Re: X-over cables

2003-03-28 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Hugh Saunders [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 04:50:16PM -0800, deFreese, Barry wrote: Yeah but who wants a Smash-n-toss?? ;-) me gots a powerbook520 and it is so fustrating! there are no flippin keyboard commands! click finder to switch between netscape and telnet! grrr.

Re: No echo for LCP-ConfigRequets after pap chap -- no route

2003-02-04 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
mi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: now I've got a modem card for my lap, and it seems to work, but still something wickened prevents me to get an IP. Same here ... Jan 7 01:25:27 piro pppd[1438]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 asyncmap 0x0 magic0xce5755b4 pcomp accomp] Jan 7 01:25:54 piro last

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade cron job

2002-11-18 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
ThanhVu Nguyen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, how do I set up a cron job that runs apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade -yu at 6 AM everyday and have all the upgraded result sent to me ? I already have exim setup to send mail , I just don't know how to write the cron job and use cron ...

Re: Xfree86 4.1.0-16: non-deb fonts hinzufügen

2002-07-07 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
andreas well [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: $ apt-get install ttf-commercial hab ich gerade ausprobiert und es hat auch mir geholfen, Danke! jetzt fehlt mir nur noch eine Lösung für die postscript Schriften. $ apt-get install type1inst Vgl.: $ apt-cache show type1inst Package: type1inst

Re: unstable, sawfish nicht mehr per Gnome-Konfigcenter konfigurierbar

2002-07-07 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Christian Hessmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Erstens ist der neue Gnome-Terminal einfach potthaesslich, und es will mir einfach nicht gelingen, ihn genauso wie den alten zu konfigurieren (das koennte ich verschmerzen), aber viel schlimmer ist, dass zwar sawfish als Default-WM gestartet wird,

Re: Scwawcaac: I need a little more on apps available for Linux

2002-04-25 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
csj [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If you want something free (speech) and works like Quark, try Scribus: http://web2.altmuehlnet.de/fschmid/ There's a Debian package in unstable: $ apt-cache show scribus Package: scribus Priority: optional Section: graphics Installed-Size: 2444 Maintainer:

Re: GnusXEmacs

2002-04-18 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Christian Jaeger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: With a change back to nnml, the 'Wrong type argument' piece went away and really, I have now a listing of the mails I've always downloaded from emacs. But...: 'Window height 0 too small (after splitting)', I can't open the individual mails. Argh. I

Re: YaOOQ (Yet another Open Office Question)

2002-03-01 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.com writes: on Fri, Feb 22, 2002, Timothy R. Butler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: This may sound stupid, but is there an up-to-date Open Office package to be had as a deb? I was thinking it might be nice to install it that way rather than installing the

Re: tex: garamond fonts

2002-02-12 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ionut Georgescu) writes: I have seen there are some garamond fonts under /usr/share/texmf/fonts/tfm/cg/garamond These are only TeX Font Metric (hence tfm) files for commercial fonts, which you have to purchase first before being able to use them. Real font files for TeX are

Re: Where can I get JetAdmin for Linux?

2002-01-23 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Noah Meyerhans [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 10:29:05AM -0500, Brian P. Flaherty wrote: I don't know if you can get JetAdmin for Linux, but I suggest looking at CUPS. I have JetAdmin at work on Solaris and CUPS at home and they seem pretty similar to me. When you

Re: Nautilus/autofs (was Re: [quickly veering OT] Re: File Manager)

2001-12-09 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Mental [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: That would be nice, but it would mean another process running inthe background polling the mount point. Yes, but then you don't need the autofs process (which BTW uses to usurpate all my removable drives regardless of which of them are in the config files -

Re: Kernel source

2001-12-09 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Dave Sherohman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How different (if at all) are the contents of the debian kernel-source packages from the tarballs on kernel.org, etc.? Does debian do any patching or just distribute the official source unmodified? Here the README.Debian file accompanying

Re: File Manager

2001-12-07 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Erik Steffl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Karsten M. Self wrote: gmc isn't terribly visually bletcherous, and doesn't suffer the bloat of Nautilus. Both suffer from the same inability to deal with floppy drives in a sane way, wrt mounting/umounting (Nautilus most, cause there isn't even a

