Whither CERNLIB (, Paw, Geant3.21) in Debian? RFA / future plans

2008-09-08 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
fficial RFAs to the BTS and send a note to debian-science that PAW and friends are slated for doom. In the meantime, prospective maintainers may want to take a look at my "CERNLIB on Debian" pages at http://people.debian.org/~kmccarty/cernlib/ and also at the source packages (prepare to

Re: mac grapher for linux

2008-05-14 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
F2("func", "sin(x)*sin(y)", -10, 10, -10, 10) func.Draw("surf4") I think the existing unofficial packages were built against python 2.4, so you'd have to install and run that version of Python explicitly, but the forthcoming official ones will use python 2.5. R

Re: [OT] C++ programming: keeping count of data items read from file

2008-05-07 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
d parsing). std::getline() ? I think there is a version that outputs the result as a string, from which you can then create an istringstream. You can read numbers from an istringstream the same way as from cin with ">>" operators, so the amount of parsing should be minimal (as long

Re: how th generate like oficial site from packages (or CD's)

2008-04-10 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
rections are obsolete, look at [1] instead" near the top of that page. [1] http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/286 best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://www.starplot.org/ WWW: http://people.debian.org/~kmccarty/ GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 s

Re: fixing .txt files sent from a MS$ user

2008-04-04 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
-Pepson N.B. the ' and " characters need to be escaped from the shell in the second argument on the command line above. tr is even in "coreutils" so you don't have to install anything extra. best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://www.starplot.org/ WWW: http://people.debian.org/~kmccarty/ GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Debian website broken ???

2006-11-27 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
all seem to work for me, it is only the pages for stable that are broken. Is it possible this is just a temporary state while p.d.o is in the process of being updated? I think it gets updated every 24 hours but I don't know the exact times at which this happens. -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMA

Re: Changelogs on packages.debian.org

2006-11-18 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
functionality will be restored? I verified the problem, and submitted it as a bug [1] against the www.debian.org pseudopackage [2], so hopefully soon. [1] http://bugs.debian.org/399236 [2] http://bugs.debian.org/www.debian.org regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: /etc/ld.so.conf for dpkg-buildpackage issue

2006-11-18 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
commoncpp2_1.5.1-4.diff.gz [2] Not on alpha, mips, or mipsel, since IIRC fakeroot doesn't work there and they actually build things using sudo. Hope this helps, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton Universit

Re: OpenSSL version 0.9.7e ?!

2006-11-16 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
openssl but are not fixed in the Debian package in Sarge, please contact the Debian security team or file a severity "grave" bug in the Debian BTS! best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton Un

Re: tremendous size for ".xsession-errors"

2006-10-31 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
d work? I don't know a way to reduce the verbosity offhand. -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Heads up - mplayer now in Sid!

2006-10-26 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
interesting relevant links: http://wiki.debian.org/MPlayer http://people.debian.org/~mjr/legal/mplayer.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/09/msg00915.html (n.b. I have absolutely nothing to do with mplayer in any way, I just thought this would be interesting news for debian-user)

Re: modern Gnucash still needs libglib1.2?

2006-10-03 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
t maintain > guile-g-wrap and can't be responsible for the dependencies of their > dependencies... heh. Doesn't it cause segfaults if gnucash is linked (directly or indirectly) against two different ABI versions of libglib? Or does glib use symbol versioning to prevent that? --

Re: apt bug 388708

2006-10-03 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
5 (2006/07/28) and you get the set of apt packages from that date. Anyway, this should be a direct link to the .deb file you need: http://snapshot.debian.net/archive/2006/07/28/debian/pool/main/a/apt/apt_0.6.45_i386.deb Hoping this helps. best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROT

Re: Minimal X-Windows Setup

2006-10-02 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
is adding > 'suggests'. aptitude normally adds this, so you may see more things ^^ ITYM "recommends" > being downloaded. So checkout the aptitude options to turn this off and > it will install less things. best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PR

Re: apt bug 388708

2006-10-02 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
e bug log page. A version 0.6.46.1exp1 has been uploaded to experimental with this bug fixed, and you may want to test that version of the package. I hope this bugfix can make it into Etch! regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.e

