Re: Cleanup and OpenOffice (was: Windows and Printing Systems)

2004-02-02 Thread Marius Amado Alves
How do I clean up? dpkg-reconfigure debconf Says debconf not installed. Is that grave? I wasn't able to understand what debconf is yet. Next I'd like to have OpenOffice. Any advice? I didn't see in this thread if you were running stable, testing, or unstable. That's part of the

Re: Cleanup and OpenOffice (was: Windows and Printing Systems)

2004-02-02 Thread Adam Aube
On Monday 02 February 2004 11:26 am, Marius Amado Alves wrote: I didn't see in this thread if you were running stable, testing, or unstable. That's part of the problem. I had to try several versions to try to get e.g. kde and gnome (which failed). I whish there was some *really* stable network

Re: Cleanup and OpenOffice (was: Windows and Printing Systems)

2004-02-02 Thread Marius Amado Alves
You may want to consider starting over, and staying within a single release (stable or testing). Mixing releases can make a mess of your system quickly unless you really know what you're doing. Now you tell me! ;-) Ok, I'll start over. Keeping the faith :-) Thanks a lot. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Cleanup and OpenOffice (was: Windows and Printing Systems)

2004-02-02 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-02-02, Marius Amado Alves penned: You may want to consider starting over, and staying within a single release (stable or testing). Mixing releases can make a mess of your system quickly unless you really know what you're doing. Now you tell me! ;-) Ok, I'll start over. Keeping the

Re: Windows and Printing Systems

2004-02-01 Thread Pedro M.
Pigeon wrote: On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 04:56:32AM -0600, Kent West wrote: Marius Amado Alves wrote: * Printing/CUPS * I managed to install cupsys via apt-get and added a printer with the web interface, but this printer does not show up in the print dialog of the applications. It's an HP DeskJet

Re: Windows and Printing Systems

2004-02-01 Thread Peter Bonucci
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 01 February 2004 02:25 pm, Pedro M. wrote: I am havin problems with printing too. But the bad part is : I used Knoppix for the hard disk installation. Conclusion : we need a easy to configure, autodetect and XFreebased printing control

Re: Windows and Printing Systems

2004-02-01 Thread Pedro M.
Peter Bonucci wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 01 February 2004 02:25 pm, Pedro M. wrote: I am havin problems with printing too. But the bad part is : I used Knoppix for the hard disk installation. Conclusion : we need a easy to configure, autodetect and XFreebased

Re: Cleanup and OpenOffice (was: Windows and Printing Systems)

2004-02-01 Thread Adam Aube
On Saturday 31 January 2004 05:44 pm, Marius Amado Alves wrote: But I suspect my system is in a mess now from trying all sorts of source.list entries and apt-get installs that totally or partially failed (gnome, kde, cups-client...) Do I suspect right or can I trust apt-get to have done the

Windows and Printing Systems

2004-01-31 Thread Marius Amado Alves
I hereby promise that in a near future I will make a conceptual network of this outstanding forum publicly available (as part of my PhD reserach on adaptive hypertext). There everybody will be able to find the right archived answer by ostensive querying. In the meanwhile, please help me the old

Re: Windows and Printing Systems

2004-01-31 Thread Kent West
Marius Amado Alves wrote: * Window/Desktop System * I manage to get a decent resolution working with twn. Now, can I change to a more modern system? How? I tried to install kde and gnome with apt-get but failed upon dependencies. What do I need to put in my sources.list? (I don't have CDs yet,

Re: Windows and Printing Systems

2004-01-31 Thread Adam Aube
On Saturday 31 January 2004 05:56 am, Kent West wrote: I'd love to help you, but printing on Linux is _still_ a black art. I've been using Debian exclusively on my boxes for about four years now, and I generally just avoid printing if I can. And I'm not a stupid person. So the short answer is,

Re: Windows and Printing Systems

2004-01-31 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Sat, 2004-01-31 at 11:56, Kent West wrote: Marius Amado Alves wrote: * Window/Desktop System * I manage to get a decent resolution working with twn. Now, can I change to a more modern system? [...] You've probably installed stable, which is ancient. stable is suitable for a server

Re: Windows and Printing Systems

2004-01-31 Thread Adam Aube
On Saturday 31 January 2004 12:10 pm, Mario Vukelic wrote: Gnome 2.2 I get from the evilgeniuses backport http://www.debianplanet.org/node.php?id=992 There probably is something similar for KDE too KDE for Woody is available from download.kde.org. Add this to your sources.list: deb

Re: Windows and Printing Systems

2004-01-31 Thread rthoreau
On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 03:07:53PM +, Marius Amado Alves wrote: I hereby promise that in a near future I will make a conceptual network of this outstanding forum publicly available (as part of my PhD reserach on adaptive hypertext). There everybody will be able to find the right archived

Re: Windows and Printing Systems

2004-01-31 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 03:07:53PM +, Marius Amado Alves wrote: * Window/Desktop System * I manage to get a decent resolution working with twn. Now, can I change to a more modern system? How? I tried to install kde and gnome with apt-get but failed upon dependencies. What do I need to put

Re: Windows and Printing Systems

2004-01-31 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 04:56:32AM -0600, Kent West wrote: Marius Amado Alves wrote: * Printing/CUPS * I managed to install cupsys via apt-get and added a printer with the web interface, but this printer does not show up in the print dialog of the applications. It's an HP DeskJet on the

Re: Windows and Printing Systems

2004-01-31 Thread Kent West
Pigeon wrote: On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 04:56:32AM -0600, Kent West wrote: Marius Amado Alves wrote: * Printing/CUPS * I managed to install cupsys via apt-get and added a printer with the web interface, but this printer does not show up in the print dialog of the applications. It's an HP

Cleanup and OpenOffice (was: Windows and Printing Systems)

2004-01-31 Thread Marius Amado Alves
Thanks all w.r.t. windows and printing systems. Slightly better now: running icewm instead of twn, and lp seems to print PS files. But I suspect my system is in a mess now from trying all sorts of source.list entries and apt-get installs that totally or partially failed (gnome, kde, cups

Re: Windows and Printing Systems

2004-01-31 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 01:48:39PM -0600, Kent West wrote: Pigeon wrote: On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 04:56:32AM -0600, Kent West wrote: Marius Amado Alves wrote: * Printing/CUPS * I managed to install cupsys via apt-get and added a printer with the web interface, but this printer does not show