Neutron said:
I believe Mandrake 10.1 is running the 2.6.8 kernel. I don't even want to know the process of upgrading the kernel. I've heard it's a pain.
But earlier you said you already succeeded in a kernel compile? That's the same process you do to upgrade the kernel. Unless you just upgrade your "kernel" precompiled binary package, in which case it's even easier.
The trick to upgrading the kernel via a new compile is "make oldconfig". Extract the new kernel sources to a new directory and put in there your .config file from the source directory of your working kernel, and do "make oldconfig". All options common between the old and new versions (99%) will fly by with your previous answers, and it will wait for your response on all new options (1% or so).
I installed Firefox and Thunderbird as I mentioned before. I created links to them on my desktop. I go to try to change the icon and it keeps wanting to change the link from the program to the icon. How do I do this correctly?
As I said, I'm not into KDE or any of those newfangled desktop managers. I keep it simple.
But I'll try to remember to ask around tomorrow at work.
Also, where is the Kaffeine executable located so I can tell Firefox where to point to to play movie files?
Ahh, here's a very useful command to do just that:
which kaffeine
The 'which' command looks in your PATH for the first matching binary of the given name. This effectively tells you 'which' one will run (in case you have two different locations in your path with the same name).
If that doesn't work, I think you can go through the K (start-ish) menu to highlight Kaffeine and right-click on it and go to properties (or what KDE calls it, I forget) and in there it should have the executable path.
Or if all else fails do:
find / -name kaffeine
That will show you where any and all files named kaffeine are. Linux is case-sensitive, and 99% of all binaries are all lowercase letters.
