Re: Source package giving binary packages with different version?

2011-06-21 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2011-06-11 22:30:52 -0400, William Hopkins wrote: > On 06/12/11 at 02:45am, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > Can a binary package have a different version from the > > corresponding source package version? > > The fields don't have to match, but the versions will never (AFAIK) differ. Actually I've

Re: Source package giving binary packages with different version?

2011-06-11 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2011-06-11 22:30:52 -0400, William Hopkins wrote: > On 06/12/11 at 02:45am, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > This is a bit strange: > > > > gcj-4.6-jre-lib 4.6.0-4 has the following dependencies: > > > > Depends: gcj-4.6-base (>= 4.6.0-12), libgcj12 (>= 4.6.0-12) > > > > However gcj-4.6-jre-lib, gc

Re: Source package giving binary packages with different version?

2011-06-11 Thread William Hopkins
On 06/12/11 at 02:45am, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > This is a bit strange: > > gcj-4.6-jre-lib 4.6.0-4 has the following dependencies: > > Depends: gcj-4.6-base (>= 4.6.0-12), libgcj12 (>= 4.6.0-12) > > However gcj-4.6-jre-lib, gcj-4.6-base and libgcj12 all have the same > source gcj-4.6. So, I won

Re: source package linux-2.6

2009-05-17 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun,17.May.09, 11:04:21, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Hello List, > > I would like to test the lastest linux-2.6 package from Sid on my Lenny Box. > My initila plan was to build it from its source with dpkg tools. But the list > of packaged balls is rather huge _and_ useless for a personal use: > is t

Re: source package linux-2.6

2009-05-17 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Indeed, but I want to build the kernel with the Debian patches, not a vanilla kernel. Jerome Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 11:04:21AM +0800, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello List, I would like to test the lastest linux-2.6 package from Sid on my Lenny Box. May I ask why? If you jus

Re: source package linux-2.6

2009-05-16 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 11:04:21AM +0800, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Hello List, > > I would like to test the lastest linux-2.6 package from Sid on my Lenny Box. May I ask why? If you just need to build a deb from a kernel, maybe use kernel-package (make-kpkg). -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jab

Re: Source code editor

2008-04-21 Thread Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
On 21/04/2008, Tero Mäntyvaara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: > > The motor code is rather messy. I was thinking of cleaning it up in > > general. Are people using it? If anyone is actually interested in > > using it, it might be worthwhile to maintain it. > > I haven'

Re: Source code editor

2008-04-21 Thread Tero Mäntyvaara
Tero Mäntyvaara wrote: I am looking for shell program for source code edition. I have used nano, but it isn't enough. I need more "real" IDE like functionalities eg constant view of current row number, file browser and selection, cutting, pasting and copying functions. I also tried to use motor

Re: Source code editor

2008-04-21 Thread Tero Mäntyvaara
Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: On 21/04/2008, Joost Witteveen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 21/04/2008, Johann Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 12:12:40PM +0200, Lars Bjerregaard wrote: > > Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: > >> On 16/04/2008, Tero Mäntyvaara <[EMAIL

Re: Source code editor

2008-04-21 Thread Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
On 21/04/2008, Joost Witteveen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 21/04/2008, Johann Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 12:12:40PM +0200, Lars Bjerregaard wrote: > > > Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: > > >> On 16/04/2008, Tero Mäntyvaara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >

Re: Source code editor

2008-04-21 Thread Joost Witteveen
On 21/04/2008, Johann Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 12:12:40PM +0200, Lars Bjerregaard wrote: > > Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: > >> On 16/04/2008, Tero Mäntyvaara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> I installed motor in my AMD64 Etch system and after I execute it I g

Re: Source code editor

2008-04-21 Thread Johann Spies
On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 12:12:40PM +0200, Lars Bjerregaard wrote: > Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: >> On 16/04/2008, Tero Mäntyvaara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> I installed motor in my AMD64 Etch system and after I execute it I get >>> "Segmentation fault"... :-/ >> >> Whoa, etch? You got that

Re: Source code editor

2008-04-19 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 08:23:49PM +0100, Mark Clarkson wrote: > Hi Tero, > Vim is great for this but has a steep learning curve. Vim is also tuned for > touch typists, which eventually pushed me into learning touch typing, which > is great, especially for night time coding. One really simple and o

