Karsten Bolding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
KB> As user kbk - logged in via xdm - on orca.
KB> xhost +
KB> access control disabled, clients can connect from any host
You realize that this is a Really Bad Idea (TM), right?
KB> As user lene (also on orca)
KB> setenv DISPLAY orca:0
KB> xterm
KB> xte
Stan Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
SB> Could someone pleas explain the relationship between Gnome and
SB> windo managers?
They're orthogonal. You can run any window manager you want with
GNOME and it'll work just fine[1].
SB> Is there a "Gnome Prefered" window manager?
No.
SB> How do I set
Christian Eckert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
CE> I always used successfully "dselect" with the option multi-cd for
CE> to install some deb-packages of my distribution. Now I like to
CE> install a downloaded deb.package or one from another cd. I tried
CE> (with option mounted) and dselect wants to
Chris Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
CP> Anyone running a 3dfx Voodoo3 3000 on Debian?
CP> Just curious if it works well or not.
I have a Voodoo3 2000, and it works fine. I used the XF86_SVGA server
on XFree86 3.3.6 (the version in potato), and am using the XFree86
server in woody. Getting
Dave Sherohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
DS> There are a few things which seem to reset themselves to defaults when
DS> upgraded without offering an option to keep the old config:
DS>
DS> - Eterm resets all of its 'system' (i.e., the ones in
DS> /usr/share/Eterm/themes) themes back to the defaul
nw x <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
nw> I have a question about my printer: When I print some "pdf" from
nw> acroread, the printer works fine, however, when I want to print
nw> some plain text file from xterm with the command "lpr filename", I
nw> can just get the first two lines of the file. Does any
Andrew Dwight Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
ADD> I'm using telnet to log into my desktop machine from my laptop and
ADD> I would like to be able to run an application on the desktop machine and
ADD> have the display be on the laptop. After loging into the desktop and
ADD> switching the DISPLAY
Ringo De Smet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
RDS> BTW, what are the semantics of the different run levels under Debian.
RDS> KDE2 seems to launch KDM even in runlevel 2.
There are no predefined semantics. The local administrator is welcome
to change the /etc/rc?.d symlinks by hand to get whatever
Wesley Wannemacher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
WW> I don't think you need to be a programmer, usually the following works
WW> for me to install from source:
...
WW> Normally one can also start by taking a gander at the README file
WW> (RTFM). For PHP in particular, I used something close to the fol
Jeronimo Pellegrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
JP> I did as the documentation tells:
JP>
JP> - Install lm-sensors-source, i2c-source
JP> - Go to top of kernel source tree
JP> - Use make-kpkg to build the kernel
JP>
JP> Since I did a make-kpkg clean, I did:
JP>
JP> - make dep
JP> - make-kpkg mod
Frank Copeland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
FC> On 29 Nov 00 05:34:28 GMT, Lawrence H. Robins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
LHR> I'm curious to know what strategies are used by regular
LHR> subscribers to this list to deal with the high volume of
LHR> messages (>250/day)?
FC>
FC> A mail2news gatewa
a <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
a> I have Debian 2.0 and Intel Pentium 100 and notice the following message
a> when booting Debian:
a>
a> Intel Pentium with F0 0F bug - workaround enabled
a>
a> Does it means that I have a buggy chip? How to verify that and find more
a> info?
In fact, you do have
Timothy C Phan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
TCP> Is there any utility to convert CD files to MP3 files on Linux?
I highly recommend abcde. You'll have to provide your own encoder.
On Woody, abcde defaults to producing OggVorbis files; it's the same
concept as MP3, but free of nasty patent problem
Robert D Hilliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
RDH> Is there a command available in Debian to determine what
RDH> resolution is being used in an X session?
In amidst all of the information 'xdpyinfo' displays is this:
screen #0:
dimensions:1280x1024 pixels (325x260 millimeters)
I assume fro
Jinsong Zhao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
JZ> This is the first horrible thing I can think of: code compiled on
JZ> Debian does not run on Redhat! Several programs I compiled on the
JZ> Debian run fine on Debian, but when I installed Redhat and tried to
JZ> run those programs, say in bash you type "
David Z Maze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
DZM> Jinsong Zhao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
JZ> I used this command: "sh pgp" and then the error message is:
JZ>
JZ> cannot execute binary file
DZM>
DZM> This generally means there's some sort of library
Karsten M Self writes:
KMS> I note that my system is running at 75 dpi. Will 100 dpi give more or
KMS> less resolution, and how do I set resolution anyway?
