Re: Spam, exim, .forward vs. procmail

Hello all, The best thing in my opinion is procmail, just add these lines to your .procmailrc file, and all will be WAY better. Make sure you have your ~/.forward file forwarding to procmail. hope you all get it fixed...this worked for me! -Shane ###*My procmailrc file

vmware with win2k as the guest os

w to give read-only access to /dev/hda2 so it can read the boot partition from /dev/hda2. Am I going the right way with this, or barking up the wrong tree?? If so, how do I allow read only access to /dev/hda2 within vmware? Thanks in advance! -- Shane Hickey shane at the hickeys dot net -- To

Star Office

Hi, Is there a Debian package of the Star Office? I need to read a MS Word document. Are there any other software in Debian for viewing a MS Word doc?. I have a Debian 2.2 system. Thanks -Shane --== Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ ==-- Before you buy.

Potato Installation Bug ?

efore? Is this a bug?. Thanks Shane --== Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ ==-- Share what you know. Learn what you don't.

Re: kde packages for potato

I have the following in my "sources.list" file. deb ftp://ftp.us.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/1.1.2/distribution/deb/potato i386/ -shane On Sat, 22 Apr 2000 00:53:38 Attila Csosz wrote: >Are there anywhere KDE packages(binary) for Debian 2.2? > >Thanks > Attila > >-

Re: cron & exim message in logs

Check the "/etc/cron.d/exim" file. You can comment it out. -shane On Thu, 4 May 2000 08:38:10John Bagdanoff wrote: >May 4 08:08:01 zork /USR/SBIN/CRON[5090]: (mail) CMD ( if >[ -x /usr/sbin/exim -a -f /etc/exim.conf ]; then >/usr/sbin/exim -q >/dev/null 2>&a

eth0 Error Message

Debian 2.2. I think this started to happen after I upgraded the Bios. Has anyone seen this before. Thanks. -Shane --== Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ ==-- Before you buy.

Cloning Disks

/lilo.conf. I am not able to boot from the second disk with a rescue diskette boot: rescue root=/dev/hdb1 Is there a work around. Thanks. -Shane --== Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ ==-- Before you buy.

Booting from floppy

? Also, how do you stop the boot process, pressing the key has no effect when booting from floppy. Thanks for your reply. -Shane --== Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ ==-- Before you buy.

The *sysinfo* command

Hello, Does any of the Debian packages contain the *sysinfo* command?. Are there any other commands that can display what hardwares your system have?. Thanks. -shane --== Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ ==-- Share what you know. Learn what you don't.

Rebuilding Kernel

Hi, I need to rebuild the kernel. My system does not have the "/usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.14/.config" file. How do you create that file based on your current kernel?. Thanks for your reply. -shane --== Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ ==-- Share what you know. Learn what you don't.

Serial Console

n the dumb terminal too. Thanks for your suggestions. -Shane --== Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ ==-- Share what you know. Learn what you don't.

Error/Warning Message

that seems to be working fine. Should this error message be ignored? Thanks for your comment. -Shane --== Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ ==-- Share what you know. Learn what you don't.

xterm & remote log in

Hi, Whenever I log remotely to my Debian system from a Sun xterm, the environment does not seem to be correct (I can not use "vi"). Setting the "TERM=xterm" and "EDITOR=vi" does not help. What are the correct environment variables(I use /bin/bash)? Thanks Shane

Installing things

I can't figure this out.  Probably cause I'm new at it. I installed both Real Player and MPlayer for Debian.  I downloaded the rpm package and then used alien to 1. convert to .deb and install, and when that didn't seem to work I used alien -i. Problem is I can't find an executable for either

Problem recognising floppy with debian

rite to a floppy nor can I see files on it.   thanks, if anyone can help aussie shane    

Re: Why do I bother?

ay or another I will get it running.       Thanks again to all who offered assistance.   Shane  

Re: Re: Why do I bother?

