Re: [LUG] ViaVoice and Mandrake

[David Johnson <dj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

keith lawford wrote:
> Hi all
>  
> I have purchased Mandrake PowerPack 8 and Mandrake 9, from 
> Linuxemporium, in order to take advantage of PowerPack having ViaVoice. 
> I have installed 9, but cannot work out how to install ViaVoice from the 
> application disks for PowerPack 8. I have tried source manager in 
> RMPdrake and added cdrom as a removable, but the only outcome is that I 
> have dealted the 3 cd for 9 from the list. Can anyone help?
>  
> Is it possible to load an application from PowerPack 8 onto Mandrake 9 
> or should i load PowerPack and then upgrade to Mandrake 9? As a final 
> solution could I partition may hard drive to allow me to bootload both 
> PowerPack8 and Mandrake 9?
>  
> Thanks for all the help over the last couple of weeks
>  
> Keith L

The best thing to do is simply look in the /Mandrake/RPMS/ directory on 
each of the 8.0 CDs and see if you can find the package manually.

It isn't of course guaranteed to work since it's from an older version 
of Mandrake...

David.


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