On Wed, 5 Mar 2003 09:29:15 -0500
Kevin Coyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Second, question about how to best set up the dual compilers: Like
> you, I'll use 2.95 to compile downloaded software, and 3.2 for stuff
> I write. Do you change the symlink in /usr/bin depending upon what
> you are doi
On Wed, 5 Mar 2003 07:33:19 -0500
Kevin Coyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I'm learning C++ and ran into a bit of difficulty with boolalpha.
>
> I guess I don't have all the right libraries loaded (although I
> would have thought this one was quite basic) because the following
> doesn't work:
On 23 Feb 2003 13:33:55 +
Chris Mortimore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My Debian menus (in KDEand Gnome) have cleared themselves. Is there
> an easy way to get them back? The KDE appfinder program does not
> detect the programs that were in the menus
try to run update-menus as root
wait for h
On Sun, 16 Feb 2003 09:35:03 -0500
"Michael P. Soulier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> One of the best things about apt-get is that removals trace
> dependencies,
> so if I want to remove all X packages, all I have to do is apt-get
> remove on a base X library, and _everything_ that depends
On 31 Jan 2003 16:50:08 -0500
"Mark L. Kahnt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm surprised nobody mentioned TeXmacs if you are running X (also a
> requirement for LyX, btw, so if you are a fan of a strictly text
> (and maybe SVGAlib or FrameBuffer,) then emacs or vi, or maybe even
> ae, are appropri
On Mon, 20 Jan 2003 22:33:22 -0800 (PST)
"nate" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I don't believe your a good candidate for using debian on the
> desktop. Perhaps SuSE, Mandrake or Xandros, despite being more
> propritary(sp), they are a step in the right direction(towards more
> openness) compared to
On Sun, 19 Jan 2003 11:55:49 +
Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> No (unless you count the maintainer scripts), but diversions require
> support from the package manager. There's no point diverting a file
> off somewhere else if the package manager is just going to stomp on
> it at t
On Sun, 19 Jan 2003 11:18:35 +
Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 10:47:18AM +0200, Alaa The Great wrote:
> > the RPM format itself seems to have all the features of deb,
>
> It has most of them, although it's missing one or tw
On Sat, 18 Jan 2003 21:13:23 -0800
Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> The other half of RPM hell that needs to be fixed if RPM is going to
> be considered usable.
it is actually more a problem of bad packages than a problem of a bad
system, most RPM packages have file dependencies for l
On 18 Jan 2003 11:29:13 -0600
Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Note that since apt & dpkg came 1st, urpmi & rpm are like them,
> not vice versa...
I thought like was commutative :-)
dpkg like rpm == rpm like dpkg
isn't it??
cheers,
Alaa
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On Sat, 18 Jan 2003 21:06:24 +0530
"Sridhar M.A." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Can someone help me to get X running on this machine?
I never had a problem with my TNT but I'll make a guess.
do you have the nvidia devices in the /dev/ directory??
on my system I get
$ ls /dev/nvidia*
nvidia0n
On 18 Jan 2003 03:46:40 -0600
Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Me too!! Started w/ Mandrake, but when RPM Hell bit me one too
> many times, I made the jump...
I started with debian (potato) freaked out, moved to mandrake and now
I just moved back to debian last week, and I have to say
On Sun, 12 Jan 2003 23:08:52 -0800
"Curtis Spencer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I want to set up DNS on my system so I can have my domain names
> point to it.
> What is a good way to do this? Is there an easy way? I am running
> the current unstable distribution. Is there something I can apt
On Mon, 13 Jan 2003 17:25:42 +1100
Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 04:10:10PM +0100, Mat wrote:
> > I have to periodically copy a lot of files filtering them by their
> > extensions (something like cp * but *.bak). How can I do that (as
> > I can read from cp' man or
On Sun, 12 Jan 2003 01:51:54 +
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hugh Saunders) wrote:
> [my knowledge is very limited but this is my understanding:]
> mem leak=app storing stuff in RAM that it doesnt need [rubbish]
> swap=method of freeing RAM by storing stuff that is currently in
> the ram but is used
> t
On Sat, 11 Jan 2003 15:32:12 +0530
Sandip P Deshmukh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> any suggestions? for both console based as well as gui based
> browsers are welcome.
try links with the graphics mode, it looks great from both the console
(framebuffer, or svgalib) and X, renders quickly and has s
On 11 Jan 2003 01:02:56 -0600
Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-01-11 at 00:42, Alaa The Great wrote:
> > On 11 Jan 2003 00:20:26 -0600
> > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > If I'm not understanding you, please c
On 11 Jan 2003 00:20:26 -0600
Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If I'm not understanding you, please correct me!
>
> Are you saying that the key-pad Home/End/PgUp/PgDn/Ins/Del & arrow
> keys do not work when NumLock is off?
yes that is the problem know of a solution??
cheers,
Alaa
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Hi all,
I have a small problem with rxvt, keypadkeys don't work as expected
when numlock is of (I mean I can't use keypad arrows, pgup/pgdown
ins/del etc.) when numlock is one numerical keypad works fine.
how do I solve this??
cheers,
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On Fri, 10 Jan 2003 14:08:42 +
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> How can I get this automated disk scan to start up on
> y 'new' disks?
# apt-cdrom add
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On Fri, 10 Jan 2003 15:44:20 +0100
Nicos Gollan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This paragraph was brought to you by the "Movement Against Stupidity
> in Organizations" (MASO). Right now, I'm the only member, but you're
> free to join up any time.
its about time someone did something, how do I join
On Thu, 9 Jan 2003 18:30:55 -0600
Lance Hoffmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I keep getting messages like:
> PAM_unix[982]: (cron) session closed for user lance
> on my console.
run the system logger daemon,
# syslogd
or
# /etc/init.d/sysklogd start
make a symlink to it in your rc dir to
On 09 Jan 2003 05:02:19 -0600
Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yup, it's called MIDI. :) If you know enough about music to read the
> scores, you essentially know enough to write out a MIDI file by
> hand.
midi by hand??!!
no need to, you can use Rosegarden, Noteedit or Denemo, the
On Thu, 9 Jan 2003 12:10:58 +0530
Sandip P Deshmukh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > but i'm currently using pekwm and i can say that it's very
> > lightweight "specially the CVS version ;)"
>
> oops - i could not find a deb package for it in my aptitude. :(
no its not on debian yet, but you can g
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