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  1. I am having a difficult time compiling gDesklets 0.12.1 After running the configure script this is the error I get

    checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config

    checking for gnome-python-2.0 >= 1.99.14 pygtk-2.0 >= 1.99.14... Package pygtk-2.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path.

    Perhaps you should add the directory containing `pygtk-2.0.pc'

    to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable

    No package 'pygtk-2.0' found

     

    configure: error: Library requirements (gnome-python-2.0 >= 1.99.14 pygtk-2.0 >= 1.99.14) not met; consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if your libraries are in a nonstandard prefix so pkg-config can find them.

    The only entry in /usr/lib/pkgconfig that I think might be relevant is gnome-python-2.0.pc* I dontknow whay but its the only executable one in the directory.

  2. Yeah after some searching it seems the latest release of metacity is 2.44 or something, I compiled it from source just now, but I dont know how to replace the installed rpm with the binary I compiled. Its probably just better if I reinstall the rpm that is ont he mdk disks.

  3. The problem seems to be somehow gnome related because it doesnt occur in KDE. I cant figure out why it does it. Most of the time when I start xmms it isnt on the screen so I have to right click on it in the window list and select move, i can hen move it on the screen. The playlist and EQ are also no where to be seen. Sometimes if I play witht he buttons I can get them to appear, but when I drag them they jump around a little and disappear againu, just like xmms.

  4. I got k3b installed from rpm (i tried to do it from source, and ended up compiling QT and it still didnt work). I got a cd burned also, but k3b froze a coupl times on me during the song selection process. Oh well I can live witht hat, cause the cd it burned plays on my home stereo which hasnt played a burned cd since I quit using my old 8x burner.

  5. I am wondering if the is an *easy* way to burn ogg files to a cd in wav format(playable on a regular cd player). I have been trying to figure it out with k3b, xcdroast, gcombust, and a few others I think. I want to try nautilus burner, but I can't find documentation on it anywhere. BTW this is on a RH 9 box running XD2.

  6. I had heard that Redhat leaves out mp3 support to promote the superior and free source OGG format. They leave out DVD support because of a necessary decryption library which lawsuits have been filed about. (2600 vs. MPAA I believe). They could install xine and mplayer without dvd support so I dont really understand why they dont do that.

  7. Ok this is a really weird problem, but whenever I start up XMMS it starts almost all the way off the screen, and when I try to drag it, it just disappears until I right click on the taskerbar and go to move XMMS. I am using gnome, and everything is at its latest release. I have tried reinstalling XMMS from other rpm's and even compiling it from source and the same problem happens. It also seems to happen with gkrellm. XMMS also won't play continuously. After a song finishes it simply stops. Any help would be great, thanks.

  8. A coexistence of Linux and WinNT can be achieved with the following steps:

     

        * Install NT.

     

        * Partition the NT drives (Create one data drive with FAT so Linux can write on it)

     

        * Install Linux. We assume /dev/sda3 for the root partition here. Attention: This partition must respect the 1024 cylinder limitation (1024_Zylinder.html)!

     

        * Mount the data drive (e.g., below /dos)

     

        * Install LILO in the Linux root partition (i.e., /dev/sda3), not into the MBR. You can, however, configure a choice of different Linux kernel images for LILO.

     

    http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/nt.html

     

    Important: Do not install LILO on the disk's MBR. This will stop W2K from booting. Instead, make sure it is installed on the /boot partition (which should be the second partition on the disk).

     

    http://www.enterprisedt.com/publications/d.../dual_boot.html

     

    I am aware the mbr isnt ntfs. Those articles are some of the many howto's describing how ntfs windows systems and linux can coexist on a drive. That is what led me to believe the mbr should not be written to by anything other than Windows when Windows uses and ntfs partiton.

  9. Actually I am not planning on having many distros installed conurrently, I just meant that I won't be going all the way through the Mandrake Install since I will be trying different distros. I will probably have just one partition(yes I know I should have more), sorry for the lack of clarity.

  10. I have only read a few lines about the ntfs resizing in 9.1. I am getting ready to resize both of my family's XP boxes and I was wondering what expiriences everyone has had so far. Any problems with data? I am going to be trying many diff distros on the partitions, so I am basically just using diskdrake. When installing the bootloader at the end of install after resizing and ntfs partition, does it automatically setup the boot record correctly (writing to boot.ini and NOT the mbr)? Thanks.

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