Re: File Manager

2001-12-07 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Erik Steffl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Joachim Trinkwitz wrote: Both suffer from the same inability to deal with floppy drives in a sane way, wrt mounting/umounting (Nautilus most, cause there isn't even a default floppy icon on the desktop). I thought there is an automounter

Re: [quickly veering OT] Re: File Manager

2001-12-07 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Andrew Sione Taumoefolau [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Nautilus tends in most cases towards the Mac way of doing things, which, different though it may be, is usually more usable than the Windows way. Nautilus ideally should create a floppy icon on the desktop when a user inserts a disk (and, in

Re: DVD rip (Was RE: DVD Player)

2001-12-06 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Romuald DELAVERGNE [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Christian Schoenebeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Really? What's the name? I haven't found one named trancsode or similar. You install this package with dpkg (It come from marillat packages) So 'apt-cache search transcode' can't find if you

Problems compiling kernel for Win4Lin

2001-12-06 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Dear all, when trying to compile a kernel (2.4.16) with the Win4Lin patches (kernel-patch-mki-adapter_1.0.5_i386.deb / kernel-patch-w4l-hooks_3.0.1.6_i386.deb), I get the following error messages (last screenfull): make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.16/arch/i386/mki' gcc

Re: What happened to compose? - further information

2001-12-06 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Package: libreadline4 Version: 4.2a-2 I have the same problem, so it would seem that this is a problem specific to bash, or to readline. Hmm, it's readline, the compose key fails in other programs that use readline as well, producing just a beep no

Re: DVD rip (Was RE: DVD Player)

2001-12-05 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Christian Schoenebeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: For transcode exists even a Debian package in unstable. Really? What's the name? I haven't found one named trancsode or similar. Maybe because of your spelling? ;) $ apt-cache

Re: CUPS

2001-12-05 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Jens Luedicke [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: CUPS doesn't print german umlauts. Is there a way to solve this? (either true umlauts or valid replacements) Of course it does, since ever some Debian package of it existed (and I installed cups). This is a problem of your printer input, for sure. Which

Re: DVD rip (Was RE: DVD Player)

2001-12-04 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Thomas Hallaran [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Transcode is pretty much the only option for linux dvd - other format conversion (ripping). I haven't used it however. http://www.theorie.physik.uni-goettingen.de/~ostreich/transcode/ For transcode exists even a Debian package in unstable. Greetings,

Re: global environment variables?

2001-12-04 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
dman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 03:51:32PM +0100, Joachim Trinkwitz wrote: | No, if you are running gdm and GNOME then it's ~/.gnomerc -- this is | the right file for your personal setup like environment variables. But Oh, ok. Is there any documentation on it? man

Re: global environment variables?

2001-12-03 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
dman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 04:30:11PM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote: | dman wrote: | | What Nemo and I are looking for is a way to set the environment for | apps run via the panel (that don't have a login shell). | | What process starts the panel?

WordPerfect 2000 and unstable

2001-12-03 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Dear all, I can't get WordPerfect 2000 for Linux (the version which is based on wine) to run under Debian unstable. When being started, the program is working a while and then tells me that it has to build the font metrics, then it tells about a plenty of build metrics failed and never comes to

Re: mozilla and XML

2001-11-19 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Ilya Martynov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It looks like your web server doesn't issue correct Content-Type (IIRC text/xml) header for your XML files. Bingo, one line in the aolserver config file and mozilla shows up my pages without a hassle. Many thanks, joachim

mozilla and XML

2001-11-18 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Dear all, I was highly pleased when I found that mozilla (0.9.5) formats my XML files nicely according to a CSS2 style sheet (well, not all, but most features seems to be implemented). Imagine my surprise when I put a file online and mozilla asked if I wanted to download the file or if I wanted

Re: acroread,xpdf hassle-SOLVED

2001-11-16 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Jesse Goerz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When you have opened acroread, click on the File button, then Preferences then General; then uncheck (disable) Smooth Text and Images. Hey that worked great for me! Thanks. I'm using the xserver-svga running at 24bit color and and 1280X960

Postfix troubles (rewriting addresses)

2001-11-10 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Dear all, to rewrite my mail address correctly (ppp connection to university ISP), I inserted the following lines in the config files: - /etc/postfix/main.cf:relayhost = mailout.uni-bonn.de myhostname = wabe.germanistik.uni-bonn.de masquerade_domains

Re: X11 v4 Switch

2001-11-09 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Stephen E. Hargrove [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I recently ran an apt-get dist-upgrade on a Woody box. I noticed that it upgraded X, which is fine. However, the box isn't running the upgraded server. What do I need to change in order to get v4 to fire up? I think it's using the old

Re: Presentation Software...

