[OT] deleting pictures from digital camera via computer?

2003-10-30 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Hi all, I am using a Nikon CoolPix 3100 digital camera. It is pretty easy to set up in Debian unstable. It doesn't seem to be supported by gphoto2 or gtkam, but one can mount it as a USB mass storage device after installing hotplug, following the directions at this page: http://home.gagme.com

Simple terminal question

2002-10-10 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Hi all, Are there any terminal emulators that have an option to save the contents of the terminal buffer to a text file? Gnome-terminal (the version in woody, at least) doesn't seem to have such an option, and if I remember correctly, xterm doesn't either. Thanks in advance, -- Kevin McCart

New cernlib packages: physicists, please test

2003-08-15 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Hi all, I posted this on debian-devel two days ago, but have received no responses, so thought I would reach a larger number of people by posting here as well. A bit over a year ago, I filed an ITP [1] [2] on Cernlib [3], a set of libraries and programs used at Cern including the analysis program

Re: debian architectures

2004-11-19 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
ostly found in some gaming consoles. Not clear if Debian will ever officially support it due to the rarity and slowness of the machines. There are also "hurd-i386" and "bsd-i386" which are using kernels other than the Linux kernel, running on Intel 32-bit machines. These ar

Re: [OT] Can I make a prototype Free and sell the final product?

2004-11-22 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
cs" a.k.a. http://mathworld.wolfram.com comes to mind: http://slashdot.org/yro/01/11/06/2028252.shtml ObDisclaimer: IANAL, and you might get better advice on debian-legal. regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.prince

Odd eggdesktopentries.c messages when Gnome packages installed

2004-12-10 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
t's a symptom of? thanks, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG public key ID: 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of &q

Re: Odd eggdesktopentries.c messages when Gnome packages installed [solved]

2004-12-10 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
er.desktop so that the contents aren't repeated. regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG public key ID: 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PR

Re: Debian and Dell?

2004-12-16 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
but can be obtained at www.real.com ). As far as I know Shockwave is not supported natively even on x86 Linux, but there is CrossOver, a proprietary ($20?) version of Wine that allows you to run a lot of Windows plugins and programs seamlessly; maybe it supports a Shockwave plugin. Hope

Re: Multiple installed kernel-image packages?

2004-12-28 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
ges changing at some point in the past, and the "-686" or "-686-smp" suffix tells you the "subarchitecture" of CPU for which the package was compiled. Running "grep-available -FProvides -sPackage kernel-image" will give you a list of kernel packages known to APT on

Re: Multiple installed kernel-image packages?

2004-12-29 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
image shows me? The latter shows every package with "kernel-image" in the name; the former only shows packages that explicitly claim to provide a kernel-image. There isn't much difference, except that your command shows the "latest kernel image" metapackages and the on

Re: Maple 9.5 interfaces on Debian box

2005-01-05 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
ock is on. regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG public key ID: 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscrib

Re: big trouble in upgrading from Debian 3.0 to 3.1

2005-06-16 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
use the version of aptitude from Sarge: http://www.debian.org/releases/sarge/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.html as aptitude is smarter about dependencies than apt-get. (It also has the nice feature of remembering which packages were installed only in order to fulfill dependencies.) regards, -

Re: Am I hacked?

2005-06-16 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
y over the files) if you don't know whether apt-get et al. have been trojanned. -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: Oldstable? Abandoned Packages? Alternatives?

2005-06-16 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
and the old version of the library is no longer available for Debian and can't be installed. This is probably on the order of a few years. Hope this answers your question, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton Uni

Strange problem with sound in Flash plugin (maybe OT)

2001-12-01 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Hi all, This is a really weird problem with sound in Flash movies. The problem is that the sound only plays once in a while. E.g., if I point Mozilla at the well-known Star Wars Gangsta Rap animation, http://www.its.caltech.edu/~po/gangsta.swf, and I keep reloading the animation, I will get sound

IMPORTANT: security hole in colorize in unstable

2001-10-29 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Hi all, I just noticed that version 0.3.0-2 of the colorize package (the one in unstable; the testing version is OK) has all of its files owned by user/group 1004. I filed a critical bug, #117572, against the package. * To see if you are affected: ls -l /usr/bin/colorize * If this has use

Re: Wordperfect 8 now is broken for current Debian/Sid

2001-11-14 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
I just saw your email and realized that I had the same problem. After some playing with strace, here is a fix that doesn't involve downgrading! The problem is due to the new version (3.3.6-39) of xlib6. Step 1: If it isn't already there, add the line /usr/i486-linuxlibc1/lib to your /etc/ld.s

Re: Wordperfect 8 now is broken for current Debian/Sid

2001-11-14 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
> Dear Kevin: > > Thank you very much. This fixed the problem. It is because of folks > like you that make Linux such a pleasure to use! > > It seems a bug report for xlib6 is on order. Has one been submitted. > I would be happy to do so it need be. Yes, see bug reports #118796 and #119643

Warning: Do NOT upgrade base-passwd in unstable!

