Re: gsfonts-x11 removal problems

2002-05-08 Thread Marc Wilson
On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 08:09:16PM -0500, Colin Watson wrote: > The offender would appear to be libgnomeprint-data (and hence > libgnomeprint15, and hence large quantities of GNOME). I'm not familiar > with why it might be doing this, so I haven't filed a bug. I don't claim to understand the packa

Re: gsfonts-x11 removal problems

2002-05-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 01:54:12AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 08:44:52PM -0400, Jack Howarth wrote: > > I don't see why something like gsfonts-x11 should be tethered to all > > of these packages in debian sid. > > Most distressing. There had better be a good reason f

Re: couple issues

2002-05-08 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 08:36:51PM +0300, Jaakko Niemi wrote: > Is there a way to get twm or fvwm start without -transcoded? Yes; I do it all the time. > Second thing I ran, is that xftcache barfs in xfonts-scalable > postinst, because libXft.so.1 is not yet available at that > point. Stra

couple issues

2002-05-08 Thread Jaakko Niemi
Hi, Just finished couple hours head-to-table whackin session. Try 'apt-get install x-window-system' and then start twm. No go, as xfonts-base-transcoded is not installed. Took quite a bit of time to figure out what I was missing. Is there a way to get twm or fvwm start without -transcode

mathematica solved

2002-05-08 Thread Jack Howarth
Thanks to Felix Homann hint to look at... http://support.wolfram.com/mathematica/systems/linux/interface/fonterrors.html ...I solved the error message from mathematica. The origin of the problem was that I had over 3522 fonts and the setting in... /usr/local/mathematica/SystemFiles/FrontEnd/

Re: mathematica vs sid

2002-05-08 Thread Felix Homann
Hello, maybe you would like to take a look at http://support.wolfram.com/mathematica/systems/linux/interface/fonterrors.html This helped me (on a SuSE system). Felix -- * * * * Felix

Re: gsfonts-x11 removal problems

2002-05-08 Thread Branden Robinson
On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 08:44:52PM -0400, Jack Howarth wrote: >Does anyone understand why gsfonts-x11 seems to be so deeply > entrenched in the system after it is installed? I tried to > apt-get remove it and I get... > > apt-get remove gsfonts-x11 > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building