IMNSHO the LSB seriously erred on this, the .deb format makes far more
sense as a baseline package format standard then rpm for the simple
reason that the .deb format isn't really a format, its just an ar
archive with gzipped tarballs! those formats are nearly the oldest
*real* standards as
these are not good reasons. proprietary software developers from what
ive seen make the WORST packages of anyone, even the crap you find in
/contrib directories. LSB would have been far better off defining
.tar.gz as the package format, and that proprietary crap go in its own
directory in
On 23-May-2001 Scott Fraser wrote:
Afternoon All,
Could someone please email me a copy of the above file that is setup to
use eth0?
I forgot to email myself a copy of one from home for a box I am setting
up today.
just do 'man interfaces'. And dont forget to add a lo as well.
On 09-May-2001 Ronan O'Sullivan wrote:
Hi there,
I am wondering is there anyway to save your current installed
packages information and when you reinstall for apt or dselect to
know what packages to install or remove to restore your system to
the previous state?
2 steps:
a)
#
On 08-May-2001 Stefan Srdic wrote:
I've compiled the 2.4.3 kernel on my patato box. I'm interrested in
creating my own initial RAM disk (initrd) to speed up my boot process.
Does anybody know of any good HOW-TO's on initrd's?
Does anybody have some insight to share?
Fairly easy to
On 08-May-2001 Karsten M. Self wrote:
I'm trying to work out a dpkg nightmare. So, man page says See Debian
packaging manual.
I install same.
The debian-policy package is removed.
This under Sid.
What gives?
policy recently absorbed the packaging manual. Follow what is in the
On 04-May-2001 Stan Brown wrote:
I know thta it's possible to sue the GNU version of date, as provided with
Debian to return a dat, say 30 minutes in the past.
However I can't seem to get the syntax quie correct. From the man page,
it's apparent that I need the --date option, but what is
On 01-May-2001 Glenn Becker wrote:
Has anyone on the list used the aatv package to view ascii tv in a console
window? Just a perverse hobbyist's question ... I'm kinda taken with the
whole ascii phenom (ascii-Quake, y'know).
I was specifically wondering how to *use* this thing ... how /
will get you started with a customized menu system, but may not work,
is an all or nothing affair, and doesn't help with tweaking the
blackbox menu generator.
I would probably ignore the menu building system and write a script
that runs when blackbox is fired up; it would copy the default
I tried this first (without the submenu), but all I was getting was
the default (non-Debian) menu...
changing session.menuFile: ~/.blackbox/menu
to session.menuFile: /home/bsass/.blackbox/menu in ~/.blackboxrc
seems to have fixed things (strange, since ~/... works inside the
menu file
inetd should be running. If you wish to disable innd and if it's started by
inetd, edit /etc/inetd.conf and comment out the appropriate line.
or better yet, dpkg --purge inn (or inn2).
On 05-Apr-2001 Rob VanFleet wrote:
Sorry to shift away from the original topic, but does anyone know what
happened to the 'Blackbox' submenu in the default blackbox menu in
unstable?
I have not heard of it disappearing.
Sean
Blackbox maintainer for Debian
or just install ash and symlink sh - ash
It makes a big difference on a slow machine, especially when
installing packages ({pre,post}{inst,rm} scripts are always sh).
...
So to this end, Require'ing ash would add to the system overhead since (I
reckon) 98% of people would need to have
The thing is I want the card to be set up by my DHCP
server. I realize I could use ifconfig but I'm not
sure if there is an argument or parameter for dhcp in
ifconfig. I've also installed linuxconf and tried
that way, but there was no way to save the
configuration...the only buttons were
On 30-Mar-2001 Charles Thornhill-Cole wrote:
Hi,
If one were to install the libc6 package from unstable on top of a stable
install, would it break things? how badly?
There are a couple of packages from unstable and testing that I would like to
use on a production server running stable.
On 30-Mar-2001 Bill White wrote:
What is the easiest way to upgrade to X 4.0.2 or 4.0.3 for a
Debian system. I need to upgrade to an X version which has
support for a Voodoo5, and I can't seem to find a set of
sources from XFree86 or the DRI project which will build.
upgrade to woody and:
So, why is mutt-i still listed if it is not available? How can I
flush these unavailable packages so they don't clutter up the
packaging system? dpkg --forget-old-unavail appears to be what I
want, but it does nothing from what I can surmise.
