Mandrake - php nuke - and QT3(Nethack) - Flightgear

[JJ Neff]

No it either has to be compiled or used te generic rpms from web-site, unless
you ude the contrib and plf sites I mentioned.  They allow many Mandrake
specific (unsupported) rpms to be grabbed easily.

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