On Wednesday 18 February 2009 19:34:00 Scott Silva wrote: > on 2-18-2009 11:30 AM Anne Wilson spake the following: > > On Wednesday 18 February 2009 18:50:03 Lanny Marcus wrote: > >> On 2/18/09, Anne Wilson <cannewilson- gM/Ye1E23mwN+BqQ9rBEUg at public.gmane.org> wrote: > >>> On Tuesday 17 February 2009 20:44, Phil Schaffner wrote: > >>>> Anne Wilson wrote: > >>>>> On Tuesday 17 February 2009 16:25:07 Steve Huff wrote: > >>>>>> On Feb 17, 2009, at 10:52 AM, Anne Wilson wrote: > >>>>>>> What am I missing? > >>>>>> > >>>>>> ask yum: > >> > >> <snip> > >> > >>> Thanks, Phil and Rex. Everything's absolutely fine, now. That just > >>> leaves the terrible konqueror problem, and no-one seems to have any > >>> ideas on that. :-( > >> > >> Anne: Glad you eliminated that problem! I'm curious as to why you are > >> using the Konqueror web browser. The version that comes with CentOS is > >> quite basic. I use Mozilla Firefox 99% of the time, but there have > >> been a few times when I needed to use Konqueror, to get into a few web > >> sites. Lanny > > > > I was trying to use Konqueror as a file manager :-) The root konqueror > > (and other users' konqueror) were all fine, but my ~/.kde got nuked > > during extreme power problems in the village. It's been terrible fight > > to get everything back and sorted, but I think this was the last problem. > > > > (Have you ever tried file management without back/forward, split window, > > or any of the other tools? It's murder! You can descend a tree, but you > > have to start again at the top to go anywhere else.) > > . > > Anne > > You always have Midnight Commander on the commandline. To be honest, my mind was on getting the system back in order. I never considered the possibility of adding new software packages. The box in question is normally accessed only remotely, often for weeks at a time. It doesn't have lots of applications installed. Its function is file/print/imap server. Now and then I work at that desktop for a few hours, but it's not frequent. Anne -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20090218/60a0a34e/attachment-0005.sig>