On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 07:39:23PM -0500, Eric P wrote:
> Hmm... maybe I just fixed it. I uninstalled the 'at' package, and
> apt-get no longer complains.
You may want to try reinstalling it now and see if things continue to
work normally. On my sarge system 'at' and 'apt-get' work perfectly
hap
Andreas Höschler wrote:
> I have setup debian from the latest DVD and rsync with
> apt-get install rsync
> I have set RSYNC_ENABLE=true in /etc/default/rsync.
That is only needed if you are using the "rsync server" and not if you
are using ssh.
> There is an entry
> rsync stream tcp
Kai Grossjohann wrote:
> Same here, I also can't think of another spot. I think that ?dm are
> seriously broken for not starting a login shell on behalf of the user
> logging in.
You might find this bug interesting.
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=250765
Bob
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Nelson Castillo wrote:
> Is this a run-level distinction then? Is /etc/profile is only involved
> in setting up run-level 2?
This has nothing at all to do with run levels.
> > I was unaware of the /etc/environment directory. Is this a Debian thing?
> > A linux thing? An X thing?
>
> Seems debian
Daniel B. wrote:
> Shouldn't global environment variables be set in /etc/environment?
For anything that comes in through PAM. But if it does not come
through PAM then /etc/environment will have no effect. PAM is used
for login shells and such. But not for /etc/init.d daemon startup for
example.
Kevin B. McCarty wrote:
> Please CC replies to me as I'm not subscribed.
> Once a day I get the following email message from the man-db cron job:
> > /etc/cron.daily/man-db:
> > mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/x-terminal-emulator.1.gz is a dangling
> > symlink
>
> This in spite of all the ev
On 9/23/05, Bob Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi!
You're misquoting me here. I didn't ask this:
> Nelson Castillo wrote:
> > Is this a run-level distinction then? Is /etc/profile is only involved
> > in setting up run-level 2?
>
> This has nothing at all to do with run levels.
I was curious
> >What's the url of this Release file? I couldn't find it.
>
> http://www.linex.org/sources/linex/debian/dists/sarge/linex/binary-i386/
>
It seems to be logical, stupid that I haven't found it on my own.
Nevertheless, thank you.
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How would i go about creating a squid package with the --enable-ssl
flag set. I would also want this package to override the default
Debian one.
Thank You
Ben
Nelson Castillo wrote:
> You're misquoting me here. I didn't ask this:
Sorry, that one should have had another set of ">" in front. That
part of the question came from Adam Hardy. I tried to answer both in
one message since I had several messages as it was.
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] napisał(a):
Can you be more specific? Because I have all those keys working.
Therefore I may only assume PEBKAC
you have numlock enabled for every console?
and HOME return you in begining of command promt and END in the end?
i have to press ctrl+a or ctrl+e
Yes, I never had a
On 9/23/05, Jan Schledermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Scott Fitzgerald wrote:Unfortunately I have missed your original posting so I am not quite surewhich parts of the 'connectivity' is your major problem?In my laptop I opted for the Truemobile 1300 wifi solution and loaded the
original windoze d
On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 00:45 -0400, Angelo Bertolli wrote:
> Marty wrote:
>
> > John Hasler wrote:
> >
> >> Marty writes:
> >>
> >>> I was thinking it should be handled during boot by an init script like
> >>> keymap.sh (just a guess).
> >>
> >>
> >> How would that set it correctly for each user?
>
On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 11:19:52AM +0300, Ben Sagal wrote:
> How would i go about creating a squid package with the --enable-ssl
> flag set. I would also want this package to override the default
> Debian one.
$ apt-get source squid
$ vi squid-*/debian/rules
< add desired configure flag to the
On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 02:57:14AM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Jon Dowland schrieb:
> > could shed some ATA/SCSI lld fat I expect). If you are confident
> > enough, patch in inotify and use gamin instead of famd (assuming you
> > are going to have famd on your desktop - most likely).
>
> This wo
I have the next hardware
2 x sata 160 gb (raid 0)(chipset nforce4 CK804)
In the install process, when the system is installing the kernel-image
apears the next error
/usr/sbin/mkinitrd: device /dev/part3 is not a block device
Failed to create initrd image.
dpkg: error processing kernel-image-2.6
Bob Proulx wrote:
> Kai Grossjohann wrote:
>
>>Same here, I also can't think of another spot. I think that ?dm are
>>seriously broken for not starting a login shell on behalf of the user
>>logging in.
