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hello, i'm trying to get a program to compile and i've run into the problem of i need to install the rpm XFree86-devel-4.3-5mdk.i585.rpm and its associated rpm's but my distro disc has gone belly up and the install wont run. i tried googling,rpmfind.net and the xfree86 home page but cant find this rpm. anybody know of how i can get a copy? i'm running mdk 9.1. thanx alan

ok added gcc -c++ package but no get this when i run ./configure: checking for X... configure: error: Can't find X includes. Please check your installation and add the correct paths! any ideas what package or where this should be? alan

hello, i'm trying to compile a program off kde.org(k-bandwidth) and when i run the ./configure script i get the following: checking if C++ programs can be compiled... no configure: error: Your Installation isn't able to compile simple C++ programs. Check config.log for details - if you're using a Linux distribution you might miss a package named similiar to libstd++-dev. I then installed the packages libstdc++5-static-devel & libstdc++5-devel but I still get same error when trying to compile k-bandwidth. i'm reletively new to linux and wanted to know if someone had any suggestions on if i have right packages installed or if i need to update a config file to point to a certain directory. i'm running mandrake 9.1. I do see a directory /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-mandrake-linux-gnu/3.2.2/include but is this is in some nonstandard place? thanx alan [moved from Software by spinynorman]

hello, i went to copy a file to my desktop when kde reported unable to do because disk is full. i check in kde control center and sure enough my /home partition on /dev/hda8 shows 100% full in the information section. now i know i was nowhere near full so i startup kdirstat and it shows only 256Mb used on 1Gb /home partition. any suggestions on what has happened and how i can get my space back.i'm running mdk 9.1.... alan [moved from Software by spinynorman]

hello, i'm trying to get samba working on my laptop but cant see the shares i've setup. I get the following when i try to see shares on my laptop: [root@Thinkpad eroica]# smbclient -L Thinkpad added interface ip=192.168.1.101 bcast=192.168.1.255 nmask=255.255.255.0 Connection to Thinkpad failed [root@Thinkpad eroica]# smbd -V Version 2.2.7a-security-rollup-fix my smb.conf file is very basic: # Global Parameters [global] workgroup = carrier netbios name = samba encrypt passwords = yes [homes] read only = no browseable = yes [share1] path = /home/eroica/Documents browseable = yes read only = no [share2] path = /home/eroica/Downloads browseable = yes read only = no comment = If u see this samba is OK i ran testparm and it said setup ok. I'm using this behind a wireless router w/dhcp. i'm running mdk 9.1 any suggestions about why i'm not able to see my own shares appreciated. my ultimate goal is to network w/win98 desktop. but i gotta get this working first. I thought maybe shorewall was culprit but revised rules using AllowSMB and even shutdown shorewall and iptables but still got message above... thanx, alan

yeah that did it. by putting in accepting icmp request in Shorewall i can now ping linux box from my win98 box. but i still cant see either box using shares. do u have any ideas on how to setup Shorewall to pass smb requests. Incidently i had ethereal running and i see browser requests announcing the windows 98 share on the wire. alan

yes i can ping myself on the linux machine. in fact i can ping the windows98 box from the linux machine. its in the other direction trying to ping linux box from windows98 i cant ping. i can ping router from win98 box too. i shut off both zonealarm and shorewall while trying to do this. i will adjust shorewall rules to let in icmp requests and see what happens. i'm not too familiair w/ethereal but i will install as next step in troubleshooting. thanx, alan

hello, I've been trying to setup samba between my mandrake 9.1 laptop and my windows 98 box without success. I've started trouble shooting and the first thing i have to do is be able to ping between the two thru my linksys wireless router. i can ping the windows machine thru the router from the linux laptop no problem. my problem is i cant ping the linux laptop from windows. i can ping the router no problem from the windows box. I thought maybe shorewall was the culprit because i havent adjusted any rules for pinging. But even shutting down the shorewall service hasnt helped. I would appreciate any suggestions to get my two machines talking. I assume because i can ping one way that i dont have a hardware issue but something to do with a setting or setting up linux box to reply to icmp requests. thanx, alan p.s.- I have router connected to my adsl modem and both machines setup for dhcp from the linksys router...

ok thanx... alan

hello, recently i've tried several times to get security updates and after logging into the appropriate mirror get a message saying "void list. either you have all updates or your version is no longer supported" How long are versions supported? i installed 9.1 this time last year. Must you update your Mandrake version every year to get security updates? if so that is pretty lame. I have a Win98 machine that I can still get security updates for. thanx, alan

hello, I have been trying to get url sh cuts i have created on my desktop to start w/firefox pr 1.0 everytime i click on s/c i get error messages u can see in attached screenshots. i have asociated mime type text/html w/firefox in in the kde control center. any suggestions as to why i cant open s/c w/ff. i am running mdk 9.1 w/kde 3.1 alan

so if i was booted to mandrakemove i would start a console and issue the command: mount /dev/hda6 /mnt/my_temp_root_partition and i should then see my / root partition in konqueror? Does the /mnt/temp directory have to exist and can u create it under mandrakemove.... alan

nice! it went off w/o a hitch and i gained 21% on my / partition. If u dont mind a few post mortem questions. how would u know from a console how many partitions u have? I never would have known /dev/hda8 was there from the df -h command. Is there some command that gives u all partitions mounted or not? Also to the original question of when using mandrakemove I dont see any of the partitions on the harddrive. hoiw does one go about making them visible in a mandrakemove session? thanx alan

