Thanks Rick, Paul, ET + more for your help! I very much appreciate it.
And a big thanks for the links to the how-to sites!
Jano
RickS wrote:
paul ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
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try opening a console (or terminal) and type 'menudrake'.
Check out the 'drakes' at Mandriva wiki page at:
http://mandriva.vmlinuz.ca/index.php/Main_Page
trhey automate just about everything for you.
in addition, go to http://www.tldp.org/guides.html
take a look at "Introduction to Linux - A Hands on Guide"
*freshly* updated this July. Also have a look here:
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/howtos.html
2.) Now using Mandrake 10, the first thing I did was download FireFox.
The install directions say "unzip to desired directory". In Linux, what
is the equivalent of the "program files" in windows?
Forget the download.
Well, the jump from 10 to 2006 is a large one (10, 10.1, 10.2,
2005, 2006) with many updates: kernel, udev, etc ...
Might as well do the install over and save the bandwidth
download/configuration time. Then try ET's advice about menudrak if
it does it again.
Mandriva has its own software management (urpmi) which takes care of
everything for you.
Go to the wiki again, and check it out. Also go to one of the 'easy
urpmi' sites such as:
http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/
enter the distribution (I assume 2006) tick go for main/contrib/plf free
& non-free, select a mirror, and follow the instructions. At this stage
don't go for 2007, and especially not cooker - 2006 is stable.
+1 this is a must 8)
After that you can either open the mandriva control centre, go to
software search for firefox to install, or you can go to a console again
and (as root - type 'su' and enter the root password) type 'urpmi
firefox' (or is it 'mozilla-firefox'?) and that's it.
Are you saying you downloaded the source packages for Firefox ?
if so, its a tarball and will need to be unpacked and then you'll
have to learn howto install from source.
Try this instead, Hawkwinds rpms at http://seerofsouls.com/index.php
and specifically http://seerofsouls.com/rpm2006.html to add it as an
urpmi source.
mozilla-firefox-1.5.0.4-2.1.20060.SoS.i586.rpm seems to be the latest
except at the http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/ its version 1.5.0.5.
They'll probably be an update for this version from SoS soon enough
though.
HTH 8)
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