[wellylug] strange display

[Rose McGillicuddy]

Damon Lynch wrote:

>open a console
>go into super user mode
>run this program: rpmdrake
>
>life is now much much easier :-)
>

That is like magic! :-)

>
>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
>

HHnnn!  Gimp package says "some files are missing.  You may want to 
update your souces database.".

I guess I can wait until end April to play with gimp!  In the meantime 
I'll do the usual in MS Publisher!  
Thanks Rose

>
>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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