On Tue, 1999-12-07 at 23:13:32 +0100, peter karlsson wrote:
Is there any way in Debian to find out what packages no other packages
depend on?
When I install a couple of packages, all the libraries they depend on are
installed as well, which is quite nice, but the reverse doesn't hold - when
On Sat, 1999-12-04 at 17:57:00 -0700, csager wrote:
== snip ==
I have run XFR86Config, but when I type the command:
startx
I get so many error messages that scroll by my screen so
fast that I don't know what all the problems are.
Is there a
On Mon, 1999-11-29 at 15:28:57 -0600, Marc Mongeon wrote:
I think this is caused by the file /etc/adjtime, which is supposed to
adjust for clock drift, but gets skewed when you first set the hard-
ware clock. Remove the file, then re-set the clock. It will be re-
created as needed.
Marc
On Sat, 1999-11-20 at 17:31:37 -0800, Ron Farrer wrote:
Hello all;
I upgraded to gs-aladdin from gs as one person suggested, but I still
can't print ps. Basically nothing happens, lpq shows:
Printer: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'Epson Stylus Color Pro'
Queue: no printable jobs in queue
Status:
This basically reprises a message sent on 1999-11-07 at 06:10:18 +,
Subject: Cannot chown /dev/pts/0 to 0,0; likewise for /dev/ptyxx,
which received no response.
On starting xinit, the xterm it brings up only displays characters
as solid blocks of color the foreground color.
When the xterm
I've just switched to potato, and still don't have it entirely working
(mainly in that X can't find its fonts),
but while I am waiting to figure out a solution to that,
here's two small questions:
Can anyone explain the following behavior:
$ tty
/dev/tty0
$ script
Script started, file is
On Tue, 1999-11-09 at 13:44:06 -0800, Joey Hess wrote:
Keith Harbaugh wrote:
Can't find a valid termcap file at /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/Term/ReadLine.pm
line305
What do I need to (re)install to cure this,
without (further) breaking my system?
Your system isn't broken at all
One may easily log an apt-get session,
by starting a script beforehand, then using the --quiet option to apt-get
to suppress the periodic progress reports on downloads.
But when I try to operate dselect within a typescript situation,
all the cursor control characters (ncurses or whatever),
while
On Tue, 1999-11-09 at 23:18:03 -0600, Erick Kinnee wrote:
I seem to have lost the 'fixed' font or whatever it's aliased to. X no
longer starts for me, and I have heard reports from other users of this.
Anybody got an idea?
I've had no luck with X under potato: see post late on 1999-11-06,
The slink - potato saga continued (Chapter X):
Doing xinit on my upgraded potato system yields an xterm without fonts,
that is, where the characters should be, there are just colored boxes.
However, the messages from the X server all look reasonable;
the font path is shown as:
(**) FontPath set
On Wed, 1999-10-20 at 23:29:36 +0200, Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote:
On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 10:43:12PM +0300, Paul Huygen wrote:
Jean-Yves BARBIER [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I did not found anything about printing only certain pages. Is it
possible?
Probably. How to do it depends on the
On Sat, 1999-11-06 at 14:36:25 -0500, Salman Ahmed wrote:
Whenever I reboot/shutdown my debian system, one of the message I see on
the console during shutdown is :
CMOS clock updated to Sat Nov 6 14:25:38 EST 1999
This alongwith the fact that APM support (which I have compiled into my
I used to have a slink system which was running basically just fine,
then in a moment of Neanderthal adventurism
decided to try to upgrade to potato in one fell swoop.
Well, I got swooped all right, and have been trying to dig myself out
from a hole of unknown depth ever since.
I'll spare the
Can any kernel gurus out there explain why the final message the kernel
gives upon system shutdown changed from
System halted
in Linux 2.0 to
Power down
in Linux 2.2?
For specificity here is the relevant code from kernel/sys.c for 2.2.12
(pardon me for sending this through the
On Tue, 1999-10-12 at 17:50:14 -0500, John Foster wrote:
I just installed the new Netscape 4.71 version on my Debian Linux
server. Just a report- It installs nicely with the Netscape4 installer
from Debian if you rename it to the proper convention. It seems MUCH
faster and more stable that all
On Tue, 1999-10-12 at 17:50:14 -0500, John Foster wrote:
I just installed the new Netscape 4.71 version on my Debian Linux
server. Just a report- It installs nicely with the Netscape4 installer
from Debian if you rename it to the proper convention. It seems MUCH
faster and more stable that all
.