Congratulations. And that is exactly how I mean it. No hidden meaning or innuendo or insinuations. Part of me wishes I knew how to do the same. The other part treats the problem as a high. Finding the solution will be ecstacy. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Re: Why do I bother?

God forbid that Debian or any other Linux distribution should become like Windows. Just take some of the rough edges of the install and configuration. 3.1 is coming. I hope. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OfficeJet 4110 [Was: Why do I bother?]

Thanks, Brett. At the time I was unable to access the web. Little things build up. For example, consider what enough snowfalkes can stop. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Re: Why do I bother?

The exact error messages? OK. alarm. connect script failed. Now you got what I had. And I am serious. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

3.1 speculation

Maybe it'll give 3.1 some respectability. If i recall, when it was first released no one liked it much. That was before MS bought off so many drones. Shane -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Re: Re: Why do I bother?

Nope. Exactly the same. Shane -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Re: Why do I bother?

I have no idea what you are talking about. This has nothing to do with the problem I am having. Shane -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Re: Why do I bother?

I am only dialup is available. As for why I bother, I needed something like this. To me this is therapy. Shane -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

unsubscribe

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Re: More on spam

some of whom read this list. Let's try to keep a little perspective here. SPAM sucks, but it's not lethal (thank God!). -Shane -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: More on spam

> > > Let's try to keep a little perspective here. SPAM sucks, but it's not > > > lethal (thank God!). > > > -Shane > > On Wednesday 22 October 2003 12:39, Tom wrote: > > yet > > > > it's becoming a distinction without a differenc

Re: nslookup? What package is it in?

lps, > > Jaume > > -- > Please answer to the group/list. Don't CC me. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > or another alternative, if you have it

basic font question

font? I am running - Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (Woody) with Gnome 2.2 backport Xfree86 4.2.1 Gnumeric 1.2.1 Regards Shane Want to chat instantly with your online friends? Get the FREE Yahoo! Messenger http

Re: Re: Internet connection sharing with WinXP: DNS problem

If you want the networking info from winxp just do this. Start->Run->cmd then when the command prompt window pops up type ipconfig /all it will print all windows networking info. Voila you have your nameservers. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Maildir with uw-imapd

't seem to find anywhere in the docs how to change uw-imapd to deliver to ~/Maildir. It's delivering mail just fine at this point to ~/mbox, but I'm accessing my mail from multiple clients, and if I leave a client open, I get mailbox locking problems. Thanks in advance for the help. -Shane

Re: Re: Maildir with uw-imapd

>> Shane Hickey wrote: >>Ok, now to my question. I can't seem to find anywhere in the docs how >>to change uw-imapd to deliver to ~/Maildir. It's delivering mail just >>fine at this point to ~/mbox, but I'm accessing my mail from multiple >>clients

Re: .procmailrc

> How do I make procmail sort out the debian user list? This is what I do, and it works like a charm: :0: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] DEBIAN-USER/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Courier configuration

us exactly what you are having trouble with. If we all posted our mail configs to the list, it'd be a waste of time & bandwidth. We're waiting to help. -- Shane Hickey shane at the hickeys dot net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

debian 2.0 install

I recompile in the begining? What is the proper step to this? thanks shane

RE: debian 2.0 install

Thanks for the response. So do you think I should forget about recompiling the kernel and just install it as if there is 1 processor? -Original Message- From: Nathan E Norman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 1998 11:31 AM To: Shane S. Cc: 'debian

Debian 2.0 disks-i386

are greater than 145k. The size of a formated 1.44 floppy is 145k. How can you fit these files into a floppy for a floppy installation? Do I need to do a special type of format to fit these files into a floppy? thanks for all the help shane

DPT Scsi Host Controller

g and mounting. So I chosed the 1st drive. Can someone help? Thanks Shane

telnet access/telnetd

HOW-TO to configure and setup telnetd? Thanks Shane

losing 10s per day?