RE: Minimal X-Windows Setup

2006-10-02 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
put drivers. Just make sure you know exactly which one you need! And if you change your hardware in the future, remember that you may need to install new -video- and/or -input- packages to suit. best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.prince

Re: Minimal X-Windows Setup

2006-10-02 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
onts-scalable as well as or instead of xfonts-100dpi if you wish. You can try not installing xbase-clients, but I don't know how well things will work.) ... and then uninstalling all the xserver-xorg-* packages except the ones appropriate to his system. Note, I haven't at all

Re: aptitude update and pdiff files

2006-09-12 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
conf(5) man page; maybe because it was just added recently. regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

Re: How to list all the non-free packages installed

2006-09-11 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
query. > Similarly for packages from `unstable, or `experimental'? This one can't be done by grep-status et al because information about the distribution from which the package came isn't provided in dpkg's status file. But apt-show-versions can help. regard

Re: xlibs in etch

2006-08-25 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
m Sid on your Etch machine (this may not work due to newer library dependencies in the Sid packages), or (c) try to build the vlc source package from Sid on your Etch machine, and (if successful) install the resulting binary debs. Probably (b), if it works, or (c) if not, is the best idea si

Re: Problem with: #include

2006-08-22 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
he package names and versions.) And to find the backports you have installed from XOrg 6.9: > grep-status -FSource xorg-x11 --and -FStatus 'install ok installed' -s > Package,Version regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.pri

Re: Problem with: #include

2006-08-21 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
gustavo halperin wrote: > Kevin B. McCarty wrote: >> The _X_SENTINEL macro is defined in /usr/include/X11/Xfuncproto.h >> -- try installing the latest version of the x11proto-core-dev >> package that supplies this file. (Should be version 7.0.4-3 in Sid >> or Etch.

Re: Problem with: #include

2006-08-21 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
son your build has defined __GNUC__ to have a value of 4 or greater anyway? Let the list know if these suggestions don't help. It might also be helpful if you posted the problematic file "cube.cpp". regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> P

Re: fluent like software

2006-04-18 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
aid for a lot of proprietary software! > I am looking software which is around it, > not necessary having all that properies. > thanks for help > best regards Maybe try asking on the debian-science list? regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW:

Re: apt-get install: unmet dependencies

2006-04-14 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
o include the same file without taking special measures. The bug would be in either sendmail-bin or fastforward. I can't find fastforward listed in the Debian package database -- is it an unofficial package? -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.p

Re: lyx-common 1.3.4-2 file has got a loop hole

2006-04-14 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
you should probably go through their help forums first, not Debian's. regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUB

Re: Stupid shell script question about "read" [SOLVED]

2006-03-03 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
( read -r a b c; echo "a='$a' ; b='$b' ; c='$c'" )`" eval "$result" # test that $a $b $c have the right values echo "$a $b $c" Tested on Sarge with zsh, bash, dash and posh :-) Of course, rep

Stupid shell script question about "read"

2006-03-02 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
em to happen when a pipe is involved. Posh and dash behave like bash in this respect, so I guess that this is not a bug, and that what zsh does is actually an extension. So, what is the correct POSIX-compatible way to get "read" to work as I want? Thanks in advance, -- Kevin B. McCart

Re: printing problem

2006-03-02 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Olafur Jens Sigurdsson wrote: > Þann 2006-03-01, 12:54:20 (-0500) skrifaði Kevin B. McCarty: >>Olafur Jens Sigurdsson wrote: >>>Hi again, after trying a few stuff out I think that when I try to >>>print using lp -dojs (or lpr -Pojs, where ojs is the name of the >&g

Re: bug with the mailing list archive

2006-03-01 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
ive: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2005/02/thrd2.html#00372 regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: printing problem

2006-03-01 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
tting of ServerName in the file /etc/cups/client.conf (and then running "/etc/init.d/cupsys restart") ? /usr/bin/lpr is the version of lpr in the cupsys-bsd package, right? (Run "dpkg -S /usr/bin/lpr" to check) Good luck, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics De

Re: Sometimes nothing happens when printing to network printers

2006-02-28 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
ething. Deleting the file fixed the problem. If I remember correctly it was called ".lpoptions". Maybe this will help you? Good luck, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID

Re: C++: Math function round() does not compile - why?

