> > I am using the latest version of Debian (brand new system installed
> > yesterday). Is there something to be done to properly set up X?
>
> I found that Debian/XFree86/whoever by default maps both the BS and Del
> keys to , which is irritating with Netscape and when logging in on
> other compu
Stan Brown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: sun\bject line pretty much says it all. I like the debian
: install mechanisim!
Yes. There is. Why do you ask? Look on the ftp site.
Debian has more than 800 packages in rex which is soon to be released. You are
bound to find
almost everything you can
On Sun, 3 Nov 1996, George Bonser wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Daniel Stringfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > How about a SVGALIB based program? That should fit on a floppy.
> > Now we have a possible three!:) dselect, xselect, and vselect
> >
>
> Kind of like make
On Sun, 3 Nov 1996, Brian C. White wrote:
>
> Netscape runs _fine_ if you use the Debian installer package! Actually,
> all you really need to do is point it to the existing XKeySymDB file.
>
> This probably the case for other Motif apps, too.
>
An
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Fabien Ninoles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Agree with the principle of a bare-bone select for installation and a more
> pleasant for a complete installation and see no trouble to have the two
> (or three) in a distribution. But I have to disagree to the pr
Argh, this has caused me problems to no end! Can someone please send me a
working configuration for suck and inn?
I can get suck to gather news and send it locally, but I can't figure out
how to get locally written messages sent to my ISP's news server. I don't
want to use nntp-style read
David Puryear writes:
-> I used to use fvwm with NoPPosition and SmartPlacement in system.fvwmrc.
-> I tried to use same thing in fvwm2 and it doesn't work. Any ideas as to
-> how I can use them in fvwm2?
Both of these have become options to the Style command, so that they
can be enforced on a pe
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joost witteveen scripsit:
|That works, but it's better to upgrade to gs-aladdin_4.03-4 or
|gs_3.33-2. That also solves it.
Absolutely true, only that my mirror didn't have it on Friday ;-) I
have now upgraded and fixed it the "proper" way.
Thanks,
Arrigo
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Hello all,
the problem is with a slave YP (NIS) server, a Linux box
running Debian, and a SunOS box serving the maps. ypxfr manages to
grab all maps _except_ the hosts.{byaddr,byname} which returns a DBM
error on the Linux machine:
# /u
Hi all,
When I tried to update my old rex installation I got the next error
message from update menu in dselect.
> Uncompressing /install/Debian/stable/binary-i386/Packages.gz ... stdin:
> not in compressed format
>
> update available list script returned error exit status 1.
> Press RETURN to co
Hello all,
there seems to be a problem with the latest (on my mirror ;-)
version of perl, 5.003.07-1, and Yard 1.7. With the previous version
there were no problems, now Yard 1.7 bombs with
Can't locate object method "autoflush" via package "IO::Handle" at
./make_root_fs line 37.
even th
On Mon, 4 Nov 1996, Paul Haggart wrote:
> Argh, this has caused me problems to no end! Can someone please send me a
> working configuration for suck and inn?
>
> I can get suck to gather news and send it locally, but I can't figure out
> how to get locally written messages sent to my ISP's
Fabien Ninoles writes:
> Agree with the principle of a bare-bone select for installation and a
> more pleasant for a complete installation and see no trouble to have the
> two (or three) in a distribution. But I have to disagree to the principe
> to replace the info with colors. Used them to enhanc
On 3 Nov 1996, Robert Nicholson wrote:
> Somebody a few weeks ago had mentioned that they were preparing hylafax
> as packages?
That was myself. I was almost finished and then I discovered debmake :-)
I've spent the past week or so getting to grips with it.
The finished packages should be avail
>
> On Fri, 1 Nov 1996, Martin Stromberg wrote:
>
> > > What do I need to consider when copying "/" to another partition? Reason
> > > I ask is I would like to put it in partition which had dos. Here is what
> > > I would like to do:
> > >
> > > Old setup:
> > >
> > > hda1 -- dos
> > > hdb1 --
You probably set the debug flag on diald. At least this is the output I got
when I did that.
