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Hi - I'm new to Mageia - though by no means new to forks from Mandriva. I've experimented with Mageia quite a lot and I really like it - to the extent that I'd very much like to use it on one of my work machines. However, there is one program which is essential for me to be able to work and I can't find it in the repos - Wuala. I work on half a dozen different machines in three locations and without that sort of cloud storage life would be reduced to USB sticks. On top of that I've got everything set up and working in Wuala and to transfer all that to another similar application would be too much. Dropbox is not secure enough. Wuala (and Spider Oak for that matter) encrypt everything including your password on your own machine. That to me is vitally important. My question is - is it possible, without hosing the system, to install and run Wuala?

on rpmbone there are several PCLinuxOS rpm's of wuala.

if you can locate the associated source rpm , rather than the binaries

then download that to your mageia box.

install rpm-build rpm and its dependancies.

run rpmbuild --rebuild wuala-xxxxxxx.src.rpm (or whatever the filename is that you have found )

if your realy lucky it might just build without issues.

it may say during the rpmbuild that missing some development or other rpm.

try to find what mageia rpms contain that file.

usually a google of "what rpm is file in" points in the right general direction or urpmq's --whatprovides option.

once you overcome whatever is required to get rpmbuild to provide an rpm, for mageia

you should be able to install it.

I believe pclinos share the same evolution from mandriva, so the spec file in the rpm should work (fingers crossed).

before you start, download and burn to CD clonezilla, and backup your system to a USB or esata drive, or over NFS/ssh to another machine.

then its easy to recover from whatever mess you may unwittingly create.

regards peter

Peter - many thanks for the speedy response. I took a chance with an old standby machine I had and on which I'd already installed Mageia. I downloaded the latest 32bit PCLINUXOS rpm from rpm.bone and simply installed it in a terminal via rpm -i etc. It installed without a hitch and is now running very happily! I'll give it a fair hammering to try and screw it up - but maybe I won't succeed. In which case I'll install Mageia on one of my work machines and see how it all goes. Great. Many thanks once again. Jeff

That is interesting. In the past I have had good success simply installing Fedora rpms, but never thought about PCLO. Thanks! - George

George - you're welcome. It's still running fine. I'll try and remember to come back here in a few days and report on its continuing success - or its collapse! Jeff