That number is basically a measurement of how big fonts are; a bigger
number means you'll have larger fonts. On a 75dpi display, a 72-point
Richard Hunt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
RH> Are there official cd images?
RH> I have bought three CDs called "Official Debian 2.2" CDs 1-3.
RH> From the Linux Emporium in the UK.
Part of the point of the DFSG is that everything in Official Debian
(TM) is free to redistribute pretty much without r
Brian Potkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
BP> If I understand you correctly you are saying that using -dpi 75 informs
BP> an application which wants to display a 72 point font that it will be
BP> allowed 75 pixels whereas with -dpi 100 it will get 100 pixels. Having
BP> spent some time in the recen
patd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
pd> i'm thinking of removing python, but before i do, i want to know which
pd> packages depends on it. is there a dpkg/apt command that will show me
pd> what the dependencies are?
(1) Start dselect.
(2) Find the appropriate Python package. Type '-' to remove i
Marcelo Chiapparini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
MC> I am running helix-gnome. Today I was looking to the .gnome-error file and
MC> I found inside of it a lot of the following two lines:
MC>
MC> "GTX-warning ** = Unable to locate loadable module in
MC> module_path='libpixmap.so'"
My guess on this
Ray Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
RP> I'm going to be getting a new mouse/trackball for xmas. Before I start
RP> telling people what I want though I thought I'd check with you all.
RP> So have any of you used the logitech Trackman Marble Wheel
Yes, works fine, no problems with it at all. I
Scott Patterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
SP> I believe you can tell your computer which run-level to start with
SP> at the LILO prompt (assuming you're using LILO). IIFC, simply
SP> typing 2 and enter, will start you at run-level 2 (no X-Server
SP> running...plain ole console mode).
You can, in
QBA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
QBA> I've been browsing through this list contents and learned that
QBA> Debian has tools letting me make deb packages from tarballs or
QBA> rpms (and source packages too of course).
(Probably 'alien', no?)
QBA> But I don't know if it's really useful and needed.
Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
ES> you need to reconfigure the package, I am not sure which one, probably
ES> xserver-xfree86, and I am not sure how exactly
With "dpkg-reconfigure packagename".
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"Theoretical
uland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
uland> I want to submit a job to crontab, and follow the "new" format
uland> such as:
uland> m h dom mon dow user command
uland> 0 12 * * * someone /bin/somecommand
uland> But it does not work for me. I find some message in syslog:
uland> Dec 14 12:00:00 omega
Christoph Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
CS> On Thu, 14 Dec 2000 11:46:20 -0800 (PST)
CS> Andrew Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
CS>
AP> Greetings. I'm trying to compile (from source) alsa-driver and the other
AP> components of alsa, and running into this (rather opaque) problem:
AP>
AP
David A Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
DAR> On 14 Dec 2000, David Z Maze wrote:
DZM> Christoph Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
CS> It seems that kernels and the alsa driver like to live in
CS> certain directories. I assume here, you do have the kernel
CS> so
Adam Shand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
AS> i wanna build my own kernel using make-kpkg with some custom patches (the
AS> openwall patch and the sub domain patch from wirex) with the release
AS> 2.2.18 kernel (which isn't in debian yet).
AS>
AS> it looks like i can just put the patches into /usr/sr
Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Chris> I am new to Debian.
Chris> I have installed the base system.
Umm, you kind of need to install the rest of the system. The base
system contains a minimal set of packages, such that (a) it can fit on
a sane number of floppies and (b) you can install the re
Glenn Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
GB> The last salvo seems to have irked *something* in my X setup, but I can't
GB> figure out what. I had always run the command
GB>
GB> startx -- -bpp16
GB>
GB> to get a nice display.
(And it doesn't work now.)
In my memory, you've always wanted to use 's
Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
ES> I have internal modem (real one, it works, the question is not about
ES> it and I know I should get external one:-) which acts as a serial port.
ES> It is ISA PnP card, can use different IRQs.
ES>
ES> My main question is: how do I find out which IRQ it u
Xucaen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Search the recent archives. ;)
X>
X> does anyone have the address of the archives?
Have you tried the prominent "Mailing List Archives" link from the
left side of http://www.debian.org/?