# dpkg --get-selections|sed -e
On 23-Mar-2001 Marcelo Chiapparini wrote:
Hi debianers!
I need to delete a bunch of files, all of them of the form *.doc, scattered
into several subdirectories inside a given directory. What should I do?
(a couple of month ago I posted a similar email, but unfortunatly I deleted
the very
On 22-Mar-2001 Gregor Kaleta wrote:
Please help!
Which file I have to edit, so that the network becomes started on every boot
time automatically?
Under Debian 2.2rev2 ist no /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 or /etc/rc.d/rc.local which I
could edit (ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.10 ...).
cd /etc/networks.
On 01-Mar-2001 joe willson wrote:
i have my laptop finally running fine but there are still a few things that's
annoying me. first off everyday i start up, debian keeps on reading my
harddrive, i do a top and see that the program find is using like 16% of my
cpu! i think this is cause by
On 28-Feb-2001 David Wright wrote:
Quoting christophe barbe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
I use potato on a laptop and my laptop is on only when i'm using it.
When I start, cron launches various task (too many at the same time) and
take a big part of the CPU.
It's crazy : you turn your computer 2
Is there some file I can touch and make this go away?
no it is hardcoded in the code. If you simply can not survive with the
message, grab the util-linux source from woody and compile it on your box.
On 26-Feb-2001 Jonathan Matthews wrote:
From: Sean 'Shaleh' Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Is there some file I can touch and make this go away?
no it is hardcoded in the code. If you simply can not survive with
the
message, grab the util-linux source from woody and compile it on your
box
On 23-Feb-2001 Stan Brown wrote:
I decided to try instaling a testing machine today. (I need large file
support
and I thought it might be in that distro).
testing does not yet have floppies. Install potato and upgrade.
I believe that step 1 can be achieved with apt-get's source option.
Step 2 is fairly simple except that I don't know whether the source as
checked out of CVS is in the exact right format to be patched by the
diff.tar.gz. I have no idea at all about step 3, and I couldn't figure
it out from
On 21-Feb-2001 Stuart Ballard wrote:
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
X is big and ugly. Mail the maintainer for guidance.
That said, if you just need the server for your card, you only need to
compile
that and drop it on the system, the rest of the packaging is independent of
that card
Can I make the onboard and oncard ttyS's play nice on same IRQ?
... or should I play musical jumpers until they're on separate IRQs?
I would change the jumpers. Hoping the software ca multiplex is a recipe for
disaster.
Read something in 2.4.1 kernel config about making serial ports nice
On 16-Feb-2001 David M. Anderson wrote:
I am running Debian 2.2 (potato) with the exception of having compiled
the 2.4.1 kernel.
MAKEDEV chokes, with the output:
/sbin/MAKEDEV: major_usbtts%d=188: command not found
I believe the problem is with line 150 of the script, and due to the
On 07-Feb-2001 Sebastiaan wrote:
Hi,
last weekend, I was able to download pptp source from woody. Today I
discovered that it does not longer exists there
(dists/woody/main/source/net).
The only place where I could find it was in the 'pool' directory on
ftp.debian.org.
Why does this
On 07-Feb-2001 Pedro Quaresma de Almeida wrote:
Hi
I need to change the personality of a Debian box.
How do I change the IP/name of the machine?
name is in /etc/hostname
IP is in /etc/network/interfaces.
On 07-Feb-2001 Glenn Becker wrote:
Hi,
I'm strongly considering switching over to Debian at work ... but my
machine here has one of those evilish Intel i810 video jobs ... any
reports of success or failure with this chip and X in testing?
you must use XF4 if you want this to work.
On 07-Feb-2001 Brooks R. Robinson wrote:
I've asked before, and I'll ask again... What font is used for the word
'debian'? Anyone? Anyone?
mail Raul, the person who made the image.
