Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo minimal CD not runable on 64MB RAM machine

2011-02-18 Thread Dirk Uys
Hi I think that any of the live CDs are going to give you problems with 64MB RAM. I think the minimal ISO is a live CD that allows you to install Gentoo from there. You can try installing another distro on the harddrive and then installing gentoo using that distro. Compiling Gentoo on such an

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kde 4.6.x going stable?

2011-02-16 Thread Dirk Uys
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 8:07 AM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: Now that Nokia is going darkside (Microsoft) it seems that KDE (QT) has been promoted on my list of things to watch(worry) about. http://conversations.nokia.com/nokia-strategy-2011/ I hope QT survives Microsoft's

[gentoo-user] Freemind - big can of worms

2010-11-03 Thread Dirk Uys
Hi Everyone I wanted to install freemind, did a emerge -uavNDt freemind, this is what I get: [ebuild N] app-misc/freemind-0.9.0_rc7 USE=pdf svg -doc -groovy -latex 14,714 kB [ebuild N] dev-java/fop-0.95 USE=-doc -examples -hyphenation -jai -jimi -source 14,798 kB [ebuild N]

Re: [gentoo-user] Freemind - big can of worms

2010-11-03 Thread Dirk Uys
On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 10:23 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.comwrote: [snip mind-boggling amount of emerge output...] Sorry about that :) Can you get by without pdf and svg support in freemind? You will lose jms but still need to install half of Sun's (oops, sorry - Oracle's)

Re: [gentoo-user] svn tools only

2010-07-20 Thread Dirk Uys
2010/7/20 fajfu...@wp.pl: Hello Is it possible to emerge svn tools only. I mean I want to check out sources, commit modifications. I don't want to have the repository intalled on my machine. If it is possible what package should I install ? thanks for help Hi You can disable apache

Re: [gentoo-user] Udev error and how to fix it.

2010-03-16 Thread Dirk Uys
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 10:42 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Guess it's a keyboard error? Regards d

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CUPS-PDF failing

2010-03-09 Thread Dirk Uys
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 9:29 PM, Jörg Schaible joerg.schai...@gmx.de wrote: Look into /etc/cups/cups-pdf. The individual spool directories must have proper access rights (like .ssh in your home) and match the UserUMask setting. Otherwise cups-pdf will not generate the PDF, simply because

[gentoo-user] CUPS-PDF failing

2010-03-08 Thread Dirk Uys
Hi I'm getting the following error from /var/log/cups/cups-pdf_log when I try to print to a PDF printer: [ERROR] failed to set file mode for PDF file (non fatal) (/var/spool/cups-pdf/dc_u/HOWTO__Install_Cups-PDF_-_Page_4_-_Ubuntu_Forums.pdf) I tried changing permission of

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Looong delays

2009-12-03 Thread Dirk Uys
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 3:50 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: On 12/02/2009 01:22 PM, Dirk Uys wrote: Hi This has been bothering me for some time now. I have a Dell PC at work, Intel Core2 Duo with 4gb ram etc. Whenever something does a lot of disk access, the PC slows down

Re: [gentoo-user] Looong delays

2009-12-03 Thread Dirk Uys
2009/12/2 Jesús Guerrero i92gu...@terra.es On Wed, 2 Dec 2009 13:22:38 +0200, Dirk Uys dirkc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi This has been bothering me for some time now. I have a Dell PC at work, Intel Core2 Duo with 4gb ram etc. Whenever something does a lot of disk access, the PC slows down

[gentoo-user] Looong delays

2009-12-02 Thread Dirk Uys
Hi This has been bothering me for some time now. I have a Dell PC at work, Intel Core2 Duo with 4gb ram etc. Whenever something does a lot of disk access, the PC slows down to a halt? I remember some issue between Firefox and the kernel causing long pauses, but I've had several different kernel

[gentoo-user] Strange X behaviour

2009-11-18 Thread Dirk Uys
I'm experiencing some interesting things when X starts. I have a dual-screen setup I recently upgraded to KDE4.3.1. When X starts, KDM is showed on the side of the screen. It seems like it's cut off in the middel and my desktop can scroll to the side (like having a virtual desktop). When KDE

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mplayer configure weirdness

2009-10-12 Thread Dirk Uys
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Igor Nemilentsev trez...@gmail.com wrote: On 06-10-2009, Dirk Uys dirkc...@gmail.com wrote: I was busy doing a system upgrade which failed halfway (due to the libxcb upgrade thing). This left my mplayer broken since ffmpeg was upgraded i guess. No problem

