apt-get

how do i hold a package back from being upgraded in apt-get -- Nathan York [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Summary: logout/halt/reboot as ordinary user, gnome logout button?

On Tue, Dec 14, 1999 at 10:01:22AM +0100, Svante Signell wrote: > - I want to enable my family to use Linux instead of the other > OS. Therefore it is important that they can start the computer, run > it and shut down in a CONTROLLED way. Restart/shutdown are menu > entries in the other OS!!

acer modem?

hello i have worked with an acer modem 56 Surf, ACER56HCK_1, class 1 i cxan do almost evrything (ppp, send fax, minicom) but when it comes to receive automatically faxes, the modem never picks up the call, and never takes the fax call, manually i can receive fax, but not automatically is this a

Re: Corel Update

You'll have to ask that of Corel. Most of us at Debian do not use their tools to do the actual day-to-day update of our boxen. We use and recommend the tool called "apt" from the commandline.

Re: lost kernal source

Did you install one of the kernel-source packages?

Re: Distributions (CD Image?)

look here: http://cdimage.debian.org/ hope that helps. herbert On Tue, Dec 14, 1999 at 01:08:57PM -0800, William French wrote: > We were looking into installing Dabian on one of our systems and would > like to know if you have a CD image of your latest distributions on an > FTP site. If not,

Re: journaling filesystem

Jan Ludewig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hi, > > does anyone have experience with installing ReiserFS? (or any other > journaling filesystems?) > > what i'd like to do is > a) booting from a disk > b) dd my / to a free partition > c) reformat my root-partition with ReiserFS

Re: apt-get

On Tue, Dec 14, 1999 at 06:16:14PM -0600, Nathan York wrote: > how do i hold a package back from being upgraded in apt-get echo package_name hold | dpkg --set-selections You can also mark a package as held from dselect, using the `H' or `=' key.

squid

Ok, I've got the squid proxy server installed on a newly installed box. I presume I point my "proxy" entry for http to the server, but what port? Robert :wq! --- Robert L. Harris| Low quality in a produc

2 computers, 2 modems, 2 O/S's

Hi At home my wife and I have two computers (win95 and Debian) and until recently had one modem. Connectng to the internet was simple, it all went through the Debian (potato) box. However, I have acquired at no cost another faster modem, unfortunately it is a WinModem (A US Robotics 56k Voice

Re: apt-get

On Tue, Dec 14, 1999 at 06:16:14PM -0600, Nathan York wrote: > how do i hold a package back from being upgraded in apt-get # echo hold|dpkg --set-selections Alternatively, you could use the '=' key in dselect to place it on hold. -Dan -- "Beware he who would deny you access to information, fo

Re: squid

Robert L. Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Ok, > I've got the squid proxy server installed on a newly installed box. I > presume I point my "proxy" entry for http to the server, but what port? The port num is specified in squid.conf, which is 3128 by default. You can change it by altering t

Re: squid

stright from /etc/squid.conf: # TAG: http_port # The port number where Squid will listen for HTTP client # requests. Default is 3128, for httpd-accel mode use port 80. # May be overridden with -a on the command line. # # You may specify multiple ports here, but they MUST

Re: 2 computers, 2 modems, 2 O/S's

On Tue, Dec 14, 1999 at 08:19:54PM -0500, Cormac McGuinness wrote: > What I was wondering is there anyone out there that can point me to a > piece of Windows (Yes! I know this is the debian mailing list) software > that can forward all my outgoing IP connections through the Winmodem > (in the Win

Re: journaling filesystem

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > I don't think you can run ReiserFS as your root-partition from > what I read. You can mount your /usr and /var to it, and create > a small ext2 root partition for your kernel. Technically, there's nothing preventing yo

Re: 2 computers, 2 modems, 2 O/S's

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Hi > At home my wife and I have two computers (win95 and Debian) and until > recently had one modem. Connectng to the internet was simple, it all > went through the Debian (potato) box. > > However, I have acquired at no cost another f

