Type (auto-fill-mode it will be
evaluated and used on that buffer.
This is what the muttrc line is doing too.
--
Harry Putnam [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Running Redhat Linux-5.1
Hopefully I will already have accumulated enough knowledge and skill
to do this with minimum help:
Summary: Beginning with no Debian OS at all, and over the network,
get a minimal install, and finally a full blown installation of `Sid'.
Details: Its not so easy to see how the above can be done
"Donald R. Spoon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...]
>> I'm asking for is a general outline of steps required to
>> go from zero to a full install of `sid', over the network. I'm
>> equipped to burn any CDs required.
>>
>
> Hi Harry!
>
> Us "retirees" have to stick to gether .
Hehe ... yes in
"Donald R. Spoon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> To get to SID, all you have to do is edit the /etc/apt/sources.list
> file and change all the instances of "stable" (or woody) to
> "unstable". Do an "apt-get update" and then do a "apt-get
> dselect-upgrade" and sit back and watch(probably abo
I had hoped the install routine would find my nic and know what to
load but as I went thru the initial install, it wasn't found. Any
attempt to select something from the module list for net, failed.
I'm not real sure what card is in there but its one of the commaon
3com cards. I had hoped some k
After initial install of woody 3.0, at the beginning of basic
configuration with nothing but the basic system installed. Upon
aswering yes that I am ready to configure this message is printed to
screen:
Neighbor overflow table
Sounds rather ominous.
Dmesg shows this output:
[...]
During the second phase of woody install, I see a screen that asks me
to configure locales. Seems to be no help on this screen and it isn't
mentioned in the install instructions.
How can I know what to do here? Will basic stuff be setup if I skip
this?
I am somewhat experienced in linux and inst
Anyone who wants the official 6 CD set of woody 3.0
Can send me an address privately. First one I get in my inbox with
snailmail address will get the cds mailed to them.
I've burned up 2 full days, gotten no help whatever from the list.
Found the install routines to be unusable.
All I hear from
"Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>> I have no special foreign language requirements and am a native
>> enlglish speaker. Do I need to select the english ones?
>>
>
> Everything will work fine for English speakers. If you want to add a locale
> later look at /etc/locale.gen a
napshot
Architectures: i386
Note the part that says `Official CD'
Why you ask? I didn't want potato, and foolishly thought that if CDS
were available they would not be totally useless. And I'm no stranger
to development tools.
Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Geordie Birch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> At least `woody' sounded.. well erect :-
> why don't you lose all those cd's, do a network install of stable,
> then, before installing _anything_ beyond base, apt-get dist-upgrade to
> testing or unstable?
dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[.
"Karl E. Jorgensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> How much did you post to the list? I can only find the following
> threads:
> Fresh install no network
> Neighbor table overflow.. what does it mean
> Configuring locales
> Enough time wasted, moving on
You may have a point there.
OK, list posters, you've advised me to coninue my efforts and step
back to potato. (See thread suject `Enough time wasted.. moving on')
A coulpe of posters have suggested a network install. Thing is I have
$40 dollars worth of cds setting here. Surely I can at least use them
to get the base inst
Sebastiaan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> High,
>
> On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Harry Putnam wrote:
>
>> I had hoped the install routine would find my nic and know what to
>> load but as I went thru the initial install, it wasn't found. Any
>> attempt to sele
Just got a basic install running and during the course of setting mail
with the base-config tool, I think I answered something wrong but not
sure what would have been right. Or where to hand edit it.
I have a fair bit of experience with sendmail, but my first go around
with exim.
The details of
> OK, list posters, you've advised me to coninue my efforts and step
> back to potato. (See thread suject `Enough time wasted.. moving on')
You all will be sick of me soon..
Just a little note of apology to the list and for being a crybaby.
(Its not my fault ... its genetic .. :-) )
Also a lit
Bob Thibodeau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> My guess is an irq setting isn't being found correctly. What resources was
> the card successfully using before?
>
Thanks Bob, I've posted the problem with it already but in brief I
hadn't tried to install the correct driver. I used the base-config
to
Managed to get a fresh install of woody running but have no mouse in
console mode. Mouse works in X.
