Re: Missing file error
On Wed, 2 Dec 1998, Curt Howland wrote: > Many thanks, but... > > > # dpkg -S /usr/lib/i486-linuxaout/libdb.so.1 > dpkg: /usr/lib/i486-linuxaout/libdb.so.1 not found. > > > Anyone else want to take a stab at it? There are several > packages that will not install due to this error... Try doing a search with your web browser - at: http://YOUR.FAVORITE.DEBIAN.MIRROR/distrib/packages or http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages and go to the section "Search the Contents of the Latest Release". This method allows you to search through packages that are no longer installed. You might like to remove the leading directories and just use the filename (or part of the filename) as some of the things placed on the disk are symbolic links etc. created by the package installer scripts. Regards, ------ David McDonald telephone: +61-2-9554-0346 (direct) Systems Support Analyst+61-2-9554- (switch) Security Mailing Services 04-1237-2284(mobile) 6 The Crescent facsimile: +61-2-9554-0554 P.O. Box 86 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] KINGSGROVE NSW 2208 AUSTRALIA --
Re: superformat:floppy not transferable?
On Wed, 2 Dec 1998, Sebastian Canagaratna wrote: >I am using Debian 2 Linux, installed recently. The new version >has superformat instead of fdformat. I am able to use superformat >to format floppy disks ( superformat /dev/fd0 ) and use the >disks, but I am unable to mount the disk on the machine at home >( or vice versa ). The floppy drive controllers on the two machines >are different, I presume. But is this a bug, or do I have to >give some parameters when formatting? The floppy disks are 1.44 MB >high density, double sided. This looks remarkably like a problem I see here (part of my job involves supporting a cople hundred PCs). The problem is O/S independent. I suspect that you have floppy drives that are misaligned or have differnt timing or something (I can't tell you exactly what the problem is - it's not worth putting an oscilliscope on a AUD$26 floppy drive). Solution: Just replace one or both drives - you'll have to experimment to see which one needs replacing (probably the home PC if the lab PC can read and write floppies to/from other PCs or vice versa). Regards, -- David McDonald telephone: +61-2-9554-0346 (direct) Systems Support Analyst+61-2-9554- (switch) Security Mailing Services 04-1237-2284(mobile) 6 The Crescent facsimile: +61-2-9554-0554 P.O. Box 86 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] KINGSGROVE NSW 2208 AUSTRALIA --
Re: Is this really the right thing to do?
On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, Mitch Blevins wrote: > Ed Cogburn wrote: > > Mitch Blevins wrote: > > > One problem with auto-deinstallation of support packages is that > > > you may have other packages that also use the same support package. > > > You would have to grep the dependency database to ensure you > > > weren't removing a library/package that was used elsewhere. > > > Even then, you may have programs in /usr/local that are not tracked > > > by dpkg and need one of those libraries. I think that this is an issue not only when packages are uninstalled but also when packages are upgraded. I have had trouble recently with three seperate machines (two at work and one at home) where Netscape works, then doesn't work, then works again ... I have not identified the *exact* source of the problem, however, it is different to the errors that I have been seeing reported in this mailing list. The problem *appears* to be caused by updates to the "locales" package - certainly the bi-polar mood swings in Netscape exactly correspond with "apt-get upgrade"s to my systems. Has anyone else had similar experiences when doing upgrades? I've suspected for some time that it would be useful to reconfigure dependent packages when lower-level packages are upgraded. Needles to say, this could be very time consuming when very low level packages are upgraded (such as libc). -- David McDonald telephone: +61-2-9554-0346 (direct) Communications Analyst +61-2-9554- (switch) Security Mailing Services 04-1237-2284(mobile) 6 The Crescent facsimile: +61-2-9554-0554 P.O. Box 86 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] KINGSGROVE NSW 2208 AUSTRALIA --
Re: help for a future user