2001-11-03 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Vikash Kodati [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am new to Debian. I have to give a seminar in my University and hence searching for a presentation sofware on debian. The StarOffice suite has a presentation module. Look at http://www.sun.com/staroffice/ or http://www.openoffice.org/ if you want to

Re: dosemufreedos

2001-10-21 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Herbert Xu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Gerhard Kroder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: README says: cd /usr/lib mkdir -p dosemu freedos ln -s ../freedos dosemu my guess here: mkdir -p dosemu/freedos; cd dosemu/freedos before linking? Nope, it's meant to be like that. But the ln command as in

Re: Mozilla 0.9.5, font sizes

2001-10-16 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Christopher S. Swingley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just moved from Mozilla 0.9.4 to 0.9.5 and noticed that it doesn't seem to be respecting font sizes. For example, A quick test is at: http://www.frontier.iarc.uaf.edu/~cswingle/test.html It's just a series of font size=N lines

Re: Wine 0.0.20010824-1 won't even run sol.exe

2001-09-28 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
David Knudsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: wine _always_ fails with the attached error message. Has anyone seen anything similar? Maybe, but didn't find any attachment in your posting. Having the same problem (wine not even starting notepad at several machines, always same error message

Re: JADE Problems

2001-09-27 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Julio Merino [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm trying to write a DocBook/XML document. I'm using JADE, but I can't get it working. [...] After this, I run JADE and I get all this weird errors: juli:~/Documentos/Treball_de_recerca% jade -t tex -o /tmp/test.tex principal.xml [...] jade:E: cannot

Re: CD Burner Permissions

2001-09-25 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Stephen Gran [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Which is all as it should be, on the face of it. The fact that the burner is the only thing on the SCSI bus means that it should be /dev/sg0, no? Or perhaps I'm still not getting it - I'm kind of tired and not thinking perhaps as straight as I should.

Re: xine-ui and css

2001-09-23 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Jean-Michel Kelbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi recently upgrade to xine-ui, but this package remove xine-dvd-css which enable me to read protected dvd like matrix. Now I am unable to read such dvd. Does anyone have the same problem ? You should upgrade to the xine-lib-d4d Debian package

Re: video players

2001-09-23 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
p [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: pardon my asking, but how, exactly, does xmms work? (i type, xmms in a console, get the xmms skin, click the (play) button, and select my *.mpg. the skin and console just stare (and must be laughing at me, secretly). Maybe you forgot to 'apt-get install

Re: little script for log watching

2001-09-13 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Mike Egglestone [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I would like to write a script that would output to the screen the latest contents of a log, and continue to do so until I abort the script. No need to write it yourself -- $ apt-cache show console-log Package: console-log Priority: optional Section:

Gnus with slrnpull?

2001-09-12 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Dear all, is it possible to fetch news with slrnpull and read it with Gnus/XEmacs? I have the following in my .xemacs/init.el: (setq gnus-select-method '(nnspool /var/spool/slrnpull/)) but when starting Gnus, it complains about: The active file doesn't exist: /usr/lib/news/active

Re: RedHat vs Debian?

2001-08-31 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i've used apt-get to get all the packages that i've needed (though apt-get is a bit klunky. for instance, i would much prefer it show me what i have that has an upgrade path,

Re: OT: Collecting data in text files

2001-08-28 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Abner Gershon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I currently collect lists of information on many topics such as restaurants, phone lists, file folders, slides using a database program, Lotus approach. Since I am the only user of this information I thought I could record this information in text

Re: gnuclient xemacs

2001-08-25 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Jonathan David Wheelhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Recently I upgraded xemacs to xemacs21-gnome-nomule_21.4.3-3 (now it's 21.4 ie. xemacs21-gnome-nomule 21.4.4-1) on my sid box. It converted my ~/.emacs to ~/.xemacs/custom.el and ~/.xemacs/init.el. I normally have xemacs start gnuserv.

