On 24-Jun-2002 Sivea Key wrote:
HI,
I'm new to Debian and LINUX so any help would be greatly appreciated.
I am trying to run a simulation program on Debian. It compiles fine (now) but
whenever I try to launch the gui it tells me it can't connect to the display
and that I need to run:
On 25-Jun-2002 Arun Madhurmohan wrote:
Hi,
I use debian linux at home and redhat linux (unfortunately) at work.
Redhat comes with g++ 2.96 and that's what I use at work. I can't find an
equivalent version of g++ on debian. I would prefer to work with the same
version of g++ at home and
I use a dual head matrox card every day.
I use a Matrox G400 AGP, works great with the blackbox window manager
which I have to plug with Sean on the thread. I run the CVS build of
blackbox, running a seperate server on each display which I like better
than xinerama since my displays
On 22-Jun-2002 Dan Jacobson wrote:
The debian package management system is neat but let's say you want to
read the docs and man page of a conflicting package. Then you must
drive the original package off the system to install the new package
just for a look, or otherwise jump thru hoops?
So just wondering if it's just me that has problems with twinview stuff ? Or
is there any other settings that you would recommend - how well is Matrox
G400 or Agp+PCI settings ? they run well ?
I use a dual head matrox card every day.
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On 21-Jun-2002 Matthew Daubenspeck wrote:
I have been using djbdns for a while now, but only on the i386
platform. I got my hands on a G4 server and have loaded debian, but
cannot seem to find a djbdns-ppc version.
Any ideas?
you really should give maradns a look. Similar goals as djbdns,
On 21-Jun-2002 Matthew Daubenspeck wrote:
On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 08:30:35AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
On 21-Jun-2002 Matthew Daubenspeck wrote:
I have been using djbdns for a while now, but only on the i386
platform. I got my hands on a G4 server and have loaded debian
Compiling it is no big deal, but does maradns perform as well as
djbdns does? I used to use Bind, which is like shooting yourself in
the face with a large cannon. However, djbdns has performed great and
been fairly perfect since I have used it...
I am running it on my home lan as an
On 21-Jun-2002 Matthew Tedder wrote:
What exactly are the core, absolute minimum parts of Debian that would need
to sit on a CD in order to boot and install it to the minimal point that one
could then apt-get all the additional packages he/she wanted in the future?
Networking not even
On 22-Jun-2002 arthur_dent wrote:
Hi,
Does anyone know if I can create a .deb package from a tar.gz source driver
package I downloaded for an LPC3-TX (I think it's a 16bit ) 10/100 network
PCMCIA card.
Thanks in advance.
joeyh has a recent thread where he documents packaging a pcmcia
On 20-Jun-2002 Cameron Matheson wrote:
Hey,
I've gotten debian installed on my Canon Innovabook 457CDS, but I don't
know how to get the touchpad working... is there some sort of generic
touchpad device? I tried using /dev/psaux just for fun but that didn't
work, couldn't find any
On 20-Jun-2002 Matthew Tedder wrote:
How compliant with the FHS and LSB standards is Debian to date?
Also, is LVM and ReiserFS available?
We are about as FHS as one can be. The LSB is still getting fleshed out, we
are fairly conforming but not perfect yet.
My understanding is that reiser
If you have success getting a supposedly non supported camera working in
this manner, you may want to drop the gphoto2 developers a line so they can
incorporate support for that camera :). Also, I wonder if it would be
possible to add support for some of these non supported in name only
On 20-Jun-2002 Erik Mathisen wrote:
Hello,
I made a post yesterday, but I still have not been able to resolve
this issue. I am putting a brand new hard drive into my system. I
would like to totally remove my my original drive. I have copy and
successfully made /home and other partitions
On 19-Jun-2002 David Richmond wrote:
Hello!
Having just switched to Debian (woody) from SuSE 7.3, I recall that, under
SuSE, I had to download and compile the CVS snapshot of the gphoto2 digital
camera library to get my Canon PowerShot A40 digital camera recognizable
under Linux. The
On 19-Jun-2002 Abdul Latip wrote:
As suggested in http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting ; I am
sending this to debian-user.
I have just installed woody from scratch (due to trying ext3fs);
and then I run tasksel. I selected X11; and then choose
kdm out of xdm, gdm, and kdm.