Re: Source code editor

2008-04-19 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 11:14:08PM +1000, Owen Townend wrote: > Hey, > Try vim, once you get your head around the way it works it is an immensely > powerful editor. There are many 'cheat sheet' type reference sheets > available if you google a bit which, when stuck to a nearby wall, help out > as

Re: Source code editor

2008-04-18 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 3:53 PM, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It's a darned shame that there are no IDEs similar to the one in > Turbo Pascal. Perhaps this one? ;-) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache show xwpe Package: xwpe Priority: optional Section: editors Installed-Size: 536 Maint

Re: Source code editor

2008-04-18 Thread Lars Bjerregaard
Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: On 16/04/2008, Tero Mäntyvaara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I installed motor in my AMD64 Etch system and after I execute it I get "Segmentation fault"... :-/ Whoa, etch? You got that on etch? How the hell did such an RC bug get into etch? First time I hear about

Re: Source code editor

2008-04-17 Thread Micha
On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:19:34 +0300 Tero Mäntyvaara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David Goodenough wrote: > > On Tuesday 15 April 2008, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > >> Tero Mäntyvaara wrote: > >>> I am looking for shell program for source code edition. I have used > >>> nano, but it isn't enough.

Re: Source code editor

2008-04-16 Thread Nick Boyce
Tero M�ntyvaara wrote: I am looking for shell program for source code edition. I have used nano, but it isn't enough. I need more "real" IDE like functionalities eg constant view of current row number, file browser and selection, cutting, pasting and copying functions. [You're very brave ..

Re: Source code editor

2008-04-16 Thread Bob Proulx
Tero Mäntyvaara wrote: > I am looking for shell program for source code edition. I have used > nano, but it isn't enough. I need more "real" IDE like functionalities > eg constant view of current row number, file browser and selection, > cutting, pasting and copying functions. I also tried to us

Re: Source code editor

2008-04-16 Thread Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
On 16/04/2008, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It just occurred to me: is AMD64 fully supported in Etch? (Or am I > thinking Sarge?) Yes, it is. etch was the first Debian distribution to support x86_64. I guess there were a few kinks in that support. - Jordi G. H. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Source code editor

2008-04-16 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/16/08 15:33, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: > On 16/04/2008, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 16/04/2008, Tero Mäntyvaara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > I installed motor in my AMD64 Etch system and after I execute it I

Re: Source code editor

2008-04-16 Thread Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
On 16/04/2008, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 16/04/2008, Tero Mäntyvaara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I installed motor in my AMD64 Etch system and after I execute it I get > > "Segmentation fault"... :-/ > > Whoa, etch? You got that on etch? How the hell did such an

Re: Source code editor

2008-04-16 Thread Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
On 16/04/2008, Tero Mäntyvaara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I installed motor in my AMD64 Etch system and after I execute it I get > "Segmentation fault"... :-/ Whoa, etch? You got that on etch? How the hell did such an RC bug get into etch? First time I hear about it. - Jordi G. H.

Re: Source code editor

2008-04-16 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/16/08 11:09, Tero Mäntyvaara wrote: [snip] > > I installed motor in my AMD64 Etch system and after I execute it I get > "Segmentation fault"... :-/ Did you file a bug? - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA We want... a Shrubbery!! -BEGI

Re: Source code editor

2008-04-16 Thread Tero Mäntyvaara
Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: On 15/04/2008, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It's a darned shame that there are no IDEs similar to the one in Turbo Pascal. How about motor? (apt-cache show motor). I still prefer myself to use Emacs. With stuff like ede to automatise the building of

Re: Source code editor

2008-04-16 Thread Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
On 15/04/2008, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's a darned shame that there are no IDEs similar to the one in > Turbo Pascal. How about motor? (apt-cache show motor). I still prefer myself to use Emacs. With stuff like ede to automatise the building of Makefiles, it's a full-fledged I

Re: Source code editor

2008-04-16 Thread Adrian Levi
On 16/04/2008, Dave Thayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Debian has a package for damn near anything! > > dt Yup, your right... #apt-cache show kitchensync :-) Adrian -- 24x7x365 != 24x7x52 Stupid or bad maths? hm. I've lost a machine.. literally _lost_. it responds to ping, it works complet

Re: Source code editor

2008-04-16 Thread Dave Thayer
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 03:53:38PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > It's a darned shame that there are no IDEs similar to the one in > Turbo Pascal. $ apt-cache show xwpe [...] Description: Programming environment and editor for console and X11 Xwpe is an integrated programming and debugging environmen