Re: cannot open dhelp file

2001-08-21 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm trying to install icewm-gnome in woody, and the install stops trying to install a dependency icewm-common (1.0.7-1) with the complaint of : cannot open dhelp file ' /usr/sbin/install-docs line 559. Geocrawler had e-mailswith this complaint but the only

Re: what is /dev/.devfsd for ?

2001-08-02 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
San Segkhoonthod [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I was wondering that when I saw the /etc/init.d/devfsd script requires it. So, before I switch to devfs, I need to creat that file? if so, Don't care about it, I didn't create it, but it's there automagically by default. Greetings, joachim

Re: Free WP9 editor

2001-07-29 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Aidan Christian O'Reilly [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Other than getting WordPerfect, are there any options available (preferably free as in speech)? There's Corel's WPO2K/Linux, although it's unstable and buggy. There's Corel's WP8 free download,

Re: NFS alternative

2001-07-16 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Timo \\ Blazko\ Boewing [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My question: is there a distributed fs that combines the advantages of both techs? as there are: NFS: mountable (more via combining with other things?) SCP: quite secure, may compress and crypt data Have a look at sfs (http://www.fs.net/)

search engines: htdig or glimpse?

2001-06-07 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Hi all, I'm undecisive between htdig and glimpse as a search engine for both my local files and our intranet. I would like to hear about which experiences other Debian users have with either one -- a short comparative review would be great. Thanks in advance for your answers, joachim

Re: root via ssh / why su - ?

2001-05-29 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Alex Suzuki [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there such a utility for a Linux system? I'm in need of one. I currently save some of my passwords (no root passwords, sorry) in a -rwx-- file :) Have a look at gpasman: $ apt-cache show gpasman Package: gpasman Priority: optional Section: non-US

X, Matrox G450 and Matrox-Driver

2001-05-20 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Hi all, now I'm trying to get a Matrox Millenium G450 up and running under X (4.0.3). So far I have a more or less working solution with the framebuffer device, but it's far from being satisfactory. When trying the mga driver, X complains: (WW) Warning, couldn't open module mga_hal (EE) MGA:

Module agpgart not loading

2001-05-18 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Hi all, I have a Matrox G400 video card and have configured X (4.0.3) with the mga driver and DRI. Upon boot I get an error message, that the drm module (part of DRI, as I understand) failed to load because of the agpgart module wasn't loaded before (well, it says: [drm] The mga drm module

Re: Disk mirroring

2001-05-18 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Has cpbk any advantages over mirrordir or rsync? Greetings, joachim

Re: PostgreSQL odbc

2001-05-10 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Jorge Santos [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, I'm trying to use odbc-PostgreSQL with StarOffice but when trying to create a new database with ODBC as a source and trying to select the tables tab I get the following error: Have you read the ODBC-related docs in the postgresql-doc package --

Re: Gnus or Slrn for newsreader?

2001-03-06 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Glyn Millington [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just a question to the gnus-people: Can you use gnus to read newsgroups offline like I do with slrnpull and slrn --spool? You certainly can - it's great! Would you mind to write a quick/dirty howto

Burning CD-ROMs as user

2001-02-15 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Hi, I am currently able to burn CD-ROMs with gcombust (GUI for cdrecord) only as root. What's the proper Debian way to allow all users to do that -- changing the according device's owner status is certainly not a good idea, I suppose? Greeting and thanks in advance for your answers, joachim

Re: postgresql 7.0.3 -- but NO plperl ?

2001-02-05 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
will trillich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i haven't figured out how to turn on 'plperl' yet on potato: [...] what incantation have i missed? apt-get install libpgperl, I suppose. Greetings, joachim

Re: How to clone a system easily?

2001-02-04 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Robert Waldner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 22 Jan 2001 04:15:52 PST, kmself@ix.netcom.com writes: My preference is to do a minimal base system installation, then run: $ dpgk --get-selections file ..on the old system followed by $ dpkg --set-selections file $ apt-get

Re: OT: Any Linux-based PhotoID software?

