make menuconfig burp
I'm trying to build a kernel and make menuconfig gives the following error: debian:/usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.15# make menuconfig rm -f include/asm ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm) make -C scripts/lxdialog all make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.15/scripts/lxdialog' find: /usr/local/lib/: No such file or directory gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -DLOCALE -DCURSES_LOC=curses.h -c -o lxdialog.o lxdialog.c In file included from lxdialog.c:22: dialog.h:29: curses.h: No such file or directory make[1]: *** [lxdialog.o] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.15/scripts/lxdialog' make: *** [menuconfig] Error 2 do I need to make /usr/local/lib manually ? or did I miss something else? TIA Dave
Re: make menuconfig burp
root wrote: apt-get install libncurses5-dev Just like magic! thanks !! Dave
kernel build
I'm trying to build a kernel, but I seem to have run into a snag: debian:/usr/src/linux# make-kpkg clean Can't locate Getopt/Long.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.005 /usr/local/lib/site_perl/i386-linux /usr/local/lib/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5 .) at /usr/bin/make-kpkg line 21. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/bin/make-kpkg line 21. dpkg -l shows: ii perl-5.004 5.004.05-6 Larry Wall's Practical Extracting and Report ii perl-5.004-bas 5.004.05-6 The Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister ii perl-5.004-doc 5.004.05-6 Man pages and pod docs for Perl ii perl-5.005-bas 5.005.03-7.1 The Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister ii perl-base 5.004.05-1.1 Fake package assuring that one of the -base so do I need a different Perl package? TIA Dave
Re: kernel build
Corey Popelier wrote: Yeah it certainly looks like you need Perl 5.005 (note the .005 in the path below). I have both 5.004 and 5.005 installed. It's one of the strange things, Perl, as I installed from 2.1 floppy set, then upgraded to Potato, and Perl-Base got really mad at me so I had to forcefully remove it for it to re-install itself happily. It would help to know what dist you are using here - I'm not sure if 5.005 is in slink, its certainly in potato and woody. sorry about that, the dist is potato, but I'm still running 2.0.36 from Slink. I'll go ahead and get perl-5.005 and friends, but is there any reason why I would need both .004 and .005? Thanks, Dave
postfix help
I saw from earlier postings that quite a few of you are using postfix. I've been using netscrape for e-mail and a recent bout with X convinced me that I should set up e-mail properly. I managed to get postfix on my machine and exim off, but I could use a hand configuring postfix. My machine is strictly dial-up, so I downloaded fetchmail (will that work w/ postfix? suggestions?). I think I have fetchmail set up OK, eg; ~/.fetchmailrc bash-2.04$ cat .fetchmailrc poll pop.mindsprind.com protocol POP3 username batemand is dsb password xxx fetchall Is there a configuatorer/magic pill that sets up postfix, or am I going to edit main.cf/master.cf by hand? Same question about mutt, will it work w/ postfix/fetchmail? edit .muttrc? Seems like a-lot of work compared to netscrape, but then, when X goes down and your only help is this mail-list...well, you get the point. TIA, Dave -- One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.--- Elbert Hubbard
Re: (xterm or rxvt) and VIM
Viktor Rosenfeld wrote: Hi folks, I've been reading into the VIM online help a lot lately and I am truly impressed what this editor can do for me. And to include the obligatory flame bait: I'll never touch Emacs again -- which is, of course, nonsense. Anyway, while the online help is really great it leaves me with a problem: I use VIM in a KDE konsole window which sets TERM to xterm. However, in Debian the termcap entry for xterm doesn't support colors. So in order to get true color highlighting in VIM (which KDE's konsole supports) I use the hack outlined in /usr/doc/vim-rt/examples/color, which fouls VIM into thinking that it's running on a rxvt. what about gvim? it pops in its own window and everything seems to work AFAIK. HTH, Dave snip
gpm locks up blackbox
Why would blackbox have a problem with gpm? I removed it and everything works fine, but I'm just curious about the conflict. ( the wm would come up OK, but the rodent wouldn't work.) Later, Dave
Re: The Thrill of Debian Gnu/Linux
Colin Watson wrote: John McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As soon as I got a base system working, I updated my sources.list and used apt-get update. It failed after retreiving the pkg files with an E: message that some package names were too long. Presumably, my 2.1 slink CD has a version of dpkg or something that has some kind of path length limitation. I don't see anything obvious in the changelog, but I might be missing something; it's worth asking debian-testing about this (in case it's a bug in potato too). I had the same thing happen, I made a clean wipe (I got all twisted up with helix) and tried to apt-get update to unstable and I got an error saying something about a package name being to long. After going to frozen then to unstaable the error didn't occur. The first time I upgraded to frozen I got kernel-image-2.2.12 automgically, but that didn't happen this time. Is the kernel version for potato still up in the air? snip Later, Dave
