Harald Boeing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
HB> I'm running Debian 2.0 and want to do some backups from time to
HB> time. At the moment a floppy streamer seems to be the cheapest
HB> possibility, but looking at the current howto's I couldn't figure
HB> out if the Iomega Ditto 7GB is supported. (Is
Max <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
M> Also, I'll need to mount AFS on this machine. Can I compile AFS as
M> an installable module or do I need to compile it into the kernel?
M> In either case, can I use the latest development kernel?
AFAIK the only "real" port of Transarc's AFS client to Linux is
eyal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
eyal> Just installed Hamm, and was surprised to not find zip. A search
eyal> through the packages list did not help. What am I missing?
Both don't meet Debian's free software standards, so they're in the
non-free distribution. They can be downloaded from ftp.deb
Kenneth Scharf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
KS> I read the sources to the latest ftape package (I downloaded the
KS> tarball from the ftape site) and it DOES NOT SUPPORT FORMATING
KS> TAPES.
(for definitions of "it" such that "it" is the Iomega 2GB and Ditto
Max drives. ftape formats tapes fine o
Default Debian Reader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Default> I have a question regarding RAM, does linux recognize
Default> anything over 64M of ram? I have 128M on my machine and this
Default> is what top reports...
Install the doc-linux-text package, if you haven't already, and read
/usr/doc/HOW
R Chris Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
RCR> I regularly get an error message in my xterm that says that an
RCR> application can't allocate the color map if, say, Netscape is
RCR> already running. Also xcolorsel won't run because it says that
RCR> there are only 233 colors available where there
Mike Nachlinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
MN> Printing under any 2.1.xx[x] kernel doesn't happen.
MN> This is using the parallel port. Kernel is configured to use
MN> the parallel port, support IEEE1284 status readback - set, unset.
MN> in lilo.conf append="lp=0x378,0" or append="lp=0x3bc does n
VB Student <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
VS> Newusers Question:
VS> When I type apache at the prompt I get:
VS>
VS> The_Lair:/# bind: Address already in use
VS> httpd: could not bind to port 80
You're probably already running an HTTP daemon (web server). Look at
/etc/init.d/apache to see how the
Stefan Gödel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
SG> I'm trying to send a mail with some big attachments. I use xemacs for
SG> mail reading and writing and it splits this message into several
SG> pieces. This is a problem, because the mail reader of the recipient is
SG> not able to get those pieces toget
Stefan Gödel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
SG> I'm using VM. Does this really matter? I always felt that reading
SG> and writing / sending of mail are very distinct from each other
SG> (at least in xemacs). I'm using the usual mail mode with mime
SG> extensions to write my mail.
I'm not sure how d
Matthew D Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
MDM> I have been running my linux with approx. 100 MB swap partition,
MDM> all how to's and books say no swap partition bigger than 16 MB.
MDM>
MDM> What's the story, does linux REALLY not use any more that 16MB
MDM> swap?
The correct story is that Lin
A D Y Cheng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
ADYC> I try the command to test my email connection 'telnet localhost
ADYC> 25', but it gives me the error:
ADYC>
ADYC> Trying 127.0.0.1...
ADYC> telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
Are you running an SMTP daemon (sendmail,
Tomas Petersson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
TP> The class I try to run is in the current directory.
TP>
TP> CLASSPATH=/usr/local/java/classes
Add '.' to your CLASSPATH.
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Ed Cogburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
EC> I'm interested in trying the latest kernel 2.1.105, but in the
EC> docs it has a list of required programs that you need to use it.
EC> Of that list, I am missing 4 of them.
EC> PROCINFO
EC> AUTOFS
EC> NCPFS
EC> PCMCMIA-CS
EC>
EC> The las
Bob Hilliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
BH> How can I use gnus to review old (previously read) mail that is
BH> held in the gnus folders? My .gnus file is set up for the
BH> nnfolder secondary-select method.
Use C-u RET to enter the group from the *Group* buffer.
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Bob Hilliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
BH> If I use R or r to reply to a message, it is sent only to the
BH> author. How can I make gnus automatically reply to the list?
Use F or f to follow-up, R or r to reply to the author only.
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G Kapetanios <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
GK> I decided to upgrade to e2fsprogs 1.10-17. Mistake.. It wants an
GK> newer version of dump which requires libe2p2. I can't find this
GK> package anywhere. Can anyone help ??
