Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on May 09, 2007 05:13 AM
Thanks for the great review, we're glad you liked Spring!
Just one thing - even though Abiword and Xfce aren't on the Powerpack DVD, they are available as official, supported packages for Mandriva. You can install them easily from our official mirror sites. All you need to do is add one of our mirror sites as an rpmdrake package source. For instructions on doing that, see here:
(the Wiki is actually a good place to look for docs, it doesn't cover everything but there's some useful stuff there). Once you've set up the internet repositories, you'll find Xfce and Abiword available from rpmdrake just like the packages on the DVD.
Take a look at the rest of that page too, for information on the various different repositories available for MDV; you'll find we make a wide variety of packages available, including updated versions of applications for stable releases, for users who want the newest software.
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Installing Xfce and so on
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on May 09, 2007 05:13 AMJust one thing - even though Abiword and Xfce aren't on the Powerpack DVD, they are available as official, supported packages for Mandriva. You can install them easily from our official mirror sites. All you need to do is add one of our mirror sites as an rpmdrake package source. For instructions on doing that, see here:
<a href="http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Docs/Basic_tasks/Installing_and_removing_software#Making_more_applications_available" title="mandriva.com">http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Docs/Basic_tasks/Inst<nobr>a<wbr></nobr> lling_and_removing_software#Making_more_applicati<nobr>o<wbr></nobr> ns_available</a mandriva.com>
(the Wiki is actually a good place to look for docs, it doesn't cover everything but there's some useful stuff there). Once you've set up the internet repositories, you'll find Xfce and Abiword available from rpmdrake just like the packages on the DVD.
Take a look at the rest of that page too, for information on the various different repositories available for MDV; you'll find we make a wide variety of packages available, including updated versions of applications for stable releases, for users who want the newest software.
-Adam W., Mandriva
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