Quoting Omer Zak, from the post of Tue, 01 Aug: > I do not have apt-source in my Debian Sarge installation, and aptitude > did not list any package with a similar name. So the advice was not > useful. :-(
having a deb-src line in your apt/sources.list file is a no-brainer. I keep one commented for use in extreme cases. the apt-source package is cute but not a must. indeed I don't think it exists in debian stable, only in sid at the moment. it lets your debian act a bit more gentoo-like :) > I logged off and logged on back. > Did not help. did you actually try to fully stop and start the X server? that way cached versions of libraries are re-read from the disk in case you upgraded them since your last XDM login. > After rebooting the PC (a trick well-known in the MS-Windows world), the > problem went away and I succeeded in viewing the book PDF file using > gpdf. it would be a black day in OSS history if that was the solution. I'd check out the proc list, see if it happens to have leftover procs with no explanation. the fact xpdf or kpdf worked but gpdf choked says something maybe about problems with gconf or something. -- A reflection of society Ira Abramov http://ira.abramov.org/email/ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