Re: [gentoo-user] gimp-2.6.4 fails with libxcb 1.4

2009-10-07 Thread Dirk Uys
I am experiencing the same problem as you described. Will probably only be able to further look at it tonight or tomorrow night. Regards Dirk

[gentoo-user] mplayer configure weirdness

2009-10-06 Thread Dirk Uys
Hi I had a lot of strange problems with mplayer the last two days. I was busy doing a system upgrade which failed halfway (due to the libxcb upgrade thing). This left my mplayer broken since ffmpeg was upgraded i guess. No problem, just emerge mplayer again. Tried it, and the emerge got stuck at

[gentoo-user] Gentoo server profile

2009-07-20 Thread Dirk Uys
a minimal install, not security. Should I be using a different profile (like hardened) or is the one I'm using fine? Regards Dirk Uys

Re: [gentoo-user] python2.4 directory

2009-03-09 Thread Dirk Uys
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Daniel Pielmeier daniel.pielme...@googlemail.com wrote: 2009/3/5 Evgeniy Bushkov z...@dotcomltd.ru: He already told us that he unmerged python. If you have successfully migrated to python 2.5 you should normally be able to remove this directory as this are

[gentoo-user] python2.4 directory

2009-03-05 Thread Dirk Uys
Hi I noticed that I still had python-2.4 on my system. Did a quick run of python-updater, to make sure nothing is using python-2.4 anymore and then unmerged python2.4. Should I manually remove /usr/lib64/python2.4, or is there a way to make portage do it? Regards Dirk

Re: [gentoo-user] MonetBD on portage?

2009-02-23 Thread Dirk Uys
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 9:36 AM, laurent laur...@logiquefloue.org wrote: Apparently monetdb maintainer requested it to be removed from Portage. You can still access the prior ebuilds at:

Re: [gentoo-user] perfect IDE

2009-02-17 Thread Dirk Uys
I have been searching for an open source c++ IDE for some time now. I have not yet found a single IDE that is a perfect fit. When you develop something small, an editor like vim/kate/emacs can be sufficient, but when you work with larger projects created by other people, things become a litte

Re: [gentoo-user] problems running doxygen from cron

2009-02-15 Thread Dirk Uys
On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 5:22 PM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: Dirk Uys wrote: I have a problem when running doxygen from a cron job. It seems like doxygen is simply aborting at an arbitrary point during execution. I tried to search on the internet, but could not find anything

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE-meta 4.2 upgrade

2009-02-11 Thread Dirk Uys
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 9:19 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: gotten out of the starting blocks, never mind actually there yet) and you may run into trouble building system-settings (I didn't but others have). If you are using an older compiler (like gcc-4.1.1-r3) you may get

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4.2 compile problem

2009-02-11 Thread Dirk Uys
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 8:41 AM, Dirk Uys dirkc...@gmail.com wrote: After some more struggling I managed to get kde-base/systemsettings compiled: If I unmerge x11-libs/libxkbfile and then emerge systemsettings, it compiles fine (without support for the xkb settings). After that I did an emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4.2 compile problem

2009-02-09 Thread Dirk Uys
After some more struggling I managed to get kde-base/systemsettings compiled: If I unmerge x11-libs/libxkbfile and then emerge systemsettings, it compiles fine (without support for the xkb settings). After that I did an emerge -DuvaN world and this pulls in libxkbfile again. But when I try to

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4.2 compile problem

2009-02-06 Thread Dirk Uys
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 8:22 AM, Dirk Uys dirkc...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks everyone for all the suggestions. I am currently waiting for emerge -DuvaNe systemsettings to finish, Ill keep the list up to date on my success. Regards Dirk Even re-emerging half of my system didn't resolve

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: optimized for your system -- huh?

2009-02-05 Thread Dirk Uys
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 12:12 PM, Steven Lembark lemb...@wrkhors.com wrote: How painful is it, really, to run the job when you are asleep or away from the machine? Cron the update or use at to get the changes you want when you are away from the console. Not painful, uncomfortable: When I get

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?

2009-02-05 Thread Dirk Uys
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 1:36 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: wrong. The installation needs a certain difficulty to keep idiots away. Nobody needs idiots (except maybe ubuntu). That is insulting. My mother uses Ubuntu. Thanks for calling her an idiot.