2001-01-15 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My university creates ID cards for students using a small camera attached to a Windows box running PhotoCard software. I am getting mighty tired of trying to keep this Winblows box running. Does anyone have any leads on high-quality photo

Re: Grub vs LILO

2001-01-15 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tom == Tom Schuetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tom Anybody know much about pros/cons of grub for a boot manager? Tom Thanks! grub is harder to initially install (as far as I know installation is still manual, but I could be mistaken), but once

Re: Grub vs LILO

2001-01-15 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Christopher W. Aiken [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It's not grub, but GAG is Great !!! http://raster.cibermillennium.com/gageng.htm Works off a floppy where you can try it over and over before you actually write it to your HD. Same thing for grub, plus there is a Debian package for it.

asian and cyrillic fonts with netscape

2001-01-15 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Hi all, which packages and/or magic incantations are needed to be able to read asian and russian web pages with netscape. I know for the former there are the netscape-{ja|ko|zh}-resource-476 packages available, but is it sufficient to install them? And what about russian? Thanks for your

Re: Backup techniques

2001-01-15 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Alexander Steinert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'd like to know which programs and strategies you (would) use to backup *one* debian box. In one case I have available a CD-Burner as backup device and in the other case a 640MB MO drive. I use my MO drive as backup medium by simply mirroring the

Re: backups

2000-12-21 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Ken Weingold [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am going to be setting up Linux server at work for something and want to do backups, weekly I guess. Any suggestions on software to do this? I am not familiar with unix backups. Maybe not as sophisticated as the other suggested solutions, but I was

Re: OT - web browsers

2000-12-18 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Ken Weingold [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sorry for the OT, but the only browser I have used in X is Netscape, up to 4.7x. I really pisses me off that they seem to have eliminated the Open button. Does Mozilla, Netscape 6, Konqueror, or any of the other liked browsers have it? Also, anyone

Re: scanning SCSI-bus on a running system

2000-12-13 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Joerg Johannes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I would like to get my scanner recognized when turned on at a runing system. I know I can do that on Win 98, so it should be possible to rescan the SCSI-Bus without disturbing any of the other devices. The only question is: How? There is a scsiadd

Re: gmc package status

2000-12-06 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Jeff Hornsberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi. It has slowly dawned on me that, since I installed Debian almost 2 months ago, gnome midnight commander has never worked properly. Yes, same here. This is due to mc not being compiled with the new glibc version. the reading I have done it

Re: xlibs vs. app-defaults

2000-12-04 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Burton Windle [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Unpacking replacement xlibs ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/xlibs_4.0.1-9_i386.deb (--install): trying to overwrite `/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults', which is also in package ghostview dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal

No login with gdm after xfree upgrade

2000-12-04 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Hi all, after an upgrade from xfree86 4.0.1-8 to 4.0.1-9 gdm won't let me login any more. Every single keystroke in the login screen gets the server to restart. In the logs (debug=on in gdm.conf) there are those messages: Dec 4 11:15:28 wabe gdm[4328]: gdm_main: Here we go... Dec 4 11:15:28

Re: upgrade errors: libgnomeprint-bin 0.25-0.1, overwriting files

2000-12-02 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
kmself@ix.netcom.com writes: Problems upgrading libgnomeprint11 because of libgnomeprint-data dependencies because libgnomeprint-bin tries to overwrite /usr/bin/gnome-font-install which is also in lobgnomeprint6. All these error messages (I saw a lot of them in the last time) depends on dpkg

Re: libmng problem

2000-12-02 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Frank Frijns [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: After collecting all the needed packages (debian; e.g. .deb) I fail to collect all needed ones. One of them is libmng. [...] KDE (Kdebase for instance) won't install because of dependencies with this package. Has anyone a good package (this failing

Re: create a update-media?

2000-11-22 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
M G Berberich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I want to make a CD/MO that contains all the packages that I have installed on my system, but are not on my potato-debian-CD's. E.g. all the updated packages. I would like to use this CD/MO as another source for apt/dselect. Try apt-move or apt-zip: $

Re: xserver-xfree86 4.0.1-6 upgrade

2000-11-21 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Solution to the xserver-xfree86 install problem: In the install script /var/lib/dpkg/info/xserver-xfree86.postinst line 60 must be corrected from ln -sf /etc/X11/X $this_server (MISTAKE!) to ln -sf $this_server /etc/X11/X (a quite common mistake which I myself often go for).