Re: squid

On 14-Dec-1999, Robert L. Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ok, > I've got the squid proxy server installed on a newly installed box. I > presume I point my "proxy" entry for http to the server, but what port? > 3128 or check the http_port option in /etc/squid.conf Pete

librep2

Does anyone know where to get the librep2 package for sawmill? I doesn't appear to be on any of the servers. Rob

SSH Error

I am trying to set up SSH on my system. I have a normal user account "lint". I do a "ssh -l lint localhost", which results in: > ssh -l lint lint ssh_exchange_identification: read: No such file or directory Any Ideas? Thanks, Bryan

Re: Summary: logout/halt/reboot as ordinary user, gnome logout button?

On Tue, Dec 14, 1999 at 07:58:17PM -0500, Joe Bouchard wrote: > On Tue, Dec 14, 1999 at 10:01:22AM +0100, Svante Signell wrote: > > - I want to enable my family to use Linux instead of the other > > OS. Therefore it is important that they can start the computer, run > > it and shut down in a CO

Re: acer modem?

> never takes the fax call, manually i can receive fax, but not > automatically Are you using mgetty? If not you might want to take a look at it. apt-get install mgetty mgetty-docs > erasmo --Ian Ehrenwald

Has anyone tried the new 'testing' tree yet?

As mentioned in this weeks Debian Weekly News: http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/current/issue/ http://lully.debian.org/~ajt/debian/dists/testing/ Matthew

packages for the latest distributed net clients

Hi, Does anyone now if the latest distributed net clients have been packaged up anywhere? Pete

Re: 2 computers, 2 modems, 2 O/S's

All versions of Win98SE can do it, not only those with it preinstalled, Its simply a matter of add/remove programs, Internet tools, and add Internet connection sharing, Very similar to ipmasq in setting up the client machine, and it uses dhcp. Regards Peter Good. -Original Message- From:

cooledit can't find library

I just downloaded the binary and installed under /usr/local. Anyway I get this error, /usr/local/cool_e/usr/bin# ./cooledit ./cooledit: can't load library 'libCw.so.1' The thing of it is, the library came with the program and is in, /usr/local/cool_e/usr/lib -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root

Re: disabling remount ro on errors

On 14/12/99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: they should be. I did a clean install onto this disk. The old disk ran for months with the stock kernel. When it wouldn't talk to the network, I cp -R'd /etc and /lib from the old drive. you might try (cd / ; tar -cvpf - lib) | (cd /mnt/ ; tar -xvpf -)

Re: gpm and X

On 14/12/99 GECOS wrote: It works great. So what's my problem? Just that the initscripts somewhere insist on rewriting XF86Config when I restart the system. first: what kind of broken system rewrites configuration files at every reboot!?!?!!! The only reliable way I have found to preven

Passing media param via "ifconfig"

How can I find out valid media types for my ethernet driver (rtl8139)? Can I force it into full-duplex? How can I diagnose what media type the driver is using? Thanks! -- Arcady Genkinhttp://wgaf.dyndns.org "'What good is my pity? Is not the pity the cross upon wh

running two webservers on the same machine

Hi, I would like to know if it is possible: to run two different web servers on the same physical machine binded to two different ip addresses, both of them using port 80 We have a specially situation where we need to run both zeus

Netscape for Slink

Hi, I recently installed Slink ( kernel 2.2.12 ) that I obtained as a box set from valinux.com. The installation was fine. I attempted to install communicator-smotif-45 using apt-get. This failed due to an unmet dependency related to " netscape-base-4" which was not "installable." Which version

RealPlayer -- where can I get the latest?

