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Let the questions begin!!
by Kelly Ash 24 Jul '02

24 Jul '02

Trying again... I'm not entirely clear on how the file/folder system works in here. Keeping in mind I'm used to using the OTHER OS, is it the same sort of structure? Where are the best/worst places to create folders so that I can remember where things are? Looks like user and home but I'd rather ask before I start trying to add folders etc... #2 - I see some programs (in a brochure that came with the user guide) that I supposedly have available to me but apparently I didn't load during the install. Can I put the install CD back in and load them now without going through the whole install again? Don't know if they'd be on the first CD or the Comm. Apps CD....hmmm......... #3 - In anticipation of installing Linux I began buying Linux Format mag and The Linux Magazine. The cover CD's, (and this more than likely has to do with my first question to some point) if I pop in the CD, then what? Will it automatically put things where they're supposed to go? From what I can gather not having tried it yet, there will be some other 'work' to do to get some of them installed too and they seem to give good directions. #4 - While reading through the user guide that came with my 'boxed set' and also a book called Teach Yourself Linux in 24 hours (yeah right! *g*). When they go through different steps on how to do things it tells me different commands to type but not where or what I should be in to type them!! It seemed a stupid question so I had my fiance try finding out in the books with no luck, so I'm asking. #5 - Have you dozed off yet? lol. There's way too much "space" around my windows. Is there some way to fix this within Linux so that I don't have to keep changing my monitor settings as I go back and forth with Bills product? OK, guess that's if for today. Hope they aren't silly questions......honestly I am researching but can't get to the answers fast enough, could be just a bit excited and impatient. Maybe. Kelly -------------------------------------------------------

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RE:Funny error message
by Ricardo Campos 24 Jul '02

24 Jul '02

Craig- make sure you submit this to the debian bug tracking system if you haven't already (I'm sure you have), otherwise it won't get fixed. -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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Re: [Alug] Seeing double
by Ricardo Campos 24 Jul '02

24 Jul '02

> I accidentally added two of the same applets to my panel and can't figure out > how to remove one of them. Probably not looking in the right place which > would be....? Right click on the applet, left click on "Remove from Panel". Gnome and KDE work a lot like windows interface-wise. Also, please tell us exactly which desktop manager you are using. i.e. KDE or Gnome. The answers may be slightly different. There are LOADS of window managers and they all work slightly differently. (Sometimes VERY differently). > And I don't think my last post got through so will send it off again, as an > addition to it; I asked about loading software from a coverdisc (how and to > where), also how would downloading from the internet work? As far as files > being places where they need to go or is that manual? I've received it 4 times now. Perhaps you have the option to see your own posts turned off in your mailing list settings? If you look in the archives (on the website), several people posted their suggestions. (I did I know) Downloading from the internet works the same way as it does in windows, only a little faster (I've noticed). In regards to the coverdiscs, my opinion on that was covered in a previous post. When installing programs, you can download rpm's anywhere. rpm -ivh packagename.rpm will install it and put all the packages in the right places,no matter where you downloaded the rpm files. (you need to be root to do this) You may find this handy: in a terminal type kelly@computer$ su it will ask for a password (the root password) type it in, hit enter You will get the prompt: root@computer# That's how you temporarily log in as root using a terminal. When you have finished doing whatever (i.e. installing rpm's), type exit to exit back to your normal user. If you ever need help on a command, type: man <program name> i.e. man rpm it will give you it's manual page. If you need to exit the man page, just press q (i.e. for quit). That took me ages to work out!!!! Trying Mandrakes software manager (see BJ's post) is recommended, it will download the rpms automatically, and install them too. i.e. learn to crawl before you try to run. Other than all the other suggestions people have made, I would say that maybe you just need to play a bit more, and be a little bit bolder. i.e. try these things out. If you are not logged in as root, then you can't do any *Serious* damage, and if you do, so what? Most people reinstall linux a few times when they start out- you learn from your mistakes (and I make a lot of them). Also, perhaps read one of those "Linux for Dummies" books from the library (or buy one). I always read up using those kinds of books when doing something new and then move on to more complicated books when I get the basics sorted in my head. Ricardo -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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jigdo woes
by Adam Bower 24 Jul '02

24 Jul '02

Hi all, just got back from work to find out that my jigdo download of Debian Woody CD1 has failed it says :- Aaargh - 1 files could not be downloaded. This should not happen! Depending on the problem, it may help to retry downloading the missing files. which it seems to keep trying to download the file driver-4.bin now this is a tad annoying as i can't burn the first CD, I have tried using 4 mirrors now so i feel that if the file is corrupt then somebody would have fixed it by now... Any ideas? /me wishes they would just offer normal .iso images :( Adam -- "Step away from the Cathedral, This Bazaar is loaded" jabberid = quinophex(a)jabber.earth.li

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Let the questions begin!!
by Kelly Ash 24 Jul '02

24 Jul '02

I'm not entirely clear on how the file/folder system works in here. Keeping in mind I'm used to using the OTHER OS, is it the same sort of structure? Where are the best/worst places to create folders so that I can remember where things are? Looks like user and home but I'd rather ask before I start trying to add folders etc... #2 - I see some programs (in a brochure that came with the user guide) that I supposedly have available to me but apparently I didn't load during the install. Can I put the install CD back in and load them now without going through the whole install again? Don't know if they'd be on the first CD or the Comm. Apps CD....hmmm......... #3 - In anticipation of installing Linux I began buying Linux Format mag and The Linux Magazine. The cover CD's, (and this more than likely has to do with my first question to some point) if I pop in the CD, then what? Will it automatically put things where they're supposed to go? From what I can gather not having tried it yet, there will be some other 'work' to do to get some of them installed too and they seem to give good directions. #4 - While reading through the user guide that came with my 'boxed set' and also a book called Teach Yourself Linux in 24 hours (yeah right! *g*). When they go through different steps on how to do things it tells me different commands to type but not where or what I should be in to type them!! It seemed a stupid question so I had my fiance try finding out in the books with no luck, so I'm asking. #5 - Have you dozed off yet? lol. There's way too much "space" around my windows. Is there some way to fix this within Linux so that I don't have to keep changing my monitor settings as I go back and forth with Bills product? OK, guess that's if for today. Hope they aren't silly questions......honestly I am researching but can't get to the answers fast enough, could be just a bit excited and impatient. Maybe. Kelly

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Seeing double
by Kelly Ash 24 Jul '02

24 Jul '02

I accidentally added two of the same applets to my panel and can't figure out how to remove one of them. Probably not looking in the right place which would be....? And I don't think my last post got through so will send it off again, as an addition to it; I asked about loading software from a coverdisc (how and to where), also how would downloading from the internet work? As far as files being places where they need to go or is that manual? Have this addy for Linux now. Thanks again, Kelly

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Funny error message
by Craig 24 Jul '02

24 Jul '02

Ran 'Links' on my web server to see some website was alive and when I quit the program.. it said: Memory leak by 28 bytes List of blocks: 0x8116438:52 @ dns.c:374 Forcing core dump Man the Lifeboats! Women and children first! Segmentation fault Woo! Oh the box is using debian, looks like they screwed up something? ;) -- Craig

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Re: [Alug] Let the questions begin!!
by Ricardo Campos 23 Jul '02

23 Jul '02

>#1 Think of /home as "My Documents". Put all your data there. All directories come off of / , which you can think of as similar to c: in windoze (similar, not the same). The structure is like a tree, with / as a root, and others coming off ass branches: /bin = where many essential binaries are kept /sbin = As above, but system binaries /home = If your username is "kelly", then your home directory is /home/kelly/ /lib = system libraries /usr = has a few things coming off it, mainly user-installed things i.e. /usr/games /usr/bin /usr/lib etc. /var = contains system logs and stuff (var=variable) > #2 - There's a mandrake packaging tool that's pretty good- BJ? > #3 - In anticipation of installing Linux I began buying Linux Format mag and > The Linux Magazine. I spent ages trying to get things off those CD's when I first started. I think I wasted a lot of time doing that. Get used to your system first, and when possible let the mandrake installer get you new packages. > #4 - While reading through the user guide that came with my 'boxed set' Look for programs that have "terminal" in the name. This will bring an old-school command line up- do them here. > #5 - Have you dozed off yet? lol. There's way too much "space" around my > windows. Not sure. May be just the difference between the drivers. I have to adjust my monitor, but only the few times when I boot into windoze. > OK, guess that's if for today. Hope they aren't silly > questions......honestly I am researching but can't get to the answers fast > enough, could be just a bit excited and impatient. Maybe. No, it's cool. I'm trying to write a good newbies guide to linux for my friends who are interested. I found this site helpful:- www.linuxnewbie.org Also, there is a Mandrake user website too. A lot of it is learning *how* to read the documentation. Some of it appears to be written by robots rather than humans. -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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Re: [Alug] which php version
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 23 Jul '02

23 Jul '02

Martyn Drake wrote: >PHP should install and overwrite whatever previous version is installed, >assuming that version 4.0.6 is installed in it's default directory and >that you've ensured that the right module is loaded within httpd.conf. >Look for the relavent LoadModule php4_module to find out where PHP has >been installed and compare that with what you've just compiled. I think it was originally not installed in the default directory and still isn't. I created a directory for them. under /. Perhaps why it all went wrong? OK - I found the new php4 directory, and also put the absolute paths for the psql.so etc libs into php.ini, and now I get the correct version and postgres support with the <?phpinfo> command. Excellent! Many thanks! Just one thing - php -v is still showing 4.0.6, even though I changed the php4lib.so module line in httpd.conf. >The latest version is now 4.2.2 ......... Thanks, grabbed that one now. This leads me to a further question for the debianites: - if I had used apt-get install php4 instead of compiling it myself, how would I have passed the configure-with options to php? Thanks Martyn, that has been driving me mad for days. Jenny.

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Re: [Alug] Debian Installation screen
by Ricardo Campos 23 Jul '02

23 Jul '02

> However, someone I know on IRC decided to try build a > basic "user friendly" installer. what, like this one? http://www.debianplanet.org/node.php?id=699 -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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