Re: pdf creator

2003-07-08 Thread Roberto Sanchez
--- Zhao YouBing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > OpenOffice 1.1 do can create pdf, but it needs much improvement. > For one can't set the image quality there and the default quality is so > low that one can hardly be satisfied with it. > Most likely this is because you are using Type 3 or Bi

creating deb package of xfree86 4.3 from source?

2003-07-08 Thread Daniel
Hello all, I am setting up sarge with video unsupported by xfree86 4.2. I know I can use the install script, but I wondered if I should turn the source into a deb file so I could remove and upgrade easily at a later date? (presuming it's not easily removed and not worrying about the time it takes a

xserver wont run

2003-07-08 Thread Bobby Lockett
Everytime I boot Linux, it appears to startup fine. After startup, my computer normally loads gdm and the greeter appears. Now everytime I boot, the computer seems like it wants to load gdm, but then I get a black screen with a bunch of grey squares that look like cursors. I dont know if the

Debian rpm

2003-07-08 Thread Louie Miranda
I just installed a rpm deb package manager, I just wonder. If I installed an rpm package where would it go? I mean don't it get confused on two package manager? -- Thank you, Louie Miranda ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troub

Re: Debian rpm

2003-07-08 Thread Jake Johnson
Just out of curiosity...why would you want to use rpm when apt-get is so fast and easy to use? Regards, Jake Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Plutoid - http://www.plutoid.com - Shop Plutoid for the best prices on Rims, Car Audio, and

Re: apt-get update gives an error message

2003-07-08 Thread Jake Johnson
Look at the output on the screen when you run apt-get update. This should give you a fairly good indication which address or line is failing. The worst case is you could always try commenting out each line one by one. Regards, Jake Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] _

some dev files disappeared, mouse doesn't work, no hostname

2003-07-08 Thread Kent West
The other day I shut down my Sid box and left if off for several days. Then when I came back to it tonight, I'm seeing some weird behaviour. For example, the mouse doesn't work, via gpm in console. I can't start X via "startx"; it complains about no /dev/tty0 device. And sure enough, it doesn't

Re: X lockups

2003-07-08 Thread Jake Johnson
Try using a different windows manager apt-get install enlightenment* cd ~/ vi .xinitrc (open file in your home directory) enlightenment ZZ (close file) startx Regards, Jake Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Plutoid - http://www.plut

RE: Debian rpm

2003-07-08 Thread Louie Miranda
Hi Jake, I have downloaded a FileMaker Server Database, its on a rpm archive. So I got curious and wanted to know if i will have some problems using two package manager at the same time. -- Thank you, Louie Miranda ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -Original Message- From: Jake Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: creating deb package of xfree86 4.3 from source?

2003-07-08 Thread Nick Hastings
Hi, * Daniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030709 11:18]: > Hello all, > I am setting up sarge with video unsupported by xfree86 4.2. I know I > can use the install script, but I wondered if I should turn the source > into a deb file so I could remove and upgrade easily at a later date? > (presuming it's n

Re: pdf creator

2003-07-08 Thread Zhao YouBing
Roberto Sanchez wrote: --- Zhao YouBing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribi: OpenOffice 1.1 do can create pdf, but it needs much improvement. For one can't set the image quality there and the default quality is so low that one can hardly be satisfied with it. Most likely this is because yo

Re: Debian rpm

2003-07-08 Thread Nathan Poznick
Thus spake Louie Miranda: > I just installed a rpm deb package manager, I just wonder. If I > installed an rpm package where would it go? I mean don't it get confused > on two package manager? Don't. Mixing package managers is Not Good. Really, the only reason you should install the 'rpm' packag

New to Debian... Problem connecting to the internet

2003-07-08 Thread Hameed R
Hi there, I just installed debain yesterday and I a little problem with my internet connection. I connect alright, but when I try to access I can't. THere is simply no data coming in or going out and my ISP cuts me off after 20 minutes idle. This means that no data went through. I would ap

xine playback is jerky

2003-07-08 Thread Kevin McKinley
I have been able to play DVDs on my testing-sid system until tonight, when I panicked and reinstalled xine: ii libxine1 1-beta9-1 the xine video/media player library, binary ii xine-ui0.9.21-2 the xine video player, user interface Now the video playback is jerky (alth

apt-get update gives an error message

2003-07-08 Thread Rodney D. Myers
My apologies if this already made it to the list, but I have not seen it, and I sent it over 8 hours ago. apt-get update gives the following error message, when I try and use the following /etc/apt/sources.list; E: Malformed line 1 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list (URI) I'm starting over du

Re: cleaning up messy capitalization to transfer a web page fromwintoes

2003-07-08 Thread K S Sreeram
Check out this page: http://linuxvm.org/Info/HOWTOs/win2lin.html Looks like it has what you need Regards On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 22:42, Levi Waldron wrote: > I'm transferring a web page from a wintoes webserver to Debian, and all the > capitalizations are inconsistent between the hyperrefs and

