Re: Debian Package HOWTO. Who ?

of someone else's C code if it goes beyond the 'hello world' level. My aspiration level is to be an intelligent end-user, but still to use more of the possibilities than only 'apt-get install ...', without the permanent fear of creating chaos. egbert -- Egbert Bouwman - Keizersgracht 197 II - 1016

Debian Package HOWTO. Who ?

a 'dselect update' with the apt access method. Or what happens or does not happen when you hit any of the action keys while in a dselect dependency screen. Not to mention all the dpkg options. Is there anybody who understands all (or most) of it and can write a decent howto ? egbert -- Egbert

apt-get flexibility

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Virtual screen switcher

Hello, There seems to exist a program 'screen' with which you can go to another virtual screen. Makes Alt-Fn obsolete, more or less. I can not locate it. Is it in potato ? Somewhere else ? egbert -- Egbert Bouwman - Keizersgracht 197 II - 1016 DS Amsterdam - 020 6257991

Re: Virtual screen switcher

On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 08:27:01PM +, Geordie Birch wrote: chvt It works. After sending my question I opened one of my eyes and discovered that there is a package 'screen' with the program 'screen'. It offers some more possibilities and complexities. egbert -- Egbert Bouwman

mutt macro syntax

the right syntax ? The manual is not particularly helpful. egbert -- Egbert Bouwman - Keizersgracht 197 II - 1016 DS Amsterdam - 020 6257991

Re: mutt macro syntax

I use the last one, it is still necessary to use ^q as well in order to return to the index. That is why I tried the macro. egbert -- Egbert Bouwman - Keizersgracht 197 II - 1016 DS Amsterdam - 020 6257991

potato-update and symbolic links in /etc

when during the update to potato some of these symlinked configuration files have to be updated as well ? egbert -- Egbert Bouwman - Keizersgracht 197 II - 1016 DS Amsterdam - 020 6257991

Re: Package Info

: install OK not-installed purge OK not-installed holdOK not-installed but never something like: unknown not-installed egbert -- Egbert Bouwman - Keizersgracht 197 II - 1016 DS Amsterdam - 020 6257991

Status of .Xdefaults and app-defaults

option - their role is completely defined by the use of xrdb: if you don't mention them to xrdb, they are completely ignored. I suppose the answers to these question are not the same for .Xdefaults and app-defaults/* egbert -- Egbert Bouwman - Keizersgracht 197 II - 1016 DS Amsterdam - 020

Re: [Missing modules in python]What about TKinter

On Thu, Mar 20, 2036 at 11:31:14PM -0800, Steve Winston wrote: Nor does my slink have TKinter. Why, o why? We , or at least I, should read our Python for dummies. Glob, fnmatch eo rside in python-misc, and it was not installed. I believe Tkinter is another .deb egbert -- Egbert Bouwman

Missing modules in python

The import of glob, fnmatch and shutil gives an ImportError in Python 1.5.1, slink. Who has left them out, and why ? egbert -- Egbert Bouwman - Keizersgracht 197 II - 1016 DS Amsterdam - 020 6257991

Re: pronunciation of daemon

' the ae in daemon not as ea in 'easy' but as the a in 'hate'. egbert -- Egbert Bouwman - Keizersgracht 197 II - 1016 DS Amsterdam - 020 6257991

Loonies

My wife says the proper pronunciation of linux is loonix egbert -- Egbert Bouwman - Keizersgracht 197 II - 1016 DS Amsterdam - 020 6257991

Re: pronunciation of daemon, GNOME and GNU

in the pun 'GNU is not UNIX'. However you seem to suggest that, by analogy with GNOME, GNU should be pronounced approximately as guh-new, or maybe as rhyming with canoe, giving guh-noe. egbert -- Egbert Bouwman - Keizersgracht 197 II - 1016 DS Amsterdam - 020 6257991

Re: pronunciation of daemon

is much longer, but this is not bed for a start. egbert -- Egbert Bouwman - Keizersgracht 197 II - 1016 DS Amsterdam - 020 6257991

ncurses and python

(), mentioned buy Andrew Kuchlin. Nothing about colors either. So I really think this is the old curses module. What is my mistake ? How do I go on ? egbert -- Egbert Bouwman - Keizersgracht 197 II - 1016 DS Amsterdam - 020 6257991

Vincent and the Potato CD

into my sources.list, followed later on by the cd's of a stable release, work well ? egbert -- Egbert Bouwman - Keizersgracht 197 II - 1016 DS Amsterdam - 020 6257991

Supported video chip-sets

and Voodoo3, 3DLabs with GLINT and Permedia chips. I don't even dare to ask. And some Diamond cards come with a 'Savage 4', which I cannot find in any XFree86 documentation. What is it ? egbert Egbert Bouwman - Keizersgracht 197 II - 1016 DS Amsterdam - 020 6257991

dselect apt-get dpkg explanations

. egbert -- Egbert Bouwman - Keizersgracht 197 II - 1016 DS Amsterdam - 020 6257991

How to reset dselect to zero selections

of the Old Mark). egbert -- Egbert Bouwman - Keizersgracht 197 II - 1016 DS Amsterdam - 020 6257991