>
> You might find this bug interesting.
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?b
Hello *,
On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 10:15:57AM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 11:19:52AM +0300, Ben Sagal wrote:
> > How would i go about creating a squid package with the --enable-ssl
> > flag set. I would also want this package to override the default
> > Debian one.
>
> $ apt
On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 22:50:19 +0100
Joe Mc Cool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sorry, I don't know what iec958 is.
>
> I have used alsamixer and muted all the inputs I can.
iec958 are the optical digital lines and it seems like something that
normally shows on the mixer even if the optical jack wa
[EMAIL PROTECTED], dear friends and sorry for my English.
This is a poor story about my RAID software onto Debian Sarge (Kernel
2.6.8-2-386). Few days ago I founded on /dev/tty12 this message:
end-request: I/O error dev sda sector 2923593
ATA abnormal status 0x00 on port 0xAC07
Machine was freez
Ok, I have found what was my problem thanks to the very kind
maintainer of resolvconf package; for who is interested, details can
be found in this page
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=319992
towards the end of it.
Michal Simovic wrote:
yes, i think i've got everything right cos i've been able to compile and
run one complete program from QT Assistant tutotial called "metric".
i've got all the tools needed and they work, but it seems that there's
just something missing in QT tutotials preventing it from r
1. If you can't fix these problems, you should ask yourself why you're
running testing, and consider stable instead. Do you even need xorg?
2. The synaptics driver is in xfree86-driver-synaptics or
xorg-driver-synaptics. It is used for a synaptics touchpad, commonly
found on laptops.
Well
Seth Goodman wrote:
From: Wackojacko [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 2:52 PM
<...>
A quick look at the kernel-source (via make menuconfig) and google
suggest that PIIX could be the right module. I dont have this mobo so I
cant be sure.
I don't see a 82371 on
hi ya andrea
On Fri, 23 Sep 2005, Andrea Ganduglia wrote:
> Sep 21 17:43:55 backup kernel: md: kicking non-fresh sdc1 from array!
bad thing
> and :~# cat /proc/mdstat
yes sir ri bob...
> Personalities : [raid0] [raid1] [raid5]
> md1 : active raid5 sda3[0] sdd3[3] sdc3[2] sdb3[1]
> 873
On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 18:13:14 -0700
Jeff Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I should have mentioned initially that I had checked out /etc/modules.
> No mention of the orinoco driver there. I hadn't tried adding hostap
> to /etc/modules. Unfortunately, this didn't prevent the orinoco module
> fr
Dom wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Could someone please tell me if I'm doing this right and if not what
> I'm doing wrong as I'm a newbie trying to get acquainted with the
> linux system. I want to make every application that wishes to use my
> /tmp folder on my linux partition to use a custom folder on another
Hi,
I just switched to Debian 3.1 (Sarge) and I'm using NFS over an OpenVPN
connection. There seem to be some problems with this though.
When booting, the mounting of NFS drives seems to occur before the
OpenVPN connection is made. This causes the system to hang during
boot-up. Fail-safe mode a
Mariusz Kruk wrote:
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Hi
last 5 years i've didn't seen any keyboard without this buttons.
And they can't be used for andthing else instead of therir main
function.
Isn't time for debian to enable them by default or to provide ability to
configure them on install.
Marty writes:
> Some init scripts use configation files in /etc/default, and I guess the
> script's stop routine could store the NUMLOCK state upon system shutdown,
> if that state is accessable from the system.
That would set it globally, not for each user.
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--- Kai Grossjohann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Very interesting indeed. So I wonder whether this will show up for
> other desktop environments, too.
>
> I was vaguely aware that it is difficult to do, but didn't think it
> through fully and thus didn't appreciate the full difficulty of it.
No
I am a new user of Debian. My first task after system install is
to install Firefox and Tbird, preferably the latest 1.0.6 or
1.0.7. It's a piece of cake to download and install these from
the mozilla site, but I have no idea how I might then wrap them
with an icon and to get them to show in
Hello,
we've been trying to make a program (ITK/VTK image processing for a university
project) work. Unfortunately, the process needs slightly above 2 GiB of
virtual memory.
