Re: GIMP dependencies

1999-11-02 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Frank Petzold wrote: > Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: > gimp: Depends: aalib1 (>= 1.2-15) but it is not installed > Depends: slang1 (< 1.3) but 1.3.9-1 is installed > E: Sorry, broken packages The slang business was fixed in source and on Intel a couple of da

Re: debconf 0.1.71 broken

1999-11-02 Thread Hartmut Koptein
> The autobuilder built whiptail (which is within the newt source package) > against newt0.30 while it was building libnewt 0.50. Nice chicken or egg > problem, eh? I uploaded new binaries to master yesterday which are correctly > linked against newt 0.50. It is already fixed: isis:~# dpkg -s w

Re: PowerMac 7300/200

1999-11-02 Thread Matt Porter
On Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 07:11:57PM +0100, Christian Winkler wrote: > > The rescue disk has no bootloader on it...it only exists to copy the kernel > > from during installation. Use the COFF kernel instead: > > > > boot fd:linux root=/dev/fd0 load_ramdisk=1 boot fd:linux root=/dev/0200 load_ramdi

Re: PowerMac 7300/200

1999-11-02 Thread Christian Winkler
> The rescue disk has no bootloader on it...it only exists to copy the kernel > from during installation. Use the COFF kernel instead: > > boot fd:linux root=/dev/fd0 load_ramdisk=1 OK, I almost suspected that. Thanks for the information and the images, however it still does not work. Booting y

Re: PowerMac 7300/200

1999-11-02 Thread Matt Porter
On Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 01:19:05PM +0100, Christian Winkler wrote: > Hi, > > > obviously I am just to silly to install Debian on this machine. > I tried the current potato disks-powerpc. > > Having some experience on installing Debian on i386 and sparc I > have had no luck with the Mac so far. >

GIMP dependencies

1999-11-02 Thread Frank Petzold
after the latest upgrade I cannot use the GIMP anymore: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/root]# apt-get install gimp Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstabl

Re: debconf 0.1.71 broken

1999-11-02 Thread Matt Porter
On Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 08:53:50AM +0100, christian mock wrote: > X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 > To: Frank Petzold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: debconf 0.1.71 broken > In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 02 Nov 1999 08:15:23 +0100." >

Re: PowerMac kernels with GCC 2.95.1

1999-11-02 Thread Frank Petzold
Thus spake VALETTE Eric ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I would suggest to upgrade to gcc-2.95.2 as there are severe bug for PPC > with 2.95.1 (incorrect loop generation, mishandling of volatile keyword, ...). Was someone able to build a working 2.2.10 kernel for APUS with 2.95.2?

PowerMac 7300/200

1999-11-02 Thread Christian Winkler
Hi, obviously I am just to silly to install Debian on this machine. I tried the current potato disks-powerpc. Having some experience on installing Debian on i386 and sparc I have had no luck with the Mac so far. What happens is the following: trying to boot the rescue1440.bin floppy from OpenFi

Re: PowerMac kernels with GCC 2.95.1

1999-11-02 Thread VALETTE Eric
> "Shaw" == Shaw Terwilliger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Shaw> I'm using GCC as part of Potato (1999/10/29) on my PowerBook (G3 Series Shaw> Lombard). Since about 1999/09/24 (my last working kernel) I haven't Shaw> been able to successfully boot a new kernel. I've been using Paul Shaw> Macke

Re: debconf 0.1.71 broken

1999-11-02 Thread christian mock
--- Begin Message --- > I get the same error with the latest version now (0.2.5?). It seems that > some script that is sourced by debconf.postinst exits. I chased that one down in my setup, it was debconf deciding to use whiptail, which didn't run (some library problem, IIRC). Setting the envir

Re: X

1999-11-02 Thread Hartmut Koptein
> > Well, I got the base system plus most of the common packages > > installed. Went quite smooth. But - X does provide for a bumpy > > experience. Well, tI=ve gotten nowhere. > > Yes. Of course, I had a tarball of my old /etc when I switched to Debian from > LinuxPPC, so I used my old XF86Config

Re: PowerMac kernels with GCC 2.95.1

1999-11-02 Thread Frank Petzold
Thus spake Georg Bauer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hm. egcs isn't available for potato - at least not as an easily to spot > package ... Of course it was overwritten by the 2.95.1 gcc. This is one thing I don't like so much in debian: You cannot get older packages, if you did not keep them for yoursel

Re: debconf 0.1.71 broken

1999-11-02 Thread Frank Petzold
Thus spake Frank Petzold ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > When I try to install debconf, I get: > > Setting up debconf (0.1.71) ... > dpkg: error processing debconf (--configure): > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 127 > I get the same error with the latest version now (0.2

Kernel fails to boot..

1999-11-02 Thread Peter Abrahamsen
Hi there, I have a UMAX C600, and am attempting to boot a kernel that I compiled on my 7600. The kernel is the rsynced linux-vger-stable from samba, as of monday night ~8pm. I compiled using the experimental gcc 2.95.2 debs, and binutils 2.9.5.0.16-2. The system has IDE and SCSI, a DEC 21041-b

Install Tips and Documentation

1999-11-02 Thread Jared Benedict
Does anyone know why the links to the Debian/PowerPC Installation-Tips and Debian/PowerPC Installations-Documentation are bad? I am interested in trying debian out but would really like some documentation. Does it just not exist yet, or are the bad links something new? Could someone point me in

Re: X

1999-11-02 Thread Ethan Benson
On 1/11/99 Kevin Puetz wrote: Q for someone - why don't we have Xconfigurator (which might be redhat-centric?) or something similar? It really helps... Maybe I'll alien it out of LinuxPPC and put the deb up - if there is any interest. see the archives for Debian-devel there was a short discus