Need more info. What utility are you using to install it with,
synaptic, apt-get, dpkg, raw tar.gz files?
What error message(s) are you getting? What have you tried?
Jim.
Matt Allen wrote:
Dear Madam or Sir,
I am have trouble installing the desktop on Debian
version 3.1. I had first in
Debian sarge
1.0.4-2sarge5
Works fine with that web site for me.
Jim.
Ron Johnson wrote:
On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 23:37 +1100, James Foster wrote:
Hello,
I'm using the latest mozilla-firefox (1.0.4-2sarge5) on Debian Sarge,
and whenever I attempt to visit a particular page, I'm finding that it
Sometimes newer versions of programs can be found as "backports". I've
never had any luck finding them, however. I think these are versions
that have been put in unstable or testing and someone kindly generates a
.deb for the stable environment. See what you can find about backports.
Jim.
2005 at 04:47:11PM -0400, Jim Lynch wrote:
For years now, I've been seeing the vast quantities of files in that
directory and other than going in and zmoreing them, I haven't figured
out how to read them. By now I'm sure someone has developed a browser
or other means of inde
For years now, I've been seeing the vast quantities of files in that
directory and other than going in and zmoreing them, I haven't figured
out how to read them. By now I'm sure someone has developed a browser
or other means of indexing them, searching them and displaying them. I
just can't f
Look at the output of dmesg. You should find what device the CD
rom the kernel assigned. On my system, these two lines are
informative.
hdc: CW099D ATAPI CD-R/RW, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdd: TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-R5002, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
Do a
dmesg|grep CD
and see if you don't find somethi
I'm trying to get mail working through my isp and have a basic
problem. My isp, bellsouth, requires a username and password to
permit mail being relayed through them. Firefox and Mozilla have
sections in the SMTP server options to put that. However I cannot
find where I need to place them when
I'm trying to get mail working through my isp and have a basic
problem. My isp, bellsouth, requires a username and password to
permit mail being relayed through them. Firefox and Mozilla have
sections in the SMTP server options to put that. However I cannot
find where I need to place them when u
I installed apache2, phpmyadmin, php4 and various other packages that
came along with the install but when I attempt to access phpmyadmin with
http://localhost/phpmyadmin
I get a popup box with the following message
You have chosend to open
which is a phtml file from http://localhost. What shoul
Andrea Vettorello wrote:
On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 14:56:55 -0400, Jim Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Same thing with testing. I installed the plugin three different ways
and firefox still doesn't know about them.
1. I clicked on the window that said "to install plugin click here&q
Same thing with testing. I installed the plugin three different ways
and firefox still doesn't know about them.
1. I clicked on the window that said "to install plugin click here" or
words to that effect. That put the .so file in /usr/local/xxx somewhere
I believe.
2. I got the jre14 from Sun
Alvin Oga wrote:
hi ya jim
On Wed, 29 Sep 2004, Jim Lynch wrote:
I've been completely unable to get sound to work with Debian and any
sound card, ever and I've been running Debian for years. My last
attempt was the testing distro and 2.6.8 on a box with the via 82xxx
card build i
I've been completely unable to get sound to work with Debian and any
sound card, ever and I've been running Debian for years. My last
attempt was the testing distro and 2.6.8 on a box with the via 82xxx
card build into the MB. I fiinally got it to actually install so the
/dev/dsp device was
of trash.
Thanks,
Jim.
Jerome Acks Jr wrote:
>
> On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 02:30:06PM -0400, Jim Lynch wrote:
> > Simple description: 2.4.18 kernel panics and says it can't find the root
> > device on 03:06. 2.2.19 finds it fine. I had a root=/dev/hda6 on the
> &
Simple description: 2.4.18 kernel panics and says it can't find the root
device on 03:06. 2.2.19 finds it fine. I had a root=/dev/hda6 on the
loadlin line, and it failed, so I took it off. Rdev of the kernel also
says root
on /dev/hda6.
Background:
I upgraded to woody and found that my cdrom n
Thanks for all the tips. I finally got it working by using ssh v2 all
the way. For some reason v1 didn't want to work.
