Scythe Posted April 17, 2007 Report Share Posted April 17, 2007 If you're a Windows user like me and you don't want to give up your NTFS partitions and still use Linux, there is a way! NTFS-3g is a driver that allows for read and write access to NTFS partitions without having to boot up Windows. I was looking around on my OpenSUSE install and came across this guide for installing ntfs-3g (and fuse). It should work for Mandriva as well (I'll definitely be trying it as soon as 2007 final is released and post if it works there too). Anyway, the guide is here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted April 17, 2007 Report Share Posted April 17, 2007 You can also add "ntfs-config" which touches the default HAL policies, so that an external harddisk would be automounted using ntfs-3g instead of the regular ntfs driver: http://flomertens.free.fr/ntfs-config/ It works fine here (Arch Linux) although I'm slightly annoyed about it having many (chained) GNOME dependencies without any terribly good reason... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scythe Posted April 18, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 18, 2007 Agreed. For some reason it's telling me that I don't have libglade installed, but my version is 2.6 something according to YaST. frazeeg:/home/scythe/Desktop/ntfs-config-0.5.5/ntfs-config-0.5.5 # ./configurechecking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for gawk... gawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking for style of include used by make... GNU checking for gcc... gcc checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of executables... checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3 checking for library containing strerror... none required checking for gcc... (cached) gcc checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... (cached) yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... (cached) none needed checking dependency style of gcc... (cached) gcc3 checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /usr/bin/grep checking for egrep... /usr/bin/grep -E checking for ANSI C header files... yes checking for intltool >= 0.35... 0.35.4 found checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl checking for XML::Parser... ok checking for iconv... /usr/bin/iconv checking for msgfmt... /usr/bin/msgfmt checking for msgmerge... /usr/bin/msgmerge checking for xgettext... /usr/bin/xgettext checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes checking for PACKAGE... configure: error: Package requirements (gtk+-2.0 >= 2.6 libglade-2.0 hal >= 0.5.2 hal-storage >= 0.5.2) were not met: No package 'libglade-2.0' found Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you installed software in a non-standard prefix. Alternatively, you may set the environment variables PACKAGE_CFLAGS and PACKAGE_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config. See the pkg-config man page for more details. Any ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted April 18, 2007 Report Share Posted April 18, 2007 I had no probz bulding it here, but the Arch Linux packages are monolithic, while the SuSE ones are splitted. I guess for building the driver you need libglade-devel which isn't installed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scythe Posted April 19, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 19, 2007 You're right. Installed libglade-devel and was able to do the install (on OpenSUSE). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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