On 07-Feb-2001 Glenn Becker wrote:
so ... the xfree86-common package in testing, which is apparently
v. 4.0.2-1, isn't really XFree86 v.4 (or better than?)? the
xserver-xfree86 package shows the same v. number in testing. i'm confused!
sorry - i don't mean to be dense. i thought i was
On 07-Feb-2001 Allan Andersen wrote:
I made a big debian poster using the open use logo GIMP file available
from http://dusknet.dhs.org/~deek/debian/ -- it works quite nicely.
I'd love to see these offered commercially - not all of us are lucky
enough to have poster printers. :)
Yeah me
On 07-Feb-2001 Glenn Becker wrote:
o, god, whew. it's been a BAD day for my brain!
so is the XFree support for i810 fairly seamless in v4? again, it's
more needing to get this done fast bec of work constraints than an
unwillingness to tinker. i'm dealing with a blecched SuSE box that
On 06-Feb-2001 Mark Phillips wrote:
Hi,
I have just added a user to my dip group so that I can run pon as this
user. But it didn't work, because that user doesn't seem to have
access to the /etc/ppp directory etc. This is really strange because
we have
drwxr-x---6 root dip
not in here will be qualified by the system domain as normal.
#
# It should contain lines of the form:
#
#user: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
#otheruser: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
shaleh: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
$ tail -15 /etc/exim/exim.conf
On 05-Feb-2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I enjoyed show very much. Commercial distros were there with BIG exhibits,
but I couldn't find my favorite: debian. Walked around small booths around
periphery, but maybe I missed it. Wasn't there a call for volunteers on this
newsgroup last
On 05-Feb-2001 Paindavoine, Matthieu (MPAINDAV) wrote:
Hello,
I posted a question earlier about a kernel panic.
I don't know exactly where to report this, but I apparently got infected by
a virus:
/etc, /sbin, /bin and so on are owned by gandalf,
'find' has disappeared.
/var has
On 05-Feb-2001 Moritz Schulte wrote:
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
there are no known virus for UNIX.
Uhm, I think there are virii for Unix. I did a quick search and found
some information on Unix virii; I also read that the first systems
affected by virii were Unix
To get _really_ picky: it is from the Latin, is 5th declension, not 2nd (like
most
of the -us and -um words), and while the singular and plural look
identical,
in the plural, as I recall (it's been a long time since my last Latin class),
the
emphasis is on the second syllable, and it is
run update-menus with the -v and maybe -d options. See the man page for more
info.
On 31-Jan-2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi!
I've got a notebook presario 1245, and a pcmcia net adapter. I
need to update the pcmcia modules (I guess, as i had the same problem with
suse 7) in order to make work the net adapter. I guess that if the updates
of pcmcia stuff was available
On 02-Feb-2001 Phillip Deackes wrote:
With the recently reported demise of Stormix Technologies, creators of the
*excellent* Storm Linux, is anyone at Debian looking to taking over any of
the
apps they developed? I am thinking particularly of the superb installation
routine; SAS, the GUI
On 03-Feb-2001 Stephen Robertson wrote:
I'm fairly new to Debian and still learning the system. What is the
accepted method of configuring which services are stopped and started in
each run level, and how can I add my own commands to the Init scripts.
RedHat provided a file called rc.local
On 31-Jan-2001 Anthony Campbell wrote:
I used to have a program called convert which changed, e.g. pcx to xpm
or whatever. It seems to have disappeared and I can't find it on the
debian site.
the imagemagick collection has great tools for many image manipulations,
including format changes.
On 30-Jan-2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I know this is possible (I even vaguely remember seeing it mentioned
somewhere).
What I want to do is compile a kernel on my desktop PC for my laptop.
Just build it, copy the new kernel image across the network, rejig
the laptop's lilo, reboot
On 30-Jan-2001 William Leese wrote:
hi all
i need a little help on a script. the following scripts function is to merge
several parts of a html page together and insert a new piece of text from
text.txt also it has to replace some words (the title, author, submittor, and
date) with the
On 30-Jan-2001 Chris Mason wrote:
I'm trying to install Midgard content management system, which requires
glibc. I installed the libglibc library .deb file, but I still can't compile
the midgard files, the error message I get is:
configure: error: glib-config not found. Did you install glib?
