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I downloaded those packages and tried to install but it didn't work....then I figured I might need to su to root so I did and it went smoothly :D I then launched GAIM and checked the version and it was 0.75 :D Thanks for the help, I have so many questions since I'm a n00b that when I finally get around to solving a problem it's a big relief, thanks again guys B) Mark

thank you VERY much :D I tried "sudo yast2" and it worked just fine :D Mark

I tried that but without much luck, looks like I need more software to be able to do it: linux:/home/luser # rpm -Uvh /home/luser/gaim-0.75-100.SuSE.ulb.2.i586.rpm error: Failed dependencies: gtkspell is needed by gaim-0.75-100.SuSE.ulb.2 libgtkspell.so.0 is needed by gaim-0.75-100.SuSE.ul

I tried using the tar.gz file from sourceforge.net, I extracted it just fine. I then proceeded to do a "./configure" and here was the output at the end: checking for pkg-config... no checking for GLIB - version >= 2.0.0... no *** A new enough version of pkg-config was not found. *** See http://www.freedesktop.org/software/pkgconfig/ configure: error: *** GLib 2.0 is required to build Gaim; please make sure you have the GLib *** development headers installed. The latest version of GLib is *** always available at http://www.gtk.org/. I see it tells me where I can get Glib. I did some more reaearch and it said that all that stuff should be on CD and that downloading from the net would be a last resort. All I have for SuSE 9.0 cd's is the live cd and the ftp boot. So, do I need to download this from the net or is there some way to snag it from one of those suse disks? Sorry if this seems like a very trivial matter, but I am really trying hard to get things to work without having to ask for too much help. Thanks for any hlep you can give. Mark

oh, and as a sidenote I edited the file with vi, I"m not sure if that makes a difference. Mark

I added my user to the wheel group. I then changed the sudoers file to allow wheel to do all but it still din't work right. So I then changed the sudoers file to allow "luser" which is my user account to do all. Here is the file: # sudoers file. # # This file MUST be edited with the 'visudo' command as root. # # See the sudoers man page for the details on how to write a sudoers file. # # Host alias specification # User alias specification # Cmnd alias specification # Defaults specification Defaults targetpw %users ALL=(ALL) ALL # User privilege specification root ALL=(ALL) ALL # Uncomment to allow people in group wheel to run all commands %luser ALL=(ALL) ALL "/etc/sudoers" 30L, 617C and here's what happens when I try to "sudo yast" and give the admin password: luser@linux:~> sudo yast Password: luser is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported. What do you guys think? Mark

I am a fan of this :D Mark

thank you :D I'll give that a try tonight when I get home from work Mark

I just checked out source forge again, looks liike they updated some files, they didn't have the source in tar.gz last time, I'lll get on it when i get home from class :D Mark

Yet another question from this linux n00b. I am currently running GAIM .67 which came with Suse. I would like to upgrade to the new relase that is at sourceforge. I noticed that there isn't a tar or rpm file for it for Suse only binary. I have never compiiled anything in linux yet so I'm a bit nervous about how to go about it. If I remember correctly I selected the packages that contained compilers when I installed Suse. My question is how would I go about this? Do I need to remove my previous version of GAIM (if so how do I do that) or is there a way to upgrade after I compile (how do I compile) Thanks for having patience with me guys, you are helping me learn each day. Thanks for any help. Mark

archive bot and google bot are constantly drilling my forum, hot bot hits on occassion. I definately think that this is the best linux board without a doubt :D Mark