Judging from the documentation I've seen, on 32bit systems I should be able to
allocate up to 3 GiB of virtual memory (1
--- Albert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am a new user of Debian. My first task after system install is
> to install Firefox and Tbird, preferably the latest 1.0.6 or
> 1.0.7. It's a piece of cake to download and install these from
> the mozilla site, but I have no idea how I might then wrap
Albert wrote:
I am a new user of Debian. My first task after system install is to
install Firefox and Tbird, preferably the latest 1.0.6 or 1.0.7. It's
a piece of cake to download and install these from the mozilla site,
but I have no idea how I might then wrap them with an icon and to get
On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 07:27:12AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> PEBKAC?
Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair, or user error.
Frank
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Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> PEBKAC?
Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair
Another common computer problem is the "I.D. Ten-T" issue, more commonly
written as ID10T.
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Am Freitag, 23. September 2005 14:45 schrieben Sie:
> However, our test case for this terminates when trying to allocate more
> than 2 GiB of memory, even though we have a really big swap file.
BTW, this is our test case, in case you're interested:
#include
class test {
int t1;
On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 09:11 -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote:
> Albert wrote:
>
> > I am a new user of Debian. My first task after system install is to
> > install Firefox and Tbird, preferably the latest 1.0.6 or 1.0.7. It's
> > a piece of cake to download and install these from the mozilla s
On Friday September 23 2005 15:09, Malte Cornils wrote:
> [...]
> test_p = new test[i];
> [...]
> free(test_p);
Never, ever free() memory allocated with new! Use delete[].
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On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 14:09 +0100, Antony Gelberg wrote:
> Albert wrote:
> > I am a new user of Debian. My first task after system install is to
> > install Firefox and Tbird, preferably the latest 1.0.6 or 1.0.7. It's a
> > piece of cake to download and install these from the mozilla site, but I
Bob Proulx wrote:
> Kevin B. McCarty wrote:
>>Once a day I get the following email message from the man-db cron job:
>>
>>>/etc/cron.daily/man-db:
>>>mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/x-terminal-emulator.1.gz is a dangling
>>>symlink
>
> It would be a lot easier to use the -L option and do it
Antony Gelberg wrote:
Joseph Haig wrote:
--- Albert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I am a new user of Debian. My first task after system install is
to install Firefox and Tbird, preferably the latest 1.0.6 or
1.0.7. It's a piece of cake to download and install these from
the mozilla
when I use command
$xpdf file.pdf
it displayed
Warning: Cannot convert string
"-*-times-medium-r-normal--16-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1" to type FontStruct
so, I run _xfontsel_ to find if my systerm have times pxlsz 16 font, I
didn't find.
before, I had installed x-window-system-core and
gnome-desktop-e
On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 08:44 -0500, root wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 14:09 +0100, Antony Gelberg wrote:
> > Albert wrote:
> > > I am a new user of Debian. My first task after system install is to
> > > install Firefox and Tbird, preferably the latest 1.0.6 or 1.0.7. It's a
> > > piece of cake t
>
> Please read the Debian Reference. One of the main reasons to use Debian
> is to use software packaged from Debian repositories rather than
> downloading generic binaries and source.
>
>
Which may explain why I am having trouble understanding how to install Opera.
I got a .deb of the lates
Last night I installed bittorrent on my server so that I could use it to
download/seed some files but I can't seem to get anything to download via BT.
I've used BT on Windows and other Linux distros (but never debian) without
any post-install configuration but this time it doesn't seem to be worki
dpkg -L bittorrent (or the name of the pkg you installed)
It provides the locations for the docs and binaries/scripts.
-Original Message-
From: Josh Battles [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 10:16 AM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Bittorent question
L
Antony Gelberg wrote:
Joseph Haig wrote:
--- Albert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I am a new user of Debian. My first task after system install is
to install Firefox and Tbird, preferably the latest 1.0.6 or
1.0.7. It's a piece of cake to download and install these from
the mozilla site, b
On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 07:14:20PM +0500, Fritz Brown wrote:
> Which may explain why I am having trouble understanding how to install Opera.