Apparently,
Does anyone know what this means? I've been using make-kpkg for over a
year with no problems, but this started happening a week or so ago.
try doing a make-kpkg clean and then starting it again. Remember that after a
clean you must run it with the --revision switch if you want to add a
Is there a command I need to run to make apt-get forget itself?
did you try 'apt-get update' then 'apt-get upgrade'?
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On 11-Jun-2002 Helgi Örn wrote:
Everytime I start a GTK app I get this:
Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
Why is this happening?
/etc/locale.gen, give it a look.
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On 11-Jun-2002 Artur Matos wrote:
Hi,
My sylpheed instalation is not showing japanese email properly,
only garbled characters. All of the other X-Windows, non-GTK
applications seems to be showing japanese correctly.
I`ve tried to set the option Display 2 byte alphabet and numeric
with
On 11-Jun-2002 Helgi Örn wrote:
On Tue, 2002-06-11 at 08:32, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
On 11-Jun-2002 Helgi Örn wrote:
Everytime I start a GTK app I get this:
Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
/etc/locale.gen, give it a look.
This is all that's there:
is_IS
On 11-Jun-2002 Helgi Örn wrote:
On Tue, 2002-06-11 at 08:45, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
On 11-Jun-2002 Helgi Örn wrote:
This is all that's there:
is_IS ISO-8859-1
sv_SE ISO-8859-1
Does this match the locale you were trying to use? The locale the app was
trying to use? Most
On 11-Jun-2002 Dan Jacobson wrote:
[Debian's default installation gives 2 year old emacs and 6 year old
non-GNU awk, while sporting the GNU/Linux branding]
Summary: Dan says the debian install process should at least
ask/inform the user that he is not getting current official GNU tools
Tatsuya It seems ja_JP locale was not configured.
Tatsuya Select `ja_JP.EUC-JP EUC-JP' with `dpkg-reconfigure
Tatsuya locales' as root. See also the file `/etc/locale.gen'.
Does this work for most programs in general?
For example, Evolution doesn't display Japanese
On 11-Jun-2002 James Troup wrote:
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
As to the specific awk issue, when we made the choice mawk worked better on
more scripts than gawk did. This may have changed in the last 2 years or so
but was still valid when potato came out.
Err
Wouldn't C be a more appropriate default locale for non-US users?
sure, but you are assuming competency in coders (-: C should work by default
without editing or enabling anything .
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On 11-Jun-2002 James Troup wrote:
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
as I said, two years ago I found that random awk scripts worked
better with mawk than gawk, this has likely changed.
Err, actually you claimed that this (i.e. 'random awk scripts
work[ing] better') is why
On 11-Jun-2002 Helgi Örn wrote:
On Tue, 2002-06-11 at 19:42, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
Wouldn't C be a more appropriate default locale for non-US users?
sure, but you are assuming competency in coders (-: C should work by
default
without editing or enabling anything .
Could you guys
On 07-Jun-2002 Marcelo Chiapparini wrote:
Hi!
are the steps to compile a new kernel in woody the same as in potato?
yep:
apt-get install kernel-package
acquire the kernel source (perhaps via apt-get install kernel-source-version)
cd /usr/src
unpack kernel
cd kernel directory
configure
On 07-Jun-2002 Michael D. Schleif wrote:
Where is some howto explaining ins and outs and options to managing
programs compiled from source under debian?
Clearly, one reason to choose debian is apt/dpkg/dselect, et al.
However, as we know, some programs may have to be compiled from
But I feel that it is important that I make some contribution to the
Debian group by making some kind of donation to the core Debian.org
from time to time. Especially when I'm feeling really warm and
fuzzy about Debians performance.
as I commented in another thread the three most
On 07-Jun-2002 Andrew Pollock wrote:
Hi,
I'm working in what is a Mandrake shop, but relatively open minded about
Debian. I'm already making inroads into getting Debian used as the distro
of choice for infrastructure boxes. Thanks to FAI. Nice work Thomas.
Mandrake alledgedly compile all
With hindsight, it's clear that trying to
support too many architectures was a mistake.
Of course, everybody makes mistakes. It is truly
said that he who never made a mistake, never
made anything.
But what separates the doers from the wannabes
is the ability to admit a mistake, change
On 05-Jun-2002 Charlie Grosvenor wrote:
Hi
I have just done a clean install of potato and then upgraded to
woody. I then tried to install a new kernel, during the install it says
the following:
Setting up kernel-image-2.4.18-586tsc (2.4.18-5) ...