if u look in previous post time 2:04 you'll see /etc/fstab contents. this change will be on my work computer so i'll not be able to check your reply until tomorrow morning. so until then... alan p.s. - the control center already show's it as formated as extfs3. see the attached snapshot of MCC alan

i'm getting this info from mandrake control center under mount points section. it shows my 2 windows partitions, /(extf3 and hda6) ,swap as hda7, and finally an hda8 journalized ext3 partition where my /home partition I thought would be. It just shows as a blank red block w/no directorty entery I must confess though that after reinstall i never went into MCC to see how mount points were setup. i'd appreciate if u could go thru this w/me.I want to setup a /home partition on hda8 w/all the directories and files that are currently under the /home directory. I guess what is confusing to a windows person is the fact that I have a /home directory but i guess that is under /dev/hda6 right now? i want it on /dev/hda8 and free my /partition.. alan

hello again. well i had 2 do a reinstall of mandrake several weeks ago cause i ran out of space on / and x server wouldnt start and i couldnt fix it. the first time i installed mandrake i didnt do anything special and i had a /home parttion created automatically. i just told it to use available spce from windows partition. i can see all my files in ~/. forgive me but i am new to this so are u saying that my /home directory is on / and that /dev/hda8 is just sitting there as empty space? and if I mount /home to /dev/hda8 i will free up all that space on / ? Here is my fstab file: /dev/hda6 / ext3 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/hdc,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 /dev/hda5 /mnt/win_d vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda7 swap swap defaults 0 0 as i look at it i dont see anything for /dev/hda8! How would i modify this so i would keep changes on bootup? also when i use the mount command it asks if i want to move all files from eroica(my user directory)? is this ok to do ? I really dont want to lose any data... alan

ok thanx i will try this tonight. I assume my partition number is hda6 as the output of a df -h: df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda6 1.5G 1.1G 416M 72% / /dev/hda1 2.0G 1.3G 742M 64% /mnt/win_c /dev/hda5 730M 279M 451M 39% /mnt/win_d alan p.s.- i'd love 2 know why my /home partition isnt showing up in the df command. cause it sure still shows up in konqueror......

hello again, when i start my machine w/mandrakelive 9.2 i was noticing i dont see my / or /home partitions from my harddrive in Konqueror. is there something I have 2 do 2 make them visible. I tried mountiong them using " mount /dev/hda6 /temp_root" but still cant see partitions in konqueror. Can someone please expain howto get partitions visible using Mandrakelive... alan [moved from Software by spinynorman]

yes i am using kde 3.1 and mime type setup as u suggested. link shows up ok on desktop but i am still getting the error message from above and then firefox opens w/blank page.... alan p.s.- here is a snapshot of the redirection when i click on link saved 2 the desktop

ok here's another question. when i make a url s/c on the desktop and then click on it I have firefox setup to open the page. only trouble is i get an error mesage as u can see from attachment. when FF isnt started it goes to the url:file:///home/tratman/.kde/share/apps/kfmexec/tmp/3044.0. never 2 the actual url. i setup the menu by adding an entry that points to ~/firefox/./firefox. and also associated the mime text/html to the same fireox script. if someone could explain if i am setting up these mime type correctly and how to get a url to open w/FF. i would like to know the procedure for creating s/c on the desktop to programs. I've learned by trial and error that if you put a program in the menu u can then drag it to the desktop and retain the programs icon on the desktop even though theyre all scripts. coming fron windows all I had to do was drag exe to desktop and create s/c.... thanx, alan

hello, i've noticed my messages file has grown quite large. is there a setting to limit the size of this file. also any other log file settings that people know of 2 limit their size... thanx, alan p.s.- I assume it is alright to just delete messages and Mandake will rebuild it?

hello, I recently installed java and because my root partition is getting tight i wanted to install it in my home partition. unfortunetly the rpm gave me no choice and installed the jre in /usr/java. I then moved the java directory and all files to /home/Program_Files/java and issued the following command: ln -s /home/Program_Files/java /usr the directory /usr/java shows as pointing to /home/Program_Files/java but none of the subdirectories or files in them show anything about them being symlinks. Have I correctly set this up or are ther now two copies of /java on my computer? Java is working ok in my browser by the way... alan

thanx i'll give it a try. do u have any idea how much i would need 2 free up 2 get x server running again??? alan

hello again, well i really hosed myself this time. i was ignoring the partmon warning about not enough space on / partition and when i went to reboot today the x server wouldnt start and i get kicked into a command prompt. there are all sorts of messages that I really don't understand when I tried startx command from prompt but the first line says that there was an error on line 113 not enough space to open some file. i did a df command and i saw that the / partition is 100% used. yikes. I would assume that this may be the root of why x server wont start? I tried booting w/mandrakemove 9.2 and was successful but I don't see my / partition w/linux on it? Do i have to mount the linux partition? I see the windows partition under /mnt fine. It would be nice if MandrakeMove had the Software Management section in MCC to look at what software packages i could remove but of course no such luck. Can someone tell me is there a command to list the rpm's from command line and also what is the command to remove packages? Also how much space do i have to free up to get x server working again? thanx alan [moved from Software by spinynorman]

ok now i'm really confused. I installed the rpm referenced above on my laptop @ home where i have plenty of room. i used all the defaults but one problem there is no nppdf.so file installed anywhere. acrobat seems to work ok but mozilla does not recognize it obviously because there's no .so file. is the rpm corrupt or is there some other way 2 get nppdf.so and link it 2 mozilla??? alan