Greg2

Please follow the instructions listed in section 'Firefox 1.5' on this page: Enabling_software_installs

 

Please let us know if that works for you?

Is there a way to install Mandriva 2009.0 with just KDE 3.5, and no KDE4 components?

You can not do that with the Mandriva One CD versions. But you can with Mandriva Free or the PowerPack CD/DVD versions.

 

When you are installing your system (for the first time) and you get to the package select section, select custom, then select a very minimal system with icewm-light. After you boot your system for the first time, use rpmdrake to install: task-kde3 and kdebase-kdm-3. Now logout and login to KDE3 and install whatever KDE3 apps you want.

What version of Firefox are you using? Did you install it from the Mandriva repos or another source?

I've used glabels with success and it's easy to use. It's in the Mandriva and Debian (probably Ubuntu) repos. You can also purchase the precut paper (here in the US) to fit the templates.

Here:

http://www.petitiononline.com/qws589/petition.html

There's a petition :)

I've signed it. :)

 

Thanks for pointing it out to us.

Your USB drive is attached at sdc (probably sdc1). We need to know what DE you are using, KDE4 or Gnome? If it's KDE4, you can follow ffi's instructions. Please let us know?

If theYinYeti's sed command looks a bit daunting, this should also give us the info we need

dmesg | grep -i usb | tail -n 20; dmesg | grep -i scsi | tail -n 10

Tyme is correct in that you can't do this using Mandriva One. With Mandriva Free or the PowerPack version; When you are installing your system (for the first time) and you get to the package select section, select custom, then select a very minimal system with icewm-light. After you boot your system for the first time, use rpmdrake to install: task-kde3 and kdebase-kdm-3. Here's a complete list of what I know will work for you:

[greg@halfway ~]$ rpm -qa |grep -i kde3
systemsettings-kde3-0.2-4.746525.3mdv2009.0
task-kde3-3.5.10-2mdv2009.0
kde3-kjsembed-3.5.10-1mdv2009.0
kde3-amarok-1.4.10-2mdv2009.0
task-kde3-devel-3.5.10-2mdv2009.0
kde3-amarok-engine-xine-1.4.10-2mdv2009.0
kde3-macros-3.5.10-3mdvg2009.0
kde3-kio-sysinfo-1.8.2-10mdv2009.0
kde3-amarok-scripts-1.4.10-2mdv2009.0
[greg@halfway ~]$ rpm -qa |grep -i kdm
kdmtheme-1.2.2-1mdv2009.0
kdebase-kdm-3.5.10-6mdv2009.0
mandriva-kdm-config-2009.0-8mdv2009.0

Now you can boot into KDE3 and install whatever you want.

 

Edit: kde3-macros-3.5.10-3mdvg2009.0 is one of my backports to develop with. You would have kde3-macros-3.5.10-2mdv2009.0

In defense of the packagers, it's very hard to package for two different KDE versions in one release. If you had installed KDE3 first with your install, you would have

[greg@halfway ~]$ urpmq --requires-recursive task-kde3 | grep -i arts
arts
libarts1
libkparts4
run-parts
[greg@halfway ~]$ urpmq --requires-recursive kdebase-3 | grep -i arts
arts
libarts1
run-parts

but, if you had installed KDE4 first with your install, you would have

[greg@halfway ~]$ urpmq --requires-recursive task-kde4 | grep -i arts
libkparts4
run-parts
[greg@halfway ~]$ urpmq --requires-recursive kdebase4 | grep -i arts
libkparts4
run-parts

do you understand the problems involved with this?

First of all, what version of Mandriva are you using?

 

Insert the USB drive, open a terminal and please post the output of

dmesg | tail -n 20

Welcome aboard! :)

arts is not listed as a dependency for kdemultimedia-noatun.

If you take another look, you will see

[greg@halfway ~]$ urpmq --requires-recursive kdemultimedia-noatun | grep -i kdemultimedia1-arts
libkdemultimedia1-arts

You can also use

urpmq --requires package-name

or if you want the old more complete behavior, use

urpmq --requires-recursive package-name

Now I'm curious as to how you skin a cat :)

skin /path/to/cat

Try the suggestion in this post.

it implied that the RPM install will initiate a download of the actual contents required via my on-line connection..... Is this accurate??

That is accurate. The size of the download would depend on what you already have installed. In other words, you would need these packages to build the rpm:

 

autoconf

automake

cabextract

elfutils

gcc-c++

gettext

libgettextmisc

libstdc++6-devel

libtool-base

m4

rpm-build

rpm-mandriva-setup-build

spec-helper

 

You could install these at your convenience first (many are probably on your install disk), then install the msttcorefonts-bootstrap rpm.

Alternatively, you could do (as root)

urpmi msttcorefonts-bootstrap-0.1-4brs.noarch.rpm

which could be an all-night affair using a 56k dial-up connection. :)

You need the fonts installed. Install this msttcorefonts-bootstrap-0.1-4brs.noarch.rpm.

 

Then you can select Helvetica fonts in Openoffice.

That is a corrupted rpm.

[greg@halfway temp]$ rpm2cpio clisp-2.44.1-1mdv2008.1.i586.rpm | cpio -ivd
./usr/bin/clisp
./usr/lib/clisp
./usr/lib/clisp/base
./usr/lib/clisp/base/lisp.run
cpio: premature end of file

I can't find one anywhere for 2008.1 that isn't corrupted, nor can I find any bug reports about it or any complaints about it.

 

You said you wanted to experiment, so I suppose you'll have to start with compiling it from source. :P

 

sourceforge.net

Frostwire is a java app, there's no binary. You must enter the new directory you've created when you used 'tar -xzvf' to extract the files. You do that with the cd command, it would be something like this: open a terminal and do

[greg@halfway ~]$ ls |grep frostwire
frostwire-4.17.1.noarch/
[greg@halfway ~]$ cd frostwire-4.17.1.noarch
[greg@halfway frostwire-4.17.1.noarch]$ sh runFrostwire.sh

follow the instructions to set up the app.

 

Please note that you will need to have java installed on your system for this to work.

OK, think I've got the first one sorted. Chose the Mandriva-one option and first removal message has gone.

Was your original installation Mandriva One? If so, you've got it sorted. :)

Still unsure about the notification-daemon though. Is it important?

If you intend to use the xfce DE, it is not important, simply select notification-daemon-xfce.

When you use the gui package manager to install task-xfce, and it says “Please choose one of the following packagesâ€, select the package (version of depends) that matches your system.

Is there some reason why you are not using the hplip, hplip-hpijs, and foomatic-db-hpijs packages from the official Mandriva repos? I only ask because they should support your printer without any problems.

Nope, still no sign of it.

I think that you need to update your sources again.

[greg@halfway ~]$ urpmq --sources quanta
http://gulus.usherbrooke.ca/pub/distro/Mandrakelinux/official/2009.0/i586/media/main/
release/quanta-4.1.2-1mdv2009.0.i586.rpm
[greg@halfway ~]$ urpmq --sources kdewebdev
http://gulus.usherbrooke.ca/pub/distro/Mandrakelinux/official/2009.0/i586/media/contrib/
release/kdewebdev-3.5.9-6mdv2009.0.i586.rpm

Bug 45552 has been opened on this.

According to comment #4 in that bug report; bug # 45552

 

Adding clocksource=jiffies as a kernel boot parameter allows it to boot.

Have you tried using the proprietary fglrx driver from the public non-free repo? Please see the release notes: ATI_graphics_cards