Configuring my default gateway, and other internet questions

[taking_the_music_back]

Well, I finally made the switch to yoper. Quite impressed. It's quick, stable, and not to mention the GUI is top notch. Good job guys.

Just wondering where the file was to set my default gateway... I was looking for an rc.inet1.conf file, but one doesn't seem to exist in Yoper.

I have my DSL controlled by a linksys router, and all I need to do is set the default gateway to get my internet (at least, I think that's all I have to do)

[lakerdonald]

it usually will do this automatically for you:

su -
ifconfig eth0
dhclient eth0

and wha-bam! you're on t3h internet

[taking_the_music_back]

worked like a charm, thanks a lot.

Now another question...

I'm wanting firefox, and I didn't find it under synaptic...

I've also tried various Rpm's, with failed dependancies... what rpm's work best for yoper? Fedora, Mandrake?

[dylunio]

To download FireFox go to http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/all.html

dylunio

[taking_the_music_back]

DLError: libxpcom.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I received that error while installing from the binary.

[taking_the_music_back]

come to think of it,

EVERY RPM I've tried has given me a failed dependancy.

[lakerdonald]

if you want to just go ahead and install it without worrying about deps:

rpm -i --nodeps --replacefiles --replacepkgs --force filename.rpm

be warned that this can cause damage
you have been warned

[steve_v]

If you are trying to install with 'rpm -i ....' then you have run into the infamous rpm dependency hell
Use "apt-get install ....." from the dir containing the rpm you downloaded, it will check dependencies and download / install anthing that is missing

Or just use Synaptic.

Steve.