/usr/sbin/mkinitrd: ldd: command not
On 05-Jun-2002 Charlie Grosvenor wrote:
I have the package libc6 installed but don't have the file /usr/bin/ldd
How can I solve this problem?
install libc6 again. Something must have deleted it.
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I've discovered the /etc/network/interfaces file -- I think I should
fix things there.
yes, that is the correct location now
Side Note:
If /etc/init.d/network has been discontinued and the functionality
moved to /etc/network/interfaces, perhaps someone should update Debian
Guide.
On 01-Jun-2002 Paul E Condon wrote:
What is a simple way to insert a carriage return character just before
each line feed (new line) character in a text file?
in other words, make it look like a Windows text file? The sysutils package
has two utilities -- 'fromdos' which removes ^M and
useful information. i was torn about responding, reluctant to accommodate the
devil's formats, revelling in the fact that whenever i have to deal with him,
i get to name the price. the quality of the sysutils package is yet another
reason to appreciate gnu/linux. i'd only ever used it for
On 01-Jun-2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've been faithful to the Esound daemon for a long time. But Esound
has never been really rock solid. When at home I play mp3s on my girlfriends
macintosh. The time has come to do something about this.
What is the preferred sound solution on Debian
On 31-May-2002 Rick Macdonald wrote:
Paul Johnson said:
On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 09:02:27AM -0600, Rick Macdonald wrote:
Has there been any Debian disscussion about this, official or
otherwise?
Why should there be? We are already the One True Linux Distribution.
8:o)
I wrote to
On 31-May-2002 ben wrote:
On Friday 31 May 2002 09:01 am, Paul Johnson wrote:
On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 09:02:27AM -0600, Rick Macdonald wrote:
Has there been any Debian disscussion about this, official or otherwise?
Why should there be? We are already the One True Linux Distribution.
8:o)
On 31-May-2002 Dave Price wrote:
Hi,
I am looking for a quick way to clear an HDD of old data, partitions,
etc.
I found this on /. thru a google search:
dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/hdX
When i do this from a console shell after booting from a woody install
disk, It does not seem to
On 31-May-2002 Luigi Bianca wrote:
potato 2.2r5
- all packages have been installed and upgraded from cd set i have.
- other directories are ok
- i have the backup of personal data (mail addresses etc.) but not of the
intalled packages (i did it but i can't find it)
Wich directories
On 31-May-2002 Quenten Griffith wrote:
And what exactly is LSB?
Linux Standards Base. It is defining what a linux distribution has to have.
see http://www.linuxbase.org.
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On 30-May-2002 nate wrote:
not a critical issue yet, but i have noticed when using
pam on cyrus(with ldap), memory on pwcheck goes way up,
currently at 80MB. if i restart it, it starts off at 1500kb
or so and quickly gets to 20-30MB then eventually 50MB ..then slowly
grows more
On 31-May-2002 Jeffrey Chimene wrote:
I think the answer is you can't, but I'll ask anyway:
Is there any way to auto-update .twmrc when new software's installed?
I think the answer is no because twm doesn't implement an *include*
directive for .twmrc. I don't want to switch window
Does Debian not have an independant emacs package that doesn't depend on X?
no we don't, it is a monster package and it is not worth the emacs maintainers
time to build it twice.
It only depends on the X *libs*. Having this on your server is not a bad
thing. It means you can run x apps
What is the best all-round resource that explains the relationships
between all of those files? Is there some howto that explains the
system as a whole -- *not* the 50,000 foot level of how pretty
everything is -- rather, a system administrator's guide to tell me: if
you want to do this
On 27-May-2002 Squirrel wrote:
apt_dest()
{
local m=$3
m=debootstrap.invalid
printf $APTSTATE/lists/
echo ${m}_$4|sed 's/\//_/g'
}
apt_dest rel woody file:/instmnt dists/woody/Release
each argument is passed in as a number parameter. So $3 is the third
On 27-May-2002 Paul Johnson wrote:
On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 02:12:08AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~dpkg -S menu/tin
tin: /usr/lib/menu/tin
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~dpkg -s tin |grep Version:
Version: 1:1.5.12.20020311-1
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -S menu/tin
dpkg: *menu/tin* not
On 27-May-2002 Paul Johnson wrote:
On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 01:22:40AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -S menu/tin
dpkg: *menu/tin* not found.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -s tin |grep Version:
Version: 2:1.5.8-9
what is that, potato's version? Both woody
On 26-May-2002 Paul Johnson wrote:
On Sat, May 25, 2002 at 07:41:08PM +0100, Martin Rowe wrote:
I've recently installed Debian sid on my kids' box and it's running fine,
except that the menus (in Blackbox) don't get updated after an apt-get
install or dist-upgrade. A manual update-menus
On 26-May-2002 Paul Johnson wrote:
On Sun, May 26, 2002 at 02:10:36AM -0600, Dave Price wrote:
More generally, is there a command that can be run on a system to tell
me what package installed a perticular file?
