Re: help with installation

2002-03-01 Thread Bob Schmertz
On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 12:25:59AM -0600, Michael J McGonagle wrote: > Bob Schmertz wrote: > > > > On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 09:18:48AM +0100, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > > > > > > > --> The rpm database cannot be opened in db3 format. > > > > If you have just upgraded the rpm package you need t

Re: help with installation

2002-03-01 Thread Michael J McGonagle
Laura Conrad wrote: > > > "Michael" == Michael J McGonagle writes: > > Michael> Laura, I tried you suggestion of 'rpm -Uvh > Michael> lilypond-1.4.2-1mdk.i586.rpm' and it tells me that there > Michael> is a missing package of 'libintl.so.1'. So, now there is > Michael> a new

Re: help with installation

2002-03-01 Thread Michael J McGonagle
Bob Schmertz wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 09:18:48AM +0100, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > > > > > --> The rpm database cannot be opened in db3 format. > > > If you have just upgraded the rpm package you need to convert > > > your database to db3 format by running "rpm --rebuilddb" as r

Re: help with installation

2002-03-01 Thread Laura Conrad
> "Michael" == Michael J McGonagle writes: Michael> Laura, I tried you suggestion of 'rpm -Uvh Michael> lilypond-1.4.2-1mdk.i586.rpm' and it tells me that there Michael> is a missing package of 'libintl.so.1'. So, now there is Michael> a new wrinkle. OK, say: urpmf

Re: help with installation

2002-03-01 Thread Michael J McGonagle
Laura Conrad wrote: > Hello Laura, Jan, and Han-Wen; I really appreciate your help here. I just wonder if my system has been compromised in someway (ie beyond repair). When I tried to install 'guile' from the sources it errored out due to a conflicting definition of what looks like a function c

Re: help with installation

2002-03-01 Thread Laura Conrad
> "Michael" == Michael J McGonagle writes: Michael> I believe that Mandrake 8.0 is based on Redhat 7.x. I Michael> don't know how Mandrake got one version number Michael> ahead. While I am sure there are other differences, Michael> someone mentioned that the only real differe

Re: help with installation

2002-03-01 Thread Laura Conrad
> "Michael" == Michael J McGonagle writes: Michael> I still think if I am going to change/upgrade my Michael> distribution, I will move to Debian. I had that idea too. I agree that the Debian package manager probably works better than the RPM stuff (not rpm itself, but urpmi and

Re: help with installation

2002-03-01 Thread Laura Conrad
> "Michael" == Michael J McGonagle writes: Michael> Laura Conrad wrote: >> >> I'm not much of a developer, but I do run Mandrake. I usually compile >> my own lily, though. Michael> Laura, could you give me a little background! Michael> What version of Mandrake? C

Re: help with installation

2002-03-01 Thread Michael J McGonagle
Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > This turns out to have been a mistake; there are serious problems with > > the printing system in 8.1, so if I were you I'd either do the 8.2 > > beta, or wait until 8.2 comes out officially. I seem to have fixed my > > problems with the

Re: help with installation

2002-03-01 Thread Michael J McGonagle
Laura Conrad wrote: > > > "Jan" == Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> I tried this one and I ran 'rpm -i lilypond-1.4.2-1mdk.i586.rpm' got the > >> following: > >> > >> cannot open Packages index using db3 - Permission denied (13) > > Jan> Hmm, so it se

Re: help with installation

2002-03-01 Thread Michael J McGonagle
Laura Conrad wrote: > > I'm not much of a developer, but I do run Mandrake. I usually compile > my own lily, though. Laura, could you give me a little background! What version of Mandrake? Did you have to install 'guile'? Are you using 'rpm' to do the install? Or are you unpacking the archiv

Re: help with installation

2002-03-01 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Laura Conrad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Jan> Ah, ok, thanks. None of the developers runs Mandrake, that I know > Jan> of... > > I'm not much of a developer, but I do run Mandrake. Sorry, I didn't know that! I just assumed that Mandrake-using lilyponders might have caught that stal

Re: help with installation

2002-03-01 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > This turns out to have been a mistake; there are serious problems with > the printing system in 8.1, so if I were you I'd either do the 8.2 > beta, or wait until 8.2 comes out officially. I seem to have fixed my > problems with the printing by installing some RPMS (the

Re: help with installation

2002-03-01 Thread Laura Conrad
> "Jan" == Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I tried this one and I ran 'rpm -i lilypond-1.4.2-1mdk.i586.rpm' got the >> following: >> >> cannot open Packages index using db3 - Permission denied (13) Jan> Hmm, so it seems that your system is stuck half way

Re: help with installation

2002-03-01 Thread Laura Conrad
> "Jan" == Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jan> Ah, ok, thanks. None of the developers runs Mandrake, that I know Jan> of... I'm not much of a developer, but I do run Mandrake. I usually compile my own lily, though. -- Laura (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] , http://www

Re: help with installation

2002-03-01 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Michael J McGonagle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [keeping discussion on list] Hi Micheal, >> Where did you get this rpm? It may be very old. I just tried the >> latest from my neares cooker mirror >> >(ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/Mandrake/Mandrake-devel/cooker/cooker/Mandrake/RPMS2/