2002-01-20 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
If you are running unstable, do NOT upgrade the base-passwd package!!! Version 3.2.2 has a critical bug which causes it to swap the UIDs and GIDs for users in the /etc/passwd file. (See bug reports #130032 and 130085.) I found this out the hard way. The simple fix if it's already happened to you

Re: apt-get -f install question..

2004-09-30 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
ts. It isn't clear to me why the xnview package also contains /usr/.../app-defaults; instead it probably should contain an /etc/X11/app-defaults directory and whatever files it needs under there. You should inform the people who provided the xnview package of the problem. regards, -- K

Re: apt-get 'search'?

2004-10-03 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
rally easier to use, although it's harder (maybe impossible?) to fine-tune exactly how it will search. regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG public key ID: 4F83C751 Prin

New vim-doc package in unstable is very broken; don't install!

2004-11-11 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
track the problem at bugs # 280824 and 280825 (be nice to the vim maintainers and don't submit any more duplicates; they are providing a fix as fast as possible). regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/

Re: New vim-doc package in unstable is very broken; don't install!

2004-11-11 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
On 11/11/2004 06:45 PM, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: > I was just bitten by a problem in the preinst of the latest version of > the vim-doc package. If you are tracking unstable, put it on hold until > version 1:6.3-031+2 becomes available; version 1:6.3-031+1 will delete > any symlinks

Re: printing from firefox

2004-11-17 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
lent, but xprt is pretty broken, so I'm not sure why it is even packaged. I think you can also print to PostScript in Firefox without using Xprint -- in the Print dialog, change the "Printer" selection box to read PostScript/default, then in Properties you can set options for lp

Re: CD malfunction on Sarge "testing" install

2004-11-17 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
nd therefore would not > install. I didn't know who else to report this to so I posted it here. You probably want to email [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead. If they're unable to help, try debian-boot. regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://

Re: Firefox, Thunderbird etc.

2004-11-18 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
: http://www.jwsdot.com/debian/install.html I think he's waiting for people to test them some before making an upload to unstable. -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG public key ID: 4F83C751

Re: Problem with apt-get and circular dependencies

2004-11-18 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
. In order of (IMO) decreasing preference: http://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2004/11/msg00096.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2004/11/msg00093.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2004/01/msg00140.html regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WW

Cite for print-to-postscript exploit in Mozilla?

2004-07-09 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
execute any > shell commands in the content of the current user. > Sure, if you want that enable it again. Thanks and regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG public key ID: 4F83C751

Re: Cite for print-to-postscript exploit in Mozilla?

2004-07-09 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
print from unstable, and go through the apparently non-trivial task of getting it to work well. By the way, is PDF also Turing-complete with the accompanying security issues? regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/

Re: Cite for print-to-postscript exploit in Mozilla?

2004-07-12 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
orted to woody? regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG public key ID: 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsub

Re: could you give a link for xfree 4.3 deb-s for woody? thanks

2004-01-12 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Put in /etc/apt/sources.list : deb http://backports.org/debian/ stable/pre xfree86 deb-src http://backports.org/debian/ stable/pre xfree86 See here for more information: http://backports.org/installation.html regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW

Defective Gnumeric cursor

2003-07-26 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Hi, Just started up Gnumeric (version from unstable: 1.1.19-1) for the first time in a while. The Gnumeric cursor, the one that looks like a cross, appears to be deformed. This isn't a problem with the app itself, because upon installing the gnumeric1.0 package instead (which is based on GTK+

"Permissions on the file /dev/pmu are broken"

2004-06-01 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
error message (so I can file a bug against it for not giving a better error message), and what the permissions on /dev/pmu are supposed to be? Mine are currently rw---, owned by root.root thanks, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.e