2006-02-14 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
u might need to put the #define before _any_ #include statement and maybe specifically #include features.h.) For instance: #define _ISOC99_SOURCE #include #include If I've put together the clues correctly, setting this macro is equivalent to the -std=c99 option. See the comment

Re: Inverse and Forward Search : This is not what I expected in TeTeX

2006-02-02 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
re to say so in the bug report. If on the other hand you have a locally compiled version from upstream, probably you should send the bug report directly to the upstream TeTeX authors. Good luck, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.prince

Re: install krita. Broken pipe. Do I need a plumber?

2006-02-01 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
archives/krita_*.deb to tell dpkg that you want it to overwrite the common file instead of griping about it. regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princ

Re: gnome & firefox & thunderbird

2006-01-23 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
en links from other applications in: (o) a new window ( ) a new tab in the most recent window ( ) the most recent tab/window Sounds like you want the first of these options. regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/

Re: Where to file a package-dependency bug?

2006-01-03 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
ends, etc. Apt-get is sort of the "reference implementation" of APT. On the other hand, aptitude doesn't have the functionality of (for instance) "apt-get source" or "apt-get build-dep". I think you can continue using "apt-cache policy" without any wo

Re: Where to file a package-dependency bug?

2006-01-02 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
ly unintentional. By the way, while checking into this, I found that the reportbug in sid actually crashes when one runs "reportbug x-window-system-core". Just filed as #345699. -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccart

Re: Where are GTK devel packages?

2006-01-02 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
; apt-get install mplayer-386 mozilla-mplayer" and you should be all set. (Note: you can install mplayer-586 or mplayer-k6 instead of mplayer-386 to get a version more optimized for your system, depending on your CPU.) regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department

Re: Where to file a package-dependency bug?

2006-01-02 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
ons are true enough, you only need one of the sets of fonts installed. regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Any interest in Debian packages of Geant 4?

2005-12-22 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
initely not upload them into Debian, but instead would create a "geant4-data-installer" package in contrib that downloaded them from CERN's web site - let CERN pay for the bandwidth! Happy Holidays to all, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: ht

Re: illegal access using ssh

2005-12-01 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
idden. Since that file has the entry "ALL", all other hosts will be rejected. The man page for hosts_access(5) has more information. By the way, you can replace the daemon name "sshd" with "ALL" in both config files, to make this behavior occur for all daemons on th

Warning: Ending maintenance of my Mozilla/Firefox/Thunderbird backports to Sarge

2005-11-17 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
install all the downloaded files. 8) To ensure that the packaging tools completely forget about my backports, run this command: aptitude update && apt-show-versions -i I have already made my backported packages inaccessible, so you will now be on track to install additional security update

Re: how to add java support to mozilla in woody

2005-09-28 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
t to obtain a Java .deb via java-package. regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTE

Re: how to add java support to mozilla in woody

2005-09-28 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
th newer Mozillas, and I bet the same is true the other way around. I don't have any better suggestions, though, so he may as well try it. Maybe he can find a sufficiently old JRE? regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccar

Re: Downgrading a system to a particular distribution

2005-09-28 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
If at any point you run into a problem like maintainer scripts failing in non-trivial ways, or segfaults, or something like that, back up all your data and reinstall from scratch -- it's probably easier. Good luck, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.p

Re: xserver-xfree86 and xserver-xorg problem

2005-09-28 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
James Vahn wrote: > Kevin B. McCarty wrote: >>"For now" is right. This is probably not such a good idea in the long >>run. If you are running etch or sid (which I assume you are, otherwise >>you wouldn't need snapshot.debian.net to get XFree86) then yo

Re: xserver-xfree86 and xserver-xorg problem

2005-09-27 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
There was one just a week ago: http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-816 regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBS

Re: Man-DB is crazy

2005-09-23 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Bob Proulx wrote: > Kevin B. McCarty wrote: >>Once a day I get the following email message from the man-db cron job: >> >>>/etc/cron.daily/man-db: >>>mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/x-terminal-emulator.1.gz is a dangling >>>symlink > > It woul

Request: Anyone able to test printing with CUPS on *woody*?

