Hello all,

I am very new to Linux. I would like to know how you go about running a .b22.tar file ( i think its called that) and how you would install the software in this. Also because my Mandriva 10.1 is on my Sony VAIO laptop, i need to install the Sonypi module sometime.

How would i go about installing a module and even finding this module?


Thanks guys

Looking forward to replies.

If i have forgotten to add anything that would be of any help please jsut say and i will (try) do my best to get the information you need.

Flukey

what exactly are you trying to install? most likely you are looking at something like
tar -xcf *whatever it is*
cd *to the directory*
./configure
make
make install (must be done as root, use su)

http://www.linuxdocs.org/HOWTOs/Kernel-HOWTO.html

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q...=Google+Search

titanium_geek
Welcome to LQ!

Hi there, thank you very much for your quick response and welcoming me to the forum. It has been very help ful so far.

The SonyPI module, is for the power management of the laptop i assume e.g. special function keys, when i shut the lid etc....

I am trying to install Kopete on my system, its the latest one out which is 0.10.1 from here.

Heres is the download ftp links:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/k...r.bz2?download

And the kopete build page:

http://kopete.kde.org/index.php?page=downloads

So i am wondering how to install this tar.bz2 file (being Kopete).

I know you can do it in the console but i am not sure how.

And also is there any software i can install which you choose the file you wish to install. I know you have an install manager for rpm but you dont have one for tar files as they have to be extracted.

Im running KDE 3.2 and i have the Kopete that comes with it, i keep getting error messages stating my password is wrong when it clearly isn't, so i did a bit of surfing and found out that the latest build has sorted this out.

Thanks again

Flukey

.bz2 indicates it was zipped using the bzip compression algorithm. Running "bunzip (or bunzip2?) filename.bz2" will unzip it to a plain .tar file.

.tar indicates multiple files and/or directories were merged into one file for ease of zipping/downloading. "tar xvf filename.tar" will expand the single file into multiple files & directories

Then you'll probably have a new directory, which you'll want to go into to read the README file it'll almost certainly have. . .

Hi, thanks for enlightening me of what bz2 and tar means. All makes better sense now. I will have a go at installing this file.

How long would i take to master the concept of using Mandrake and installing software and configuring modules?

hmmm... how long?
installing software from the command line.... a week or so of constant messing about. (Have you heard of urpmi? google.)
configuring modules- a little longer. 3 months to a year? I have no idea, but I think it would take a little expertise and knowledge.

titanium_geek

I have heard of Easy Urpmi, i am not sure what it does though. Cna you please explain? thanks

Is there any books you can buy for Mandrake? because im not that keen reading online tutorials as you have to keep searching on the net until you find a solution on how to do something.

Thanks

I bet there is a mandrake manual somewhere- try the mandrake site...

the concept behind urpmi and other such programs (apt for debian) is that you can install stuff (usually from the net) and the os won't freak out. When compiling and installing from source, you can run into trouble- this software aims to fix that.

titanium_geek

hey, found this howto on modules:

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Module-HOWTO/
and
http://sunsite.nus.sg/pub/LDP/HOWTO/Module-HOWTO.html

titanium_geek