[Nautilus-list] Re: Nautilus-list digest, Vol 1 #67 - 24 msgs

[Florent Pitoun <fpitoun mandrakesoft com>]

nautilus-list-admin lists eazel com wrote:

> Message: 3
> Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2000 21:38:47 -0800
> From: eskil eazel com
> Organization: eazel inc.
> To: nautilus-list lists eazel com
> Subject: [Nautilus-list] PR2 & Installer on Mandrake or Red Hat 6.0
> 
> Oy...
> 
> As you may have noted, the installer fails on
> Mandrake and Red Hat 6.0 systems with the
> a message about "can not download nautilus-
> suggested".
> 
> The issue is, that the installer asks software
> catalog for a package for "distro=Mandrake",
> and the software catalog has no packages
> for mandrake. The same goes for redhat60.
> 
> So till we beat software catalog into submission,
> you can trick the installer into thinking that it's
> on a Red Hat 6.2.
> 
> For Red Hat 6.0 :
> mv /etc/redhat-release /etc/redhat-release.org
> echo "Red Hat Linux release 6.2 (Zoot)" > /etc/redhat-release
> <run the installer>
> mv /etc/redhat-release.org /etc/redhat-release
> 
> For Mandrake :
> mv /etc/redhat-release /etc/redhat-release.org
> <run the installer>
> mv /etc/redhat-release.org /etc/redhat-release
> 
> I'll email again when softcat has been slapped.
> 
> /dev/eskil
> ---

doesn't work for me. I still get the same message.
btw, I'm on mkd 7.2

Florent Pitoun