Running 'dpkg -s e2fsprogs' shows that e2fsprogs Provides: libe2p2, so
it sho
Neil Cheshire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
NC> Could someone please clarify for me about all the Debian
NC> releases. I currently run Debian 1.3 which is bo , right? I
NC> haven't really done much to my system so was going to reinstall
NC> with Debian 2.0 which is hamm , ok so far?
All good so far
Brian Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
BM> I've downloaded netscape's tarball, and unzipped it with gunzip.
BM> Now how do I access it to run the ns-install script? I guess I
BM> need a basic lesson in "What's a tarball? Is it anything like a
BM> tarbaby?" Is it like a zipped file in dos?
A
ssnow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
s> I was wondering if the Debian Package for Exim 1.90 has come out
s> currently the only one that i see avalible is 1.62, can someone
s> please point me in the right direction.
hamm (the upcoming Debian 2.0 release) has Exim 1.92.
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Dennis Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
DD> The first issue, do I have a swap partition activated and mounted?
DD> When I boot I get the message "activating swap partition" but
DD> shouldn't it be in 'etc/mtab', 'proc/mounts', and 'mount -t swap'?
Swap partitions don't get "mounted" the way part
Oskar Liljeblad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
OL> Aren't setuid shell scripts supposed to be executed with EUID=1?
OL> They aren't on my system. I can't see what's wrong here...
setuid-root (and probably setuid-anything) scripts run with the uid of
the caller; they ignore the setuid bit.
OL> Some
Tod Detre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
TD> Does anyone know where I can get binaries/source for kerberos v4?
TD> I need 4 not 5 'cause 5 is not entirely backwards compatible.
There are krb4 packages on nonus.debian.org. FWIW, I was using the
krb4 compatibility libraries with krb5 for a while and
Tod Detre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
TD> ok I go the packages for kerberos 4, but when I try to install the
TD> user one it complains that I don't have libcomerr2. I can't seem
TD> to find it anywhere. Any ideas?
e2fsprogs_1.10-17 Provides: libcomerr2. Installing a current version
of the e2fspr
Katharine Osborne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
KO> I'm trying to install the xlib6g package and am
KO> getting the following error:
KO>
KO> dpkg: error processing xlib6g_3.3.2.2-1.deb
KO> (--install):
KO> trying to overwrite
KO> '/usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6.3', which is also in
KO> package xlib6
K
Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
PSG> Wouldn't it be great if there was a Debian package to list,
PSG> decribe and index all other packages?
PSG> Does such a tool already exist? I've been using Debian for over
PSG> a year and I'm still surprised to find out what's available!
How ab
Alex Kwan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
AK> the alien needs the "rpm" and the "rpm" needs the libc5, (I
AK> checked these on www.debian.org/Packages) Hamm is using the libc6,
AK> Will the libc5 and libc6 happy to-gather?
If you install the Hamm libc5 package, everything will be happy. In
many case
timothy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
t> How would I get apt to upgrade the packages that I have from slink
t> as well as those from hamm? [And would doing so make it replace my
t> hamm packages with slink ones if they are newer versions?]
Relevant lines from my sources.list:
deb http://llug.sep.
I have a kind of smallish / partition (32MB, about 8MB
user-available), and a much larger /usr partition (800MB, ~100MB
user-available). So I'm trying to build a kernel package in
/usr/local/src/linux. The kernel itself builds fine, and I can watch
a source tarball being built under debian/tmp-s
Lewis, James M <" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> writes:
LJM> You probably ran out of space in /tmp. Try
LJM>export TMPDIR=/var/tmp
LJM> (or the equiv in your shell).
Doesn't work; I still run out of space in /.
LJM> If that doesn't work, you might try making /tmp a link to
LJM> somewhere with more
Lewis, James M <" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> writes:
LJM> You might try to look for big increases in space
LJM> usage while it is running. find has the -xdev option to keep it
LJM> from following mount points. du also has the -x option that does
LJM> the same thing. Maybe doing a du before running dp
phillip Neumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
pN> Im not so sure about what packages do i need to run the "make"
pN> command. Which one do i need ??
