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Yes, it will prompt you to resize your windows partition to make room for Mandrake during installation. Just make sure you defrag your drive first before installing Mandrake.

Well, what's the worst that can happen? Totally hose kde right?

If I do it succcessfully, i'll be happy to make it available to everyone.

Maybe I should install a test rpm to make sure I got it right.

OK, i've figured this out. I need to google for the spec file for each of the packages, then modify them and build them. Wow, this will be tough, lol. It took me forever to build one rpm!!! Thanks!!!

OK.

In /usr/src/RPM/SPECS/ I have to files:

fluxbox.spec and kmag.mdk.spec

Spec file for kde is obviously kmag.mdk.spec???

If I look inside that file it's empty. Do I then follow the format in the example of a spec file in the How TO and rewrite it?

Thanks guys. I'm up for a challange, but didn't know I would be choosing a hard one!!!

Maybe banging my head will help me think.

Most of the stuff on the power pack you can get from cooker or plf or some other ftp. Adding those ftp sources to urpmi would be about the same as getting the power pack edition.

I've decided I am now ready to convert sources to rpms and what better project then kde sources. I followed the How To Here, but it is not working. I've created my required folders and 2 config files, downloaded kdeaccessibility-3.3.0.tar.bz2 to the SOURCES folder. Did rpmbuild -ta kdeaccessibility-3.3.0.tar.bz2, but I getr this error:

error: Name field must be present in package: (main package)

error: Version field must be present in package: (main package)

error: Release field must be present in package: (main package)

error: Summary field must be present in package: (main package)

error: Group field must be present in package: (main package)

error: License field must be present in package: (main package)

After doing some reading, I think it has something to do with modifying the spec file. My question is, where is the spec file? Do I downloaded it? Do I extract the source and grab it from there? I know I can wait for someone to build the rpms and upgrade kde that way, but I want to get down and dirty.

Thanks for any help you guys can give me

I think that is just the nature of it. I found kde to be much faster after upgrading to 3.2.3. and 3.3 would probably be even faster then that. Also, if you have a lot apps starting up, then will affect it as well.

There should be an option in kde control panel, under screensavers that should let you do it.

I suppose as long as it takes someone to build them. Maybe a couple of weeks.

Try using gphoto. It's really good for interfacing with your camera. Any further issues, post them.

One more thing I would like to refute

n the end, I actually save money by paying Redmond's outrageous prices and putting up with a monopoly

Wrong dude, ask yourself these questions:

-How many pc's running Windows get infected by viruses every year?

-How many millions and billions of dollars do viruses cost businesses every year?

Now ask these same questions about Linux.

**Compare the number of viruses for Windows to Linux**

If memory serves me, there are 3 viruses, but I am not aware of a box running Linux ever getting infected. Can you say that for Windows?

Can you feel confident using Windows without an antivirus?

I don't have to worry about using any antivirus for Linux

t seems to me that a lot of people in here think that software development is about people using what already exists, when really it is about changing what exists into something different in order to meet a need - perceived or real. Questions indicate a need. Confusion indicates a need. Lack of knowledge indicates a need. All of these things can be solved with good requirements, design, development, and quality control to change the way things work to a new way. Nothing is solved by calling people who raise the issues names.

No one's called you any names here, but you wouldn't know that since you are not reading these posts.

I'll assume you won't get anything out of this since you've admitted you are not reading any of these posts. That tells me you really don't want to learn.

You need to install mplayer-gui. From a console, su to root, then type:

urpmi mplayer-gui

Did you check md5sum?

I wish I was able to chose more answers, but worth doing.

tyme: You are the man. Well said

I'll try to bring some new insight as everyone here seems to have the same thoughts, feelings, etc about your short Linux experience. I don't want to repeat what has already been said before.

Clearly you didn't do any research and stating false information. When I upgraded from Win ME to XP, I had to upgrade just about every single major program, as well as some hardware before I can say everything worked in it. After doing all of this, the one thing that never worked was my palm. It seems after I did my research, that the XP upgrade renders some usb devices useless. Doing upgrades instead of clean installs breaks a lot of things. This is not a Linux phenomena.