Re: Debian rpm

2003-07-08 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 10:28:33AM +0800, Louie Miranda wrote: > I just installed a rpm deb package manager, I just wonder. If I > installed an rpm package where would it go? I mean don't it get > confused on two package manager? It very well could work with no problems. On the other hand, if the

RE: Debian rpm

2003-07-08 Thread Jake Johnson
It is not recommended to mix the two (apt and rpm) because they can't validate what each one has installed. Regards, Jake Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Plutoid - http://www.plutoid.com - Shop Plutoid for the best prices on Rims, C

Umbrello

2003-07-08 Thread Oki DZ
Hi, I just downloaded Umbrello, and had this: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ umbrello libGL error: failed to open DRM: Operation not permitted libGL error: reverting to (slow) indirect rendering Is it about X config? Thanks in advance, Oki -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject o

Re: pdf creator

2003-07-08 Thread Alan Shutko
Roberto Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Most likely this is because you are using Type 3 or Bitmapped fonts. Switch > to Type 1 fonts (some freetype packages provide Type 1 fonts or the MS > True Type fonts from the contrib or non-free section of the > archive). Last time I checked, OO ou

Re: apt-get update gives an error message

2003-07-08 Thread Nathan Poznick
Thus spake Rodney D. Myers: > My apologies if this already made it to the list, but I have not seen > it, and I sent it over 8 hours ago. > > apt-get update gives the following error message, when I try and use the > following /etc/apt/sources.list; > > E: Malformed line 1 in source list /etc/apt

RE: Debian rpm

2003-07-08 Thread Louie Miranda
> Using alien to convert the rpm to deb is usually the recommended way to install > Redhat software on Debian. This still won't get you around all possible dependency > problems, but at least you won't have to worry about managing two package > databases. I'll consider converting the rpm package

Re: S3 Trio 64/32

2003-07-08 Thread Sharninder Singh-662
> On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 08:47, Jose colmenares wrote: > > I've just installed Debian, but cannot configure the video card. I > > have a S3 Trio 64/32, but don't know what driver to use. The closest > > option that appears when I run dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 it's > > something like s3verig

Re: pdf creator

2003-07-08 Thread Sharninder Singh-662
> > Is it possible to create new, clean .pdf files under linux? If it is, > then which program do I need to use? > ps2pdf . txt2pdf .. basically u need ghostscript and the scripts that come with it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: apt-get update gives an error message

2003-07-08 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Tue, 8 Jul 2003 22:54:24 -0500 Nathan Poznick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thus spake Rodney D. Myers: > > My apologies if this already made it to the list, but I have not > > seen it, and I sent it over 8 hours ago. > > > > apt-get update gives the following error message, when I try and use

RE: Debian rpm

2003-07-08 Thread Louie Miranda
alien --to-deb fmserver-trial-5.5-1.i386-makedeb.rpm Converted!! :) -- Thank you, Louie Miranda ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -Original Message- From: Louie Miranda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2003 11:56 AM To: 'Noah L. Meyerhans'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Debian rp

Re: pdf creator

2003-07-08 Thread Carl Fink
Has anyone got experience with htmldoc? I'm looking for a way to convert HTML to PDF, but htmldoc scrambles tables badly, and HTML2PDF isn't usable with Sarge right now because HTML2PS can't be installed because PerlMagick can't be installed because it depends on an *older* version of perl-base (a

Re: apt-get update gives an error message

2003-07-08 Thread Nick Hastings
* Rodney D. Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030709 13:37]: > On Tue, 8 Jul 2003 22:54:24 -0500 > Nathan Poznick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Thus spake Rodney D. Myers: > > > My apologies if this already made it to the list, but I have not > > > seen it, and I sent it over 8 hours ago. > > > > > >

Re: cleaning up messy capitalization to transfer a web page from wintoes

2003-07-08 Thread Levi Waldron
On July 8, 2003 11:24 pm, K S Sreeram wrote: > Check out this page: > > http://linuxvm.org/Info/HOWTOs/win2lin.html > > Looks like it has what you need This script would be great, except that it doesn't actually work. I first got an error because the end of one line was missing a \. Then it ran

Re: Securing a Debian server

2003-07-08 Thread Alvin Oga
On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, SF deb wrote: > How do they CHECK the servers? Could you not do it yourself? with nmap or > www.pcflank.com will scan your server. pcflank is nice .. but ... like all scanners... it will tell you that: - you have port 25 open on your mail server, - you h

Re: RedHat support of Debian packages

2003-07-08 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 11:19:04AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Our admin has a Redhat box set up and I would like to install > a suite of medical imaging tools that are composed of Debian > packages. Does Redhat support Debian packages (.deb)?

.HTM -> .htm

2003-07-08 Thread Javier Kohen
To the guy that asked how to change the capitalization of his HTML files that he transported from Windows. Sorry I'm not replying your message directly. If all you need is changing the filenames you can do it easily with the following command: $ for i in *.HTM; do mv -i `basename "$i" HTM`htm;

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