Re: Source code editor

2008-04-15 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 06:19:34PM +0300, Tero Mäntyvaara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Eclipse is used in graphical user environment only. I wished to find a > shell program. :-) In that case, shouldn't you be using "ed"? (just kidding!!) Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Source code editor

2008-04-15 Thread Richard Bronosky
I have to agree completely with this poster. I started learning VIM 3 years ago when my employer insisted that I use a windows workstation. I hated it so much that I decided to live in a full screen PuTTY, SSHed to their Linux and FreeBSD servers. I decided that what ever new editor I learned wou

Re: Source code editor

2008-04-15 Thread Strake
Emacs is a versatile editor and functions quite well as an IDE. Any features not included out-of-the-box can be easily added using Emacs Lisp script, but don't worry about learning that, because most, if not all, functions you'll need are in the stock version or have already been written. On Tue,

Re: Source code editor

2008-04-15 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/15/08 15:35, Lesley Binks wrote: > On 15/04/2008, Tero Mäntyvaara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I am looking for shell program for source code edition. I have used nano, >> but it isn't enough. I need more "real" IDE like functionalities eg const

Re: Source code editor

2008-04-15 Thread Lesley Binks
On 15/04/2008, Tero Mäntyvaara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am looking for shell program for source code edition. I have used nano, > but it isn't enough. I need more "real" IDE like functionalities eg constant > view of current row number, file browser and selection, cutting, pasting and > copyi

Re: Source code editor

2008-04-15 Thread Mark Clarkson
Hi Tero, Vim is great for this but has a steep learning curve. Vim is also tuned for touch typists, which eventually pushed me into learning touch typing, which is great, especially for night time coding. One really simple and often overlooked feature is being able to view source code in two column

Re: Source code editor

2008-04-15 Thread Kim N. Lesmer
On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 16:00:27 +0300 Tero Mäntyvaara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am looking for shell program for source code edition. I have used > nano, but it isn't enough. I need more "real" IDE like > functionalities eg constant view of current row number, file browser > and selection, cutt

Re: Source code editor

2008-04-15 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
David Goodenough wrote: > On Tuesday 15 April 2008, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: >> Tero Mäntyvaara wrote: >> > I am looking for shell program for source code edition. I have used >> > nano, but it isn't enough. I need more "real" IDE like functionalities >> > eg constant view of current row numbe

Re: Source code editor

2008-04-15 Thread Tero Mäntyvaara
David Goodenough wrote: On Tuesday 15 April 2008, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: Tero Mäntyvaara wrote: I am looking for shell program for source code edition. I have used nano, but it isn't enough. I need more "real" IDE like functionalities eg constant view of current row number, file browser a

Re: Source code editor

2008-04-15 Thread Tero Mäntyvaara
Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote: On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 09:50:55 -0400 Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You will not find any "real" IDEs in Linux. However, vim/gvim can do what you describe. Emacs (another powerful editor) is also capable of doing what you describe. If it's an

Re: Source code editor

2008-04-15 Thread Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 15:07:10 +0100 Matthew Macdonald-Wallace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If it's an IDE you're after, check out Eclipse[0]. It rocks. 'Nuff > Said. :oP Sorry, missed the bit about needing a shell. :o( If you're using a command line, as raju says use VIM or Emacs. If you can i

Re: Source code editor

2008-04-15 Thread David Goodenough
On Tuesday 15 April 2008, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > Tero Mäntyvaara wrote: > > I am looking for shell program for source code edition. I have used > > nano, but it isn't enough. I need more "real" IDE like functionalities > > eg constant view of current row number, file browser and selection,

Re: Source code editor

2008-04-15 Thread Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 09:50:55 -0400 Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You will not find any "real" IDEs in Linux. However, vim/gvim can do > what you describe. Emacs (another powerful editor) is also capable of > doing what you describe. If it's an IDE you're after, check out Ecli

Re: Source code editor

2008-04-15 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Tero Mäntyvaara wrote: > I am looking for shell program for source code edition. I have used > nano, but it isn't enough. I need more "real" IDE like functionalities > eg constant view of current row number, file browser and selection, > cutting, pasting and copying functions. I also tried to use