Heads up: latest libcurl2 package broken

2004-06-03 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble

Please test Cernlib & PAW on AMD64 and "exotic" arches (sample test included)

2004-06-15 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
the test to succeed. Please also let me know how the existence and non-existence of that file affect the test results. thanks and regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C7

Re: unresolved kernel symbols

2004-08-11 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
is should be the case by default in sarge and sid) and recompile. regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG public key ID: 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: Sarge not printing

2004-08-12 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
lution yet. Someone filed a bug on this problem against gs, although who knows whether that is actually the culprit. The similarly afflicted or the morbidly curious can follow along at http://bugs.debian.org/258042 . regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Depa

Re: Sarge not printing [WORKAROUND]

2004-08-13 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
On 08/12/2004 05:03 PM, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: > For what it's worth, I started experiencing the same problem beginning > perhaps a couple weeks ago. The weird thing is that my cluster is > running woody except for a few backports! One of them was gs 7.07, so I > downgraded

Re: dpkg / apt equivalent to 'rpm -qf'?

2004-08-24 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
ajority of postinst-created files in /etc don't meet either of these criteria, so the suggestion makes sense there. My understanding is that there is long-term work planned on dpkg to allow registering a list of related files on package installation, even if they aren't actually in the p

Re: Trying to build agpgart.o with an rpm from Intel

2004-08-26 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
gart" as root? Now, I'm not sure whether the XFree86 in woody is new enough to recognize current i810 boards, but maybe you can try sarge or sid. -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton Uni

Re: Sun Java - revisited

2004-08-27 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
/libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2: usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 So probably you want to "apt-get install libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2". (The apt-file tool is in a package of the same name, incidentally. You can also look up packages by filename at http://packages.debia

Re: rm difficult filename

2004-09-08 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
tion before deleting. [1] Yes, I'm aware of "cd -" and there are probably other special cases. regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG public key ID: 4F83C751

Re: cannot install xfree86-common via apt

2004-09-08 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
nd then reinstall t1-cyrillic: # dpkg --purge t1-cyrillic # apt-get install xfree86-common # apt-get install t1-cyrillic This should work since /usr/lib/X11 is shipped as a symlink in xfree86-common and as a directory (the bug) in t1-cyrillic. Good luck, -- Kevin B. McCarty <

Re: file/dir rights management

2004-09-08 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
ver the 'net without encryption, so anyone snooping on the connection could steal them? I suggest SFTP as an alternative -- it unfortunately isn't as featureful as some FTP clients, but at least it will encrypt passwords. [If you are only using FTP on a closed trusted LAN, of course, I

Re: gtk package

2004-09-08 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
k you need "apt-get install libgtk2.0-dev" in order to get the pkg-config file, .so symlinks, etc. regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG public key ID: 4F83C751

Re: forms.c and forms.h

2004-09-09 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
ource code, you can get it with "apt-get source ". regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG public key ID: 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: mobility radeon driver

2004-09-09 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
rgument append="video=radeonfb" to your default kernel entry, then run the bootloader installer (e.g. lilo) if necessary. * Reboot and start X -- good luck! Run glxgears to see if your video acceleration is working. regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics

Invisible fonts in Xpdf widgets

2004-09-15 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
03040 FreeType 1, The FREE TrueType Font Engine, s > ii ttf-bitstream- 1.10-3 The Bitstream Vera family of free TrueType f > ii ttf-freefont 20031008-1.1 Freefont Serif, Sans and Mono Truetype fonts > ii ttf-opensymbol 1.1.2-3 The OpenSymbol TrueType font Any suggestions?

Re: Adding a kernel module - to get iptables to work.

2004-09-17 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
dules I use in my firewall (2.4 kernel) are: ip_tables iptable_filter ip_conntrack ip_conntrack_ftp iptable_nat ip_nat_ftp ipt_limit ipt_multiport iptable_mangle ipt_state ipt_REJECT ipt_LOG but you may not need all of these, depending upon what you are doing. regards, -- Kev

Re: Error installing libgimp2.0 on Debian unstable

2004-04-04 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
libgimp2.0 and gimp-data packages. The "correct" thing to do is install the package with the --force-overwrite command to dpkg: dpkg -i --force-overwrite /var/cache/apt/archives/libgimp2.0*.deb regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http:

Latest kernel security upgrade in woody is BROKEN! DO NOT INSTALL!

