i would like to download and try mandriva, i am fairly new to linux but only because i dont know the techy side to it and any commands, ive had various distros on my computer over the past year and never really settled with any as i find them awkward to use instead of windows, little things like mp3s not being as easy to deal with as i have alot and i hate the messenger programs kopete and gaim, but im going to give another go with linux, this time with mandriva 64bit and i want to try using gnome as i get bored of the similarities of windows, as pretty as windows is i like the look of osx so i think ill give gnome a go. so back to the point if someone can point me to a download location of 64bit isos id be very grateful. also some way of checking them as i downloaded suse 9.3 the other day and went to install and media was currupt which pissed me off just a little. anyway thankyou in advance....

This is the location for the latest stable version, Limited Edition 2005.
Please note that Mandriva 2006 would be out in about a fortnight.
http://www1.mandrivalinux.com/en/ftp.php3#iso2005
Click on Last Row(Download Edition 3-CD/DVD set), Last Column(Download from public FTP mirrors).
Now scroll down to "LE2005 ISO CD for x86_64:"

Edit: LE 2005 has only a single cd iso for x86_64, however, the beta versions of Mandriva 2006 have three cds, this means you get more software, but keep in mind that the beta versions may not be as stable as the "official" version, though some people have said it is very stable.

thankyou, also with the 2006 out in a few weeks as you say, is that going to feature many improvements or any real noticiable differences. i will try this one anyway for now to try out gnome and see how it feels with 64bit.

As I have said, there will be a "lot more" software, compare the current 1cd to 3. I too am waiting for that .

ok now im downloading this, is it easy to say "i want gnome" during the installation, or will it try and install kde as default, i would like to set it up during installation so it boots with just gnome, as i will probably be upgrading to 2006 in a few weeks and will be starting from scratch again......

has anyone tried a dual-boot with windows xp x64 yet? will they play nicely?

i tried to install with gnome but i dont think it installed right and if it did it was really ugly, im going to install with kde now only, but how hard is it to download gnome and install it?

i would like it to look like this eventually....

http://www.gnome-look.org/content/pre1/26448-1.jpg

can someone help me install this theme?

http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=27578

i have downloaded it and its a tar.gz file??? please im desperate.

is there anyone that can help?

why do i get this message?

[root@localhost superkaramba-0.37-RC1]# ./configure
checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking target system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking for -p flag to install... yes
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
/bin/sh: /home/lee/New: No such file or directory
configure: WARNING: `missing' script is too old or missing
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking for kde-config... /usr/bin/kde-config
kde-config: Unknown option '--libsuffix'.
kde-config: Use --help to get a list of available command line options.
checking where to install... /usr (as returned by kde-config)
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking for gcc... no
checking for cc... no
checking for cc... no
checking for cl... no
configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH
See `config.log' for more details.

Post #8: That is a KDE Theme Manager theme, Open KDE Control Centre(kcontrol),Click on System, Click on Theme Manager and point it to the .kth file(which has to be extracted from the tar, btw). I am not very sure, but i think this is just a collection of settings for various themeable aspects of KDE(Window Decoration, Style etc.) and you need to have those individual themes installed, but again, i am not very sure.

Post #10: If you want to compile programs from source you should have installed the "Development Packages" during installation, you can still install these using the Software Manager in Mandr(ake/iva) Control Centre.

In this specific case, you are missing the GNU C Compiler, which is packaged as 'gcc', but once you install that you will again encounter errors asking for 'gcc-c++', 'libkdelibs-devel','lib64xorg-devel' etc. , so it'd be better if you can install the Development Packages.

EDIT: Also, it'd be better(and enough) if you run "./configure" and "make" as regular user. "make install" alone must be executed by root.

EDIT 2: Just for your information, Superkaramba 0.37-RC2 is the latest version
http://kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=23258