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Is Flightgear on the 9.0 cd's?
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On Fri, 2002-11-01 at 15:14, JJ Neff wrote:
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<PRE><FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>How do I love Mandrake, let me count the ways.</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>I recently reinstalled my work machine with mandrake 9.0 (much nicer than my</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>home machine where I tried to upgrade!)</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>Many services and features that were not working due to an inability to</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>communicate with MS proxy are workig now due to better proxy support (and some</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>manual file editing)</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>For those of you (like me) who are so used to apt-get you can't stop opening a</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>terminal every time you login, I have started using urpmi just like apt-get. </FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>First check out plf.zarb.org/~nanardon and there is a way to select all the</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>various sources (main, plf, cooker, unsupported, contrib) and the urpmi line to</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>use is automagically created for you, just highlight, middle click in term and</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>boom all your sources are added (very much like /etc/apt/apt.sources). THen I</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>HIGHLY recommend reading the urpmi man pages (urpmi, urpmq, urpmi.update etc).</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>also get familiar with /var/lib/urpmi/ and /var/cache/urpmi as they are great</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>sources of troubleshooting and "what's really happening beind the scenes stuff.</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>urpmi --auto-select --auto is very much like apt-get upgrade. Of course you</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>shoudl update first but dont waste time updating all sources just update those</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>that you've taggedd as being "update" sources (after reading the manpages</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>urpmi.addmedia:-)</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>also try out http://trylinuxsd.com/ it has some excellent how to's on some</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>popular software and fun things to do with lots of pictures. It also assumes</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>access to PLF and contrib sources (non-officially supported stuff).</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>The site above has a PHP-nuke walkthru. I'm gonna try it at home on my lan to</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>get familiar with it (I wanted a way to try MySQL since I'm tryingto learn that</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>right now too) Can we use PHP-Nuke for NFLUG? It would be great to be able to</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>update stories, How To as and keep a running dialog on topics we are interested</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>in? (Darin give me a shout ! :-)</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>Anybody good with QT and Nethack, the nethack_QT frontend is my favorite way to</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>play, but Man9.0 has QT3 and it doesnt work since NH looks for libqt.so.2</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>(found in qt2.2/3) THe developer told me I coudl copy libqt.so.2 to /usr/lib</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>and it shoudl work or compile NH for QT3, I can't find libqt.so.2 on andrake</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>8.2 cd's (although it shoudl be part of KDE2) and I have no idea how to compile</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>for QT3 (alkthough I did downoad NH source and am trying to read the INSTALL.</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>files , if I make progress I'll let you know</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>FLIGHTGEAR- Works great in Mandrake 9.0 and is urpmi 'able but you have to add</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>a contrib source (see above) I added Buf airport and flew around. Now I HAVE</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>to have a yoke and pedals for X-mas!!!!</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>JJN</FONT></FONT></I>
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