2005-09-21 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
ple of one-page PostScript files), please email me privately for further details. Thanks, - -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -BEGIN PGP S

Re: Man-DB is crazy

2005-09-14 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
David E. Fox wrote: > On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 09:44:15 -0400 > "Kevin B. McCarty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>benjo[1]:~% ls -l /usr/share/man/man1/x-terminal-emulator.1.gz >>>lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 42 2005-09-09 10:05 >>>/usr/share/man/man1/x-

Man-DB is crazy

2005-09-13 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
how to fix it? I'm running Debian Sarge, and as far as I remember haven't modified the scripts in /etc/cron.daily. Running /etc/cron.daily/man-db directly (as root) produces no output. Please CC replies to me as I'm not subscribed. Thanks, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL P

Re: debconf error

2005-08-20 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
the package installation and removal scripts are stored. I believe there is work on dpkg ongoing that will eventually fix this deficiency. regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG:

Re: Troubling security news for sarge users of mozilla, firefox, thunderbird...

2005-08-04 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
doesn't yet support the new Mozilla version. regards, - -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuP

Re: x-windows-system package

2005-07-29 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
make) how can i > make my ideas reach the right people (who maintains the X system, or > whatever)? You can file a bug (severity "wishlist" if it's a suggestion) against one of the X-related packages, or you could directly mail debian-x@lists.debian.org which is where

Re: Help/Question: Can't get xlibs package to install all of it's files

2005-07-13 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
, you must have done it for a good reason.) The --force-confmiss option to dpkg will probably do what you want: dpkg --force-confmiss --install xlibs_4.3.0.dfsg.1-14_all.deb regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmc

Re: undefined reference to 'something'

2005-07-12 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
_compiled" references. I don't know offhand what magic incantations are needed to make G++ link against pgf90 libraries. Section 6.13 of this web page I found via Google looks like it might be helpful: http://www.dcsc.sdu.dk/docs/PGI/pgiws_ug/pgiug_07.htm#Heading97 The table of contents f

Re: undefined reference to 'something'

2005-07-12 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
or the ugly underscore, you can #define wssmp wssmp_ (etc.) at the top of the file where you declare the functions. regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751

Re: Oldstable? Abandoned Packages? Alternatives?

2005-06-16 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
and the old version of the library is no longer available for Debian and can't be installed. This is probably on the order of a few years. Hope this answers your question, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton Uni

Re: Am I hacked?

2005-06-16 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
y over the files) if you don't know whether apt-get et al. have been trojanned. -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: big trouble in upgrading from Debian 3.0 to 3.1

2005-06-16 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
use the version of aptitude from Sarge: http://www.debian.org/releases/sarge/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.html as aptitude is smarter about dependencies than apt-get. (It also has the nice feature of remembering which packages were installed only in order to fulfill dependencies.) regards, -

Re: Maple 9.5 interfaces on Debian box

2005-01-05 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
ock is on. regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG public key ID: 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscrib

Re: Multiple installed kernel-image packages?

2004-12-29 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
image shows me? The latter shows every package with "kernel-image" in the name; the former only shows packages that explicitly claim to provide a kernel-image. There isn't much difference, except that your command shows the "latest kernel image" metapackages and the on

Re: Multiple installed kernel-image packages?

2004-12-28 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
ges changing at some point in the past, and the "-686" or "-686-smp" suffix tells you the "subarchitecture" of CPU for which the package was compiled. Running "grep-available -FProvides -sPackage kernel-image" will give you a list of kernel packages known to APT on

Re: Debian and Dell?

2004-12-16 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
but can be obtained at www.real.com ). As far as I know Shockwave is not supported natively even on x86 Linux, but there is CrossOver, a proprietary ($20?) version of Wine that allows you to run a lot of Windows plugins and programs seamlessly; maybe it supports a Shockwave plugin. Hope

Re: Odd eggdesktopentries.c messages when Gnome packages installed [solved]

2004-12-10 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
er.desktop so that the contents aren't repeated. regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG public key ID: 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PR

Odd eggdesktopentries.c messages when Gnome packages installed

2004-12-10 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
t's a symptom of? thanks, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG public key ID: 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of &q

Re: [OT] Can I make a prototype Free and sell the final product?