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4.2 compile problem

2009-02-04 Thread Dirk Uys
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 1:02 PM, Joost Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: Hi Dirk, Did you try fully removing the entire KDE-chain? Eg. emerge -C all the kde packages in the /var/lib/portage/world file and then removing the remaining packages using emerge --depclean ? This is what I did

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4.2 compile problem

2009-02-03 Thread Dirk Uys
On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 11:34 PM, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: Today succesfully installed kde4.2 on amd64. I first removed my old KDE completely and then installed it on a clean system. Only reinstalling the old kde libs for programs that have not yet been ported to kde4.2. Not

Re: [gentoo-user] hal - what's the benefit of using it

2009-02-03 Thread Dirk Uys
http://www.ometer.com/hardware.html

[gentoo-user] KDE4.2 compile problem

2009-02-02 Thread Dirk Uys
Hi I'm trying to emerge kde-4.2, but the kde-base/systemsettings-4.2.0 ebuild fails: Scanning dependencies of target kdeinit_kxkb [ 23%] Building CXX object kcontrol/kxkb/CMakeFiles/kdeinit_kxkb.dir/kdeinit_kxkb_automoc.o [ 24%] Building CXX object

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: games-fps without blood

2009-02-02 Thread Dirk Uys
On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 5:39 AM, Andrew Gaydenko a...@gaydenko.com wrote: Ups.. He-he... :-) I have thought it is frame per second - is related to 3D reality reconstruction, where GL, *fps* and such are needed, used, told about. Fine! Probably there are not-FPS :-) beauty (rich 3D) games for

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.2: Emerge of ksysguard and ksmserver failed

2009-01-29 Thread Dirk Uys
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 10:03 AM, Tomas Linhart tomas.linh...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/1/29 Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com: re-emerge the qt packages in the right order. then emerge kdelibs again, then the rest. Stuff like this happens when qt is updated after kdelibs is built

[gentoo-user] /usr/share/config permissions

2009-01-20 Thread Dirk Uys
Hi What are the permission supposed to be for the /usr/share/config directory? On my system only root had access to this directory causing kdm to fail when it tries to run /usr/share/kdm/Xsession. I fixed the error by changing the permission with chmod a+rx /usr/share/config. Are

[gentoo-user] problems running doxygen from cron

2009-01-14 Thread Dirk Uys
Hi I have a problem when running doxygen from a cron job. It seems like doxygen is simply aborting at an arbitrary point during execution. I tried to search on the internet, but could not find anything similar reported. I have the following script: script #!/bin/bash echo `date`

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -U?

2009-01-13 Thread Dirk Uys
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 10:49 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Willie Wong wrote: Come on, I am only 25! I can't be the only *old-timer* who remembers this option! W You are not alone. I remember it too. I even used it a couple times. I can't say it was worth it tho. Oh, I'm 41.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE build problem (shifted)

2008-11-23 Thread Dirk Uys
On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 4:56 PM, Christian Apeltauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Look at bug #246568. There you will find a patch which worked for me. Someone has also posted an ebuild integrating that patch. But it does not work for everybody and the bug was closed as a problem with upstream.

[gentoo-user] KDE build problem (shifted)

2008-11-21 Thread Dirk Uys
I posted yesterday about a problem with building kdelibs. I did an emerge --sync and tried again. This is the error I get: [ 51%] Building CXX object kio/CMakeFiles/kio.dir/kio/kdirlister.o /var/tmp/portage/kde-base/kdelibs-4.1.3-r1/work/kdelibs-4.1.3/kio/kio/kdirlister.h: In member function

Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice emerge failing

2008-11-20 Thread Dirk Uys
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 2:59 PM, Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Donnerstag 20 November 2008 13:49:51 schrieb ext deface: Just an IMO, compiling OO is idiotic, use the -bin Here's another one: using a binary package that most likely doesn't fit into your otherwise self-compiled

[gentoo-user] KDE build problem

2008-11-20 Thread Dirk Uys
Hi I'm trying emerge the new KDE4, but I get the following problem with kde-base/kdelibs-4.1.3-r1 [ 50%] Building CXX object nepomuk/core/CMakeFiles/nepomuk.dir/nepomuk_automoc.o Linking CXX shared library ../../lib/libnepomuk.so [ 50%] Built target nepomuk make: *** [all] Error 2 This is from

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE build problem

2008-11-20 Thread Dirk Uys
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 8:56 AM, Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I remember right, I have seen this already on this list a while back, but since I didn't knew a solution, I didn't follow it. However, it may be worth searching the list archive, maybe that former thread can give you

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting rid of all kde components

2008-11-19 Thread Dirk Uys
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 8:14 AM, Harry Putnam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've decided to stop using KDE after yrs of use... given that gentoo compiles everything from scratch, its just getting to much time lost jacking around with kde during upgrades. But also I'd forgotten what the oldtime

