Re: A REAL NEWBIE QUESTION

vin wrote:

Fedora Core release 5 (Bordeaux)

yum install nautilus-open-terminal

the plugin was loaded and i was asked to reboot

That's just plain wrong. I've been using *nix for 20 years, and I've
never had it "ask to reboot". There's something fish+++y here.

Are you trying to tell me, that from the bash prompt, yum returned the
output "you need to reboot" after installing nautilus-open-terminal?
AFAIK the word "reboot" does not even exist anywhere in the sources of
either rpm or yum, so I'd like to know where *that's* coming from!

That plugin only requires a restart of Nautilus to activate, IIRC you
don't even need to log out, just kill and respawn Nautilus, but a
"reboot" ... nonsense.

There is only ever one thing that *requires* a reboot under Linux, and
that is to use a new kernel.

which vmware --> "no wmware in (/usr......."

rpm -ql vmware-workstation --> "the packedge wmware-workstation is
not installed"

My mistake. They are using a mixture of upper and lower caps; yes it
*does* make a difference:

rpm -ql VMwareWorkstation

Browsing /usr/bin i find no wmware "objects" (executables?) but ...

Note your typo: it's "vmware" not "wmware"

I have tried in vain to download the eval of VMware, but whatever js
they have running on their site isn't playing with my setup. So I'll
have to guess.

IIRC VMware place their binaries in:

/usr/lib/vmware/bin

For some reason.

Anyway, the above rpm command should tell you for sure.

The problem seems to be stemming from VMware mixing case in their
naming conventions, combined with a failure to follow the FHS.

wmf2eps, wmffig, wmf2gd, wmf2svg and wmf2x

Again with the "w".

meybe they are the wmware stuff?

No, that's Windows MetaFile vector graphics stuff.

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11:47:42 up 11 days, 12:04, 4 users, load average: 0.03, 0.01, 0.00
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