ious. Any ideas where I should look to find out what is happening? thanks Shane Hynes

Bootup error

I've got a 1gig SCSI HD which linux fails to see it. Right now it is installed on the 1st SCSI drive which is 540meg. The SCSI controller is set to IRQ14 and I get errors about this. I have search alot of documentation on to solve this problem, but I can't find any. Can someone out there help? In

SSLTelnet question

Hi, I just installed SSLTelnet on my site and it seems to work fine. One thing though, it stopped displaying /etc/issue.net to people logging in. Has anyone gotten around this bug | feature? -- Shane Wegner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: (604) 930-0530 Sysadmin, Continuum Systems: http://www.cm.nu

dpkg error

fix? -- Shane Wegner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: (604) 930-0530 Sysadmin, Continuum Systems: http://www.cm.nu Personal website: http://www.cm.nu/~shane ICQ UIN: 12 PGP: keyid: 2048/F5C2BD91 Fingerprint: 8C 48 B9 D8 53 BB D8 EF 76 BB DB A2 1C 0D 1D 87

Replacing kernel header files

rm -r /usr/include/linux and ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/linux /usr/include/linux but the next time libc6dev gets upgraded it steamrolls over my header files. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. -- Shane Wegner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: (604) 930-0530 Sysadmin, Continuum Systems: http

Serial consoles

iting install.bat appropriately be enough or do I need to modify anything on root.bin? Also, do I have to rebuild drv1440.bin with the 2.1 modules and what modules and kernel compile options should I enable for the Debian install program to go smoothly? - -- Shane Wegner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: (604

Apache bandwidth module

subject. Thank you in advance for your assistance. - -- Shane Wegner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: (604) 930-0530 Sysadmin, Continuum Systems: http://www.cm.nu Personal website: http://www.cm.nu/~shane Celine Dion Fan site: http://www.celine.nu/ PGP key: http://www.cm.nu/~shane/pgp.txt ICQ UIN: 15706

screen package

ried it linked staticly and it produced the same result. Any ideas? -- Shane Wegner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: (604) 930-0530 Sysadmin, Continuum Systems: http://www.cm.nu Personal website: http://www.cm.nu/~shane Celine Dion Fan site: http://www.celine.nu/ PGP key: http://www.cm.nu/~shane/pgp.txt ICQ UIN: 15706546

libcrypt.so

nyone have any information on this crypt library and how it can be installed on a Debian system? - -- Shane Wegner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: (604) 930-0530 Sysadmin, Continuum Systems: http://www.cm.nu Personal website: http://www.cm.nu/~shane Celine Dion Fan site: http://www.celine.nu/ PGP key:

PGP question

ystem? Thank in advance, Shane -- Shane Wegner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: (604) 930-0530 Sysadmin, Continuum Systems: http://www.cm.nu Personal website: http://www.cm.nu/~shane PGP key: http://www.cm.nu/~shane/pgp.shtml

Rvplayer

r 5.0 deb. It appears someone already filed a bug relating to the segfault but I imagine there's nothing the maintainer can do about it. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Best regards, Shane -- Shane Wegner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Personal website: http://www.cm.nu/~shane Fax:

Help with screen

. Is there any way to turn off this translation? To force screen to use whatever terminal I am in? Thanks in advance, Shane -- Shane Wegner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Personal website: http://www.cm.nu/~shane Fax: (604) 930-0529 PGP: keyid: 2048/1C0FFA59 ICQ UIN: 1

Installation question

chroot apt-get install to install the various packages. Is there anything else I need to do? Is ln /proc /mnt/proc safe as some setup programs might need it in the chrooted environment? Regards, Shane -- Shane Wegner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Personal website: http://www.cm.nu/~shane Fax: (604) 93