I'm using a Beta version of G2 for Linux, which I downloaded from god knows where (couldn't find it again on the real's web-site) quite a few months ago. In the "about" dialogue it says "Version 6.0.4.238". Has there been a newer version(s) since then? Where can I get one? This one seems to hang o

PV Wave 7.0

Hi ! Has anyone managed to get PV-Wave 7.0 working with slink or potato ? After several problems during installation, I now get a segmentation violation when starting wave. Thanks in advance. Daniel -- Daniel Faller Fakultaet fur Physik Abt. Honerkamp Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg

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do I need the files in the hurd subfolder on the ftp server to install potato?

Re: unidentified TCP connections

auth is local port 113 for the ident deamon. IF you use masq you should use a ident deamon that supports masq, oident for example. A wild guess of mine is that these connections are the result of IRC connections... I don't know if there are ident exploits, but than again I'm not *that* informed.

Re: df is reading wrongly

David Wright writes: | I wouldn't mind seeing how you've mounted these partitions, | i.e. your /etc/fstab file. It's interesting that hda4 and hda5 | say the same thing. I've seen this effect before, when I put mount lines in fstab in the wrong order so /usr/lib/ got mounted before /usr. Mx.

Re: RealPlayer -- where can I get the latest?

Wasn't realplayer one of the -stupid idiots- to upload some stat (private info!) from you computer during install and/or while you're running the program ??? Regards, Onno At 02:23 AM 12/15/99 -0500, Arcady Genkin wrote: >I'm using a Beta version of G2 for Linux, which I downloaded from god >kn

Re:

At 12:02 AM 12/15/99 -0800, Jason Winters wrote: > do I need the files in the hurd subfolder on the ftp server to install >potato? No. Onno

Re: RealPlayer -- where can I get the latest?

Onno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Wasn't realplayer one of the -stupid idiots- to upload > some stat (private info!) from you computer during > install and/or while you're running the program ??? Hmm. I dunno. I use it to play music and video. It's a program, so how could a program be a stupid

Re: LogCheck and it's rules

Robert Ramiega wrote: > Maybe You are right but then why this: > named[.*]: Cleaned cache of .* RRsets > causes logcheck to exclude matching lines and the line at the top does not > ?? Are you sure it does ? Perhaps there is another line in your ignore file which matches it. That line should

Re: Netscape for Slink

That version of Netscape Communicator (4.5) is fully packaged for slink and should be installable. The netscape-base-4 package is in the contrib section, while the rest of the packages are in non-free. Check your /etc/apt/sources.list file to make sure apt-get is looking in all 3 sections (main, c

Re: RealPlayer -- where can I get the latest?

At 04:15 AM 12/15/99 -0500, Arcady Genkin wrote: >Onno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Wasn't realplayer one of the -stupid idiots- to upload >> some stat (private info!) from you computer during >> install and/or while you're running the program ??? > >Hmm. I dunno. I use it to play music and vi

Re: Netscape for Slink

I should add that if you're not happy with the look of Netscape's fonts once you get it up and running, be sure to check out this mini-HOWTO which explains what you can do to improve that situation: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/FDU.html Tom howard mann wrote: > > Hi, > > I recently insta

apt-get with proxy ftp access

Hello, I can't figure out how to setup apt for upgrading to slink stable using a http (ftp) Proxy combination. I've got the following: apt.conf: - // Options for the downloading routines Acquire { // HTTP method configuration http { Proxy "http://193.158.21.90:8080";;

upgrading to slink 2.1r4

Hi, what is the correct way to upgrade to slink2.1r4 using apt? apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade?? Doing this only upgrades 12 minor packages on my original 2.1 system. Please cc: any replies to me, as i'm not on the list. --nico :: Nico Galoppo :: Linux - Free power for the masses :

cd-rw for normal user

Hi, I would like to use my HP CD-RW 8200 as a normal user. For this I turned the s-bit on in cdrecord/xcdroast/... Is this the better way or there is a safer one? With other words: is this safe? Thanks, PS.: just making /dev/scd* and /dev/sg* 0666 didn't

HP Deskjet 880C

I know there are tones of this type of question so I will just get on with it, Does anyone else use a HP DeskJet 880c, I have vanila slink with the proposed updates bits. Please tell me it is well supported by magic filter. Thanks Peter

df and du disagree

Hi all, df shows my main partiton to have 1.1 Gigs of data and du -x shows it to have about 650 MB. I think du is correct. df reads FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1 1.9G 1.1G 750M 60% / /dev/hda3 15M 1.2M 13M 8% /boot /dev/hda5

Realplayer and private info (Re: RealPlayer -- where can I get the latest?)

