Re: post-installation suggestions for RH 8.0

2002-12-14 Thread Elton Woo
Robert P. J. Day wrote: > as the final page in a chapter i'm writing on RH 8.0 installation, >i want to suggest any post-installation stuff that should be done. > > example: editing /etc/sysconfig/i18n and setting > > LANG="en_US" > >can anyone suggest other little fixes that should be done? t

Re: post-installation suggestions for RH 8.0

2002-12-14 Thread Harry Putnam
"Robert P. J. Day" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > as the final page in a chapter i'm writing on RH 8.0 installation, > i want to suggest any post-installation stuff that should be done. > > example: editing /etc/sysconfig/i18n and setting > > LANG="en_US" > > can anyone suggest other little f

Re: post-installation suggestions for RH 8.0

2002-12-14 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sun, 15 Dec 2002, Martin Stricker wrote: > "Robert P. J. Day" wrote: > > and your solution fixes it only for the man command, not for > > other commands like "acroread", which suffers from the same > > problem. > > You need to do this for each affected software. It's the software that's > br

Re: post-installation suggestions for RH 8.0

2002-12-14 Thread Martin Stricker
"Robert P. J. Day" wrote: > > On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Samuel Flory wrote: > > > Tommy McNeely wrote: > > > the i18n should not be modified. if you have an app that is > > > acting funny, then just do > > > > > > $ export LANG=C > > > $ man whatever > > > > Actually putting this in your .bashrc is

Re: post-installation suggestions for RH 8.0

2002-12-14 Thread Chris Lee
On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Justin Zygmont wrote: > there must be something wrong with it, it can't display certain graphics > files properly, probably because it doesn't support their control codes. > It's just saying the gimp uses a new rendering format and doesn't display > jpegs properly. > There

Re: post-installation suggestions for RH 8.0

2002-12-13 Thread Jesse Keating
On Friday 13 December 2002 20:09, Michael Fratoni uttered: > These are all minor problems, hardly show stoppers. All are easily worked > around. Not using UTF-8 also solves the problem. So, again, what critical > functionality am I depriving myself of without UTF-8? Basically, if you spoke anythin

Re: post-installation suggestions for RH 8.0

2002-12-13 Thread Michael Fratoni
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 13 December 2002 02:26 pm, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 10:30, Samuel Flory wrote: > > Tommy McNeely wrote: > > > the i18n should not be modified. if you have an app that is acting > > > funny, then just do > > > > > > $ expo

Re: post-installation suggestions for RH 8.0

2002-12-13 Thread Justin Zygmont
there must be something wrong with it, it can't display certain graphics files properly, probably because it doesn't support their control codes. It's just saying the gimp uses a new rendering format and doesn't display jpegs properly. On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Miloslav Trmac wrote: > On Fri, Dec 1

Re: post-installation suggestions for RH 8.0

2002-12-13 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 10:30, Samuel Flory wrote: > Tommy McNeely wrote: > > > the i18n should not be modified. if you have an app that is acting > > funny, then just do > > > > $ export LANG=C > > $ man whatever > > Actually putting this in your .bashrc is a better fix. > alias man="env LANG

Re: post-installation suggestions for RH 8.0

2002-12-13 Thread Warren Togami
This may be helpful: a list of Red Hat 8.0 Tips & Tricks http://www.mplug.org/phpwiki/index.php/RedHat8.0TipsTricks -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list

Re: post-installation suggestions for RH 8.0

2002-12-13 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Samuel Flory wrote: > Tommy McNeely wrote: > > > running up2date the first time is a "part" of the install as far as > > I'm concerned.. unless you do NFS installs and keep the packages > > updated on there (can we do that?) > > > > the dma thing should be part of the first

Re: post-installation suggestions for RH 8.0

2002-12-13 Thread Samuel Flory
Tommy McNeely wrote: running up2date the first time is a "part" of the install as far as I'm concerned.. unless you do NFS installs and keep the packages updated on there (can we do that?) the dma thing should be part of the first time setup stuff the i18n should not be modified. if you have

Re: post-installation suggestions for RH 8.0

2002-12-13 Thread Tommy McNeely
running up2date the first time is a "part" of the install as far as I'm concerned.. unless you do NFS installs and keep the packages updated on there (can we do that?) the dma thing should be part of the first time setup stuff the i18n should not be modified. if you have an app that is acting f

Re: post-installation suggestions for RH 8.0

2002-12-13 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On 13 Dec 2002, Keith Winston wrote: > On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 11:11, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > as the final page in a chapter i'm writing on RH 8.0 installation, > > i want to suggest any post-installation stuff that should be done. > > > > example: editing /etc/sysconfig/i18n and setti

Re: post-installation suggestions for RH 8.0

2002-12-13 Thread Keith Winston
On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 11:11, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > as the final page in a chapter i'm writing on RH 8.0 installation, > i want to suggest any post-installation stuff that should be done. > > example: editing /etc/sysconfig/i18n and setting > > LANG="en_US" > > can anyone suggest oth

Re: post-installation suggestions for RH 8.0

2002-12-13 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Miloslav Trmac wrote: > On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 11:11:16AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > LANG="en_US" > > > > can anyone suggest other little fixes that should be done? > Please, don't publish this as a "fix". It is a *workaround* for tools > that don't support UTF-8 w

Re: post-installation suggestions for RH 8.0

2002-12-13 Thread Miloslav Trmac
On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 11:11:16AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > LANG="en_US" > > can anyone suggest other little fixes that should be done? Please, don't publish this as a "fix". It is a *workaround* for tools that don't support UTF-8 well enough yet, not a bug fix. The decision to use UTF-8