The quick answer to your question is just the 'make' package. If
you're actually going to try to compile programs using make, though,
you probably w
Gregory Guthrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
GG> When running dselect (updating bo --> hamm), I get some items with
GG> a status of
GG>installed_version available_version
GG>--- xxx xxx
GG>
GG> Why is there an installed version indicated, when it shows
Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
KW> I keep seeing references to using apt-get instead of dselect (or
KW> maybe somehow in conjunction with dselect). I'm running hamm
KW> (2.0.34), but when I type "apt-get" or "apt-get update" at the
KW> prompt (as root), I get "command not found". When I try
Richard L Alhama <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
RLA> On 22 Jul 1998, David Z. Maze wrote:
DZM> apt-get is in the apt package, in slink. You shouldn't have any
RLA>
RLA> What is slink? Symlink? ftp site?
The Debian release after hamm (presumably, Debian 2.1 when it g
MacKenzie, Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
AM> My only real problem is the methods of keeping current. I install
AM> packages using dpkg -i . I find the .deb packages on
AM> the ftp site or other sites, download them then install. If there
AM> are dependencies, I go looking for the required p
Jeremy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Jeremy> The only thing is you have 64 megs of swap on each drive. This
Jeremy> is a total of 256 megs. Linux will not make use of more than
Jeremy> 128 megs, unless you're running a 2.2.x kernel.
This is wrong: Linux will not use more than 128MB of a single swap
Shao Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Shao> I am having trouble to use footnote in a paragraph mode.
Shao>
Shao> \paragraph { hello world\footnotemark }
Shao> \footnotetext{hello world}
I'd do something more like
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
Hello, world.\footnote{Thanks to Ke
Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Pollywog> I need to start Abacus Sentry when my machine boots, but
Pollywog> unlike other apps that will start from /sbin/setup.sh Sentry
Pollywog> just crashes when I do it that way.
As was discussed earlier, that script isn't inteded to be used that
way. Yo
Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Pollywog> I wanted to put '/etc/init.d/network start' in my
Pollywog> /sbin/setup.sh on my ThinkPad, but it does not have this
Pollywog> file. Where can I put this command to see if it can get my
Pollywog> network recognized after I start the machine?
/etc/rc
Ben Cornett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
BC> A number of you have offhandedly remarked that you believe Debian
BC> to be technically superior to the RH distribution. I was
BC> wondering if anyone would care to elaborate on that a bit for me.
-- Debian packages only depend on other packages. AFAIC
MallarJ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
MallarJ> In a message dated 3/1/99 3:28:07 PM Central Standard Time,
MallarJ> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
lls> For now, I would prefer to simply get a CLI login and do startx
lls> when I want it.
MallarJ>
MallarJ> This kind of annoyed me to I actually went back
Tam Ma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Tam> I am new at Debian and I am kind confused about the Apt, Dselect,
Tam> and Dpkg programs. Slink was released earlier today and it has:
Tam>Apt (part 1), the new backend to dselect
Tam>Apt (part 2), the new commandline
Tam> I know Apt will soon have a
John Cuson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
John> how does one resolve a dependency problem that results because
John> gnome-bin won't install because libgnome31 isn't installed, and
John> libgnome31 won't install because gnome-bin isn't installed? can
John> someone offer me a hint here?
You can use A
Adam Shand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
AS> i found xfontsel and found a font i like (looks great in the
AS> preview in xfontsel) but when i tell Eterm to use it, the spacing
AS> between the characters is *huge* making the term nearly as wide as
AS> my entire screen. since the main point of doing t
Shao Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
SZ> I just tried top, but it seems it is showing the same info as free
SZ> which is included the memory cached but can be freed if another
SZ> program requests in the memory used section.
SZ>
SZ> What I want to know is the exact amount memory used by system, I
Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Pollywog> vi is acting weird, and I just discovered that vi on my
Pollywog> system is not really vim. Isn't vi really just a symlink to
Pollywog> vim on most systems?
On "most" Unix systems (including the Suns and SGIs I use on a routine
basis) 'vi' is a pre
Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
MF> How do I get help on c/c++ functions, including the library (.h) file
MF> for them?
MF> man query etc. ? (how do i search for it?)
Functions in the standard C library generally have man pages in
sections 2 or 3.
Also, a terminology clarification that w
Christian Lavoie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
CL> I need to write down the output (actually, I need the error
CL> message) that the startx command gives me. (The nice 'startx >err'
CL> doesn't work...)
There are two places program output can go: "standard output" and
"standard error". 'cmd >file'
Austanners Wet Blue Pty Ltd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
A> I also wish to compile my own kernel (make xconfig) but because i dont know
A> the specs for my vid card, monitor and sound card (soundblaster 16 clone i
A> think) will i run into trouble?
