Re: [techtalk] argh! (gnumeric troubles)

2000-04-04 Thread Nils Philippsen
On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, Rik Hemsley wrote: > #if Kelly Lynn Martin > > My main gripe with rpm is that it's virtually impossible to convince > > rpm that you've installed an equivalent by other means. You can > > --nodeps, but that defeats the entire point of dependency testing. > > What about --jus

Re: [techtalk] argh! (gnumeric troubles)

2000-04-04 Thread Nils Philippsen
On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, Kelly Lynn Martin wrote: > On Tue, 4 Apr 2000 11:33:49 -0400 (EDT), Beverly Guillermo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > >What you can do is install the files using the --nodeps option for > >rpm. But then you could probably break some sort of important > >dependency... it's why

Re: [techtalk] argh! (gnumeric troubles)

2000-04-04 Thread Rik Hemsley
#if Kelly Lynn Martin > On Tue, 4 Apr 2000 11:33:49 -0400 (EDT), Beverly Guillermo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > >What you can do is install the files using the --nodeps option for > >rpm. But then you could probably break some sort of important > >dependency... it's why I dislike the rpm syste

Re: [techtalk] mutually incompatible files?

2000-04-04 Thread Nils Philippsen
On Mon, 3 Apr 2000, Lighthouse Keeper in the Desert Sun wrote: > I'm trying to get gnumeric to upgrade. Still. SO I tried installing some > packages that don't look gnumeric-related (gnome-games, actually, and > esound.) So, I try to install bonobo, and it tells me that there is a > conflict w

Re: [techtalk] argh! (gnumeric troubles)

2000-04-04 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
On Tue, 4 Apr 2000 11:33:49 -0400 (EDT), Beverly Guillermo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >What you can do is install the files using the --nodeps option for >rpm. But then you could probably break some sort of important >dependency... it's why I dislike the rpm system entirely sometimes >and the do

Re: [techtalk] argh! (gnumeric troubles)

2000-04-04 Thread Nils Philippsen
On Mon, 3 Apr 2000, Lighthouse Keeper in the Desert Sun wrote: > Okay... so I tried to rpm -Uvh all the stuff I downloaded (which wasn't > everything in the directory, but I got ~20 packages), and it said this: > error: failed dependencies: > indent is needed by ORBit-devel-0.5.0-0.1 orbi

Re: [techtalk] cracked-out laptop

2000-04-04 Thread Andrew Plumb
Something that sometimes works for me: Unplug it from the wall and pop out the battery. Let it sit without any power for a while. Try booting using wall-power only. Try booting using batter-power only. (now that the battery has been out for a while) On occasion I get really hard crashes that don

Re: [techtalk] Opinions about Linux and Streaming Media

2000-04-04 Thread Jeff
On Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 08:33:25AM -0700, Nicci Tynen wrote: > Hi All, > > Say I had a Pentium III (coppermine) with 1 GB of ram on a system > running RH Linux 6.1. How many simultaneous 40 Kb/s media streams do > you think I could > support? If you know any web site that would have these figur

[techtalk] Re. Ottawa List/Ottawa Members

2000-04-04 Thread C. E. Lowther
I deeply apologise for the cross post, and will *not* make a habit or it, but right now, this is the only way to reach as many as possible of the Ottawa members. We have just figured out why the Ottawa list is not working, and it will be fixed shortly. To Ottawa members -- I have been trying to

Re: [techtalk] cracked-out laptop

2000-04-04 Thread Beverly Guillermo
Pretty much expect everything soldered on. =) Heh... what kind of laptop do you have? Beverly On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, Kristen wrote: > Hello. Have a bit of a problem with a laptop. I turned it on last night and it didnt >turn on. So I left it there with the powercord in it (it was in when I orig

Re: [techtalk] argh! (gnumeric troubles)

2000-04-04 Thread Beverly Guillermo
On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, Lighthouse Keeper in the Desert Sun wrote: > > > gtk+ >= 1.2.2 is needed by gnumeric-0.51-0.1 > > > > You need gtk+ that is above 1.2.2. I would suggest upgrading to 1.2.7 > > I upgraded that from source, and rpm doesn't believe it exists. (I have > glib and gtk 1.2.7, bo

[techtalk] Opinions about Linux and Streaming Media

2000-04-04 Thread Nicci Tynen
Hi All, Say I had a Pentium III (coppermine) with 1 GB of ram on a system running RH Linux 6.1.  How many simultaneous 40 Kb/s media streams do you think I could support?  If you know any web site that would have these figures - could you point me in that direction? Thanks, Nicci --  Nicci Tynen

[techtalk] cracked-out laptop

2000-04-04 Thread Kristen
Hello. Have a bit of a problem with a laptop. I turned it on last night and it didnt turn on. So I left it there with the powercord in it (it was in when I originally turned on the machine the first time) and went to sleep. Woke up the next morning its not on. The very next day, the thing is

Re: [techtalk] argh! (gnumeric troubles)

2000-04-04 Thread Lighthouse Keeper in the Desert Sun
On Apr 3, Eric Baudais conjectured: > > windowmanager is needed by gnome-core-1.1.6-0.1 > > It says you don't have a windowmanager installed which seems unlikely, > but maybe you don't. If you don't I would recommend either Sawmill, > WindowMaker, or Enlightenment. I'm already using Enligh

Re: [techtalk] argh! (gnumeric troubles)

2000-04-04 Thread Lighthouse Keeper in the Desert Sun
On Apr 3, Beverly Guillermo conjectured: > What version of redhat are you updating? You might be better off getting > the latest CD and doing a complete system upgrade. =) 6.0. Last I heard, 6.1 was buggy. 6.2 is out, but I don't have time or patience to download it, and the nearest computers

Re: [techtalk] newbie mouse weirdness

2000-04-04 Thread Sarah Hollings
The symlink thing that someone suggested seems to fix it!! Thanks people! I'm not sure what is going on still - so maybe I'll try to install gpm as I don't seem to have it at present. Sarah Nicole Zimmerman wrote: > > Make sure you have gpm installed. :o) Same thing happened to me before I >