On Monday 22 January 2001 14:14, you wrote:
> I recently installed Mandrake 7.2. All essential services were back
> up in a couple of hours (despite forgetting to backup my named data
> files :-(. Even postfix is similar enough to sendmail that it only
> held me up for a few minutes. As a server everything is working OK.
>
> However (you knew that was coming :-), there were/are some small
> problems:
>
> I have 2G each for /, /usr, /var, /usr/local, and about 20G for /home
> The installation damn near filled the /usr partition. Even after
> deleting several documentation packages I am still at 90%!
>
> The patch, bison, flex, and yacc commands are missing. I would
> appreciate if someone could tell me which RPM packages these essential
> tools are stored. How the hell could anyone leave them out?
>
> Some of the fonts in kde were _terrible_. The menus and some
> applications looked absolutely ghastly. I was able to fix most of
> this by switching Helvetica to ISO 8859-1.
>
> The Mandrake Web page advises I use MandrakeUpdate to update packages
> but the program was not installed by default.
Ummm, I assume you selected HIGH security. Update is not accessible from
DrakConf in such a case.
It sounds like you did an expert install, but did not opt for individual
package selection.
bison, yacc, et al can be found at any of the mirrors. Check
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/ftp.php3 for a current list. They may also
be on your CD... Use a file manager like mc or konqueror to check.
Civileme