2004-11-22 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
cs" a.k.a. http://mathworld.wolfram.com comes to mind: http://slashdot.org/yro/01/11/06/2028252.shtml ObDisclaimer: IANAL, and you might get better advice on debian-legal. regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.prince

Re: debian architectures

2004-11-19 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
ostly found in some gaming consoles. Not clear if Debian will ever officially support it due to the rarity and slowness of the machines. There are also "hurd-i386" and "bsd-i386" which are using kernels other than the Linux kernel, running on Intel 32-bit machines. These ar

Re: Problem with apt-get and circular dependencies

2004-11-18 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
. In order of (IMO) decreasing preference: http://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2004/11/msg00096.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2004/11/msg00093.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2004/01/msg00140.html regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WW

Re: Firefox, Thunderbird etc.

2004-11-18 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
: http://www.jwsdot.com/debian/install.html I think he's waiting for people to test them some before making an upload to unstable. -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG public key ID: 4F83C751

Re: CD malfunction on Sarge "testing" install

2004-11-17 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
nd therefore would not > install. I didn't know who else to report this to so I posted it here. You probably want to email [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead. If they're unable to help, try debian-boot. regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://

Re: printing from firefox

2004-11-17 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
lent, but xprt is pretty broken, so I'm not sure why it is even packaged. I think you can also print to PostScript in Firefox without using Xprint -- in the Print dialog, change the "Printer" selection box to read PostScript/default, then in Properties you can set options for lp

Re: New vim-doc package in unstable is very broken; don't install!

2004-11-11 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
On 11/11/2004 06:45 PM, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: > I was just bitten by a problem in the preinst of the latest version of > the vim-doc package. If you are tracking unstable, put it on hold until > version 1:6.3-031+2 becomes available; version 1:6.3-031+1 will delete > any symlinks

New vim-doc package in unstable is very broken; don't install!

2004-11-11 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
track the problem at bugs # 280824 and 280825 (be nice to the vim maintainers and don't submit any more duplicates; they are providing a fix as fast as possible). regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/

Re: apt-get 'search'?

2004-10-03 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
rally easier to use, although it's harder (maybe impossible?) to fine-tune exactly how it will search. regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG public key ID: 4F83C751 Prin

Re: apt-get -f install question..

2004-09-30 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
ts. It isn't clear to me why the xnview package also contains /usr/.../app-defaults; instead it probably should contain an /etc/X11/app-defaults directory and whatever files it needs under there. You should inform the people who provided the xnview package of the problem. regards, -- K

Re: Adding a kernel module - to get iptables to work.

2004-09-17 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
dules I use in my firewall (2.4 kernel) are: ip_tables iptable_filter ip_conntrack ip_conntrack_ftp iptable_nat ip_nat_ftp ipt_limit ipt_multiport iptable_mangle ipt_state ipt_REJECT ipt_LOG but you may not need all of these, depending upon what you are doing. regards, -- Kev

Invisible fonts in Xpdf widgets

2004-09-15 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
03040 FreeType 1, The FREE TrueType Font Engine, s > ii ttf-bitstream- 1.10-3 The Bitstream Vera family of free TrueType f > ii ttf-freefont 20031008-1.1 Freefont Serif, Sans and Mono Truetype fonts > ii ttf-opensymbol 1.1.2-3 The OpenSymbol TrueType font Any suggestions?

Re: mobility radeon driver

2004-09-09 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
rgument append="video=radeonfb" to your default kernel entry, then run the bootloader installer (e.g. lilo) if necessary. * Reboot and start X -- good luck! Run glxgears to see if your video acceleration is working. regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics

Re: forms.c and forms.h

2004-09-09 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
ource code, you can get it with "apt-get source ". regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG public key ID: 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: gtk package

2004-09-08 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
k you need "apt-get install libgtk2.0-dev" in order to get the pkg-config file, .so symlinks, etc. regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG public key ID: 4F83C751

