Re: Error in loading shared libraries (libz.so.1) from xbase_3.3.2.3-2

1998-11-18 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Nov 18, 1998 at 14:11:44 +0100, Marc Fleureck wrote: I try to install X11R6 (xbase_3.3.2.3-2.deb) on Debian2.0 with following error: dpkg -i xfntbase_3.3.2-3.2.deb mkfontdir: error in loading shared linraries libz.so.1: cannot open Of course libz.so.1 doesn't exist in

Re: Permissions for vfat mounted drive

1998-11-18 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Nov 18, 1998 at 15:35:55 +0200, Leon Breedt wrote: On Wed, Nov 18 1998, J.H.M. Dassen Ray spake thus: You can specify the uid=value, gid=value and umask=value options when mounting, or in /etc/fstab; see mount(8) and fstab(5). how can i specify that i don't want any files on the dos

Re: Install NTFS drivers (Debian 2): gcc not OK ?

1998-11-18 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Nov 18, 1998 at 16:37:48 +0100, Marc Fleureck wrote: I am trying to install NTFS driver on Debian 2.0 .The INSTALL sais to do ./configure which checks the gcc compiler (2.7.2.3-2): C-compiler cannot create executables What's wrong with gcc ?? That's difficult to tell.

Re: Install NTFS drivers (Debian 2): gcc not OK ?

1998-11-18 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Nov 18, 1998 at 17:02:27 +0100, Marc Fleureck wrote: configure:554: checking whether make sets ${MAKE} configure:583: checking for gcc configure:660: checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) works configure:674: gcc -o conftestconftest.c 15 ld: cannot open crt1.o: No such file

Re: perl linked with gdbm?

1998-11-18 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Nov 18, 1998 at 19:18:20 +, Marc Haber wrote: Should I try to shut the compiler up by installing gdbm? For now, yes. Quite likely perl's dependency on gdbm will be remove in a future version of the perl packages. |I suppose it's possible that the Debian crowd messed up their Perl

Re: how to create new console fonts?

1998-11-17 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Tue, Nov 17, 1998 at 15:47:06 +0400, Eugene Sevinian wrote: I need new fonts for console but I do not know how it is possible to create them. According to /usr/doc/kbd/README.consolefonts : A DOS-hosted PSF font editor is available on eecs.nwu.edu. [no further details of it are provided]

Re: how to create new console fonts?

1998-11-17 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Tue, Nov 17, 1998 at 13:52:06 +0100, I wrote: [difficult approaches to create console fonts] I just looked in the available packages list, and found Package: fonter Section: editors Description: The new generation of font manipulation Fonter is an interactive console font (.fnt) manipulation

Re: in which directory does lynx.cfg belong?

1998-11-16 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Mon, Nov 16, 1998 at 02:55:15AM -0800, David Karlin wrote: Does it go in /usr/local/lib/lynx.cfg, or another location? Debian packages do not touch /usr/local, as that is reserved for use by the local sysadmin. dpkg --status lynx will tell you that /etc/lynx.cfg is the only configuration

Re: ssh

1998-11-16 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
[Moved to -user. This does _not_ belong on -private.] On Mon, Nov 16, 1998 at 11:10:11AM -0300, Carlos Barros wrote: Is there any new version for ssh*.deb. There are no ssh 2.0 .debs. The current maintainer isn't interested (as ssh2 has even more restrictive usage conditions than ssh1),

Re: Console mode with 80x24 possible?

1998-11-16 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
-- J.H.M. Dassen | RUMOUR Believe all you hear. Your world may [EMAIL PROTECTED] | not be a better one than the one the blocks | live in but it'll be a sight more vivid. | - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C

Re: matlab 5.2 on debian 2.0

1998-11-14 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Sat, Nov 14, 1998 at 05:53:01PM +1000, Robert King wrote: Anyone had success with this installation? IIRC, matlab is still libc5; this means you have to install the libc5 versions of all the libraries it requires. I'm running into problems. Onep possibility is the the libraries matlab

Re: Debian Crash

1998-11-11 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Nov 11, 1998 at 04:46:29PM +, Rich Harran. wrote: My Debian system just crashed. [description] It sounds a lot like it may have been just a crash of the X server. Is your machine on a network? Could you still access it from the network? Ray -- ART A friend of mine in Tulsa,

Re: Mail to News

1998-11-10 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Tue, Nov 10, 1998 at 10:14:07AM -, Moore, Paul wrote: Does anybody know of any mail-to-news software I could use to gateway the traffic from the mailing lists I subscribe to into a news server? Filename: dists/frozen/non-free/binary-i386/news/newsgate_1.6-10.deb Description: Mail to News

