--- Mark Street [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Comments below
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Since Red Hat stopped supporting that distribution
with bug fixes and updates
sometime ago you really should take a look at
http://fedoralegacy.org for
your updates and bug fixes, I am sure you can add
their repository to
You are not using fedora.us or livna I hope. Personally I use freshrpms.net
and dag.
Here are the sites in my RH9 box yum.conf file and sources.list.
[base]
name=Red Hat Linux $releasever base
baseurl=http://download.fedoralegacy.org/redhat/$releasever/os/$basearch
[updates]
name=Red Hat
OK,
I downloaded apt-0.5.5cnc6-fr1.i386.rpm
Then here is the screen log:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] downloads]$ rpm -Uvh
apt-0.5.5cnc6-fr1.i386.rpm
warning: apt-0.5.5cnc6-fr1.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature:
NOKEY, key ID e42d547b
error: cannot get exclusive lock on
/var/lib/rpm/Packages
error: cannot open
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OK,
I downloaded apt-0.5.5cnc6-fr1.i386.rpm
Then here is the screen log:
Take a deep breath You must be the root user in order to install packages
onto the system. It would also be a good idea to import the public
encryption key from the site where you downloaded apt from.
I have not jumped into this thread because I am still a bit new around here
and I don't
Hey I got the apt-get package going, and the Synaptic
front end...
Things just keep getting better.
Thank
Kevin
--- Nancy Anthracite [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Synaptic is slower but very nice and user friendly
front end for the apt
package manager. I used it when I was using Red Hat
and
Mark,
VERY good information. Thank you very much.
I just got the apt-get system working, and a front end
named synaptic.
I'm going to play with it some now.
Thanks!
Kevin
--- Mark Street [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Take a deep breath You must be the root user in
order to install
I think my apt-get has crashed. Here is a screenlog:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# apt-get install k3b
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
flac id3lib libmad
The following NEW packages will be installed:
flac id3lib k3b
If the permissions and paths on your PC require k3b to be run as root,
then use the following sequence of commands, unless root is the user
initially logged in:
As the normal user: xhost + (since the user who is logged in owns the
display, s/he must give permission to other users to open a window
After the great advice given on this board, I have
decided to get k3b going. I did cdrecord --scanbus,
and sure enough my DVD is there.
I got the k3b source from:
http://www.k3b.org/
The problem is that I need to compile it from source,
because there is no recent precompiled binary
available
I found an apt repository for the RPM of that for red hat 9 with the info on
this page. http://k3b.plainblack.com/index.pl/download#93
Are you familiar with apt? Assuming you have apt installed, enter the
appropriate lines in that file next to the * and then, as root
apt-get update
with the official repositories only.
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Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] Linux question: Setting up DVD for backup
Date: Wednesday 23 March 2005 10:01 am
From: Nancy Anthracite [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net
I found an apt repository
Kevin --
K3b is a standard component of KDE, and a package for a major version of
a major Linux distribution like Red Hat 9 is almost certain to exist. I
went to http://rpm.pbone.net and sure enough found several RPMs for RH9.
Looks like dvd+rw-tools does not use configure. If you want to
. There are
multiple choices.
Regards
-- Bhaskar
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
on behalf of Kevin
Toppenberg
Sent: Sun 3/20/2005 5:36 PM
To: Hardhats Sourceforge
Cc:
Subject:[Hardhats-members] Linux question:
Setting up DVD for backup
I know
To: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] Linux question: Setting up DVD for backup
After the great advice given on this board, I have
decided to get k3b going. I did cdrecord --scanbus,
and sure enough my DVD is there.
I got the k3b source from:
http://www.k3b.org
Yikes!
On Tuesday 22 March 2005 07:05, Bhaskar, KS wrote:
If the permissions and paths on your PC require k3b to be run as root,
then use the following sequence of commands, unless root is the user
initially logged in:
As the normal user: xhost + (since the user who is logged in owns the
No I am not familiar with apt. Someone else had
posted instructions for using it too. But I don't
know how to install the system.
Kevin
--- Nancy Anthracite [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I found an apt repository for the RPM of that for
red hat 9 with the info on
this page.
Bhaskar,
Thanks for the links.
Lets talk about support for a few minutes. What do
you think I would be getting in terms of support? For
example, in this issue with me attaching a DVD drive,
would this have been something I would write to my
Redhat support service about?
Thanks
Kevin
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choices.
Regards
-- Bhaskar
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
on behalf of Kevin
Toppenberg
Sent: Sun 3/20/2005 5:36 PM
To: Hardhats Sourceforge
Cc:
Subject:[Hardhats-members] Linux question:
Setting up DVD for backup
I know
I didn't receive KS Bhaskar's reply referenced below, my comments are below,
snipped for brevity.
On Tuesday 22 March 2005 06:56, Nancy Anthracite wrote:
My impression is that K3B is very smart, much smarter than I am, thank
goodness! But, you generally need to start K3b as root if you want
I need a reliable backup solution for my linux server.
Here are methods I have explored, unsuccessfully so
far. Let me first mention that our office also has a
new Windows Server running our billing package. My
initial thoughts were to copy my linux data to the
Windows server, and then let
Here is something else you may want to consider: Unison - a file sync
tool for Unix and Windows
http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/
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For clarity, Unison, rsync, or any technique that copies files or parts
of files when the database is in use will not work very well, and the
copy will be corrupt. This is because GT.M is constantly updating the
database when it is in use (unless you freeze updates).
Let's separate the two
To: Hardhats Sourceforge
Cc:
Subject:[Hardhats-members] Linux question:
Setting up DVD for backup
I know this question is a bit off-topic for the
board.
If you all have a better place for me to ask, just
let me know.
I need a reliable backup solution for my linux
server
Thanks,
This info is very helpful. I appreciate your reply!
Kevin
--- ibk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Kevin,
upgrades etc. It seems that cdrtools is one route
to
use. I would have to purchase a commercial
license.
The money is not such an issue, but I would want to
be
sure it was
Mark,
Comments below:
--- Mark Street [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Whoa, quite a bit here...
1. Windows bites, do it our way or the highway.
Yes, I agree. And do it our way, that we obfuscate...
2. Samba - Get yourself the book by John Terpstra -
Samba 3 By Example -
Practical
Thank you. You (and everyone else too) have been
quite helpful. I will have to digest the information
on these links.
Thanks
Kevin
--- Ismet Kursunoglu, MD [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I need a reliable backup solution for my linux
server.
Here are methods I have explored, unsuccessfully
in Boston. There are
multiple choices.
Regards
-- Bhaskar
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Kevin
Toppenberg
Sent: Sun 3/20/2005 5:36 PM
To: Hardhats Sourceforge
Cc:
Subject:[Hardhats-members] Linux question: Setting up DVD for backup
I know this question
Kevin,
upgrades etc. It seems that cdrtools is one route to
use. I would have to purchase a commercial license.
The money is not such an issue, but I would want to be
sure it was going to work.
As Bhaskar mentioned k3b is an excellent solution for burning CD and DVD's.
On this 64 bit
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