hollywood63

I'm trying to unlock my files using chmod. But I can't remember where to put the R to unlock all files at once. Like chmod 777 /home R Its been a while since I've been on my Linux box so go easy. Thanks Hollywood

Yes it is a new install and the partition was formatted. I load it after installing lindows I can't say for such if the problem was there before I did that. But I believe once I installed Open is I started having trouble. Yes when I log in as root I get the Gnome desktop. Redhat did complete the install. I have one partition with /home/user/and all the directorys one for swap one for bootloader I believe. Not sure if this has anything to do with it but the Distro is called BLAG its a multimedia version of RH 9. When loading it looks just like a normal RH install besides the color that they used for the installer.

Well I quess its not the Open Office after all. I just did a reboot and I got the same boxes with red circles and the minus sign in the middle. Also the task bar is at the top and the back ground is all black. Is it possible that the hard drive partition is jazzed up. I am dual booted with xp and RH 9 is on a 10 gig partition that I use to test different distro's that appell to me. I've probally loaded this partition about 30-40 times :x I can log in as root fine but if I try to log in as the user it says that the home directory /home/user appears to be unavailable. At least its nice about it. ;( Or could my installation disc be bad Thanks Hollywood 8)

Thanks for the responce guys. What I had to do was reload RH 9. now how do I get gnumeric to open windows excel files. What I have are xlr files which gnumeric does not recognize if I change them to xls files it is recognized but pops up a error that it is not a OLE file and maybe to old to open???????? I also can not get word docs to open either is there a site that explains how to set this up?? Thanks 8)

Is there any reason of incompatibilty with OO 1.1 and RH 9. I have installed it using synaptic and when I start up my box I get a half dozen or so errors and the user screen has rectangular boxes in the with unreconizable icons/shapes in them. All of the error codes have to do with Gnome. I tried to uninstall OO but the errors are still there I have to reinstall the OS to get rid of them. Any Ideas Hollywood 8)

Thanks Dan that did it

I'm running Blag a Red Hat 9 distro. I removed one of the little divders that is in the lower panel. Now when ever I open something that program does not appear in the bar so if I minimize it it disappears completely. If go to open up the browser it pops up a box saying that it is already in use. Duh :x I know that but how do I get the divder back so my programs will appear in the panel. Sorry if I'm vag on this one Thanks

147 hits ??? I'll take that as a no ;(

Anyone hear when the free trial for Xandros is going to be made available. 8)

Dan don't be sorry you helped me more in the last few weeks then anyone has over the last year it was a extreme pleasure to have someone take the time and help out rather then reply back RTFM. If I figure this out I will let you know what I did Thanks Again Art

I think I ran into a major snafu with this one. No matter what I do it tells me that gtk is installed but in terminal it say's its not???

Sorry myself I worked throught he last error message. This is what I get now when I go try and install it it say's that the package is already installed??? I updated synaptic and tried again with the same results. [root@01flht z42tool]# ./configure checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for gawk... gawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking for style of include used by make... GNU checking for gcc... gcc checking for C compiler default output... a.out checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of executables... checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3 checking for strerror in -lcposix... no checking for gcc... (cached) gcc checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... (cached) yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... (cached) none needed checking dependency style of gcc... (cached) gcc3 checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E checking for egrep... grep -E checking for ANSI C header files... yes checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config checking for GTK+ - version >= 2.0.0... no *** Could not run GTK+ test program, checking why... *** The test program failed to compile or link. See the file config.log for the *** exact error that occured. This usually means GTK+ is incorrectly installed. configure: error: Cannot find GTK: Is gtk-config in path? [root@01flht z42tool]# When looking in synaptic for the gtk-config package it is not listed but when I download the rpm and install it it tells me that it is already installed. When serching synaptic for GTK+ it shows this package gtk+devel which is installed. At the end of the error it reads Is gtk-config in path? how do I check for that? Glad you came back I thought I scared you away

checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config checking for GTK+ - version >= 2.0.0... no *** Could not run GTK+ test program, checking why... *** The test program failed to compile or link. See the file config.log for the *** exact error that occured. This usually means GTK+ is incorrectly installed. configure: error: Cannot find GTK: Is gtk-config in path? [root@01flht z42tool]# rpm -Uvh pkgconfig-0.14.0-3.i386.rpm error: open of pkgconfig-0.14.0-3.i386.rpm failed: No such file or directory [root@01flht z42tool]# rpm -Uvh pkgconfig-0.14.0-3.i386.rpm error: open of pkgconfig-0.14.0-3.i386.rpm failed: No such file or directory [root@01flht z42tool]# [root@01flht z42tool]# Dapper this is what I get from the terminal but if I try to install the package by double clicking the icon it says that the package is already installed. Is there a way around this. If I'm understanding this package it is for help on installing or running a GUI package. Since all is I want is to install a driver I shouldn't need the pkgconfig anyway's correct?? ;( Or am I missing something here :x

[root@01flht z42tool]# ./configure checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for gawk... gawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking for style of include used by make... GNU checking for gcc... gcc checking for C compiler default output... a.out checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of executables... checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3 checking for strerror in -lcposix... no checking for gcc... (cached) gcc checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... (cached) yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... (cached) none needed checking dependency style of gcc... (cached) gcc3 checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E checking for egrep... grep -E checking for ANSI C header files... yes checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no checking for pkg-config... no checking for GTK+ - version >= 2.0.0... no *** A new enough version of pkg-config was not found. *** See http://pkgconfig.sourceforge.net configure: error: Cannot find GTK: Is gtk-config in path? [root@01flht z42tool]# n bash: n: command not found [root@01flht z42tool]# ./configure checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for gawk... gawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking for style of include used by make... GNU checking for gcc... gcc checking for C compiler default output... a.out checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of executables... checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3 checking for strerror in -lcposix... no checking for gcc... (cached) gcc checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... (cached) yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... (cached) none needed checking dependency style of gcc... (cached) gcc3 checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E checking for egrep... grep -E checking for ANSI C header files... yes checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config checking for GTK+ - version >= 2.0.0... no *** Could not run GTK+ test program, checking why... *** The test program failed to compile or link. See the file config.log for the *** exact error that occured. This usually means GTK+ is incorrectly installed. configure: error: Cannot find GTK: Is gtk-config in path? [root@01flht z42tool]# cd /home/hollywood/Software [root@01flht Software]# rpm-Uvh gtkhtml2-2.2.0-5.i386.rpm bash: rpm-Uvh: command not found [root@01flht Software]# rpm -Uvh gtkhtml2-2.2.0-5.i386.rpm warning: gtkhtml2-2.2.0-5.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID db42a60e Preparing... ########################################### [100%] package gtkhtml2-2.2.0-5 is already installed [root@01flht Software]# rpm -Uvh gtk2-2.2.1-4.i386.rpm warning: gtk2-2.2.1-4.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID db42a60e Preparing... ########################################### [100%] package gtk2-2.2.1-4 is already installed [root@01flht Software]# As you can see I'm getting there. This is just the last bit of what I ahve been doing. But quess what it needs something else Should I get rid of the red carpet deal??? I have to tell you I have learned more about linux in the last 2-3 days then in the last year I can not tell you how much I apprecaite your patience with me on this. When reading in a manual or getting other advise it has never been explained the way you have Thank you I would think from what we have done so far I'm one step from getting this driver installed

I also cd /var/lib/rpm/packages when changing permissions to no avail. I also went into the directory manually and checked the permissions and they were set at 644 I tried again nothing I then changed to777 and still zip. :x