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It would appear that the build is looking for stdio.h in /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-mandrake-linux-gnu/3.2.2/include/ I'm not familiar with building this software but there should be somewhere you can change this - I'm guessing in the make file. Change it to /usr/include/ and hopefully this will help. If you can't find an entry in the makefile, perhaps a grep -r "/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-mandrake-linux-gnu/3.2.2/include/" from the directory your src is in may help.

Depends how much effort you want to put in, gentoo is by it's nature very good for being up to date. Then theres the unstable part of all the distributions eg. Mandrake Cooker, Debian Unstable, Redhat Rawhide... Fedora is supposed to be up to date but that won't happen for a while yet until they get themselves sorted out.

Depends what the system is for, if there's numeric computation which involves Fortran on your list then I'd suggest Xeon's. Are you thinking AMD32 or AMD64??

Have you tried find / -name stdio.h Which will verify if you have the headers? It's probably a sensible step to take.

Whenever I used linuxconf it didn't fit within my desktop so you couldn't actually click to continue or to close it down so I just had to explicitly kill it - pee'd me off a little!!

It's a DOS emulator where wine is (or isn't depending on your point of view) a windows emulator. If only ever heard of people using dosbox for games however and a quick scan of their site seems to be games orientated.

It's always run fine on my redhat and fedora boxes... :P Anyway, thanks for the tip DOlson, I'll try it as soon as I get some spare time!!

Hardware databases are next to useless - I have my suspicions that they're solely for the support guys to say "sorry, thats unsupported". As other people have mentioned, find the chipset and RTFM kernel docs to see if it's supported.

Wow, can he now crack the itunes site so they'll actually sell me some music in the first place....

SoulSe: A bit off-topic but have you tried scummVM for playing monkey island 1 & 2, it rocks. Also works with a heap of other lucasarts games (when they were still good).

You could try using xvidtune - but be carefull. If you break anything you own the pieces :P

You're not running Fedora core 1 by any chance are you? Anyway it sounds like you're GL setup is incorrect.

Can you not reach any of the other consoles when the screen blanks?

I'm using Gnome (2.4) with bluecurve and it's nice!!! I'm not a fan of nautilus but then I hate using file managers, if I have to use anything it's mc. I used to be a big fan of fluxbox but then I found my excessive tinkering habit meant I was getting less work done because I kept trying to make it look better or work that bit better.

stdio.h is a standard c library and should be provided by glibc. On my system (fedora core 1) the rpm which provides it is glibc-headers-2.3.2-101. If you have stdio.h on your machine and your compile is linked to it then check the required versions of glibc and gcc for the package - your problem may lie in some form of incompatibility. Hope this helps,

The bombs as in good. But then IBM do make just about the best laptops out there (up there with apple only better compatibility), so it's really no surprise.

Oh joy, another 6 releases or so and it should become useable.... :P

Would this not be better as some form of loop?? eg #!/bin/bash for OLDNAME in ./.* do NEWNAME=`echo OLDNAME | cut -d. -f3` mv $OLDNAME $NEWNAME done exit 0 Or possibly using tr as opposed to cut..... BTW hidden files are usually that for a reason! This script is untested, if you use it and it breaks something - YOU own the pieces.

Is it not better to just start the cron script in it's own shell, just like you were writing a bash script? #!/bin/bash rest of script ??

You've found one of the problems with urpmi, it's thinks its's installed the package you were downloading but killed. Obviously this package is in some broken state and likewise so is the urpmi database. I know how to repair rpm databases but I'm not sure how urpmi ones differ - hopefully someone else will know.

I think I've found linking into /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins works for me [tm]

I think an /good/ iptables HOWTO would surfice, everything else is built on top of it (well, almost everything...)

I'm pretty sure there are the components available in Japan to build your own laptop but AFAIK they haven't reached the rest of the world yet!! It sounds like you want a swanky laptop but can't afford one, saving or a loan are really the best options.

If they're only zip files you can just use the command unzip, surely?

Look in /etc/group ??? Not entirely sure what you're asking any more....