[wellylug] strange display

[Damon Lynch]

open a console
go into super user mode
run this program: rpmdrake

life is now much much easier :-)

As for the mount problem, that's a very annoying bug with supermount,
probably.  It was fixed with an update some months ago, which you almost
certainly do not have :-(

Damon

On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 16:14, Rose McGillicuddy wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have Mandrake 9.  I wanted to try Gimp and IceWM.  Both load okay  but 
> display symbols made of various lines instaed of words in the menus so I 
> can't use them.  I've checked dependencies and found that some are not 
> installed - just sitting in my system though.
> I tried installing using the Package Manager but nothing happened. 
>  Could someone please tell me the command to us - is it
> rpm -i <filename>
> I don't seem to be succesful with that.  Do I need to add
> .rpm   after the filename?
> Thanks
> Rose
> 
> PS I do have the CDs but had a problem in mounting, though I was reading 
> them okay.
> 
> 
> 
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