Luis Luna wrote:
>
> After reading all the problems with Mandrake, maybe you should change your
> sig from :
> "I'm afraid there will be more problems with W2K than there were with
> Y2K.."
> to:
> I'm afraid there will be more problems with M7 than there were with
> Y2K..
Naaah, W2K will still have much worse problems. Remember, it's a
Microsoft product..
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ">owner-ale@ale.org [mailto:">owner-ale@ale.org]On Behalf Of Wandered
> > Inn
> > Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2000 11:38 AM
> > To: ALE
> > Subject: [ale] Mandrake 7.0.2 update
> >
> >
> > Thought I'd share my experiences with installing Mandrake 7.0.2. I
> > attempted to install it 4 times. The first, I starting getting error
> > messages indicating that various functions were not found. It cycled
> > through these messages to the point that I had to reboot. Second and
> > third attempts I received the same useless message, some obscur message
> > in a popup window regarding an invalid character. Each of these I was
> > able to select the exitinstall option. Fourth try, install was
> > completed properly.
> >
> > I just now fired up control-panel on this machine and selected the
> > network configuration option. I had opened control-panel from an xterm,
> > and I received an error there 'python not found.' So, no network
> > configuration. Sure enough, python is not installed, so they must have
> > screwed up dependencies here. rpm -qa|grep python yields:
> >
> > python-devel-1.5.2-3mdk
> > pythonlib-1.23-1mdk
> > postgresql-python-6.5.2-2mdk
> > python-docs-1.5.2-3mdk
> >
> > So it appears that everything for python is installed, but the core rpm
> > for the language... Installing python, resolves this problem.
> >
> > It's unlikely that I will use 7.0.2 when I finally upgrade, but it's
> > been interesting attempting this process.
> >
> > --
> > Until later: Geoffrey ">esoteric@denali.atlnet.com
> >
> > I'm afraid there will be more problems with W2K than there were with
> > Y2K...
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Until later: Geoffrey ">esoteric@denali.atlnet.com
I'm afraid there will be more problems with W2K than there were with
Y2K...
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