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Hello everybody. For academic reasons I have to get a statistics program callded SPSS. It's propietary software and I don't want to get a trial version. So I found PSPP a GNU alternative that doies exactly what I need. I got the mandriva RPM from the Internet and everything went well, the problem is that I get an error when trying to run its GUI: ** (psppire:12499): CRITICAL **: Gtk+ version too old (micro mismatch) psppire: symbol lookup error: psppire: undefined symbol: g_malloc0_n How come my GTK+ version is too old? It's Mandriva 2010.0! Any Ideas? Has anyone managed to install a fully working PSPP (via RPM or compiling, don't care)?I also accept other alternative programs you can recommend me. Thank you

I managed to delete only the menu. You see, the menu per se is in $HOME/.config/menus/, but there are some .destop files in$HOME/.local/share/applications/ This is also why some entries in the menu end up appearing twice in the menu when you write their name in the serach box. Thank you all for your suggestions. Now, who knows how to restore the Wine menu? It's the only part of the menu that I haven't been able to restore. I'm not talking about the menu but about the list of programs that appears once you start installing programs via wine.

Hello everybody. I really need help today: I messed up KDE4 menu on Mandriva 2010, there were too amny duplicate entries, so I used the restore option in kmenuedit. However I ran into 2 problems: 1-If I open Kmenuedit, I can still see older submenus I created. 2 -The entire list of programs installed with wine went away I deleted the $HOME/.config/menu folder and it didn't work. There is nothing in that folder now, yet older entries keep showing up. My guess is that, somehow, KDE is obtaining that data from somewhere else. I had a backup of the menus folder before messing it upo, but restoring it has no effect as it only restores the subfolders, but not their icons (???) Can you tell me how to completely wipe out the menu data and make it go back to its default? Thank you.

Hello, I have Mandriva 2010 and I've been thinking on trying that Nepomuk thing. The fact that you can search documents by content is relevant to my interests. However, I ran into many problems while trying to enable it. Can you give me a hand with this. I managed to have Nepomuk start (I go to the KDE control center and can freely click on the box to enable Nepomuk). I can also see the add tag or somehting like that in the information panel in dolphin. So I believe Nepomuk is working. However it does nothing and the second box, the one to enable Strigi always gives me the 'Strigi failed to initialize. This could be a problem with the installation' error. I read somewhere that I need to install openjdk and change the locale to EN-US, but that is not an option here, and I hate openjdk because it gets on top of the real JDK I have, and its functionality is not suitable to my needs. Any help would be appreciated. A little update = > I discovered the problem: I must install the opensesame package, the problem is that it needs Java and rpmdrake forces me to install one of several choices but I DON'T want to. I already have a manually installed official Java version and the whole system works with that. Is there a way of installing the plugin without modifying this? UPDATE: I SOLVED IT MYSELF: I needed the opensesame fronted. So here is my little guide for enabling Nepomuk and Strigi on Mandriva 2010 * Make sure that Nepomuk and Strigi are installed. * Make sure that OpenJDK is installed. If you hate it like me you'll need to replace the entries for java and co. under /usr/bin. These will be the commands that come up when you type java in a terminal, so you will want to make a symlink for YOUR java programs (the official java distribution). That way the real java will come up everytime you type 'java'. * Make sure that soprano-plugin-sesame2 is installed * Some say that you must create a symlink for the libjvm.so located at /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0/jre/lib/i386/server, but I didn't need to it. OK that is how I solved it. I had everything installed save for the annoying openjdk and opensesame. Hope it helps somebody

With that kind of machine you can browse the internet, watch videos, play simple games (the ones that are not too demanding on resources), write texts (try using older versions of Microsoft office or just openoffice, or google docs). I think that flashplayer and KDE would require a lot of resources, so try not to do too many things at once.

Glad to know. Now, is there any downside? and should I Remove the entries for Java in the bash profile for each user since they can now run it without using bashprofle?

If things get too hopeless you can try the version at mozilla's website. I'm not a fan of the default firefox/thunderbird programs that come with Mandriva and OpenSuSe, there is always somethig that goes wrong.

Hello. This is a quick question: I'm tired of having to modify bashprofile files for every single user to be able to run programs from commandline without having to type the entire path. So I discovered that by placing a symbolic link in /usr/local/bin, all users (including root) can run the program easily. Is this evil? Am I breaking the system? Thanks [moved from Software by spinynorman]

Thanks Ian, worked like a charm :). But, do you have any idea of what is modifying the file?

OK, I'll try, but how do I unlock it, just in case I want to change something later?

Hello. I have been trying the suspend features and this is really helpful for my job, but I ran into a problem: After suspending to RAM or Disk, the machine wakes up on its own. * It doesn't happen always. * I have tried unplugging all USB devices. * I have turned off the 'wake on LAN' feature in the BIOS. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

I solved the problem doing the following: * I deleted both entries in fstab * Then I deleted the folder in the filesystem * I then re-created everything using MCC. * Everythong goes well now. Thank you for your support.

Umm, but I have ext4...

OK, I have more information now: no umask parameter works for me, only deleting umask works, but it comes back after reboot.

umask=0 keeps giving me the error "unable to change permissions for -----". I find that removing umask solves the problem, but it appears again later.