You don't need to use 'make xconfig' to configure
rod peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
rod> Could someone please send me an example dpkg command with flags
rod> and such.
There are many such simple examples on the dpkg(8) manual page.
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Gregory T Norris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
GTN> Periodically I get the following messages in my logfiles:
GTN> modprobe: can't locate module sound-slot-1
GTN> modprobe: can't locate module sound-service-1-0
GTN>
GTN> How can I tell for certain which modules I need to add an alias
GTN>
Tom Lineman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
TL> My second question has to do with small shell scripts. I was
TL> reading a book on Unix the other day, and it talked about
TL> "aliases," which it stated only ran under Berkely *nixes. I'm
TL> guessing that means FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, or BSDI, but c
Stavros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Stavros> ianyone knows why i can't find ulimit in debian potato?
Because it's a builtin in various Bourne-style shells (bash, zsh,
pdksh), and therefore doesn't have its own package?
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Brian E Lavender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Brian> When I telnet into another machine and I try to run a curses
Brian> based application I get the below error. Say I run mutt
Brian> Error opening terminal: xterm-debian.
See /usr/doc/xterm/README.Debian for more information on why
xterm-debian is
Seth R Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
SRA> I get this error on my potato i386:
SRA> dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/dpkg_1.4.1.8_i386.deb
SRA> (--unpack):
SRA> trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/man1/dpkg-buildpackage.1.gz', which is
SRA> also in package dpkg-dev
Among the pac
Brian Boonstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Brian> How can I assign keys to Cut, Copy, and Paste in XEmacs.
As in C-w (kill-region), M-w (kill-ring-save), and C-y (yank)? You
can add other keys with global-set-key; see the sample .emacs file
(Help/Samples/Sample .emacs) for examples.
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bwarsing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
BW> can anybody tell me to set the line wrap to 80 in vi?
Try ':set wm=76' to set it to 76 chars.
BW> i can't find this type of info anywhere.
I generally use vim, which has a ':help' command which is quite useful.
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Nuno Carvalho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
NC> Sometimes when compiling I get errors not having some headers
NC> files or cause they're older.
NC> Wouldn't be better to do a symbolic link on /usr/include !?
No, not really. See /usr/doc/libc6/FAQ.Debian.gz for the reasons why,
and what to do inst
Christian Dysthe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
CD> I was looking at running processes. Found these:
CD>
CD> 199 2 S0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty2
CD> 200 3 S0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty3
CD> 201 4 S0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty4
CD> 202 5 S0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty5
CD>
shaleh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Also, is the only way to avoid "broken words" at the end of a line?
SEP>
SEP> And yes, hitting enter is the only way.
No it's not...in vim, I routinely do
:set wm=4
which sets a "wrap margin" of 4 characters at the end of each
(80-character) line,
Jason Stokes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
JS> In order to get sound support for my SB Ensoniq AudioPCI 32, I
JS> compiled a custom 2.2.3 kernel with make-kpkg and installed it.
JS> Alas, the new module interface isn't functioning correctly.
(Actually, it sounds like kmod is in fact DTRTing.)
JS> C
homega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
homega> Fine, I downloaded vim and kept nvi as well (for now, just
homega> while I'm learning). but I suppossed there should be a
homega> configuration file, either general for all vi programs, or for
homega> nvi or vim in particular ... the problem is I haven't
Sean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Sean> I've been thinking about giving emacs a look see, as it seems
Sean> that a zillion people out there use it, and I do like some of
Sean> the features I've heard about. I went and took a very cursory
Sean> glance at the FAQ, and some of the online manual, and
homega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
homega> ~$ vim
homega> :help
homega> Sorry, help file "/usr/share/vim/doc/help.txt" not found
homega>
homega> in fact there's not vim/ (nor vi/, nor nvi/) dir within
homega> /usr/share, and I haven't been able to find that help.txt so
homega> far. Likewise, vim
William R Pentney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
WRP> I'm currently compiling the 2.2 kernel for my slink system (it's
WRP> relatively stable, right?), and I used "make bzImage" to create it. The
WRP> README says to copy zImage to the current kernel image, but should I copy
WRP> bzImage instead? (I ju
homega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
homega> after compiling a new kernel, `make mrproper', `make config', `make
homega> dep', and `make clean', I run `make modules' with this result:
homega>
homega> homega:/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot# make modules
homega> make: *** No rule to make target `module
John Stevenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
JS> If you want a little bit of safety you can alway add this to
JS> your .bashrc (or what ever shell profile you source)
JS>
JS> alias rm='rm -i'
JS>
JS> This will ask you to confirm your deletions, so long as you do
JS> not use the -f option. The -f o
mxu1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
mxu1> I have to upgrade my jdk1.1.7 to jdk1.2 to mmet the requirement
mxu1> of my course.
mxu1>
mxu1> Has anyone made a jdk1.2 debian package?