> I got a .deb of the latest version, and am trying to follow the instructions
> on various websites concerning dpkg, and I keep getting messages that I ma
root wrote:
On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 09:11 -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote:
Albert wrote:
I am a new user of Debian. My first task after system install is to
install Firefox and Tbird, preferably the latest 1.0.6 or 1.0.7. It's
a piece of cake to download and install these from the m
michael wrote:
I presume you've checked out the diff between stable and unstable?
I presume you are not going to answer my question.
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kamaraju kusumanchi wrote:
While I agree that it is kinda spoon feeding, RTFM is generally not
encouraged on this list. My take on this is that give the newbie a head
start and he will pick the ropes much faster. Debian already suffers the
image of being unfriendly to newbies and we should at
On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 09:27 -0500, Albert wrote:
> michael wrote:
>
> > I presume you've checked out the diff between stable and unstable?
> >
> I presume you are not going to answer my question.
Well well...
I was trying to be helpful but if all you want is answers to your
original questions,
On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 09:19 -0500, Albert wrote:
> Antony Gelberg wrote:
> > Joseph Haig wrote:
> >
> >>--- Albert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>I am a new user of Debian. My first task after system install is
> >>>to install Firefox and Tbird, preferably the latest 1.0.6 or
>
>
> I see only old versions of firefox and tbird. I want 1.0.6, not 1.0.2.
>
You probably want to go with 1.0.7, as there are a couple of major security
issues fixed.
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when I use command
$xpdf file.pdf
it displayed
Warning: Cannot convert string
"-*-times-medium-r-normal--16-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1" to type FontStruct
so, I run _xfontsel_ to find if my systerm have times pxlsz 16 font, I
didn't find.
before, I had installed x-window-system-core and
gnome-desktop-e
>
> You need to run
>
> sudo dpkg -i [whatever it is].deb
>
Aaaahh. Will try that. Everything else had me doing a dpkg -i | --install
[whatever].deb. And, it really didn't like that "| --install" part.
(Running Woody till I get this thing as a going concern. Then I will upgrade.)
Fritz
-
Piszcz, Justin said:
> dpkg -L bittorrent (or the name of the pkg you installed)
>
> It provides the locations for the docs and binaries/scripts.
Thanks Justin, I'll try that when I go home for lunch.
Also, please don't CC me on replies, I'm subscribed to the list.
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michael wrote:
and insults don't generally inspire people to respond in a helpful
manner, but then you prob knew that already ;)
Insults? I only responded in kind to Antony, who believes
answering a newbie question is 'breast feeding'.
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Thanks very much. I have been thinking about it though.
I have a DNS server already running on silentflame.com. So I edited the Host
File (using WHM), and added a simple a record underneath for a subdomain. Will
this work?
Thanks.
Quoting ke6isf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
On Thu, 22 Sep 2005, Sean
Albert wrote:
michael wrote:
and insults don't generally inspire people to respond in a helpful
manner, but then you prob knew that already ;)
Insults? I only responded in kind to Antony, who believes answering a
newbie question is 'breast feeding'.
Please, not in front of the kids.
W
Antony Gelberg wrote:
I don't think there was any need for a personal insult, just because you
didn't read the documentation, which, especially if you are so
experienced with Linux, you should have thought read.
In your original post, you asked to be pointed to the appropriate
documentation. Y
On Thu, 2005-09-22 at 19:05 -0500, John Hasler wrote:
> Ron Johnson writes:
> > xnumlock
>
> Don't you mean numlockx?
Yes.
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On Thu, 2005-09-22 at 19:01 -0500, Seth Goodman wrote:
> > From: Marty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 6:47 PM
>
> <...>
>
> > Sounds like a good reason to file a wishlist bug report.
>
> I'd be happy to do so. Where do I file this type of feature request, and d
On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 07:27 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> Mariusz Kruk wrote:
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] napisał(a):
> >
> >> Hi
> >> last 5 years i've didn't seen any keyboard without this buttons.
> >> And they can't be used for andthing else instead of therir main
> >> function.
> >> Isn't time
On Fri, 23 Sep 2005, Albert wrote:
> Antony Gelberg wrote:
>
> >I don't think there was any need for a personal insult, just because you
> >didn't read the documentation, which, especially if you are so
> >experienced with Linux, you should have thought read.