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Robert L Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
RLH> I just did a dist-upgrade of my woody box and now I can't cut and
RLH> paste between my xterms or ETerms anymore...
Okay; you should diagnose the problem in a little more detail and
report a bug. See http://bugs.debian.org/ for details.
--
David
Manegold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
M> Is there a way to use apt-get on packages in a directory somewhere on a
M> system, that are not organized like archive and that do not have
M> Packages.gz files
Nope.
M> (how are those created anyhow?).
Install the dpkg-dev package, and look at the dpkg-s
Philipp Schulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
PS> On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 07:02:09PM +0100, Joerg Huber wrote:
JH> I would like to buy a Voodoo 3000 graphics card and found the
JH> debian-paket mentioned in the subject. But I could not figure out
JH> for what kind of card the module will work. Do
Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
ES> note that to get DRI working you need very recent kernel, either one
ES> of the pre- 2.4 version or 2.2.18 (is it out yet?)
You need 2.2.18. It's out; I don't think there's an official Debian
package of it yet in unstable, but getting your own package i
Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
NEN> Running woody with Helix Gnome packages.
Keep in mind that the Helix packages aren't part of Debian. Unstable
seems to have had pretty current GNOME packages for a while now.
NEN> I use gdm as my display manager, gnome-session as my session
NEN> m
Wesley Wannemacher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
WW> The preferred (Debian) way to change this would be to
WW> update-alternatives. Set the editor alternative to your favorite text
WW> editor.
Only if you want to change it for every user on your system and you
have root. I'd leave editor set to som
Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Bob> On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 02:11:03PM -0800, Nick wrote:
Nick> i am having a few problems when i try to MAKE a module
Nick>
Nick> error file not found linux/vmalloc.h
Nick> linux/poll.h
Nick> linux/init.h
Nick> asm/uaccess.h
Nick>
Nick>
D-Man <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
D> The only problem is that many of the packages are old (ie gnome-*,
D> sawmill, python, etc). When was Potato released?
Only a couple of months ago. Some of the packages are likely older
because Debian goes through a substantial freeze to make sure that
every
Dulan Tevesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
DT> I'm having problems installing simple packages with debian. I'm
DT> currently running it on a laptop w/out any internet connectivity, and
DT> its only way to get packages installed is via the A: floppy -
What's an "A: floppy"? If you mean "floppy disk
Daniel Barclay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> From: mathieu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Hello, i have seen that rc.d like on slackware doesn't exist, and
>> that rc.* are directly in /etc. But where must i put my line
>> command to be executed when the system boot ?? Like num lock,
>> ipchains and all m
Erik Ryberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
ER> I have a home machine which I'm not too worried about security wise. If
ER> I don't go on-line as root, is a difficult to type and remember password
ER> really necessary?
What do you mean by "go on-line as root"? If your machine is
connected to a netwo
Esko P Lehtonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
EPL> I have read that using Xwrapper I could use X server as normal
EPL> user. Now if I type 'startx' in console my screen goes black and
EPL> I can only kill the X server. Should I put Xwrapper somewhere
EPL> into my rc files? How?
What's commonly refer
I have a reasonably current woody system, named "donut". In a fit of
bravery mixed with stupidity, I was playing with 'hdparm' to try to
improve disk performance. I must have broken something (and caused
MASSIVE FILESYSTEM CORRUPTION; hdparm(8) seems overly paranoid),
because I wound up having to
Oswald Buddenhagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
DZM> I've tried reinstalling both LILO and the Debian MBR. Neither
DZM> 'install-mbr' nor rerunning 'liloconfig' seems to have had an effect.
OB> i don't know, what liloconfig is for, but does it automatically run lilo?
OB> the invocation of /sbin/l
Jeremy Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
JH> Dpkg vs RPM
JH> Both managability and build packages. I have heard a lot
JH> of "good things" about dpkg.
My experience has been that it can be extremely hard to upgrade a
system from one RH release to another, and that RH is very bad about
pr
I'm sure this is a FAQ somewhere, but I can't find it on my system
right off hand. So...
Christian Hammers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
CH> I have a serious problem. One of the servers I administrate seems to
CH> have a buffer leak. free and vmstat show me that the buffer size
CH> increases by so
Eric G Miller writes:
EGM> On Thu, May 18, 2000 at 12:57:18AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> But for example,what if I want to write a shell script which will login
>> to the remote server automatically?e.g..for some cgi...etc...
