Linux-Misc Digest #872, Volume #26 Sun, 21 Jan 01 08:13:02 EST
Contents:
Can't RE-install software RAID on Red Hat + Proliant 2500R after CPUs (Thomas
Cameron)
HELP: General Protection Fault (John Bury)
Re: Linux not free anymore? (avenj)
Re: What - no WYSIWYG HTML editors?? (Steve)
Re: What - no WYSIWYG HTML editors?? (Steve)
PlexWriter 12/10/32S (Anthony Ewell)
Re: Problems getting mouse to work on dual boot box ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Installing 2.4.0 kernel.. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
New to Linux, need HELP with download and intall (Robert Wallace)
Re: Java Resources ("Lloyd Llewellyn")
Re: New to Linux, need HELP with download and intall (David)
Usage of .diff files (hi_potent)
Re: Usage of .diff files ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: HELP: General Protection Fault (Michael Heiming)
Re: Help, Urgent! Partition Table screwed up, Want bruteforce recovery (Svend Olaf
Mikkelsen)
Re: Red Hat Linux 7.1 (Steve Withers)
Re: editing bookmarks (Michael Heiming)
Re: Usage of .diff files (Martijn)
Re: PlexWriter 12/10/32S (Trevor Hemsley)
Re: What - no WYSIWYG HTML editors?? (fred smith)
What's happened to SUCK? (TonyC)
Re: Red Hat Linux 7.1 (Jean-David Beyer)
Re: Linux not free anymore? (Jean-David Beyer)
Re: Help installing KDE 2.0 (Kevin Croxen)
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From: Thomas Cameron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.setup,alt.sys.pc-clone.compaq.servers,alt.comp.linux,alt.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Can't RE-install software RAID on Red Hat + Proliant 2500R after CPUs
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 05:06:28 GMT
Howdy all -
I have a customer who had a Compaq Proliant 2500R with dual Pentium Pro
200's and 1GB Compaq RAM running Red Hat 6.2 set up with software level
RAID across seven 9GB drives in an external drive enclosure.
The CPU fan's grimed up and seized, and the server wound up corrupting
the entire RAID array. We blew the machine away, and started to
re-install Red Hat 6.2. The install failed (the RAID array came up at
the first boot missing a drive), and I figured maybe I'd cooked the
CPUs. So, I replaced the CPUs and resintalled. Same problem. After
several re-install attempts, I keep getting NCR SCSI controller errors
(error is similar to: "SIR 17, CCB done queue overflow"), from various
drives at various times.
I have run the latest Compaq diagnostics against the server twice, and
they come back fine. So does anyone have any idea why all of a sudden I
can't install Red Hat on this box? I am stretching here, but is it
possible that when the CPUs were overheated, they could have sent
instructions to the drives that actually damaged the drives? I can't
see how this would be possible, but the system itself (including the
SCSI controller) tests fine.
If convenient, please cc: me directly with any responses.
Thomas Cameron
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From: John Bury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: HELP: General Protection Fault
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 05:30:38 GMT
All you gurus...
I have an IBM laptop in a dual boot configuration running Redhat 6.2 and
Windows NT 4.0. When booting linux I receive the following gpf error:
hda: general protection fault: 0000
cpu:0
eip: 0010: [<c0125904>}
eflags:: 00010286
eav: ffffffff ebx: 00000000 ecx: 00000300
When booting Windows NT I receive the following error message:
Instruction 0x77f88947 referenced memory at "0x00000018".
The memory could not be read.
Does anyone have any ideas what is causing this problem. Do you think it
is a hardware problem; possibly memory???
Thanks in advance.
John
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From: avenj <bloody@{nospam}stabbing.org>
Subject: Re: Linux not free anymore?
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 05:32:22 GMT
Perhaps - on the other hand, without taxes there's no services,
including no military and no education. Would you rather have no taxes,
but have everyone living in fear of being attacked and being completely
uneducated?
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Hasler
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Peter Mitchell writes:
> > The BIG question - what makes a tax fair?
>
> 'Fair tax' is an oxymoron.
--
avenj
http://www.idl3.org
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve)
Subject: Re: What - no WYSIWYG HTML editors??
