Mageia is a GNU/Linux-based operating system, supported by a nonprofit organisation of elected contributors.
Mageia is a fork of Mandriva Linux, started in 2010. It's free software and community-supported.
Questions tagged [mageia]
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Use feh to open graphviz (dot) files
in past, I used feh to open directly the *.dot files (from Graphviz), which was great, as I didn't have to convert each *.dot file to jpg/pdf individually in order to display them (although, I imagine that it must have done it automatically there).…
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Unknown glyph width error with Ruby pdf-reader
I have a script that uses pdf-reader among other gems to parse and split up a large pdf file into multiple pdfs. I have been setting it up to run on a new machine, and am now getting this error when I try to run tests:
Failure/Error:…
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xm64 fills my processor resource in Linux Mageia 6
Since this morning I began to notice a slowness into my Linux/mageia 6.
I checked by using top command as root user, finding that a process named xm64 running as invitado user (guest user in spanish) was using 755% of my CPU.
I killed several times…
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CMake/CPack: How to avoid adding dependencies to devel packages
In my current setup (C++ project under Mageia 5 built using cmake), the cpack commands below cause the construction of RPM packages with dependencies to devel packages which is unnecessary.
The _CPack_Packages/Linux/RPM/rpmbuild.out file contain the…
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How to define that RPM package has a GUI in install4j?
I'm using install4j and I'd like to know how I can specify that the software package has a GUI. I'm testing this with Mageia and there the packages are grouped as those with a GUI and those without a GUI.
After installing my package it's in the…
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ghc does not work because of missing "Rts.h"
When I try to compile a Haskell program using ghc, it always raises the same exception: (translated to English)
$ ghc vtzr.hs
Linking vtzr ...
/tmp/ghc8101_0/ghc8101_0.c:1:17:
fatal Error: Rts.h: File or directory not found
Compilation…
Pepsikarola K.
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Using doxygen with qtcreator
I want to use doxygen with qt creator on my linux box with Mageia 3, and I found a qtcreator plugin for this purpose (here). Unfortunately this is for qt creator version 2.4 (I use 2.7).
So is there a plugin for 2.7 or is it possible to use doxygen…
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mageia: Dual Monitor with single video card and touchscreen and mouse pointer not working right
I am not sure if I am allowed to post this question here. If it needs to be moved, admin can do so.
I have a computer with a single video card with dual HDMI, DVI-D and other ports. I use mainly the HDMIs and the DVI-D port. I connected primary…
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Eclipse cannot remember screen
After installing new version of Eclipse, Version: 2019-09 R (4.13.0) Build id: 20190917-1200, workspace cannot anymore remember screen, where it were when closing. It always opens on screen 1 on left. Size of window works ok. Previous version has…
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Mageia-Linux x86_64 Error: exec shell C code with static compilation
I am trying to exec a shell in C using the following code:
#include
int main(){
char *name[2];
name[0] = "/bin/sh";
name[1] = NULL;
execve(name[0],name,NULL);
return(0);
}
To compile this, I am using the gcc -static…
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How do I change the default MySQL user on OpenSuSE 13.1
How do I get the "mysql" command to open a connection to MySQL with the root user? I don't want to type mysql --user root, I want it to start immediately.
I have two machines: Mageia 3 and OpenSuSE 13.1. The Mageia machine does this exactly when I…
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How to install CPAN modules on mageia 4
How to install CPAN modules on mageia 4? I am struggling to find out to achieve this.
any help is appreciated..
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How to save MariaDB's databases?
Our hard disk, with Mageia 3, got a bad block problem. We can still read it, but not boot on it. I installed this disk as secondary disk (on another computer working with Fedora 20 Gnome). I would like to save the databases (containing Drupal…
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Biopython build errors on Mageia
I'm trying to install Biopython 1.61. I'm logged in as root in a bash terminal. I'm using Mageia 2.0, and I've updated all the packages/programs on the OS (with urpmi update -a).
I extracted the source, then ran python setup.py build, which had two…
user2437738
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Need help in installing nightshade-11.12.1.tar.gz in my Linux Mageia?
I have downloaded the file nightshade-11.12.1.tar.gz from their website. I am not able to understand the installation process. Please help me how to install this software in LINUX Mageia
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