2008/8/13 Oscar Corte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> Hi all
>
> I'm receiving the next error message upon executing configure on a MySQL
> source distribution.
>
> checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... /lib/cpp
> configure: error: C++ preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check
> See `config.log' f
On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 18:04 -0300, martin f krafft wrote:
> If a checkinstall created package somehow modifies a file (like
> /etc/passwd) during the installation, then that file will be removed
> when the package is deinstalled. I think that was the only real
> problem with checkinstall.
>
If yo
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 03:31:22PM -0400, charlie derr wrote:
> Mark Phillips wrote:
>> I don't have a man entry for apt-file. What is it and how do I use it to
>> solve this problem??
>>
>> thanks!
>>
>> Mark
>>
>
>
> aptitude update
> aptitude install apt-file
> apt-file update
>
> and then
>
>
also sprach Aniruddha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008.08.12.1931 -0300]:
> If you don't mind I quote from your own book ^^
>
> > > checkinstall is limited in what it can do. To be precise, the
> > packages it creates can only install files, and checkinstall
> > does not care where it installs them. You
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 03:20:55PM -0400, Mark Phillips wrote:
> Someone wrote:
>> Try to run 'apt-get install python-central'
>
> I tried it, and get this error:
>
> narwhale:/home/mark# apt-get install python-central
> E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to
> c
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 10:06:20PM +, Oscar Corte wrote:
>
> Hi all
>
> I'm receiving the next error message upon executing configure on a MySQL
> source distribution.
>
> checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... /lib/cpp
> configure: error: C++ preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 01:09:56PM -0700, NewDeb wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I am trying to find the exhaustive list of dependencies of a particular
> package (For example, package tomcat5_5.0.30-12etch1_all.deb) From what I
> have read so far, there seem to be many ways of doing this and I tried out
On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 19:39 -0300, martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach Aniruddha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008.08.12.1931 -0300]:
> > If you don't mind I quote from your own book ^^
> >
> > > > checkinstall is limited in what it can do. To be precise, the
> > > packages it creates can only install fi
Shachar Or wrote:
On Tuesday 12 August 2008 21:09, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Zach Uram wrote:
My new install of Debian 4.0 seems to have the wrong time, it says right
now:
Tue Aug 12 09:42:34 UTC 2008
but the correct time is:
Tue Aug 12 05:42:00 EST 2008
How can I set this? I want it set once
also sprach Aniruddha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008.08.12.1958 -0300]:
> I don't know how the debs are packaged, for all I know they can
> wreck my system. Or are are there safety features in place that
> prevents that from happening?
dpkg will prevent them from overwriting files by other packages.
>
Hello,
I have a directory /tmp/foo on my local host alpha.org and I wish to
transfer it to user Bob (/home/bob) in dirctory $HOME/www/bar on
remote host beta.org. How precisely can I do this 1) using scp 2)
using rsync? I would like to see the commands for doing this with both
methods. Ssh is runn
Luca Bruno wrote:
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On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 02:25:46 -0700 (PDT)
darren naidoo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I want to make a live dvd with all the features. What command can i use to copy
my whole hard drive.
I don't think it is a matter of just a com
darren naidoo wrote:
I want to make a live dvd with all the features. What command can i use to copy
my whole hard drive.
There is also live-magic, which is a GUI front-end to live-helper and
uses a subset of the latter to create an iso.
A word to the wise: I would only do this on a fully
On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 20:05 -0300, martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach Aniruddha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008.08.12.1958 -0300]:
> > I don't know how the debs are packaged, for all I know they can
> > wreck my system. Or are are there safety features in place that
> > prevents that from happening?
>
also sprach Aniruddha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008.08.12.2023 -0300]:
> If I understand your correctly I can install deb from any 3rd party provider
> without fear of b0rking my system. If this is true I don't understand why you
> warn
> against checkinstall.
checkinstall is used to create deb fi
On 08/12/2008 03:42 PM, Aniruddha wrote:
On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 22:49 +0300, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote:
If 3rd party deb doesn't contain 'Replaces' field, dpkg will refuse any try to
break any
file owned by existing packages.
That sounds good, but what about a deb created by checkinstall?
Acc
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 5:54 PM, Steve S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I'm running a freshly installed lenny (lenny beta2 netinst) + Gnome and
> Iceweasel 3.0.1.
>
> I have 2 questions:
>
> 1) libflashplayer.so
>
> On my old system (sarge, dist-upgraded to testing), I had flash working wi
martin f krafft wrote:
> If you install a third party deb, you should inspect its contents
> exactly to make sure it doesn't touch files in /etc. Also check the
> hooks. If there are no problems, then it's probably safe.
Did you know that dpkg will not install /var/lib/dpkg/info/* if it's in
the p
On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 20:16:26 -0400
"Carlos Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I don't know what Debian developers did with flash plugin on IW but
> right after doing a fresh install, I am no longer propmted to install
> flash plugin but rather IW appears to have a plugin pre-packaged. It
> d
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 8:53 PM, Brian Marshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 20:16:26 -0400
> Umm... that's swfdec-mozilla.
