Hi all. I'm using Sarge, and need to put together a presentation that
will be burnt on a CD, and taken to a conference where it will be loaded
in Acrobat and projected on a screen. The samples in TexPower (already
PDFs) look pretty cool, but if I try running the sample tex file, and
then viewing wi
I am using Debian sarge, and have two applications which I use to create
maps (GMT, Generic Mapping Tools) and plots (GRACE). The problem I have
is that a journal that I am submitting to requires the use of a comma
instead of a point for the decimal. The data I am inputting into the two
programs is
I recently recompiled my kernel using kernel-source-2.4.22 in testing. I
included samba file system support in the kernel.
Previously, I had no problem printing on two printers on different
WIN200 machines on our network but now I can't. The print jobs just stay
in the /spool/lpd/printer directory
Hi all,
I did a dist-upgrade yesterday with sarge, and had a problem. If I use
"apt-get -f install" , I get the following error:
Removing pxfonts ...
chmod: failed to get attributes of `/etc/texmf/dvips/updmap': No such
file or directory
dpkg: error processing pxfonts (--remove):
subprocess pre-re
Hi all, Happy New Year.
Thought I'd finish out the year with one newbiesque question. At work,
I'm trying to print from my Debian box (woody) on a Lexmark Optra M412
(a postscript compatible laser printer) connected to a networked Windows
machine. I'm presently using apsfilter and lpr (although I h
I've had a few hiccups lately with Sarge (on a linux box named tracer),
that seem to be related to gconf and gconf2 which I first noticed when
trying to start Galeon.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Glen
Both gconf processes seem to be running:
tracer:/home/glen# ps jaxwww
I noticed that free-amp is listed in under testing if I use "Search
Package Directories" on the web. The link to the download, however goes
to potato, rather than testing. If I do an "apt-get install freeamp" my
sources list (testing main contrib non-free) cannot find freeamp, since
it is listed i
I've upgraded my kernel before, with the ususal procedures. I noticed in
Debian Planet
http://www.debianplanet.org/debianplanet/sections.php?op=viewarticle&artid=4
the suggestion that it is better after using "make menuconfig" or "make
config" to make a kernel package from the kernel_image, using
Problem #1:I've been running Woody without much of a problem for a
couple of months. Yesterday I upgraded the kernel to 2.4.2, and every 5
minutes I get the following message added to mail:
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cron Daemon)
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Cron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> if [ -x /usr/b
My /etc/cron.d/mrtg reads:
"0-55/5 * * * * root if [ -x /usr/bin/mrtg ]; then /usr/bin/mrtg
/etc/mrtg.cfg; fi"
mrtg exists, but if I type mrtg under su, it says
"bash: /usr/bin/mrtg: No such file or directory"
Should I just comment out the line in /etc/cron.d/mrtg? I am using a
standalone box with
Hi again. Sorry to pester about this. apt-get does not work with testing
(Woody) for me anymore. Nor does dpkg. The problem is with
dpkg-preconfigure, I think. If I try an apt-get dist-upgrade, it exits
with this message:
/bin/sh: /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure: No such file or directory
E: Sub-proce
Joey Hess wrote:
> Glen Snyder wrote:
> > Hi again. Sorry to pester about this. apt-get does not work with testing
> > (Woody) for me anymore. Nor does dpkg. The problem is with
> > dpkg-preconfigure, I think. If I try an apt-get dist-upgrade, it exits
> > with this mes
The ISA Supra Express 56i cards work, PCI cards don't. See:
http://www.idir.net/~gromitkc/20010302a.html
I have an ActionTec PCI call waiting card that works (It took a bit of
tweaking, but their web page explains how). Generally speaking, external
serial modems are "more compatible" , as are I
I've just started playing around with my Palm Pilot using gnome-pilot.
Gnome-calendar looks good, GnomeCard would be better if the addresses
could be integrated into the address list of some internet mail client.
Does Woody have a decent mail client, where I could transfer mail on and
off the pilot
Thanks to Mike for the tip that got the X4 upgrade in testing working
for me. I'm a happy camper again.
