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Hi, I just installed Mandrake 9.1 two days ago and have been plesantly surprised with how much I like it. But I don't know what I'm doing at all! I feel inferior to even the newest of newbies...quite frustrating since I've been doing VB.Net and Java programming for a couple years now. So coming from WinXP I have a few questions:
1. I tried to install Mozilla 1.4 and I got it to work and it loaded but now I don't know where it is. The buttons in KDE still link to version 1.3 so how do I change this?
2. Where should I put files like Mozilla or Java? (What directories)?
3. Why does Mozilla open sometimes with no homepage? I have it set to cnn.com but most the time it stays blank
4. When I try to log out or reboot, it seems like every other time I will get a dialog box that says end session or cancel, and then when i login again and try to reboot i get one that says turn off/restart/cancel...
5. Any book reccomendations? O'Reilly - Learning UNIX? Any others?
Any help with any of these would be greatly appreciated...if I get too discouraged I might slip back into the M$ void...ahh save me!
The mozilla binary is usually installed as /usr/bin/mozilla. To make sure, in a shell type:
$ whereis mozilla
and it will execute the location of the binary. As far as java goes, you should unpack the .bin into /usr/local and at it to your path by putting something like this in your .profile (in home dir) or in /etc/profile (if you want all users to have java in their path):
$ export PATH=/path/to/java/bin:$PATH
This command adds the old variable PATH and /path/to/java/bin to the new variable PATH.
2. coming from a WinXP perspective, my c:\program files\ equivalent in linux is /usr/local. this means you'll have /usr/local/mozilla, /usr/local/java there.
As far as which books to read, its a really subjective decision. I've looked at a lot of books, and when I first got started, I landed on what distro-specific one, and one general unix book that would teach me to use the command line more efficiently.
I suggest going to your nears Barnes & Noble, or whatever you have where you are, and just spending about an hour browsing until you find a book you like.
I can't install mIRC (irssi-0.8.6.tar.gz)!!!! ->I'm using the ELX linux
I'va extrac the files into one directory and then i've tried "./configure" and appeared an error like this:
loading cache ./config.cache
checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes
checking for working aclocal-1.4... missing
checking for working autoconf... missing
checking for working automake-1.4... missing
checking for working autoheader... missing
checking for working makeinfo... missing
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
checking for strerror in -lcposix... no
checking for gcc... no
checking for cc... no
configure: error: no acceptable cc found in $PATH
i've also tried "rpm -i ..." but it still don't install!!!!
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