Acutally, I just go it to launch. The only problem now is getting it to connect, but I'm thinking I know why it isn't. Here is the output after the tar: luser@d-216-195-130-149:~/eDonkey> ./donkey0.50.1 Welcome to eDonkey2000 command line client 0.50.1 Enter commands at any time (type '?' for help) > Loading shared files... ERROR: can't listen on port 4662. Port is probably in use. Change port by typing: 'port ####' at the prompt. Upload Queue not loaded Done loading shared files. I see that the port it needs is busy, but I'm not sure what would be using that port. Here are my current processes: luser@d-216-195-130-149:~> ps -u Warning: bad syntax, perhaps a bogus '-'? See http://procps.sf.net/faq.html USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND luser 2898 0.0 0.1 2880 1680 pts/0 S 14:08 0:00 bash luser 3071 0.0 0.0 2536 976 pts/0 S 14:30 0:00 su luser luser 3072 0.0 0.1 2880 1676 pts/0 S 14:30 0:00 bash luser 3140 0.0 0.0 2536 976 pts/0 S 14:32 0:00 su luser luser 3141 0.0 0.1 2880 1672 pts/0 S 14:32 0:00 bash luser 3338 0.0 0.0 2536 976 pts/0 S 14:56 0:00 su luser luser 3339 0.0 0.1 2880 1676 pts/0 S 14:56 0:00 bash luser 3420 0.5 0.9 12416 9460 pts/0 S 15:02 0:01 ed2k_gui luser 3423 0.0 0.0 3824 940 pts/0 S 15:03 0:00 /home/luser/eDonkluser 3424 0.0 0.0 3824 940 pts/0 S 15:03 0:00 /home/luser/eDonkluser 3425 0.0 0.0 3824 940 pts/0 S 15:03 0:00 /home/luser/eDonkluser 3443 0.1 0.1 2880 1676 pts/2 S 15:07 0:00 bash luser 3452 0.0 0.9 12416 9460 pts/0 S 15:07 0:00 ed2k_gui luser 3462 0.0 0.0 2668 720 pts/2 R 15:07 0:00 ps -u Any ideas? Thanks for any help. mark

Thanks for cleaning that up for me. Here is what I did: d-216-195-130-149:/home/luser # rpm -ivh ed2k-gtk-gui-0.6.2-0.i386.rpm Preparing... ########################################### [100%] 1:ed2k-gtk-gui ########################################### [100%] That seemed to go smoothly, now I'm not quite sure what to do.. The rpm was in my home folder and that's where I executed the command in terminal. I don't see any files that look like they might be the ones I need...when I do the rpm does it put them in a certain place? Here is a listing of what is now in my home folder: luser@d-216-195-130-149:~> ls bin eDonkey log.txt temp bookmarks.html GNOME-Tileado.png MozillaFirebird uploadq.dat Documents incoming public_html ed2k-gtk-gui-0.6.2-0.i386.rpm known.met share.dat What do you think? Mark

I blew away everything on my 120gig last night and did a fresh install of Suse 9.0 I was glad to see that Suse mounted my windows partiton (on my slave drive) with no problems...might have gone more smoothly since the windows partition on that drive is FAT32. Thanks to everyone that tried to help me in this thread, I'm sure it wasn't working before due to some error that I probably made. Mark

Well I was reading through the FAQ forum cause I originally wanted to install kazaa lite + WINE. I don't tihnk I"m quite ready to tackle the WINE install just yet so I kept reading through the FAQ's a bit more and found eDonkey. I installed both the Core (tar.gz) and the GUI (rpm) I extracted the tar.gz no problem and followed the instructions in the FAQ and all went smoothly. Now I'm trying to install the GUI which is an rpm. So try: [/code]d-216-195-130-149:/home/luser # urpmi ed2k-gtk-gui-0.6.2-0.i386.rpm bash: urpmi: command not found I tried that as root and that was the output that I got. Is there a certain piece of software that I need to install to do rpms in Suse? I tried the man pages for urpmi and there was nothing for it. Any ideas? Sorry for posting so many questions lately but I've been trying to sit down at my box for a couple hrs a day at least trying to do new things. Thanks for any help that you could give. Mark

I start up Suse and log in as a user. I then go to try access yast, it then asks for an admin password. I give my correct password and click run. Then nothing happens for a while then a window pops up ( Error gnomesu) which says "timeout while trying to execute 'su") I can get into yast fine if I logout then log back in as root and try to use yast...but I think I should be able to access it still when I'm logged in as a user. Any ideas? mark

Sorry for putting it in the wrong forum bvc I"m still trying to learn how you guys like stuff here. But now that I know where this type of question belongs that will help me out :D Thanks for the tip as well bvc, I got it working now :D Mark

Everything is up running right after install except my sound. I have onboard sound and a pci card (I'm assuming that's the conflict) Here is the output of lspci: d-216-195-130-149:~ # lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS 645xx (rev 03) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS 530 Virtual PCI-to-PCI bridge (AGP) 00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]: Unknown device 0963 (rev 25) 00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE] 00:02.7 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] Sound Controller (rev a0) 00:03.0 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 0f) 00:03.1 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 0f) 00:03.2 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 2.0 Controller 00:04.0 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 10/100 Ethernet (rev 91) 00:09.0 Communication controller: Lucent Microelectronics: Unknown device 048c (rev 02) 00:0b.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 08) 00:0b.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! MIDI/Game Port (rev 08) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV100 QY [Radeon 7000/VE] The sound that I'm trying to use is the pci card (Creative Labs SB Live!) any ideas on how to configure it to work, or possibly load a certain driver for it (dealing with the drivers and certain conflicts seems to be my weakest area so far in linux) Thanks Mark

I'm back, I decided to go with suse for now till I can gain more experience so I will understand what you guys tell me to do rather than just blindly doing it and not understanding the logic behind it. Suse is up and running just fine now, the only prob is my soundcard isn't working, but I'll make a seperate thread for that. Thanks for your assiantace pat. Mark

actually, after some thinking I have decided that I will go with Suse9.0 for now since it supports my onboard SiS...although I still prefer mandrake. I appreciate all the help that I have been getting but the stuff you are having me do is a bit over my head. I understand your instructions but I don't fully understand what I'm doing. I think I just might need some time to play with linux and feel a bit more comfortable with it and I think the only way I am going to be able to do that is with something that will be up and running right after install, that way I can take my time and do some tweaking for myself. I have already made the first crucial step for myself by blowing away windows. I have to give up this laptop tomorrow so I will not be able to get online to seek help. I will still post at this forum of course because I definately feel is has the best group of people. I hope you guys aren't going to be mad that I"m giving up on mandrake right now (well I wouldn't really say give up, I hope to try it again in the future when my skills have improved) I'm hoping that sometime soon I will be able to start posting responses to questions instead of asking the questions ;) Thank you guys for your time and patience as always. I'll keep you guys posted with my progress. Mark

also my AIM screename is "mdemers883" if you would like to communicate that way instead since I have my two systems side by side all I have to do is move over one seat :P Mark

I configured eth0 as you said, It still failed on boot. I think it may be because eth0 is my onboard SiS900. Here is some output. [root@localhost root]# lspci bash: lspci: command not found [root@localhost root]# ifconfig eth1 eth1: error fetching interface information: Device not found [root@localhost root]# ifconfig eth0 eth0: error fetching interface information: Device not found

here's the modules.conf: probeall scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi alias sound-slot-1 snd-emu10k1 alias eth0 sis900 above snd-intel8x0 snd-pcm-oss above snd-emu10k1 snd-pcm-oss alias sound-slot-0 snd-intel8x0 probeall usb-interface usb-ohci here's the ifcfg-eth0 DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=dhcp NETMASK=255.255.255.0 ONBOOT=yes I didn't see a ifcfg-eth1 (might be cause I just reinstalled mandrake and haven't plugged a ethernet cable into it yet) Also, I've used the lspci command before, but for some reason it wouldn't let me use it this time. Any ideas for me to try? Mark

thank you for the reply, I will get right on this when I get home from work :D thanks again Mark

Any ideas guys? I'm out of work in a couple of hrs and I would like to get linux up and running since I blew away windows last night :lol: Mark