Fernandez de Quilon » Mandriva

My Mandriva 2006 Repository is Live

Jeffery — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 22:28:40 +0000

I have put together a collection of RPMS which I have built for various projects I am involved with or was required by me. You can access these RPMS for Mandriva 2006 by executing the foolowing commad on the shell.

urpmi.addmedia jeffery http://jefferyfernandez.id.au/RPMS with hdlist.cz

The list of available packages on the repository can be seen by accessing this list

Updating Mandriva Menus

Jeffery — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 22:18:45 +0000

I have often found that after installing a package on mandriva, the application does not seem to appear in the menu listing. Here is a quick fix to make the application link appear in the menu. Execute the following on the shell:

update-menus -vv

The double “vv” option is just to show the verbose output. Obviously this will only take affect if the actuall application had been setup (during packaging) to be run from the menu system.

Upgrading your QT Environment

Jeffery — Fri, 19 May 2006 15:12:41 +0000

It is possible, you already have Qt3 installed in your system and you have recently upgraded to Qt4. In order to be able to compile your applications for Qt4, you will have to upgrade your system enviroment so it recognises the new paths. To do this execute the following commands:

export QTDIR=/usr/lib/qt4export PATH=$QTDIR/bin:$PATHexport LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:$QTDIR/lib
To test the environment variables you can execute:
echo $QTDIRThis should output:

/usr/lib/qt4

Now you are ready to build your applications for the newer Qt version.