2004-04-14 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
reboot. hoping this warning is timely and not _too_ redundant, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PRO

kernel security update seems fixed now

2004-04-15 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Kevin B. McCarty wrote: Dear all, It seems that at least on ix86, the latest woody security updates for the kernel packages are completely broken. The kernel packages named kernel-image-2.4.18-1- with version 2.4.18-13 contain only one module. DO NOT upgrade to these packages or your system

Mozilla Thunderbird questions

2004-04-18 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
instance I'm writing a bug report, I want it to wrap paragraphs of text, but not the error messages I include inline. Is the context menu "Paste Without Formatting" what I'm looking for? Thanks in advance for any hints, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics D

Re: Mozilla Thunderbird questions [partly solved]

2004-04-18 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Well, here's a partial answer to one of my questions. Posting it here in the hopes it helps others, too. Kevin B. McCarty wrote: > 2) How can I force Thunderbird not to wrap specific long lines in an > email? If for instance I'm writing a bug report, I want it to wrap >

Re: OpenSSL version 0.9.7e ?!

2006-11-16 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
openssl but are not fixed in the Debian package in Sarge, please contact the Debian security team or file a severity "grave" bug in the Debian BTS! best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton Un

Re: /etc/ld.so.conf for dpkg-buildpackage issue

2006-11-18 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
commoncpp2_1.5.1-4.diff.gz [2] Not on alpha, mips, or mipsel, since IIRC fakeroot doesn't work there and they actually build things using sudo. Hope this helps, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton Universit

Re: Changelogs on packages.debian.org

2006-11-18 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
functionality will be restored? I verified the problem, and submitted it as a bug [1] against the www.debian.org pseudopackage [2], so hopefully soon. [1] http://bugs.debian.org/399236 [2] http://bugs.debian.org/www.debian.org regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Debian website broken ???

2006-11-27 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
all seem to work for me, it is only the pages for stable that are broken. Is it possible this is just a temporary state while p.d.o is in the process of being updated? I think it gets updated every 24 hours but I don't know the exact times at which this happens. -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMA

Re: Problem with: #include

2006-08-21 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
son your build has defined __GNUC__ to have a value of 4 or greater anyway? Let the list know if these suggestions don't help. It might also be helpful if you posted the problematic file "cube.cpp". regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> P

Re: Problem with: #include

2006-08-21 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
gustavo halperin wrote: > Kevin B. McCarty wrote: >> The _X_SENTINEL macro is defined in /usr/include/X11/Xfuncproto.h >> -- try installing the latest version of the x11proto-core-dev >> package that supplies this file. (Should be version 7.0.4-3 in Sid >> or Etch.

Re: Problem with: #include

2006-08-22 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
he package names and versions.) And to find the backports you have installed from XOrg 6.9: > grep-status -FSource xorg-x11 --and -FStatus 'install ok installed' -s > Package,Version regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.pri

Re: xlibs in etch

2006-08-25 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
m Sid on your Etch machine (this may not work due to newer library dependencies in the Sid packages), or (c) try to build the vlc source package from Sid on your Etch machine, and (if successful) install the resulting binary debs. Probably (b), if it works, or (c) if not, is the best idea si

Re: How to list all the non-free packages installed

2006-09-11 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
query. > Similarly for packages from `unstable, or `experimental'? This one can't be done by grep-status et al because information about the distribution from which the package came isn't provided in dpkg's status file. But apt-show-versions can help. regard

Re: aptitude update and pdiff files

2006-09-12 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
conf(5) man page; maybe because it was just added recently. regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

Re: fixing .txt files sent from a MS$ user

2008-04-04 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
-Pepson N.B. the ' and " characters need to be escaped from the shell in the second argument on the command line above. tr is even in "coreutils" so you don't have to install anything extra. best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://www.starplot.org/ WWW: http://people.debian.org/~kmccarty/ GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: how th generate like oficial site from packages (or CD's)

2008-04-10 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
rections are obsolete, look at [1] instead" near the top of that page. [1] http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/286 best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://www.starplot.org/ WWW: http://people.debian.org/~kmccarty/ GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 s

Re: [OT] C++ programming: keeping count of data items read from file

2008-05-07 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
d parsing). std::getline() ? I think there is a version that outputs the result as a string, from which you can then create an istringstream. You can read numbers from an istringstream the same way as from cin with ">>" operators, so the amount of parsing should be minimal (as long