Re: [gentoo-user] Headless gentoo install

2008-11-14 Thread Dirk Uys
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 2:05 PM, Momesso Andrea [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to install gentoo on an headless server. The problem is that I cannot attach a video on it at all, neither for the installation. I asked the seller to setup the bios for cd boot as main option, so that I can use

Re: [gentoo-user] vwmare-player block

2008-11-13 Thread Dirk Uys
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 10:01 AM, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Each vmware package depends on a specific modules version. In order to update vmware-player, you must first update vmware-modules,but that version is blocked by the existing player. There are two alternatives Unmerge

Re: [gentoo-user] Transferring an existing install to new disk

2008-11-13 Thread Dirk Uys
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 4:54 PM, Alan Mackenzie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Dirk, Hi, List! On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 09:59:09AM +0200, Dirk Uys wrote: - Update the grub.conf to pass the correct root. (btw, does anyone use anything other than grub these days?) Yes. I use LILO. My lilo.conf

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to fix a hefty (emerge) blocking problem

2008-11-13 Thread Dirk Uys
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 12:38 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 13 November 2008, Dan Wallis wrote: On 13/11/2008, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 7:05 PM, Dan Wallis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/11/2008, Volker

[gentoo-user] vwmare-player block

2008-11-12 Thread Dirk Uys
Hi I'm running a stable gentoo installation and getting a block on vmware-player: [ebuild U ] app-emulation/vmware-player-2.5.0.118166 [2.0.5.109488] 61,559 kB [ebuild N] app-emulation/vmware-modules-1.0.0.23 478 kB [blocks B ] =app-emulation/vmware-modules-1.0.0.23 (is blocking

Re: [gentoo-user] Transferring an existing install to new disk

2008-11-11 Thread Dirk Uys
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 9:35 AM, Harry Putnam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I should know how to do this but so many changes have happened recently and I haven't done anything like this for a very long time. My desktop version of gentoo is pretty far out of date. And I think there have been

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing software without an internet connection

2008-11-04 Thread Dirk Uys
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 5:01 AM, Lorenzu Hewa, Gayan Neomal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I was able to complete the Gentoo installation and boot into my system successfully. I only downloaded the Live CD, But the live CD only contains a limited number of packages and... I do not have an

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing software without an internet connection

2008-11-04 Thread Dirk Uys
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 9:18 AM, Lorenzu Hewa, Gayan Neomal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I Used the Live CD ... It does contain few packages like X11,xfce4, gdm , some network utils,vim . But I need to get other packages which I need. lIke Gcj , fluxbox , mpg321 ... Even though it has only few

Re: [gentoo-user] package.keywords syntax?

2008-10-31 Thread Dirk Uys
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 9:12 PM, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems you did not get the point. To attribute a floating point number to an integer variable is perfectly valid, depending on the specific program. The compiler normally does not even warn about this, as

Re: [gentoo-user] package.keywords syntax?

2008-10-31 Thread Dirk Uys
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 9:11 PM, Albert Hopkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm coming into this thread kinda late, so feel free to ignore... ... but Jorge is right. This is easily picked up by a lint tool... and good python programmers use them ;-). Some python-aware editors even have this

Re: [gentoo-user] package.keywords syntax?

2008-10-30 Thread Dirk Uys
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 10:13 PM, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The real problem is when you type float real_number = 4e10; int integer = real_number; If your integer can only hold values up to 2^31 - 1 , the behavior of the above code is undefined. In a language like

Re: [gentoo-user] package.keywords syntax?

2008-10-30 Thread Dirk Uys
To back myself up: file name=why_no.py #!/usr/bin/python import random for i in range(1,1): if random.random() 0.001: print rare if malformed beast: print kick me in the ... else: print whatever /file

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get OpenOffice spell checker to work?

2008-08-19 Thread Dirk Uys
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 1:51 PM, William Kenworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have run it at times in the past - built in place OO has its problems, but overall its more stable and faster than then the binaries. Its also been a couple of years since my last try so I might have another look at

Re: [gentoo-user] kwin-4.1 sometimes leaves konsole undecorated

2008-08-15 Thread Dirk Uys
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 8:45 AM, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Maybe someone here has seen this before: amd64 2.6.26-gentoo KDE-4.1 nVidia 8600M GT nvidia-drivers-177.13 (latest unstable) nvidia OpenGL xorg-server-1.4.99.906 Yes, it's bleeding-edge :-) This is in an

Re: [gentoo-user] kwin-4.1 sometimes leaves konsole undecorated

2008-08-15 Thread Dirk Uys
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 9:22 AM, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 15 August 2008 09:12:06 Dirk Uys wrote: I don't know about the bug, but screen can safe you the hassle of having to open all your sessions again? Screen is indeed god's gift to sysadmins, it's almost as useful

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE-4.1 apps render slowly

2008-08-11 Thread Dirk Uys
On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 9:14 PM, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You nasty horrible terrible man you. Did you have to remind me of that? :-) Notebook was delivered 10 days ago on a Friday. That night I read the post about it on slashdot. I'm so pissed about this card that I'm tending to

Re: [gentoo-user] [extremly, wildly, obscenely OT] Is there a Linux system without GNU userlands?