Jim.
Jim Lynch wrote:
>
> I've never been able to get ssh to work on a Linux box. I just upgraded
> to Woody and have tried again. I'm trying to
I had such good luck with ssh, I'll try again. 8)
All of a sudden, starting with the installation of woody, my backspace
key is sending a delete, not a backspace. Even when I log in via vnc it
thinks my backspace key is a delete. What did I do? Better yet what do
I do to fix it.I noticed
I've never been able to get ssh to work on a Linux box. I just upgraded
to Woody and have tried again. I'm trying to connect to a Red Hat box
with ssh. I generated a key and I have the identity and identity.pub
files in .ssh on the Debian system. I logged in to the RedHat system
and placed the
You need to have the drivers for your card either in the kernel or in a
module and load that module. I suggest you generate a custom kernel by
installing the source and following the directions in the README. You
will be able to configure it to support your network card specifically
that way.
Ji
Is it just Debian or is GIMP not supporting gif files any longer?
Thanks,
Jim.
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I'd like to upgrade using the ftp access method of dpkg/apt, etc. I am
on the other side of a firewall but there is a socks proxy to get
through it. On other systems on this side of the firewall, I can use
the r commands, rcp, rftp, rsh etc. but I haven't seen them for Linux.
I did a google sear
Run as root and run minicom -s. From there you can change the settings
and save the configuration as default and/or as some other name. There
isn't really a configuration file like you'd normally use an editor to
configure. You do that via the program with the -s switch. Man minicom
works for m
OK, I see three devices connected to IRQ 9. No I/O addresses overlap.
THe USB port, my Ethernet controller and the audio board are all IRQ 9.
I though sharing of IRQs is OK these days. Is Linux different in that
respect from Win9x? Everything works on Win95, or at least the audio
and ethernet co
I recently purchased a pci sound card for my system and haven't been
able to make it work. I tried a generic Yamaha driver, based on things
I read when I did a search, and when I try to
insmod sb.o, I get a message saying
Using /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/sb.o Device or resource busy
Hint: this err
e a way to list the modules that are eligible for
installation? How do you go about finding out what the name of the
module is that relates to what you selected in the config? Most are
obvious, but some aren't. Such as "Packet Socket" or "Unix domain
socket".
Thanks,
Guess I am stuck in the past. 8) I've always had one.
Thanks,
Jim.
Nathan E Norman wrote:
>
> On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 03:43:55PM -0800, Nate Amsden wrote:
> > Jim Lynch wrote:
> > >
> > > What ever happened to /usr/tmp? It wasn't created on this
What ever happened to /usr/tmp? It wasn't created on this system.
THanks,
Jim.
Well, I gave up, trashed the disk and installed 2.2 from scratch. Now
I've been installing/configuring Linux since 0.12. This release really
takes me back to the good old days. I installed about everything under
the sun including networking but when I look at the
/etc/init.d/networking file, the
I looked at the bugs on www.debian.org and didn't see mine described, so
I thought I bounce it off of this group.
I installed potato. That was my first mistake. I haven't been able to
get samba working nor will apache work. Nothing seems wrong with the
install, but I can't get pages to display
I looked at the bugs on www.debian.org and didn't see mine described, so
I thought I bounce it off of this group.
I installed potato. That was my first mistake. I haven't been able to
get samba working nor will apache work. Nothing seems wrong with the
install, but I can't get pages to display
Thanks, but that didn't help. Something is screwed up. I manually installed
everything in the list with an apt-get install and went back
and attempted it again and got the same message. Oh well, I think everything
is installed, but the auto upgrade is still hosed.
Thanks,
Jim.
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Forgot to mention I'm upgrading, in case that wasn't obvious. I upgrade my
system at work just fine. It is similar to this one. Mostly 2.1,
kernel 2.0.36.
Thanks,
Jim.
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Internal Error, Could not perform immediate configuration
No packages on hold. Nothing suspicious that I could see.
I'm currently running a 2.1 debian system, or mostly 2.1. Kernel at 2.0.36.
