mandrake control centre

**DedParrot** · 02-13-2004

mandrake 9.1.........i can no longer access mandrake control centre, it's gone missing, can't locate it anywhere! how can i remedy this ...tia

**fingal** · 02-13-2004

Sounds scary. If it was me I'd back up my important data, reinstall 9.1 and go on a pub crawl

**mesut** · 02-13-2004

did you tried to launch it from command line?

**DedParrot** · 02-13-2004

Pub Crawl it is then!

no go from command line (not found)

**mesut** · 02-14-2004

i dont remember exactly but

Code:

/sbin/drakconf or /usr/sbin/code

may help.

not being root may cause not found error. (PATH)

PS: What does Pub Crawl mean?
<<<---- Look at location =)

**Hellmasker** · 02-14-2004

type
rpm -qa|grep -i drakconf
this iwlll check that the packages are installed.
try typing mcc or drakconf from a terminal as root

**DedParrot** · 02-14-2004

type
rpm -qa|grep -i drakconf
this iwlll check that the packages are installed.
try typing mcc or drakconf from a terminal as root

i did the aforementioned as root and got 'command not found'
as user it would just go back to the user prompt.
also did rpm -va and noticed alot of 'missing /root/ .bash_logout
/root/ .bash_profile /root/ .bashrc' etc
me thinks a reinstall may be necessary!

a 'Pub Crawl' is a humourous way of suggesting one travels from pub to pub (Beer Hall) consuming vast quanities of brew along the way.

tried urpmi drakconf and got this error:
Installation failed:
msec >= 0.38 is needed by drakxtools-newt-9.1-31.3mdk
perl-GTK2 >= 0.0.cvs.2003.03.04.1-2mdk is needed by drakconf-9.1-13.1mdk
drakcronat >= 0.1.3-1mdk is needed by drakconf-9.1-13.1mdk
menudrake >= 0.7.2-1mdk is needed by drakconf-9.1-13.1mdk
perl-GTK2 >= 0.0.cvs.2003.03.04.1-2mdk is needed by drakxtools-9.1-31.3mdk
i'm very new with Linux and not even sure what question to ask here.

**Hellmasker** · 02-14-2004

if u read my post carefully i said rpm -qa not -va, im not even sure what va would do.

anyway, regargin your attempt to reinstall drakconf (mcc)

taht kind of message means u need to install some other programs befor eit will let u continue. commonly called dependencies. go thru ur isntall cd's and isntall each of those things it said it needed. u could get newestversion off the net but then u will probably have to update a lot of things.

**DedParrot** · 02-15-2004

if u read my post carefully i said rpm -qa not -va, im not even sure what va would do.

ditto kind sir, if u reread my post you will notice i did just that. i was merely mentioning the fact that i also did some thing else. as well.
that u for responding and i will take your advice and try to install those things that are misssing.

**Hellmasker** · 02-15-2004

it said command not found for rpm -qa ?? or was that for when u tried that other 2 commands.

if rpm -qa|grep -i drakconf jsut went back to a prompt then it foudn no matches.

rpm -qa is a commadn to list all packages installed, and by send the output (via | ) to the grep command it will search thru it for lines containing drakconf. since it found no lines it just exited the command.

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