> >
> >In your original post, you ask
El Viernes, 23 de Septiembre de 2005 14:08, Julius Schwartzenberg escribió:
> Hi,
> I just switched to Debian 3.1 (Sarge) and I'm using NFS over an OpenVPN
> connection. There seem to be some problems with this though.
> When booting, the mounting of NFS drives seems to occur before the
> OpenVPN c
On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 14:45 +0200, Malte Cornils wrote:
> Hello,
>
> we've been trying to make a program (ITK/VTK image processing for a
> university
> project) work. Unfortunately, the process needs slightly above 2 GiB of
> virtual memory.
>
> Judging from the documentation I've seen, on 32b
Brad Sawatzky wrote:
On Fri, 23 Sep 2005, Albert wrote:
Antony Gelberg wrote:
I don't think there was any need for a personal insult, just because you
didn't read the documentation, which, especially if you are so
experienced with Linux, you should have thought read.
In your origina
Hi,
My friend installed Debian on his computer and I'm supposed to be admining it as
a server. THings are going well (except I keep mistyping shutdown and killing
the server), but there is one problem: the hostname.
He typed Ask4 instead of ask4, which is a problem.
I assume I can change this wi
Wackojacko wrote:
Seth Goodman wrote:
From: Wackojacko [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 2:52 PM
[snip]
isofs_fill_super: bread failed, dev=hdc, iso_blknum=16, block=16
Googling this error (google is always your friend :) ) suggested that
- you may want to tur
Kai Grossjohann wrote:
Bob Proulx wrote:
Kai Grossjohann wrote:
Same here, I also can't think of another spot. I think that ?dm are
seriously broken for not starting a login shell on behalf of the user
logging in.
You might find this bug interesting.
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugr
On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 07:58:12AM -0500, Albert wrote:
> I am a new user of Debian. My first task after system install is to install
> Firefox and Tbird, preferably the latest 1.0.6 or 1.0.7. It's a piece of
> cake
> to download and install these from the mozilla site, but I have no idea how
michael wrote:
On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 09:19 -0500, Albert wrote:
Antony Gelberg wrote:
Joseph Haig wrote:
--- Albert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
struts around mocking newcomers to Debian as if they were newcomers to
Linux. For the record, bonehead,
and insults don't generally inspir
Ron Johnson wrote:
If you send question to the list, you should expect the answer
to only go to the list.
Ok, now I'm confused. I've seen so much "respond this way" on the list
lately. I'm using Tbird, and when I hit "reply" it replies to the
poster only. When I hit "reply-all" it goes t
Dave Thayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The chmlib-tools package contains some low-level type programs which
> can be used to unpack chm and manipulate chm files:
>
Thanks. I neglected to check the TO: line in muy previous replies but
this one as well as one other that closely paralleled yours
[Sorry for replying in that other thread, here is a new one:]
Ok, now I'm confused. I've seen so much "respond this way" on the list
lately. I'm using Tbird, and when I hit "reply" it replies to the
poster only. When I hit "reply-all" it goes to the poster, the list,
and maybe a few others
On Friday 23 September 2005 09:50 am, Sean Whitton wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My friend installed Debian on his computer and I'm supposed to be admining
> it as a server. THings are going well (except I keep mistyping shutdown and
> killing the server), but there is one problem: the hostname.
>
> He typed As
On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 12:25 -0400, Angelo Bertolli wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
>
> >If you send question to the list, you should expect the answer
> >to only go to the list.
> >
> >
> Ok, now I'm confused. I've seen so much "respond this way" on the list
> lately. I'm using Tbird, and when I
On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 09:16:01AM -0500, Josh Battles wrote:
> Last night I installed bittorrent on my server so that I could use it to
> download/seed some files but I can't seem to get anything to download via BT.
> I've used BT on Windows and other Linux distros (but never debian) without
> an
Angelo Bertolli wrote:
[Sorry for replying in that other thread, here is a new one:]
Ok, now I'm confused. I've seen so much "respond this way" on the list
lately. I'm using Tbird, and when I hit "reply" it replies to the
poster only. When I hit "reply-all" it goes to the poster, the list,
Ron Johnson wrote:
On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 12:25 -0400, Angelo Bertolli wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:
If you send question to the list, you should expect the answer
to only go to the list.
Ok, now I'm confused. I've seen so much "respond this way" on the list
lately. I'm using Tbird, and wh
On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 07:48:26PM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote:
__deletia__
> Sometimes xine runs but the display window remains black
> and the sound plays fine.
