Anyone running Mandrake 10.1?

AsSiMiLaTeD
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edited March 2024 in Clubhouse Archives
I'm curious to see if any of you guys uses Linux, particularly Mandrake 10.1?
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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,845
    edited March 2005
    I was up until about a month and a halk ago when Solaris 10 came out. I kill Mandrake 10.1 and installed Solaris.
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  • AsSiMiLaTeD
    AsSiMiLaTeD Posts: 11,728
    edited March 2005
    does Solaris not have to run on a Sun machine?

    EDIT: Scratch that, I see that it'll run on X86 platform as well...
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  • AsSiMiLaTeD
    AsSiMiLaTeD Posts: 11,728
    edited March 2005
    So how do I install software that ends in .bin? Or can I only install .rpm software?
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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,845
    edited March 2005
    For what? Mandrake or Solaris?
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  • AsSiMiLaTeD
    AsSiMiLaTeD Posts: 11,728
    edited March 2005
    Mandrake. I'm not ready for Solaris yet :-)

    I have no issues installing the.rpm packages, but I'm not sure what to do with .bin or .tar.gz files that I download...
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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,845
    edited March 2005
    The .bin files are most likely the binary files. You won't really be able to "install" them per se because they are un-compiled.

    The .tar.gz files are gzipped tar files. You should be able to unzip them into a directory. They may or may not be "tarred" after that. If they are "tarred" still, issue this command:

    tar xvf <device name> <directory name>

    where the "device name" is usually the source or actual device. For example, a device name would be /dev/rmt0 for a typical tape device or a directory structure like /tmp/Mandrake_10_1 would be an example if you downloaded your installation files to a Mandrake_10_1 directory in your temporary file. Your directory name would be the location you are unzipping or un-"tarring" your files to. Often people just use a period (.) to symbolize <current directory>

    Most likely though, gzip will un-tar the files too. It usually tars files into a tar-ball which is what a group of files under a tar archive are called. The program gzip usually then compresses that entire file and puts it in a file with the extension .tar.gz

    After that, there should be an install script somewhere and it should run by itself. You will need to type ./<name of install script> to run it because the directory you are in will most likely not be in your PATH environment variable.
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  • AsSiMiLaTeD
    AsSiMiLaTeD Posts: 11,728
    edited March 2005
    what can I use to compile the .bin files, or is that something I'll be able to do?

    I've just been downloading miscellaneous stuff, and it seems like most of it is the uncompiled binaries, so I'm curious how to make use of those files.

    Thanks
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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,845
    edited March 2005
    You need to get a compiler. I'm not sure which one it needs. All I know is that unless you are a developer looking to compile your own environment for whatever reason, the binaries won't help you any. They aren't a bad thing to have but unless you get into serious software work or sys admin stuff, for the average user they will serve no purpose but to take up disc space.

    A beeter deal is to download the .iso files which are image files for burnning the installation to CD's to make it easier to use and store.
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  • AsSiMiLaTeD
    AsSiMiLaTeD Posts: 11,728
    edited March 2005
    cool. looks like I've found a compiler that'll work.

    I'm about to install Apache, which is only available for Linux in source format (not .bin though), so I'll get some practice with a compiler...

    I really like Linux when compared to Windows, just gonna miss lsome of my windows apps...
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  • Jstas
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    edited March 2005
    Which Windows apps?

    You can get a program called Lindows which emulates a Windows environment. It should let your run your Windows apps without a problem.
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  • AsSiMiLaTeD
    AsSiMiLaTeD Posts: 11,728
    edited March 2005
    Originally posted by Jstas
    Which Windows apps?

    You can get a program called Lindows which emulates a Windows environment. It should let your run your Windows apps without a problem.

    Yeah, I was also looking at a Linux add-on called Wine that's supposed to do that as well...thinking of trying that as I found the .rpm installer for that one...

    Too many apps to list...things like Nero, DVDShrink, Macromedia stuff, games that aren't available on Linux...stuff like that...
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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,845
    edited March 2005
    Well, Wine is a nice program. I haven't used it but a guy here at work uses it all the time. Works good.

    As far as the other programs, alot of the functionality of those programs are available in other programs with different names if that kind of functionality isn't already in Linux. Gotta read up on the stuff you are looking for. Linux has more functionality support out there in the user community than any other OS.
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  • AsSiMiLaTeD
    AsSiMiLaTeD Posts: 11,728
    edited March 2005
    Yeah, my main issue is the macromedia suite, which there's just not an equivalent of on the Linux side. I'm gonna see if I can that stuff to run with WINE, and if so, Windows is gone...
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  • AsSiMiLaTeD
    AsSiMiLaTeD Posts: 11,728
    edited March 2005
    WOW! I just found rpmfind.net...looks like I hit the jackpot!
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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,845
    edited March 2005
    I thought that WAS where you were looking?

    That's a great resource for Linux there.
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