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i got the latest nvidia driver.... another issue se my other topic (jees im putting yall to work)

2.6.3-4mdkenterprise i have this kernel.... why is the update trying to install the 2.63-9 Kernel-source file? should i update my kernel? or is there even an update? [root@localhost david]# urpmi kernel One of the following packages is needed: 1- kernel-2.6.3.4mdk-1-1mdk.i586 2- kernel-enterprise-2.6.3.4mdk-1-1mdk.i586 What is your choice? (1-2) what is the difference between the two if i wanted to update or do i need to? or is there a kernel-2.6.3.9mdk? PS i got that splash screen to work, so nm about that....

im using the Mandrake update, and the text based urpmi commands.....

there is another thing (im just spouting off questions lol) it is with a splash screen that i downloaded here: http://kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=7673 i did every thing that that person posted in order to set it up, i can go to the KDE config center and actually test and see the thing work, but after i selected it, pressed apply, loged off and loged back on, the old default splashed and the new one didnt....

no i put all of my cd's on one of my 80gb harddrive 32GB fat32 part, and installed linux off of the harddrive, so i never have to put cd's in..... yes i do have broadband though ya i have 2 80GB raid 0 with xp, an 80GB harddrive with a 32GBFat 32 partition on it so i can swap things back and forth from xp to linux; iinux is installed on the rest of the 48GB on that drive, then i have a 250GB backup drive with a 32GB Fat32 part for linux backup again and the rest of that drive is ntfs..... i have a pretty good setup

wha is a main source? and my mozilla keeps shutting off randomly???? just started to happen is there a way to update it or save my bookmarks, rip it out, and reinstall it.....

i see, well i typed in that code it said to, and it is "examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.update_source.cz]" so im not exactly sure what is going on but..... well i dont know what this stuff is about perl lang..... i have, and didi install these files before from the same mirror before i messed up kde by forceing an uninstall of part of the core fliles.....( )( all i was trying to do was install xine and it said that there were already some files installed that conflicted.....and i uninstalled all of those installed xine and then i had ICEWM to deal with).........but i did at one point before the "happening" installed those files, at least i think i did

what is a contrib source? what is a source in the firstplace, are they the update files or is it the place that i am uploading from? what is my source? I HATE being a noob.......

did i mention that im kinda a noob, ill need further explanation im still in transition from XP i dont know all of the linux lingo yet..... heres another error: [root@localhost david]# urpmi nautilus-2.4.2-5mdk installing /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/nautilus-2.4.2-5mdk.i586.rpm error: /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/nautilus-2.4.2-5mdk.i586.rpm: MD5 digest: BAD Expected(aec77e411ec8c7015167c3a3571b6e71) != (ff2e591e84cf707fa5f4f5bf9f1b8049) unable to install package /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/nautilus-2.4.2-5mdk.i586.rpm [root@localhost david]#

[root@localhost david]# urpmi --auto-select Some package requested cannot be installed: drakconf-10-13mdk.i586 (due to unsatisfied perl(lang)) drakfirsttime-1.0-1.100mdk.noarch (due to unsatisfied perl(ugtk2)) drakwizard-2.12-3.100mdk.noarch (due to unsatisfied perl(network::network)) drakxtools-10-34.1mdk.i586 (due to unsatisfied drakxtools-newt[== 10-34.1mdk]) drakxtools-newt-10-34.1mdk.i586 (due to unsatisfied perl(Libconf::Glueconf::NUT::Ups_conf)) harddrake-10-34.1mdk.i586 (due to missing drakxtools-newt-10-34.1mdk.i586) harddrake-ui-10-34.1mdk.i586 (due to unsatisfied drakxtools[== 10-34.1mdk]) rpmdrake-2.1.3-3mdk.i586 (due to missing drakxtools-10-34.1mdk.i586) (Y/n) y this is what i get and i dont know what it means, anyone had this problem

YES YES YES, after installing all of these updates, a new version of kmix is out and my surround works...... i am so happy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

yep everything works now, thanks, NOW if i could just get my surround sound system to work with SB Audigy 2

ya i went and change to use the imperial system instead of the metric, now im having slow startup, and it has crashed a couple of times; the login screen would not come up in the GUI when it was supposed to , but the mouse still worked and i could do ctrl alt F1 and work in the text system, i left it crashed like that overnight and when i woke up it was in KDE so now i am updating everything...... hopefully that will fix it, there are a ton of updated that are supposed to fix a bunch of bugs for KDEBASE and other things, but right now i have not turned off my computer to see if any thing bad has happened by me updating things, hopefully not though.

one more question before i leave what were those commands u gave me "urpmi" and such, i used those and it seemed as though i could install and uninstall things w/o dependency issues they were great

wo0o0oa now that i look everything is in the metric system, did i forget to install some package???? off to the dentist be back

im in KDE now, THANK YOU but now how do i change the kweather into degrees F instead of degrees C oh to get back into KDE i selected Default at the login screen

ok i got everything fixed, i can now log into gnome, and the login screen looks the some as i did before, but now KDE does not show up in the list of WMs to log into.....

ditto

ok, this is all good stuff thanks (im sure to be up all night doing this)

kdebase-common-3.2.2-7mdk libkdebase4-devel-3.2.2-7mdk kdebase-progs-3.2.2-7mdk [root@localhost root]# o yes i recognise these files, i went to an rpm search and downloaded and installed libkdecorations.so.1 EDIT: yes yes yes all of those files... i recognise all of them, i just wish i knew what i deleted.... ok i was installing XINE player, and there was a conflict with an already installd plugin, and i uninstalled the plug in and it had a ton of things tied to it like KDE artwork package or something like that

that sounds like something to my liking.... do i do that from a regular command prompt? or the recovery cd? i wanted to uninstall it from the gui but last time i did that i ended up erasing rpmdrake and drakeconfig... and that was not good at all, but is there a way to get the nautalis file server runing in ICEWM?

no, in that first pic, that is what happened when i tried to install kdebase...... i then tried uninstalling kdebase-common from my system (it was on my system) then reinstalling it no luck there....

well im not sure what you mean by sources, but i downloaded 3 iso cds from linux iso.org and put them in a fat32 partition of my hardrive and installed from my harddrive, i had everything updated using the mandrake update system, i have tried to update those install those things before, and ill see if i can get a screen shot of what happens but if i remember correctly it said something about "libkdecorations.so.1" or something like that, then after i tried to install those, they disappeared from the add menu, i also remember something similar to the first picture happen..... thank you for responding so quickly!!!!

here is another pic, it is of my remove packages thing, showing what i have installed if that helps

my computer has been up and running fine and i decided to install the xine player when i did, it asked to uninstall a bunch of things, i stupidly pressed ok for all of them then when i restarted my KDE will not load up, i cant even go to the auto login and select KDE because it it not on the menu, but when i go to remove packeage, i see abunch of stuff under kde environment. Please help me, i dont want to have to uninstall and reinstall again...... Those packages that i had to uninstall had to do with KDE multimedia, or something EDIT: now i restarted again after trying to reinstall some things and GNOME is dead, is there a way to GOBACK or use the instalation disk to repair, if not i need to know how to move files to my other harddrive, im in ICEWM now and the nautilis file manager is not loaded or something so i cannot get to a window to cut and paste, i need to know how to move files in text based linux so i can save my files and uninstall and reinstall the wholw thing sob..... sob sob sob........