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Help me! I'm spoiled by Win98 but i want Linux!
Calum:
well i think they will install, they are all -devel packages, you see. if you did a normal install of mandrake, none of the development stuff will have been installed, because mandrake assumes you won't want to compile programs (this is probably the reason you get so many errors compiling your other things from source too). All you need to do is install all the development stuff off your CD and it should work fine. as i say, if the packages are on your CD, it might be worth using urpmi to install them, because i think it has a built in thing that automatically checks for dependencies and installs other stuff off the CD if required too. another way to do this is to run the mandrake installer again, you just boot from CD1 and then instead of selecting 'install' you can just select 'upgrade' and then when you get to package selection, select all the development stuff. then it will install all that stuff and next time you reboot all the stuff will have been installed.
Calum:
that's odd stuff with amsn, one thing i will recommend, try if possible when downloading to use rpms that are meant for mandrake (if using mandrake) because a lot are made for red hat and some are made for suse, and often these will give you funny errors like that, perhaps this is the problem this time, perhaps not.
if a program does not specify a particular system then it is probably okay. i seem to remember i had problems installing amsn in mandrake 8.2 but not in 9.0. note - i just had a look at the amsn site at amsn.sourceforge.net and their rpms are not specific to any system and should install okay on mandrake. is that the site where you got your rpm from? if so then i can't understand why it's not working. i know it is a cop out but i would personally recommend using gaim instead, available from http://gaim.sourceforge.net/ if i were you i would go for the one called gaim-0.61-1.i386.rpm and failing that i would go for the gaim-0.61-1.src.rpm because by that time you will have installed all those development packages off the CD that i mentioned and will have no problems with these source rpms. gaim can do the job of msn and it can also allow you to chat on yahoo, aim, icq, irc and a bunch of other networks too, all in one program.
it gets easier i promise.
[ April 09, 2003: Message edited by: Calum: crusader for peace & freedom ]
Lennon:
Well i only could afford the luxury of downloading the first CD, and when it was installing the first time, i carefully chose EVERYTHING that was on the list to be installed. I'll find all these things online now, and i think when i was compiling those other things i saw similar -dev things... i think...
Still the question remains: whats wrong with the OTHER rpms - like trackball?
Lennon:
Yeah i got that amsn from sourceforge.
I just installed it went to console and type amsn and thats what i got. Maybe i should have done something else?
If i installed it right should there be an executable file somewhere, can i make a desktop shortcut??? something?
And i know it gets easier, i have a lot of patience. Window$ pissed me off beyond point of return so its either this or death and so far i choose this!
The problem most likely is that i'm just plain dumb
And is there a good site where i can get up-to-date development files from or are they pretty much scattered around? Which are the most commonly used ones, are there any specific ones i might need more?
edit: Now i went to get a Lunar Lander game (http://magigames.org/moonlander.html) and it says it needs SDL 1.2 so i go and download the Runtime Library (http://www.libsdl.org/release/SDL-1.2.5-1.i386.rpm) and during install it tells me theres some conflict dependencies with another SDL thing. But when i run the program ./moon-lander.bin it tells me theres NO SDL.... erm... well theres always the window$ version :(
I'll download the Development Libraries!
Download finished.
Installed properly.
Game still doesnt see any SDL shared libraries... :(
oh shit, that mixer and image things are seperate! need to install them too...
Mixer Download finished.
Image Download finished.
Both installed properly
IT WORKS ! ITS ALIVE ! I'M A GENIOUS! YAAAHOO!! :D
[ April 09, 2003: Message edited by: Lennon ]
Abigail:
Hey Lennon, I must say it's great to see that you have open up your eyes for the linux world
I just want to tell you that the first months with linux can be a real pain in the ass sometimes. You will have alot of problems with understading how some stuff works and stuff like that. but don't give up! Even if it sometimes can feel that it's just hopeless. One day it will just say click and you will see that you suddenly understand everything and don't really have any problems or atleast very few problems.
And you will feel so damn proud over yourself ;)
Good luck to ya buddy! ;) :cool:
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