--
Keith Harbaugh
On Fri, 1999-10-01 at 18:48:03 +0400, Alexander Zhuckov wrote:
Hi!
Tell me, ple-e-e-e-ase, where I can find
GNU Emacs 20.4 Debian packages?
This doesn't answer your question directly, but it may help keep you
up to date without having to wait for deb's:
If you have the a gcc compiler (I use
On Fri, 1999-09-24 at 08:32:28 -0500, Andrei Ivanov wrote:
Here is how you do it:
reboot and at lilo prompt type
linux init=/bin/sh
This will rop you into shell. In there,
mount -n -o remount rw
Then edit the /etc/passwd file and blank out root password field. (The
second field). Or
The design spec for dpkgv2, aka the Herring Package Management Library (HPML),
is available for our browsing pleasure at
http://www.debian.org/~bcollins/hpml;
specifying precisely that URL does bring up the proper web page
on my web browser.
If I am interpreting the html2ps documentation
On Fri, 1999-09-24 at 00:42:35 +0200, Johann Spies wrote:
I am trying to install real player and have the following lines in my
~/.bash_profile:
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/src/rvplayer5.0
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/src/rvplayer5.0
When I do an echo $PATH in the console,
On Wed, 1999-09-22 10:25:29 +0530, XRDLAB wrote:
Hi,
I noticed a strange behaviour of bash regrding the prompt. I have set
PS1='\h:\w$ '. With that I get both the host name and the working
directory as my shell prompt. Yesterday I noticed a strange behaviour
accidentally. The sequence is
On Sat, 1999-09-18 14:57:50 -0400, Salman Ahmed wrote:
Can someone tell me exactly what packages I will need to
run the 2.2.x kernel ? I know that I will need some packages
from unstable but that's ok.
Here is what my /etc/apt/sources.lists looks like right
now :
# Use for a local
On Mon, 1999-09-13 18:03:35 +0100, Martin Oldfield wrote:
I thought I'd give glimpse a whirl to index a bunch of email archives,
but I get a segmentation fault:
% glimpseindex -o -B archive
This is glimpseindex
On Tue, 1999-09-14 22:10:09 -0700, Craig B wrote:
I really like the way X works on my Hamm system. The only complaint I
have is with the font quality. Sometimes they look fine for example as
I type this message, and other times they look really crappy. The
biggest problem I have is with
On Sun, 1999-09-05 21:50:52 +0200, Johann Spies wrote:
Thanks Keith. That did it. After changing my .Xdefaults to
Xterm.vt.geometry in stead of using * the menus are usable. In which
documentation did you find that?
Well, actually it wasn't so much the documentation
as the experimentation
Thanks to all who have replied.
Actually what motivated my question was the advocacy of the procmailer
Jari Aalto: please see his http://www.procmail.org/jari/pm-tips.html
(`pm' here and below is for `procmail'),
in particular, its
1.1 for its examples of the `@(#)' identifier (in addition to the
If you want to do a little further digging on this situation,
try the following:
xrdb -q | grep -i ^xterm
and post the results back.
And yes, I am using slink, but with some addons.
Here's my /etc/apt/sources.list if you're interested
deb http://ftp.netgod.net/ x/
deb
`what' was an old unix program which would access certain identifying
lines within text files, allowing easy reading of key parts of files
without having to use a pager or editor.
I used the search features of the debian web site's Package page, searching
on `what', but to no avail (the first
On Sun, 1999-09-05 14:44:47 +0200, Johann Spies wrote:
On Sat, 4 Sep 1999, Keith Harbaugh wrote:
If you want to do a little further digging on this situation,
try the following:
xrdb -q | grep -i ^xterm
and post the results back.
Here are the results:
$xrdb -q | grep -i ^xterm
Change
XTerm*geometry: 80x24
XTerm.VT100*geometry: 80x24
to
XTerm.vt100.geometry: 80x24
Let me know if that doesn't work;
it works fine for me (although actually I use 80x63).
I just compiled 2.2.12: here's the uname -a:
Linux euler 2.2.12 #1 Fri Aug 27 05:43:17 UTC 1999 i586 unknown
No problem whatsoever, it just dropped in and replaced the previous
2.2.11 I had been running.
I'm running mainly a straight slink system, but with netgod.net's
X 3.3.3.1 + glibc-2.0.7
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