New to Fedora

[Daveda]

I am a retired system engineer originally working with mainframes in the EDP era and specializing in codicil data banks. Later involved with the first intelligent terminals (the first Intel 8080 cpu and Mac80 assembler) and networking. From there I proceeded to PC's, Windows and Novell.
My Linux experience started with Diablo freeBSD, Suse 6-10 and now Fedora 10.
I have always tried to get away from Microsoft because of its crude security, memory & HDD management and it does so many things automatically without possible intervention.
Three weeks ago I bought a new PC (Acer Aspire M3201 with AMD Athlon x2) and decided to again try to move to Linux. I first tried Suse 11 this just didn't recognise anything and didn't even start installing. I then tried Mandriva 8 this went a little further but not far enough. I then turned to Fedora 10 and lo and behold I soon had a system working in a very short time.
Thanks to you all in the Forum I was able to get over many problems so that now I can do most things with Fedora which is now my main system. However there were/are some items I wish to mention.

I found that although I could move all my old mails and addresses to Evolution I was not satisfied so I installed Thunderbird
My Access data bases are still under windows, OO dBase is not adequate. I have installed Mysql but I don't know what to do withit.
I have installed Zattoo but when I call the program nothing happens and I can't find any error msg's.
I had some difficulties trying to view video clips from the internet but am now slowly getting over this.
I have an Epson RX700 which I can use for printing but Sane doesn't recognise the iscan I installed.
I miss my favourite Fonts in OO eg. Arial and Papyrus.

I still have a lot to learn and to organise. In Windows many things are installed even if you don't need them and in Linux there are many things you may install but you don't know if you need them.

Well after all that dribble I would just like to mention that although I started my computer career writing programs in machine language I now need a computer that I can use without having to do the nitty gritty bits.

Some questions

1 Any suggestions for an Access MDB replacement?
2 Can I import Microsoft Fonts?
3 How can I tell if I have a 32bit or a 64bit OS?
4 Any ideas on the scanner problem?
5 Is there a list of Abbreviations and application names within Linux, with a description of what they are for or suppose to do?
6 What about Zattoo?

[scottro]

Welcome and to answer a couple of the questions, at least till someone more knowledgeable comes across the post and helps....

I believe there are some MS font howtos on the forums. Try the howto section and good luck. (Yeah, the search function needs improvement, we know, we know.)

The command

uname -r
in a terminal will tell you if it's 32 or 64 bit. For example, on this one it's

2.6.27.7-134.fc10.x86_64, showing that it's 64 bit.

A 32 bit will have something like i386 or maybe i686 at the end. (I don't have one here to tell

[JohnVV]

2 Can I import Microsoft Fonts?

there are called the liberation fonts SEE:
http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mj...a-f10.html#ttf
http://www.mjmwired.net/resources

4 Any ideas on the scanner problem?

an "I have an Epson RX700 " if sane dose not see it or like in my case with a canoscan 8000f sane dose see it but there is no driver for it .then you are out of luck
-- just looked at the sane site --
http://www.sane-project.org
http://www.sane-project.org/sane-mfgs.html#Z-EPSON
http://khk.net/sane/
http://www.sane-project.org/man/sane-epson.5.html
yours is supported but unmaintained , should work ???
look through yum ( you might be missing some code?

 ~]$ yum search sane
================================ Matched: sane =================================
perl-Module-Starter.noarch : A simple starter kit for any module
compat-python24-imaging-sane.i386 : Python Module for using scanners
gnome-scan.i386 : Gnome solution for scanning in the desktop on top of libsane
libsane-hpaio.i386 : SANE driver for scanners in HP's multi-function devices
python-imaging.i386 : Python's own image processing library
python-imaging-sane.i386 : Python Module for using scanners
sane-backends.i386 : Scanner access software
sane-backends-devel.i386 : SANE development toolkit
sane-backends-libs.i386 : SANE libraries
sane-backends-libs-gphoto2.i386 : SANE libraries for gphoto2
sane-frontends.i386 : Graphical frontend to SANE
scanbuttond.i386 : Scanner Button tools to SANE
xchat-gnome.i386 : GNOME front-end to xchat
xsane.i386 : X Window System front-end for the SANE scanner interface
xsane-gimp.i386 : GIMP plug-in providing the SANE scanner interface

to see what is installed run

su -
( root pass)
rpm -qa | grep sane

With your background it should not be a problem to do a bit of rewriting to get it to work on that "acer "

5 Is there a list of Abbreviations and application names within Linux, with a description of what they are for or suppose to do?

how much do want to read ?
old but still useful http://rute.2038bug.com/rute.html.gz
"Alphabetical Directory of Linux Commands " http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/cmd/
more for the new-be but good
http://www.linuxcommand.org/index.php
http://www.linuxcommand.org/learning_the_shell.php

[ppesci]

You can try to export the access data base using odbc or jdbc drivers. but the most simple solution is to export the tables as tab separated text and the import in MySQL.

