nickbg

Thanks Greg for that - I was just being dumb !!

Got that sorted but now seem to have a problem finding something called Perl(X10::ActiveHome)

Where do you guys find all these rpms i just can't be very good at searching !

Any help would be much appreciated

Cheers

Nick

Cheers for that

I have tried to install it but I get the following message - can anyone help me sort this out or tell me what I need to do ?

zm-1.22.3-6mdv2007.1.i686 (due to unsatisfied perl(Device::SerialPort))

Cheers

Nick

Hi all,

I want to dowload and install zoneminder - i have the choice of a fedora core download or a gentoo download - what do i want ???

Cheers

Nick

Thanks for all your help guys - I am now up and running - really do appreciate all your efforts - nice to know there are some very knowledgable people out there willing to help

Thanks again - I am sure I will back back real soon with something else lol

Cheers

Nick

I have tried typing in the text that it says in a terminal window but get the same messages as detailed above for all, ie main, main update, etc

Has anyone got any ideas on what i am doing wrong ?

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Nick

ok - i found where it is but when i used easy urpmi to add the media i get errors....

....retrieving failed: wget failed: exited with 1

unable to access hdlist file of "main_backports", medium ignored

unable to update medium "main_backports"

removing medium "main_backports"

Any ideas guys (thanks for your help so far on this)

Cheers

Nick

hmmm that did not seem to do anything - -says urpmi command not found

do i need to be doing this as root ?

Cheers

ick

Thanks Craig - will give it a try

Cheers

Nick

Hi Jon,

I don't know why YUM.... I wanted to install pidgin and that was one thing that would help me do it - but i just having problems all over the place - problem is i have never used linux (it would seem that I am thick lol )

I am using mandriva 2007 but just can't understand how to install anything !!! so any idots guide that will help me is much appreciated

Cheers

Nick

Hi all,

Please help a total newbie ....... arghhhhh

I am trying to install YUM using the following commands at the command line - but when I get to the ./configure command I get the following . "./configure: No such file or directory"

These were the commands I was following....

As root,

cd ~

mkdir setups

cd setups

wget http://linux.duke.edu/projects/yum/d...m-2.0.7.tar.gz

tar -xvzf yum-2.0.7.tar.gz

cd yum-2.0.7

./configure

make

make install

Hope someone can help me

Cheers

Nick

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