getting svn to work in etch...

2007-02-13 Thread Michael Fothergill
Dear Debianists, I am trying to compile a program called ascend that lives in sourceforge.net. There is a svn repository for it. One of the developers told me that if I type svn co https://pse.cheme.cmu.edu/svn/ascend/code/branches/extfn . at the terminal then I should be able to fetch

Re: getting svn to work in etch...

2007-02-13 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 11:45:09PM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > > svn: command not found at the terminal prompt. > $ dpkg -S /usr/bin/svn subversion: /usr/bin/svn You want the package called subversion :-) Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http

Re: getting svn to work in etch...

2007-02-13 Thread Sergio Cuéllar Valdés
2007/2/13, Michael Fothergill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: One of the developers told me that if I type svn co https://pse.cheme.cmu.edu/svn/ascend/code/branches/extfn . at the terminal then I should be able to fetch the files I need to do the compilation. I tried it but I got svn: command not found

Re: StartX problem

2007-02-13 Thread cga2000
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 03:56:05PM EST, Kent West wrote: > conn intel wrote: > >USING $ startx $(which xterm) -- :6 , I am getting the blank screen > >as said and using ctrl alt backspace i am able to return back to the > >command prompt. > >Here is the output of 'lspci' attached with the email.

Re: getting svn to work in etch...

2007-02-13 Thread Michael Fothergill
From: "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: getting svn to work in etch... Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 18:48:38 -0500 On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 11:45:09PM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > > svn: command not found at the terminal prompt. > $ dpkg -S /u

Re: getting svn to work in etch...

2007-02-13 Thread Sergio Cuéllar Valdés
2007/2/13, Michael Fothergill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I installed the package. Thanks. But unfortunately when I tried down loading the package it failed due to a security concern: localhost:~# svn co https://pse.cheme.cmu.edu/svn/ascend/code/branches/extfn . Error validating server certificate fo

Re: getting svn to work in etch...

2007-02-13 Thread Michael Fothergill
From: "Sergio Cuéllar Valdés" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: getting svn to work in etch... Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 18:06:16 -0600 2007/2/13, Michael Fothergill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I installed the package. Thanks. But unfortunately when I tried down loadi

Re: A very simple documentation framework.

2007-02-13 Thread cga2000
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 06:20:24AM EST, Chris Lale wrote: > cga2000 wrote: > >So far my personal doc system amounts to a patchwork of notes and > >cheat sheets in ascii files that I grep when I need to find some piece > >of information or other. > > > >I would like to switch to something a little m

Re: X doesn't start [Was: KDE peculiarities and questions]

2007-02-13 Thread Ken Heard
Kent West wrote: > I'd manually look in /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config to make sure it's right; > sometimes the dpkg-reconfigure routine doesn't "take". The three legal > options for that line, according to "man Xwrapper.config", are > "rootonly", "console", and "anybody". For most situations, you'd wan

Re: X doesn't start [Was: KDE peculiarities and questions]

2007-02-13 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 05:24:24PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > Ken Heard wrote: > > > >xauth: creating new authority file /home/ken/.serverauth.3110 > >/etc/X11/X is not executable > >xinit: Server error > > > This brings to recollection a vague memory; seems like a year or two ago > there was a

Re: removing sound-juicer

2007-02-13 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 09:12:31PM +, John K Masters wrote: > > So would I be correct in saying that using aptitude is safe, using apt-get is > safe, just don't mix the two? > without some practice, yes, don't mix them. There are several threads in the archives of the past few months ad

My Sarge box no longer,connects to the network

2007-02-13 Thread Ken Heard
Kent West wrote: >>> Run "ifconfig" and see if you have an expected IP address; my first >>> suspicion is that zeroconf got installed; it tends to cause problems >>> with networking. Ken Heard replied: >> Ifconfig only reports the loop back IP address. The IP address >> assigned by the gate

Re: ATI driver and kernel 2.6.19

2007-02-13 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 04:11:08PM +0100, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > > Could it be that the radeon module is still loaded? > What is the output of /sbin/lsmod ? > # lsmod Module Size Used by thermal14472 0 fan 4996 0 button

External monitor on Laptop

2007-02-13 Thread Andrew Myers
Hi All, I'm fairly new to the Debian distro but am really enjoying using etch. I have Debian installed on a Dell Latitude d810 laptop, however I generally use it with an external monitor plugged in. Ideally what I'd like to do is to have the laptop display switched off while I have the external

Re: ATI driver and kernel 2.6.19

2007-02-13 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/13/07 19:14, Sridhar M.A. wrote: > On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 04:11:08PM +0100, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: [snip] > # modprobe fglrx > FATAL: Error inserting fglrx (/lib/modules/2.6.19-mas/misc/fglrx.ko): > Operation not permitted Like most other uti

Re: Uncompressing gif Files that May or May Not be gif's

2007-02-13 Thread Martin McCormick
Andrew Sackville-West writes: > Finally, you might think about using a whitelist setup for who is > allowed to send images and then everyone else gets the images stripped > off. You could whitelist all your local users and known others and > then dump any other images right in the blackhole and be