I remember being asked where the mouse was and choosing psaux. It was
just a guess.
How can I debug this? The gpm man page isn't particularly helpfull.
I do see /var/run/gpm.pid. But have no mou
My installation is a dual boot setup with Solaris 8 (intel) on first
master and Debian on second master. Solaris is very particular about
its boot sector I think. So I'm booting from the floppy I made during
install. Each boot takes 4-5 minutes, which is very slow. Seems it
might mean some kind
On a recent install of woody 3.X, if I say startx I get kde, not a
choice window or something but just straight to kde. On boot up I get
a kind of selection window That allows a gnome choice or two.
I don't want anything to do with kde but its been so long since I had
to choose between, I've for
dpkg -l '*desk*' shows a series of hits, all are preceded by
`un'
dpkg -l 'gnome*' shows a number of things some are proceeded by
ii and some by un.
Where does on look to find out what these letters mean. I went thru
man dpkg several times looking for some referrence. A grep with `ii'
gets no
Mark Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> dpkg -l | head
>
> The first 3 lines of the dpkg output list what the letters mean.
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/courier/smtpaccess$ dpkg -l | head
> Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
> |
> Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Ha
Well, I got X working in my fresh woody install, but there are a few
rinkles.
1) I want to boot to console mode and call x with startx.
Currently, I get popped right into X.
I thought this could be contolled by setting the defalult run level
/etc/inittab But I see nothing in there that looks li
Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Well, I got X working in my fresh woody install, but there are a few
> rinkles.
> 1) I want to boot to console mode and call x with startx.
Whee, got lots of help on that one. And a couple easy fixes.
Thank you all.
Now I can startx bu
dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 07:48:59AM -0800, Harry Putnam wrote:
> | Mark Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> |
> | > dpkg -l | head
> | >
> | > The first 3 lines of the dpkg output list what the letters mean.
>
dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...]
> | > A couple of posters have mentioned a network install. Where are the
> | > details spelled out?
>
> http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/install
I read that over a bit before asking the above question. I'll admit I
didn't read all of it word fo
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Considering you are asking about pre-release, unstable, wildly
> unusable software on a users list, rather than the developers one, it
> should come as no surprise no one would be able to offer any help.
Horse pucky.
Manoj, you do a disservi
Carel Fellinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> received valuable help and turns out to be okee afterall. It appeared
> that in the install he was adviced to use a certain driver for his
> nic, turned out to be the wrong driver. Thanks to the list, he's back
Close, but it was actually a helpful po
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > All I hear from Woody is `can't won't or doesn't' And this on a
> > machine that has had 2 flavors of linux, 2 of the BSDs and Solaris
> > (intel) install successfully. Hardware recognized etc.
>
> I do have a hard time being patient with
dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Sure. As I look it over again (it's been a while since I read it),
> the first sentence of Chapter 5 is :
>
> You can install Debian from a variety of sources, both local (CD,
> hard disk, floppies) and remote (FTP, NFS, PPP, HTTP).
>
> Note the FTP and
dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Ok, I'll work on my teaching skills a little more :-).
I think you should be promoted to `oracle' or something. That was
good. It seems so easy once explained, but I'll be damned if I could
see that in it.
Thanks..
Thats another one of those things that once
Chris Jenks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...]
> I've noticed that it will take a couple of hours to get this to you, but...
> what your looking for is .xsession or the .xinitrc
Mark Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...]
> One (of several) ways to do this is (as root):
>
> update-alternat
I may have jacked up my terminfo database.
I built emacs from sources today. A very recent beta of emacs-21.
I used no special flags with ./configure since emacs has quite a smart
configure and make setup. Just ran it like:
./configure
make
make install
There were no build errors or even warn
Hans Ekbrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 11:12:16PM -0800, Harry Putnam wrote:
>> My installation is a dual boot setup with Solaris 8 (intel) on first
>> master and Debian on second master. Solaris is very particular about
>> its boot sect
Mark Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> One (of several) ways to do this is (as root):
>
> update-alternatives --config x-window-manager
>
> You will be presented with a list of alternatives that are currently
> installed on your system. Pick one.
