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Dark Ninja
08-18-2001, 01:32 AM
I have a few questions that I have been wondering about:

1. If I am going to patch my current kernel, I need the source code - correct? (Ex: I have 2.43-20mdk. I need the source for that in /usr/src)

2. I recently installed a few programs that I want every user on the system to be able to access just by typing the command. For example, right now, in order to access Star Office, the person must type ./.office52/soffice in order to run StarOffice. Is there a way I can setup the system so a person can just type 'soffice' and Star Office will automatically run? I've heard something about $PATH with this, but the only text file I've been able to find did not make much sense to me.


And now for the good news! :D I have successfully compiled the 2.4.8 kernel. Oh, yeah, there were some minor glitches, but, for the most part, everything worked very nicely. Thank you everybody that helped me out. I appreciate it.


Dark Ninja
frank754
08-18-2001, 01:39 AM
yes basically the source code should be
in /usr/src/linux
I was wondering too, as I had a question earlier, if there is no source code there,
where can you get the proprietary mandrake
kernel in source form, so you can check out
how they configged it in their distro version.
They do not seem to include it in the distro
(the source, that is).
If you compiled 2.4.8 or whatever, congrats,
but that was all your own work, you basically
turn Mandrake into a Redhat clone at that
point and lose their graphical init and
hardware support secrets, I too was wondering
if someone had more clues on this
Dark Ninja
08-18-2001, 12:25 PM
If you compiled 2.4.8 or whatever, congrats,
but that was all your own work, you basically
turn Mandrake into a Redhat clone at that
point and lose their graphical init and

Exactly. Guess there is no way I can fix that.


Dark Ninja
bdg1983
08-18-2001, 01:20 PM
The BASH Configuration (http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/shells/bashconfig.html) NHF is a good place to start to learn about the $PATH variable. It has a section on it.

Of course you can also visit www.linuxdoc.org (http://www.linuxdoc.org) and read the different how-to's and others on Bash, Bash-prompt.

Most of those how-to's, faq's etc. are most likely already installed on your system.

Have a look in /usr/share/doc

It is in my distro though yours could be slightly different. They will be there somewhere.