Fedora "Control Centre" not working


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I have succesfully installed Fedora and all is well in the world EXCEPT ... the "Control Centre" Icon seems to be a link to the prefs folder. Let me explain ;

I click Control Centre from the "start" (exuse my windows lingo, not used to Linux yet) menu, and it opens the Prefs folder, in there is another icon for Control Centre but it has a green arrow on the top left, clicking this just opens up another Prefs window. Is this right, as I remember using Control Panel on a friends machine.

Also, I was once showed a util called LINUXCONF , Does this come with Fedora as I cant find it ? If so, where is it located or do I need to download it manualy ?

Thanks in advance for the help .....

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I am a bit lost on the "Control Center" talk... :(

However, on the "linuxconf", I think I can help.

Fedora is a test-bed for RedHat, and therefore does things the RedHat way. That means a lot of the configuration items have been replaced by RedHat-specific configurators.

Open a shell and type in redhat- (include the hyphen right after "redhat", and then press your TAB key. About 30-40 items should be displayed that you can use to config the desired part of your system....

Good Luck!

Mark

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I had problems with fedora being very buggy for, only worse distro ever was corel linux. That might be a problem but....

Did you make sure you installed all the admin packages. Are there any kde admin or gnome admin utilities you can use in the meanwhile. KDE's are fairly straight forward.

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Yea it was KDE.

Like I said though, the icon is just a link to the prefs folder.

Where would the KDE Control Centre be located so I can run it manualy ?

Thanks again ...

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Yea it was KDE.

Like I said though, the icon is just a link to the prefs folder.

Where would the KDE Control Centre be located so I can run it manualy ?

Thanks again ...

On my Fedora Core 1 install:

[mark@mjcomputer mark]$ whereis kcontrol
kcontrol: /usr/bin/kcontrol /usr/lib/kcontrol.la /usr/lib/kcontrol.so

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