Drakeconfig gone?

[virtualspy]

I do not want to install Mandrake again from scratch. Here's the scenario:

 

I installed v9.1 a few months ago successfully but received errors when I attempted to add Open Office after installing the OS ...so I upgraded to the official (not pre-release) v9.2 this week.

 

It went smoothly, but since I didn't have the choice to select additional components (i.e., Open Office) during the install process, I successfully installed it using Mandrake Control Center. ...except there were no icons on the K menu and the K menu got all weird (all the program icons were folder icons). Anyways, I decided to un-install Open Office and re-install in case there was a dependency issue. Now the K menu is back to normal but there is no Mandrake Control Center. It appears to have uninstalled when I removed Open Office. I confirmed it's really gone (not just the icon from K menu) because I tried to open it from a terminal and it's gone baby gone.

 

CATCH-22 ...How do I reinstall the dependencies without Mandrake Control Center? Or better yet, how do I reinstall Mandrake Control Center?

[chris:b]

Open a terminal, su to root and type:

 

urpmi drakconf

 

Hope this helps (if you really uninstalled it...)

[tyme]

anna is right, but remember that the command to start it from a command line is: mcc

 

atleast, in my experience...

 

for menu issues you want to run menudrake, that should help you fix your menu's.

[chris:b]

yep, tyme is right :D

... and I suspect that you lost your menu entry, and did not uninstall MCC.

 

So, run menudrake, or if that does not work, type in a terminal (first as root, then again as user):

 

update-menus -v

 

Und afterwards you might want to logout, and login again.

[virtualspy]

The commands worked except typing "mmc" from the terminal did not work, but "drakconf" worked.

 

Thanks for the good advice! Anna and tyme made my day.

[pmpatrick]

Run mandrake update. There were bug fixes posted yesterday to take care of the menu problem among other drakeX problems.

[bvc]

that's mcc

not mmc

 

m -andrake

c -ontrol

c -enter

[virtualspy]

You're absolutely right ..."mcc" worked fine. I've been around Windoze too long.

[virtualspy]

Except now I see the "software" is nonexistant on the MCC. Is there a terminal command to install that module of MCC?

[bvc]

run

rpmdrake

from a terminal to install pkgs

 

MandrakeUpdate

to run Mandrake Update

 

rpmdrake-remove

to remove pkgs

 

/usr/sbin/edit-urpm-sources.pl

to edit urpm media

 