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 23:56:10 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* Flacco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>|
>| I seem to have no luck finding a decent WYSIWYG HTML editor for Linux. In
>| particular, it must be good with frames and tables (so Mozilla's out).
>|
>| Any recommendations?
Amaya <http://www.w3.org/Amaya/>.
--
Steve - Toronto ICQ 35454764
Powered by Caldera Open Linux
11:55pm up 6 days, 11:33, 10 users, load average: 0.31, 0.11, 0.03
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve)
Subject: Re: What - no WYSIWYG HTML editors??
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 00:32:38 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* Matt O'Toole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>| Don't screw around. Get the right tool for the job. Go get a cheapo
>| Win-box like an Emachines, load Dreamweaver, and be happy. Frankly,
>| Dreamweaver is the only WYSIWYG editor that actually works, on any platform.
>| Anything else is a waste of time.
Some people would say GoLive is just as good if not better. <shrug>
I think it's important to keep it open source. This is Linux afterall.
--
Steve - Toronto ICQ 35454764
Powered by Caldera Open Linux
12:30am up 6 days, 12:08, 10 users, load average: 0.02, 0.20, 0.16
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Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 22:04:24 -0800
From: Anthony Ewell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: PlexWriter 12/10/32S
Hi,
Is anyone running Plextor's PlexWriter 12/10/32S
(scsi-2) CD-RW drive? And, do you have any
opinions on it?
Many thanks,
--Tony
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Problems getting mouse to work on dual boot box
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 06:13:02 GMT
What happens when you run turbomousecfg?
The Archimage
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I have a linux box with Redhat and Turbolinux installed.
> I am currently using LILO in order to control the way the system boots up.
> Redhat is the default distribution that LILO boots too. I had to make some
> adjustments to lilo.conf to get this working. When I chose to boot to
> Turbolinux, everything runs find. The only problem is that the mouse
> doesn't work when I'm running Turbo. Why is this?
>
> I think the reason why this doesn't work is because I'm missing the
> "initrd=/boot/initrd" line in the lilo.conf file. I can't put this there
> because an error occurs whenever I try to update lilo.
>
> Whats going on here?
>
> -Tim
>
> --
> Posted via CNET Help.com
> http://www.help.com/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Installing 2.4.0 kernel..
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 06:34:38 GMT
Didja read the /usr/src/linux/Documentation/CHANGES file? It outlines
what ELSE you need to upgrade besides the kernel to make your system
happy.
The Archimage
Ish Rattan wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I have a strange problem. I am running RedHat-6.2 with 2.2.16-3 kernel.
> I down loaded the 2.4.0 kernel. It compiles (make bzlilo), the modules
> compile (make modules; make modules_install). The new kernel boots the
> machine correctly but modules are not accessible!!?
>
> Questions:
>
> 1. Is it possible to compile and run 2.4.0 kernel under RedHat-6.2?
>
> 2. If yes what are the correct steps to compile and install it?
>
> This is the first time I have tried 2.4.0 kernel (others have worked..).
> Any pointers will be appreciated (outside wisecracks). The modprobe
> version is 2.3-pre1?
>
> - ishwar
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From: Robert Wallace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: New to Linux, need HELP with download and intall
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 07:30:07 -0000
Hello,
I just intalled Mandrake Linux 7.2 today and I've been using KDE and
Netscape to surf...
When I download a application from the Net where should I put it(is there
some special folder I should use like Home or Usr) and after I download do
I just click on the file or do I need to do something special....
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Robert W.
--
Posted via CNET Help.com
http://www.help.com/
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From: "Lloyd Llewellyn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Java Resources
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 07:54:53 GMT
> -> Jumping into "Java 2" sometimes called "Java 1.2" likely requires
> that you depend forcibly on Sun's good graces; the specs for it are
> basically being treated as trade secrets.
Thanks for the links - I'll take a look. I do have reservations about Sun
holding Java so close to the chest.
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From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: New to Linux, need HELP with download and intall
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 07:59:42 GMT
Robert Wallace wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I just intalled Mandrake Linux 7.2 today and I've been using KDE and
> Netscape to surf...
