Forum: Newbie

In trying to install something with configure, make, make install, I regularly come across a few dependency issues. So I go to YAST and get it to...

I would like to use Linux but I don't want to cut up my Hard Drives. Can somebody provide me a list with boot from CD Linux OS's.

I'm pretty new to LINUX and am intrigued by the flexibility and customization it allows. Growing up with DOS, I'm familiar with the AUTOEXEC.BAT and...

I am trying to set disk quotas for my users, but going by the online documentation for Red Hat Linux 9 it is not working... I don't get past the...

I couldn't :( Well... I am following Rickford Grant's instructions in his book about Fedora Core 1 and I am trying to fix a package manager bug...

Okay, I installed red hat on a 20 gig hard drive. I made it a web server with apache, I installed a html web design program called quanta. I...

I am attempting a new install of Man10 from CD ( a downloaded ISO). Boots fine but no mouse function, the cursor visible but immovable. Tried...

Ok, I have linux redhat 9 installed and working pretty well. However, when I ssh to the ip from a remote computer and try to loging, apon a...

Hi, I'm using Suse 9.3. On my system I have a second drive used for backups. I mounted the drive as /data1 and written a script run from crontab...

FLOSS Concept Wikibook !!!Warning! Long load!!!! Table of equivalents for software for Windows-POSIX

I'm a complete newbie when it comes to Linux (although I'm no stranger to CLI's since I grew up learning on early version of MS-DOS & BBC BASIC). ...

I am setting up a slide show with photos in many different sub directories and I don't really want to move all the photos to one directory. Is...

I am working with a complex script, and have a variable like say $var =/home/tom/linker_symbolic_link/abc/xyz suppose linker_symbolic_link is a...

As you may know, my version of Linux doesn't support the ATI Radeon 9800 XT video card. I have downloaded the correct drivers and have start to...

I wasn't sure if I should put this here or in the KNOPPIX section but eh what the heck. I would like to install KNOPPIX onto a partition of my HD, I...

1. How do I change the icon which appears in the taskbar? I'm using mepis, and the pre-installed Firefox has the blue icon without the red fox. I've...

Hi, I need to set up an enviroment variable automatically when I am login in to a Red Hat linux system with SSH. I'm just a user; I don't have...

I really need some help here. I tried to go back into windoze after about a week of linux-filled paradise, and it doesn't work now! When I first set...

how do i force an rpm package to be installed in the /usr/local directory ? is it possible ?