I also noticed that Lyx was removed during a recent upgrade in
"testing". I tried to reinstall it but found that it requires
libforms0.89 Since Lyx is (in my opinion) one of the best document
e
,
Glen Snyder
Can't locate Debconf/Client/ConfModule.pm in @INC (@INC contains:
/usr/lib/perl5
/5.005/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.005
/usr/local/lib/site_perl/i386-linux /usr/
local/lib/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5 .) at
/usr/share/console/getkmapchoice.pl lin
e 3.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at
You probably don't want to mix release versions (In other words, if you
are going to use woody, then you should have all of your sources
pointing to woody or testing).
I had the exact same message as you, and fortunately someone was able to
help me out last month
First you want to do an apt-get ins
I still get warnings when using apt-get. I've tried using dpkg to
install perl-5.6 and perl-5.6-base. It does not remove perl-5.005. If I
try to do dpkg -r or apt-get-remove with perl-5.005, I have all sorts of
dependency problems. So I have both perl versions installed. Do I have
to force a replac
Just one more newbie question.
If I run
perl -V:d_setlocale
using the gnome desktop, I get the error messages:
> perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
> perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
> LANGUAGE = (unset),
> LC_ALL = (unset),
> LANG = "c"
I don't have this problem if I lo
I recently added a usb-mouse to a Linux box and decided to do a clean
reinstall with an unofficial woody image, and an upgrade to the 2.4.6
kernel. (This turned out to be much more difficult than just doing a
dist-upgrade to testing from potato that I had done on another
computer). Anyway, the mous
I guess I'll rephrase the question.
I can't start gnome using gdm or xdm under a clean install of Woody that
I just did. The screen goes black, then returns to the menu. Since the
login menu displays ok and the curser moves fine, I don't think it is a
problem with my xf86config.
Any idea which l
If it's any help, I have an ISA sb16, and haven't had any problem with
it. I just recompiled the kernel, and enabled Sound Card Support, OSS
sound modules, then selected 100% sound blaster compatibles
-Glen
Markus Hansen wrote:
> Glen Snyder wrote:
>
> > If it's any help, I have an ISA sb16, and haven't had any problem with
> > it. I just recompiled the kernel, and enabled Sound Card Support, OSS
> > sound modules, then selected 100% sound blaster compatibles
>
Hi. Has anyone produced transparencies using the version of prosper
class in Debian "testing" . I've tried both the example in prosper and
the examples in seminar and I have a problem with things bleeding of the
page when I run latex, and then bizarre scrunched up ouput when I run
tkdvi and no outp
I've tried a number of examples of both the prosper and the seminar
style on the debian woody distibution. I think the problem has to do
with page rotations, somehow.
With prosper:
I cannot create a pdf with dvipdfm, the image is just white with tkdvi
or xgdvi. I can use a2ps and I get a postcrip
Thanks for the tipsI ran out of time on the project, but will try
prosper next time around.
Fortunately, I was able to get my overhead slides put together with the
seminar class. A few things that worked for me (perhaps they will work
for you with the prosper class as well)
Once I made the tex
A really beautiful app for LaTeX documentation in texdoctk. It provides
a centralized menu for all of the documentation and opens all of the
documentation files regardless of whether they are tarred, as dvis,
etc. I could find documentation there that I didn't even know I had.
Unfortunately, texd
Any word on if evolution will move over to testing any time soon (Or is
it frozen out of woody for the time being?)??
The mailserver at my work has both ssh and ssh2 installed. I do not have
any problem using ssh with a key generated with "ssh-keygen" on my
woody box at home to check my mail at work. I figured I would try dsa
though, and that's where I have problems.
If I use "ssh-keygen -t dsa" at home to g
Pete Harlan wrote:
When you say the work machine has ssh and ssh2 installed, do you mean
openssh version 2 and non-free ssh2, or is the ssh something else?