"Simon Martin"<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Any Trademarks used in this document are recognized as Registered
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> > Date: Sat, 2 Nov 1996 00:29:32 -
> > From: Nelson Posse Lago <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: Martin Stromberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> > Subject: Rearranging partitions WAS: Re: Question??
>
> > find ./ | grep -
Hi,
some softwre PAckages run nm on libc to get the available functions. This
wont work with ELF anymore. nm only prints symbols for .a files. Arent the
symbols in .so needed for linking?
Greetings
Bernd
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Bernd Eckenfels writes:
> some softwre PAckages run nm on libc to get the available functions. This
> wont work with ELF anymore. nm only prints symbols for .a files. Arent the
> symbols in .so needed for linking?
You have to use 'nm -D'.
David
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Hi,
I'm working with Debian 1.1 and since last week, when I want to
install a .deb packages via ftp, I receive the following message:
Processing status file...
Odd number of elements in hash list at /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/ftp/install line
75,
chunk 6898
Please, What can I do to solve this
- Received message begins Here -
What about all of the plain files in / ???
Jim.
>
> On Fri, 1 Nov 1996, Martin Stromberg wrote:
>
> > >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > What do I need to consider when copying "/" to another partition? Reason
> > > I ask is I would like to put it
"larry" == "Larry 'Daffy' Daffner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
larry> Fulko van Westrenen writes:
-> For one or another strange reason initx fails to read ~/.xinitrc
-> Does anyone know what the reason can be? All configurations look
-> normal to me. My .fvwmrc is read without any
-> pro
On Sun, 3 Nov 1996, Brian C. White wrote:
> > > I am using the latest version of Debian (brand new system installed
> > > yesterday). Is there something to be done to properly set up X?
> >
> > I found that Debian/XFree86/whoever by default maps both the BS and Del
> > keys to , which is irritati
> > Netscape runs _fine_ if you use the Debian installer package! Actually,
> > all you really need to do is point it to the existing XKeySymDB file.
> >
> > This probably the case for other Motif apps, too.
>
> And how can we do this?
The netscape package is available under contrib.
To use the
The person who is building X is expecting to upload them within the
next two weeks - he says sooner, I'm being conservative. The hold-up is
due to our packaging system going through some changes that require
editing of installation scripts. The X source builds 27 binary packages,
no surprise that s
Hi All,
> > Not very good; you'll have problems with symlinks, special files in
> > /dev, etc. Try:
> >
> > umount /dev/hda1
> > mke2fs /dev/hda1
> > mount /dev/hda1 /mnt
> > umount /home
> > cd /
> > find ./ | grep -v /mnt/ | cpio -pdmv /mnt
> >
> > Edit lilo to point to your new root and re
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Hello.
I have switched from Slackware to Debian, and I'm impressed.
My problem: (well, one of my problems :-) gpm does not behave 8-bit clean,
which is a real pain for non-english languages. Is there any way to
configure it properly, or it is just a bug? [ Note
>
> Where does one find
>
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/config?
dpkg -S config
[..]
xdevel: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/config
[..]
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On Sun, 3 Nov 1996, Brian C. White wrote:
> Netscape runs _fine_ if you use the Debian installer package! Actually,
> all you really need to do is point it to the existing XKeySymDB file.
People have kept saying this and everyone assumes that the person asking
knows how to point Netscape to XK
Daniel Stringfield writes:
> On Sun, 3 Nov 1996, George Bonser wrote:
>
> > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> >Daniel Stringfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > >
> > > How about a SVGALIB based program? That should fit on a floppy.
> > > Now we have a possible three!:) dselect, xse
Hello All,
I am new to Linux and of course new to the Debian distribution.
Recently I tried to install X on my box using the vga16 server.
When started, the server immediately die with a message
"Cannot open mouse : (no such device).
Because X is a rather complex package, I tried to troubleshoot
Paul Haggart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Argh, this has caused me problems to no end! Can someone please send me a
> working configuration for suck and inn?
> I can get suck to gather news and send it locally, but I can't figure out
> how to get locally written messages sent to my ISP's
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