MoonChild

I would love to get RPMs of the dependencies at some point. WML. Anyone?

I first installed it through the Ximian Desktop thing. It worked. Extremely slow, required a lot of libraries extra which I had no idea what they were doing. I removed it cause it was a mess. Then I got the TeXstar packages. Used urpmi to install them. And they work great! :)

User nobody is used by a lot of daemons to run specific processes. httpd (also known as apache in mandrake) is runs its processes as nobody. perl runs CGIs as nobody (unless otherwise specified) Many many many more processes use nobody to run stuff. Check nobody's groups and permissions to get a clear view on what she can do.

Nope. Still doesn;t work

A great program, but I think really really really ugly. Anyone knows if it is themable? The icons at least? They are irritating!

I installed the tex rpm for mozilla-XFT but I can't even start it. It says relocation error. Any ideas?

LaTeX is a very complex typesetting language used by authors and publishers worldwide to produce academic papers as well as books and other types of publications. It has numerous options, commands and options that require tons of books to explain in full. This is just an introduction to get you started for your college years as well as all the official documents you want to create. Documents created for LaTeX resemble C source code. The idea behind it is generation of documents through a compiler, surprisingly called LaTeX too. Why would anyone do that in the world of WYSIWYG text editors (like the excellent OpenOffice.org Writer)? Simply put, beauty! Nothing can match the presentation of LaTeX documents, no matter how hard you try. One of the reasons why almost all text editors have (or are in the stage of developing) LaTeX export functionality. All commands in LaTeX begin with (backslash). To all IRC fanatics, this won't sound very surprising. All required arguements are usually enclosed between { } and all optional ones within [ ]. Commentwise, everything following the % (percentage) character is considered a comment. We will create a University level Paper as a case study of LaTeX. You should write all your documents with a .tex extension to easily distinguish them. You may use your favourite editor to edit them, as long as it is a simple text editor and not an overbloated office suite editor. I like to use Kate for it, which has specific highlighting for LaTeX, but it is still your personal choice. The most basic LaTeX document contains a few commands. The most basic one of them all is documentclass[option]{style} . Some options you might find usefull are the text size optional arguement (10pt, 11pt, 12pt etc) as well as the styles, which can be article, book, report, etc. In our case, we will create an article. Our starting command will be: documentclass[12pt, titlepage]{article} I included the optional arguement titlepage, which means LaTeX will create a standalone title page on the beginning of our Paper (as it is required by almost all University Papers you might write in your life). Just remove it if you don't like it there. The following commands are optional for general documents, but are used by LaTeX to create your titlepage, so you better include them yourself. author{Put yourname in here} title{The title of the paper you want to have} date{Date of completition} As the above commands are quite easy to understand, I will move forward to documents objects or blocks. LaTeX treats all TeX files. You begin your blocks with begin{block} and finish them with end{block}. You can create as many blocks as you want, but it will only be shown if it is included in the master block of LaTeX called document. So our next command will be begin{document} <i>Our text will go here</i> end{document} As soon as you start your document, you might consider creating the title (or titlepage if you asked for it). The command to do that is maketitle and should be placed before you start your text obviously. Unless you want to play a little or confuse your professors. Just a small note... Paragraphs are separated by an empty line, so it won't be hard to do that. If you prefer to have titles for each paragraph (of any number of them) you can create Sections in the document by typing section{Name of Section} or... section*{name of Section} The <i>section<b>*</b>{}</i> will not create automatic numbering for your sections. So for a school paper, the whole file would look something like: All these are so beautiful and easy to understand. But what happens next? Well we need to compile our document using the command latex. It has a lot of arguements you can pass to it, but the one that concerns us is the filename. To run the program just type (in a console): The compiler will also give you all the errors that came up, as well as create a lot of files. LOG, AUX, DVI etc... What interests you more is the .dvi file, which is the printable beautiful document we just created. To view it, use xdvi filename or kdvi filename. You can print it through these applications if you wish. But most of your professors probably have no idea what DVI is or how to view it, so you might want to create it in a different format for them. I will assume PDF is acceptable to all Universities in the world. The above command will create the exact same DVI looking document in a PDF format you can view with xpdf filename.pdf or ofcourse acroread filename.pdf. There are billions of more things I can tell you about it, but the scope of this document cannot cover them. Feel free to search on the Internet for a lot more information. Some links that might be of interest: Latex Help by Cornell University Getting Started with Latex by David R. Wilkins. Latex Help 1.1 at Emory University Beginner's Latex Tutorial at University of Waterloo in Canada Enjoy! NOTE: This was originally written for ManDraKe eXPerience but I thought some people might find it interesting in here.

0.90rc1

I installed gtk-theme-switch package and suddenly all of my GTK apps are slow as hell. Like that's not enough, the hang my system too. They make slower than WinXP on a 8086. 1 frame per 5 seconds. What is going on?

Where is it? I used to boot using GMD (GDM?) but suddenly it died and the system returned to KDM. Any attempts to return to GDM fail, as "it is not found". Any help? Ideas?

Trying to get sudo to work for me.... Unfortunately, when I try to "mount /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom2" or cdrom for that case, I am asked for a password. What is wrong?[/i]

Quoted from slashdot comment by d_i_r_t_y (mattATproteomesystemsDOTcom) on Sunday November 24, @08:23PM (#4747370) Also: by No_Weak_Heart on Monday November 25, @12:11AM (#4748761) (also Slashdot comment)

How on earth do I get to uninstall gkrellm? Do I have to manually erase every single file myself? rpm -e gkrellm returns errors because gkrellm defines too many files it says

MPlayer is the one! Make sure you install all plugins before compiling (ie libdvd etc). The RPMs don't work well for me, so I never use them.

Congratulations D. No need to tell you any time I am lost it seems my destination is your site. Glad you got the recognition you deserve and hope to see much more tutorials in the future. On behalf of most of the people on this board, a big thank you!

You should try : Under root of course (gain root access though

New updates released today, including many printing bug fixes and initsripts fixes. Use mandrake update to automatically update your packages.

From the OSNews review of MDK9

The problem with licq that comes in MDK9... It tends to save wrong qt configurations... So it starts fine the first time, but the second time, when it reads $HOME/.licq/licq.conf it screws up. licq-kde saves the day, because it fixes the Qt functions and makes all work fine. Try urpmi licq-kde to fix all versions of licq (you actually fix the qt plugin). Or for closer attention... irc.openprojects.org #licq

Just in case you might find this helpful... Install locale-xx of the desired language (ie locale-el is greek locale) Configure your keyboard in KDE to have additional layouts (of the desired language) Click on the language icon that will appear, or press Ctrl+Alt+K to switch languages.

Good idea. Where from?

Okay, so trying to install from src.rpm... rpmbuild --rebuild anjuta-x.x.xx-x.src.rpm Trying to check if I do have it installed... urpmi gnome-vfs Everything already installed urpmi gnome-vfs-extras Everything already installed Any ideas?

Glad to see you back D. And really happy to see tutorials from you. They've been helpfull in the past, as I am sure they will be in the future.

Red Hat has struck a small blow against the DMCA, by publishing a security patch which can only be explained fully to people who are not within U.S. jurisdiction. The company's position here seems to be not altogether voluntary -- according to a spokesman "it is bizarre, and unfortunately something Red Hat cannot easily do much about," but like it or not Red Hat has been recruited to the campaign to make the DMCA look ridiculous. Read more on http://newsforge.com/newsforge/02/10/16/15...251.shtml?tid=4

You can try PortSentry - You can make it run any command you want when it spots a port scan. It's not hard to write a script that will redirect all your traffic somewhere else, but I am not sure how this is legal.