EGM>
EGM> Couldn't you put the password in a variable? Would th
cls--colo spgs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
cls> i'm working on my first kernel recompile. i'm at the
cls> point where i need to move the recompiled kernel to the
cls> to boot location. unfortunately, i cannot find the
cls> recompiled kernel.
Since nobody seems to have suggested it yet, why don't
Jay Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Jay> I am running Potato and have just install Gnome using apt-get
Jay> install gdm.
Note that this will just install the GNOME display manager; it won't
install any of the rest of the GNOME stuff that gdm doesn't directly need.
Jay> 1, When the gnome login s
Tom Glass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
TG> I'm developing an app to run on an embedded system. There will
TG> not be a keyboard, so I need to have the system boot (single user,
TG> no x-windows) without requiring a password.
What's really going on? It sounds like you want a particular program
to
nther writes:
CG> what is all this apt-get about?
CG>
CG> What is it good for and how does it work
APT stands for "A Package Tool". It's essentially a wrapper around
the Debian package manager, dpkg, that provides some useful
functionality. You tell APT where Debian packages can be downloaded
Michael Kayne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
MK> Can you please tell me is there is a distribution of Debian-Linux
MK> available for downloading?
See http://cdimage.debian.org/; it'll walk you through the steps to
create an official Debian GNU/Linux CD.
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Tom Kuiper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
TK> I'm sorry that my original posting was not clear. I did go to
TK> ftp://archive.debian.org/ but there is no Packages.gz file there, so
TK> dselect won't work.
You sure? I see one that's probably useful in
ftp://archive.debian.org/debian-archive/dists/b
Fred R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Fred> I'm trying to install the package to upgrade the glibc 2.1.3 on my
Fred> machine but I get a message that I need to install debinnutils first. So
Fred> I tried to install that package and it tells me the I need to upgrade my
Fred> libc to >=2.1. So what do I
Horacio MG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
HMG> just installed this video card (AGP S3 Trio 3D 8MB) and tried to
HMG> configure it for the X environment, but I can't find the proper sever
HMG> for it.
HMG> Which XServer should I use for it? If this Xfree version doesn't have
HMG> support for this c
Daishi Harada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
DH> 2. If I use ssh-nonfree (1.2.27-5), I can use ssh, but I get the
DH> following warnings:
DH> % ssh
DH> Agent parent directory is not sticky, mode is 40777 it should be
041777
DH> [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password:
DH> Cannot
Harlan Crystal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
HC> How long do you think it'll be until one can find debs for xfree 4 in the
HC> unstable branch? I never knew how much testing or whatever important
HC> components must go through before they're added.
I'd guess that the Debian XFree86 maintainer alrea
Robert L Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
RLH> Any odds we'll get XF-4.0 in Potato now that it's officially released?
IANADD, but I'd say "no". Debian officially went into a "no new
versions of things" freeze a month or two back, and XF86-3.3.6 to 4.0
is a major enough change that I'd be hesita
Beavis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Beavis> ok, well lets just say this: what if the packages are in the
Beavis> upacked (not set up); install (was: install) state.
Then you should probably configure them, either using 'dpkg
--configure --pending' from the command line or using dselect's
"Configur
Alvaro Ortiz de Urbina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
AOdU> In order to do some filtering, it would be a very good idea to
AOdU> include in the subjects of messages something like [debusers] or
AOdU> anything similar.
Fortunately, every mail to debian-user has a header that looks
something like this:
Olaf Stetzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
OS> I use my online-machine here in the institute to download packages
OS> I need at home by simply installing them via apt/ftp and then take
OS> the downloaded files from /var/cache/apt, carry them home on a
OS> zip diskette and install them there with dse
Antonio Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
AR> I want to delete a directory with a whole bunch of embeded
AR> subdirectories, I did
AR> rm -d kdeo
AR> and I get Operation not permitted.
AR> Now, I am doing it as root, so, the permission should not be an issue.
AR> Whats the problem? Is there a
Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Lee> When I try to 'startx' my X program will start, however it gets
Lee> to a grey screen and has a cross in the middle of it, and it
Lee> pauses,
What do you mean by "pause"? Assuming the mouse responds, this means
you've done most of the hard work of playing in
Eric Hagglund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
EH> What is the procedure or where may I find the
EH> procedure for mapping the windows key to pop up the
EH> the start menu on the X-windows desktop? Also, does
EH> this procedure vary with the Window Manager being used?