Re: The Microsoft tax

2000-11-20 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Bernhard Josef Rieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What do you do if you want to buy a laptop? I think buying a laptop without windoze is nearly impossible (at least here in austria) :((( If Germany is an option for you you could look at http://www.xtops.de/. They have both laptops and PDAs

Re: Synchronizing the files on two machines

2000-11-20 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Christophe TROESTLER [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I would like to be able to synchronize the *certain* files on two machines that are *not* directly connected to each other. [...] Well, you get the idea. If you know of an utility more or less fitting the description above, I am really

Re: Gnome Web Links

2000-11-19 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Jeff Hornsberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I used to use RedHat and Helix Gnome before switching to Debian. In my RH/Helix environment I could drag a web link from mozilla or netscape onto the desktop to create a handy internet link that would bring up netscape when I double-clicked on it

Re: installing netscape

2000-11-18 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Sebastiaan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You can also try to install the package communicator-smotif-473 or navigator-smotif-473. ^^^ ^^^ Better get -475 instead, which has better encryption and less security

Re: Tools available for..

2000-11-18 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Jeff Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am trying to set up a server, and I would like to know about some of the tools I should be using for the following tasks: Bandwidth monitoring/restriction on a per-user basis Traffic (total data transfered per time unit) monitoring/restriction on a

Re: Dependency problems

2000-11-18 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
The latest dpkg upgrade seems to have removed the force-overwrite feature from apt, which is normally set in the unstable branch, but removed when it comes to stable. Add the lines: DPkg { Options {--force-overwrite;} } to the file /etc/apt/apt.conf (or create one if it don't

Re: dpkg --getselections, apt, and update-menus

2000-11-18 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson) writes: I don't think that's what Sean meant. If, in dselect, you use '-' to mark a package for removal - or use 'apt-get remove' - then a package's configuration files won't be removed, and some state about the package will remain in the system. However, if

Re: Problem with cups and xpp or qtcups

2000-11-15 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Giuseppe Fierro [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: both xpp and qtcups give me same message unable to connect to CUPS server, check options but I don't know the options that I have to see. I tried all options in the cupsd.conf file but nothing does. Did you set 'Browsing' to 'on' in the

Dynamic + static IP-address in /etc/network/interfaces

2000-11-14 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Hi all, I've finally got a static IP address which I want to use instead of the dynamic one I still get from my ISP via ppp. I thought it would be best to bind the static address to the dummy interface, so my /etc/network/interfaces looks like that: auto lo dummy iface lo inet loopback

Re: network printing

2000-11-13 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Andrew Dwight Dixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm having some trouble getting my printer to work across my network. The printer works like a champ on the local machine (sendack, 192.168.1.1). But when I try from the remote machine (derico, 192.168.1.2) nothing happens and when I run lpq I

Re: Compiled debs are upgraded

2000-11-07 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Madness and not what I want. It's not just doing it on my home machine (installed from what *might* be a dodgy CD set, I suppose) but from my work machine which I installed entirely over the internet. interesting, replacing it with the same

Re: XFree86 4.0.1 and TrueType fonts

2000-11-05 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
John S. J. Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: wulfie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ttmkfdir in the ttf dir :) Add the path to your fonts section in XF86Config, freetype to the modules section (you already did both, it seems) you're there. What's the exact path to ttmkfdir on your box? I

Re: XFree86 4.0.1 and gdm

2000-11-05 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Hubert Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just upgraded to XFree86 4.0.1, and I can't log in using gdm any more (I'm using the Helix version). From what I can tell, the X packages have a new /etc/X11/Xsession file which gdm doesn't like very much. Has anyone noticed this problem too? Any

Re: Sawmill config Gnome CC

2000-11-01 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Jonathan Wheelhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Nothing happens when I click on the 'Run configuration tool for Sawmill' within the Gnome Control Center. Sawfish (as it is called by now) is configurable in GCC itself (look a little bit further down ...), so I guess, the config tool is disabled

Re: OTP

2000-10-28 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Danny Heap [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There is (otp) for generating one-time passwords. Is there a debian package for implementing OTP? A quick `apt-cache search password | grep -i time' gives three hits, between them otp - Generator for One Time Passwords, so it would be sufficient to do a