Re: file/dir rights management

2004-09-08 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
ver the 'net without encryption, so anyone snooping on the connection could steal them? I suggest SFTP as an alternative -- it unfortunately isn't as featureful as some FTP clients, but at least it will encrypt passwords. [If you are only using FTP on a closed trusted LAN, of course, I

Re: cannot install xfree86-common via apt

2004-09-08 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
nd then reinstall t1-cyrillic: # dpkg --purge t1-cyrillic # apt-get install xfree86-common # apt-get install t1-cyrillic This should work since /usr/lib/X11 is shipped as a symlink in xfree86-common and as a directory (the bug) in t1-cyrillic. Good luck, -- Kevin B. McCarty <

Re: rm difficult filename

2004-09-08 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
tion before deleting. [1] Yes, I'm aware of "cd -" and there are probably other special cases. regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG public key ID: 4F83C751

Re: Sun Java - revisited

2004-08-27 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
/libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2: usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 So probably you want to "apt-get install libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2". (The apt-file tool is in a package of the same name, incidentally. You can also look up packages by filename at http://packages.debia

Re: Trying to build agpgart.o with an rpm from Intel

2004-08-26 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
gart" as root? Now, I'm not sure whether the XFree86 in woody is new enough to recognize current i810 boards, but maybe you can try sarge or sid. -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton Uni

Re: dpkg / apt equivalent to 'rpm -qf'?

2004-08-24 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
ajority of postinst-created files in /etc don't meet either of these criteria, so the suggestion makes sense there. My understanding is that there is long-term work planned on dpkg to allow registering a list of related files on package installation, even if they aren't actually in the p

Re: Sarge not printing [WORKAROUND]

2004-08-13 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
On 08/12/2004 05:03 PM, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: > For what it's worth, I started experiencing the same problem beginning > perhaps a couple weeks ago. The weird thing is that my cluster is > running woody except for a few backports! One of them was gs 7.07, so I > downgraded

Re: Sarge not printing

2004-08-12 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
lution yet. Someone filed a bug on this problem against gs, although who knows whether that is actually the culprit. The similarly afflicted or the morbidly curious can follow along at http://bugs.debian.org/258042 . regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Depa

Re: unresolved kernel symbols

2004-08-11 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
is should be the case by default in sarge and sid) and recompile. regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG public key ID: 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: Cite for print-to-postscript exploit in Mozilla?

2004-07-12 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
orted to woody? regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG public key ID: 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsub

Re: Cite for print-to-postscript exploit in Mozilla?

2004-07-09 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
print from unstable, and go through the apparently non-trivial task of getting it to work well. By the way, is PDF also Turing-complete with the accompanying security issues? regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/

Cite for print-to-postscript exploit in Mozilla?

2004-07-09 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
execute any > shell commands in the content of the current user. > Sure, if you want that enable it again. Thanks and regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG public key ID: 4F83C751

Please test Cernlib & PAW on AMD64 and "exotic" arches (sample test included)

2004-06-15 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
the test to succeed. Please also let me know how the existence and non-existence of that file affect the test results. thanks and regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C7

Heads up: latest libcurl2 package broken

2004-06-03 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble

"Permissions on the file /dev/pmu are broken"

2004-06-01 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
error message (so I can file a bug against it for not giving a better error message), and what the permissions on /dev/pmu are supposed to be? Mine are currently rw---, owned by root.root thanks, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.e

Re: Mozilla Thunderbird questions [partly solved]

2004-04-18 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Well, here's a partial answer to one of my questions. Posting it here in the hopes it helps others, too. Kevin B. McCarty wrote: > 2) How can I force Thunderbird not to wrap specific long lines in an > email? If for instance I'm writing a bug report, I want it to wrap >

Mozilla Thunderbird questions

2004-04-18 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
instance I'm writing a bug report, I want it to wrap paragraphs of text, but not the error messages I include inline. Is the context menu "Paste Without Formatting" what I'm looking for? Thanks in advance for any hints, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics D

kernel security update seems fixed now

2004-04-15 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Kevin B. McCarty wrote: Dear all, It seems that at least on ix86, the latest woody security updates for the kernel packages are completely broken. The kernel packages named kernel-image-2.4.18-1- with version 2.4.18-13 contain only one module. DO NOT upgrade to these packages or your system

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