Look at for more about realplayer and private info. On Wed, Dec 15, 1999 at 11:06, Onno wrote: > At 04:15 AM 12/15/99 -0500, Arcady Genkin wrote: > >Onno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >> Wasn't realplayer one of the -stupid idiots- to upl

Re: df and du disagree

Just realises that this is a duplicate to a post I sent yesterday but that I had messed up my exim .forward file. Sorry. My /etc/fstab reads: # /dev/hda1 / ext2 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 /dev/hda7none swap sw

Re: df and du disagree

> > Hi all, > > df shows my main partiton to have 1.1 Gigs of data > and du -x shows it to have about 650 MB. > > I think du is correct. > > df reads > > FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/hda1 1.9G 1.1G 750M 60% / > /dev/hda3 15M 1.2M

Re: df and du disagree

The question is, can I use the 1 Gig or so of unseen space on /dev/hda1? Patrick

Re: Re: RealPlayer -- where can I get the latest?

Ciao Onno, > At least some ID numbers but I don't know how many, wich one's > and if other info is included... (MAC, CPUID, Win serials, etc) yes, perfectly true. but under MS, I don't know if even under other platform. Ciao -- Paolo Pedaletti, Como, ITALYa paolo . pedaletti @ flashnet . it

Re: Atari ST as Dumb Terminal

Hello, David Purton: >I got it working quite nicely using the advice given in a previous response to >my mail. I'm using what I think is a null modem cable (it was just advertised >as a data transfer cable). I'm still hunting around for a terminal emulator >though. It works with the basic vt52

bogomips

Is this normal? I mean, that so low bogomips value. processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 5 model : 1 model name : Pentium 60/66 stepping: 7 cpu MHz : 59.999660 fdiv_bug: no hlt_bug : no sep_bug : no f00

Re: bogomips

Alberto Maurizi wrote: > > Is this normal? I mean, that so low bogomips value. > model name : Pentium 60/66 > cpu MHz : 59.999660 > bogomips: 23.91 I've got an Intel P133. Approximating pro rata using your data gives 23.91 / 60 * 133 = 53. Actual reported value i

Re: Re: RealPlayer -- where can I get the latest?

> yes, perfectly true. > but under MS, I don't know if even under other platform. Actually that was RealJUKEBOX, not RealPLAYER. RealJukebox only exists for Windows that I've heard. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager, Dueling Modems Computer Forum

Re: Monochrome XFIG

Thank you for your detailed message. Unfortunately this didn't solve my problem. I have all the files as you describe but still xfig shows up in monochrome. By the way, this is happenning in a fresh Potato install done about a month ago which I'm upgrading to the latest every weekend. Xfig has nev

Problem with g77

I've been attempting to compile some fortran code for a fairly important project, and have been having trouble. The problem seems to be that there is no libU77, libF77, or libI77, which is a problem - because the program needs the functions date_and_time (or something like that - I'm not the fortr

newbie can't install packages from floppy

What is the proper procedure for installing packages from a floppy? I downloaded them via my NT box (hiss, hiss) at work, but can't seem to read them (dpkg -info, or dpkg --install) when I mount the floppy as type vfat. What additionally puzzles me is that after I get the package I want from the

newbie can't install packages from floppy

What is the proper procedure for installing packages from a floppy? I downloaded them via my NT box (hiss, hiss) at work, but can't seem to read them (dpkg -info, or dpkg --install) when I mount the floppy as type vfat. What additionally puzzles me is that after I get the package I want from the