Here are the messages from the command that was executing:
bash-2.01# apt-get --fix-broken --show-u
I didn't see an answer, but since this list is producing over 200 emails
a day, I might have missed it, but I searched the archives and didn't
see a reply. Can anyone suggest where else I might go to get an
answer?
I reinstalled my system from hamm a while back and am having trouble
with remote
I reinstalled my system from hamm a while back and am having trouble
with remote printing. I've run magicfilterconfig and set my old
laserjet series II printer up to work locally. When I print files from
the Linux machine all is well. I'm trying to print from a
remote machine and things aren't
Any idea what is causing this? I put a new hard drive in and installed
hamm from scratch. I am booting a 2.0.34 kernel that used to work fine
on the old drive. I had to rdev the kernel to point to the new root
device. The system seems to be running fine, except that
/var/log/messages doesn't ha
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>
> On Wed, Jan 20, 1999 at 04:57:08PM -0500, Odin wrote:
> > > I want to buy a cd-writer. I don't need rewritable support at present
> > > time, but it would be a plus.
> > > I've seen a new Yamaha model that's affordable. Are they good and well
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>
> Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:
> >
(snip)
> > with something more Linux, like a penguin ...
> >
>
>
(snip)
> Replacing it with a penguin is an entirely different matter, though.
> :-)
>
>
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Really it isn't that big a deal.
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>
> Tonight I'm going to install bo from Cd and make sure the modem still works.
> If it does then I'll install things one at a time and see what happens.
>
OK, here's the story. I rem
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After listening to a number of suggestions, I installed a clean copy of
hamm from the CD to a spare SCSI disk. The modem still doesn't work.
I removed the sound card and disabled all serial ports except for the
modem.
Tonight I'm going to inst
I'm tearing my hair out. Here's the story. I upgraded to hamm vi the
autosh script and grabbed the 2.0.34 kernel and recompiled it. As far
as I can tell, the modem worked OK after those steps. I then reviewed
my installed packages and upgraded a bunch of them. I also installed
diald and tried
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I just solved this one. You need the libc5 libraries from the oldlibs
directory. I assume you are running hamm.
dpkg --install oldlibs/xpm4.7_3.4j-0.6.deb
dpkg --install oldlibs/libg++27_2.7.2.1-14.4.deb
will probably fix it.
Regards,
Jim.
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I figured out the netscape problem, but this one is still bugging me.
> Second question. What is this telling me?
>
> dpkg --install x11/fvwm95_2.0.43b-5.deb
> Selecting previously deselected package fvwm95.
> (Reading database ... 21675 file
See the following?
chinaberry 139> ldd `which xlogo`
libXaw.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXaw.so.6 (0x4000e000)
libXmu.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so.6 (0x40046000)
libXt.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 (0x40058000)
libSM.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6 (0x400a200
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>
> Perhaps you used the wrong way to go to single user mode. The only
> correct way to switch to single user from multi user is:
>
> shutdown now
>
I used init s. I thought that was the same. Thanks for the tip, I'll try that.
Jim.
I'm not using LILO and boot into Linux from a config.sys menu option
under Win95. I use loadlin to boot Linux. I needed to do some
maintenance the other day and found that booting single from a running
system doesn't work very well. It keeps /usr mounted because it doesn't
kill off the process u
I'v been fighting a bash problem since I first installed bo. I figured
it was a bug in bash, but I've now upgraded (partially) to hamm and I've
still got it. I'm running
ii bash2.01.1-4 The GNU Bourne Again SHell
I'm trying to get my command recall to work in vi mode for roo
having this problem with
it in the vlb box.
Thanks,
Jim.
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tunatly he can't boot from the CDROM. Not supported in the bios.
Thanks,
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ersions of netscape it brings up a
"save file" dialog. I'm running Netscape 3.01, and Debian 1.3.
How do I fix this?
Thanks,
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ions. your stuck if
> you want more. if you want to take 100megs off your win95 partition you
> will need something like partition magic to repartition your drive with
> out losing any of your data. Hope this helps.
> Paul
>
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to work, in at least one case without
error.
Jim.
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_free_ 3D X library if anyone knows of
> one.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ed
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