How and where do I install? (Mandrake 9.1)
25 February 2004, 12:50 PM
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How and where do I install? (Mandrake 9.1)
The answer is probably staring me in the face, but I can't work it out today.
I've downloaded Firefox 0.8 for Linux to my laptop (running Mandrake 9.1) and cannot work out where the extracted files need to go, how to get them there, or how to get an icon (shortcut) onto the Applications Menus.
Linux illiterate, so please be gentle with me
I've downloaded Firefox 0.8 for Linux to my laptop (running Mandrake 9.1) and cannot work out where the extracted files need to go, how to get them there, or how to get an icon (shortcut) onto the Applications Menus.
Linux illiterate, so please be gentle with me
25 February 2004, 04:08 PM
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Another Madrake question.
PC does not shut down properly. Click on Logout > Shutdown Computer (or Logoff) and screen goes blank but never actually gets to a point where I can power off / log on again. On restart I get an "unclean close" message.
Any ideas on a solution?
PC does not shut down properly. Click on Logout > Shutdown Computer (or Logoff) and screen goes blank but never actually gets to a point where I can power off / log on again. On restart I get an "unclean close" message.
Any ideas on a solution?
25 February 2004, 04:11 PM
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Originally Posted by Fig
The answer is probably staring me in the face, but I can't work it out today.
I've downloaded Firefox 0.8 for Linux to my laptop (running Mandrake 9.1) and cannot work out where the extracted files need to go, how to get them there, or how to get an icon (shortcut) onto the Applications Menus.
Linux illiterate, so please be gentle with me
I've downloaded Firefox 0.8 for Linux to my laptop (running Mandrake 9.1) and cannot work out where the extracted files need to go, how to get them there, or how to get an icon (shortcut) onto the Applications Menus.
Linux illiterate, so please be gentle with me
HAHAHA, funny you should say this because I had the same thing last night. Firefox is packaged the same as Firebird was for the PC i.e a zipped file that contains all the files you need. Just untar it (double click and drag the files into your home drive) and just run the firefox icon. Drag the icon onto your 'taskbar' to keep it there.
You think thats hard work, just wait until you have to install the nvidia drivers OMG!!
25 February 2004, 07:12 PM
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I managed to untar it into my documents folder, and sussed out how to run it from there, but would imagine that Mandrake has an area for programs (similar to Program Files in Windows?)
26 February 2004, 03:13 PM
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Got annoyed with Mandrake today - wouldn't log off or shut down cleanly - had to force power off every time - even when working in 'failsafe' mode. As a result, Linux partition is no more - my laptop is now single booting into XP.
Will have to look at the other distros of linux instead, bummer seeing as I actually PAID for Mandrake 9.1
26 February 2004, 06:01 PM
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oh dear, I quite liked the look of SUSE but you have to install it over ftp which sucks. If I were you I would go for redhat, get the latest version from www.linuxiso.org.
I had a crappy problem with it yesterday when the bootloader (grub) bombed out the second the machine started loading. Had to put Mandrake cd in and rescue the damn thing, lost my linux partition, but luckily kept all the windows partitions.
I had a crappy problem with it yesterday when the bootloader (grub) bombed out the second the machine started loading. Had to put Mandrake cd in and rescue the damn thing, lost my linux partition, but luckily kept all the windows partitions.
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27 February 2004, 04:31 PM
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Hmmm, think I'll avoid it while it's still the test version - don't know enough about Linux yet to start installing betas
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