I don't think there's a Debian package of it yet. I've got the binary
package from Blackdown installed in /usr/local
Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
RJK> If I setup netscape to use document-specified fonts, on some
RJK> (parts of) pages, the font wil be very ugly and almost impossible
RJK> to read. It looks a bit like a picture in netscape that has not
RJK> finished loading yet.
RJK>
RJK> Ple
Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
MM> Is there a quick and painless way to translate the output from
MM> man into plain text?
zcat /usr/man/man1/man.1.gz |nroff -man
nroff -man /usr/man/man1/man.1
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"Hey, Doug,
Paul Nathan Puri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
PNP> What client software do I need to run X over the network?
Any X client (e.g. xterm, fvwm, xemacs, netscape, ...) can run
remotely over the network. You also need an X server, which is the
same X server you'd install to run X locally. It's also us
Allen B Riddell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
ABR> I'm using apt-get (with ftp.us.debian.org unstable main contrib
ABR> non-free) and trying to install gnome, but nothing seems to be
ABR> working.
When I installed it last night, some of the crucial pieces were still
sitting in the 'Incoming' directo
rich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
rich> Today I tried to set up module support for my kernel and
rich> "modulize" a bunch of stuff, and I'm having some
rich> problems. First, from reading the
rich> /usr/doc/kernel-source-2.2.1/debian.README file, I thought that
rich> 'make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.
Chad A Adlawan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
CAA> i was just wondering, what exactly will happen if i change the
CAA> default run level specified in /etc/inittab from init 2 to init
CAA> 3, or 4, or 5 ?
Runlevels 2 and 3 are equivalent, as are 4 and 5, but the latter pair
only runs getty on tty1. Y
Kenneth Scharf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
KS> Doesn't RedHat use this to determine whether to start XDM or not?
Yes; runlevel 5 starts xdm, other runlevels don't. You can fairly
easily set up Debian to work this way as well. By default, though,
xdm gets started in every runlevel if the xdm pack
roddie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
roddie> I'm experimenting with making my first .deb.
roddie>
roddie> The howto's tell me to run build. I can find build anywhere. I
roddie> have all the packages. debmake, dpk-dev, dh-make, debhelp but
roddie> I can't find it.
'build' changed its name in versio
spoiler freeserve co uk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
spoiler> I recently purchased the O'Reilly Xlib Programming Manual
spoiler> with the aim of learning how to write X applications. My
spoiler> problem though is I can't get basicwin.c to compile up at
spoiler> all!
(You probably don't want to writ
Mark Tucker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
MT> I'm trying to upgrade a debian 2.0 (hamm) system to 2.1 (slink).
MT> I've got 2.1 on a mounted CD-ROM and apt installed correctly on
MT> the system. The problem I am having is getting "apt-get
MT> dist-upgrade" to work. When I run the command (as root)
franck legall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
FL> I am trying to compile messenger. When I do ./configure I have got :
FL>
FL> [EMAIL PROTECTED]/tmp/messenger-0.0.3] $ autoconf
FL> [EMAIL PROTECTED]/tmp/messenger-0.0.3] $ ./configure
FL> loading cache ./config.cache
FL> checking how to run the C++ pre
Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Pollywog> After reinstalling Linux, I get this:
Pollywog> configure: error: no acceptable C++-compiler found in $PATH
Pollywog>
Pollywog> I am not sure what it wants. Does it want to see the path
Pollywog> to gcc in /etc/profile?
gcc isn't a C++ compiler, it
Gary Hennigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
GH> 3) And I think this is your main problem.
GH>
GH> Once you read an article it generally has one of three "marks" next to
GH> it:
GH>
GH> O means the article/mail was read, but is not marked as read.
