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| Thread ID: 27436 | 2002-11-22 11:17:00 | Linux Problem? | merlin-nz (275) | Press F1 |
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| 100629 | 2002-11-22 11:17:00 | Hi Linux People, I downloaded Opera 6.10 from the Opera site, cause I like Opera. I'm finding it a little strange running Konqueror, so I thought I'll download Opera, when I double click on the file I'm fronted with kpackage, hightlight oprea file and click on ?Install Marked? and asked for root password, ok. I type that and there I end. What to do next. Nothinng seems ta be happening. Please I'm a point and click kinda guy so please nothing baffling. Cheers einstein ;-) |
merlin-nz (275) | ||
| 100630 | 2002-11-22 12:11:00 | There should be an install button...... *Goes to look at linux box.... |
nz_liam (845) | ||
| 100631 | 2002-11-22 12:56:00 | Hmm... I cant seem to find Kpackage on my latest RedHat install (8.0) install. Will have a look at an older buld in the morning (it was there in Redhat 7.3)......... What distribution/version are you running?? The latest RedHat/Mandrake/Knoppix has Mozilla 1.0.1 (an open source version of netscape navagator), which is a lot nicer than Konqueror for web browsing......... Liam |
nz_liam (845) | ||
| 100632 | 2002-11-22 21:24:00 | I am not sure what I did to opera in Linux, but it definitely looks sick, On the other hand I think Mozilla 1.1 in Linux is great, and Mozilla loads just as quick as Opera. Version 1.0 does not seem to log on to E-mail, But going to version 1.1 even the old :-) shows up on Mozilla E-mail yellow faces the right way up, so far I found the following work in Mozilla E-mail, :-) ;-) :-( and another one :-D The only problems I have found so far; (1) You have increase the minimum font size on the browser, (2) When you install, flash & Java and update the Mozilla version 1.0 to 1.1 you have to reinstall flash & Java ... (3) You have to install a spell checker for the E-mail program, (4) When you are on Internet, and then go off line, then go back on, you have to shut down Mozilla and re-open it again, Apart from that, I have not seen any "blue" screens yet. and that is why I went that way. |
E.ric (351) | ||
| 100633 | 2002-11-22 22:50:00 | merlin-nz it would be really helpful to know what distribution (RedHat, Mandrake etc) you are running and what version of that distribution, as they are all slightly different... Personally though it would probably be easier to get the latest version of what ever you are running, (and use the pre-installed Mozilla); RedHat 8 has a really nice/slick XP style interface :drool:, and at $25 delivered its hardly going to break the bank... Cheers Liam |
nz_liam (845) | ||
| 100634 | 2002-11-23 01:46:00 | I get baffled by this "point and click" stuff. :D I'm guessing that you have Mandrake or RedHat. Write down the name of the downloaded file, and the directory it is in. It's probably in your "user" home directory. Try opening a terminal window. "cd". That should get you to your home directory. "ls" will confirm that the downloaded file is there. (if the file isn't there, "cd" to the directory where it is). Do "su", and give the root password. Then "rpm -ivvh ./opera*.rpm". (I am assuming that the first part of the file name is "opera", so you can wildcard it with the "*". (No spaces between the "*" and the ".rpm".) Easy, isn't it? |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 100635 | 2002-11-23 01:50:00 | *Starts preaching for Phoenix (Still in Beta) available for download from komodo.mozilla.org in Linux and Win32* | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 100636 | 2002-11-23 02:34:00 | >>>> RedHat 8 has a really nice/slick XP style interface :drool:, and at $25 delivered its hardly going to break the bank... Now what was that site again?:| Oh there it is:) linux-shop.co.nz (http://www.linux-shop.co.nz/):D |
raddersnz (684) | ||
| 100637 | 2002-11-23 03:35:00 | > *Starts preaching for Phoenix (Still in Beta) > available for download from > komodo.mozilla.org > unk/ in Linux and Win32* Version 0.4 and you like it already, I got it to go to the Mozilla site, at first I thought I had opened Kword, I Think I will stick with Mozilla, it had a head start doing the Netscape series, As for my comments ealier about closing do Mozilla and re-loading after going off Internet and back on, it appears that it has worked OK a couple of times since I made that post, not too sure what I did wrong, |
E.ric (351) | ||
| 100638 | 2002-11-23 07:41:00 | Sorry guys, Mandrake 9.0. :8} E.ric: will have a look at Mozilla. Graham L: Terminal windows baffle me, they remind me so much of Dos and I remember how scary that was. All this talk of "cd su rpm -ivvh " oh hell (goes of mumbling about another spell). Jeez have to do some more reading and experiment some more. No graham it aint easy. Iam trying to get this thing up and running I can aleast log onto the net now and the printer is printing. Can even play my rock n roll cds. That only leaves the scanner and cd writer. No drivers out there for hp scanjet 3300c, but still have winblows for that. cheers for the info merlin-nz ;-) |
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