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If you are using the gui you should be able to find a menu item to open a command prompt window. You can also try logging in remotely - that's command prompt only. Those are the two easiest ways I can think of for getting to the command prompt.

Hi thanks everybody for your responses I downloaded the CentOs 6 installer & found that I don't have enough memory... So, I'm going to try Suse & Debian (thanks Noway), & if both those fail for memory or any other reason, I spect I'll be adding more memory to my system & sticking with CentOs...

Chris - thank you for your response, and for the clarification about the nature of Ubuntu and Fedora. It's very helpful. LN

Hi Annihilannic Thanks for responding. It's helpful to know that you use & like CentOs. LN

Hi, I have centos 5 installed on my sony viao (sony vaio digital studio pcv-r553ds) I installed smokeping (http://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/index.en.html), I had a lot of trouble getting dependencies up to date. I want to start over, install an up-to-date OS & then ad smokeping, maybe...

Hi I need to set up a sales software / CRM. I need something of zero cost and public license. I thought of using Sugar (I'm thinking there is a 0 cost version and that it is public license) but Sugar seems like it might be darn hard to deal with. I've checked the wikipedia page that compares...

Thank you Annihilannic. A nice concise answer, and it really helped me understand things better. thanks again!

Hello, If I am logged in as userA and I want to start process as userB (userB being something other than root) how do I do this? (I'm setting up and troubleshooting smokeping. I got some help that says, "Make sure smokeping is running as www:www or has permissions to /var/www/smokeping as...

Wow Annihilannic, thank you for this generous and useful response. It was very helpful to learn that my OS is old and thus leading to dependency issues. thanks again! LN

Hi I have tried to install RRDTools on my Centos 4.5 system using the *.rpm files from the Centos/Red Hat link on this page http://www.mrtg.org/rrdtool/download.en.html I get dependency problems as shown below. I ran yum update perl the other day and got the message that there were no updates...

Noway2, A quick follow up. I had hit another roadblock building an application from source. Based on your tip about it being more helpful to install from the binaries, I dug around a bit and found out how to install the binaries for the application that was failing to build, and now I can...

Noway2, Thanks for the link to the RPM search page! thanks again for your help & your responses LN

Hi Noway2, Thanks for your response, & for the question about whether the program is available in the binary form. I followed the first install instructions I found, which are on the website of the person who created it. I tried "rpm install rrdtools" and "yum install rrdtools" Both commands...

I found the solution here: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-software-2/zlib-problem-when-installing-libpng-531369/ I read "berbae"'s response & ran ./configure, make and make install commands using only the default settings. Libpng built successfully. LN

Hello, I am using Centos 5.2 and following these instructions to build RRDTool (http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc/rrdbuild.en.html) The command : env CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC" ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR run from the libpng-1.2.18 directory always ends in the failure: checking for zlibVersion...