Quote Originally Posted by Raoul
Hello
After a few tries I managed to install Knoppix on a clean hard drive (ie no windows partition). The first problem I came accross was that I couldn't unrar files. Ark said something wrong about the "PATH". So I went for rarsoft.com and got the files... Any way I can tell Ark to use them ? Or do I have to go for the grim command line ?
Sorry, never used ARK before but there is a really cool utility called z that is a frontend for gzip, tar, bzip and others. Just do
z somefile.tar.gz and voila! You can get z like so:

cd
wget http://freshmeat.net/redir/z/12310/u...z-2.4.0.tar.gz
tar xzvf z-2.4.0.tar.gz
cd z-2.4.0
su
make install

Now you can just use z for all of those archived files.

z file.tar.gz

cd file

./configure && make && make install

(note that is only how you USUALLY do it- read the README or INSTALL doc that comes with any source you download.

Also I failed to install every program I downloaded. Are there special operations to do like registering the prog in the system for instance ?
What programs? It is entirely dependent on what they are as to how they are installed. You are however using Debian and Debian makes life easy. Just use apt-get. You have Kpackage or better yet Synaptic if you like a gui to install apps with. Here is an apt-get mini tutorial:

http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2638

And finally several programs included in Knoppix won't work. With Freeciv, among others, I have the "loading" pointer for a few sec and that's all. Any idea
Thanks a lot
Well those are probably just dead links from the menu. Debian has update-menus but dunno if that works for KDE menu or not sorry.