__deletia__
when that happens to me, i just double click
xine's black window, which then becomes full
screen; then i double click it a
On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 04:50:26PM +0100, Sean Whitton wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My friend installed Debian on his computer and I'm supposed to be
> admining it as a server. THings are going well (except I keep
> mistyping shutdown and killing the server), but there is one problem:
> the hostname.
>
> He
On 9/23/05, Antony Gelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Angelo Bertolli wrote:
> > Albert wrote:
> >
> >> michael wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>> and insults don't generally inspire people to respond in a helpful
> >>> manner, but then you prob knew that already ;)
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Insults? I only resp
On 9/23/05, Antony Gelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Fritz Brown wrote:
> >>You need to run
> >>
> >>sudo dpkg -i [whatever it is].deb
> >>
> >
> > Aaaahh. Will try that. Everything else had me doing a dpkg -i | --install
> > [whatever].deb. And, it really didn't like that "| --install" part
Albert wrote:
I am a new user of Debian. My first task after system install is to
install Firefox and Tbird, preferably the latest 1.0.6 or 1.0.7. It's a
piece of cake to download and install these from the mozilla site, but I
have no idea how I might then wrap them with an icon and to get th
what does this mean? what does this pretain to? does this have anything to do with my embroidery files? [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 9/23/05, Bill Marcum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 04:50:26PM +0100, Sean Whitton wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > My friend installed Debian on his computer and I'm supposed to be
> > admining it as a server. THings are going well (except I keep
> > mistyping shutdown and killing t
Using my browser (online e-mail), when I click on "Reply All", I get both the
list and the original sender in the "To:" line. Is that unusual, compared to
Thunderbird? (I know the same thing happens in Outlook.) I simply delete the
extra addressee and send. I'm not flaming, I'm just wanting
On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 11:52 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
> > On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 12:25 -0400, Angelo Bertolli wrote:
> >
> >>Ron Johnson wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>If you send question to the list, you should expect the answer
> >>>to only go to the list.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>Ok,
>
> Yes. So you should be able to login as root (su), and perform
> dpkg -i package.deb
>
> if you don't want to mess with sudo
>
I was logged into the system as root, and opened an xterm, then tried dpkg.
That should work, if I ignore that "--install" stuff?
Fritz
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On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 10:09:19AM -0700, Chris Martin wrote:
> Yes. So you should be able to login as root (su), and perform
> dpkg -i package.deb
>
> if you don't want to mess with sudo
But he *does* want to mess with sudo. Sudo is a much safer
tool than logging in as root, for reasons that hav
The Mplayer will be a good choice.
On 9/24/05, p <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 07:48:26PM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote:__deletia__> Sometimes xine runs but the display window remains black
> and the sound plays fine.__deletia__when that happens to me, i just double clickxine's bla
Angelo Bertolli wrote:
[Sorry for replying in that other thread, here is a new one:]
Ok, now I'm confused. I've seen so much "respond this way" on the list
lately. I'm using Tbird, and when I hit "reply" it replies to the
poster only. When I hit "reply-all" it goes to the poster, the list,
On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 10:36:02PM +0500, Fritz Brown wrote:
> I was logged into the system as root, and opened an xterm, then tried dpkg.
> That should work, if I ignore that "--install" stuff?
I don't know why they were telling you to do
dpkg -i | --install
-i and --install are the same argu
Stephen R Laniel wrote:
On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 10:36:02PM +0500, Fritz Brown wrote:
I was logged into the system as root, and opened an xterm, then tried dpkg. That should
work, if I ignore that "--install" stuff?
I don't know why they were telling you to do
dpkg -i | --install
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Ron Johnson wrote:
On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 11:52 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:
Doesn't T-bird have a "Reply to list" option?
It does NOT.
Oh. Now I understand your problem.
The solution is to use Sylpheed, Evolution or KMail.
No, the solution is not to let anyone bully
On Thu, 2005-09-22 at 18:43 +0200, Andreas Janssen wrote:
> Hello
>
> Scarletdown (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
>
> > I've had this happen twice. Both times, I aborted the install of
> > course). The first time was when I wanted to install AbiWord, the
> > second time was just a few minutes ago
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