Keeping permissions after upgrade

gets upgraded, there go my permissions. Any ideas greatly appreciated. -- Shane Wegner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sysadmin, Continuum Systems: http://www.cm.nu Tel: (604) 930-0530 Personal website: http://www.cm.nu/~shane Fax: (604) 930-0529 PGP: keyid: 2048/F5C2BD91 ICQ UIN

Linux install error

iso_blknum 16 block 32 Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:01   And it sits there forever.   Can someone help? thanks shane

Majordomo on Debian

Hi, after installing Majordomo package on my debain liunx box and reading the documentations for configurations, I am still having trouble getting it to work right. Has anyone installed Majordomo and configured it successfully? thanks shane

two things

yways, thanks in advance for your assistance. I'd really like to replace this slackware box with a Debian 2.1 box when it comes out due to the fact that it is more robust. - -- Shane Wegner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 604-930-0530 Sysadmin, Continuum Systems: http://www.cm.nu Personal web

dselect with a CD-ROM

I'm trying to install Debian on a new PC via the CD-ROM. everything goes ok until i come to the point when installing from the (infomagic September) CD. When attempting to install from the CD-ROM it says "Insert the CD-ROM and enter block device name []:" AFAIK it's /dev/cdrom ( a bog-standard ide/

Re: cron problem

Env: > > getopt: illegal option -- o > > lawrence, I just had the same problem the other day. The problem is in the script /etc/cron.daily/smail. The line savelog -o root ... should be savelog -u root ... I think there might even be a man page for savelog. Fix that and you

Directory Format of CDROM

/RedHat and does not let me customize where it looks. What a pain in the behind!! What does the Debian CD looklike? /debian/binary-i386/ Exactly what directories will I need? (running on x86 system) Thanx for any help you can provide. __ http://www.arcs.bcit.bc.ca/~shane/home.html Shane

Extreme disappointment. :(

Hello all, I have been using Linux for about 3 years including OpenBSD for about 1 year, so I hope that the problems I'm having with Debian 2.2 Potato are not due to my ignorance. After reading great things about Debian, and a 2.2 kernel version finally coming out as "stable" on CD from my loca

Re: Extreme disappointment. :(

Re: Extreme disappointment. :(

Sorry about the long line lengths and blank message. I am emailing from telnet in Win98 (unfortunately). 'mail' is'nt very friendly as you know compared with a fuller featured... Anyway, the store I bought the CD's from do not yet carry pressed Potsatoes. I noticed that fsck /cdrom reveals the

Re: Extreme disappointment. :(

Of course I could always press return... :) sorry again./

Re: Extreme disappointment. :(

:) I realise I can't fix the errors, I just want a reliable methodm of testing the CD to show the shop that they are faulty. Thanks.

Re: Extreme disappointment. :(

>Use md5sum OK thanks Antonio,

Building PHP 4.0.1pl2(woody) on potato

y and that could be it. If anyone has had success in this area, I would appreciate hearing from you. /bin/sh /home/staff/shane/outgoing/php4/php4-4.0.1pl2/apache-build/libtool --silent --mode=link gcc -g -O2 -o libphp4.la -rpath /home/staff/shane/outgoing/php4/php4-4.0.1pl2/apache-build/libs -avoid-

Using verp with Debian's smartlist package

PROTECTED] format I suppose. Has anyone successfully gotten this to work? Cheers, Shane -- Shane Wegner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Personal website: http://www.cm.nu/~shane/

Re: Using verp with Debian's smartlist package

On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 11:40:35PM -0300, Rogerio Brito wrote: > On Aug 07 2000, Shane Wegner wrote: > > Has anyone successfully gotten this to work? > > Must you use sendmail? Would you be willing to use qmail? If > so, then qmail supports VERPs outta the

Kernel 2.4, NFS, and 32 bit UIDs

4294967294 which on Debian is not mapped to a user id on a Debian system. Should the nobody user and nogroup group be set to id 4294967294? If so, what will that do on kernel 2.2? Cheers, Shane -- Shane Wegner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cm.nu/~shane/ PGP: 1024D/FFE3035D