Yes.
I use a pc104 keyboard, so t
John Conover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
JC> Are there any?
Definitionally, no. (Consider, for example, the differences between
viewing HTML documents in Netscape and under Lynx.)
I like to use psgml-mode in XEmacs to edit my SGML (DocBook, HTML).
YMMV.
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] com <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
M> Any suggestions on how large to create my partitions based on the
M> following usage:
...
M> I'm concerned about root.
M> On my first test installation under Red Hat 6 months ago I only had X,
M> KDE and Netscape and whatever Red Hat insatlls by
aphro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
aphro> attached is the results of dpkg -S /usr
aphro>
aphro> it should list every package i have in /usr, there is a
aphro> craplaod of them, probably around 500,
Note that any Debian package will create a directory /usr/doc/$PACKAGE
(or /usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE
erasmo perez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
EP> more or less one week ago, i see in this lists the report of a S3
EP> Trio3D video card that refuses to work in SVGA, just accepting VGA
EP>
EP> and now i face the same problem, is there some way to overcome this
EP> failure ?
I've had some luck using
David J Kanter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
DJK> I have a Logitech MouseMan Wheel, yet must use the ps2 driver rather than
DJK> the Logitech MouseMan driver when running XF86Setup (the Logitech driver
DJK> makes the mouse jumpy). Why is that? Is my mouse schizophrenic?
DJK>
DJK> Is the key the conn
Ron Hale-Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Ron> I am trying to port a game called XIcehouse to GNU/Linux, but can't find
Ron> /usr/include/bsd on my slink system. Which package installs it? (If the
Ron> answer is "none", where else can I get it?)
My (woody) system doesn't have that directory. You
Emmanuel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
EB> I'm trying to add a gateway on a debian
Tweak /etc/init.d/network? Play with /sbin/route?
EB> but there's no man on the computer.
Install the man-db package.
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"Theoretical
David J Kanter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
DJK> My kernel, 2.2.13, was not compiled with sound support because my
DJK> card had no drivers. Now it apparently does: the Aureal Vortex 2
DJK> chipset at linux.aureal.com. Do I need to (re-download and)
DJK> re-compile the kernel to enable sound support
joseph de los santos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
joseph> I was wondering if there was some sort of a way to see what
joseph> x-windows is doing because whenever I try to do some things
joseph> like click on settings or utilities etc, nothing is happening.
If you started X with 'startx', error mess
Christopher W Aiken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
CWA> I had libcurses problems when I tried to compile an application
CWA> (pine 4.31 I think, can't remember). What I had to do was:
CWA>
CWA> cd /lib
CWA> ln -sf libncurses.so.5.0 libncurses
CWA>
CWA> The compile/link was looking for "libncurses"
D-Man <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
D> cd / ; rm -fr *.exe
D>
D> This command will remove all files ending in ".exe" from the entire
D> filesystem.
No, it won't. It will find all files and directories in the root
directory whose names end in ".exe" and completely and permanently
remove them. 'fi
Marcelo Chiapparini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
MC> Does exist a Debian front end for LaTeX, like pctex for windows?
Sure; just install the various tetex-* packages. /usr/bin/latex is a
perfectly servicable LaTeX2e driver.
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Xucaen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
X> Thomas Guettler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
TG> You can start a service like this:
TG> #/etc/init.d/networking (start|stop|restart)
X>
X> I tried xdm stop and got some strange error saying that "stop"
X> wasn't a valid parameter (I didn't write down the exa
debuser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
DU> So will testing always be available? I like the idea. I'm just not
DU> used to packages being rolled back in a release. But if I have
DU> apt-get always looking at testing, maybe that's what will make me
DU> happy.
To my knowledge:
-- Testing will always b
Xucaen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
X> "Michael P. Soulier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
MPS> think so. Debian requires that all packages installed be done
MPS> through it's packaging tools to maintain it's database. It also
MPS> lays things out on the file system a little differently (better
MP
Graham Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
GH> xdm is the X desktop manager. It is used if you want to login from X
GH> directly on start-up. This is not needed; you can start the machine, log in
GH> to a console, then run startx to get X going.
GH>
GH> xfs is the X Font Server; it is a way of provid
Bob Bernstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
BB> I have just revamped a system by installing potato and then
BB> apt-get'ing to woody. I have some source code that wants to give
BB> gcc a '-ldb' but I have no 'libdb.so' on this system.