HTH

[Daveda]

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Welcome and to answer a couple of the questions, at least till someone more knowledgeable comes across the post and helps....

I believe there are some MS font howtos on the forums. Try the howto section and good luck. (Yeah, the search function needs improvement, we know, we know.)

The command

uname -r
in a terminal will tell you if it's 32 or 64 bit. For example, on this one it's

2.6.27.7-134.fc10.x86_64, showing that it's 64 bit.

A 32 bit will have something like i386 or maybe i686 at the end. (I don't have one here to tell

Thanks I get this reply
[root@DDA03 ~]# uname -r
2.6.28-0.129.rc8.git2.fc11.i686
[root@DDA03 ~]#

This tells me I have a 32 bit system (on a 64 bit PC?) and why fc11?

I also keep getting the following error msg.
python(abi) = 2.5 is needed by package bzr-gtk-0.95.0-2.fc10.i386
python(abi) = 2.5 is needed by package system-config-samba-1.2.67-3.fc10.noarch
python(abi) = 2.5 is needed by package setroubleshoot-server-2.0.12-3.fc10.noarch
python(abi) = 2.5 is needed by package setroubleshoot-2.0.12-3.fc10.noarch
python(abi) = 2.5 is needed by package system-config-services-0.99.28-3.fc10.noarch
libgnome-desktop-2.so.7 is needed by package gnome-panel-2.24.2-1.fc10.i386
libpython2.5.so.1.0 is needed by package nautilus-python-0.5.1-1.fc10.i386

I think I have installed something which mucks things up,. All the listed items are installed.

[Daveda]

Reply to JohnVV
Many thanks I will look at this later

sorry I am new to Forum and I need to get practice with posting, Quotes etc.
Also I am stealing time from household duties,

[Daveda]

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You can try to export the access data base using odbc or jdbc drivers. but the most simple solution is to export the tables as tab separated text and the import in MySQL.

Thanks I need to learn how to use Mysql, Is there a graphical interface or do I need to leaarn SQL as well?

[markkuk]

Originally Posted by Daveda

Thanks I get this reply
[root@DDA03 ~]# uname -r
2.6.28-0.129.rc8.git2.fc11.i686
[root@DDA03 ~]#

This tells me I have a 32 bit system (on a 64 bit PC?) and why fc11?

There are separate installation media for 32 and 64 bit versions, you chose to install the 32-bit version. The "fc11" shows that you have updated your system with packages from the "development" repository, a.k.a Rawhide, which is a daily snapshot of the progress toward the next Fedora release.

Originally Posted by Daveda

I also keep getting the following error msg.
python(abi) = 2.5 is needed by package bzr-gtk-0.95.0-2.fc10.i386
python(abi) = 2.5 is needed by package system-config-samba-1.2.67-3.fc10.noarch
python(abi) = 2.5 is needed by package setroubleshoot-server-2.0.12-3.fc10.noarch
python(abi) = 2.5 is needed by package setroubleshoot-2.0.12-3.fc10.noarch
python(abi) = 2.5 is needed by package system-config-services-0.99.28-3.fc10.noarch
libgnome-desktop-2.so.7 is needed by package gnome-panel-2.24.2-1.fc10.i386
libpython2.5.so.1.0 is needed by package nautilus-python-0.5.1-1.fc10.i386

That's what happens with Rawhide. The daily snapshots aren't checked for consistency or operation together with previous releases. The best way out of this situation (if you don't actually want to become a Fedora developer/tester) is to re-install and don't enable any repositories with words "development", "testing" or "test" in their names.

[Daveda]

Originally Posted by markkuk

There are separate installation media for 32 and 64 bit versions, you chose to install the 32-bit version. The "fc11" shows that you have updated your system with packages from the "development" repository, a.k.a Rawhide, which is a daily snapshot of the progress toward the next Fedora release.

That's what happens with Rawhide. The daily snapshots aren't checked for consistency or operation together with previous releases. The best way out of this situation (if you don't actually want to become a Fedora developer/tester) is to re-install and don't enable any repositories with words "development", "testing" or "test" in their names.

Thanks I will do at some future date when I try to remember what packages I have installed.and be more careful in the future.

[ppesci]

You can use mysql-administrator package in order to get a graphical interfase.

HTH

[Daveda]

Originally Posted by ppesci

You can use mysql-administrator package in order to get a graphical interfase.

HTH

Thanks I will try it.

[bryancole]

As to the question of fonts, you can just copy across your favorite .ttf font files from a windows box and place them in your '.fonts' folder (a hidden folder, under your home dir). They will be installed and available immediately.

[Daveda]

Originally Posted by bryancole

As to the question of fonts, you can just copy across your favorite .ttf font files from a windows box and place them in your '.fonts' folder (a hidden folder, under your home dir). They will be installed and available immediately.

Many Thanks I could not find a .font folder so I created one and copied one font into it and low and behold I now have that font!!!