On 21-Jan-2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've wasted another hour or so trying to answer this simple
question, starting at IBM's Laptop support homepage.
To paraphrase somebody else, if I knew who I would give
credit, but... I have seen a lot of progress in my lifetime of
computing
On 22-Jan-2001 Xucaen wrote:
hi all.
has anyone ever installed either of the following
debian packages?
stable 100% xacc-smotif 1.0.17-1 (1166.5k)
A personal finance tracking program.
stable 75% xacc 1.0.18-4 (344.4k)
A personal finance tracking program.
I was
On 22-Jan-2001 Dean Allen Provins wrote:
Hello:
Since Friday, I've seen 5 messages on this list. During the previous
week, there seemed to be about as many! It was VERY ACTIVE until quite
recently.
What's happened?
I have seen quite a bit more than 5. That said, we have been having
On 22-Jan-2001 Mike Egglestone wrote:
HI...
I've been looking all over the web for these 2 simple answers and can't
find them
firstwhat the heck is the command that lets me see what my command
path is.?
I know in unix... you type something like:
echo $path
echo $PATH
On 22-Jan-2001 Lance Simmons wrote:
Where can I find old versions of debs? I need libgimp1.1.29 instead of
30. Isn't there an archive somewhere?
likely not. We keep the deb that is in potato and testing and unstable. That
is it. When a package is updated the old ver just goes away.
If
On 19-Jan-2001 Frank Rocco wrote:
Hello all,
I purchased storm linux and am wondering why some of you have swiched to
pure debian.
Being new at linux, I wanted to find out what the advantage might be.
Debian's unstable branch is always pretty bleeding edge. Storm releases
frequently,
What are the intricacies of installing red hat software on a Debian system ?
rpm is installed on my machine but fails to install. A number of libraries
are requested but i find it hard to figure out to wich package these
libraries belong. For the moment i have no info on these dependencies
On 18-Jan-2001 aidanc wrote:
I'm not sure where to start, but I need to convert about 280 .bmp files
to .jpg format. Is there a utility or script that would convert them all
at once?
imagemagick has what you need.
On 21-Jan-2001 Livia Admin wrote:
ey guys.. can anyone help me in creating my /dev/psaux?
I tried './MAKEDEV psaux' and says dont know how to make device... and
also tried './MAKEDEV -d psaux' and still the same problem.. i'm sure
psaux mouse support in kernel is enabled. I'm using
On 17-Jan-2001 VMS-clstr Sys Mgr wrote:
Hello everyone --
I'm writing to the list on the advice of [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joey Hess)
(editor of the Debian Weekly Newsletter) because he says he can't think
off-hand of anyone in particular I should EMail for advice about my sur-
prise Xmas
On 12-Jan-2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm trying to install lesstif-dev on my woody (testing) box. It says it
depends on xlib6g-dev but xlib6g-dev conflicts with xlibs which is already
installed and is required by other packages. I don't see an xlibs-dev
either. Where are the development
On 12-Jan-2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Uggh, they removed X4 from Woody? I'm not sure I like this testing
distribution thing. If I'm pointing at woody the whole time (which I
have), I don't expect packages to be rolled back unless something is
really wrong. So now that X has been removed
On 12-Jan-2001 Jim McCloskey wrote:
| So will testing always be available? I like the idea. I'm just not
| used to packages being rolled back in a release. But if I have
| apt-get always looking at testing, maybe that's what will make me
| happy.
Does the existence of `testing' mean that
On 10-Jan-2001 Benjamin Pharr wrote:
I can't use 'make menuconfig' when trying to use the kernel because ncurses
is not installed. I have tried:
apt-get install ncurses
apt-get install libncurses
apt-get install libncurses-dev
you need libncurses5-dev
apt-cache search ncurses
also in
all with no luck. I'm not very familiar with the Debian packaging system,
so could someone help me out? Thanks!
apt-get install libncurses5-dev
teach a man to fish. As I did in my mail, whenever answering a question here
on debian-user, provide a way to find the answer, not just the
On 10-Jan-2001 Rogerio Brito wrote:
Dear community,
I've noticed that there are some programs in testing that I'd
like to use (and at least one that I have to use), but I'm
very scared of it not working correctly or breaking badly
when, say, I'd need to get
How can I remove all of them? I search in the rm documentation (man rm and
info rm) but I didn't find anything.