Re: Source code editor

2008-04-15 Thread Owen Townend
On 15/04/2008, Tero Mäntyvaara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am looking for shell program for source code edition. I have used nano, > but it isn't enough. I need more "real" IDE like functionalities eg constant > view of current row number, file browser and selection, cutting, pasting and > cop

Re: source for mechanical keyswitches

2008-03-20 Thread Michael Paulsen
On 3/20/08, Reid Priedhorsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 18:20:21 +0100, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 11:12:12AM -0500, Reid Priedhorsky wrote: > >> Dear All, > >> > >> I would like to rebuild a keyboard that uses mechanical keyswitches (see > >> p

Re: source for mechanical keyswitches

2008-03-20 Thread Reid Priedhorsky
On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 18:20:21 +0100, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 11:12:12AM -0500, Reid Priedhorsky wrote: >> Dear All, >> >> I would like to rebuild a keyboard that uses mechanical keyswitches (see >> previous post). Do any of you know where I can buy new mechanical >>

Re: source for mechanical keyswitches

2008-03-20 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 11:12:12AM -0500, Reid Priedhorsky wrote: > Dear All, > > I would like to rebuild a keyboard that uses mechanical keyswitches (see > previous post). Do any of you know where I can buy new mechanical > keyswitches? If they are like IBM model M clicky keyswitches, do they ev

Re: Source of Debian wisdom

2007-08-21 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 10:56:55AM -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > FWIW, I still use apt-get instead of aptitude on my Sid machine. With recent > apt versions in sid, I don't think there is a difference between apt-get > and aptitude in terms of how they resolve dependencies (someone please

Re: Source of Debian wisdom

2007-08-21 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 19 Aug 2007 14:00:22 -0800 Ken Irving <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at 03:31:19PM -0500, Mumia W.. wrote: [snip] > > I only use apt-get when I need to install from the source (which aptitude > > cannot do). > > I wonder why that is; the source packages are independe

Re: Source of Debian wisdom

2007-08-21 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Mark Neidorff wrote: > Here's an example of what this message is about: > I've been reading the debian-user list for a bit, and I've noticed that > suggestions given are to use the apt-* suite or aptitude to managing > packages. While setting things up (and installing packages) I came across > sy

Re: Source of Debian wisdom

2007-08-21 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 20 Aug 2007, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 10:20:51AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > I ditched aptitude a couple of years ago in favour of wajig. I'm willing > > to believe that most or even all of the problems I had with aptitude > > were my own fault, but wajig is b

Re: Source of Debian wisdom

2007-08-20 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 01:04:15PM +0200, Mihamina (R12y) Rakotomandimby wrote: > In _my_ opinion: > Installing and using a distribution implies using its package manager. > Or, if you dont want that, install LFS. > Packaging is one of the strength of Linux distributions over than other > OS. > B

Re: Source of Debian wisdom

2007-08-20 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 10:20:51AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > I ditched aptitude a couple of years ago in favour of wajig. I'm willing > to believe that most or even all of the problems I had with aptitude > were my own fault, but wajig is brilliant IMO and I don't find a need > for anythin

Re: Source of Debian wisdom

2007-08-20 Thread Joe
Mark Neidorff wrote: Hi all, Recently I've set up a Debian Etch box which I'm nearly ready to bring up full time (currently using a different distribution...been a linux user for over 10 years). Here's an example of what this message is about: I've been reading the debian-user list for a b

Re: Source of Debian wisdom

2007-08-20 Thread David Brodbeck
On Aug 20, 2007, at 12:05 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote: There's "Undo" (Ctrl-U) before pressing g and "Cancel Pending Actions" (in menu "Actions") that can be used after the first g. Is this what you need? It seems like I tried 'Cancel Pending Actions' once and it didn't seem to do anything, bu

Re: Source of Debian wisdom

2007-08-20 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at 03:31:19PM -0500, Mumia W.. wrote: > I'm also curious about what problems other people are having with > aptitude. aptitude is slow on simple searches (so I use apt-cache for those), but the patterns are much more powerful. > -- > * However, I never do anyth

Re: Source of Debian wisdom

2007-08-20 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 10:40:43AM -0700, David Brodbeck wrote: > > On Aug 19, 2007, at 1:08 PM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: >> There were >> frequent posts to the list like "Aptitude wants to remove 150 >> packages!!!". They were using the CLI and didn't get the detailed >> explanation from aptitude