Re: Installing kernel sources

2000-10-21 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
CHEONG, Shu Yang [Patrick] [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: $tar xvf kernel-source-2.2.17 Nowadays it is: tar -xvIf kernel-source-2.2.17.tar.bz2 (note the `I' in between, it is to unpack the bzipped archive). Greetings, joachim

Re: LyX on woody crashes X server

2000-10-20 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
OK, seems I should give some more informations: I use a recent woody with XFree 3.3.6-11 and LyX 1.1.4-7, X server is SVGA (window manager: sawfish-gnome 0.31.1-2 on the newest Debian-only Gnome -- not the Helix distribution). Hardware: a Matrox card MGA G400 AGP with 16 MB RAM, the monitor is a

LyX on woody crashes X server

2000-10-19 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Hi, has anyone else tried LyX with a recent woody? It crashes X and puts me back to the login screen when loading fonts in the server, f.ex. when I open the user manual from the Help menu. Any thoughts? Greetings, joachim

Re: LyX on woody crashes X server

2000-10-19 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Jeronimo Pellegrini [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: :: Joachim Trinkwitz writes: Hi, has anyone else tried LyX with a recent woody? It crashes X and puts me back to the login screen when loading fonts in the server, f.ex. when I open the user manual from the Help menu. Any thoughts? I

Re: staroffice

2000-10-10 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Agner-Nichols [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I downloaded the Staroffice binaries (10 files with an extension of .bin) from the Sun site and realized I have no idea how to install them (to a Throw all files in /tmp, then `chmod 755' the first file, then execute this file with the option `/net' and

Re: Encrypt a file

2000-10-10 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Francois Fayard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does anyone knows a software that encrypts files with a password ? Have a look at seahorse: ~$ apt-cache show seahorse Package: seahorse Version: 0.4.9-1 Priority: optional Section: non-US Maintainer: Christian Marillat [EMAIL PROTECTED] Depends:

Re: problems with gnome

2000-10-05 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ok, so I install windowmaker, and chose it in the gnome control panel. It's listed as my current WM. However, I'm in enlightenment. Try to change to enlightenment and then immediately change back to WindowMaker. This helped with WindowMaker and

Re: gnome won't start now

2000-10-05 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: *sigh* I'm back to using icewm now, not that there's anything wrong with that, but I'm confused as to why I can't get gnome to start. Reading the gnome-session manpages, it would seem that gnome expects a default session file,

Re: Sound Blaster

2000-10-05 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 12:41:24AM -0700, Tino Ionescu wrote: Hi I'm trying to install the driver emu10k1 for Sound Blaster Live Driver's Makefile is complainig that it can't find modversion.h Can anybody tell me what should be done?

Re: mozilla netscape

2000-10-05 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
John Travis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 04 Oct 2000, Michael P. Soulier wrote: So, can these two coexist? I've done it with debian packages, but I decided to check out one of the nightly builds of mozilla, and it did a whole bunch of stuff on its first invocation, and from that point

Re: Need advice on Postscript/PCL printer

2000-10-04 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Nicola Bernardelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am to buy an entry level monochrome laser printer (it seems as when it comes to text and music scores a 600dpi laser is better than any inkjet) and of course I'm looking for one that works with Debian. (I'll add some details just in case anybody

Re: Netscape - libstdc++

2000-10-04 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
ObeseWhale [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: well I did apt-get install netscape4 off of the cd, and it installed netscape-base, yet I'm getting the same error. Do I need more? Do apt-get install netscape-smotif-475 and throw away your netscape tarball. Greetings, joachim

Re: qweb

2000-09-28 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Atila Nemet [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I was wanted to install the qweb web browser, but it was asking for some qt1 package which I could not find in the debian 2.2 distribution. Where can I find this qt1 package? (Doesn't answer your question, but:) Unfortunately, the qweb browser is

Re: A series of newbieite questions

2000-09-28 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
ObeseWhale [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1. Debian keeps starting X as soon as I boot into linux. It give me the graphical login screen and everything. This is annoying because I don't seem to be capable of exiting X... Is there any way to stop Debian from running xdm on startup? Why will

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