Thanks in advance for the help
hm, if they have a common naming scheme, 'find' can help.
On 10-Jan-2001 Bryan Carpenter wrote:
I'm a newbie asking for help as to which network
card to buy that will just be seen by a standard
Debian 2.2.17 install. I've tried a Netgear FA312
and a Linksys LNE100TX rev. 4.1, but neither seems
to be easy to set up. I did try getting the tulip
O'Reilly has a Debian book, I seem to recall it having a 2.1 cd in the jacket.
On 29-Dec-2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How do ou make the dhcp client only listen on one eth*? Whenever dhcp
client is tarted it listens on every network interface on the system, how
do I change this?
edit /etc/init.d/client script. Each one has an argument for which eth to
listen on.
to be a
x-terminal-emulator has to support -T.
Shaleh
Blackbox maintainer
On 29-Dec-2000 Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote:
:: Sean 'Shaleh' Perry writes:
The styles are installed in /usr/share/blackbox but after running
update-menus, they still do not show up in the menus. I did add links
to them in my ~/.blackbox, and that semes to work.
you should see a Blackbox
On 29-Dec-2000 Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote:
:: Sean 'Shaleh' Perry writes:
you should see a Blackbox/Styles menu. Look at
/etc/X11/blackbox/blackbox-menu.
Er... This is what I have after a fresh install (and after running
update-menus):
[submenu] (Blackbox) {}
[exit] (Exit)
[reconfig
Think I left off the menu:
[submenu] (Blackbox) {}
[config] (Configuration)
[submenu] (Styles) {}
[stylesdir] (/usr/share/blackbox/styles)
[stylesdir] (~/.blackbox/styles)
[end]
[workspaces] (Workspaces)
[end]
On 29-Dec-2000 Phillip Deackes wrote:
On Fri, 29 Dec 2000 08:32:55 -0800 (PST)
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
edit /etc/init.d/client script. Each one has an argument for which
eth to
listen on. For pump it is -i eth0.
What is client? I have no /etc/init.d/eth0 or /etc
On 13-Dec-2000 Ken Weingold wrote:
The mouse in X is REALLY slow. The mouse properties in the Window
Maker preferences don't seem to do anything. Is this a problem of X
in general or Window Maker? Mouse focus changes do work.
this is a setting you can change in X, do some web searches
Three questions:
1) both cron and at seem to run programs in the background. However there
is no pid when I do a ps aux, so how do I stop a job from running?
if a program is running, it will have a pid
2) can cron or at jobs be run as one-liners? Eventually I want to write a
perl of sh
On 13-Dec-2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi!
Does cron work correctly in a system which is powered down periodically,
like a pc at home? If it does, why does anacron exist?
cron runs jobs at certain times. So, the cron.daily scripts are set to run at
2 in the morning. If your machine is
On 06-Dec-2000 Gryn wrote:
I'm having trouble upgrading my potato distribution to woody. Most notably,
I'm having errors when installing util-linux . I'm supposing there is some
fiddling I need to do with perl 5.6 to get this to work, but I'm quite
clueless as to what that would be. Any
I have a system whose root partition died part way through an
incremental backup cycle. I'm afraid the full increment was spaced
too far, because I'd made a number of changes to the system in the
few days before the hard drive died (yes, I know, I should have done
a full backup then. I
On 06-Dec-2000 Andrew Sullivan wrote:
On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 10:32:02AM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
let's see .
/var/lib/dpkg/status. Every package marked 'Status: install ok installed'
is
installed.
Yes, but it's in a big file with a lot of extra data (whereas the
output
On 06-Dec-2000 CaT wrote:
Ok. I've pondered but couldn't figure it out. Why does debian not
use logrotate for the rotation of syslog files and stuff? It seems
easy enough.