Re: Source of Debian wisdom

2007-08-20 Thread David Brodbeck
On Aug 19, 2007, at 1:08 PM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: There were frequent posts to the list like "Aptitude wants to remove 150 packages!!!". They were using the CLI and didn't get the detailed explanation from aptitude that they would from the curses interface. Dumb question: Is there a way to

Re: Source of Debian wisdom

2007-08-20 Thread Manon Metten
Hi Mumia, On 8/19/07, Mumia W.. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: * However, I never do anything at the command line that hasn't been > verified as safe. I always use the curses interface to find out what is > going to happen before I enter a command at the command line. Well, that's a valuable advis

Re: Source of Debian wisdom

2007-08-20 Thread Manon Metten
Hi Douglas, On 8/19/07, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If you mix with apt-get ... > > ... This leads to the cruft buildup that > aptitude is suposed to help you prevent. I remember a thread some time ago that just pointed out not to mix apt-get with aptitude. The other problem i

Re: Source of Debian wisdom

2007-08-20 Thread Mihamina (R12y) Rakotomandimby
On Sun, 2007-08-19 at 14:10 -0400, Mark Neidorff wrote: > Hi all, Hi you > More generally, is there a document/web page that explains what are the > preferred packages and what is the "Debian Way" of doing things. In _my_ opinion: Installing and using a distribution implies using its package ma

Re: Source of Debian wisdom

2007-08-20 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 19 Aug 2007, Ken Irving wrote: > On Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at 03:31:19PM -0500, Mumia W.. wrote: > > I haven't tried aptitude for some time, and apparently the problem I > had with it (where it wanted to remove a lot of stuff) has been fixed. > I think that, even before that fix, it would work reaso

Re: Source of Debian wisdom

2007-08-19 Thread Mumia W..
On 08/19/2007 05:00 PM, Ken Irving wrote: [...] I haven't tried aptitude for some time, and apparently the problem I had with it (where it wanted to remove a lot of stuff) has been fixed. I think that, even before that fix, it would work reasonably (i.e., no surprises) as long as it was used exc

Re: Source of Debian wisdom

2007-08-19 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 01:30:28AM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at 22:06:29 +, s. keeling wrote: > The problem is this: If you install the "kde" (or "gnome") metapackage > with aptitude then all the other KDE (Gnome) packages are marked as > "automatically installed" be

Re: Source of Debian wisdom

2007-08-19 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at 22:06:29 +, s. keeling wrote: [...] > For current stable/Etch, aptitude is recommended, but many still stick > with apt-get. > > The biggest problem I've noticed is "aptitude remove blah" where > "blah" is some KDE or Gnome app, tends to want to blow away > *everythin

Re: Source of Debian wisdom

2007-08-19 Thread s. keeling
Mark Neidorff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Recently I've set up a Debian Etch box which I'm nearly ready to > bring up full time (currently using a different distribution...been > a linux user for over 10 years). Fourteen here. :-) > Here's an example of what this message is about: I've been re

Re: Source of Debian wisdom

2007-08-19 Thread Ken Irving
On Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at 03:31:19PM -0500, Mumia W.. wrote: > On 08/19/2007 02:25 PM, Manon Metten wrote: >> Hi Douglas, >> On 8/19/07, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Note that many of the horror stories about aptitude involved >>> people using it as a CLI replacement for apt-get ins

Re: Source of Debian wisdom

2007-08-19 Thread Mumia W..
On 08/19/2007 02:25 PM, Manon Metten wrote: Hi Douglas, On 8/19/07, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Note that many of the horror stories about aptitude involved people using it as a CLI replacement for apt-get instead of using its curses interface. Are you saying I should NOT u

Re: Source of Debian wisdom

2007-08-19 Thread Steve Lamb
Mark Neidorff wrote: So now I'm wondering according to Debian Wisdom (no disrespect intended to anyonne) which is the preferred way of installing software? The one your comfortable with. aptitude is recommended mainly because it is a best of breed of the CLI package tools. The key is

Re: Source of Debian wisdom

2007-08-19 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at 09:25:15PM +0200, Manon Metten wrote: > On 8/19/07, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Note that many of the horror stories about aptitude involved > > people using it as a CLI replacement for apt-get instead of using its > > curses interface. > > Are you sayi

Re: Source of Debian wisdom

2007-08-19 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at 02:35:18PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > The release notes state that aptitude is the preferred package > management tool since it takes care of automatically installed pacakges Nitpick: aptitude is recommended because it handles complex dependencies better. The autom

Re: Source of Debian wisdom

2007-08-19 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at 09:25:15PM +0200, Manon Metten wrote: > Hi Douglas, > > On 8/19/07, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Note that many of the horror stories about aptitude involved > > people using it as a CLI replacement for apt-get instead of using its > > curses interface.

