[Emericana]

just installed mandrake 9.2 on my pc..... this is the first time i ever used linux and i have seemed to learn the basic commands and the interface etc but i do have a few simple questions

i downloaded mozilla firefox .8 and extracted it and opened it up and it works fine (that is what i am using to write this)... however, it is in a folder in my documents menu... how do i get a "shortcut" (in windows terms) to it on my start menu?

also, all of my mp3's are on my windows partitions (ntfs win xp)... i can open them up and play individual mp3s, however, i cannot figure out how to make a mp3 playlist of all of the files because they are on a ntfs partition (default media player on this system is totem)

also, how do i force quit something (like ctrl+alt+delete in windows)?

thanks for everything!

[stan03]

http://www.legjoints.com/Basic_Linux_Commands/

http://www.reallylinux.com/docs/basic.shtml

http://www.linuxquestions.org

http://www.linuxgeek.net/beginners/node3.html

[Emericana]

alright well i think mandrake 9.2 might have slightly different commands?
i extracted xmms fine
i try and install xmms by doing what is said in the readme file :

cd xmms-1.2.8
./configure
make
make install

but when i type in ./configure after going through a lot of different stuff i get this error:

configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH

and then when i type in make it says no makefile found

[Arkaine23]

This is because mandrake does not come with a gcc compiler installed by default.

[{PMS}fishy]

Also XMMS should have come installed. Atleast it did on my system.

[Emericana]

ahh aight thanks guys i got the packages installed from the cd