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[David Mangani]

Robert Meyer wrote:

>--- David Mangani <dmangani at att.net> wrote:
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>>Asheville Joe wrote:
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>>>Is there a version (and database) that works with Mandrake yet?  I 
>>>tried to install a version, but ran into problems.  From what I 
>>>understand, even if I did get it installed, it relies on a distrro 
>>>dependent database that teel it what each package needs to work.
>>>
>>>Joe
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>>>David Mangani wrote:
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>>>>Just wanted to share a wonderful experience with the group. I had 
>>>>read about synaptic ( apt-get) and its ability to find files and 
>>>>solve dependencies and install software easily, so I gave it a try. 
>>>>I'm using Fedore Core 1 and decided to try to install mplayer ( 14 or 
>>>>15 dependencies ) and it worked flawlessly. It identified all 
>>>>required files, downloaded and installed them all. It even added 
>>>>mplayer to my sound/video menu! This is a great piece of software. 
>>>>For any newbies here like me I can't recommend this enough. Makes 
>>>>getting installing software a delight!
>>>>
>>>>My 2 Cents
>>>>Dave
>>>>
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>>Hi Joe,
>>
>>I'm not sure about a mandrake specific version. I do believe your 
>>correct however, the "version" I installed was specifically under the 
>>"Fedora Core" d'load section.  It makes sense as it would need to be 
>>aware of an entire RPM database to function properly. I know there was a 
>>version previously for RH. As a RH user I never checked into its 
>>availability on Mandrake.
>>    On a side note, I sent for MDK 9.2 and tried to install it. Wow, I 
>>had alot of trouble. In fact way to much trouble. I'm thinking the disks 
>>I got were bad. All kinds of broken links to apps, sound was messed up ( 
>>SB Live ) very common card. video card detected wrong.. Oh well. I know 
>>MDK is known to be pretty good, so I guess I may have gotten a bad disk 
>>set. The set I recieved were CD-R's. I have had trouble in the past with 
>>SOME CD-R sets. Does MDK have a "media checker" routine like RH? I 
>>didn't see one.
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>I suspect that you had problems with the CD set.  I have installed from my set
>several times and everything seems to work OK.
>
>Did you get them from MDK or download them?
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>You can run 'md5sum' on the disks and then check against their published sums
>for the set.
>
>Cheers!
>
>Bob
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I actually sent for the disks. I ordered them from linuxcentral. I had 
previously had good luck with them. Same place I got my Fedora from. I 
tried HCI design a while back and had them send me 2 sets of RH8 I 
think. BOTH sets failed the media check. Ended up buying the RH8 Bible I 
believe ( Nice Book for a newbie), included the three disk set. Thanks 
for the input though. I liked the idea of MDK mainly because it seems 
more "consumer" oriented. More A/V stuff included out of the box. 
MPlayer, xmms that can actually play MP3's out of the box and ALSA. Also 
just curiousity. Nice to check out whats available. If I can get a good 
MDK set, I'd still like to try it out sometime.

Thx again
Dave