Re: 2 computers, 2 modems, 2 O/S's

*- On 14 Dec, Cormac McGuinness wrote about "2 computers, 2 modems, 2 O/S's" > Hi > At home my wife and I have two computers (win95 and Debian) and until > recently had one modem. Connectng to the internet was simple, it all > went through the Debian (potato) box. > > However, I have acquired at

Birth announcement

2 new systems were delivered safely last night ! deb1/deb2 (.grw.org) each arrived in about 30 mins. thanks to an effective installation package and despite my worst efforts to RTFM, although both systems are currently underweight compared to their brothers and sisters (486/66 8Mb 320Mb HDD and 48

Re: Problem with g77

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Please help! People are asking to use this program, and I can't > get it to work It doesn't answer your question of why the build is failing, but why not just install the binaries to get the system up and running ? Your users may not be fussy about which comp

Re: newbie can't install packages from floppy

"Darryl Röthering" wrote: > > What is the proper procedure for installing packages from a floppy? I > downloaded them via my NT box (hiss, hiss) at work, but can't seem to read > them (dpkg -info, or dpkg --install) when I mount the floppy as type vfat. Post a transcript of what you tried and th

Debian and QMail?

I currently have a RedHat6 mailserver. I'm considering blowing it away this weekend and installing Debian on it. I use qmail since it works really well for serving currently and I like it's claim to security. Are there any gotcha's I should know about first? Robert :wq! --

Re: running two webservers on the same machine

On Wed, Dec 15, 1999 at 16:35, Shao Zhang wrote: > I would like to know if it is possible: > > to run two different web servers on the same physical > machine binded to two different ip addresses, both of > them using port 80 > > > We have a

Re: Summary: logout/halt/reboot as ordinary user, gnome logout button?

Joe Bouchard wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 14, 1999 at 10:01:22AM +0100, Svante Signell wrote: > > - I want to enable my family to use Linux instead of the other > > OS. Therefore it is important that they can start the computer, run > > it and shut down in a CONTROLLED way. Restart/shutdown are men

Re: Debian and QMail?

Robert, Qmail and uscpi are available only as source packages in debian so you will have to compile and build .deb files locally. Alternately, if you just compile the original source and install in /usr/local, you will have to make a fake package for mail-transport-agent to keep dpkg/dselect/apt

Re: Debian and QMail?

Know of a good HOWTO on either, both solutions? I'm still considering myself pretty new to debian, even if I am converting all my boxes from RedHat (I really like apt-get)... Robert Thus spake Mark Zimmerman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Robert, > > Qmail and uscpi are available only as source pack

mach8 server: blank screen

I've recently had reason to resurrect an old 486 computer as an X terminal. A few years ago, this was my primary computer, and it worked well. The most recent version of linux I ran on it was Debian 1.3, and all was well. I've just installed Debian 2.1 on it, which has XFree86 3.3.2.3a, and now the

Re: tqueue_lock

Quoting Tom Bebee ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Does anyone know what "tqueue_lock" is and what it's function is? I am > trying to run: > modprobe ppa --> results in "/lib/modules/2.2.12/scsi/ppa.o: unresolved > symbol tqueue_lock." > > Any info on what tqueue_lock is or what it is part of would be a

Re: cd-rw for normal user

Use sudo. Sean Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: > > Hi, > > I would like to use my HP CD-RW 8200 as a normal user. > For this I turned the s-bit on in cdrecord/xcdroast/... > Is this the better way or there is a safer one? > With other words: is this safe? > >

Re: HP Deskjet 880C

I use an HP Deskjet 890c, and haven't had any problems. I've been using the 550c print filter, which tends to go a bit heavy on the ink, and the color quality isn't great, but I hardly ever print color. I think there is a filter out there specifically for the 8xx series, but I've lost the url and

Re: Birth announcement

Recompile the kernel, and say No to PCI support, or just don't worry about it as it's not hurting anything. Sean Graham Woodruff wrote: > Could I just ask if anyone out there has any 'post install cleanup' advice, > particularly to remove some of the spurious pci warnings,

gnome .deb ?

