On Tuesday 28 March 2006 11:31 pm, Support Climbed A Telegraph Pole and Clicked: > > Why not use the mandriva rpm instead of doing all that > > compiling? urpmi > > ftp://ftp.esat.net/pub/linux/mandrakelinux/official/2006.0/i58 > > 6/media/main/rdesktop-1.4.1-1mdk.i586.rpm > Not an answer really but I hope it helps. > benja22 > > > That would certainly work, thank you. Wonder why when I went looking > for an rpm to begin with, it didn't return any found? At any rate, > thank you very much.
I suggest going to this site http://addmedia.linuxfornewbies.org/ go through the step for your arch (type arch in a terminal if you aren't sure) and distro. select mirrors for main, updates, contrib, plf-free and plf-nonfree Once those are set up you can use urpmi to install thousands of packages. urpmi.update -a && urpmi --auto-select will update your whole system urpmi xchat will install xchat urpmq perl- will give a list of all the packages that begin with perl- urpmf libacl.so.1 will tell you that that file is in the package libacl1 man urpmi man urpmq will explain other things you can do with them. you can use urpmi or gurpmi from the gui package managers or at the command line. Hope this helps too. :) benja22 > ____________________________________________________ > Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? > Go to http://store.mandriva.com > Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com > ____________________________________________________ -- I got this powdered water -- now I don't know what to add. -- Steven Wright ____________________________________________________ Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com ____________________________________________________