Re: Debian on Notebooks

1998-11-09 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Mon, Nov 09, 1998 at 02:02:50PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [reformatted to 80 columns. *sigh*] The Acer notebook uses a very nice Neo magic video card. The only thing that is not nice about this video card is that it is not supported by Xfree 3.3.2. The Neo magic card is supported

Re: compiling a lesstif program

1998-11-07 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Sat, Nov 07, 1998 at 09:32:13AM +1100, Andrew Julie Daws wrote: I am just starting to play around with programming under linux, and am curious to know just what options I need to use with cc for it to find the lesstif libraries, header files etc. Currently I have tried

Re: [HalloweenII] RedHat and Debian:

1998-11-06 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Fri, Nov 06, 1998 at 09:40:24AM -0500, Chris Fury wrote: So, um, what would you people like to see packaged? :) See http://www.debian.org/~johnie/ . And I'm sure we'd be grateful if someone were to go over the list of ancient bugs to see if they're still present. Ray -- J.H.M. Dassen

Re: Newer kernels

1998-11-06 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Fri, Nov 06, 1998 at 03:59:45PM +, Martin Oldfield wrote: Has anyone packaged a more recent kernel than 2.0.35 ? No. There are no newer stable kernels than 2.0.35 at the moment (although the prepatches for 2.0.36 seem to be stabilising now); if you want to have packages for newer kernels

Re: Netscape 3 cookies

1998-11-06 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Fri, Nov 06, 1998 at 05:07:52PM +, Richard Harran. wrote: Does anyone know how I can make netscape 3 refuse all cookies without prompting me: there no good to me, and slightly sinister, but some sights try to set so many, its a nuisance to refuse them all by hand. I don't know if it can

Re: Netscape 3 cookies

1998-11-06 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Fri, Nov 06, 1998 at 07:47:06PM +0200, Tommi Kaariainen wrote: J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [junkbuster] You don't have to do that if you make the cookie database (cookies.txt in ~/.netscape directory if I remember correctly) a symbolic link to /dev/null Aren't cookies

Re: Unidentified subject!

1998-11-05 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Thu, Nov 05, 1998 at 02:11:34PM +, C.J.LAWSON wrote: Does anyone know where I can get a Windows/MS-Dos version of Tex? ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/{msdos,win32,nt} or any other CTAN site, methinks. Ray -- LEADERSHIP A form of self-preservation exhibited by people with

Re: can't link to termcap

1998-11-03 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Tue, Nov 03, 1998 at 09:29:40AM -0600, Ian Keith Setford wrote: I d/l the Pine 4.05 tarball and I am trying to compile it. There's a pine-src package you might want to look at. Everytime I compile (using the ./build lnx command) it bails when trying to link to termcap (-ltermcap File or

Re: mozilla

1998-11-02 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Mon, Nov 02, 1998 at 04:05:44PM +, Richard Harran. wrote: The nearest thing I could find was mozilla in slink, but this required some libs from slink, which in turn require some others, etc, and my installed system is from hamm. Should I install these now on my system, and if so

Re: SSH logon

1998-10-30 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Fri, Oct 30, 1998 at 08:43:05PM +, Nuno Carvalho wrote: I'm using: ssh -l root my host Add a -v to that so you can see what's happening more closely. -rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 334 Oct 30 20:21 authorized_keys SSH is quite picky about the permissions of ~/.ssh (is should be

Re: Gcc tries to compile C programs as C++ !

1998-10-30 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Fri, Oct 30, 1998 at 05:50:49PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having a problem with gcc on my Debian 2.0 Linux system. I have the egcs compiler (gcc --version reports egcs-2.90.29 980515 (egcs-1.0.3 release)). I can't think of anything in the packaging that might have caused this. On

Re: heavy dpkg problem

1998-10-29 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Thu, Oct 29, 1998 at 12:41:28AM +0100, Florian Attenberger wrote: My dpkg does not work any more: /var/lib/dpkg/status not available. I can't install any packages any more. If you're lucky, there are still backups of it in /var/lib/dpkg/ ; look for status-old, status.yesterday.0,

Re: How do you make the X Icons, Fonts, Everything bigger

1998-10-29 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Oct 28, 1998 at 07:50:31AM -0800, Joe Smith wrote: Whenever I run Windows in 1024x768 mode, I get decent quality fonts and icons in terms of size. how can i run x in the same mode with much larger fonts and icons? I've not looked at icons. To make your font settings resolution

Re: Security problem

1998-10-27 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Tue, Oct 27, 1998 at 09:27:55AM -0500, Peter S Galbraith wrote: I thought that 2.0 was _stable_, and therefore was the same as my CD. This is not the case? Proposed security fixes (from proposed-updates) are moved into the stable tree at the request of the security team. Ray -- ART A

Re: How to compile libc5 binaries?