>
> If the one you want isn't there, install
Nic Ferrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> You can fix emacs by using
>
>apt-get install termcap-compat
>
>
> It's about time that emacs supported terminfo but unfortunately there
> is no one with the time to do the work.
Thanks for the usage tips for dpkg. And the above install did get
thin
Matijs van Zuijlen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 02:56:02AM -0800, Harry Putnam wrote:
>> People have told me the debian package manager is more sophisticated
>> yet, and can pull up more detailed info. What do I need to read to get
>> on to
Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Emacs is not finding certain include files for X11 and won't compile
>> with X11 support.
>
> Like redhat's -devel programs, most of the include files in Debian are
> in lib*-dev packages. For the X libraries, I currently have installed
Ahh cool.. Thank
Michel Loos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Mmm, I am quit used to install, 3com NICs and I humbly think you
> mixed 509 with 905, there is nothing in the description of the 3c509
> that says it should work with a 3c905.
> The 3c509(B/TX) are old 10Mb ISA NICs, while you wher looking for the
> 3c905
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Harry> You can keep right on with the `hard guy' routine, but I think its
> Harry> only fair to warn you that my whole body is a weapon. Hands
> Harry> registered on 3 continents. The last guy that called me a juvenile
> Harry> banterer is pushi
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Can you expand on this? Which files are missing? As far as I
> can see, when I reinstall emacs21, it re-downloads the .deb for me,
> and installs it. (a script/log of the failure would be helpful too)
I'd have to reruin the insall now to type
Hans Ekbrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Its pretty clear that I'm using it wrong but I did try to follow the
>> example listed there. What is expected at `pattern'
>
> {foo|bar} means foo OR bar
>
> ~>dpkg -S emacs21
>
> will work, as will
>
> ~>dpkg --search emacs21
>
> or
>
> ~>dpkg -S /us
I wondered if there is a perferred way to handle aquiring perl
modules?
The CPAN interface shell that gets installed with perl provides a
nifty way to search, download, install most of what is on CPAN and
can be enhanced with WAIT (a WAIS based search interface)
All this is pretty easy to use a
A fairly long-time emacs user, I'm accustomed to using a site-start.el
file as a place to do general things. In my single user system it can be
quite a lot since no one else is stuck with it.
Having installed the emac21 package, it seems my site-start.el file from
other installs elsewhere, is not
If I want to find out about a package. I mean, like what it actually
does, what is the right command, when the package is not installed but
apt-cache knows about it?
`apt-cache showpkg ' gives some information but doesn't tell you
what the package does. If its not installed then dpkg -I doesn't
Martin Hermanowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> `apt-cache showpkg ' gives some information but doesn't tell you
>> what the package does. If its not installed then dpkg -I doesn't know
>> about it.
>>
>> Combing thru `man apt-cache' I found the -f (full) operator too but
>> `apt-cache -f show
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Harry> Yikes.. I guess the name is kind of a giveaway but the definition in
> Harry> the man page doesn't come across as giving that kind of information:
>
> Incidentally, if you happen to use dselect (I use dselect with
> apt as a backend
What is the trick to running dh-make-perl so that it works:
Here I said mkdir /usr/local/cpan
cd there and said dh-make-perl --cpan File::Find
Now the manpage gives this syntax:
dh-make-perl [module_source_dir|--cpan module]
Is there special meaning to [module_source_dir|
Am I supposed to be a
"Mark S. Reglewski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> I think that would *really* clear things up a lot. Maybe the
>> explanations could even contain some more spaces.
>
> Excellent. Easier to read and understand than any of the ascii art
> versions. dselect will still strike terror into the hearts
Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> When I ran that command a hefty perl.tar.gz was downloaded with out me
> asking for it. After it was unpacked I get this message:
> [...] snipped massive list of unpacked files
> perl-5.6.1/x2p/walk.c
> perl-5.6.1/xsutils.c
> Can
Angus D Madden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Does anyone know a of utility to check if a symbolic link is valid?