dpkg -S filename-search-pattern... should give it to you.
if you have a
On 26-May-2002 Dave Price wrote:
Hi,
I am setting up an ancient laptop as a firewall system.
It work, except that on boot the system trys to start the network before
the cardservices are ready.
I have the configurations of eth0 and eth1 in /etc/interfaces as static.
Even after the
On 25-May-2002 Phil wrote:
I have Debian on an antique machine and have Xfree86 and gnome
running. However the only device I could get to run was the VGA16 and it
seems to recognize the 640x480 modeline configuration but repors thatit is
running in virtual 800x600 mode.In the mode the
for it not to happen automagically. It runs
fine on the other sid boxes I run.
1) are you using /etc/X11/blackbox/blackbox-menu as your menu?
2) are you sure it is not updating at all? Sometimes it takes a moment for
updte-menus to run and blackbox to notice the change.
Shaleh
blackbox
Can it be that it does not happen automagically because there is a
~/.menu directory? Maybe Blackbox handles the menus in some way that
requires it to be manually updated?
no blackbox watches the menu and updates on a timer so updates will get noticed.
I suspect your first question is
On 24-May-2002 Glen Lee Edwards wrote:
Adam,
I'm not going to rewrite the lisp code on xemacs to automatically add in a
Reply-to: header that matches one of the dozen or so email addresses I use.
All
my boxes have their own static IP address, and a reverse DNS lookup matches
the
DSN
Sorry to seem stupid here, but it may be an accurate assessment %-)
Anyhow, this looks like a fairly scary process when I may wreck the
system and have no idea what I am doing (kid at the wheel of a
steamroller syndrome... what's this button do?).
Any suggestions?
it is a little
In case it helps, I'm appending some output from the XFree86 log at the
bottom of this message. The video card is an ATI built into the
system's motherboard, I don't know much about the chipset and the log
output doesn't tell me much either; if it will help, I can probably find
out more
On 21-May-2002 Bill Moseley wrote:
Hi,
What's the suggested encoding tool for grip? I've got a bunch of existing
mp3 files. Should I move to Ogg Vorbis? What Debian packages are needed
for encoding?
How about ripper setup for grip? I was testing with grip (cdparanoia),
but I'm not
On 21-May-2002 Holger Rauch wrote:
Hi!
On Mon, 20 May 2002, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
[...]
ogg is fine as long as you never intend to use the songs in a mp3 portable
player or other hardware player. oggs are also smaller usually and tend to
sound as good or better than a similar
Why the sam hell is there not, by default, no questions asked, it's
installed because it's *right*, a statically linked /sbin/sh as
roots default shell?
because the days of static bins are long passed. if *you* want this, Debian
makes it even easier. apt-get install sash.
On 20-May-2002 Rory Campbell-Lange wrote:
Hi Sean
On 18/05/02, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On 18-May-2002 Rory Campbell-Lange wrote:
I'm trying to install a perl module called Gnokii, which requires one
first to compile the gnokii program.
Note, gnokii is packaged
Carl Also, the ALT key does not work as a meta key for emacs.
It probably thinks you have a pc104 keyboard, where the Windows keys act
as the meta keys. Switch it to pc101.
or enjoy the fact that meta is meta and alt is alt (-: You can always fix the
console mapping.
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On 18-May-2002 Rory Campbell-Lange wrote:
I'm trying to install a perl module called Gnokii, which requires one
first to compile the gnokii program.
I can compile gnokii ok. However, when I try to make the Gnokii module,
I get the following error:
GSM.xs:17: gsm-common.h: No such
On 17-May-2002 Michael Lee (TOR) wrote:
Hi, I'm completely stumped.