Re: Couldn't load XKB keymap... Can't switch to terminal mode

2007-02-13 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 21:53 +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 21:11:54 -0800, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > > On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 22:40 +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 18:20:55 -0800, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > > [...] > > > > > (edited) > > > > > > >

Re: Apache2 and PHP5

2007-02-13 Thread Matthew K Poer
On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 18:46 -0500, Daniel D Jones wrote: > Running Debian unstable. I got up this morning any my server had crashed. > Haven't figured out why yet but that's another issue. Upon rebooting, > Apache2 failed to start with the following error: > > Syntax error on line 115 of /etc

Re: handling non-native language spam

2007-02-13 Thread s. keeling
michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I was wondering what is a suitable way to handle non-native language > spam? My native language is English and I'm using Evolution to get my > email off IMAP and then it uses SpamAssassin to filter for junk. Are > there S.A. plugins to test for non-native lang

plase help me install printer debian-sarge

2007-02-13 Thread Tuani Panggabean
plase help me install printer debian-sarge. speck printer Hp laser-jet 1320 posision printer : ipaddress 192.168.10.9) thanks Never miss an email again! Yahoo! Toolbar alerts you the instant new Mail arri

My Sarge box no longer,connects to the network

2007-02-13 Thread Ken Heard
Kent West wrote: >>> Run "ifconfig" and see if you have an expected IP address; my first >>> suspicion is that zeroconf got installed; it tends to cause problems >>> with networking. Ken Heard replied: >> Ifconfig only reports the loop back IP address. The IP address >> assigned by the gate

Sarge box network connection broken

2007-02-13 Thread Ken Heard
Kent West wrote: >>> >>> Run "ifconfig" and see if you have an expected IP address; my first >>> >>> suspicion is that zeroconf got installed; it tends to cause problems >>> >>> with networking. Ken Heard replied: >> >> Ifconfig only reports the loop back IP address. The IP address >> >> as

Re: Etch and Sarge X-server failures on two different boxes the same day

2007-02-13 Thread Marty
Ken Heard wrote: A few weeks ago I installed Etch RC1 on a Toshiba Tecra 8000 P2 laptop. The installation itself went without hitch, and I set about customizing it to my taste and installing various applications. For example I replaced Gnome with KDE, as I had been using KDE since I converted to

Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove

2007-02-13 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 02:31:39PM -0700, Wesley J. Landaker wrote: > On Monday 12 February 2007 14:33, Chris Bannister wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 09:50:18PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > > > Dave Sherohman wrote: > > > > On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 02:30:33PM +, Virgo Pärna wrote: > > > > I t

Re: OT: Etch/testing sources

2007-02-13 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 01:31:59PM +, Tyler Smith wrote: > On 2007-02-12, Chris Bannister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >== > > Don't forget to check that your /etc/apt/sources.lst entries point to > > etch and not testing, otherwise you may end up with a broken system once > > etch goes st

Re: Ubuntu vs. Debian (was Re: Introduction)

2007-02-13 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 06:49:14PM +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > I might be a bit of a purist, but I would say that even for one page of > a document you will be better of with LaTeX. Word output might be ok for > a quick fax, but the printed text from a half-way decent printer will > always

Re: udev doesn't create the /dev/cdrom symlinks

2007-02-13 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 10:15:01AM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > I looked at the rules files in /etc/udev/rules.d but couldn't quite > understand how/when the z25-persistent-cd.rules (which is properly filled on > my desktop but not on my Thinkpad) is supposed to be built. Does manually editing t

Re: Ubuntu vs. Debian (was Re: Introduction)

2007-02-13 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 08:35:15AM +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > > Outside of high academia & the publishing industry, that amount of > > precision doesn't really matter. > > Outside of high academia & the publishing industry, most people don't > care how ugly their printed documents look.

Re: removing sound-juicer

2007-02-13 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 09:01:29PM +, John K Masters wrote: > I haven't tried anything yet. I'm using apt-get as I've > never really got along with aptitude. Installation was done with a netinstall > CD and just desktop environment chosen. Not that bothered about keeping or > removing sound-

Re: old hardware, newer Debian [SOLVED]

2007-02-13 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 05:35:59PM -0800, Mike McClain wrote: > > Mike McClain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > I just installed sarge on a box I've happily been running woody on Couldn't you just upgrade? > > > for 5 years and find I can't run X cause the Trident tvga 9800b xorg might support the T

Re: Using courier-imap (was Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove)

2007-02-13 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 09:03:13AM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 11:01:56PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > Personally, I don't like clutter in my $HOME, so I changed the courier > config to use ~/.Maildir instead of ~/Maildir. Thats only for ls -l asthetics? > > To c

Re: Using courier-imap (was Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove)

2007-02-13 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 10:22:46AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > Also, my mail data flow is: > fetchmail -> postfix -> SpamAssassin -> maildrop -> Maildir. > > I fetchmail my wife's mail the same way. Windows Tbird looks over > the LAN to find it. No sweat. Ahh, across the LAN. :-) Networking :-(