Re: mac grapher for linux

2008-05-14 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
F2("func", "sin(x)*sin(y)", -10, 10, -10, 10) func.Draw("surf4") I think the existing unofficial packages were built against python 2.4, so you'd have to install and run that version of Python explicitly, but the forthcoming official ones will use python 2.5. R

Re: Minimal X-Windows Setup

2006-10-02 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
onts-scalable as well as or instead of xfonts-100dpi if you wish. You can try not installing xbase-clients, but I don't know how well things will work.) ... and then uninstalling all the xserver-xorg-* packages except the ones appropriate to his system. Note, I haven't at all

RE: Minimal X-Windows Setup

2006-10-02 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
put drivers. Just make sure you know exactly which one you need! And if you change your hardware in the future, remember that you may need to install new -video- and/or -input- packages to suit. best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.prince

Re: apt bug 388708

2006-10-02 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
e bug log page. A version 0.6.46.1exp1 has been uploaded to experimental with this bug fixed, and you may want to test that version of the package. I hope this bugfix can make it into Etch! regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.e

Re: Minimal X-Windows Setup

2006-10-02 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
is adding > 'suggests'. aptitude normally adds this, so you may see more things ^^ ITYM "recommends" > being downloaded. So checkout the aptitude options to turn this off and > it will install less things. best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PR

Re: apt bug 388708

2006-10-03 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
5 (2006/07/28) and you get the set of apt packages from that date. Anyway, this should be a direct link to the .deb file you need: http://snapshot.debian.net/archive/2006/07/28/debian/pool/main/a/apt/apt_0.6.45_i386.deb Hoping this helps. best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROT

Re: modern Gnucash still needs libglib1.2?

2006-10-03 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
t maintain > guile-g-wrap and can't be responsible for the dependencies of their > dependencies... heh. Doesn't it cause segfaults if gnucash is linked (directly or indirectly) against two different ABI versions of libglib? Or does glib use symbol versioning to prevent that? --

Heads up - mplayer now in Sid!

2006-10-26 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
interesting relevant links: http://wiki.debian.org/MPlayer http://people.debian.org/~mjr/legal/mplayer.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/09/msg00915.html (n.b. I have absolutely nothing to do with mplayer in any way, I just thought this would be interesting news for debian-user)

Re: tremendous size for ".xsession-errors"

2006-10-31 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
d work? I don't know a way to reduce the verbosity offhand. -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Whither CERNLIB (, Paw, Geant3.21) in Debian? RFA / future plans

2008-09-08 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
fficial RFAs to the BTS and send a note to debian-science that PAW and friends are slated for doom. In the meantime, prospective maintainers may want to take a look at my "CERNLIB on Debian" pages at http://people.debian.org/~kmccarty/cernlib/ and also at the source packages (prepare to

Any interest in Debian packages of Geant 4?

2005-12-22 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
initely not upload them into Debian, but instead would create a "geant4-data-installer" package in contrib that downloaded them from CERN's web site - let CERN pay for the bandwidth! Happy Holidays to all, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: ht

Re: Where to file a package-dependency bug?

2006-01-02 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
ons are true enough, you only need one of the sets of fonts installed. regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Where are GTK devel packages?

2006-01-02 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
; apt-get install mplayer-386 mozilla-mplayer" and you should be all set. (Note: you can install mplayer-586 or mplayer-k6 instead of mplayer-386 to get a version more optimized for your system, depending on your CPU.) regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department

Re: Where to file a package-dependency bug?

2006-01-02 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
ly unintentional. By the way, while checking into this, I found that the reportbug in sid actually crashes when one runs "reportbug x-window-system-core". Just filed as #345699. -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccart

Re: Where to file a package-dependency bug?

2006-01-03 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
ends, etc. Apt-get is sort of the "reference implementation" of APT. On the other hand, aptitude doesn't have the functionality of (for instance) "apt-get source" or "apt-get build-dep". I think you can continue using "apt-cache policy" without any wo

Re: gnome & firefox & thunderbird

2006-01-23 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
en links from other applications in: (o) a new window ( ) a new tab in the most recent window ( ) the most recent tab/window Sounds like you want the first of these options. regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/

Re: install krita. Broken pipe. Do I need a plumber?

