Empty Control Centre
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I installed 3.3.2-t03 and thought all was going well, then I realised I had no printers installed. (getting lazy after trying some distros that detect and install them automatically)
I opened control centre, and the only entry on the left side is 'Peripherals'. The only entry under peripherals is an option to set up Kamera.
There is nothing else there. I went into Printer Control via the menu, but installin my printer that way didnlt give me access to setup options for page size etc. and when it did print, it spewed pages of garbage.
This is the third time I have had to go back to 3.3.1-t02.
If it wasn't for the fact that I have been an advocate of mepis for over a year, I would shift to one of the more workable distros.
Luckily I didn't delete my earlier release. Which brings me to another point. GRUB is still broken. It has been wel lover a year now since it last detected the various versions of Mepis on my hard drives, let alone other distros.
(Now, where did I leave that Suse 9.3 DVD???)
RossD.
Thanks Jon, I found a
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Thanks Jon,
I found a number of other things that were screwed up as well, so 3.3.3-t03 was totally unusable. Only took me a day, but I am back with the last fully working version, 3.3-t03.
Just as well I keep that one handy!
It used to be fun testing the new releases as they came out, If GRUB worked it would still be ok, because we could have several vesions of Linux and boot between them, as we used to be able to do using LILO and the early versions of GRUB.
Anyway, I'll stay with 3.3-t03 until there is a release of MEPIS that works. 2003.20 was pretty good as I recall....
Pity we don;t have testing in place as we used to.
RossD
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Glad I could help Ross. I just made a tweak brought to my attention by hippy. I have made a slightly more permanent adjustment that I detail in "Pinning kdebase-data" at http://www.mepis.org/node/7707
It will save some daily pain till things slow down a bit 
Jon
This Is An Easy One :-)
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Ross, I've had to deal with this one all week
Because the repositories are messed up from the KDE 3.4 "fun", various applications keep getting "upgraded" that shouldn't be.
Simply open a Konsole, then as root, enter:
I've tried locking it in synaptic with no luck. So whenever you upgrade things for the next couple (enter time duration here) you will have to do this. I've been doing it daily because of my automatic scripts
Jon