I simply don't understand

I've installed gnuhtml2latex and other related latex software. No problems have come out during and after installation. But now when I reboot my laptop at the very beginning of the login this message comes up invariably (by the way, in the meantime I've deinstalled all those packages to no avail):

Re: PDAs

--On Thursday, June 14, 2001 08:37:48 +0100 Patrick Colbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: There are currently no utilities for syncing with Linux but you can There's something called psilin that's supposed to sync, but the docs are in French, so I haven't tried it yet.

Re: apt question

Am 14. Jun, 2001 schwäzte pReJkEr so: > i've installed debian on my comp for the first time > and when i was installing it (base-config) from an ftp site > (ftp.pl.debian.org) apt downloads very old packages ie. xfree-3.3.6 > gnome-1.0 and so on can someone tell me what i have to write

HELP lost my mouse

I'm running X and I just ran the gpm configuration tool. Although I said n for whether I had anything to change, I lost the mouse after it closed. Is there some way I can get it back so I can at least shut my stuff down properly? (Background: xdos of the dosemu package wasn't recognizing my mous

Re: pppoe as user impossible??

The user is member of the right group, I have played with suid root on pppd pon pppoe without success. Any other hints now? Thanks in advance Reiner Stallknecht

ksymoops filling up; find not rm'ing

(Using debian potato..) What causes /var/log/ksymoops to filling this partition with close to 100Meg of data daily? Anacron cleans it out daily with /etc/cron.daily/modutils calling /sbin/insmod_ksymoops_clean but '..clean' uses a find syntax that doesn't work -- or I misunderstand:

Re: HELP lost my mouse

Ross Boylan wrote: I'm running X and I just ran the gpm configuration tool. Although I said n for whether I had anything to change, I lost the mouse after it closed. Is there some way I can get it back so I can at least shut my stuff down properly? (Background: xdos of the dosemu package wasn

Re: apt question

On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 08:51:47PM +0200, pReJkEr wrote: > Ello > > i've installed debian on my comp for the first time > and when i was installing it (base-config) from an ftp site > (ftp.pl.debian.org) apt downloads very old packages ie. xfree-3.3.6 > gnome-1.0 and so on can someone

Re: HELP lost my mouse

Ross Boylan wrote: I'm running X and I just ran the gpm configuration tool. Although I said n for whether I had anything to change, I lost the mouse after it closed. Is there some way I can get it back so I can at least shut my stuff down properly? /etc/init.d/gpm stop (Background: xdos of

Re: Noting in /var/cache/man/cat? ?

> > Subject: Noting in /var/cache/man/cat? ? > Date: Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 03:58:51AM +0300 > > In reply to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Doesn't /var/cache/man/cat? suppose to keep formated man pages? > > On my machine it is empty: > > > > [

Re: Message on console not updated

On 15:27 14.06.2001 Tom Massey wrote: > On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 06:02:57AM +0200, Evrard Nicolas wrote: > > I did an update of my kernel 2.2 -> 2.4, and I expected the message on > > the console (i.e. Debian GNU/Linux tty) to be > > updated but it still Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 Nutella ( Well, I l

Re: Noting in /var/cache/man/cat? ?

> On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 03:58:51AM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Doesn't /var/cache/man/cat? suppose to keep formated man pages? > > On my machine it is empty: > > > > [03:56:42 tmp]$ ls /var/cache/man/cat? > > /var/cache/man/cat1: > > > > I really don't know definitively so someone else

RE: LaTeX beautifier?

Hi Henry, See this thread of mine a few months ago: http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&ic=1&th=6335649f6e9ab975 The functionality is a part of (x)emacs and AUCTeX. Regards, Adam -Original Message- From: Henry House [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 15 June 2001 8:2

Re: HELP lost my mouse

On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 05:32:23PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > Ross Boylan wrote: > > >I'm running X and I just ran the gpm configuration tool. Although I > >said n for whether I had anything to change, I lost the mouse after it > >closed. > > > >Is there some way I can get it back so I can at leas

RE: Sudden problem with bind

I had this a while ago and never found the problem. named would simply either stop working or just unload itself (normally the latter) with nothing in the logs at all. I updated to bind-9.1.1rc1 and all has been fine since with the exception that an nslookup would not return to a prompt after exec

Re: icewm and WM apps

On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 05:39:46PM -0500, Jonathan Daugherty wrote: > Does anyone know of a convenient way to run wm dockapps in icewm? I don't > want mine floating around, nor do > I want them displayed on the taskbar. > Check out icedock at www.maol.yi.org/icewm/icedock/ -- Kevin C. Smith

Re: Noting in /var/cache/man/cat? ?