2006-02-01 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
archives/krita_*.deb to tell dpkg that you want it to overwrite the common file instead of griping about it. regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princ

Re: Inverse and Forward Search : This is not what I expected in TeTeX

2006-02-02 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
re to say so in the bug report. If on the other hand you have a locally compiled version from upstream, probably you should send the bug report directly to the upstream TeTeX authors. Good luck, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.prince

Re: lyx-common 1.3.4-2 file has got a loop hole

2006-04-14 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
you should probably go through their help forums first, not Debian's. regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUB

Re: apt-get install: unmet dependencies

2006-04-14 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
o include the same file without taking special measures. The bug would be in either sendmail-bin or fastforward. I can't find fastforward listed in the Debian package database -- is it an unofficial package? -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.p

Re: fluent like software

2006-04-18 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
aid for a lot of proprietary software! > I am looking software which is around it, > not necessary having all that properies. > thanks for help > best regards Maybe try asking on the debian-science list? regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW:

Re: C++: Math function round() does not compile - why?

2006-02-14 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
u might need to put the #define before _any_ #include statement and maybe specifically #include features.h.) For instance: #define _ISOC99_SOURCE #include #include If I've put together the clues correctly, setting this macro is equivalent to the -std=c99 option. See the comment

Re: Sometimes nothing happens when printing to network printers

2006-02-28 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
ething. Deleting the file fixed the problem. If I remember correctly it was called ".lpoptions". Maybe this will help you? Good luck, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID

Re: printing problem

2006-03-01 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
tting of ServerName in the file /etc/cups/client.conf (and then running "/etc/init.d/cupsys restart") ? /usr/bin/lpr is the version of lpr in the cupsys-bsd package, right? (Run "dpkg -S /usr/bin/lpr" to check) Good luck, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics De

Re: bug with the mailing list archive

2006-03-01 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
ive: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2005/02/thrd2.html#00372 regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: printing problem

2006-03-02 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Olafur Jens Sigurdsson wrote: > Þann 2006-03-01, 12:54:20 (-0500) skrifaði Kevin B. McCarty: >>Olafur Jens Sigurdsson wrote: >>>Hi again, after trying a few stuff out I think that when I try to >>>print using lp -dojs (or lpr -Pojs, where ojs is the name of the >&g

Stupid shell script question about "read"

2006-03-02 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
em to happen when a pipe is involved. Posh and dash behave like bash in this respect, so I guess that this is not a bug, and that what zsh does is actually an extension. So, what is the correct POSIX-compatible way to get "read" to work as I want? Thanks in advance, -- Kevin B. McCart

Re: Stupid shell script question about "read" [SOLVED]

2006-03-03 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
( read -r a b c; echo "a='$a' ; b='$b' ; c='$c'" )`" eval "$result" # test that $a $b $c have the right values echo "$a $b $c" Tested on Sarge with zsh, bash, dash and posh :-) Of course, rep

Re: unreadable xterm :)

2002-05-05 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
> Can I start xterm in unreadable mode by default or with a certain > option? I mean unreadable as when chosen with ctrl+right click > "Unreadable". > > andrej xterm -fn nil2 (-fn tells it what font to load) -- Kevin McCartyPhysics Department [EMAIL PROTECTED] Princeton Uni

Stupid pan question

2002-05-17 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Hi, Somehow I seem to have gotten my pan newsreader into a state where it doesn't display articles in the header pane in threaded mode, just in flat mode. How do I get it back to threaded mode? I can't find any menu items that seem relevant. (It's version 0.11.3-2, if that makes any differenc

Re: Wordperfect 8 on Woody? libXpm-problem

2002-05-22 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
> Is the problem perhaps that libXpm.so.4.11 is not the correct version > for WordPerfect? You probably need to install the libc5 version of libXpm. Same version number, but located in the directory /usr/lib/libc5-compat. It can be found in the package xpm4.7, located in the "oldlibs" section of

Re: undefined reference to 'something'

2005-07-12 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
or the ugly underscore, you can #define wssmp wssmp_ (etc.) at the top of the file where you declare the functions. regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751

Re: undefined reference to 'something'

2005-07-12 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
_compiled" references. I don't know offhand what magic incantations are needed to make G++ link against pgf90 libraries. Section 6.13 of this web page I found via Google looks like it might be helpful: http://www.dcsc.sdu.dk/docs/PGI/pgiws_ug/pgiug_07.htm#Heading97 The table of contents f

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