I'm having many many problems with the Mandrakelinux 10.0-Community ISO Cd .
I have managed to get it burned to CD fairly easily with Nero, and I had to create a floppy to get the computer it to boot from the CD.
the O/S installed easily enough.... but now I cant install programs ,...mostly dependency problems, But the big problem is I cant find the dependency files, and when I do find some, I cant seem to get the dependent file to install either.
I'm trying to get rid of XP but this Mandrake is being very difficult.
My understanding is that this was supposed to be easy to work with ...so...what am I doing wrong?
I assume this is user error.....Firefox won't install properly for me and neither will Gaim.

Firefox ...I click on the installer file and it starts Firefox but after I close it it wont restart unless I re-install it.

Gaim... i cant get past a file called libplds4.so
This is the message i get:

Some package requested cannot be installed:
gaim-0.82.1-0mdk10.0.i586 (due to unsatisfied libplds4.so)
do you agree ?

Is it just too soon to switch to linux?
Is it just not developed enough yet?

Any help to get started would be appreciated a video tutorial for Mandrake 10.0 would be great . The tutorials I've been reading haven't helped me much because I'm not familiar with the new terminology and file system.

Am i expecting too much from linux?
Should I just go back to XP?
:SIGH:...Help! 8 days into this and I'm still drowning...

Thanks,
P.N.Gwin

Firstly - breathe......it's all good. It's developed far more than you can imagine - but you must realize - it's built for power before user-friendliness.

You are attempting to launch firefox by opening the install binary. This is your issue.
What window manager are you using?
Done any console commands yet?

I have done a few console commands... just really basic ones Firefox is being a real pain to get to run I've taken like 5 peoples advice mainly Debian and Susi users.
as for Managers...theres more than one? ..I think its called Mandrake Control Center.
I really am a noob at this and trying really hard not to go insane.
Breathing....

P.N.Gwinn

lol - ok.
Window manager = the program that displays window-like frames and shiny graphics on your machine - i.e. - KDE, Gnome, Afterstep, etc......
Second - what happens if you open a console, and simply type firefox ?

If i type firefox in the Konsole it says:

bash: firefox: command not found

I think this is KDE...i think

P.N.Gwinn

alright.
how did you install firefox? just clicked on the icon?

Secondly - if you have a "Konsole" - you are in KDE.

I downloaded Firefox from mozilla.com it was a tar.gz file I think . the odd thing is it opend and i was able to use it but when i closed it and tryed to reopen it i could not figure out how to other than reinstalling it....its very frustrating

And yes in that case im sure im in KDE

P.N.Gwinn

alright.

Here is what I want you to do.

Open the Konsole, and cd to the directory where the firefox.tar.gz is located. For instance, if it's on your desktop:
then, do this:
you should now have a firefox folder, do an ls to make sure.
if you do, cd into it
now, type the following:
when that is done:
then, type in su
enter your root password, and then, at the prompt:
when that finishes:

Im allready stuck on the first command cd ~/Desktop?

Oh i see i think....but how do you find out where it is?

where are you double clicking on the icon?

file:/home/pngwinn/firefox-installer/firefox-installer

But thats not the tar.gz file...i think its something in the unzipped file...a script thats how
I have to start the reinstall

try this:

open a brand new Konsole window, and type the following:

Ok i typed it in ..the first time i think i left out a space because i got:
bash: cd: firefox-installer./firefox: No such file or directory
the second time i put a space after installer and it returned to the original txt in the konsole.so i typed "ls" and got this:
config.ini firefox-installer-bin* installer.ini watermark.xpm
firefox-installer* header.xpm license.txt xpi/

Now what?

./firefox-installer
then - when it's done....close firefox, and do another ls..........