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  1. mdk kdm [solved]

    in Software

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    I must have been really wasted..

    Anyways.. it appears that what I wanted was really KDM not mdk-kdm

    now installed and good: kdebase-kdm; kdebase-kdm-config

    all the rest is uninstalled.

    Sorry for the troubles!

  2. kweather

    in Art And Design

    Posted

    Hello!

     

    Is there a way to change kweather font colour?

    I'd prefer without recompiling from source.

    Those black letters are almost impossible to read on my layout..

     

    [moved from Software by spinynorman]

  3. mdk kdm [solved]

    in Software

    Posted · Edited by solarian

    I don't need to configure, I just want it pretty (I'm an artist) and be able to log in as either root or user to KDE or Fluxbox.

    If something other is needed I do it without X.

     

    edit: I hope I'm not confusing DMs here...

  4. No sound on Mandrake 10.1

    in Hardware

    Posted · Edited by solarian

    Do you have motherboard integrated AC sound? That has to be muted.

    Many moons ago I had such a problem with 10.0CE, it tried to run both my sound cards (integrated and SB) simultaneously.

    Oh, and type 'kmix' and see if you really haven't left anything out.

  6. mdk kdm [solved]

    in Software

    Posted · Edited by solarian

    [deleted writings caused by nervous tension, stress and alchocol]

     

    I had reinstalled KDE332 and somehow had installed MDK-KDM atop of kde-kdm

    and then confused the two and then... I don't want to continue. :wall::joker:

  8. Thac and Zé's KDE 3.4 rpms

    in Mandriva Enhanced RPMs

    Posted · Edited by solarian

    Hi!

    I ran in a dependency hell begining from libarts-devel

    and I get asked for some weird (devel)libvobrisfile

     

    anybody else got this?

    when I try to urpmi --force libarts-devel

    It still requests libmas1-devel

    and that requires libpangox etc.....

    How can I really foce it to install arts-devel?

     

    edit: Mandrake 10.2 rc2

    (a bit outdated sig)

  11. scheduled downloads [solved]

    in Command Line, Kernel and Programming

    Posted · Edited by solarian

    Hey!

     

    I have a remote server and it on request generates a gzip backup file to download.

    I can download it using 

    wget --http-user=USER --http-passwd=PASS http://URL/sql.gz

    I don't have any problems there, but I want to make the process more automated.

    I need:

    1. Make the download scheduled (say, each day at 12:00am)

    2. Upon downloading the filename is changed, the current date is added (sql-DATE.gz)

    3. The downloading is done to a particular directory on my hdd (obvious)

     

    p.s. I have no knowledge in programming, so don't advice me to write my own program to do this.

    Maybe there is a ready code to do this?

     

    p.s. I know that there is the d4x program, but it has no options for the renaiming of files (not that I know of anyways).

    I need that renaiming, so that if the latest download is broken, it doesn't damage my already downloaded backup file.

    However the program has a line "execute command", maybe you can tell me what would be a syntax for filename.gz -> filename-DATE.gz

     

    p.p.s. using d4x is not really what I'd prefer. It's an X program and it uses valuable resources, besides I wouldn't like my backups to be dependant on an X program, a simple few line script would be much nicer, the problem is that I don't know how to make it.

     

    thanx in advance if someone helps!! :thanks:

     

     

    edit: I found out the filename change! :)

    mv filename.gz filename-`date +%m%d%y_%H%M`.gz

    now.. how to make it scheduled..

  13. new Mandrakelinux release cycle

    in Everything Linux

    Posted · Edited by solarian

    Well, hopefully with Conectiva merged in, the updating will be more apt like, so it will be easier to update a bit outdated MDK. (I haven't used Conectiva though)

     

    p.s. The dependency hell with KDE 3.4 is simply awesome on my configuration... I've given up with KDE3.4 on my MDK and am waiting for 10.2 in hope, that it'll have fewer dependency issues.

     

    edit: updating kernel.. well 'urpmi --update kernel' really isn't that hard. that is of course if no major changes are in place.

  14. Thac and Zé's KDE 3.4 rpms

    in Mandriva Enhanced RPMs

    Posted

    argh!

    I got in a dependency hell with xorg-x11-devel

    kdebase requires it, and when I try to install the xorg-devel I get asked for devel(libexpat), freetype6, etc. I completely screwed up my fonts and had to reinstall mdk twice when trying to completely follow the dependency requests. And it seems that even urpmi --force is not allowing me to install xorg-devel :(

  17. root user

    in Software

    Posted

    I am new to Mandrake from Windows and trying it out. I downloaded a Firefox .tar. I was advised to create a new folder but when I try to do that I get a warning that only the Administrator is allowe dot do that. how do I log on as Administrator please?

     

    It seems you try to create a folder in not your user's dir.

    There are several ways:

    1. You can create a dir under your /home/user (example. /home/user/software/firefox)

    2. Install firefox from urpmi (or run "mcc" then from the package installer)

    3. su root and create a dir anywhere you want.

  24. command line sorcery

    in Everything Linux

    Posted · Edited by solarian

    A question: Do we really want a massive 'average joe' population on Linux?

    Won't they ruin the community and priorities the distros have (security over ease, etc)?

     

    p.s. I enjoy command line very much and I'd like to keep it. Thank You!

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