Akonadi-strigi-mysql monster was extended to pollute any more of the system. I'm sure that the KDE dev's have lots of fun developing all this stuff and there may actually be some people who find it useful, but for me it all serves no useful purpose.

     

    Since Mandriva are to discontinue support for all DE's other than KDE, I also decided to use a different distro, after 8 years with Mandrake/Mandriva.

     

    Jim

  19. Red Hat or Fedora

    in Everything Linux

    Posted · Edited by jkerr82508

    Mandrake was originally a fork of Red Hat. Although no longer a fork, Mandriva's base system (including the file system) is still organised in the Red Hat "style". Fedora is Red Hat's "community" release upon which Red Hat enterprise editions are based. (In effect, Fedora "is" Red Hat.)

     

    Jim

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