>
> I used a program called vpopbull (part of vpopmail package) to send a
> notice to a bunch of users. To my surprise, vpopbull ignored the
> complete path I gave it and created links
Phillip Deackes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Try installing Storm Package Manager (stormpkg) - a GUI to apt. Very nice
> - I always use it to find info about packages. It is also very good at
> highlighting optional packages which the command-line apt-get does not do.
OK, thanks. Sounds like a
Peak Allan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I want the whole screen visible on my monitor.
>
> Please cc me since I'm not currently subscribed to debian-user.
This won't be much help to you but I want just the reverse. I'm used
to having a huge virtual desktop (1600 1200) but being a newby to
debi
Gary Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi Harry, try here [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've seen all
> kinds of discussions on just this type of question. Some serious emacs
> dev types hang out there. If you can't get an answer there, then the
> only answer is "42"
Oh, thanks, I didn't know about t
John Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> SubSection "Display"
> Depth 24
> Modes "1024x768" "1280x1024" "640x480" "800x600"
> Virtual 1024 768
> Viewport0 0
I hope that helped Peak as much as it did
Running woody (testing)
I've been ignoring this issue and working on other things but I really
miss having my little rodent in text mode.
Its a logitec 3 button ps2, critter that works in X just fine.
I can't remember how to tell with no doubt where the mouse is
connected. At which device. I re
"Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>> So apparently the dh-make-perl overlay is causing this error some how.
>>
>> I need some of the perl modules installed right now for a school
>> project so am installing them directly with the CPAN shell, until I
>> figure out if its my loc
Rob VanFleet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> It seems like this has come up before, but I couldn't turn anything up
> from searching. Basically, I am looking for a procmail rule that will
> detect html mail, and pipe it to a script to strip the tags from it,
> preferably before the other rules are
Petro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 11:48:18PM -0800, Harry Putnam wrote:
>> You can keep right on with the `hard guy' routine, but I think its
>> only fair to warn you that my whole body is a weapon. Hands
>> registered on 3 continents
"Karl E. Jorgensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 07:03:14AM -0800, Harry Putnam wrote:
>> Running woody (testing)
>>
>> I've been ignoring this issue and working on other things but I really
>> miss having my little rodent
If I have the name of a file like xpm.h and want to know what package
contains it. And I find that `apt-cache search xpm.h' doesn't know
about it.
And dpkg -S xpm.h doesn't either
I'm assuming that means it isn't here but might be in a
package in the distro on line somewhere.
Where is the data
John Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Harry Putnam wrote:
>
>
>> > But since the mouse works in X, I assume that that X reads from
>> > /dev/psaux.
>>
>> Edited gpm.conf:
>>
>> device=/dev/psaux
>> responsiven
Carel Fellinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...]
>> > see output of "dmesg"
>>
>> Thought I had already mentioned that neither dmesg or
>> /var/log/messages has any info about gpm.
>> grep gpm /var/log/messages only shows the stale pid being removed
>> dmesg|grep gpm
>
> Just curious, but wha
Vineet Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> * Harry Putnam ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020305 00:29]:
>> /etc/gpm.conf is set to /dev/psaux. So the X mouse cannot be
>> .. right?
>
> Right. Also, as I've said before, adding a symlink in the mix can only
> confuse
Carel Fellinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 08:38:38AM -0800, Harry Putnam wrote:
> ...
>> The message that opened this thread contained that data:
>
> sorry, missed that one. You see, I never got mutt to behave like
> tin with respect to
Johann Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 11:25:06PM -0800, Harry Putnam wrote:
>>
>> If I have the name of a file like xpm.h and want to know what package
>> contains it. And I find that `apt-cache search xpm.h' doesn't know
>>
Johann Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Install auto-apt, do auto-apt update and then you can search like this:$
Thanks Johann. Thats cool.
I posted a dumb reply moments ago without having tried this. Please
ignore it.
Carel Fellinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> With that setup, and in console mode running this command:
>> # /etc/init.d/gpm force-reload
>> Stopping mouse interface server: gpm.
>> Starting mouse interface server: gpm.
