[Comm-en] First encounter - problems and questions (longish)

[Vahur Lokk <vlokk@hot.ee>]

Hello!

I have been using Mandrake since 8.0 for home and business and am still quite 
a newbie. I am currently testing Junior 2.2 for business purposes as I need 
decent cyrillic support.
Installed ALTLinux to my home machine as a third OS (Mandrake9.1 and 
Win98being already there). Linuxes share a common /boot and /home 
directories.
First installation ended in a mess - Mdk and ALT seem to use different UID 
scheme and home folders my four users were messed up. While repairing it I 
somehow succeeded in blowing both installations completely  :)
Reinstall. Junior installed OK, but before proceeding with Mandrake I decided 
to fine-tune ALT first. There are quite many questions and problems:

1. Konqueror dies. It starts up, works fine as a browser, but trying to use it 
for file manager - it shows folder and its content for half a 
second and then crashes. I get following message:

Loading required GL library /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.nvidia
libpng warning: Incomplete compressed datastream in iCCP chunk
libpng warning: Profile size field missing from iCCP chunk
mcop warning: user defined signal handler found for SIG_PIPE, overriding
/home/wahur/tmp/mcop-wahur is accessible owned by user
zone still contained 7 blocks

I guess the reason might be that ownership of some kde files and folders in my 
home directory is still messed up (some of them now belong to my wife :)) ). 
But I cannot change the ownership back also! Any other solution except for 
uninstall KDE-delete all folders-reinstall KDE routine?

2. KPatience has no cards. This is by far the most dangerous flaw - my wife 
loves the game ;-) Situation is absolutely critical! Damn the konq but I need 
those cards fast.

3. Loading tuxracer ends with such an error

Loading required GL library /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.nvidia
*** tuxracer error: Can't find the tuxracer data directory.  Please check the
value of `data_dir' in ~/.tuxracer/options and set it to the location where 
you installed the tuxracer-data files.

Couldn't chdir to /usr/share/tuxracer/ (No such file or directory)

Another critical flaw - this brings angry kids on me!

4. Package management. Installation procedure used only first CD. But synaptic 
does not acknowledge CDs as an installation source at all. How can I set CD 
(or any other local folder) as a source for synaptic? I never install from 
net because of very slow connection!

5. Do you have fluxbox available anywhere? KDE is good for kids and wife, I am 
more like Fluxbox+ROX guy myself.

6. This Eng-Rus dictionary, wish, does nothing else but eats 99% of CPU but 
never starts. I thought it might be really nice to have.

7. OpenOffice menu fonts look ugly like death. Document fonts are OK.

Thanks for all who reached this far. Thanks for any help. Answers can be in 
Russianas well, I can read it (though I rather would not write).


Wahur