Re: Debian Package HOWTO. Who ?

g manuals or even the source. But I am not a developer, and i have never succeeded in reaing more than ten lines of someone else's C code if it goes beyond the 'hello world' level. My aspiration level is to be an intelligent end-user, but still to use more of the possibilities th

Debian Package HOWTO. Who ?

en you do a 'dselect update' with the apt access method. Or what happens or does not happen when you hit any of the action keys while in a dselect dependency screen. Not to mention all the dpkg options. Is there anybody who understands all (or most) of it and can write a decent howto ?

apt-get flexibility

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Re: Virtual screen switcher

On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 08:27:01PM +, Geordie Birch wrote: > chvt > It works. After sending my question I opened one of my eyes and discovered that there is a package 'screen' with the program 'screen'. It offers some more possibilities and complexities.

Virtual screen switcher

Hello, There seems to exist a program 'screen' with which you can go to another virtual screen. Makes obsolete, more or less. I can not locate it. Is it in potato ? Somewhere else ? egbert -- Egbert Bouwman - Keizersgracht 197 II - 1016 DS Amsterdam - 020 6257991

Re: mutt macro syntax

thread When I use the last one, it is still necessary to use ^q as well in order to return to the index. That is why I tried the macro. egbert -- Egbert Bouwman - Keizersgracht 197 II - 1016 DS Amsterdam - 020 6257991

mutt macro syntax

w the right syntax ? The manual is not particularly helpful. egbert -- Egbert Bouwman - Keizersgracht 197 II - 1016 DS Amsterdam - 020 6257991

potato-update and symbolic links in /etc

when during the update to potato some of these symlinked configuration files have to be updated as well ? egbert -- Egbert Bouwman - Keizersgracht 197 II - 1016 DS Amsterdam - 020 6257991

Re: Package Info

the status-file say something like: install OK not-installed purge OK not-installed holdOK not-installed but never something like: unknown not-installed egbert -- Egbert Bouwman - Keizersgracht 197 II - 1016 DS Amsterdam - 020 6257991

Status of .Xdefaults and app-defaults

you only use its merge option - their role is completely defined by the use of xrdb: if you don't mention them to xrdb, they are completely ignored. I suppose the answers to these question are not the same for .Xdefaults and app-defaults/* egbert -- Egbert Bouwman - Keizersgracht 197 I

Re: [Missing modules in python]What about TKinter

On Thu, Mar 20, 2036 at 11:31:14PM -0800, Steve Winston wrote: > Nor does my slink have TKinter. Why, o why? > We , or at least I, should read our "Python for dummies". Glob, fnmatch eo rside in python-misc, and it was not installed. I believe Tkinter is another .deb egbert --

Missing modules in python

The import of glob, fnmatch and shutil gives an ImportError in Python 1.5.1, slink. Who has left them out, and why ? egbert -- Egbert Bouwman - Keizersgracht 197 II - 1016 DS Amsterdam - 020 6257991

Re: pronunciation of daemon

i in linux not as in 'mind' but as in 'bitter' the ae in daemon not as ea in 'easy' but as the a in 'hate'. egbert -- Egbert Bouwman - Keizersgracht 197 II - 1016 DS Amsterdam - 020 6257991

Loonies

My wife says the proper pronunciation of linux is loonix egbert -- Egbert Bouwman - Keizersgracht 197 II - 1016 DS Amsterdam - 020 6257991

Re: pronunciation of daemon, GNOME and GNU

he news. To my ears that pronuciation makes sense in the pun 'GNU is not UNIX'. However you seem to suggest that, by analogy with GNOME, GNU should be pronounced approximately as guh-new, or maybe as rhyming with canoe, giving guh-noe. egbert -- Egbert Bouwman - Keizersgracht 197 II - 1016 DS Amsterdam - 020 6257991

Re: pronunciation of daemon

n like or pink. Actually my list is much longer, but this is not bed for a start. egbert -- Egbert Bouwman - Keizersgracht 197 II - 1016 DS Amsterdam - 020 6257991

ncurses and python

newpad(), mentioned buy Andrew Kuchlin. Nothing about colors either. So I really think this is the old curses module. What is my mistake ? How do I go on ? egbert -- Egbert Bouwman - Keizersgracht 197 II - 1016 DS Amsterdam - 020 6257991

Re: Bad points for debian (was: resetting dpkg)

ed to sources.list this unstable ftp-line, and then ask for a new enlightenment, which needed a new libc6, which made obsolete half of my distribution. I only want dselect-dpkg to accept my machine as-is now, so that I may go on. But I talk too much about things nearly past. In a few months we

Bad points for debian (was: resetting dpkg)

on exactly for this reason. The sad point is that this program-set seems to be better than anything else (rpm included), but that debian makes it virtually impossible for a large number of users to verify this hypothesis. egbert -- Egbert Bouwman - Keizersgracht 197 II - 1016 DS Amsterdam - 020 6257991

Vincent and the Potato CD

cd's into my sources.list, followed later on by the cd's of a stable release, work well ? egbert -- Egbert Bouwman - Keizersgracht 197 II - 1016 DS Amsterdam - 020 6257991

Supported video chip-sets

and Voodoo3, 3DLabs with GLINT and Permedia chips. I don't even dare to ask. And some Diamond cards come with a 'Savage 4', which I cannot find in any XFree86 documentation. What is it ? egbert Egbert Bouwman - Keizersgracht 197 II - 1016 DS Amsterdam - 020 6257991

dselect apt-get dpkg explanations

. egbert -- Egbert Bouwman - Keizersgracht 197 II - 1016 DS Amsterdam - 020 6257991

How to reset dselect to zero selections

D R and U keys (and the role of the Old Mark). egbert -- Egbert Bouwman - Keizersgracht 197 II - 1016 DS Amsterdam - 020 6257991