Re: Where are CD 2 and 3 ?

Okay, re-installed from the install CD and am now picking and choosing
apps from the mirrors. I've almost got the system to the point where I
think I have everything that I had before, BUT, I have a number of
applications which are 32 bit apps (e.g. skype) which needs some 32 bit
libraries, in particualr libdbus.1.so. How can I go about getting some
of the 32 bit apps/libraries that I need whiich don't come in source
code distributions so that I can compile myself?

Thanks for the great job.

Gwenole Beauchesne wrote:

Hi,

Now that the release is
out, I have a couple of questions:

• Will the final release update the beta version, or do I need to
re-install?

This is generally not supported but it may work (I did it at home).
Prefer an install if you want a clean system and intend to report
meaningful bugs that aren't brought in from stale beta configs. ;-)

• Is there a complete
package listing somewhere?

<http://people.mandriva.com/~gbeauchesne/x86_64/10.2/contents/>

Files: pkg-10.2-Limited-Edition-2005-*.idx

• Where is the binary
archive?

In LE2005/x86_64 mirrors:

<http://www1.mandrivalinux.com/en-us/ftp.php3> [Download from
public
FTP mirrors]

• I'm using a notebook
computer with only wireless ethernet, will the install CD configure
that correctly so that I can do the entire install, or alternately,
can I exit the install after the first CD to configure my wireless and
then continue the install?

I think wireless is not well supported during install. Besides, you
are talking about a notebook, so very likely you will want to use the
integrated chipset but unfortunately this generally is Broadcom based,
thus requiring ndiswrapper.

You can grab the Download Edition CD and install from it. It's built
so that to minimize extra download. A default install will be enough
to have KDE and OOo in almost 5 languages. Then, you can boot and
configure your network with proper wireless drivers and point your
media source to an LE2005/x86_64 mirror.

You may also consider downloading the DVD from Club or dedicated FTP
server if you are satisfied. ;-) Added value are commercial drivers +
large set of 32-bit packages for both execution of 32-bit programs but
also for developing 32-bit programs.

I was looking at SUSE 9.3
professional and Ubuntu's Hoary Hedgehog releases. How does Mandriva
compare with these for completeness of packages available?

I don't know. I saw a SuSE 9.3 around and they have a full DVD
dedicated to x86_64 too (on one layer). 32-bit support is better in
Mandriva Linux and it doesn't require any specially built package with
the 32-bit libraries. I don't know about Ubuntu.

Bye,

Gwenolé.