Re: Introduction

2007-02-13 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 12:45:03PM +0100, Joe Hart wrote: > I didn't really like it because I have this thing against gnome. I had > no idea that there were alternatives, but it ran well, and piqued my Me neither. Now happily(?) running fvwm. Check it out. Look at fvwm-themes, fvwm-crystal and ch

Re: [Debian-User] re: Network Install

2007-02-13 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 11:03:17AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > aptitude install python > > and away it goes... when done you have python. > > how about tcl? > > apt-cache search tcl > > this produces 217 packages matching 'tcl', hmmm... lets narrow that > down by searching just the n

Re: Ubuntu vs. Debian (was Re: Introduction)

2007-02-13 Thread Miles Fidelman
Chris Bannister wrote: If an M$ Word user has the skill to automatically generate a TOC from a reasonably sized document, then I take my hat off to them. I have seen the results of an unsuccessful attempt, unfortunately it was a team report. :-( There are a lot of maschoists out there. If I see

Re: Runaway BIND

2007-02-13 Thread Andy Smith
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 10:17:49AM -0500, Rich Johnson wrote: > What is surprising is that such an event brought down _another_ machine. > > Would it be fair to say that excessive loggers are ill-behaved? It sounds like your bind was misconfigured and didn't know what the IPs of the root servers

flash plugin

2007-02-13 Thread Mark Grieveson
Hello. I'm having problems with the flashplugin-nonfree package. Both installing it, and trying to reconfigure it, fail. It attempts to download an older file that does not exist. I then downloaded the recent file from the adobe site, but the flashplugin-nonfree package did not recognize it.

Re: ATI Proprietary driver fglrx problem with Radeon 9200SE

2007-02-13 Thread Jonathan Kaye
][ wrote: > Hi, > > I've always use the fglrx-driver package for my ATI Radeon 9200SE card. > But it never occurs to me that the driver is not working properly. > > According to "How do I know fglrx is installed correctly?" > http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Frequently_Asked_Questions# > How_do_

Re: Ubuntu vs. Debian

2007-02-13 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 23:08:13 -0500, Miles Fidelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Oh come on. At the company we just left, we generated 2-3 proposals > a month, each at 25 pages or so, using Word. There are lots of > reasons to dislike Word, but get real, it's usable and it works. I've a

Re: icedove and NNTP

2007-02-13 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/13/07 15:23, Easthope wrote: >> Debian Users, > >> Xfce4 and icedove are installed on a machine here. > >> In icedove, I added a news group account and subscribed >> it to debian-user. Still no messages appear in the inbo

Re: Using courier-imap (was Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove)

2007-02-13 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/13/07 21:45, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 10:22:46AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: >> Also, my mail data flow is: fetchmail -> postfix -> >> SpamAssassin -> maildrop -> Maildir. >> >> I fetchmail my wife's mail the same way. Win

Re: Sarge box network connection broken

2007-02-13 Thread Kent West
Ken Heard wrote: > Kent West wrote: > >>> What happens when you run "/etc/init.d/networking restart"? >>> > > Returned: > > Setting up IP spoofing protection: rp_filter. > Reconfiguring network interfaces...Failed to bring up eth0. > done. > > Then a series of messages scrolle

Re: flash plugin

2007-02-13 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Mark Grieveson wrote: > Hello. I'm having problems with the flashplugin-nonfree package. Both > installing it, and trying to reconfigure it, fail. It attempts to > download an older file that does not exist. I then downloaded the recent > file from the adobe site, but the flashplugin-nonfree p

Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove

2007-02-13 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/13/07 21:45, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 02:31:39PM -0700, Wesley J. Landaker wrote: >> On Monday 12 February 2007 14:33, Chris Bannister wrote: >>> On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 09:50:18PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: Dave Sheroh

Re: Ubuntu vs. Debian (was Re: Introduction)

2007-02-13 Thread Stephen
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 04:59:45PM +0100 or thereabouts, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: [ ...] > To take this further, one would have to argue about what is ugly. There > is a continuous scale from very ugly to very beautiful. Products like M$ > Word cover the range from very ugly to somewhere in be

Re: Ubuntu vs. Debian (was Re: Introduction)

2007-02-13 Thread Stephen
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 04:46:35PM +1300 or thereabouts, Chris Bannister wrote: > If an M$ Word user has the skill to automatically generate a TOC from a > reasonably sized document, then I take my hat off to them. I have seen > the results of an unsuccessful attempt, unfortunately it was a team

Re: professional data recovery services for ex3 filesystem

2007-02-13 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Greg Folkert wrote: > On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 18:48 +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > RC bugs in stable right now is O (zero) > > RC == Release Critical (or so I've been told) > > Since Stable is already released... well you draw the conclusion. Just search bugs.debian.org to convince yourself o

Re: Mail Delivery (failure [EMAIL PROTECTED])

2007-02-13 Thread info
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Re: flash plugin

2007-02-13 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 00:30:52 -0500 Mark Grieveson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello. I'm having problems with the flashplugin-nonfree package. > Both installing it, and trying to reconfigure it, fail. It attempts > to download an older file that does not exist. I then downloaded the > recent f

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