[root@ml root]# urpmf rpmdrake
drakconf:/usr/share/mcc/themes/default/rpmdrake-mdk.png
drakconf:/usr/share/mcc/themes/default/rpmdrake-mdk_128.png
drakconf:/usr/share/mcc/themes/default/rpmdrake-remove.png
drakconf:/usr/share/mcc/themes/default/rpmdrake-remove_128.png
drakconf:/usr/share/mcc/themes/default/rpmdrake.png
drakconf:/usr/share/mcc/themes/default/rpmdrake_128.png
rpmdrake:/usr/bin/MandrakeUpdate
rpmdrake:/usr/bin/edit-urpm-sources.pl
rpmdrake:/usr/bin/rpmdrake
rpmdrake:/usr/bin/rpmdrake-remove
rpmdrake:/usr/lib/menu/rpmdrake
rpmdrake:/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.1/i386-linux-thread-multi/auto/curl_download
rpmdrake:/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.1/i386-linux-thread-multi/auto/curl_download/curl_download.so
rpmdrake:/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.1/i386-linux-thread-multi/curl_download.pm
rpmdrake:/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.1/rpmdrake.pm
rpmdrake:/usr/sbin/MandrakeUpdate
rpmdrake:/usr/sbin/edit-urpm-media
rpmdrake:/usr/sbin/edit-urpm-sources.pl
rpmdrake:/usr/sbin/rpmdrake
rpmdrake:/usr/sbin/rpmdrake-remove
rpmdrake:/usr/share/doc/rpmdrake-2.1
rpmdrake:/usr/share/doc/rpmdrake-2.1/AUTHORS
rpmdrake:/usr/share/doc/rpmdrake-2.1/COPYING
rpmdrake:/usr/share/icons/edit-urpm-sources.png
rpmdrake:/usr/share/icons/large/edit-urpm-sources.png
rpmdrake:/usr/share/icons/large/mandrakeupdate.png
rpmdrake:/usr/share/icons/large/rpmdrake-remove.png
rpmdrake:/usr/share/icons/large/rpmdrake.png
rpmdrake:/usr/share/icons/mandrakeupdate.png
rpmdrake:/usr/share/icons/mini/edit-urpm-sources.png
rpmdrake:/usr/share/icons/mini/mandrakeupdate.png
rpmdrake:/usr/share/icons/mini/rpmdrake-remove.png
rpmdrake:/usr/share/icons/mini/rpmdrake.png
rpmdrake:/usr/share/icons/rpmdrake-remove.png
rpmdrake:/usr/share/icons/rpmdrake.png
rpmdrake:/usr/share/locale/af/LC_MESSAGES/rpmdrake.mo
rpmdrake:/usr/share/rpmdrake
rpmdrake:/usr/share/rpmdrake/compssUsers.flat.default
rpmdrake:/usr/share/rpmdrake/desktop
rpmdrake:/usr/share/rpmdrake/desktop/mandrakeupdate.desktop
rpmdrake:/usr/share/rpmdrake/desktop/rpmdrake-browse-only.desktop
rpmdrake:/usr/share/rpmdrake/desktop/rpmdrake-remove.desktop
rpmdrake:/usr/share/rpmdrake/desktop/rpmdrake-sources.desktop
rpmdrake:/usr/share/rpmdrake/desktop/rpmdrake.desktop
rpmdrake:/usr/share/rpmdrake/icons
rpmdrake:/usr/share/rpmdrake/icons/selected.png
rpmdrake:/usr/share/rpmdrake/icons/semiselected.png
rpmdrake:/usr/share/rpmdrake/icons/title-install.png
rpmdrake:/usr/share/rpmdrake/icons/title-remove.png
rpmdrake:/usr/share/rpmdrake/icons/title-tile.png
rpmdrake:/usr/share/rpmdrake/icons/title-update.png
rpmdrake:/usr/share/rpmdrake/icons/unselected.png
rpmdrake:/var/lib/urpmi/compssUsers.flat
drakconf:/usr/share/mcc/themes/default/rpmdrake-mdk.png
drakconf:/usr/share/mcc/themes/default/rpmdrake-mdk_128.png
drakconf:/usr/share/mcc/themes/default/rpmdrake-remove.png
drakconf:/usr/share/mcc/themes/default/rpmdrake-remove_128.png
drakconf:/usr/share/mcc/themes/default/rpmdrake.png
drakconf:/usr/share/mcc/themes/default/rpmdrake_128.png
rpmdrake:/usr/bin/MandrakeUpdate
rpmdrake:/usr/bin/edit-urpm-sources.pl
rpmdrake:/usr/bin/rpmdrake
rpmdrake:/usr/bin/rpmdrake-remove
rpmdrake:/usr/lib/menu/rpmdrake
rpmdrake:/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.1/i386-linux-thread-multi/auto/curl_download
rpmdrake:/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.1/i386-linux-thread-multi/auto/curl_download/curl_download.so