In any case, the nonfree ssh2 uses a different format for the dsa keys
than the openssh version does, so you can't just blindly copy the ke
I installed Nautilus from testing, and let it redraw the desktop. I'm
using sawfish with gnome. Nautilus drew some nice icons with sym-links.
Anyway, it threw the icons underneath the Sawfish icons, so it looks
lousy. I tried deleting the old icons, but they reappear when I login. I
can't seem
Thanks for the tips. I was running gmc at the same time as Nautilus was
drawing the desktop.this leads to annoying double icons. As soon as
I removed gmc from the session, the problem went away.
Looking forward to nautilus-mozilla in woody.
-Glen
Hi all.
gnome-apt and freeamp seem to have dropped out of testing for the time
being. Has anyone who is running woody tried using dpkg to install
either of these from sid or are there dependency problems? I guess I
could live without themjust wondering though.
Thanks,
Glen
I use GMT quite a bit on Debian, but I used the install script from
gmt.soest.hawaii.edu
I had to edit .bashrc to get it to work, as follows:
#gmt variables
export NETCDFHOME="/usr/local/src/netcdf-3.4"
export GMTHOME="/usr/local/src/GMT3.3.6"
export PATH="$PATH:$GMTHOME/bin"
Your directories may
Just did an apt-get dist-upgrade
I'm using Woody, and have not had any problem with ximian's Debian
install of Gnome for the past couple months, until now.
The upgrade trashes Gnome big time, as well as Sawfish, Gnumeric, you
name it... It was something in the upgrade that was added just
today5
Hi Brian,
I have had a 4200c for over a year now, and it took me quite awhile to
get it working with Debian. Here's what I had to do:
Go to Sourceforge and download the SANE drivers as tarballs.
Download a patch for the 4200c and apply it to the SANE driver.
Install the Patched SANE driver (I could
If I purge all of the ximian and helix files, that's practically every
application I use99 packages not to mention the others that will
probably be removed because of dependency problems. Debian Woody sets up
gnome 1.0.56 Ximian "Woody" has installed 1.2.11 for some time
now. I think an i
version, but exists in the
database...blah blah blah.
Suggestions on how I can reinstal Gnome will be greatly appreciated.
Thank you in advance,
Glen Snyder
Hi again.
I did another apt-get update (hoping that task-gnome-apps would turn up
again). Now I get an error with apt-get dist-upgrade:
Unpacking kdelibs3 (from .../kdelibs3_4%3a2.1.1-7_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing
/var/cache/apt/archives/kdelibs3_4%3a2.1.1-7_i386.deb (--unpack):
trying to
I've only seen this problem on one computer I use at work, which is
running potato. If I try to open a pdf with acroread, the text repeats
itself and then wraps over onto itself, making the document unreadable
(this is with any pdf file). If I try to advance to another page, it
locks up, crashes, o
On Thu, 2001-11-15 at 15:12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On 15-Nov-01 Glen Snyder wrote:
> > I've only seen this problem on one computer I use at work, which is
> > running potato. If I try to open a pdf with acroread, the text repeats
> > itself and then wraps over onto i
I'm using LaTeX from the Woody distrothere seems to be a bug (or I
am doing something wrong). If I use \documentclass{article} and then use
\pagestyle{empty} , it still insists on putting a page number on the
bottom of the first page (although numbers are not on subsequent pages)
when I gen
Thanks for the tips. Here is what I have figured out (and I still don't
know why) but it may explain why some have reproduced this problem, and
others haven't.
-The problem only exists if you use \maketitle (If I comment out
\maketitle, then placing \pagestyle{empty} before \begin{document}
s
I was wonderingas far as I can tell there are 5 Woody flavors, yet
the unofficial cd-image mirrors seem to have 8 raw (iso) files. Could
someone set me straight on this (since the readme doesn't help much in
the way of outlining the general cd contents. ). I guess all of the
different fla
Has anyone been able to get dia to work worth a darn? I've tried it on
two machines, one with woody and the other with potato. I've tried both
dia-gnome and dia. I can draw just fine, can save it as a dia file, and
can export as and eps file. When I try to open the dia file again, the
sketch is off
> 99% [Scanning packages]Template parse error near "" at
/usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/Template.pm line 60, check 3.
