Rpmdrake or one of its priority dependencies needs to be updated first....
If you ever go to add or remove software in Mandriva Linux and receive that error message, try this: Open up Konsole. Type “su” and enter your root password to move to the root account. Type “urpmi...
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Well, it’s been just over a month since I made the switch to Linux from Windows. My distribution of choice for desktop PCs has always been the fantastic Mandriva Linux. Available for free with plenty...
View ArticleDevelop Locally With Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP
If you’d like to develop PHP and MySQL web apps in Linux but you’re not sure how to get started then feel free to follow along with this blog post. For the most part, installation and configuration is...
View ArticleBreathe New Life Into An Old Computer
My laptop is an Averatec 3260. 512MB of RAM, 80GB hard disk, and 1.6GHz processor. It’s had the front panel LCD and battery replaced, by me. It’s still missing the front bezel (I thought it looked...
View ArticleCloud Folders Increase Productivity
Being a web developer, I usually use several different computers on different operating systems across the lifetime of any project. Personally, I have 5 computers plus one server: Access to a Vista PC,...
View ArticleEee PC 701 as a Dedicated Gaming “Console” via Emulation
I took a few hours recently to set my Eee PC 701 2G Surf up as a dedicated emulator machine. I picked up a dirt-cheap 16GB Sandisk Cruzer USB stick for $9 and downloaded an ISO of Mandriva Linux...
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