What is the best way to update various applications with Mandrake.
Background:
I still consider myself fairly green around the gills with
administrating my Mandrake box so please site the obvious steps. Helps
keep me from scratching my head later on.
I've installed Mandrake 8.2 onto a P133 with about 2Gb HDD. I've had
to pick and choose most applications on the system due to lack of space
on the HDD and the use of the machine, (will be a web, ftp and samba
server mainly.) I have kde 2.2.2 and several other applications that I
can cram in there from disk install simply to familiarize myself with
administrating a linux system.
Problem:
I find that the machine is quite slow with things like applications
running in kde, (java VM is unbearable to use). Now I've been able to
upgrade some things like EveryBuddy chat application without any hassle,
however, other things seem to be quite difficult to mold to the system
settings.
For example, I've updated Mozilla but I needed to manually remove the
old version, (installed via installation disk,) to prevent two separate
versions running.
It seems that many of the applications that come with the installation
is not in the same directory paths as with the application install.
Mandrake update is not up to date with version and doesn't seem to have
all the applications I want. I've had some problems with dependencies
installing with RPM and have had the best results with installing from
source... is this the way to go? What am I missing?
On a side note I am running KDE 2.2.2 with limited HDD space. Would
KDE 3.0 be faster. Should I switch to Gnome, (keep in mind I have
limited HDD space.)
Hopefully someone can shed some light on these issues.
Thanks in advance,
Jason Louie
