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Flash for linux Still alpha

Yeah, I saw the FAQ afterwards. Thanks. Marked the thread Solved - Artificial Intelligence

Hi everybody, I am playing around with livecds and I would like to install mandrake 9.2, 10.0 and 10.1 in order to be able to choose the one I want to use for future livecds, but I have problems booting up the dstributions that are not related to Lilo (e.g. lilo is linked to 10.0 and I have trouble starting 9.2, 10.1.) One workaround that I can see is to install all the kernels I want to use on the main distribution, but I am wondering if here is anoher way to do it. Thanks.

Thanks Darkelve, will try that.

Hi Everybody, I am wondering if there is a way to have konqueror open with the folder tree every time instead of having to hit F9. I did not find anythng in the control center. I am running MDK10.0 with KDE3.2. Thanks.

Check with the "Remove Programs" in the Mandrake Control Panel is libdvdcss is there. If not, do the following: If you have mandrake installed and urpmi setup for using mirrors on the internet, then use that. Otherwise, just download them from: For Mandrake 10.0: http://ftp.club-internet.fr/pub/linux/plf/...rake/10.0/i586/ For Mandrake 9.2: http://ftp.club-internet.fr/pub/linux/plf/mandrake/9.2/i586/ Find them within the page (do not use the devel versions, the normal one is fine) If you want to find another mirror than the one that I have provided go to: PLF Then install them (either double-click on them in konqueror or enter rpm -ivh name-of-the-package.rpm in a console as root [you will need to be in the folder where you saved it]). I hope this will solve your problem. If not, I recommend Mplayer which is pretty good, but you still need libdvdcss installed. You can find the website here. Good luck with that! Also, set your package manager to use mirrors. The following page has a tool to easily do that.

Do you have libdvdread, libdvdcss installed?

Thanks Anna Marked the thread Solved - Artificial Intelligence

Thanks Anna Marked the thread Solved - Artificial Intelligence

Hi everybody, I am in the process of writing a GUI for mklivecd using kaptain, but i do not have a progress status bar, nor do I have the possibility of displaying the output of the command. Can anyone tell me how this can be done? By using kdialog, xdialog? Thanks a lot. [moved from Software by spinynorman]

Hi there, I lost a copious amount of Data due to a crash of my external Harddrive (FAT32 of course) and I particularly lost Anna's set of programs 10tuts.tgz for making a livecd which I have been using to make my Livecd's. The link to them in the How to is dead. Does anyone have them? Thanks.

Hi everybody, I am in the process of putting the finishing touches to my LiveCD (version 0.2) and I need to find perl(fMain) for the live-install function. Can anyone help? Thanks.

Yes, I was thinking of sending it to them, as a sort of thank you for the nice piece of software they wrote. I will send it to them and hopefully, we can work towards continuing the livecd support for Mandrake.

Hi everybody, I would like to release a GUI for mklivecd, a command line utility to create your own livecd from a Mandrake. I am in the process of writing shell scripts (involving the 'dialog' command) for that but idealy I would like to have a GUI interface. I don't know anything about programming apart from my few attempts at shell scripting (see in this forum) but am eager to learn and would like to code this program. It shouldn't be too difficult, but I don't really know how to pass the values from the GUI to the command line and get feedback from the command line. Ideally I would like to have the following: 1. Choice of kernels 2. CHoice of looptype (automatically selected with the kernel) 3. Progress bar (% are fine, don't really need the time to completion) I would prefer to do it with GTK (using Glade for instance) rather than with Qt since I prefer GNOME (since 2.6) to KDE. But a KDE interface would be OK I suppose. I plan to code on interface with Kaptain but I am not sure that it can display the output of the command in the GUI which is my primary concern. If anybody knows how to do that with Kaptain, then I'll go with Kaptain since it seems more approachable for someone of my level. Just so that you have an idea of what i am aiming for, I attach the script I have written for that purpose. It uses the dialog command. MkliveCD_semi_GUI.zip

Hi everybody, I just posted an updated version of a script (in fact three scripts now merged into one) that I wrote to install flash player 7, Real Player 10 and SPDBV 3.7 (a chemistry tool) for my own livecd in the WORKBENCH forum. I thought I'd let you people know since this forum has been of great help to me in the past for making my livecd. The thread is called: You can create a link to it on your desktop (select the 'run in terminal' option and run it like that. It can be used on any computer (at least i think it can :P ) and you can even use it to download the software for your desktop if you don't have them already. The script relies on wget to fetch the files on the internet. Please send me feedback on this thread if any of the url's are wrong, i'll modify them. Next step, a GUI! :D -----Update: September 30th-------- I now have completed both a script for installing Realplayer and flash as said above, but also a script to create a livecd through an interface that is a little bit more intuitive than the command line (although it is strictly speaking command line). Please send feedback on both scripts to help me improve them. Note: the script for creating the livecd should be used as root since mklivecd is a command only available to root. FILES ATTACHED TO THIS THREAD. ChemLiveCD_Devel.zip