The only possible reason I can think of is that you folks don't
want syslogd restarted after each file. But then
On 28-Nov-2000 Nick wrote:
I have a user on my network that keeps trying to manually configure access
to my gateway, for internet access.
Is there anyway to setup the dhcp server to give a bogus alocated gateway.
So far I have used the option to lock down a specific address for the
On 29-Nov-2000 Andrew Hall wrote:
Hello,
I have a debian potato system running in a cobalt raq 3. All is working 100%
except ssh. When I
try to ssh from my box to localhost or anywhere else I get the error You
have no controlling tty.
Cannot read passphrase Please remember that I do
VA ships with a controller that has the DAC960 chipset (I think there is a
slightly newer rever than 960 they also ship). This works quite well.
On 29-Nov-2000 Nate Amsden wrote:
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
VA ships with a controller that has the DAC960 chipset (I think there is a
slightly newer rever than 960 they also ship). This works quite well.
know a raid card that has that chip that can be purchased in the retail
channel
Why so much apt and dpkg and so little dselect?
command tools give a little more flexibility. But the real reason is that most
people hate dselect. It is a shame, but true.
Is there a simple way of doing this? I read thru the
apt-get man page; but it's entirely possible I may have
missed something. If it's in a specific man page, please
let me know.
there is no easy way. give deborphan a look though.
On 28-Nov-2000 Benj wrote:
Hi,
don't ask me why, but I can't use anymore anything related to the dpkg /
apt-get system.
I will have to install everything I want manually from the source :/
So please tell me how, since I really have no clue how to do it. Here is an
example of What I want
/var/lib/dpkg/info
location of the package maintainer scripts (postinst, prerm, etc) as well as
other pieces of packaging data like md5sums, conffile lists, etc.
auto-apt
useful tool, play with it and document it here
your data on dpkg --set-selections is wrong:
sudo dpkg --set-selections
I suspect this isn't something Debian can fix and make go away.
Following discussion here a few weeks ago, I tweaked several of my
partition mount options, specifically disallowing suid, dev, and exec
privileges on a number of partitions. I suspect 'noexec' is going to be
a bit
subject says it all -- I would like a printer which does black and white as
well as color. Duplex support is also desired because I tend to print docs
and hate wasting the extra paper.
On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 11:06:12PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote:
Hi,
There's a bug filed against the doc-debian package, including the Debian
FAQ, about not having good backup instructions for users (admins). See
http://bugs.debian.org/69197 for details.
Can someone please suggest an answer
On 22-Nov-2000 M G Berberich wrote:
Hello,
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.
Is there a way to
On 22-Nov-2000 Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
i've just spent over 5 minutes searching for ISO images on the debian
website. this is a long time for web browsing!
cdimage.debian.org.
On 21-Nov-2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Package: web
Received and internal server error message
When I queried bugs.debian.org
URL:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=mswordviewarchive=no
Our bts server has a load over 100 right now. Hence the errors.
On 21-Nov-2000 Casey Henderson wrote:
Hello,
Today I did an apt-get -du dist-upgrade on my woody box to get the
most recent upgrades, and it said The following packages have been
kept back and it spit out a big list of packages (mostly kde
packages). Why would these be kept back? How can
On 21-Nov-2000 Casey Henderson wrote:
Thanks for the info. The reason I ask is that I've been running KDE 2
for a couple of weeks now, and I've been doing dist-upgrades nightly
without any problems whatsoever, and all of a sudden I got this message
about packages being kept back. It also
On 19-Nov-2000 Krzys Majewski wrote:
How can I make update-menus coexist with my custom wm config files? For
example, I rolled my own ~/.vtwmrc. Now, I apt-get install xinvaders. I
would like a menu entry for xinvaders to appear automagically in my
window manager, without losing my other
- Maybe update-menus should rather look at what is currently installed,
rather than what the selections for the next install/remove operation
will be. It does seem to make more sense to me.
getselections is supposed to be current. A package marked deinstall is
removed, but not purged. Or at
On 16-Nov-2000 Pollywog wrote:
What do I need to run in order to change my default X server?
I am changing to Xfree86 but I might need to reverse this later if I have
problems with XFree86.
/etc/X11/Xserver.
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