Re: three questions about debian

2006-04-24 Thread Andrei Popescu
Marc Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Doofus wrote: > > > > > That was four questions. > > > > > > > But Passover was last week :-) No! It was yesterday ;) Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: three questions about debian

2006-04-23 Thread Marc Shapiro
Doofus wrote: That was four questions. But Passover was last week :-) -- Marc Shapiro No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow. What?! Look, somebody's got to have some damn perspective around here. Boom. Sooner or later ... boom! - Susan Ivanova: B5 - Grail -- To U

Re: three questions about debian

2006-04-22 Thread Matthew R. Dempsky
On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 11:18:48AM +1000, Star King of the Grape Trees wrote: > It is much, much better to use native programs, then if you can't find > native programs for linux, you may give wine a go. Some people must use > emulators (ie, VMWare), and some (like me) are forever doomed to >

Re: three questions about debian

2006-04-22 Thread Matthew R. Dempsky
On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 06:29:08PM -0700, Xplicit Language wrote: > thank you roberto and i did not know that i was being > rude, i will try to remember to bottom post. I think it's a bit extreme to say top posting is ``rude,'' but I would certainly agree that it makes reading posts a bit more di

Re: three questions about debian

2006-04-22 Thread Xplicit Language
--- "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Xplicit Language wrote: > > i was wondering, if i remove or completely remove > > something from synaptic is that uninstalling the > > program or just deleteing the package, and if it > does > > only remove the package, how do i uninstall thi

Re: three questions about debian

2006-04-22 Thread Star King of the Grape Trees
Xplicit Language wrote: i was wondering, if i remove or completely remove something from synaptic is that uninstalling the program or just deleteing the package, and if it does only remove the package, how do i uninstall things like a older version of wine? this help page says that it is best to

Re: three questions about debian

2006-04-22 Thread Star King of the Grape Trees
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Miles Bader wrote: Doofus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: How mature is wine these days? The last time I looked at it (admittedly a long time ago) it was still a windows 3.1 emulator (when 32 bit windows had long been released). It wasn't particularly stable eithe

Re: three questions about debian

2006-04-22 Thread Miles Bader
"Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Out of curiousity, does it still choke on those braindead 16-bit > installers? I recall a couple of years ago trying to install programs > that used a 16-bit installer and having the install utterly fail. No idea, sorry. I've never had problems

Re: three questions about debian

2006-04-22 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Xplicit Language wrote: > i was wondering, if i remove or completely remove > something from synaptic is that uninstalling the > program or just deleteing the package, and if it does > only remove the package, how do i uninstall things > like a older version of wine? this help page says that > it i

Re: three questions about debian

2006-04-22 Thread Xplicit Language
i was wondering, if i remove or completely remove something from synaptic is that uninstalling the program or just deleteing the package, and if it does only remove the package, how do i uninstall things like a older version of wine? this help page says that it is best to uninstall it, lol i'm star

Re: three questions about debian

2006-04-22 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Miles Bader wrote: > Doofus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>How mature is wine these days? The last time I looked at it >>(admittedly a long time ago) it was still a windows 3.1 emulator (when >>32 bit windows had long been released). It wasn't particularly stable >>either. > > > 5 years ago win

Re: three questions about debian

2006-04-22 Thread Xplicit Language
thats the same reason i want to use wine Christopher Nelson, but to play medal of honor with or without gamespy, i am a little addicted to the game, but to answer, i chose to switch to linux, after years of hating constantly unstable windows os, winxp has had the same error twice in a month after g

Re: three questions about debian

2006-04-22 Thread Miles Bader
Doofus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How mature is wine these days? The last time I looked at it > (admittedly a long time ago) it was still a windows 3.1 emulator (when > 32 bit windows had long been released). It wasn't particularly stable > either. 5 years ago wine was pretty flaky. These days

Re: three questions about debian

2006-04-22 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 00:56:27 +0100, Doofus wrote: [...] > How mature is wine these days? The last time I looked at it (admittedly > a long time ago) it was still a windows 3.1 emulator (when 32 bit > windows had long been released). It wasn't particularly stable either. > I've never really

Re: three questions about debian

2006-04-22 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 4/22/06, Doofus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Christopher Nelson wrote: > > >On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 03:00:54PM -0700, Xplicit Language wrote: > > > > > > > >>also is > >>anyone familiar with wine? > >> > >> > > > >As a user. What's your question? If it's generally how to use it, 'wine > >'. N

Re: three questions about debian

2006-04-22 Thread Christopher Nelson
On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 12:56:27AM +0100, Doofus wrote: > Christopher Nelson wrote: > > >On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 03:00:54PM -0700, Xplicit Language wrote: > > > >>also is > >>anyone familiar with wine? > > > >As a user. What's your question? If it's generally how to use it, 'wine > >'. Not all

Re: three questions about debian

2006-04-22 Thread Doofus
Christopher Nelson wrote: On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 03:00:54PM -0700, Xplicit Language wrote: also is anyone familiar with wine? As a user. What's your question? If it's generally how to use it, 'wine '. Not all windows programs work under wine, and some require tinkering. How m

Re: three questions about debian

2006-04-22 Thread Christopher Nelson
On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 03:00:54PM -0700, Xplicit Language wrote: > which program is used to compile Several. gcc for C code. There are others for C and other languages. > and how do you > compile a program, Depends on how it was set up and where you got it. Often as simple as 'make' 'make in

Re: three questions about debian

2006-04-22 Thread Doofus
Xplicit Language wrote: which program is used to compile gcc and how do you compile a program, According to the helpful instructions always provided with the source code (/usr/share/doc/{package_name}). and how do i run apt get, apt-get {package_name} But since you're asking these

Re: three questions about debian

2006-04-22 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Xplicit Language wrote: > which program is used to compile and how do you > compile a program, and how do i run apt get, also is > anyone familiar with wine? To compile you use a compiler. The most common one is gcc, though there are others distributed with Debian. Of course, it depends on what

three questions about debian

2006-04-22 Thread Xplicit Language
which program is used to compile and how do you compile a program, and how do i run apt get, also is anyone familiar with wine? __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSC