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I'm using Redhat right now but I would like to try something a little different. I was thinking about Xandros. Is anyone using this distro and if so what are the good and bad points besides tat its not free. Thanks

I'm trying to unlock my files using chmod. But I can't remember where to put the R to unlock all files at once. Like chmod 777 /home R Its been a while since I've been on my Linux box so go easy. Thanks Hollywood

I'm trying to install a printer driver from a tar file and need some help installing it I got out the book but it doesn't have much on installing tar. This is what I did and what happened [root@user name]# tar xzf install_drv_z42-0.4.1.tar.gz tar (child): install_drv_z42-0.4.1.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now tar: Child returned status 2 tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors [root@user name]# tar xzf install/home/hollywood_drv_z42-0.4.1.tar.gz tar (child): install/home/hollywood_drv_z42-0.4.1.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now tar: Child returned status 2 tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors [root@user name]# What am I doing wrong? Thanks Art 8)

Is there any reason of incompatibilty with OO 1.1 and RH 9. I have installed it using synaptic and when I start up my box I get a half dozen or so errors and the user screen has rectangular boxes in the with unreconizable icons/shapes in them. All of the error codes have to do with Gnome. I tried to uninstall OO but the errors are still there I have to reinstall the OS to get rid of them. Any Ideas Hollywood 8)

Yes it is a new install and the partition was formatted. I load it after installing lindows I can't say for such if the problem was there before I did that. But I believe once I installed Open is I started having trouble. Yes when I log in as root I get the Gnome desktop. Redhat did complete the install. I have one partition with /home/user/and all the directorys one for swap one for bootloader I believe. Not sure if this has anything to do with it but the Distro is called BLAG its a multimedia version of RH 9. When loading it looks just like a normal RH install besides the color that they used for the installer.

Well I quess its not the Open Office after all. I just did a reboot and I got the same boxes with red circles and the minus sign in the middle. Also the task bar is at the top and the back ground is all black. Is it possible that the hard drive partition is jazzed up. I am dual booted with xp and RH 9 is on a 10 gig partition that I use to test different distro's that appell to me. I've probally loaded this partition about 30-40 times :x I can log in as root fine but if I try to log in as the user it says that the home directory /home/user appears to be unavailable. At least its nice about it. ;( Or could my installation disc be bad Thanks Hollywood 8)

Thanks for the responce guys. What I had to do was reload RH 9. now how do I get gnumeric to open windows excel files. What I have are xlr files which gnumeric does not recognize if I change them to xls files it is recognized but pops up a error that it is not a OLE file and maybe to old to open???????? I also can not get word docs to open either is there a site that explains how to set this up?? Thanks 8)

I'm running Blag a Red Hat 9 distro. I removed one of the little divders that is in the lower panel. Now when ever I open something that program does not appear in the bar so if I minimize it it disappears completely. If go to open up the browser it pops up a box saying that it is already in use. Duh :x I know that but how do I get the divder back so my programs will appear in the panel. Sorry if I'm vag on this one Thanks

Thanks Dan that did it

Anyone hear when the free trial for Xandros is going to be made available. 8)

147 hits ??? I'll take that as a no ;(

Dan don't be sorry you helped me more in the last few weeks then anyone has over the last year it was a extreme pleasure to have someone take the time and help out rather then reply back RTFM. If I figure this out I will let you know what I did Thanks Again Art

I think I ran into a major snafu with this one. No matter what I do it tells me that gtk is installed but in terminal it say's its not???

Sorry myself I worked throught he last error message. This is what I get now when I go try and install it it say's that the package is already installed??? I updated synaptic and tried again with the same results. [root@01flht z42tool]# ./configure checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for gawk... gawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking for style of include used by make... GNU checking for gcc... gcc checking for C compiler default output... a.out checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of executables... checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3 checking for strerror in -lcposix... no checking for gcc... (cached) gcc checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... (cached) yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... (cached) none needed checking dependency style of gcc... (cached) gcc3 checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E checking for egrep... grep -E checking for ANSI C header files... yes checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config checking for GTK+ - version >= 2.0.0... no *** Could not run GTK+ test program, checking why... *** The test program failed to compile or link. See the file config.log for the *** exact error that occured. This usually means GTK+ is incorrectly installed. configure: error: Cannot find GTK: Is gtk-config in path? [root@01flht z42tool]# When looking in synaptic for the gtk-config package it is not listed but when I download the rpm and install it it tells me that it is already installed. When serching synaptic for GTK+ it shows this package gtk+devel which is installed. At the end of the error it reads Is gtk-config in path? how do I check for that? Glad you came back I thought I scared you away

checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config checking for GTK+ - version >= 2.0.0... no *** Could not run GTK+ test program, checking why... *** The test program failed to compile or link. See the file config.log for the *** exact error that occured. This usually means GTK+ is incorrectly installed. configure: error: Cannot find GTK: Is gtk-config in path? [root@01flht z42tool]# rpm -Uvh pkgconfig-0.14.0-3.i386.rpm error: open of pkgconfig-0.14.0-3.i386.rpm failed: No such file or directory [root@01flht z42tool]# rpm -Uvh pkgconfig-0.14.0-3.i386.rpm error: open of pkgconfig-0.14.0-3.i386.rpm failed: No such file or directory [root@01flht z42tool]# [root@01flht z42tool]# Dapper this is what I get from the terminal but if I try to install the package by double clicking the icon it says that the package is already installed. Is there a way around this. If I'm understanding this package it is for help on installing or running a GUI package. Since all is I want is to install a driver I shouldn't need the pkgconfig anyway's correct?? ;( Or am I missing something here :x

[root@01flht z42tool]# ./configure checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for gawk... gawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking for style of include used by make... GNU checking for gcc... gcc checking for C compiler default output... a.out checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of executables... checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3 checking for strerror in -lcposix... no checking for gcc... (cached) gcc checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... (cached) yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... (cached) none needed checking dependency style of gcc... (cached) gcc3 checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E checking for egrep... grep -E checking for ANSI C header files... yes checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no checking for pkg-config... no checking for GTK+ - version >= 2.0.0... no *** A new enough version of pkg-config was not found. *** See http://pkgconfig.sourceforge.net configure: error: Cannot find GTK: Is gtk-config in path? [root@01flht z42tool]# n bash: n: command not found [root@01flht z42tool]# ./configure checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for gawk... gawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking for style of include used by make... GNU checking for gcc... gcc checking for C compiler default output... a.out checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of executables... checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3 checking for strerror in -lcposix... no checking for gcc... (cached) gcc checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... (cached) yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... (cached) none needed checking dependency style of gcc... (cached) gcc3 checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E checking for egrep... grep -E checking for ANSI C header files... yes checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config checking for GTK+ - version >= 2.0.0... no *** Could not run GTK+ test program, checking why... *** The test program failed to compile or link. See the file config.log for the *** exact error that occured. This usually means GTK+ is incorrectly installed. configure: error: Cannot find GTK: Is gtk-config in path? [root@01flht z42tool]# cd /home/hollywood/Software [root@01flht Software]# rpm-Uvh gtkhtml2-2.2.0-5.i386.rpm bash: rpm-Uvh: command not found [root@01flht Software]# rpm -Uvh gtkhtml2-2.2.0-5.i386.rpm warning: gtkhtml2-2.2.0-5.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID db42a60e Preparing... ########################################### [100%] package gtkhtml2-2.2.0-5 is already installed [root@01flht Software]# rpm -Uvh gtk2-2.2.1-4.i386.rpm warning: gtk2-2.2.1-4.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID db42a60e Preparing... ########################################### [100%] package gtk2-2.2.1-4 is already installed [root@01flht Software]# As you can see I'm getting there. This is just the last bit of what I ahve been doing. But quess what it needs something else Should I get rid of the red carpet deal??? I have to tell you I have learned more about linux in the last 2-3 days then in the last year I can not tell you how much I apprecaite your patience with me on this. When reading in a manual or getting other advise it has never been explained the way you have Thank you I would think from what we have done so far I'm one step from getting this driver installed

I also cd /var/lib/rpm/packages when changing permissions to no avail. I also went into the directory manually and checked the permissions and they were set at 644 I tried again nothing I then changed to777 and still zip. :x

Your going to love this one ;( I logged in has root because nothing was making sense so here is what I came up with. root@01flht root]# chmod 644 /var/lib/rpm /packages chmod: failed to get attributes of `/packages': No such file or directory [root@01flht root]# chown rpm /var/lib/rpm/packages chown: failed to get attributes of `/var/lib/rpm/packages': No such file or directory [root@01flht root]# I also downloaded the rpm and then double clicked on the rpm icon for gcc. A box pops up and reads that it is preparing for system update / processing headers then reading package dependecies. The box then disappears and nothing happens. I also tried synaptic again but when I type in gcc and hit enter it shows nothing. I went into red carpet and checked for updates on installed and availabe software the only thing that comes up in red carpet is a package called libgcc 3.2.2-5 I then tried to install the driver again as above thinking that I had the correct dependecies. and it stopped as before stating thjat no compiler was in the path. I really apprecaited the help. Because I am more determined to get this now more then ever 8)