>
> When I download a application from the Net where should I put it(is there
> some special folder I should use like Home or Usr) and after I download do
> I just click on the file or do I need to do something special....
If you are downloading rpm's then you install them with.
rpm -ivh filename # to install new package
Or: rpm -Uvh filename # if upgrading a package
I like to keep all my downloads in one place so I setup a directory
named "/home/ftp" for all my downloads. You can place them where ever
you want though as long as you have room in the partitions.
--
Confucius say: He who play in root, eventually kill tree.
Registered with the Linux Counter. http://counter.li.org
ID # 123538
Completed more W/U's than 99.005% of seti users. +/- 0.01%
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From: hi_potent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Usage of .diff files
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 08:21:38 GMT
I've recently encountered a kernel 2.4 patch in .diff format, and i'm
wondering what exactly "diff" is and how would i apply this particular
kind of kernel patch. I've also seen other system files in the diff
format - is installing them any different? Pardon my ignorance on the
subject and thanks in advance for any responses given.
Sent via Deja.com
http://www.deja.com/
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Usage of .diff files
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 09:45:31 GMT
hi_potent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've recently encountered a kernel 2.4 patch in .diff format, and i'm
All patches are in "diff format". Man patch.
> format - is installing them any different? Pardon my ignorance on the
Why?
Peter
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Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 10:27:14 +0100
From: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HELP: General Protection Fault
John Bury wrote:
> All you gurus...
>
> I have an IBM laptop in a dual boot configuration running Redhat 6.2 and
>
> Windows NT 4.0. When booting linux I receive the following gpf error:
>
> hda: general protection fault: 0000
> cpu:0
> eip: 0010: [<c0125904>}
> eflags:: 00010286
> eav: ffffffff ebx: 00000000 ecx: 00000300
>
> When booting Windows NT I receive the following error message:
>
> Instruction 0x77f88947 referenced memory at "0x00000018".
> The memory could not be read.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas what is causing this problem. Do you think it
>
> is a hardware problem; possibly memory???
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> John
Hello John,
sounds (not good) as if there is something broken with your hw, try
changing components if you can, take out/change some RAM,
or/and your CPU to see what is the faulty part of your machine, always take
away/change one part and reboot...if you have some spare parts handy or
borrow them if you can...
Good luck
Michael Heiming
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Svend Olaf Mikkelsen)
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Help, Urgent! Partition Table screwed up, Want bruteforce recovery
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 09:49:45 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> set findpart=edit
>> findpart 2 1057 1 - 83 1057 1 1 2083 254 63 1057 2494 255 63
>Thanks a thousand Svend! You've saved my day.
>
>haaa, you've got a really powerful tool with hidden features, huh? :-)
Nice. Note that hdb6 (FAT32) was also restored.
Findpart includes the features of the Editpart tool for convenience.
>- I'd also like to point out that there are still things that findpart
>has overlooked. Here is the check output:
># sfdisk -Vl
>/dev/hdb5 1057+ 2083 1027- 8249346 83 Linux
> start: (c,h,s) expected (1023,254,63) found (33,1,1)
> end: (c,h,s) expected (1023,254,63) found (35,254,63)
Different schemes exist for entering cylinder numbers above 1023 in
extended partition tables.
--
Svend Olaf
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From: Steve Withers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Red Hat Linux 7.1
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 22:53:06 +1300
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I hope you are right. I went to a CompUSA which carried a $30 boxed
> basic RedHat 7. We buy one copy to nod to RedHat to keep up the <insert
> your opinion here> work. $30 spent on RedHat is a $60+ plus loss for
> M$. The ole kernel rpm upgrade would justify my faith...
>
> Jhary-a-Conel
> www.multiverse.org
I buy boxed copies of Redhat for the same reason. I want to support
people who are making the effort on my behalf to make Linux easier to
use and better supported for hardware and software.
If they don't get any money then I'll be writing my own device
drivers.....and I have better things to do.
The equivalent of US$50 or $100 or even $500 / annum is CHEAP compared
to what I would have to pay Microsoft. That money is put to good use. It
gives me CHOICE.....and worth every penny.
I'll b uy 7.1 (of whatever) when it comes out. I may have downloaded the
ISO image by then....but I buy the boxed set anyway.