I recently upgraded my Debian system from a 2.2 kernel to 2.4.18, and since
then it has slowed to a near-halt (on a Celeron 733). Where it's most
notable is if I run make.
is swap enabled? Do you have enough? This is
On 17-May-2002 Michael Lee (TOR) wrote:
Well, this Celeron 700 has 256 MB of RAM. Here's the swap useage. So that
looks okay to me. I'll check some of the hard drive stuff you mentioned.
shiner:/# free -t
total used free sharedbuffers cached
Mem:
On 17-May-2002 Michael Lee (TOR) wrote:
Whew!
I just got back from the data centre. As I was getting ready to boot into
the old kernel, something that Craig Dickson pointed out struck me: check
the DMA settings. Well i rebooted and went into my BIOS settings. There was
this weird option
The sysadmin really likes debian. So, I have the following questions.
1) Is there an egcs-2.91.66 binary for Debian?
If there is it would be in the slink era.
2) Are there any obvious issues with replacing gcc 2.95.4 with
egcs-2.91.66? I suppose another translation of this question is:
On 15-May-2002 Tom Allison wrote:
Where is a good place to park an Environment Veriable like RSYNC_RSH?
I use ~/.bashrc.
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On 15-May-2002 Jiang Alan wrote:
I have just installed debian/woody and xemacs21. I encountered two
problems:
1. when I apt-get install xemacs21, it says post install configuration
error. I find the problem is that when create a symbolic link at
/usr/man/man1/., there is not
On 15-May-2002 Oliver Kowalke wrote:
Hi,
as I've posted to debian-glibc-list I want to program a little bit with
the new async IO implementation from Ben LeHaise. The kernel is patched
and libaio (provides the native async io api) is also installed. In
order to access linux new feature
On 15-May-2002 Simon Callan wrote:
Hello,
I have recently purchased a set of Debian 2.2r6 CDs, and am trying to
install off of them. However, I am having problems with the source
discs.
During the install process, you are asked to insert all the CDs in the
set, so that the system knows
On 15-May-2002 Alex Malinovich wrote:
I'm sure that I might be missing something obvious here, but after a few
hours I still haven't figured it out. I'm writing a script to detect
whether xscreensaver is running and activate it if it is. If not, it
launches the daemon first and then
On 13-May-2002 dman wrote:
On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 11:36:31PM +0530, Deepak Kotian wrote:
| Hi,
|
| Is there any tool like purify(memory leak tool) for LINUX. Or any
| free software which can be used to check memory leaks on a C/c++
| program.
memprof is one such tool. I've used it a little
On 13-May-2002 Colin Watson wrote:
On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 11:36:31PM +0530, Deepak Kotian wrote:
Is there any tool like purify(memory leak tool) for LINUX. Or any free
software which can be used to check memory leaks on a C/c++ program.
Try valgrind (http://devel-home.kde.org/~sewardj/, or
I'm informed by the guy at work who's been spending a lot of time
working on and with valgrind that yesterday's version is old.
I see (-:
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Since, I will be using it almost exclusively as a desktop, I'm most
concerned about access to current builds of my favorite packages like KDE3,
OpenOffice 1.0 Mozilla 1.0RC2. Of course, OO and Mozilla have pretty good
installers that come with them. I'm happy with those and could use
Isn't this all rather academic, since Miroslav has a _386_ with
only SIXTEEN MB RAM? Running X would be folly!! Not only is the
CPU old and slow, but so is the RAM, HDD, video card, etc. And
the HDD will tiny!!!
sufficient X to have multiple term windows open at once. He won't be
Greetings:
Would anyone care to drop me a copy of their lilo.conf for booting Debian and
another *nix on the same hard drive? I am out of practice, and could use it
as a quick reference to get both Debian and his old RedHat booting via lilo.
The box in question is a new
On 09-May-2002 stan wrote:
I was reaading an article on slashdot this morning that referenced a photo
browser called
photomesa. Lookrd interesting.
Anyone know where I can find this as a .deb?
note the Java requirement and the non commercial license ..
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On 08-May-2002 Rick Weinbender wrote:
Hi,
I fairly new to Debian Linux and was wondering if
any of you have some alternative apt-get sources
for running 'apt-get upgrade'.
I'm running stable version 2.2 r3.