Here is my fstab now: # Entry for /dev/sda5 : UUID=a49824a9-3fcb-418d-887e-c106745480ca / ext4 relatime 1 1 /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom auto umask=0,users,iocharset=utf8,noauto,ro,exec 0 0 # Entry for /dev/sda6 : UUID=877148664FEFB610 /mnt/datos ntfs-3g defaults 0 0 # Entry for /dev/sda2 : UUID=F2EAD096EAD05905 /mnt/windows ntfs-3g defaults 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 # Entry for /dev/sda7 : UUID=db6f70f7-9131-464d-ad54-d982690ce008 swap swap defaults 0 0

Hello, after addressing the problem descibed in this post: https://mandrivausers...-to-ntfssolved/ I got a weird beavior: 1 - I have 2 NTFS partitions mounted in /mnt/windows and /mnt/data. 2 - When I umount both partitions, everything goes well. 3 - If I use mount /mnt/data as root the partition is successfully mounted. 4 - If I use mount /mnt/windows I get this error "mount: couldn't find /mnt/windows in fstab or mtab" 5 - If I use mount /dev/sda2 instead of mount /mnt/windows, the partition is successfully mounted. 6 - Both entries appear in fstab. The problem seems to be the name. If I tell mount to mount the folder /mnt/windows, it doesn't work, but if I call it /dev/sda2 it works. Also, the entries in fstab are identical for both partitions. What could the problem be? [moved from Software by spinynorman]

Oh, I see. OK, then I suppose there is nothing to worry about. Thanks again.

Hi, I have run into a problem: I see I can umount and mount NTFS partitions from commandline. There is one partition that can be umounted and mounted from dolphin (the Win7 100MB partition), however this partition is nowhere to be seen in fstab or mtab. The other two NTFS partitions are both in fstab and mtab, but can't be umounted from dolphin neither by root nor by other users. The error raised by Dolphin is this: org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.NotMountedByHal: Device to unmount is not in /media/.hal-mtab so it is not mounted by HAL. The file mentioned in the error is empty. Here is my fstab: # Entry for /dev/sda5 : UUID=a49824a9-3fcb-418d-887e-c106745480ca / ext4 relatime 1 1 /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom auto umask=0,users,iocharset=utf8,noauto,ro,exec 0 0 # Entry for /dev/sda6 : UUID=877148664FEFB610 /mnt/data ntfs-3g locale=es_CO.UTF-8 0 0 # Entry for /dev/sda2 : UUID=F2EAD096EAD05905 /mnt/windows/ ntfs-3g locale=es_CO.UTF-8 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 # Entry for /dev/sda7 : UUID=db6f70f7-9131-464d-ad54-d982690ce008 swap swap defaults 0 0 Is this a bug?

Got it!! The problem seems to be the absence of a locale parameter. Before: UUID=F2EAD096EAD05905 /mnt/windows/ ntfs-3g defaults,umask=000 0 0 After: UUID=F2EAD096EAD05905 /mnt/windows/ ntfs-3g locale=es_CO.UTF-8 0 0 In my case, it's the locale for Spanish. All is well now. Thank you Ian :) Oh wait. The problem continues: I was wrong, the problem is umask, not locale. If umask is present, the error comes back. Now, the problem is that if I remove it, umask somehow reappears. I'm not sure what creates it, but there is something restoring the option umask=000. Dou you know what could be recreating this parameter?

Hi, I'm getting a really annoying warning in Dolphin when I copy anything to a NTFS partition mounted in /mnt/windows. The files are copied and everything is right, but if I copy a folder containing 300 files I'll have to click on accept 300 times! The warning says "Could not change permissions for FILENAME". * I tried the silent option in fstab but it didn't work. * This is the fstab entry: # Entry for /dev/sda6 : UUID=877148664FEFB610 /mnt/windows ntfs-3g defaults,umask=000 0 0 Any ideas? I formatted that partition once and had to configure it from MCC again as it was failing to mount it. Now it mounts and everything is right except for that... Oh, I forgot to say that this does not happen if I'm root. Any ideas?

Thank you guys for all your help. That's exaclty what I needed. Thanks

I see. What is the difference between locate and find?

Hello, I have run into a problem here: I got this Win32:parite virus which infects executable files. It has infected my Linux installation via Wine (didn't know a virus could spread via Wine). All of the .exe files I have are infected. Now, I know that this virus will never be able to infect any Linux executable, but the problem is that this is a server here, and it's going to infect other machines running Windows via SAMBA. So I'd like to remove all the executables and replace them with new uninfected files. I found the file that briught the virus in, but it has spread all over, so I need to delete all .exe files first. Is there a search program which is as effective as Windows' tools? I don't care if it is a command, I just need a reliable way of locating any *.exe files. I have located most of them, but I need to make sure there are no more exe's in my Linux. Thanks in advance, I know this is quite simple. [moved from Software by spinynorman]

What if I must have a WinXP virtual machine running along with KDE 4.5 and several Java Applications (Eclipse, netbeans, etc.) running alongside it in the Host? Oh, and that virtual machine is running Adobe Dreamweaver and Flash?