[TriLUG] mandrake 9.2 install help

[Merle Watts]

REinstalled again.  Everything seems to work ok  until I do the security updates.  After that I loose all kinds of stuff.  Tried runing as root to.  Things just disappear after the updates.  I did all updates and lost lots of stuff.  reinstalled and did just the security updates and lost everything again.  Can no longer access the control center. Tried kde and gnome.  also tried as root.  Tels me file does not exist.     

reinstalled again and everythng is there and seems to work ok.  If I intall the security updated I'll loose it all again.
done this 3 imes now  

-----Original Message-----
From: Sinner from the Prairy <sinner at escomposlinux.org>
Sent: Oct 27, 2003 9:32 AM
To: Merle Watts <elremx2 at earthlink.net>, 
	Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list <trilug at trilug.org>
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] mandrake 9.2 install help

On Monday 27 October 2003 01:35 am, Merle Watts wrote:
> I installed mandrake 9.2   did the updates and can no longer get configure
> desktop to work.  It worked when I did the updates.

Try, as root, running the (graphical) program "menudrake". There, click on 
"Save", wait until it ends saving, and exit the program. There's a bug on the 
menu system.

> After that I noticed that when I click on home, nothing happens.  Cant find
> any web browser. Had to do my mail on the winderz box.

> There is also no openoffice, cd record or any of the other stuff that was
> in 9.1

Did you install absolutely everything? Launch "rpmdrake" as root and install:

OpenOffice
K3B
Kmail
Konsole
... and any other applications you might need. On MDK 9.2, many programs that 
used to be together in one single huge package, are now divided among many 
smaller packages.

> cannot open configure desktop to get to the part to install anything.


Define "Configure the desktop"
 What is your desktop? 
how are you trying to configure it?
How is it related "desktop configuration" with "software installation"?

> It quit after i updated

Updated.... from 9.1 to 9.2 ? when you updated 9.2 with recent updated 
packages? have you updated your MDK 9.2 ? There's been like 200MB of updates 
last week...



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