--
Regards,
Steve Withers
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Registered Linux user #24688
http://counter.li.org
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Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 10:34:15 +0100
From: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: editing bookmarks
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> sorry for asking the most picaune question in all of recorded history.
> but here goes...
>
> i'm running netscape under linux. i click on bookmarks, edit bookmarks,
> then right click on one, select properties. i then might edit the name
> (or whatever). in all cases, i click "ok" when i'm done, but
> *sometimes* it keeps me in the edit bookmarks window and sometimes it
> closes it out. i can't figure it out and it's been perplexing me for
> ...like, a year now. my best guess is i'm doing something *slightly*
> different but i don't see how.
>
> help?
>
> thx,
> jason
>
> Sent via Deja.com
> http://www.deja.com/
Hello Jason,
don't worry, I'm using NS-Crashicator since years and I have not used one
version that
hadn't sometimes those and other problems...
vi ~/.netscape/bookmarks.html
Sometimes there is just one carriage return in this file missing/wrong,
make a copy before you edit it!
Same for your mailfilters...:-(
Good luck
Michael Heiming
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Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 11:04:31 +0100
From: Martijn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Usage of .diff files
hi_potent wrote:
> I've recently encountered a kernel 2.4 patch in .diff format, and i'm
> wondering what exactly "diff" is and how would i apply this particular
> kind of kernel patch. I've also seen other system files in the diff
> format - is installing them any different? Pardon my ignorance on the
> subject and thanks in advance for any responses given.
>
> Sent via Deja.com
> http://www.deja.com/
These are differences from the previous version in source format.
First install the linux kernel source that you already have
(maybe it is already installed in /usr/src/)
Read the readme file in /usr/src/linux
here it is explained how to apply the diffs.
Kind regards, Martijn
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trevor Hemsley)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: PlexWriter 12/10/32S
Date: 21 Jan 2001 11:27:52 GMT
On Sun, 21 Jan 2001 06:04:24, Anthony Ewell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is anyone running Plextor's PlexWriter 12/10/32S
> (scsi-2) CD-RW drive? And, do you have any
> opinions on it?
Yes, but only just, I bought it yesterday...
Installed on an Initio Ini9100UW alongside 1CD and 2HD's. My first
tests all ended with errors and after much faffing around I discovered
that I had a bad rewritable disk that I was using to test with. It was
rated as 2X but will only write at 1X. Switched to using the 10X CD-RW
disk that Plextor provide and it worked perfectly. Subsequently burnt
an 8X CD-R perfectly and that problematic CD-RW at 1X.
So far, easy to install, (though the default of jumpering it so that
termination is on might catch a few people), documentation good.
Price... ridiculously expensive! Over in the UK, UK�260 for the 1210Si
vs �165 for the ATAPI version.
I had to download the source for cdrecord 1.9-final and compile it to
get the "Burn Proof" capability recognised. SuSe 6.3 ships some
ancient release and the one I downloaded from the ftp site for 7.0 was
only just a little newer. The one fron rufus.w3.org that was signed by
RedHat wanted rpm 4 but got rm'ed instead ;-)
--
Trevor Hemsley, Brighton, UK.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: fred smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What - no WYSIWYG HTML editors??
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 23:41:23 GMT
Flacco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I seem to have no luck finding a decent WYSIWYG HTML editor for Linux. In
: particular, it must be good with frames and tables (so Mozilla's out).
: Any recommendations?
Try going to the w3c site (www.w3c.com, as a guess) and grab amaya. Or
take a look at freshmeat.net and search there for it.
Fred
--
---- Fred Smith -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------------------
"For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged
sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow;
it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart."
============================ Hebrews 4:12 (niv) ==============================
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From: TonyC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: What's happened to SUCK?
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 12:26:54 -0000
Anyone know what's happened to the SUCK site
<http://home.att.net/~bobyetman/> ?
Has it moved? - I can't find it anywhere :-([
Regards
TonyC
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From: Jean-David Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Red Hat Linux 7.1
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 07:35:24 -0500
Steve Withers wrote (in part):
>
> I buy boxed copies of Redhat for the same reason. I want to support
> people who are making the effort on my behalf to make Linux easier to
> use and better supported for hardware and software.