>> # ps wuax|grep gpm
>>
>> Appears as if gpm is started but nothing shows
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> If this analysis is correct, there is no bug in emacs (well,
> there is nothing emacs21 packages can do to avoid this). Just don't
> go removing dirs ;-). I generally put things in /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp,
> which takes precedence over pa
Simon Hepburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Looks reasonable.try this from console as root:
>
> #gpm-mouse-test
>
> Anything useful ? If not, re-run gpmconfig, when you get to mouse type, type
> help. You should see a list of all the supported mice types including some
> odd ps2 ones. Suck
Vineet Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> /usr/sbin/gpm -D -m /dev/psaux -t ps2 -Rraw
>
> The -D should be very helpful here; it should keep gpm running in the
> foreground and log messages to stderr. Leave that going on a console to
> see what's going wrong. If gpm just won't start at all, that'
Carel Fellinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 01:29:20PM -0600, Gary Turner wrote:
> ...
>
> Just to make this one stick out amidst all advice given sofar!
>
>> Be sure that /etc/init.d contains gpm. Check the script that it hasn't
>> been disabled, eg. an exit 0 thrown in
will trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> there's http://packages.debian.org/ which
> may help. see newbieDoc.sf.net/system/apt-get-intro.html (items
> 7 and 12, specifically) for more ideas...
Probably blind but I don't see anything there about finding files that
are not installed. (not packa
Simon Hepburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Tuesday 05 Mar 2002 7:25 am, Harry Putnam wrote:
>> If I have the name of a file like xpm.h and want to know what package
>> contains it. And I find that `apt-cache search xpm.h' doesn't know
>> about it.
>
Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> will trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> there's http://packages.debian.org/ which
>> may help. see newbieDoc.sf.net/system/apt-get-intro.html (items
>> 7 and 12, specifically) for more ideas...
>
>
Setup: Stock woody install from testing
Kernel 2.2.20
Comments: X is installed but not running for these tests
Mouse works in X but not in console
If I say:
# /etc/init.d/gpm force-reload
Stopping mouse interface server: gpm.
Starting mouse interface server: gpm.
at th
"Karsten M. Self" writes:
> shocked The fix in this case is to manually delete the
> offending mail. If you don't have shell access to the mail server
> (as the admin, I ;-), you'll have to scrap together enough
> info on the POP mail protocol to list and delete
Corrin Lakeland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I agree, and if Harry had criticised the CDs then I would have refuted that.
> But, looking at Harry's problems, none of them were caused by the
> installation CD which (by luck more than anything) appeared to work
> perfectly. So, I don't think it
More fresh Crow to be eaten it seems:
I've reported in several theads that I thought the section of install
where you pick modules and drivers was inaccurate in its listing for
my nic `3com 905'. I argued that it had the wrong driver listed
adjacent to it.
I was half scared to run base-conf all
Carel Fellinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 10:53:31AM -0800, Harry Putnam wrote:
>> Setup: Stock woody install from testing
>>Kernel 2.2.20
>>
>> Comments: X is installed but not running for these tests
>>
Carel Fellinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> That depends. Is your ps/2 driver compiled in or compiled as a
> seperate module? Look through /boot/config- for the awnser.
Its not clear what any of that means and the only entry seems to be
related to mouse is this:
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PS2=y
I'm g
Carel Fellinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...]
Carel,
Somehow I missed this post of yours
Here are some answers:
> e.g. I.m curious whether the above long gpm command
>
># /usr/sbin/gpm -D -m /dev/psaux -t ps2 -Rraw
>
> did return immediately or kept running and that you did the
>
>#
"Karl E. Jorgensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...]
> I had a sudden thought: perhaps it is time to experiment with the mouse
> type for gpm (completely ignoring X for now).
>
> You've established beyond any doubt that it works in X as a PS/2 mouse
> - and hence the kernel, connection, physical
Carel Fellinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 08:24:22PM -0800, Harry Putnam wrote:
>> Carel Fellinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> ...
>> Its not clear what you want to know here. I just ran the same test
>> again. There is abou
How does one make an extended partition with cfdisk?
