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Yep, the command look OK.

BTW the guys who designed easyurpmi are actually Mandriva developers/contributors so they know their ropes ; )

No I don't think the command you used was wrong, it's correct. I replied in your other post (it's easier if you keep to one post, makes it easier for us to keep track of the problem ; ) )

My mistake I should have told you to click the two un-recommended, once you do this you'll be able to choose what repos you want.

What's the output of this in terminal:

cat /etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg

Go to easyurpmi.zarb.org and follow the steps there, choose only the backport repo you want.

Try installing a newer nvidia driver from the non-free/backports repos: http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Updating_propr..._from_backports

Everything seems to be in order.

Try clearing the cache, as root in terminal:

su
rm -fv /var/cache/urpmi/partial/libpcks11-helper* /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/libpcks11-helper*

then try again. If it still complains about the key, choose yes to continue, the key the package is signed with is the right one.

What's the output of this in terminal:

df
ll /var/ftp

ll is two small L.

What's the output of this in terminal:

cat /etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg

Autologin you mean? well try logging out and select kde from the session type menu.

You have to reconfigure for a wired connection? this is odd, but then as I said, I am not familiar with network connections configurations.

There's a networking section at http://forum.mandriva.com/viewforum.php?f=171 try posting there.

Printer: http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/2009.0_Errata#...in_One_editions

I cannot type in single quotes (apostrophes) or double quotes.

Reconfigure your keyboard choosing the correct layout in the mcc>hardware>keyboard layout.

The blue screen with the text only panel is probably icewm not KDE or Gnome, so you need to log out and select KDE4 or Gnome, whichever you installed, from the session type menu in the login screen.

I don't have much experience with connections configuration but it'd help any of the guys here to help you if you post more details about the connection. Is it wireless or wired? what driver are you using, ndiswrapper or the native driver?

Remove the backport repo all together then add only this backport repo using, as has been said, easyurpmi.zarb.org .

The mandriva-release package provides a lot of the branding to the version you have installed.

I am not talking about mandriva-release-flavour, I am talking about flavour-kde4-config.

As you said mandriva-release-flavour, is about branding:

‎/etc/product.id

‎/etc/product.id.Free

/etc/rpm/macros.d/Free.macros

I can't see why the config files should need to be different... but you're right

Not config files, I think they are identical. The difference is color schemes, I think.

Maybe, I dunno. But Mandriva doesn't package dolphin for kde3.

The shortcut on the desktop is for dolphin but you can create a new one for Konqueror. To load the kde3 version of konqueror make the Command /opt/kde3/bin/konqueror . So create a shortcut to application and point it at

/opt/kde3/bin/konqueror

There's no dolphin in kde3, IIRC.

I beg to differ, kde 4.2 is already working fine here.

auror4: You need to set up the online repositories: http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Docs/Basic_tas...tions_available

When compiling from source you need the -devel packages of whatever it asks you to install for the programme you are trying to install from source. http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Docs/Basic_tas...rom_source_code

well, thanks nedo. I'll try to install Ubuntu since it recognize network card and video card.

A shame!! just kidding, it's usually advisable (especially when first starting with Linux) to use whatever distro that happens to recognize all your hardware.

I am afraid you'll have to connect to the internet somehow, using a wired connection to set up the wireless (how ironic is this!!). So connect using a wire and set up the online repositories: http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Docs/Basic_tas...tions_available You

Then will need to reconfigure your connection in the Mandriva control centre> network & internet>set up a new network interface. It'll install the necessary packages then choose "use the windows driver ndiswrapper". Next point it to the windows driver of your wireless card, you need the windows driver that's on the CD or the web site of your card manufacturer, a folder containing the .inf (and .sys file or something).

What edition did you use to install? the One live CD or the Free DVD?

Try reconfiguring your card, press Alt+Ctrl+F1 and log in as root. Then load:

drakx11

and reconfigure your card. Get back to the console and:

service -f dm

Why? There's no problem compiling as root.....

Yep, AFAIKT, running ./configure as root is no big deal. It'll just mean the files it creates in the source folder will be owned by root.

Right. Thanks, Jim. I forgot about this one, I don't use dolphin much.

Exactly, if they had K3B, then they had kdelibs3 and QT3

No, not really. K3b is a small app but the mighty koffice is really big. It would have meant a lot of work that would only benefit the users for a rather short time since koffice 2 was nearing its release. You have to think about it from a limited man-power point of view.

There're workarounds but no storage media, no, not like the one that was in kde3.

For removable devices, add the Device Notifier widget to the desktop or the panel, now when you plug a usb device is should show there.

As for non-removable HD, add a Folder View widget to the desktop and point it at /media or /mnt or where ever you mount your HD's.