In my /etc/apt/sources.list is the default:
deb http://www.us.debian.org/debian
On 08-May-2002 David Wright wrote:
Those of us who use unstable to keep up with the latest packages are being
impacted by the woody release delay. Because sid filters into woody,
packages considered core to woody are not being updated, even in sid,
except to fix RC bugs. This will continue
On 07-May-2002 Quenten Griffith wrote:
Has anyone tried or have a link they can send me on how to get a Linux
RAS working, somewhat like the NT RAS. The reason I ask this is because
I am in the process of replacing our NT PDC with a Linux PDC running
Samba. This is one of the last servers I
Now, the keybindings for xmms offer a lot more options. So, I'm
wondering if there's something that would allow me to send a key to a
specific window in X. That is, can I run something from the command
line to send a right arrow key to the xmms main window?
Otherwise, any other ideas?
On 06-May-2002 faisal gillani wrote:
well i am going nuts with this dailing out a ppp
connection from command prompt .. i was thinking that
tools like wvdial pppconfig will work like a charme
for me but
it seems that both these tools are unable to find my
modem .. which is located @
On 04-May-2002 shyamk wrote:
I am trying to establish networking on a LAN consisting of
2 machines on Linux 2 on Windoze.
My second Linux box never used to respond to the network.
So I did :
ifconfig -a
ifconfig eth0 192.147.165.4 netmask 255.255.255.0
ifconfig -a
Now from the one
so I can yuse these potato woody sid in /etc/apt/preferences
makes more sense
a= Archive
This is the common name we give our archives, such
as stable or unstable. The special name now is used
to designate the set of packages that are
On 02-May-2002 Nick Guerrera wrote:
I would like to clean (i.e. rm -fr) my /usr/local directory. However,
several packages (emacs, python, tex, etc.) create useful empty
directories in /usr/local.
Is there a way to restore these directories after deleting everything in
/usr/local?
On 02-May-2002 Fred Musick wrote:
3950 Packages?!?!?!?!?
Is there any coherent webpage that provides info or links to info on
Debian Packages?
/var/lib/dpkg/available, read it, love it (-:
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I'd be happy to submit a patch for the script, but since I
don't understand the purpose behind this section, I don't know
if my fix would break things in other situations.
it is trying to decide if it should use pcmcia_cs or the 2.4.x pcmcia kernel
code. (PC for pcmcia_cs, KD for kernel)
WTF? Why does in want to INSTALL new packages, just because I'm
removing old ones? I can understand wanting to remove extra packages
(if I'm removing something one of them depends on), but installing?
Please Cc: me, I'm not subscribed anymore (too high traffic).
because it believes
So, assuming I want to keep reasonbly up to date, with current packages,
what changes should I make to this, once woody goes gold (stable0?
rather than use the generic stable testing use the actual release name
potato woody sid. That way you are always running exactly what you mean
to be
On 01-May-2002 Karl E. Jorgensen wrote:
On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 01:48:28PM +0530, Dayalan Manohar wrote:
Hi,
How does one find out which package contains a particular file/command
so that it can then be installed using apt-get ?
http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages#search_contents
I have KDE, and whenever it starts up, it says it cannot initialize the
sound, because /dev/dsp returns permission denied. (I am assuming
that dev/dsp refers to the DSP on the sound card.)
Likewise, I cannot run Floppy services unless I log in as root.
Then, too, when I try to run
Two questions:
1. Is there a C programming tutor list that's recommended?
I have not seen any good C(++) mailing lists, there were news groups but i do
not know if they still exist (comp.lang.*).
2. Does anyone know of a ncurses C program that really uses forms
and is well commented?
On 27-Apr-2002 Ernst-Magne Vindal wrote:
Hi
I have just a simple newbee question about ext3. I have an old IBM box that
I am running woody on a 2.2.20 kernel.
I have just apt installed kernel-patch-ext3-2.2 wich is compatible with my
kernel. I am just wondering about the right syntax for
On 25-Apr-2002 Francois Chenais wrote:
Hello,
I want to install enlightenment from CVS tree on my debian woody.
There is debian directory in each package.
I want to install the packages in /opt/E instead of /usr.
Can I change this option using dpkg-builpackage ?
On 25-Apr-2002 Ross Boylan wrote:
I am currently using mutt, but many of my folders are getting very
big, and I'm getting annoyed by the length of time it takes to switch
between them.
Other than cleaning up, are there other approaches that people can
suggest for handling this? I think I
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