2008-08-11 Thread Dirk Uys
On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 7:11 PM, b.n. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I ask it here because I really don't know where to ask it. Is there a Linux system somewhere with a *non-GNU* userland? I wonder in particular if: - there are Linux systems using the BSD userlands - there are Linux systems

Re: [gentoo-user] [extremly, wildly, obscenely OT] Is there a Linux system without GNU userlands?

2008-08-11 Thread Dirk Uys
On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 7:11 PM, b.n. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I ask it here because I really don't know where to ask it. Is there a Linux system somewhere with a *non-GNU* userland? I wonder in particular if: - there are Linux systems using the BSD userlands - there are Linux systems

Re: [gentoo-user] way off-topic - is it possible to log webmail messages content in an enterprise network

2008-08-06 Thread Dirk Uys
On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 3:45 AM, Francisco Ares [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, guys. Sorry to post such off-topic message, but I didn't know where I could ask this question. I know that things such as address, trafic, bandwith are easy to be tracked and logged, but what about, say, my gmail

Re: [gentoo-user] Good Library Management software

2008-07-17 Thread Dirk Uys
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 9:49 PM, Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The screenshots of this look really nice, however to me this seems like a really odd motivation for writing a program: I started developing it when I couldn't find a personal database program for KDE which didn't using a

Re: [gentoo-user] DNS poisoning fix

2008-07-10 Thread Dirk Uys
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 3:35 PM, Dave Oxley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've installed 9.4.2-P1 but http://www.doxpara.com/ says I'm still vulnerable. What more do I need to do? Cheers, Dave. Mick wrote: Hi All, Have you seen this?

Re: [gentoo-user] on cdr{kit,tools} and licensing

2008-07-09 Thread Dirk Uys
2008/7/9 Joerg Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Sebastian Günther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Da mein Englisch hier von einem Engländer kritisiert wurde muß ich wohl in Deutsch antworten damit dieser Mensch mich besser versteht... You obviously missread the GPL. See your other mail that verifies

Fwd: [gentoo-user] beagle and thunderbird

2008-06-30 Thread Dirk Uys
-- Forwarded message -- From: Nirbheek Chauhan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 2:33 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] beagle and thunderbird To: Dirk Uys [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 3:14 PM, Dirk Uys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] So

Re: [gentoo-user] Huh? Can't find a KDE volume control

2008-06-12 Thread Dirk Uys
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 4:37 PM, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, it's early and I'm feeling stupid. But with all the KDE packages, I can't find one that actually controls the sound volume. Usually, I like to have the sound on but when I'm playing games it's sometimes just too

Re: [gentoo-user] Subversion emerge fails

2008-06-11 Thread Dirk Uys
hmm, probably a) broken ebuild (missing bdb dep) b) broken ./configure script (which can't find existing bdb) cu -- - Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ For now I masked the version of

Re: [gentoo-user] Subversion emerge fails

2008-06-11 Thread Dirk Uys
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 3:09 PM, Florian Philipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 14:17:44 +0200 Dirk Uys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For now I masked the version of subversion giving the problems, I only occasionally use subversion on that machine. I would however like

[gentoo-user] Subversion emerge fails

2008-06-08 Thread Dirk Uys
Hi everyone. When I emerge subversion, i get the following error: snip checking for availability of Berkeley DB... no configure: error: Berkeley DB 4.0.14 wasn't found. !!! Please attach the following file when seeking support: !!!

Re: [gentoo-user] Java default Swing stile

2008-05-30 Thread Dirk Uys
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 9:20 PM, Florian Philipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list! I've recently started both programming and using some Java applications (not that I would have a choice ...). Well, anyway, as it seems the default style for Swing is set to Metal, Java's own rather ugly and

Re: [gentoo-user] Masked Packages

2008-05-14 Thread Dirk Uys
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 2:06 PM, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can you have a masked package installed but have not unmasked it? By setting the ACCEPT_KEYWORDS flag in the command line when emerging? Haven't done that for a while though, so I wouldn't know if ACCEPT_KEYWORDS has