Why isn't there a "gnome" package, that's just empty, and has dependancy's set for the stuff you need to use gnome ? This would be especially useful for those of us who tend to install packages like: apt-get install enlightenment without searching through the packages. In the case of gnome, y

SRS 3D & AZT2320

Hi, I have a SRS 3d sound card (assembled for Packard bell), and the chip is AZT2320. When I use AZT2320 compatible driver in win98 and win NT, the sound card works (it's automatically detected as AZT2320 in win98). But When I use OSS (open sound system) driver, my chip is detected as AZT3000 whi

Re: Debian and QMail?

The only possible gotcha I could tell you about is that you'll have to "build" the package. Actually this is very, very easy because the src packages (debian hasn't been granted the right to distribute qmail in binary) build the binary packages and then you just install those. It's really easy.

Re: HP Deskjet 880C

Peter Eades wrote: > Does anyone else use a HP DeskJet 880c, I have vanila slink with the > proposed updates bits. > Please tell me it is well supported by magic filter. Sean Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I use an HP Deskjet 890c [with] the 550c print filter, which tends to > go a bit he

Install by FTP ?

Is it possible to install Debian for i386 over FTP ? Like : I have a PC with an empty disk and a network card, connected to internet over LAN ( let's say it is a 3com 509 eth0 card ). I wan't to download a boot-floppy image , copy it to a floppy, boot from it , set up the network , select an ftp

Re: Birth announcement

On 15/12/99 Graham Woodruff wrote: Could I just ask if anyone out there has any 'post install cleanup' advice, yes do some finds for bad ownership and permissions, I have been finding an alarming number of packages installing all or many of their files with either nonexistent uids or uid/gid

Serial port doubt

Hi all, is there a manner to see if on process is inative at serial ports? I have an ISP and sometimes a user disconnects but the ppp login process is still alive. Besides doing a ps aux | grep ttyC**; kill -9 number of process. Pehaps a script? -- Abraços,

Re: Birth announcement

On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Graham Woodruff wrote: [ snip ] : Could I just ask if anyone out there has any 'post install cleanup' advice, : particularly to remove some of the spurious pci warnings, I am not in front : of the screen now, but the boot gave several warnings about 'ea-???' stuff, : alon

Re: Install by FTP ?

DAVID BALAZIC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is it possible to install Debian for i386 over FTP ? > > Like : I have a PC with an empty disk and a network card, connected > to internet over LAN ( let's say it is a 3com 509 eth0 card ). > I wan't to download a boot-floppy image , copy it to a flopp

Re: Problem with g77

"Paul Keenan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Please help! People are asking to use this program, and I can't > > get it to work > > It doesn't answer your question of why the build is failing, but why > not just install the binaries to get the system up and

Re: cd-rw for normal user

> Use sudo. > > Sean > > Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I would like to use my HP CD-RW 8200 as a normal user. > > For this I turned the s-bit on in cdrecord/xcdroast/... > > Is this the better way or there is a safer one? > > With other word

Re: disabling remount ro on errors

On Tue, 14 Dec 1999, Ethan Benson wrote: : On 14/12/99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : : >they should be. I did a clean install onto this disk. The old disk : >ran for months with the stock kernel. When it wouldn't talk to the : >network, I cp -R'd /etc and /lib from the old drive. : : you

Re: cd-rw for normal user

On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Christopher Judd wrote: > > Have you read /usr/doc/xcdroast/README.nonroot.gz ? noops! thanks for pointing :-| []s, Mario O.de Menezes"Many are the plans in a man's heart, but IPEN-CNEN/SP is the Lord's purpose that prevails" http://curiango.

