Cannonfodder

To delete rpm's

rpm -qa | grep keyword

where keyword can be sane, xsane, plustex

Use this to get the name of the package.

Then you can

urpme nameofpackage

To get rid of the make install stuff. Either make uninstall works or if it does not, you can do this

1. Install checkinstall

urpmi checkinstall

2. Reinstall sane packages with ./configure make and on the last step use

checkinstall make install

Answer the questions use the defaults, and select r for rpm. In the comment step, you are actually providing a package name for the rpm so type in something informative like MYSane, MYXSane so on..

When done reinstalling everything, you can then use the rpm -qa | grep to get the package names such as MySane and then use urpme to uninstall them.

Then you can use locate -u to update your locate database (as su) and then look for sane files.

locate sane or locate xsane. This last step will catch anything that is still there..

Since this is an announcement, I've updated the title to make it a bit more formal.. 8)

Pepse, part of the problem with your replies are that you are being vague about what you are looking for.

When you download a tar.gz file and uncompress it, you usually ./configure && make && make install it.

Now are you talking about uninstalling the files installed by the "make install"? Or are you talking about simply removing your tar.gz file? What?

If its uninstalling then you should go to the uncompressed tar.gz folder and try

make uninstall

You can read the README and INSTALL document for info.

The correct way to install all of this is to

1. Uncompress the sane folder.

2. Uncompress the Plustek files into the sane folder.

3. Do the compile.

Additionally, you can check out checkinstall. It's a package that will do the last step for you and convert the entire install into an RPM.

E.g.

./configure

make

checkinstall make install

answer the questions and when done, you not only have an rpm package but its installed with rpm. So when you want to uninstall, you can use rpm or urpme to uninstall.

A good question to start with is your security settings. Do you have them on the highest setting?

Another idea is to put the file in /etc/profile.d

Make sure its chmod 755 and it should load everytime.. No need to call it from anywhere as anything in profile.d is automatically executed each time you open a term..

Look for computer shows in your area where they sell computers. You can transfer pieces from your old box to the new and save cash. E.g. My bud got a snazzy box/motherboard with 2.4 ghzt, and a video board for 360 bucks.

He installed the motherboard himself, transfered hard drive, cd drives, dvd and keyboard/mouse and was up and running..

That makes sense, it has to print the output to stout so it can be used later.. Still looking at your script.. I'll post an update when I'm done :)

Thanks for the help!

Aru,

In this line..

myTree='find "$cwd" -type d -name "$thumbDirName" -exec rm -fr {} ; -or -type d -print 2>/dev/null'

What does the -or -type d -print 2>/dev/null' do?

I am guessing if it can't find a thumbs directory it just redirects the not found message to null?

If I use this instead..

find "$cwd" -type d -name "$thumbDirName" -exec rm -fr {} ;

It will remove the directory but then complains it can't find it? Why is that?

There's a trick for having xsane be accessed directly from gimp..

You need to set up a symbolic link for your ~/gimp1.2/plug-in folder to the xsane plugin.

Do some google searching to find it. I've lost the correct setup for the moment..

That's not screwy.. :)

hda1-4 = primary partitions

hda5-? = logical partitions (exists in an extended primary)

You apparently have

hda1 - primary

hda2 - extended

hda5-9 - logical

It's a good setup..

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If you have the space, I would install Mandrake separately in its own partitions, duel-boot the 2 distros for a while and copy your important stuff over or "learn" to share it. But I wouldn't just install it over because what you gonna do if it doesn't start or it does accidently erase something?

Here's a faq on dual-booting..

http://www.mandrakeusers.org/viewtopic.php?p=36825

Steve, regarding how to run 2 separate linux distros, here's a faq I wrote on the issue..

http://www.mandrakeusers.org/viewtopic.php?p=36825

I guess I'm a little confused as to what your /mount issue is.. When you install 8.1 on your second drive, I don't see how it has anything to do with your 9.1 on your first drive.

If your partition table is goofy to start with, it may explain your problems. Can you clear the drive and start over? That's something you really should do anyways. Are you using the custom partitioning feature during install of 8.1? At the begining of install, you would select the expert mode. You should be able to specifically select a partition and assign it as a mount point. hdb6 is mounted at /.

Since your 9.1 is experiemental and you are trying to figure things out, I would simply have a separate /home and separate everything for now. The only thing I would share would be the swap.

As a last resort, you can disconnect your first drive, install 8.1, reconnect your first drive. You may have to reset your bios to defaults after the reconnect to get things back to normal. Then you can manually edit your 8.1 fstab file to set everything to hdb rather than hda.