Re: Source of Debian wisdom

2007-08-19 Thread Manon Metten
Hi Douglas, On 8/19/07, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Note that many of the horror stories about aptitude involved > people using it as a CLI replacement for apt-get instead of using its > curses interface. Are you saying I should NOT use aptitude as a replacement for apt-get, li

Re: Source of Debian wisdom

2007-08-19 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at 02:10:27PM -0400, Mark Neidorff wrote: > Hi all, > > Recently I've set up a Debian Etch box which I'm nearly ready to bring up > full > time (currently using a different distribution...been a linux user for over > 10 years). > > Here's an example of what this message

Re: Source of Debian wisdom

2007-08-19 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at 02:10:27PM -0400, Mark Neidorff wrote: > > Here's an example of what this message is about: > I've been reading the debian-user list for a bit, and I've noticed that > suggestions given are to use the apt-* suite or aptitude to managing > packages. While setting things u

Re: Source of Debian wisdom

2007-08-19 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sun, 19 Aug 2007 14:10:27 -0400 Mark Neidorff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Mark, > More generally, is there a document/web page that explains what are > the preferred packages and what is the "Debian Way" of doing things. One of the reasons that the apt-* suite is recommended is that, sho

Re: Source of Debian wisdom

2007-08-19 Thread Nyizsnyik Ferenc
On Sun, 19 Aug 2007 14:10:27 -0400 Mark Neidorff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Recently I've set up a Debian Etch box which I'm nearly ready to > bring up full time (currently using a different distribution...been a > linux user for over 10 years). > > Here's an example of what this

Re: Source of Debian wisdom

2007-08-19 Thread Orestes leal
On Sun, 19 Aug 2007 14:10:27 -0400 Mark Neidorff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Recently I've set up a Debian Etch box which I'm nearly ready to bring up > full > time (currently using a different distribution...been a linux user for over > 10 years). > > Here's an example of what

Re: source code installation

2007-08-19 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at 17:53:47 +1000, jupiter DOT hce AT gmail DOT com wrote: > Thanks Florian and Andrei. The installation of OpenOffice works indeed > after installing the second CD. > > > With aptitude you can do searches like this: > > > > aptitude search '~i(~sgames|~Ggame)' > > > > This wi

Re: source code installation

2007-08-19 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at 05:53:47PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > With aptitude you can do searches like this: > > > > aptitude search '~i(~sgames|~Ggame)' > > > > This will list all installed (~i) packages which belong to the "games" > > section (~sgames) or (|) which have the string "game"

Re: source code installation

2007-08-19 Thread jupiter . hce
Thanks Florian and Andrei. The installation of OpenOffice works indeed after installing the second CD. > With aptitude you can do searches like this: > > aptitude search '~i(~sgames|~Ggame)' > > This will list all installed (~i) packages which belong to the "games" > section (~sgames) or (|) whi

Re: source code installation

2007-08-18 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Aug 18, 2007 at 20:42:03 +1000, webmail DOT hce AT gmail DOT com wrote: > Andrei Popescu wrote: >> Your apt knows only of one source for packages, and that is the CD1. You >> need to add additional sources. > > I've only got one CD, will try to download second. I checked it now, you indee

Re: source code installation

2007-08-18 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat, Aug 18, 2007 at 08:42:03PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I don't have a network connection, a win modem is the only one I have and I > am currently working to try compile the win modem source code. I'll have to > install kernel header files to do it. But first, I have to learn how to

Re: source code installation

2007-08-18 Thread webmail . hce
Andrei Popescu wrote: Your apt knows only of one source for packages, and that is the CD1. You need to add additional sources. I've only got one CD, will try to download second. If you already have more than the first CD then you could add it with apt-cdrom (see 'man apt-cdrom' for more detai

Re: source code installation

2007-08-18 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat, Aug 18, 2007 at 07:15:42PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Florian Kulzer wrote: >> [ Your "top-posting" style of replying makes it harder for other people >> to join the discussion since they have to do quite some scrolling up >> and down to understand the context, especially if a ce