Re: help: how install sendmail 8.11 with old libc6

b2')' - `APPENDDEF(`conf_praliases_LIBS', `-ldb2')' - `APPENDDEF(`conf_sendmail_LIBS', `-ldb2')' - `APPENDDEF(`conf_vacation_LIBS', `-ldb2')' + `APPENDDEF(`conf_makemap_LIBS', `-ldb')' + `APPENDDEF(`conf_pralias

finding which package a file came with

you'll just have to forgive me if this is a stupid question but is there any way to easily find out which deb package a particular file came from?? thank for any replies --Colby ? __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Get organized for the holidays

Re: finding which package a file came with

00 17:43:36 -0800 (PST), Shane > Colbert said: > > > you'll just have to forgive me if this is a stupid > > question but is there any way to easily find out > which > > deb package a particular file came from?? > > > > thank for

Navigating the new ftp.debian.org

* and I had everything I needed. With pools, I can look at debian/pool/main/p/php4 but multiple versions for multiple distributions can exist for the same package. I was surprised Debian isn't providing symlinks into the pool from dists/woody. Cheers, Shane -- Shane Wegner: [EMAIL PROT

Problem with rescue disks

mpile additional utilities against it. I am looking to add restore, raidtools2, and agetty. Can this be done? Shane -- Shane Wegner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Personal website: http://www.cm.nu/~shane/ pgpUPXrKvEJxo.pgp Description: PGP signature

Excluding a directory with dump(8)

pass the inode number to dump -e, there is no noticable result. Shane -- Shane Wegner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Personal website: http://www.cm.nu/~shane/

db2 installation

2setup and db2_install so that they use alien to convert the rpm files to deb and then install them that way. If anyone has any experience with this, your suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Regards, Shane -- Shane Wegner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Personal website: http://www.cm.nu/~shane

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apt-listchanges not running

s::/usr/bin/apt-listchanges::Version "2"; Is there anything else I need to look at? Regards, Shane -- Shane Wegner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cm.nu/~shane/ PGP: 1024D/FFE3035D A0ED DAC4 77EC D674 5487 5B5C 4F89 9A4E FFE3 035D

Runlevel Scripts

Listers, Would someone mind sending me a directory listing of all startup symlinks for each runlevel for a basic potato installation? I seem to have *cough* misplaced *cough* a symlink or twenty. ;) (e.g. ls -al /etc/rc*.d/S* ) Thank you kindly, --Shane Shane Hornibrook

nfs re-export issues

the two servers have all user accounts /bin/false for shell, but the client has /bin/bash. I have tried rebooting all the machines, start-stopping nfs on the servers, tried different kernals on the app server (one w/ knfsd one w/o). I am stumped. Any ideas? -Shane

Re: Obtaining the Ximian GNOME 1.4 Sources

deb http://red-carpet.ximian.com/debian stable main I don't know if they have deb sources though... -Shane On Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 12:00:00PM +0800, csj wrote: > Ximian is a Free Software company, says the web page > <http://ximian.com/desktop/download.php3>. So

Diskless maintanence

, how do you install new packages? Do you have to do two installs? chrootr into the diskless dir, apt-get there, and then exit and apt-get install on the server? -SHane -- * Shane Liebling Unit

modem doesn't dial with pon.