> E: Sub-process /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt returned an error
code (29)
> E: Failure running script /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt
>
> I do not know what to do now.
Just
Hi. I'm running Sarge and wanted to know if this problem is just on my
computer, and if there are any suggestions to fixing this, or if I
should file a bug report.
The grace install works fine with Sarge, but I can't get the install of
grace6 to work. If I start with xmgrace, or gracebat, I get:
B
I'd like to use pop3vscan to run clamscan. I added the following
iptables rule:
# /sbin/iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i eth0 -p tcp --dport 110 -j
REDIRECT --to-port 8110
I then went through the procedures in /etc/default/iptables so that the
rule would remain after rebooting, but that doesn't se
I had the same problem on a home computerI did a couple of things at
once, so I'm not sure which took care of it, so you might want to try
one at a time. Sorry that I can't be more specific, this is probably
overkill and someone can probably give you a more concise way of fixing
things (I like
I just installed the grub-disk package from Sarge. There is no man or
info page for Sarge.grub-doc isn't all that straightforward. As was
mentioned in a previously posted grub-disk wishlist in bugreports it
would be good to have a straigtforward instruction of how to take the
grub-0.93-i386-pc.
Walmart Microtel PCs were recently touted as an alternative for Linux
users, since you can now purchase them at a lower cost without the OS.
My neighbor was asking about them and we checked the web page. I didn't
recommend it, since there is not much info on the hardware. Nor can we
seem to find an
I upgraded a machine at work to Woody. No problem at the start, gdm runs
fine, but both KDE and Gnome (Debian) crash on startup. I also recompiled
the kernel to 2.4.18 and installed DRI and agppart, but not improvement.
It looks like XFree86 probes the card ok:
---cut
(II) Bus -1 non-prefetcha
I'm still trying to get X-Free86 running on a woody box with either a
Voodoo 2000 agp or
a Radion7000pci. I am running Woody with XFree86-4. I've tried recompiling
kernel 2.4.18 using make-kpkg and have versions without agp support,
without agp or DRI support and with both installed or as
modules.
On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, timothy bauscher wrote:
> Try this as root:
>
> mv /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 /etc/X11/XF86Config.SAVE
> cp -f /etc/X11/XF86Config /etc/X11/XF86Config-4
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> (==timothy==)
Thanks for the tip. Unfortunately it didn't work. I've tried several
combinations, as
After upgrading my maching to woody (After many tips on x-config from
other users--thanks) I decided to go from ssh to ssh2 protocol, since
the mail server at work uses this. It works fine and I can connect to
the server, use scp, etc.
Now I want to use sshd2 to login to my machine remotely. I ed
Thanks for the tips, Colin. I reinstalled open-ssh.I was wondering why
the SSH2 bug reports were so old. My main motivation for installing SSH2
was that I log into a mail server at work that uses the commercial SSH2
version. Anyway, after messing around with ssh-keygen in openssh on my
client machi
I first created the key pair using
#ssh-keygen -t dsa,
(Note, unless you leave the name of the keys id_dsa, you'll have to use
-i to identify the keyname with ssh when you connect) Then I converted
to a SSH2 key with
# ssh-keygen -x |my_dsa.pub
I copied my_dsa.pub to the host computer in my ~/.s
Oops, the line should have been:
# ssh-keygen -x > my_dsa.pub
-glen
--- Begin Message ---
I first created the key pair using
#ssh-keygen -t dsa,
(Note, unless you leave the name of the keys id_dsa, you'll have to use
-i to identify the keyname with ssh when you connect) Then I converted
to a SS
I salvaged an old PC166 (48 Mb ram, 6 Gb hd) from the trash bin, and
plan to use it as a server in a home network. I started the install with
an unofficial woody disk. Several anticipated issues with old BIOS (in
this case 1994 AMI BIOS AP5C R1.4) are problems with large partitions,
and the fact t
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