It's working again. Updates are installed and update-menus got everything working again.
Thanks On Tuesday 28 October 2003 07:50 am, Sinner from the Prairy wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Monday 27 October 2003 05:40 pm, Merle Watts wrote: > > dont know how to launch an application from xtem. > > - From KDE press ALT + F2 keys. You will get the KDE-Run application > launcher. Write "xterm" and you will get a terminal. > > To launch a program from a terminal, just write the name of the program and > press enter. > > For example, to change to superuser (root) type "su - " with no quotes > (the hyphen is important). You will be asked for the password. Enter the > administrator's (root) password. > > To restore your menus, as root, type "update-menus -v " . This will bring > back your menu entries. > > To launch the Mandrake Control Center, as administrator user (root), type > "drakconf" and press enter. You will get the GUI. You know how to use it. > > To get a list of installed programs (any user can do this) type: > "rpm -qa | sort | less". This will give you a sorted list of all the > installed packages in your system. > > Here you have a Mandrake Guide on how to sue the command line: > http://doc.mandrakelinux.com/MandrakeLinux/91/en/Command-Line.html/ > > And here is the same guide in PDF version: > http://doc.mandrakelinux.com/MandrakeLinux/91/en/Command-Line.pdf > > > I loose a lot of things > > from the k menu. > > As I told you before, this is a known bug that should be solved with the > "update-menus -v " comamnd. > > > Open office is currently there. If I do the security > > updates it will disappear from the menus. > > When / If they disappear, do the "update-menus -v" again. > > > > > Salut, > Sinner > - -- > Visit my website! http://www.ibiblio.org/sinner/ > Running on Mandrake Linux 9.0 - Kernel 2.4.19smp Linux User # 89976 > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQE/nmYwSGQa4/zQ9e8RAhwhAJ4m5jxd1i9l/4YqJw2OvPYE+6XSbQCdGl/i > JEbWXI9foSQ7Zj4I3MDGYbA= > =UT7P > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