I have a machine ( pentium75 with no fans at all so I can leave it running all the time ) that I would like to set up as a dial on demand machine for the rest of the boxes on my home network except I'm having a few problems. So I thought I would list the ones here I haven't found answers too in doc

Tomcat ?? Where to get it

Tomcat. Thanks in advance. Shane Broomhall Brisbane Australia [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

sendmail and setgroups()

setgroups,logging disabled for 10 seconds It only loggs this when setgroups() is called and the user is not root. Do you have any idea what this could be? Regards, Shane -- Shane Wegner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cm.nu/~shane/ PGP: 1024D/FFE3035D A0ED DAC4 77EC

Re: sendmail and setgroups()

On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 03:42:55PM -0400, Richard A Nelson wrote: > On Wed, 2 May 2001, Shane Wegner wrote: > > The current SendMail in unstable appears to be doing a > > setgroups() call when it does not have superuser > > privileges. I am getting the following on a regu

Debian and Win XP

I have a Toshiba Satellite A30 with Win XP installed. How do I resize the ntfs file system since fips will not work on it and the only ntfsresize I can find is set to run under Linux. Given that I need to know how to make a bootable Linux cdrom with ntfsresize on it. Some bright apple decised th

Looking for a few good Sendmail gurus

st not in comparison to sending mail to a known working address). Any thoughts or ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. -Shane -- * Shane Liebling Systems Administrator and SAGE Me

Re: Looking for a few good Sendmail gurus

On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 05:13:58PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > > hi ya > > On Thu, 4 Nov 2004, Shane Liebling wrote: > > > I am running a couple wooody boxes. I've got mail.foo.com and host.foo.com. > > Anyone in the outside world can send mail to [EMAIL P

Re: Looking for a few good Sendmail gurus

On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 05:55:46PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > > On Thu, 4 Nov 2004, Shane Liebling wrote: > > > > what is the contents of your /etc/mail/local-host-names > > > on host.foo.com and mail.foo.com and foo.com > > > > There is no mention of ho

Re: apache/php/mysql help

ntain: Then just stick it in your web root and check it out in your favorite browser. -Shane -- * Shane Liebling The sysadmin with flair! [EMAIL PROTECT

How to install

Ontario, Canada - is 56k. I assume a net install would be unrealistic. Shane --- Windows 95, n. 32-bit extentions and a graphical interface for a 16-bit patch for an 8-operating system origianlly written for a 4-bit microprocessor by a 2-bit company that can't stand 1-bit of compet

Exim Relaying issue

period What could be the cause of this?   Kind Regards, Shane James :)

Questions about upgrading from stretch to testing

Hello, I downloaded firmware-9.6.0-amd64-netinst.iso and successfully installed a minimal debian stretch on my UEFI/GPT disk. I then I replaced all references to "stretch" with "testing" in /etc/apt/sources.list and executed sudo apt update; sudo apt install gnome-core firefox-esr. Everything work

Re: Questions about upgrading from stretch to testing

On Wed, 14 Nov 2018 at 16:04, john doe wrote: > > Any reasons why you want package from testing and not from Stretch > backports? > > because I didn't know Stretch backports existed - now I do. It seems to offer to the stability of the stretch destribution with the ability to upgrade certain pack

What is the best way to install vim 8.1 on stretch?

Hello, I have a fresh install of Debian stretch including the relatively old vim 8. There is no vim version in stretch-backports. One solution is to download the latest source from vim.org and build it on my pc but then I would lose the benefits of apt package management. I could also add the test

Re: What is the best way to install vim 8.1 on stretch?

> > > So, I can't offer a better suggestion than those already offered > (rebuild from source package or install with pinning, though I would > personally opt for rebuilding the package from buster). However, I am > quite curious what new features are in vim 8.1 that would cause you to > go to all

Blind Debian Potential User

Hello Debian Users, My name is Shane. I am new to the list. I am trying to install Debian on an older laptop of mine so that I can use it for an Asterisk box. I run a couple of radioshows, and need to take calls. Anyway, I am questing a way to install Debian with Speech. I do not have a hardware

Re: Blind Debian Potential User

efore? Shane On 1/6/08, Tapio Kelloniemi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 11:57:38AM -0500, Shane D wrote: > > Anyway, I am questing a way to install Debian with Speech. I do not > > have a hardware synthesizer. I want a way of > > (A) Being able to

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