BB>
BB> Am I right to believe that lib[whutever].so symlinks shou
Xucaen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
X> has anyone ever installed either of the following
X> debian packages?
X>
X> stable 100% xacc-smotif 1.0.17-1 (1166.5k)
X>A personal finance tracking program.
X> stable 75% xacc 1.0.18-4 (344.4k)
X>A personal finance tracking program.
FW
Dave Sherohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
DS> On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 12:08:21AM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote:
ES> what's the status of testing? I've noticed few remarks suggesting
ES> that it's not ready yet, i.e. not at the same level as unstable
ES> was. what's the status of testing and what is
Xucaen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
X> "Dr. Aldo Medina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
AM> Its faster and supports DRI. And with the patch from Nvidia it
AM> rocks in my Riva TNT.
X>
X> what is DRI? what is Nvidia? what's a Riva?
NVidia is a video card manufacturer, Riva TNT is one of their
produc
Noah L Meyerhans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
NLM> On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 02:07:37PM -0800, Christophe Broult wrote:
CB> I have just relocated from Normandy, France to Boston,
CB> MA. I am wondering if any of you in the Boston area
CB> would have any suggestion about an ISP whether it is
CB> vi
Ray Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
RP> I'm going to start waiting till the evening to do apt-get
RP> dist-upgrade on my testing boxen. So did anything break today?
If you want a distribution that you know will work, you should run
stable. While testing contains things that are believed to
jdls <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
j> I recently installed helix-gnome and would rather not have gdm load
j> auto- matically. With xdm I could just remove xbase, then xdm so
j> prevent it from starting but with gdm, dpkg would not allow it not
j> unless I remove task-helix-gnome :( what can I do?
R
Vadim Kutsyy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
VK> Any recomendation on afs client?
VK> I remember there was one for Linux, but can not remember the name, nor
VK> any links to it.
Open AFS is in unstable, and it works very well for me (at least, with
a private cell; I haven't heard people complaining a
Christopher Mosley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
CM> Would you recommend any other kernels other than 2.4.0 as not being
CM> fjucked up?
I wouldn't trust 2.4.0, especially given that Linux kernels a.b.c for
c << 10 have historically had problems and that 2.4.1 is already out.
OTOH, I use 2.2.18 with
John Griffiths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
JG> Ok guys, using the helpful discussions on this list in the past
JG> i've installed my shiny new cd-rw (for office backup purposes, not
JG> MP3's)
(There's absolutely nothing dishonorable IMHO about using a CD-RW to
burn CDs of MP3s. Carrying around o
Thomas Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
TM> Adding user to group DISK solved my problem.
You almost definitely don't want to add users to group disk, since
that gives them read/write access to raw devices for all of your disks
(meaning that they can directly read the bits off the hard disk,
mea
Tristan Chamberlain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
TC> When trying to login on linux, I type my username in and then
TC> immediately, without prompting for a password, tells me "Login
TC> Incorrect".
TC>
TC> I am using sid, and everything was working fine this morning until I did
TC> apt-get upgrade
Debian User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
DU> Is it possible to list the installed packages (e.g. in the format used in
dselect ( *** Req base tar 1.13.17-2 1.13.17-2 GNU tar )).
DU>
DU> I often have the problem that I know that I have a tool for a
DU> problem, but I cannot remembe
Juan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Juan> Which package should I have to install to avoid that error?
'dpkg --remove xserver-xfree86' will cause you to not see that
error...but that's probably not what you wanted to do. :-)
Really, this:
_X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 1
For compiling kernels on Debian systems, I highly recommend using the
kernel-package package, which will build Debian packages out of kernel
source fairly painlessly. It's also the standard way to build add-on
modules such as ALSA, OpenAFS, or lm-sensors that are distributed as
separate packages.
Martin F Krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
MFK> how can you {add,multiply,negate,divide} two scalars in TeX/LaTeX?
MFK>
MFK> in a new command that i am writing (it places a \picture), i want to
MFK> use one of the two arguments (width) and \linewidth or \textwidth to
MFK> calculate the remaining
Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
AO> if you only wanted to change the local dot files... oh well...
AO> we all learn and remember the hard way... :-)
AO> shoulda been: chmod pattern ~/.*
...which will still catch ~/. and ~/.., which you don't want.
(Particularly as root, whose home dire
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