[hollywood@01flht hollywood]$ su Password: [root@01flht hollywood]# apt-get update Get:1 http://www.blagblagblag.org 9000/i386 release [925B] Fetched 925B in 0s (1973B/s) Hit http://www.blagblagblag.org 9000/i386/os pkglist Hit http://www.blagblagblag.org 9000/i386/os release Hit http://www.blagblagblag.org 9000/i386/updates pkglist Hit http://www.blagblagblag.org 9000/i386/updates release Get:1 http://www.blagblagblag.org 9000/i386/errata pkglist [50.7kB] Hit http://www.blagblagblag.org 9000/i386/errata release Fetched 50.7kB in 0s (52.8kB/s) error: cannot get exclusive lock on /var/lib/rpm/Packages error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - Operation not permitted (1) error: cannot open Packages database in E: could not open RPM database [root@01flht hollywood]# This is what I get when doing a apt-get update. When I try synaptic and type in gcc and hit enter it does nothing like the package is not even there.

After I download the rpm when trying to install the box pops up reading preparing system for update then it disappears and nothing happens. This seems to happen alot. The funny thing is I have synaptic installed and when typing in gcc it shows nothing. So I tried to install it from a tar bal and I got has far tar xvf gcc-3.3.2 all of the items in there popped up in the terminal screen but I could not figure out how to install it. I did ./install-sh and /install-sh. Not sure if that was the correct thing to do or not. The big thing would be to get the rpm install to work I logged in as root then went to software dir. and changed the permissions for the rpm to 777 and it still did the same thing (preparing system for update) then nothing. ;(

I'm using BLAG its a multimedia version of Red Hat 9. I really appreciate your patience with me. I've read manuals til I was blue in the face and some times you just need to be walked through stuff like this. Thanks again for your time Art 8)

Dan I tried this twice and got the same error [hollywood@01flht hollywood]$ su Password: [root@01flht hollywood]# gunzip drv_z42-0.4.1.tar.gz gunzip: drv_z42-0.4.1.tar.gz: No such file or directory [root@01flht hollywood]# cd /home/hollywood/Software [root@01flht Software]# gunzip drv_z42-0.4.1.tar.gz [root@01flht Software]# tar xvf drv_z42-0.4.1.tar drv_z42/ drv_z42/COPYING drv_z42/ChangeLog drv_z42/README drv_z42/src/ drv_z42/src/z42_cmyk.c drv_z42/z42tool/ drv_z42/z42tool/src/ drv_z42/z42tool/src/z42tool.c drv_z42/z42tool/src/Makefile.in drv_z42/z42tool/src/z42tool.h drv_z42/z42tool/src/main.c drv_z42/z42tool/src/Makefile.am drv_z42/z42tool/src/support.h drv_z42/z42tool/src/support.c drv_z42/z42tool/src/interface.h drv_z42/z42tool/src/interface.c drv_z42/z42tool/README drv_z42/z42tool/pixmaps/ drv_z42/z42tool/pixmaps/logo2.png drv_z42/z42tool/install-sh drv_z42/z42tool/autogen.sh drv_z42/z42tool/configure.ac drv_z42/z42tool/Makefile.am drv_z42/z42tool/stamp-h.in drv_z42/z42tool/acconfig.h drv_z42/z42tool/aclocal.m4 drv_z42/z42tool/missing drv_z42/z42tool/config.h.in drv_z42/z42tool/mkinstalldirs drv_z42/z42tool/Makefile.in drv_z42/z42tool/configure drv_z42/z42tool/depcomp drv_z42/INSTALL drv_z42/TODO drv_z42/FAQ [root@01flht Software]# cd drv_z42 [root@01flht drv_z42]# ls ChangeLog COPYING FAQ INSTALL readme README src TODO z42tool [root@01flht drv_z42]# cd z42tool/ [root@01flht z42tool]# ls acconfig.h config.h.in depcomp Makefile.in pixmaps stamp-h.in aclocal.m4 configure install-sh missing README autogen.sh configure.ac Makefile.am mkinstalldirs src [root@01flht z42tool]# ./configure checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for gawk... gawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking for style of include used by make... GNU checking for gcc... no checking for cc... no checking for cc... no checking for cl... no configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH See `config.log' for more details. [root@01flht z42tool]#