rpmdrake:/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.1/i386-linux-thread-multi/curl_download.pm
rpmdrake:/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.1/rpmdrake.pm
rpmdrake:/usr/sbin/MandrakeUpdate
rpmdrake:/usr/sbin/edit-urpm-media
rpmdrake:/usr/sbin/edit-urpm-sources.pl
rpmdrake:/usr/sbin/rpmdrake
rpmdrake:/usr/sbin/rpmdrake-remove
rpmdrake:/usr/share/doc/rpmdrake-2.1
rpmdrake:/usr/share/doc/rpmdrake-2.1/AUTHORS
rpmdrake:/usr/share/doc/rpmdrake-2.1/COPYING
rpmdrake:/usr/share/icons/edit-urpm-sources.png
rpmdrake:/usr/share/icons/large/edit-urpm-sources.png
rpmdrake:/usr/share/icons/large/mandrakeupdate.png
rpmdrake:/usr/share/icons/large/rpmdrake-remove.png
rpmdrake:/usr/share/icons/large/rpmdrake.png
rpmdrake:/usr/share/icons/mandrakeupdate.png
rpmdrake:/usr/share/icons/mini/edit-urpm-sources.png
rpmdrake:/usr/share/icons/mini/mandrakeupdate.png
rpmdrake:/usr/share/icons/mini/rpmdrake-remove.png
rpmdrake:/usr/share/icons/mini/rpmdrake.png
rpmdrake:/usr/share/icons/rpmdrake-remove.png
rpmdrake:/usr/share/icons/rpmdrake.png
rpmdrake:/usr/share/locale/uz@Cyrl/LC_MESSAGES/rpmdrake.mo
rpmdrake:/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/rpmdrake.mo
rpmdrake:/usr/share/locale/wa/LC_MESSAGES/rpmdrake.mo
rpmdrake:/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/rpmdrake.mo
rpmdrake:/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/rpmdrake.mo
rpmdrake:/usr/share/rpmdrake
rpmdrake:/usr/share/rpmdrake/compssUsers.flat.default
rpmdrake:/usr/share/rpmdrake/desktop
rpmdrake:/usr/share/rpmdrake/desktop/mandrakeupdate.desktop
rpmdrake:/usr/share/rpmdrake/desktop/rpmdrake-browse-only.desktop
rpmdrake:/usr/share/rpmdrake/desktop/rpmdrake-remove.desktop
rpmdrake:/usr/share/rpmdrake/desktop/rpmdrake-sources.desktop
rpmdrake:/usr/share/rpmdrake/desktop/rpmdrake.desktop
rpmdrake:/usr/share/rpmdrake/icons
rpmdrake:/usr/share/rpmdrake/icons/selected.png
rpmdrake:/usr/share/rpmdrake/icons/semiselected.png
rpmdrake:/usr/share/rpmdrake/icons/title-install.png
rpmdrake:/usr/share/rpmdrake/icons/title-remove.png
rpmdrake:/usr/share/rpmdrake/icons/title-tile.png
rpmdrake:/usr/share/rpmdrake/icons/title-update.png
rpmdrake:/usr/share/rpmdrake/icons/unselected.png
rpmdrake:/var/lib/urpmi/compssUsers.flat
drakconf-themes:/usr/share/mcc/gnome/rpmdrake-mdk.png
drakconf-themes:/usr/share/mcc/gnome/rpmdrake-mdk_highlight.png
drakconf-themes:/usr/share/mcc/kde/rpmdrake-mdk.png
drakconf-themes:/usr/share/mcc/kde/rpmdrake-mdk_highlight.png
[root@ml root]#

 

as far as what puts it in mcc? I d/k. Did you run Mandrake Update?

[virtualspy]

"MandrakeUpdate" and "rpmdrake" give "command not found" errors. Can I reinstall those applications/commands?

[pmpatrick]

First determine if you have "urpmi" by running as root:

 

# which urpmi

 

It should print out the location of urpmi as "/sbin/urpmi".

 

If it's there, you can reinstall rpmdrake by doing:

 

# urpmi rpmdrake

 

Note: rpmdrake must be run as root otherwise you'll get a "command not found" error. The same goes for "urpmi" and "rpm" commands.

[virtualspy]

Thanks! That did it! I have the software management GUI again. Thanks again!!!

[virtualspy]

I would like to add that once the Mandrake Control Center showed Software Management, I performed Software Updates.

 

Software Updates listed a number of Security Updates and Bug Fixes which corrected the original problem of the K menu getting out-of-whack. After updates, I successfully installed Open Office and the icon appears on the K menu as expected.

 

Thanks again for your help.