Lombard problems

1999-08-26 Thread John Whitley
Hi all, First, despite my problems below, thanks to those who have posted their experiences getting Debian up on a Lombard... you've helped me get this far. 8-) I'm having a heck of a time getting a reasonable Debian install on my Lombard G3/400. I have no trouble with the install (via NFS) u

Re: XFree86-3.3.4

1999-08-26 Thread Simon Piette
Sergio Brandano wrote: > > Hey there! > > You know there is a binary ppc version of the new XFree on > ftp.xfree86.org? > You know there is no debian package for it? > > Sergio > You'll find RPMs in ftp://devel.linuxppc.org/users/trini/ You can use alien to convert them. Simon

GNOME terminal madness

1999-08-26 Thread Michel Dänzer
I recently added Unix98 pty support to my kernels. From then on, the GNOME terminals set TERM to "dumb". Why is that? I now set TERM to "linux" in .bashrc . Is there a better solution? Michel -- People who are wrong the most are wrong the loudest. ___

XFree86-3.3.4

1999-08-26 Thread Sergio Brandano
Hey there! You know there is a binary ppc version of the new XFree on ftp.xfree86.org? You know there is no debian package for it? Sergio

Re: Bugs in xfree68 that made it fail with jdk 1.2.1 found and fixed (fwd)

1999-08-26 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Kostas Gewrgiou wrote: > On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Kostas Gewrgiou wrote: > > > On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > > > Anybody who'd care to try? I just erased my XFree86 3.3.x tree. > > > > > > > > BTW, I'm always

kbd package install problem and Lombard problems

1999-08-26 Thread John Whitley
In installing the kbd package (0.99-2, I think... whatever is currently in http://http.us.debian.org/ unstable main), I've gotten into an infinite loop in the script asking the "Do you want the kernel's default keymap to be reloaded?" If I answer 'n RET', and I just get the question again. I

PPC Package issues and possible dselect bug

1999-08-26 Thread John Whitley
A few "bugs" in package dependencies: logrotate requires popt but popt "doesn't appear to be available" hfsutils-tcltk requires "tk8.0" instead of "wish", and thus won't accept the tkstep8.0 version of wish. Bug in perl dependencies (or dselect itself, depending on how you look at it), as evi