Chris H Posted February 8, 2009 Share Posted February 8, 2009 Wanting to install some software and it's asking me to select which version I'm using, sort of thing? Flash One Free Powerpack Can't remember what I've installed except that it was off Linuxformat uk. Any ideas how to work out which version? Ta Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniewicz Posted February 8, 2009 Share Posted February 8, 2009 If you are a KDE user, the menu opened by clicking on the star in the taskbar is labeled with "free" or "one". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted February 8, 2009 Share Posted February 8, 2009 (edited) Umm... let me guess. The one you have installed, probably? If you don't know what you've installed, then you (most probably) have made a mistake... It's not really OUR task to know what you've installed... you should know. Edited February 8, 2009 by scarecrow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg2 Posted February 8, 2009 Share Posted February 8, 2009 You can open a terminal and run rpm -qa | grep -i mandriva-release and it will show you the release version, and a common file that you can disregard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris H Posted February 8, 2009 Author Share Posted February 8, 2009 If you are a KDE user, the menu opened by clicking on the star in the taskbar is labeled with "free" or "one". Ta for reply but it's KDE 4 and there doesn't seem to be a Mandriva branded launcher, just KDE or Lancelot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris H Posted February 8, 2009 Author Share Posted February 8, 2009 Umm... let me guess. The one you have installed, probably?If you don't know what you've installed, then you (most probably) have made a mistake... It's not really OUR task to know what you've installed... you should know. It was installed from a cover CD, no longer have it so no idea whether it was free or one. However, rpmdrake asks this question on a number of meta packages during installation. I would've thought that rpmdrake would've been able to sniff it out without asking questions which could throw people. Someone not familiar with Linux/Mandriva may simply walk away rather than take the risk of choosing the wrong answer with unknown consequences. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris H Posted February 8, 2009 Author Share Posted February 8, 2009 You can open a terminal and runrpm -qa | grep -i mandriva-release and it will show you the release version, and a common file that you can disregard. Cheers, turns out it was One. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neddie Posted February 8, 2009 Share Posted February 8, 2009 I can't believe it makes a difference whether it was installed from Free or from One, it's still the same system. The install process is different and the packages installed by default are different, but the repositories are the same. If you want to add additional software packages to your system, it should make NO difference where you installed from. The important thing is whether it is 2008.1 or 2009.0, not whether it was installed from a DVD or 3 CDs or whatever. No software I've installed has ever asked me whether I'm using Free or One or Powerpack. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris H Posted February 8, 2009 Author Share Posted February 8, 2009 Have a quick install of task-xfce and see if it asks you. If it doesn't make a difference then Mandriva needs to hook it out of the process. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg2 Posted February 8, 2009 Share Posted February 8, 2009 Have a quick install of task-xfce and see if it asks you. It's used for screensavers, themes, and installing a different DE, e.g., xfce. :) The DE config files are different. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neddie Posted February 8, 2009 Share Posted February 8, 2009 Have a quick install of task-xfce and see if it asks you.Hey, you're right! :huh: I always thought the only difference was the package selection, so you could turn one into the other just by adding/removing packages. I can't see why the config files should need to be different... but you're right. I guess I learned something new! Sorry for adding confusion! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
medo3891 Posted February 8, 2009 Share Posted February 8, 2009 I can't see why the config files should need to be different... but you're right Not config files, I think they are identical. The difference is color schemes, I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted February 8, 2009 Share Posted February 8, 2009 The mandriva-release package provides a lot of the branding to the version you have installed. The repos you use for packages will be the same, since the release is always the same, eg: 2008.0, 2008.1, 2009.0 and so on. That is why you see different versions of mandriva-release for: One Free Powerpack and so on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg2 Posted February 8, 2009 Share Posted February 8, 2009 Not config files, I think they are identical. The difference is color schemes, I think. OK, the 'config' files I referred to are for themes, some screensavers, color schemes (as medo has noted), etc. They can be config, xxxrc, or settings files. Here's an example for you, it's a diff for /var/lib/mandriva/lxde-profiles/Free/config and One/config --- Free/config 2009-02-08 15:48:23.000000000 -0500 +++ One/config 2009-02-08 15:48:23.000000000 -0500 @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ #iNet/DndDragThreshold #iNet/CursorBlink #iNet/CursorBlinkTime -sNet/ThemeName=Ia Ora Arctic +sNet/ThemeName=Ia Ora Smooth sNet/IconThemeName=nuoveXT2 #iGtk/CanChangeAccels=0 #cGtk/ColorPalette please note the file is a config. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
medo3891 Posted February 8, 2009 Share Posted February 8, 2009 The mandriva-release package provides a lot of the branding to the version you have installed. I am not talking about mandriva-release-flavour, I am talking about flavour-kde4-config. As you said mandriva-release-flavour, is about branding: ‎/etc/product.id ‎/etc/product.id.Free /etc/rpm/macros.d/Free.macros Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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