I just spent ages trying to find the Real Player package for Mandrake 9.1 as it claims they are part of the standard version. along with NVIDIA drivers and Flash.

None of these are on the ISOs nor in any 9.1 ftp sites that i can see.

Did they leave these off or are they part of an extra CD?
Any idea or am i surfen up the wrong alley?

I tried downloading Real Player RPM from the Real Site and it won't install either.

thanks

try www.mandrakeusers.org. I got them from their ftp

I guess that one major fault with Mandrake over the years for me is their screwed-up web site. They have like 3 different kind of forums and pages that cross link each other. Mandrake User, Mailing List, Mandrake Forum (that's says its taken-over by Mandrake Club). and Mandrake Expert. Trying to find basic info that anyone would want like:NVIDIA or WINE, both which are claimed to be a part of the standard install, but exist only on seperate ftp sites or not at all is a bloody surreal french pancake.
By the way where is the cool Wine graphical installer that comes with SuSe. My Windows C: drive was not setup in my user folder either.
Still cool though.

HEY Thanks Mydini All the stuff i was looking for,
(one dot too much on you url) i like how i can redit stuff on this great forum..

Cool all the commercial APPS and NVIDIA too:

www.mandrakeusers.org/downloads.php

Glad to finally help someone else. usually it's me looking for help.

That is an AWESOME link...thanks man.

I just went and downloaded a ton of stuff.

If you have a lok at - http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/urpmiweb.php#third - and follow the instructions, you can set up some excellent software sources for 9.1

The new version of Java2, 1.4.1 is installed like this (using Gnome):
http://members.shaw.ca/trollking/

To install flash you can go to the website < www.macromedia.com > and download the tar file for just the flash player for linux. You can install NOT as root:
tar -xvzf install_flash_player_6_linux.tar.gz
Than:
cd ./install_flash_player_6_linux
Than:
./flashplayer-installer

It works the same for RH8.0, Mandy9, 9.1, etc...

This is for using flashplayer 6.0

FYI for folks reading this.

From an email I got from Mandrake:

However you need to know that the core Mandrake does not include
proprietary software. In order to get automatically installed several
addons that may be useful for you, such as Macromedia Flash Player,
Acrobat Reader, Java, additional drivers (and many others), you have to
buy the boxed product.

Just a note, the mandrakeusers ftp link above no longer seems to respond..



or rather it does, but won't allow logins like it did before.