1998-10-21 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Oct 21, 1998 at 03:44:13PM +, Andy Spiegl wrote: I want to build binaries of a c++ program which has to run on a libc5 based Linux. I installed these packages: libc5-altdev libdl1-altdev ldso because their descriptions say they are needed for this task. You'll need altgcc

Re: GDB and ADA.

1998-10-19 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
in there. HTH, Ray -- J.H.M. Dassen | RUMOUR Believe all you hear. Your world may [EMAIL PROTECTED] | not be a better one than the one the blocks | live in but it'll be a sight more vivid

Re: debian latest version?

1998-10-16 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 04:14:33PM -0600, Jason Herring Dale Davis wrote: what is debian's lattest version At the moment, 2.0 . I keep hearing about debian 2.1... We've just entered a code freeze for 2.1, meaning that we hope to release 2.1 in the not too distant future. and where can I

Re: Format of .deb files

1998-10-16 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 12:06:25PM +0100, Moore, Paul wrote: My question is, basically, can I extract files from .deb format packages on a Windows box? Probably, though I don't know how much work is involved. Presumably, .deb files are internally some form of tar/cpio archive - can I get at

Re: Running a libc5 binary - weird problem

1998-10-14 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 02:36:28AM +0300, Alex Shnitman wrote: Why does it try to link the libraries from /usr/X11R6/lib? When I try to run it it naturally segfaults. Are the paths hard-coded into the binary? Probably; check by doing objdump --allheaders mule to see if there's an RPATH entry.

Re: German Umlauts on the console.

1998-10-14 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 03:27:44PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PS. anyone knows how to type the eszet with a none German keyboard? Using the compose feature of the Linux console driver, e.g. put include /usr/share/keymaps/i386/include/vim-compose-latin1.inc in /etc/kbd/default.map.gz and

Re: Is there an official debian CD-ROM ?

1998-10-14 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 05:11:49PM +0100, G. Kapetanios wrote: I was wondering if there is an official debian CD-ROM That depends on your definition of that term. The Debian project does not produce CDs. We produce Official CD images which several vendors use; some other vendors choose to use

Re: GDB and ADA.

1998-10-14 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 11:30:28PM +0300, shaul wrote: It seems to me that hamm's version of gdb doesn't support debugging of ADA programs. Will that be changed in slink? From the changelog in slink's gdb: * re-integrated gnat support. (Was repported as a bug against 4.16, patch had

Re: A little question about Debian

1998-10-13 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
[Redirected to -user; I don't see what this has to do with the development of Debian. Also, you get better answers if you ask more specific questions.] On Tue, Oct 13, 1998 at 03:43:48PM +, Matthias D wrote: I would like to know if there is anything like usable with API or Corba technology

Re: Please Help!! Debian can't find SCSI HD during installtion

1998-10-13 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Tue, Oct 13, 1998 at 09:25:28AM -0500, David Sherow wrote: Yes I have access to a machine that already has debian running on it, But I'm not to sure what to do with the patches I've downloaded. Not only that, but I'm really green on Linux. You might want to read the Kernel-HOWTO then (e.g.

Re: ncurses segmentation fault

1998-10-12 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Mon, Oct 12, 1998 at 11:54:14AM +0200, Ingo Brueckl wrote: The following program, compiled with egcs 1.0.3, causes a segmentation fault at the mvwinch statement: Why are you rehashing this on -user? You've already reported this problem as a bug, and as you can check in the bug log

Re: I Cannot upgrade with apt!

1998-10-09 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Fri, Oct 09, 1998 at 07:43:34AM -0200, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: yesterday, a perl package had an error, because data-dumper. I tried to remove data-dumper and all packages that dependes on it. I removed all lg-issues. Today, the perl package is good and I cannot either install

Re: Debian KDE philosophy

1998-10-09 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Fri, Oct 09, 1998 at 02:55:20PM +0100, Gernot Bauer wrote: As I read in some postings (slashdot.org and several other mailing lists) debian is planning not to distribute KDE (and qt) anymore. Please read the original announcment as posted on the debian-announce mailing list and the website

Squid: list of currently cached objects?

1997-05-12 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
How can I get a list of the URLs of the objects that squid has currently cached? Having such a list would allow me to use 'wget' to refresh the cache; this would be useful for my laptop system, which is not alway on the net. TIA, Ray -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word

Re: debian_user mailing list vs newsgroup

1997-04-29 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
archives on www.debian.org (currently as http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-devel-9704/msg00034.html). HTH, Ray -- J.H.M. Dassen | RUMOUR Believe all you hear. Your world may [EMAIL PROTECTED] | not be a better one than the one the blocks

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