BOY!...One question after the other!
Im trying to figure out why I keep getting errors when asking 'klamav' to "autoscan". It tells me that it needs to load "Dazuko", so I SAY, "go ahead!" then I get error that "Dazuko" cant be found, so I go looking for it in the packages department useing the sources that have been added. NOTHING! I find out that a 'kernel needs to be compiled in order to get my problem fixed'!
So Much for THAT! Im not a computer programmer so I guess I cannot have virus protection for my pc heh?

Everytime i boot now since activating klamav i get a message that tells me i have an outdated version so i tell it to update and nothing ever changes, same message every time!

Now I forgot what this post was suppose to be about initially!
OH, once I found the folder containing the 'man pages' I hit another wall! I dont know how to view them because they are 'bz2' files and i do not know what to open them with.

The man pages are accessed with the man (short for manual) command. For example:

Will give information about the xine command. There are a bunch of sections and some applications may have entries in more than one section so you could use something like:

The sections are broken up into:

Sorry I don't have any info about klamav...

Yeah it looks like Mandriva has chosen not to build that module in their default kernel, so you'd probably have to recompile the kernel to get it. It doesn't really matter though - you don't need Windows-style on-access virus protection for a Linux pc. Antivirus is only really useful on Linux for mail gateways and file shares for Windows clients.

If you want a secure Linux PC keep up with updates (Mandriva Update), install software from the Mandriva repositories (see my sig) or from other trusted sources (openoffice, mozilla etc) and turn on the firewall (see the Security section in the Mandrake Control Centre although its probably on by default). Linux is not Windows and although there are a small number of Linux viruses most are exploits for security holes long since closed or proof of concept which you'd have to conciously decide you wanted to install. There is virtually no threat of automatically propogating viruses and worms in Linux.

Like most Linux distros Mandriva has packaged up the latest version of each package at the time of release (Oct 2005 for Mandriva 2006). The updates that you get from Mandriva generally don't upgrade the packages to the latest version from the upstream project because this would lead to a nightmare of instability, bugs and incompatabilities. Instead they backport important security and bug fixes back into their packages. Everyone who's using distro packages of (k)clamav gets that warning but its nothing to worry about.

You can access man pages from the GUI or the command line, take your pick:

GUI: menu->More Applications->Documentation->KDE Help Centre and scroll down to 'UNIX Manual Pages'.

CLI: man <name of program>, eg. to see the man page of the cp (copy) command Usually man pages are for command line programs and services (ie. programs that don't usually have a GUI) and most GUI programs will have a help menu. Although the help files are of varying completeness, from very good to nothing

Also, if you don't know the exact name of an application, you can use apropos.

apropos cd

will list all the man pages which have 'cd' in their header.

man -k cd

will do the same thing.

For avg, which you are probably familiar with from MS windows, simply save the Mandriva rpm to your desktop, right click on it and choose "open with software installer". You will see it in >system>file tools menu after installation. You will find if you open it and try to update it, it needs root permission, one way of opening a program with root permissions is as follows:
Then up pops the avg window, and update works

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...26#post2045126
edit: below the rpm's is a download link for the avgLinux manual as a 38 page pdf document. If you don't have acrobat on your machine, xpdf is a good pdf reader and available through urpmi as well.

Thank you everyone!
Time to go do some work!
Im still trying to get Limewire Pro installed. origanally, limewire was showing an error that in needed j2re installed. as far as i can tell, i installed it from sun! i followed their directions on installing the j2re rpm from a terminal and everything went well, (terminal responded to all my commands) now when trying to install rpm i get: "...Due to unsatisfied j2re>=1.4.1" then it say's "continue?" and i say yes and thats it, no Limewire! is j2re>=1.4.1 the version that its asking for?


Have A Great Day!

The rpm database doesn't know you have java installed. That is a problem with installing some things from rpm, and others from other sources (like sun). Unfortunately, I don't know an easy way to tell rpm that you have java installed.

I see.
Well..How about this; Do you know of a linux friendly 'share-ware' application that I can install in order to download music? I am a musician and always download music when booted to WinXP to practice to. I really want to do away with 'Windows', but it's so difficult to find software to add to linux! I mean... I'm fairly new to linux so I dont know of any sights where I can go to get software. Im, by no means a computer wiz, so I need something that will download and install by its self! Yes..I'm use to the ease of installing things with 'Windows'! But That does'nt mean that I appreciate Microsoft!

I know that there are alot of tutorials on linux out there. I just havent found all of them yet.'
Just noticed your profile. A BIG Salute to you ,'Padma!' God Bless Our Troops and all that! I Lived In Sioux City Iowa for 12 years.

Scott

Ok!
I have accessed man pages useing terminal, but, if I want to learn about installing or about listing what is CURRENTLY installed, I need to know what the commands are to bring up the page that relates to this. also, when i bring up the help section on man pages, I'm not sure how to dicipher what it's showing.
for instance. What does this mean?

rpm {-q|--query} [select-options] [query-options]


I think that it's saying that "-q" means "query" but "(select-options)" and "(query-options)" is all greek to me! I dont know wether to enter "(.......)" and "select-options" or what!

You need to read the whole man page to work out exactly how to use it. You might be better off finding a mandriva/rpm based tutorial somewhere though. Have a look at the mandriva website. I think there are some links and info on there.

Anyway, the syntax above is refering to the command rpm. You can use any number of options with it to find out what you have installed and many other things. The above line means you can query an rpm either by typing rpm -q , or by typing rpm --query . --query is just the longhand way of doing it. You can then specify any options you want, such as --all. I'm not actually familiar with the rpm command, but I think something like:

rpm -q --all

would list all the rpm's you have on your system. In other words this line:

rpm {-q|--query} [select-options] [query-options]

is saying. Type rpm, followed by either -q or --query, optionally followed by any 'select-options' you want to use, and any 'query options' you want to use. The options are specified in the man page. It will take quite some time to get used to. There are many other rpm commands for installing packages etc.

Thank You!
I definately need to get into a tutorial on installing software from a terminal. Do you know anything about 'j2re' and getting it installed and recognized by rpmdrake useing Mandriva 2006?

I thought that i had installed java from the terminal, but when i tryed to install Limewire pro again, couldnt do it because of some kind of dependency issue: "j2re>=1.4.1"

As padma said before the problem is you've installed Java not from an RPM so it doesn't show up in the RPM database. Luckily RPM gives you away of forcing an install even if the dependencies aren't met - see the --nodeps option in man rpm. Eg.

Thank You!