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Emerald Theme Manager is a useful software to manage the themes installed on your Linux system. This time I want to show you how to install Emerald Theme manager on Mandriva 2010.

First, make sure the repository is well configured on your Mandriva 2010. To check this, go to mandriva Linux Control Center via System | Administration | Configure Your System. Then Click the Software Management on the left panel of Mandriva Linux Control Center.

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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…)