Hello everybody, I was pleased to see that so many people read my thread on the installers for RealPlayer and flash. I was so pleased in fact that | decided to do a newer version. I spent my afternoon doing this (considering I have no experience whatsoever in scripting or programing) and I hope it will help some people. The only drawback of this script is that you have to run it with your terminal in full screen, i.e. you cannot see anything else on your screen. The script tells you this when you run it. I hope it's useful. Also, I could not test it since my Winmodem does not work under Linux, so if someone could test it (all programs inside would be nice) and give me feedback (just reply to this post) that would be great. Info: Made on a MDK 10.1RC1 with gnome2.6 and gnome-terminal as the default terminal, script created with gedit. ---------September, 29th---------------- Ok, I fixed the bug that caused the dialog not to display in a normal terminal when called from your desktop manager. The file posted is the modified file. Also, it should work whatever the user since I replaced the /home/chemist argument by the /home/$USER argument, so that files that the script creates can be created whatever the computer. Installers_livecd.zip

Hi everybody, I just compiled a livecd using Mandrake 10.1RC1 with gnome 2.6 and 2.4.22-21.tmb kernel (my external mouse does not work with 2.6.x kernels) but i have no cd-burner on my laptop (yes, it is old, 4years old in fact :D ). I was wondering: is it possible to boot on a compressed (with cloop) iso from lilo since i would like to test the cd before burnig it? Thanks.

Hi everybody, I have a problem with xandros and the network card on my laptop. When the computer starts, it loads the 8139cp module instead of the 8139too module. When I do a modprobe, the module is loaded and everything is fine. The module is mentionned in one of the modules files but when i restart the computer the 8139too module is still not loaded. Any idea? [moved from Hardware by spinynorman]

I downloaded the latest CVS files for the livecd installer and packaged them into a .tar.gz archive. They can be found at the following address: http://members.lycos.co.uk/proteinz/Chemli...20040703.tar.gz I don't know if the problem with disk partitioning has been resolved but if not, just partition your drive with parted (commandline) or qtparted (graphical) and install the livecd afterwards. Enjoy!

Hi Everybody, I modified the scripts and they now actually remove the files :P and i added a link to the license page of each piece of software. A mozilla window will open with the license of the software after the installation process is complete. They can be found at the following address: http://members.lycos.co.uk/proteinz/Chemli...lers-livecd.tar Enjoy!

As promised, here is a collection of three scripts to play with. I included a readme fiile to guide you a little through them, i hope they will be useful. They can be found at the following address: http://members.lycos.co.uk/proteinz/Chemli...lers-livecd.tar Feedback welcome, just reply to this post. NOTE: These scripts can be used by anyone, not just people who are interested in liveCDs, to install the stated software. Note that you will need wget installed on your system, which should be installed by default.

I solved the problem by forgetting about rpm. I used the binary installer for real player and checked the license for openmotif (which was needed for one of the programs i wanted to install) and installed it via rpm directly in the system. I think that for anyone that is interested in doing such scripts, it is good to keep in mind that rpm will not work since the filesystem is write only for the CD. I will package the scripts with a readme and post them here.

Ok, i have somewhat progressed, I added my default user as a sudoer instead of the group. Now here is the error i get: I am doing this experiment on the cd, I will try on the desktop. I thought, maybe change the permissions on the folder so that it is always writable. Another solution could be to just use sources instead of rpm. Any ideas?

I finally have a working livecd (MDK10 Official, xfc4.0.3-2, kernel 2.4.25). I have written three scripts (Install-flash-7, Install-RealPlayer-10 and Install-Swiss-PDB-Viewer-3.7) so that the CD provides support for the major commercial programs and also one of particular interest to me. The flash install script works great since it does not include sudo. Note that all three scripts worked on the desktop i use for development of the cd. The last two scripts make use of sudo in the following way: I get the following message when running the two scripts: I will release the scripts on this forum as soon as I worked out this bug. Any help in solving it would be welcome. Cheers. PS: I am writing this from the CD :P [moved from Software by spinynorman]

Found it! Just go to /etc/X11/xfce4 and edit menu2.xml and menu.xml. Editing the menus is really easy. To test your menus, save both files new.# Happy editing! :D