Don't get me wrong, I love tinkering with it, but there is no way I will deploy this crap in an office full of people. Evolution crashes on startup 33% of the time, you have to understand a command line just to upgrade your browser version, and installing patches and updates is outrageously complicated and requires too much expertise. And as a result, support staff must be paid too much money.

You say not to bash you, but saying that Linux is crap, or Konqueror is a cheap knock off of Explorer, in a Linux forum, what do you call that? You are guilty of the very thing you asked us not to do?

1. Downloading and installing drivers or shareware must be made consistent, simple, and must never depend on compiling or maintaining copies of source code. There should always be a user-friendly option, otherwise, it's just niche hobbyist stuff and not really a valid competitor. If you have to type "make", or even go to a command line to execute a file name or make something executable, the installation routine stinks by today's standards.

I won't say any more about it because i'll only be repeating what everyone else has said as far Linux, features, and usability are concerned. Just that you clearly didn't attempt to lean Linux. If you did, you would have known all about urpmi, rpms, and MCC that makes configuration and installing software easy and Mandrake user friendly.

Sure, if you want to get even easier, there is Lycoris, and Linspire. Both great easy to use distros, but it sacrifices the power of Linux in exchange for ease of use.

And when have you never had to lean an unfamiliar OS? I had to learn Windows, Macintosh. Dont expect to use Linux right from the start. You have to learn Linux.

I read one of the responses in this useless thread. I refuse to get sucked into this nonsense. I used to participate in Win vs. DOS debates in the early 90's. I participiated in Commodore vs. Apple debates in the '80's. In the '70's I listened to people espouse the magnficence of the Jacard Basic 4. I see the same arguments here about Linux, and in other places for Apple, and for other places about Windows, and in yet more places about Jeeps vs. Trucks or liberals vs. conservatives. Whatever. I am uninterested.

We agree on something here. This thread is useless started by YOU. This actually could have been a constructive thread had you not resorted to inflaming people and came in with a little more info, and a more objective view of things. But it seems like you wanted to start a Linux vs Windows war in a Linux forum. The very things you said you were not going to do.

Note: Actually, I would say all the posts in this thread minus yours have been very useful.

Since you're new to Linux, I don't suggest going with Mandy 10.1 RC. This is not a stable version so it is going to have a lot of bugs in it since it is still in the testing stage. I would suggest going with Mandy 10 Official. You'll find that version to be really stable and user friendly.

I might get scolded for this, but have yo utried rebooting the pc? Reason I ask is because I had a similar problem when I would disconnect from the net, the modem would just hang, make it impossible to connect until I turned the modem off/on or rebooted pc.

You need to install libtermcap.so.2.

See if it's available on cooker. The rpm is libtermcap2.

If you can't here's the link to it. You may want to find a newer version because it seems just a tad dated:

ftp://fr.rpmfind.net/linux/Mandrake/9.1/i...-33mdk.i586.rpm

OK I see now. When you extracted the tar, it created 2 folders, etc/ and lib/

According to the installation instructions, it should tell you which folder you have to cd into to run those commands. cd to whichever folder /etc or /lib which ever it tells you to go into and install. Good Luck.

Note: Going over this again, I see you got as far as extracting them before. I just couldn't see it with all the things you posted.

I am really impressed. Firefox with these changes is lightening fast!!!

Why did you copy the tar to your /root dir???

Create a directory for your tar within your normal user /home dir:

mkdir name

Move the tar to that new folder

Then cd over to the tar file.

Then do:

tar zxvf ltmodem-2.6.3-4mdk.tgz

The tar will then extract and create a new folder

cd over to the newly created folder

It's a good idea to read the README file, as it will tell you how to instal it, but the usual way is:

./configure

This will configure the tar, then do:

make

You'll see some more gibberish, then su to root and do:

make install

Try doing a search for Gtk2::ComboBox in your package manager and install it.

Go into kmix and see if it is on mute.

Also if you are using arts, make sure the arts driver is selected in xmms if that's where the problem is occuring.

Also post the error msg or log, that would be helpful.