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This tutorial will guide yo to the installation of dropbox, the free online file sharing and backup on Mandriva 2010. I was writing the same tutorial for Ubuntu system. Last time I check the dropbox website and looking for the dropbox binary package for Mandriva but it does not exist. But there are another options to get this dropbox on my Mandriva. The options are install using source code (I was failed in some reason), and the second option is convert the deb package into rpm.

I choose the option to convert existing deb format provided by dropbox website to rpm and then install dropbox. Here is the step installing dropbox on Mandriva: (more…)

I was installing Mandriva 2010 on my already running Windows 7 computer. On the installation options, I choose to resize the Windows partition and use for the Mandriva installation. But I was forgot to set the amount of the file system size, so when Mandriva installation finished, the system keep annoying me that the file system disk is running very low. So I planned to resize the Linux partition using GParted. (more…)

GParted is a very useful hard disk utility software. With this software you will be enable to create, delete, or resize the partition on a given hard disk. This time I just want to show you how to install this GParted under Mandriva 2010. The GParted has a simple and easy to understand GUI.

The GParted installation is also very easy. With only a single command, you can install this GParted. (more…)