GH> E means the article/mail was read and marked as
David J Kanter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
DJK> When attempting to upgrade, in pieces, from Slink to Potato, I
DJK> got this error message when typing apt-get dist-upgrade:
DJK>
DJK> E: Sorry, you don't have enough free space in /var/cache/apt/archives/
DJK>
DJK> Do I have too small a partition,
bwarsing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
BW> On Tue, Oct 12, 1999 at 04:38:08PM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote:
NLM> There is a utility called 'screen' to handle this. It's
NLM> packaged for Debian. You'd run your program in a screen session
NLM> in one window ('screen mutt' for example).
BW>
BW>
tf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
tf> Hey guys, I'm going to get rid of gnome by dpkg -purging all four
tf> of the task-gnome-* debs that I installed.
That's not going to get rid of the GNOME stuff. Those packages just
depend on lots of other packages; you need to actually go off and
remove those p
Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
MF> How do I compile a program to use dinamic libraries (.so)?
By default any library you link against (with the -l switch to cc/ld)
is dynamically linked. So, if you need to use libm.so, the standard
math library, you'd just use a command something like
peter karlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
PK> What program do I use to configure printers on a Debian system?
Probably the easiest thing to do is to install the 'lpr' and
'magicfilter' packages; the installation scripts of the latter will
prompt you for all of the crucial data about your printer
Paul Serice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
PS> I'm having a hard time getting gnome-session to start any window manager
PS> other than enlightenment. I've tried exporting WINDOW_MANAGER
PS> immediately before calling gnome-session but to no avail.
You need to go into the GNOME Control Center and cha
Phillip Deackes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
PD> A while back when I did my regular apt-get upgrade on unstable, I got
PD> asked a question about the format I wanted to display post-config
PD> messages for packages. I chose gtk. Unfortuantely the last couple of
PD> times I upgraded, the gtk interfac
Damon Muller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
DM> While I'm at it, is there any way to view a compressed dvi file without
DM> having to decompress it? I have not had any luck with gunzip blah.dvi.gz
DM> | xdvi (it just pops up xdvi's open dialog box). I presume there is some
DM> way to do it, but I can'
Attila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Attila> I've found this in a makefile. What does it mean?
Attila> clean:
Attila> rm -rf -f *~ \#*\# ;
The first line (starting on the first column, with the colon) declares
a target. So you can type 'make clean' at the command line, and the
commands bel
Pablo De Napoli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
PDN> I'm running a debian system where I have an X server. I want to
PDN> conect to a unix SCO System V host , and conect some X clients
PDN> running on that host to the X server on my debian host.
Right. Various techniques for doing this are in the Rem
Eric G Miller writes:
EGM> I know this is a little off topic. I'm trying to figure out how to get
EGM> Xemacs(21) to pretty-print to file.
Use a prefix argument, like C-u M-x ps-print-buffer-with-faces. This
will prompt you for a filename.
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Wilson Tuma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Wilson> I finally configures ppp on my linux system to dail my isp. I
Wilson> even configured as a dns server and it is working find. I
Wilson> tried to do ftp ftp.debian.org I got connected only I am being
Wilson> asked for a users name and password.
Wilso
Bill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Bill> The program xdm says it's loaded, but there is no gui visible,
Bill> just the prompt. Perhaps I misunderstood what xdm is, at least I
Bill> have a prompt. I tried startx and it said no such file or
Bill> directory. Whatever, I'll eventually figure it out.
Hm
Chris Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
CE> I'd like to use Emacs from within X on my home machine when I do
CE> have to telnet in for work but I'm getting a refusal to give Emacs
CE> X client access to the server on the remote machine (if I've got
CE> the server/client naming the right way round).
Cristian Carnutu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
CC> 1) I have a file named wabi2.2.tar.
CC> I made the commandtar -x wabi2.2.tar and nothing happens.
This is because this invocation will try to extract a file named
wabi2.2.tar from the default device, on Debian that being standard
input. You w
WuArMy490 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
WAM> then it asks me what partition I want but then it goes filesystem
WAM> type and I pick msdos, but in an msdos filesystem the change all
WAM> the - and the _ to ~1 and so on
Try using a vfat filesystem instead; it's just like an msdos
filesystem except th
AJ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
AJ> or if your a normal user in xwindows type:
AJ> xhost + localhost (note you must have X started to do this)
AJ> su root
AJ> cd /usr/src/linux
AJ> make xconfig
You shouldn't use xhost, and for exactly this reason: you meant to say
'xhost +localhost', which would
Rich Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Rich> Is there a way to have bash include the current directory in the
Rich> prompt of bash?
Yes. See bash(1), under "PROMPTING".
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