This would be the cfdisk used during and install from CD
(woody 3.0)
I'm familiar with fdisk and know how to switch to vt F2 during install
to get a shell where I can use fdisk. And will probably do that, but
just curious now how its done with
During install if you elect to add sources to the
/etc/apt/sources.list it gets added and a nifty test is performed.
How can that be done after install is over. I mean beside just using
apt-get after adding something.
How can I capture the output of ./configure and make during a source
build with apt-get -b source
I think there might be a small bug in the building of emacs21 that
way. The info flew by so quick but I noticed a `no' during
./configure that I think was prompted by a missing library
`libungif4-de
I hope this is the correct group for debian exim4 questions. I'm sure
someone will point me elsewhere if not
- Setup: New install of debian 10, in VBox vm attempting to get exim4
working.
- Internet host with no recognized or dns resolvable name, or domain
- Receives dhcp address, but made
> Reco writes:
> David Wright writes:
> Brian writes:
Thanks to all for the succinct and helpful answers
Sometimes googling excessively can confuse me a bit.
I use both apt and cmdline aptitude. Mostly cmdline aptitude
I'm curios if when I call `apt update' or `aptitude update', if they
are refreshing the same database files... wondering if I could do just
one update on either tool and that would do both.
cat /etc/os-release
PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch)"
NAME="Debian GNU/Linux"
VERSION_ID="9"
VERSION="9 (stretch)"
ID=debian
(running LXDE desktop)
Somewhere in the last few months my Debian OS has acquired an input
box on upper right of base window (in X) that appears to
cat /etc/debian_version
9.4
Summary:
Trying to compile a tool called `mailsend'
(https://github.com/muquit/mailsend/releases/)
(Which does not appear to be available in the regular repo).
But cannot get it to find openssl.
I do have openssl and libssl-dev installed;
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Greg Wooledge writes:
> On Mon, Oct 01, 2018 at 12:47:01PM -0400, Harry Putnam wrote:
>> cat /etc/debian_version
>> 9.4
>
>> I do have openssl and libssl-dev installed;
>
> In stretch, libssl-dev is the development package for OpenSSL version 1.1.
> This is a
Bonno Bloksma writes:
> Hi,
>
>
>
> I have been creating a small (300MB) primary /boot partition at the
> beginning of the disk for as long as I can remember... That is after
> disks got to be too big for the BIOS to reach all of the disk to be
> able to boot from a file anywhere on the disk.
>
>
Googling about virtualbox on debian.. I see only older information.
Looks like the wiki at http://wiki.debian.org/VirtualBox
Appear to be somewhat old too and only goes up to etch. Other stuff
shows its from 2007. I know VirtualBox is under very active
development so wondered if things may have ch
Paul Fraser writes:
> On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 07:21, Harry Putnam wrote:
>> Or any posters here have VirtualBox running on lenny that can say how
>> they did it?
>
> I'd recommend installing VirtualBox from experimental -- 2.1.2 is the
> latest version, as opposed
I have debian lenny in several vmware applications on different
windows machines so some of them don't get run too often.
I noticed firing up one that hasn't been run for a few weeks that the
time is off a by several of hours.
To get it up to speed, looks like I'd have to shut ntpd down, run
ntpd
Ron Johnson writes:
> On 02/22/2009 12:30 AM, Harry Putnam wrote:
>> I have debian lenny in several vmware applications on different
>> windows machines so some of them don't get run too often.
>>
>> I noticed firing up one that hasn't been run for a f
Umarzuki Mochlis writes:
>> And further... what packages are required? I noticed quite a long
>> list with aptitude search
>
> Try installing from virtualbox own repo to get the latest (2.1.4). Check
> http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads
You mean to circumvent the apt tools right?
Do
"Christofer C. Bell" writes:
> To add to this, I encourage using /etc/apt/sources.list.d for adding 3rd
> party repositories. My apt pointer to the VirtualBox repository is in the
> file /etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualbox.list
>
> Which contains the following:
>
> # Sun xVM VirtualBox
> deb http
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