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i use mandriva spring one 2007 and i got a problem with cups. the cups is not starting. then i install cups from ubuntu 7.04 which convert with alien and i got message like this :
/usr/sbin/alternatives is needed by cups-1.2.10-10.fc7.i386
Ubuntu does not look in the same place (absolute address) for the config files.
If you have fedora, stay with fedora, you get what I mean?
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Regards Glenn
to GlennsPref,
if you mean fedora operating system, yes i have fedora 7 OS installer, but i want to try mandriva for running in my computer.
can i edit config files for the package and how ?
What Glenn was trying to say is that if you are using Mandriva, you should use Mandriva packages because packages from other distributions will return errors similar to the ones you are getting above. That is because each distribution does things just a little bit differently, and that id what makes them different.
What Glenn was trying to say is that if you are using Mandriva, you should use Mandriva packages because packages from other distributions will return errors similar to the ones you are getting above. That is because each distribution does things just a little bit differently, and that id what makes them different.
HTH,
i'm newbie in linux (open source) and i'm poor in english (i appologize for that), i will learn and search for how to solving a problem from my senior, from you and the others.
about your quote, ok,.. i got it. so each distribution packages have differently. ernie, can you tell me url packages distribution for mandriva 2007 spring one such as update for samba, cupsys, etc ?
Because Mandriva Linux 2007 is no longer supported, unless you hav a compelling reason to use Mandriva 2007, you would be best served to get the current release - Mandriva Linux 2009.1 (Spring), or in a month or so, the new release - Mandriva Linux 2010.0.
When a distribution release version passes its end of life, as Mandriva Linux 2007 has done, updates are no longer developed for it, so any new security weaknesses are not fixed. The release may have been secure when it passed its end of life, but new security threats are discovered daily, and it is this type of weakness that is not fixed for such releases.
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