Shaul Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >It is still empty. What version are you using? I am using testing. Can >it be that you have somehow configured your system for that matter? >If I got it correctly the caching thing is problematic since your whole >/var might be filled up with this stuff, and s

Is debian-user-digest working?

I subscribed to debian-user-digest yesterday morning, and the confirmation process went fine. However I haven't received any digests. Is debian-user-digest broken, or is there a problem (mail gateway issue?) on my end? Note that debian-user mails get through to me fine. - Chris kenrick **

Is debian-user-digest working? (reposted without rich text and disclaimer)

Sorry about the previous post .. I forgot to turn off RTF and the disclaimer got added automatically by the mail server. Anyway, here goes again... subscribed to debian-user-digest yesterday morning, and the confirmation process went fine. However I haven't received any digests. Is debian-use

Re: CPAN updating Perl version

On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 02:18:33PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > It's generally a much better idea to install the debian package if it is > available. > If the module is not packaged (about 270 are), the next best thing is to > use the dh-make-perl, which can build debian packages on the fly out of >

(FWD) rocky 06/14/01:07.02 system check

Anyone have a clue what/why the following? I know logcheck is sending me this, but it looks weird. Paul - Forwarded message from root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: rocky 06/14/01:07.02 system check Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 07:02:03 -04

Help with glib-config

Recently I have tried to install a few applications that are not included in debian packages, and which require compiling. I figured I had everything that was necessary, but the ./configure stage always fails because I don't have the glib-config script that is supposed to be generated by GLIB (the

Re: Help with glib-config

Cam Ellison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Recently I have tried to install a few applications that are not >included in debian packages, and which require compiling. I figured I >had everything that was necessary, but the ./configure stage always >fails because I don't have the glib-config script th

Re: Help with glib-config

Colin Watson wrote: > > Cam Ellison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >What am I missing? > > libglib1.2-dev (try searching on packages.debian.org). If you're > compiling GTK stuff, you'll need libgtk1.2-dev; if you're compiling > GNOME stuff, you'll also need libgnome-dev. > Did it ever help!

Re: CPAN updating Perl version

will trillich wrote: > care to elaborate for us ignorami what exactly dh-make-perl > is, and where to get it? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~>ssh auric.debian.org madison dh-make-perl dh-make-perl |0.6 | testing | source, all dh-make-perl |0.8 | unstable | source, all -- see shy j

Re: Help with glib-config

On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 04:49:34PM -0700, Cam Ellison wrote: > Recently I have tried to install a few applications that are not > included in debian packages, and which require compiling. I figured I > had everything that was necessary, but the ./configure stage always > fails because I don't have

max-lisp-eval-depth exceeded ?

Hi, I am in the process of upgrading from stable to unstable. I get many errors like: install/cxref: Handling install for emacsen flavor emacs19 Lisp nesting exceeds max-lisp-eval-depth emacs-package-install: /usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/cxref emacs19 emacs19 emacs20 failed at /usr/li

Masq Question

I just installed Debian for a server which provides interent access to several machines via a dial up account. Running 2.2r3. I am using the same rules i used running RH for setting up IP Masqing. For some reason certain websites such as LinuxToday will load on the server's browswer, but not

subject missing on some

hi all...   I'm using outlook express to check my mail... Some of the emails don't show the subject ... Anyone else having this problem?   Its probably my email server or my client machine...   Thanks Mike

Re: Masq Question

Hi... What kind of rules do you have in place? Default rules... or did you add your own? Mike - Original Message - From: "Ed Lawson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2001 11:50 PM Subject: Masq Question > I just installed Debian for a server which provides interent acc

Re: transfer between win2k and debian

I talked to a network admin who told me never to expect to get anything like the nominal throughput from ethernet. I think 100Mbps can make the disk the limiting factor. Of course, you shouldn't expect to get the nominal disk performance (which is a peak, burst value) either. :) I would expect f

Re: Why can't I?