Re: Using 3com modem Independent Mode (without Windows)

Hi Alberto et al., I too have a 3Com USR 56K Message Plus Modem WITHOUT Windows. Of course, because I use a Macintosh computer... I too send a message "request" for what you call "The Independent Mode"... I too am still waiting for answers... But, I'm able to use that *** 3Com modem to connect

Re: HP Deskjet 880C

Quoting Sean Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I use an HP Deskjet 890c, and haven't had any problems. I've been using > the > 550c print filter, which tends to go a bit heavy on the ink, and the > color > quality isn't great, but I hardly ever print color. I think there is a > filter > out there spe

Re: Problem with g77

"Gary Hennigan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Paul Keenan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Please help! People are asking to use this program, and I can't > > > get it to work [snip] > Paul said he didn't have one of the fortran intrinsic functions, I ^

Re: newbie can't install packages from floppy

Hello, I have downloaded the Files for the nfs-server with WfW 3.11 and short flie names. Then I have kreated a file TRANS.TLB and have installed my stuff from floppy with dselect... This works with SLINK but I have problems with POTATO. Try it, it works Michelle At 06:13 15.12.1999 PST, y

Re: HP Deskjet 880C

I am attaching next an old message that will help you: *** Hi, Checking your printcap-file is the first thing. For HP540 you should install the gs-alladin package and get the tar from ftp://ftp.sbs.de/pub/graphics/ghostscript/pcl3 named hpdj-xxx-tar.gz. In there is a good filter file, wh

Re: Problem with g77

I use g77 regularly and linked it against commercial fortran compiled code as well as C compiled code. If you use the g77 command to link your code it will supply the appropriate run time library. If you link with gcc then you need to include -lg2c in the link. This library seems to provide

Re: Problem with g77

On Wed, Dec 15, 1999 at 10:43:12AM -0700, Gary Hennigan wrote: > I can't help with the build either, but I can make a suggestion. If > your users are going to be doing any serious fortran development get a > commercial Fortran compiler like the one from AbSoft or Portland I've been quite impresse

Re: MS Intellimouse

On Tue, Dec 14, 1999 at 02:04:07PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Someone I know is running potato and has a MS Intellimouse (a mouse with two > buttons and a wheel). What we'd like to be able to do is have the > functionality of both the wheel and an emulated third button. However, we > read

X Server won start

When I go through XF86Setup, I am a little unclear which options to choose. I have a RIVA TNT card and Gateway EV910 monitor. The specs on the monitor are.. resolution 1600x1200 display colors unlimited scanning freq. H 30-95kHz V 50-200Hz I chose several different monito

USR ISDN TA

Hi I have some problems getting the USR ISDN TA to work. Under Windows it works and I get the irq and the io. When I try to insert the module using: insmod hisax.o irq=11 io=0x268 I get something similar to: init_module: device busy By the way - which type is the USR: AVM, Teles or .. Any sugges

Re: bogomips

> Alberto Maurizi wrote: > > > > Is this normal? I mean, that so low bogomips value. > > > model name : Pentium 60/66 > > > cpu MHz : 59.999660 > > > bogomips: 23.91 > > I've got an Intel P133. Approximating pro rata using your data > gives 23.91 / 60 * 133 = 53.

Re: upgrading to slink 2.1r4

scratch wrote: > what is the correct way to upgrade to slink2.1r4 using apt? > > apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade?? > > Doing this only upgrades 12 minor packages on my original 2.1 system. Yes, that's quite right. This is a minor release, fixing only security holes and some y2k problems. -

"unstable" distribution on CD

Hello: Is there any way to obtain a snapshot of the "unstable" Debian distribution (potato at this time, I believe) on CD-ROM? I want to install a Linux with glibc2.1 and the latest xfree, and I'd like to stick with Debian, but my I don't have a network connection that's fast enough for download

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