[hollywood@01flht hollywood]$ su Password: [root@01flht hollywood]# gunzip drv_z42-0.4.1.tar.gz gunzip: drv_z42-0.4.1.tar.gz: No such file or directory [root@01flht hollywood]# chmod 777/home/hollywood/drv_z42 chmod: too few arguments Try `chmod --help' for more information. [root@01flht hollywood]# cd /home/hollywood/software bash: cd: /home/hollywood/software: No such file or directory [root@01flht hollywood]# cd /home/hollywood/Software [root@01flht Software]# gunzip drv_z42-0.4.1.tar.gz [root@01flht Software]# tar xvf drv_z42-0.4.1.tar drv_z42/ drv_z42/COPYING drv_z42/ChangeLog drv_z42/README drv_z42/src/ drv_z42/src/z42_cmyk.c drv_z42/z42tool/ drv_z42/z42tool/src/ drv_z42/z42tool/src/z42tool.c drv_z42/z42tool/src/Makefile.in drv_z42/z42tool/src/z42tool.h drv_z42/z42tool/src/main.c drv_z42/z42tool/src/Makefile.am drv_z42/z42tool/src/support.h drv_z42/z42tool/src/support.c drv_z42/z42tool/src/interface.h drv_z42/z42tool/src/interface.c drv_z42/z42tool/README drv_z42/z42tool/pixmaps/ drv_z42/z42tool/pixmaps/logo2.png drv_z42/z42tool/install-sh drv_z42/z42tool/autogen.sh drv_z42/z42tool/configure.ac drv_z42/z42tool/Makefile.am drv_z42/z42tool/stamp-h.in drv_z42/z42tool/acconfig.h drv_z42/z42tool/aclocal.m4 drv_z42/z42tool/missing drv_z42/z42tool/config.h.in drv_z42/z42tool/mkinstalldirs drv_z42/z42tool/Makefile.in drv_z42/z42tool/configure drv_z42/z42tool/depcomp drv_z42/INSTALL drv_z42/TODO drv_z42/FAQ [root@01flht Software]# /install-sh bash: /install-sh: No such file or directory [root@01flht Software]# cd drv_z42/ [root@01flht drv_z42]# /install-sh bash: /install-sh: No such file or directory [root@01flht drv_z42]# vi readme [root@01flht drv_z42]# /install-sh bash: /install-sh: No such file or directory Dan this is what I came up with the story of my life no such file or directory When going into readme all that shows up is a bunch of vertical bars on the left of the terminal box. Am I trying to bite off more then I can chew here? This is my last step in ditching M$ eveerything else I do works good I just can not print with my printer. I quess my other option would be buy a new printer Thanks Art

Dapper, Thanks for the response I believe I did the cd I'm a green horn with Linux but I'm doing my best here is what I tried from your post. [hollywood@01flht hollywood]$ cd /home/hollywood/drv_z42 [hollywood@01flht drv_z42]$ [hollywood@01flht drv_z42]$ gunzip install_drv_z42-0.4.1.tar.gz gunzip: install_drv_z42-0.4.1.tar.gz: No such file or directory [hollywood@01flht drv_z42]$ cd /home/hollywood [hollywood@01flht hollywood]$ gunzip install_drv_z42-0.4.1.tar.gz gunzip: install_drv_z42-0.4.1.tar.gz: No such file or directory [hollywood@01flht hollywood]$ What do you see that I'm doing wrong :x

I'm relatively new to linux and all of the distros which most of you probably know. This is just a general question/ poll. I'm wondering what distro's have the pro's and not so pro's tried and which one do you use the most. Here's my list Started with Mandrake 9 and 9.1 for a newbie its to adjustable Red Hat 9 Loved it is easy to install and for the most part set up Vector text installs get me in trouble Peanut 9.5 Looks like its nice but I got as far as the driver install and it locked up?? Damn Small and Aidios Text install again Libranet Here I'm getting the hang of the text install but I could get use to it Lycrois Well even for me its a no brainer Ark Linux Waiting for tje final release the test release has a bug that won't let me fully install but it looks cool Red Hat 10 / Fedora Project 2nd release good Red Hat but will wait for the final The last one is called Linux Install 1.4 its based off of Red Hat 8 and has every thing any newbie could want easy to install and set up its the one i always seem to end up with hope the guy updates to the lastest if he has the time. I managed to dual boot all of these with XP with out having to reload it. Again I was just wondering Hollywood