Re: A mandrake and a KDE 3 question + general impressions

2002-10-17 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Oded Arbel wrote: The switch back to the RPM system is a bit traumatic for me. I MISS APT-GET! I managed to find a tool that will let me install a package by name if it's on the Mandrake CDs, and that's fine as far as it gets. Like my esteemed colleges have

Re: A mandrake and a KDE 3 question + general impressions

2002-10-17 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Oded Arbel wrote: The switch back to the RPM system is a bit traumatic for me. I MISS APT-GET! I managed to find a tool that will let me install a package by name if it's on the Mandrake CDs, and that's fine as far as it gets. Like my

Re: A mandrake and a KDE 3 question + general impressions

2002-10-17 Thread Oded Arbel
On Thursday 17 October 2002 09:38 am, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: In that sense a more relevant question is: would urpmi allow me to upgrade a live system from a default installation of mandrake 8.2 to mandrake 9.0? Technologically it is possible. Buyt does it actually work? What are the chances of

Re: A mandrake and a KDE 3 question + general impressions

2002-10-17 Thread Oded Arbel
On Thursday 17 October 2002 10:36 am, Shachar Shemesh wrote: I'll add to what Tzafrir said - The reason I was using the same distro without reinstalling before this crash came along is that, with debian, you don't need to. The system was kept up to date with practically no effort on my side.

A mandrake and a KDE 3 question + general impressions

2002-10-16 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Hi list, After a recent partition table oops, I had to reinstall my entire HD :-(. I chose mandrake, partly to see what all the fuss is about, and mostly because my previous distro (debian) didn't carry KDE 3 in any conceivably convinent manner. Follows is my impressions from the

Re: A mandrake and a KDE 3 question + general impressions

2002-10-16 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
I was VERY impressed with the install process. I chose Advanced mode installation, but the bottom line is that everything was autodetected (except for the fact that my mouse has a wheel, for some strange reason). This even includes a USB HP scanner! Very impressive. The only problem I found

Re: A mandrake and a KDE 3 question + general impressions

2002-10-16 Thread Alex Chudnovsky
On Wednesday 16 October 2002 17:09, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: for typing? KDE 3 and QT 3 are full unicode. Just define your keyboard to hebrew and type away. You can also set locale and hebrew translation of KDE from the kcontrol. Yes, that's exactly why there is now even no possibility to choose

Re: A mandrake and a KDE 3 question + general impressions

2002-10-16 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Shachar Shemesh wrote: The switch back to the RPM system is a bit traumatic for me. I MISS APT-GET! I managed to find a tool that will let me install a package by name if it's on the Mandrake CDs, and that's fine as far as it gets. urpmi. RTFM urmpi.addmedia to see

Re: A mandrake and a KDE 3 question + general impressions

2002-10-16 Thread Oded Arbel
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Re: A mandrake and a KDE 3 question + general impressions

2002-10-16 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Shachar Shemesh, from the post of Wed, 16 Oct: mostly because my previous distro (debian) didn't carry KDE 3 in any conceivably convinent manner. Follows is my impressions from the deb http://download.us.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/3.0.3/Debian ./ deb http://people.debian.org/~bab/kde3