On Sunday 26 September 2004 13:35, Tom & Karen Pino wrote:
> Sorry about the HTML. Just reformatted and for got to change from
> the default (send in both).
> Tom
I got the no html message thanks. I cant answer all of your questions
but I'try.
>
> Tom & Karen Pino wrote:
> > This all sounds interesting. There are a couple of problems.
> >
> > Many of these problems are due to my ignerce. As in what is urpmi?
urpmi may be the most valuable program you have for now. It is mdk's
package maintainence system. It downloads a package with all required
dependences (most of the time) it works with the rpm package
maintenance system sort of as a wrapper that does some of the things
you would have to do. Generally it works well but there are times when
it screws up. It works better with -wget but the default is curl if
you involke it with 'urpmi -wget <package>' I like the results better.
See man urpmi & urpmf & urpme. I dont think there is a windows version.
> > I looked that up and am now really confused. However, Lorin seems
> > to get something out of the fine info I am gleaning from you fine
> > folks.
> >
> > This last caused confusion to both of us. Lorin has the advantage
> > of a linux system (even if it doesn't seem to work right).
The linujx system cannot work right without urpmi working you need it to
update whatever installation you have. You must realize that all linux
systems depend on their users (maybe not IBM) to detect problems with
the distribution and there are always problems with the distribution.
I am running 10.0 Official and have updated approx 1GB so far.
> > He has
> > installed "rpm drake" which sounds handy. He looked up gpm and rpm
> > and seemed to understand that. It seems that the libgpm stuff was
> > not installed because of a failure to auto detect his mouse. He
> > thinks that he got it installed.
Not knowing which mouse you have it would be difficult to help with
this. FWIW I have a wheel mouse with 3 buttons. Here if my
configuration of /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 (the mouse portion)
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7"
EndSection
This is unlikely to work for you unless you have a simular mouse. Do
you remember during installation when you configured the country, time
zone, mouse, & etc. That is where you should have configured it. You
can now use MCC to configure the mouse. Double click on the star flag
on the desktop select configure in the lower left hand corner and enter
your root password then explore you should find the mouse under
hardware or system.
> > The mouse still does not work and
> > he seems to have screwed up the number key pad being used as the
> > moving force for his cursor. He can figure that out I am sure.
> >
Thats the tough way.
> > I do not think that the urpmi stuff will help him yet as he is not
> > online as the modem has not been detected either and he wants to
> > figure out the mouse problem first.
> >
Did you upgrade from windows? If so you probably have a winmodem and it
is very tough to get one of those working. You would be waaaaaaaaaaay
ahead to trash it and purchase an external real modem for as little as
$18.00 up. The difference is a Winmodem is missing a chip. That chip
is a controller chip which windows uses the cpu to replace making the
cpu work harder and downloads slower as a result. A modem with a
controller chip is called a Real Modem or A Hardware Modem or
sometimes an External Modem but not a USB modem.
> > I went to the "easy urpmi" site and can't understand what they ae
> > talking about. Remember that I am using Win98 (be kind). What the
> > devil do they mean by "type this in a console" (I can wrap my brain
> > around the "as root" part). Console?
They mean a Terminal clear. Go to the linux system click on the Star
on the left of the taskbar when the menu pops up go to Systems and
click on Terminal "thats what they mean" There is also on my task bar a
TV screen(in black & white) that is the same thing. It is easyer to set
up the Terminal/Console to su <root password> first it will appear in
the taskbar then go to easyurpmi set everything up and move the cursor
to the first letter in "type this in a console" press left button and
while continuing holding down the left button highlight the entire
message. Then recall the Terminal/Console you previously set up and
press button 2 or 1&3 together, That should do it but sometimes its
necessary to hit enter. After that urpmi should be working and
everything should be present. It would be better to do this on a week
day since some of the mirrors can go flaky and it appears they are not
well maintained over the weedend.
> >
> > Lorin is also getting a notice on loading that "loading default
> > keymap failed". Does this have anything to do with the mouse
> > problem or is it some other problem altogether?
> > Your in ignerce,
> > Tom
> >
You really need to learn to speak linux.
> > Dennis Myers wrote:
> >>On Wednesday 22 September 2004 09:20 pm, Tom & Karen Pino wrote:
> >>>Hi All,
> >>>Update on mouse problem. He reinstalled the system. Now the menu
> >>> that drakconf brings up works. The mouse does not. Has error
> >>> message.
> >>>
> >>>While loading shared library: libgpm.so.1: cannot open shared
> >>> object file: no such file or directory.
> >>>
> >>>What does he do now?
> >>>Just call us ignernt,
> >>>Tom
> >>
> >>try installing the gpm rpm and associated libraries . Urpmi should
> >> do it for you. HTH : )
> >>
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