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Help me! I'm spoiled by Win98 but i want Linux!
Calum:
not a problem, it actually helps me to try and answer you since it forces me to organise my stray bits of linux knowledge in my head.
as i said, you have other hope out there in the form of other forums, my particular facourites are voidmain.kicks-ass.net and newtolinux.org.uk
Lennon:
Calum, i gotta say things were a lot less complicated than you explain. I just chose "failsafe" on boot, configured that INIT thing to 5 (Chose Graphical Interface) and it works just fine no need for all the fancy commands you gave me!!
Now...Im trying to install gtk so i can install some other stuff but:
after running ./configure i get
...
checking for glib-2.0 >= 2.1.4 atk >= 1.0.1 pango >= 1.0.1... Package glib-2.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `glib-2.0.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'glib-2.0' found
configure: error: Library requirements (glib-2.0 >= 2.1.4 atk >= 1.0.1 pango >= 1.0.1) not met; consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if your libraries are in a nonstandard prefix so pkg-config can find them.
[john@localhost gtk+-2.2.0]$
So does this mean i have to get some glib-2 before i can install that? Wish they told me earlier, or at least some sort of list of requirements before i install or download something :/
And how do i make a difference between the full glib and a "patch" ? GTK was 8.7 MB to download.
Calum:
well i am very glad to hear you didn't need all that stuff! i just put it in there because depending on what the problem was, you might have needed some or all of it, so i thought better to just let you have it all at once rather than you having to wait for somebody to answer your question again if it didn't work.
now... you're installing gtk from source? i have never done that, i always install it off the CDs, i don't think i can be of much help here, my strong advice to you is to get the other two mandrake CDs and use urpmi to install the gtk and glibc6 rpms off of that, because that's the only way you're going to avoid a real barrowload of headaches regarding dependencies and so on.
anybody else got any positive words here re: installing gtk?
excorcist:
ok I have some questions. I am wanting to set up mandrake on a 5 gig partition on my slave drive. My master is fat32 winxp and my slave is just formatted in fat32.
Will mandrake resize the partition for me without loosing all my stuff that's already on the slave drive?
Lennon's issues worry me, but I figure that if I hate it I can always format the drive.
thx for any and all help.
Lennon:
hehe, my issues are nothing to worry about. Its no harder then learning Window$, i solved all the problems very easily, which were caused in the first place mostly because of my own mistakes. Now i learned for example i really need the CD2 of Mandrake 9.1, and that ALL problems arisied because i didn't have that.
Anyway, to answer your question, i am 90% sure (not 100 cos i'm still newbie) that partitioning will not damage your information BUT YOU MUST Defragment your Hard Drive first. Remember that. I installed Mandrake and made all the partitions on one HD and didn't loose anything at all.
And in the future, browse through this thread before asking a question, i'm sure you'll find something!
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