>
> If they don't get any money then I'll be writing my own device
> drivers.....and I have better things to do.
>
> The equivalent of US$50 or $100 or even $500 / annum is CHEAP compared
> to what I would have to pay Microsoft. That money is put to good use. It
> gives me CHOICE.....and worth every penny.
>
> I'll b uy 7.1 (of whatever) when it comes out. I may have downloaded the
> ISO image by then....but I buy the boxed set anyway.
>
An additional reason to buy the CD-ROM of whatever distribution you run
is that if the hardware crashes badly enough, perhaps because someone
cracked your system, is that it is easier to re-install from the CD-ROM
than by downloading it all over again, especially if the system does not
run well enough to download anything.
I have full tape backups of my system, so I could restore from tape if I
could get the system up enough to do a restore (and I should be able to
do that from a boot floppy or two). But the question of crackers is a
major one. Which backup tape should I use? I want the last good one
before the cracker got my machine. It would be quite a problem to
determine which one that is. So if I suspect I have been cracked, I
would reinstall from the CD-ROM and then restore as few files as
possible (probably all of /home, and selected stuff under /etc and /var.
The things under /etc and /var would need careful observation.
--
.~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642.
/V\ Registered Machine 73926.
/( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey
^^-^^ 7:25am up 5 days, 18:28, 3 users, load average: 3.19, 3.10, 2.97
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From: Jean-David Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux not free anymore?
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 07:37:08 -0500
avenj wrote:
>
> Perhaps - on the other hand, without taxes there's no services,
> including no military and no education. Would you rather have no taxes,
> but have everyone living in fear of being attacked and being completely
> uneducated?
I liked a billboard, suprisingly one posted by the owner of a local
public-storage outfit, that said:
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance!
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Hasler
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Peter Mitchell writes:
> > > The BIG question - what makes a tax fair?
> >
> > 'Fair tax' is an oxymoron.
>
> --
> avenj
> http://www.idl3.org
--
.~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642.
/V\ Registered Machine 73926.
/( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey
^^-^^ 7:35am up 5 days, 18:38, 2 users, load average: 3.04, 3.08, 3.01
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kevin Croxen)
Subject: Re: Help installing KDE 2.0
Date: 21 Jan 2001 12:53:19 GMT
Make sure you have all the rpms, subdirectories, and symlinks
for the KDE version for your particular distro. Use a recursive
text-mode ftp client like ncftp for this purpose, to download
the entire KDE directory structure for your distros KDE2
upgrade wholesale. Put the
downloaded directory structure into some sort of temp directory
of your own on your hard disk. To avoid landing in failed
dependency hell through trying to figure out which order to
install the rpms, do it the following way. cd into the
directory with the rpms and run rpm with the single command:
rpm -Uvh --force --nodeps *.rpm
and let it chug away. If rpm hangs or abnormally terminates,
which it occasionally does, run the command again as above until
it makes it all the way through the KDE rpm install directory.
Then you should be ready to go.
--Kevin
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Arctic Storm wrote:
>>> I just downloaded KDE 2.0 RPM's.
>>> It's approximately 26 files; all RPM's.
>>> I issued the following commands.
>>> rpm -Uvh qt*
>>> rpm -Uvh lib*
>>> rpm -Uvh htdig*
>>> So far so good.
>>> And then I tried issuing the following command.
>>> rpm -Uvh kde*
>>> I got tons of failed dependencies errors.
>>> Any help?
>>
>>
>> Install the required dependencies.
>
>
>There are about ten dependencies files. There must be something wrong.
> When I downloaded the binaries, it didn't even have a "README" file
>for installation instructions! Why not just include *all* the
>dependencies, so that we won't have to hunt down the files. I don't
>even know where to get these dependencies files. Why can't they produce
>an easy, user-friendly product?
>Regardless of how much the Linux community criticizes Microsoft, the
>Linux community has a lot to learn from MS. MS would *never* produce a
>product where installation is tough. MS built their company on catering
>to the general public.
>KDE sucks!
>
>-
>
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