Linux proggies

[enekron]

Right! I need a download manager thingy, for some big 40mb downloads I'm going to do, and a decent Wordpad like program. Any ideas? :E

[Ferg]

wget and vi :)

vi should be already installed and if you search for wget you'll find it :)

[Skunk]

Be warned that both of those programs are command line interface only - if you want a nice friendly GUI you'll probably need to look elsewhere. Gnome comes with a decent FTP program (very similar in feel to CuteFTP) and your desktop environment should have a whole host of GUi text editors as well. I tend to use VI because it's very fast and it's fun playing around with all the archaic keyboard combinations... but that's just me ;)

[aef]

wget is good.

Wordpad is a simple word processor, whereas vi is a text editor, and not particularly friendly to the beginner.

For a Wordpad replacement, I'd recommend 'Pathetic Writer'. The package I have calls itself 'xpw', whereas the actual program is 'pw', but I'm sure you'll find an appropriate RPM. Like Wordpad, it edits RTF files.

For a text editor, either pico or nano (they're very similar) are good for beginners. You'll probably want to run teither of hem with -w (eg pico -w filename) to turn off word-wrap. For serious editing, you'll want vi[m] or emacs, depending on your taste.

AEF

[enekron]

Hmmmm, ok, I got wget working. For some reason the file it was downloading (when I continued it) went up to 8300% completed (!) but I think it worked. Shame the file won't run :P

Now how do you resize the home partition? There isn't enough space on it. I tried using the disk program in Mandrake but it won't resize it :| I tell it to but it just does nowt. Any ideas?

[aef]

Originally posted by enekron

Now how do you resize the home partition? There isn't enough space on it. I tried using the disk program in Mandrake but it won't resize it :| I tell it to but it just does nowt. Any ideas?


I'm not really 'up' on Linux partition resizing tools, but you might find it easier to:

* Backup all data in /home onto another partition
* Unmount /home
* Delete partition
* Make new partition
* Edit /etc/fstab to reflect name of new partition (if it's changed)
* Mount /home
* Copy data back on to /home

AEF