PS Snuggle up with your honey and watch a movie. Gotta keep the balance in life :)

There you go :) Good catch. So your security setting was on high?

I was really wondering about this because usually tcp/ip is tcp/ip.. It shouldn't require anything special..

If your bios is working fine, then your only problem with lilo may insuring your setup files are correct.. Do some searching on lilo and on fstab and view both files. I know its new but anyone messing with linux needs to know how these files work.

/etc/fstab

File containing a list of all partitions to mount.

/etc/lilo.conf

File containing an entry fo reach OS. Has pointers to partitions.

They are both text readable (no goofy characters)

Also, when you look at these files, yoiu will see references to hda or hda1 hda2 so on. Or hdb hdb1 hdb2. Each hard drive has a letter (kinda like C:). So if you have 3 partitions on your first hard drive, then you might have

hda1

hda2

hda3

So you need to boot to rescue and then type cfdisk /dev/hda and view the results. This program will list all partitions for that hard drive. Don't modify anything though.

To answer your question though, yes you can just reinstall and it may or may not work.. If you do reinstall, you must reformat any partition where you installed linux before (its a good idea).

Check out samba for linking to your windows boxes.. Also, if you set your security setting to HIGH, then its too high and might explain some of your connection issues.

Some things to check first..

1. Your bios. On startup does your bios list all hard drives correctly and in the order you expect? Hit the escape key if an image is covering the screen. Or turn it off in the bios. This step is important because if it is not working correctly, nothing else you do will work.

2. Your bios has a set to default option. You might want to try selecting this and then reboot and then setup any changes you require. Repeat step 1 after this step.

3. If you can see your hard drive, then boot off of CD1, hit F1, type rescue, go to console (don't mount first). Now try to manually mount partitions from your drive to /mnt. Can you do this? Make sure you can actually get to the hda1 /.

4. Mount your / partition and go to /mnt/etc and view your lilo.conf file. Is it correct? Is all the info in it pointing to actual files? Type lilo if you make any changes. This installs lilo.

You can get a floppy from www.bootdisk.com

Any media you provide for your computer will have some kind of file system. By file system, I mean organization that follows rules, like a library filing system. The same is true for a hard drive, floppy diskette, or a CD. Most CD's follow the ISO9660 standard.

My point to you is that the media is separate from the viewing process. In your case, linux will easily mount the CD and make it available for software to look at it.

To answer your question, since it is HTML text files, a browser will be able to read it. That is the primary purpose of a browser.. It can display HTML files obtained over the web or from your computer. With opera, you will have to do a File/Open and go to /mnt/cdrom/whateverfile.html and you should be able to take it from there.

Try googlling

linux prompt

Eventually you will have to figure where gentoo is setting this prompt up and modify it or modify your /etc/profile to modify your prompt after the fact..

E.g.

PS1='u w $'

Do a set | more and look for PS1..

Also, you can go

du -s somefolder or du -s *

To get the size of the folder and contents..

This is my current setup..

Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on

/dev/hdc7             600M  373M  228M  63% /

/dev/hdc8             4.0G  3.3G  691M  83% /usr

/dev/hdc9            1000M  355M  645M  36% /home

/dev/hdc10            4.9G  3.1G  1.9G  62% /share

/dev/hda5             9.8G  5.6G  4.3G  57% /mnt/software

/dev/hda6             5.5G  4.3G  1.2G  79% /mnt/media

/dev/hdc5             8.7G  7.3G  1.4G  85% /mnt/wintemp

/dev/hdc6             9.8G  8.5G  1.4G  87% /mnt/winrip

/dev/hdc11            3.4G  1.2G  2.2G  36% /mnt/win2k

Note on the / partition. When I did large numbers of rpm updates, I ran out of space. I ended up adding a symbolic link to a folder in /share to add more space for that purpose..

It's based on your needs. Are you running a web server with a lot of hits? If so, you should allocate space for your /var. If you are not, maybe a /var partition is a waste. I run a home computer with

/

/usr

/home

and have no problems..

You might also want to start them all off small and if you need to you can resize or attach new partitions as you need them..

Another thing you can do is check your existing partition sizes

use the du -s command for getting a size of a folder and its subcontents.

cmatrix is pretty neat :)

It's xscreensaver-gl

So, if you are using kde and texstar as a source, you can

urpmi kdeartwork

If you are using gnome

urpmi xscreensaver

urpmi xscreensaver-gl