Re: source code installation

2007-08-18 Thread jupiter . hce
Florian Kulzer wrote: [ Your "top-posting" style of replying makes it harder for other people to join the discussion since they have to do quite some scrolling up and down to understand the context, especially if a certain topic has already received many messages. The recommended approach o

Re: source code installation

2007-08-15 Thread Florian Kulzer
[ Your "top-posting" style of replying makes it harder for other people to join the discussion since they have to do quite some scrolling up and down to understand the context, especially if a certain topic has already received many messages. The recommended approach on this list is to put

Re: source code installation

2007-08-15 Thread YH
Thanks Florian. I followed your instruction, but got following result. I've tried both with CD and without CD in the driver, but the same result. # apt-get install openoffice.org Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Package openoffice.org is not available, but is referr

Re: source code installation

2007-08-12 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 16:18:43 +1000, jupiter DOT hce AT gmail DOT com wrote: > Hi, > > I've installed Debian 4.0 from a CD, just found that the installation does > not let me to select applications. Mow I have to install an application > from the CD (I don't have a network connection, a win mo

Re: source for pegasus driver

2007-01-28 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 08:50:06 -0800, Peter Easthope wrote: > I am interested to read the source for the Pegasus > USB-Ethernet driver. > > Should I find the files in a Debian site, or in > a Linux kernel site or in a device driver site. You can install the (kernel|linux)-source package corresp

Re: source for downloadable music?

2006-10-04 Thread José Alburquerque
Robert Epprecht wrote: What java packages are needed to make it run? Robert All the program needs is a Java Runtime Environment (JRE) or a Java Development Kit (JDK) properly installed on the system. I use the sun-java5-* packages from the sid repository and all's ok here. -- Sincerely

Re: source for downloadable music?

2006-10-04 Thread Robert Epprecht
José Alburquerque <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I use a java application called limewire (www.limewire.com). I > downloaded the rpm and converted it to a debian package using alien. What java packages are needed to make it run? Robert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a su

Re: source for downloadable music?

2006-10-03 Thread José Alburquerque
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How mutch money does this cost -- Mobile Email from a Cingular Wireless Customer http://www.cingular.com Try to respond to list! :-) If you take a look at the site, you'll see they have a completely free version that allows sharing of all types of files. :-) --

Re: source for downloadable music?

2006-10-03 Thread José Alburquerque
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do i get some music I use a java application called limewire (www.limewire.com). I downloaded the rpm and converted it to a debian package using alien. -- Sincerely Jose Alburquerque -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: Re: source for downloadable music?

2006-10-01 Thread 4154975790
How do i get some music

Re: Source Code

2006-07-26 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Roy Mabry wrote: i have a smae question...I am going to install debian but is the source code on the disks...or do i download it elsewhereAlso is sarge on the disk? Think *before* you write. You've just got an answer to the similar question you just posted minutes ago. It depends. If yo

Re: source code and sarge

2006-07-26 Thread shell
Roy Mabry wrote: Are the source code and sage on the cd or do i need to download it from you web site? I have never installed debian before but io have seen it and liked it alot -- Thank You Roy Mabry If u get full debian disk(2 DVDs), u can install them(binary & source) from CD/DVD, get

Re: source code and sarge

2006-07-26 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Roy Mabry wrote: Are the source code and sage on the cd or do i need to download it from you web site? I have never installed debian before but io have seen it and liked it alot There are two common methods of obtaining debian: - buy a full set of CDs/DVDs. Take care that you buy a set w

RE: Source for Xfree?

2006-07-23 Thread Jan Johansson
>The -dev packages generally only have the static libraries and headers, not the sources. If you need sources, >then just run `apt-get source xserver-xorg` and it will download and unpack the correct source package in the >current directory. Thanks! Now to see if it is all I need :) smime.p7s D

Re: Source for Xfree?

2006-07-23 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Jan Johansson wrote: > Hello! > > I want to compile the IVTV-drivers for Xfree, but I can't figure out which > packages I require to obtain the source for Xfree? > > I have installed xserver-xorg-dev 1:1.0.2-9 but I do not have any source in > /usr/src > > > I am running Etch The -dev package

Re: source code editor

2006-07-14 Thread Margiolas Christos
If you want something simple use kate. I use it and it is enough good...Christos

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