On Wed, 13 Jun 2001 16:40:56 +0200, "Auke van der Gaast" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to restrict users' access to only their home dir > (I don't want them to be able to see or reach / or even /home ) > I've already wasted half a day on just that, I'd really appreciate > it if any

Re: ksymoops filling up; find not rm'ing

Steve Taylor wrote: > What causes /var/log/ksymoops to filling this partition with close to > 100Meg of data daily? Anacron cleans it out daily with > /etc/cron.daily/modutils calling > /sbin/insmod_ksymoops_clean but '..clean' uses a find syntax that > doesn't work -- or I misunderstand: >

can not find libssl09

I would like to apt-get install ssh, but went I run apt-get -s install ssh it can not find libssl09. When I run apt-get -s install libssl09 it is not in the list created by apt-get update. Do I need to add somthing to my list, or is there a better way to do this. Linux Newbie Lowell Voelker [E

RE: Why can't I?

I totally agree. I have been involved with Novell for several years, and their default policy when creating a user is that they cannot see anything other than their home directory. It does make setting up a little harder, but then isn't that why the idea of groups was invented? Accounts group ca

Re: can not find libssl09

On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 04:07:19AM +0100, Lowell Voelker wrote: > I would like to apt-get install ssh, > but went I run apt-get -s install ssh it can not find libssl09. > When I run apt-get -s install libssl09 it is not in the list created by > apt-get update. > > Do I need to add somthing to my

Re: can not find libssl09

On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 10:10:38PM -0500, ktb wrote: > On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 04:07:19AM +0100, Lowell Voelker wrote: > > I would like to apt-get install ssh, > > but went I run apt-get -s install ssh it can not find libssl09. > > When I run apt-get -s install libssl09 it is not in the list creat

help

I am trying to install Mozilla but it complains about unreachable files libstc++ - libc6.1-1.so.2 can anyone help? also i want to connect to my LAN(other machines using windows) - all hardware is there from when I used to run Win2000. can anyone supply basic setup info or point me to a sour

Galeon installation (compiling from source) fails: no vfs?

I'm attempting to get the Galeon source compiled (acquired from the sourceforge ftp server), but ./configure fails with this message: checking for GNOME - version >= 1.2.0... yes checking for additional GNOME modules... vfs*** applets library is not installed confi

Running Windows Apps on Linux

Is it possible to run Microsoft Windows Apps (such as Excel etc) in XWindows or is there a utility which allows this ? Ian

Re: Running Windows Apps on Linux

On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 01:30:10PM +1000, Ian Perry wrote: > Is it possible to run Microsoft Windows Apps (such as Excel etc) in XWindows > or is there a utility which allows this ? Take a look at the "wine" package. Also a couple virtual environments "win4lin" and "vmware." hth, kent -- From

Re: Galeon installation (compiling from source) fails: no vfs?

On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 01:40:01PM +1000, Andrew Sione Taumoefolau wrote: > I'm attempting to get the Galeon source compiled (acquired from the > sourceforge ftp server), but ./configure fails with this message: > > checking for GNOME - version >= 1.2.0... yes > checking for additional

Re: help

* Peter Whittam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [140601 18:15]: > I am trying to install Mozilla but it complains about unreachable files > libstc++ - libc6.1-1.so.2 > can anyone help? Try this (as root): # cd /usr/lib # ln -s libstdc++-3-libc6.2-2-2.10.0.so libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2

mirroring just binary-i386 files

Is there a way to mirror just the Debian package files needed for a given architecture? That is, given the pool directories and all the symbolic links to them, is there any way to mirror just the section under /debian/dists/potato and just the files needed for binary-i386? I'm currently us

Re: cdcd sound level

Thomas, Sounds like you have volume settings mixed up. The cd channel has its very own setting then there is the Master setting. Both of these settings have control over the volume of the cdplayer. I generally max the cd then control it via the main - seems to work well. I don't however max

Re: subject missing on some

Mike, This sounds rather evil. Suggest you replace outhouse with a gpl'd copy of kmail or mutt. You will sleep better knowing you have set the bar a little higher . . . On Thursday 14 June 2001 18:40, Mike Egglestone wrote: > hi all... > > I'm using outlook express to check my mail

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