Why is this now standard on a fresh install of Debian / Iceweasel 3? I
liked the old traditional flash browser plugin. How do I get that on
IW3? Ummm
I think I solved the problem. The files were missing, but also found.
This is what I found:
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/_spe/plugins/kiki ->
/usr/share/pycentral/spe/site-packages/_spe/plugins/kiki ->
../../../../kiki/site-packages/kiki
However, there was no ../../../../kiki/site-packages/k
Hello Debian users!
I recently did a presentation for my Linux users group on how I build my
customized Live CD using Debian Live. I was asked to put my notes on the group
forum so I went ahead and did my best to make it a step-by-step instructional.
I have noticed that there have been a lot of
2008/8/13 Mark Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I have a Debian testing system and I ran apt-get update and apt-get
>
> dist-upgrade. I now have this problem with python and all packages that
>
> depend on python - they cannot be installed (see rhytmbox example
>
> below).
>
>
>
> Setting up python
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 12:27:23PM -0700, NewDeb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard
to say:
> I am a Debian newbie and was wondering what is the difference between the
> NEW and Extra packages that are installed when dpkg -i is used.
I don't recognize those offhand as dpkg output. Could you paste
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 03:45:41PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL
PROTECTED]> was heard to say:
> On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 01:09:56PM -0700, NewDeb wrote:
> > 3) apt-get --download-only install tomcat5 (thinking that this will be the
> > raw list of files which dpkg tries to install)
>
> thi
Well, should'nt 'apt-cache depends' and the control file show the same
dependency info ? Here is the inconsistency I am seeing. Please let me know
if I am interpreting this wrongly -
Control File
---
Depends: kaffe (>= 2:1.1.6-3) | java-gcj-compat-dev (>= 1.0.41-1) |
java2-runtime, libto
On Wednesday 13 August 2008 02:17, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> Luca Bruno wrote:
> > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
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> >
> > On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 02:25:46 -0700 (PDT)
> >
> > darren naidoo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> I want to make a live dvd with all the features. What command ca
Here is the output with apt-get install (albeit with --download-only. You get
the same output if you were to go ahead with the real install) I am trying
to understand the difference between the NEW packages and the Extra
packages. Why are they being called out separately ? Even if some packages
ar
On 08/12/08 23:05, NewDeb wrote:
Well, should'nt 'apt-cache depends' and the control file show the same
dependency info ? Here is the inconsistency I am seeing. Please let me know
if I am interpreting this wrongly -
Control File
---
Depends: kaffe (>= 2:1.1.6-3) | java-gcj-compat-dev (
On Wednesday 13 August 2008 01:54, Zach Uram wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a directory /tmp/foo on my local host alpha.org and I wish to
> transfer it to user Bob (/home/bob) in dirctory $HOME/www/bar on
> remote host beta.org. How precisely can I do this 1) using scp 2)
> using rsync? I would like to
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 09:25:39PM -0700, NewDeb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard
to say:
> Here is the output with apt-get install (albeit with --download-only. You get
> the same output if you were to go ahead with the real install) I am trying
> to understand the difference between the NEW package
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 09:05:09PM -0700, NewDeb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard
to say:
>
> Well, should'nt 'apt-cache depends' and the control file show the same
> dependency info ? Here is the inconsistency I am seeing. Please let me know
> if I am interpreting this wrongly -
>
> Control File
Kent West wrote:
I'm remoted into a sid box, from a sid box, and when I run gramps, it
pops up the following and then just hangs; I eventually have to KILL it.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ gramps
Upgrading INI file
Hspell: can't open /usr/share/hspell/hebrew.wgz.sizes.
Hspell: can't open /usr/share/hsp
I just installed Debian 4.0 and whenever I use find on / I see:
find: WARNING: Hard link count is wrong for ./proc/sys/net: this may
be a bug in your filesystem driver. Automatically turning on find's
-noleaf option. Earli er results may have failed to include
directories that should have been
See, this is a mystery to me, because I am running the commands and viewing
the control file of one single package. Why is the version showing up
separately ?
Ok, so what I am actually after is this - I am going to get an input of
several .deb files (of proprietary software within my company). I
NewDeb wrote:
See, this is a mystery to me, because I am running the commands and viewing
the control file of one single package. Why is the version showing up
separately ?
Ok, so what I am actually after is this - I am going to get an input of
several .deb files (of proprietary software within
Sometimes when I do 'aptitude update' I see that new packages are
available. Is there a log somewhere which will inform me of which new
packages are available?
This is on testing. But I suspect the same will be true for sid.
Regards
Johann
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Inform
On Wednesday 13 August 2008 07:18:19 Stackpole, Chris wrote:
> Hello Debian users!
>
> I recently did a presentation for my Linux users group on how I build my
> customized Live CD using Debian Live. I was asked to put my notes on the
> group forum so I went ahead and did my best to make it a step-
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