Guest neil Posted July 9, 2004 Report Share Posted July 9, 2004 (edited) Hello, I'm in some desperate need of help :) I'm a complete newbie and have just installed Mandrake10. Basically I cannot find any gui based installation tools. There is no 'Mandrake Control Center' in any of the start menus I can see, neither is there a 'packages' sub-menu of any of the menus and while 'rpm' works irpm does not exist. Can someone point me in the direction of the Mandrake Control Center just in case it is installed but there is no menu item, or perhaps can tell me what I'm doing wrong. Many thanks. Neil. Edited July 9, 2004 by neil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoopy Posted July 9, 2004 Report Share Posted July 9, 2004 Welcome... Sounds to me like (and I have to guess since I can't see what you see) either things really went bad during the install... or your looking at some other desktop than KDE (did you try a right click to see if that brings up a menu... or try the "windows" key). If you have a terminal or konsole window, try some of these commands: mcc (Mandrake Control Center) konqueror kate urpmi (was that a typo ?) If these work, we can get things back in order quite easily. Might help to describe what you see in front of you in more detail Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest neil Posted July 9, 2004 Report Share Posted July 9, 2004 hello, I have a KDE desktop and from the above list only konqueror works (from either the shell or the desktop). Which is what I'm using to browse. I'm sure I selected Mozilla to install but that is not in my /usr directory. Basically from the start (or the windows key) menu I have in the all applications section: office -> wordprocessors, etc internet -> browsers, ftp, news, etc multimedia -> sound, vision, graphics, etc more applications -> dev, editors, games, docs system -> config, terminals, archiving, file tools, monitoring from system: file tools -> find configuration -> configure desktop, etc And that is my desktop. Neil. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoopy Posted July 9, 2004 Report Share Posted July 9, 2004 configuration -> configure desktop, etc The shortcut to mcc should be right next to that one above. It should read, "configure my computer." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
feralertx Posted July 9, 2004 Report Share Posted July 9, 2004 (edited) That sounds like an old bug, execute 'update-menus -v' as root in a terminal and see if that fixes it. Edited July 9, 2004 by feralertx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest neil Posted July 9, 2004 Report Share Posted July 9, 2004 (edited) Yes,sorry, it is there its just there is no 'software manager' section like in the version 9 screenshot I saw so I assumed from I was looking for something else. There are only options for modifying stuff like the keyboard, etc. here: accessibility, components, information, looknfeel,network,periperals,powercontrol,security,system,webbrowsing Thanks for helping, I sound like a right spaz ;) The last time I touched unix was about 18 years ago on a System-10 where the most advanced thing was playing cribbage. Neil. Edited July 9, 2004 by neil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest neil Posted July 9, 2004 Report Share Posted July 9, 2004 (edited) Ok, I ran that command as root, the first message is urpmi is not locking urpmi status area, good. Then did loads of stuff and is either busy or stuck for the past 5 minutes in the option: update-menus[3914]: Running method: /etc/menu-methods/simplified/kde3 Are you saying I have a duff distribution? I got it from the linuxmandrake site from one of the mirrors yesterday. apart from these menus/files the only thing that doesn't work is totem (I played a wmv file, there was video but only white noise and it hung when it finished playing), but I just put that down to the software as I haven't a clue how to trace the fault so I'll try mplaye or something. btw, as for urpmi, I tried looking in /usr/bin and /bin and it wasn't there and there wasn't a man entry for it either. Neil. Edited July 9, 2004 by neil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest neil Posted July 10, 2004 Report Share Posted July 10, 2004 Hello, I have fixed the problem. Thanks for helping out. I reinstalled Mandrake and realised after close inspection what had happened. When I was pruning the list of applications down I had previously removed 'mpage' without realising this automatically removed all the rpm, drax, packing, etc software. Question is though, why should a text to postscript converer uninstall all the computer management and rpm software? th esame thing happened when I tried to uninstall 'fortune' - it wanted to remove most of gnome. Again why should something that tells a fortune want to stop the entire Gnome desktop from being installed? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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