Re: TeTex upgrade problems
On 20-May-98 Matt Thompson wrote:
>> First install tetex-base (you should install dpkg-perl before) and after
>> that install the rest of the files. So, you have to install tetex
>> packages in a 2 (or 3) step process: (dpkg-perl,) tetex-base and finally
>> the rest of the tetex .deb files.
>
> umm...I did this all by dselect. I did mention it's a full hamm system,
> yes?
The problem is that there's been a change on two of the configuration variables.
To fix the problem declare the variable TEXMFMAIN with something like
$ export TEXMFMAIN=/usr/lib/texmf
This should fix the problem, and if the packages has been installed but not
configured, a simple
$ dpkg --configure --pending
will do.
Is a good thing to keep a copy of your old tetex configuration in case you are
updating an old version of tetex. In this case make a backup of your
/etc/texmf/ dir. The new installation will ask you to change this files with
new ones if you were updating.
Also the configuration of tetex-base will complain about a non-defined
VARTEXFONTS variable. You may define it befor the dpkg with a
$ export VARTEXFONTS=/var/spool/texmf
Regards,
Cesar
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Re: tetex installation bug (way around)
On 20-May-98 Thomas Vaughan wrote: >: $ dpkg --configure tetex-base tetex-bin >: Setting up tetex-base (0.9-6) ... >: /usr/bin/texconfig: No $TEXMFMAIN; set the environment variable or in >: texmf.cnf. > No, that doesn't solve the problem, which has something to do with an > environment variable, TEXMFMAIN. Apparently there is a bug somewhere > that causes TEXMFMAIN to be unset when it should be set. I don't > really know where to look, though. Everything was installed just > fine before I tried to update this morning, and so I suspect that > others have seen this, too. Exactly. The problem can be solved setting TEXMFMAIN to /usr/lib/texmf before you install the new packages. Once you do this everything should be fine (tetex-base will claim that VARTEXFONTS isn't set, but it won't stop the installation). The TeX *.cnf files have changed, so if you are updating it'd be a good thing to make a copy of the old ones and install the new ones that provide the new installation. Regards -- Cesar Talon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Laboratorio de Bajas Temperaturas Universidad Autonoma de Madrid Why do they call a fast a fast, when it goes so slow? -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: burning hamm on CD.(deleting links)
On 21-May-98 Liran Zvibel wrote: > It is NT here. I am going to delete the identical files, my question is, > whether to delete from binary-all or from binary-i386. The duplicate files are on binary-all. On binary-i386 you'll find symlinks to the ones on the *-all tree. So, if you don't want to duplicate work, the best option is to delete the duplicate files on the binary-all, unless you one to create a symlink for every file. Regards ------ Cesar Talon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Laboratorio de Bajas Temperaturas Universidad Autonoma de Madrid Pascal Users: The Pascal system will be replaced next Tuesday by Cobol. Please modify your programs accordingly. -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: gnome v.20
On 22-Jun-98 Brian Morgan wrote: > Anyone know of any updated info on the release of gnome v.20 for > debian? I'm anxiously awaiting it's arrival. Is it possible to simply > install it using the tarballs on the gnome site? Or will there be mucho > configuration I need to do? Well at least with version 0.13 it was possible to do that. I installed all the packages converting the *.rpm files to *.deb files with alien. That way I could install and remove everything quite cleanly. One problem is that you must check the dependencies by yourself. Another problem is that there could be some dependencies problems with gtk, imlib and gdk-imlib if you have the corresponding debian packages installed on your system. BTW my system is a hamm one. Maybe you will have problems with a bo install due the libc6 dependencies. Hope it helps. ------ Cesar Talon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Laboratorio de Bajas Temperaturas Universidad Autonoma de Madrid It seems intuitively obvious to me, which means that it might be wrong. -- Chris Torek -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Trident 3DImage 9750 AGP with Xfree?
I've got the card mentioned in the subject and I'm having problems with the configuration under XFree 3.3.2 (hamm) In the docs of the Xfree server, in the file README.trident, there's a mention of the support of another Trident 3DImage AGP that should be supported in the current server, but I've been unable to find the card in the xf86config list. Should I try to configure it by hand? Should I use the XSuse X Server? Thank you in advance Cesar Talon -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Mounting Win95 Shares with samba
Hello, I would like to mount (if possible) a win95 shared directory under debian. I'm not sure, but I think that could be done with smbmnt. Am I wrong? Anyway I haven't been able to do it via smbmnt/smbmount. I think that one must prepare a mount point via smbmnt and then mount the share with smbmount, however I don't know how. Any help? examples? Thanks, Cesar Talon -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
RE: FTP installing (Hamm)
On 26-Mar-98 Mike Patterson wrote: > The Problem: Once I get into the actual system, it seems to have ignored my > network settings (ifconfig and route both return just loopback > settings) and /proc/devices doesn't have an eth device listed. So > I try to run pppd-- apparently my old scripts won't work as it doesn't > recognize the command "+ua" anymore. Have a look at /etc/conf.modules Look for the line #alias eth0 If there's nothing like "alias eth0 ne" (for the NE-2000 compatibles) Insert it anywhere in conf.modules. Once you have done that a sh> ifconfig eth0 should work. Hope it helps. -- Cesar Talon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Laboratorio de Bajas Temperaturas Universidad Autonoma de Madrid Old programmers never die, they just hit account block limit. -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: xmgr statically linked against motif?
On 03-Apr-98 Jens Lisner wrote: > Hi folks! > > I noticed that some packages like xmgr are dynamical linked against > lesstif. Work isn't very easy with xmgr and lesstif, it's not much > stable and it's buggy i think. So is it possible to make such packages > statically linked against motif (like ddd-static). I would recompile it, > but i do not have motif. Well, the bigger problem that xmgr has is that with the new lesstif (>0.82) it take ages to display the gadgets. I don't know why. For the statically linked version look directly for the binary distribution. Search for it in ftpsearch. If you don't find it I'll give some addresses. But yes, it would be a good thing to have a debain package with the static version. Regards, -- Cesar Talon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Laboratorio de Bajas Temperaturas Universidad Autonoma de Madrid Beggars should be no choosers. -- John Heywood -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