On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, Mitch Blevins wrote: > Usually I work with FoxPro under DOS but I want my DBFs to be secure. > Does a FoxPro release for Linux exist? You can, of course, "host" the dbf files on a linux system, making them available to windoze users by sharing the relevent directories with Samba. (Samba is available as a Debian package). Unfortunately, this may not give you file & record locking at a satisfactory level if you have both linux and windoze/FoxPro clients accessing the files at the same time. I believe that Samba implements these locks sucessfully for the Samba clients (FoxPro), but you may need un*x/linux programs to implement them too, in which case you might need to look at SCO Unix - there used to be a FoxPro for SCO a few years ago. (FoxPro for SCO might run under Linux to if you are running the iBCS compatability deb's - does anyone know?) Perhaps you can get a "personal" version of SCO (someone told me that it can be obtained without having to pay for it), obtain SCO FoxPro and try migrating SCO FoxPro to Linux. -- David McDonald telephone: +61-2-9554-0346 (direct) Systems Support Analyst+61-2-9554- (switch) Security Mailing Services 04-1237-2284(mobile) 6 The Crescent facsimile: +61-2-9554-0554 P.O. Box 86 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] KINGSGROVE NSW 2208 AUSTRALIA --
Re: Help needed with compressed files
On Tue, 1 Dec 1998, Austanners Wet Blue Pty Ltd wrote: > I wish to load some package files onto a laptop that has no CD-ROM drive > and is not networked. Some of the .deb files are 2+MB and I can compress > them using PKZIP,Winzip or rar but can linux unzip from spanned floppy > disks? Any suggestions? Steve, These ideas might be a bit slow, but on the other hand ... Try connecting a couple of systems using a serial file xfer package such as Kermit (ckermit) or network them via. either the parrallel port or via. serial ports. I'm no expert on this, so I won't even begin to try and tell you how to go about it - perhaps you have enough info already in your /usr/doc directory or perhaps someone else listening in would like to guide you. If you want to try floppies, you might be able to "tar" the files across several floppies. I've never tried this with Linux, but it used to work fine when I was using QNX a lot. Regards, ------ David McDonald telephone: +61-2-9554-0346 (direct) Systems Support Analyst+61-2-9554- (switch) Security Mailing Services 04-1237-2284(mobile) 6 The Crescent facsimile: +61-2-9554-0554 P.O. Box 86 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] KINGSGROVE NSW 2208 AUSTRALIA --
Re: Which package for pkzipped files?
On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, Richard Lyon wrote: > I have an archive file created on a windows machine with pkzip. Which debian > package is most suitable for extracting files from this archive? There is no > password protection on the file. Get zip-crypt_*.deb and unzip-crypt_*.deb. You should find that they will also work on PKZip encrypted files. I presume that they have no trouble with later (windoze) versions of PKZip - I've yet to encounter a (zip) file that they could not extract from unless that file was corrupted. You should be able to source the files from one or more of the following sites: non-us.debian.org - in Germany (I think) mirror.aarnet.edu.au- here in Oz debian.vicnet.net.au- in Vic, here in Oz ftp.au.debian.org - in WA (I think), here in Oz No doubt there are a hundred other plces as well. Regards, ------ David McDonald telephone: +61-2-9554-0346 (direct) Communications Analyst +61-2-9554- (switch) Security Mailing Services 04-1237-2284(mobile) 6 The Crescent facsimile: +61-2-9554-0554 P.O. Box 86 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] KINGSGROVE NSW 2208 AUSTRALIA --
Re: Getting Rid of Debian/Linux
On Fri, 27 Nov 1998, Austanners Wet Blue Pty Ltd wrote: > I have a requirement to remove Debian from one of our workstations and > re-install DOS/Windows (Horror!) Poor fools :^( At least try to install the Caldera DR-DOS package as opposed to the MS one ... > How do I do this? It's ugly ... ;^) Just boot from your DOS installation disks, run the FDISK program (I can't recall if it will do this automatically or not - you may have to exit to the DOS prompt with the F3 key (again, that's the way I remember it, not necessarily the way it is). You will have to create a DOS partition (possibly by first removing other partitions) and mark the DOS partition as active or bootable (I think the DOS terminology is "active"). Run the DOS "FORMAT C:" command and reboot from the DOS boot/install disk. The rest is obvious. I'm sure that you'll know how to install windoze from there. Regards, ------ David McDonald telephone: +61-2-9554-0346 (direct) Communications Analyst +61-2-9554- (switch) Security Mailing Services 04-1237-2284(mobile) 6 The Crescent facsimile: +61-2-9554-0554 P.O. Box 86 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] KINGSGROVE NSW 2208 AUSTRALIA -- Type Bits/KeyIDDate User ID pub 1024/2AB67619 1997/10/22 David J. McDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK- Version: 2.6.3ia mQCNAzRNy18AAAEEANcLDeCCp5q9B1dOW25rnmgYf9K/MQ/lFmPl54Ei7tbLpda7 XPWRXD2yquVcVB1OUkS1gZilGG6WgVFfZYFdAkej+JHblziObbTzcRU5WNHT4cHP MSn4RJ8E6x6TBXZYUzAtOAoZpy80fIfv+0HcNHgvZyxklnGAwd7wYloqtnYZAAUR tCpEYXZpZCBKLiBNY0RvbmFsZCA8ZGF2ZW1hY0BzZWNtYWlsLmNvbS5hdT6JAJUD BRA0Tctf3vBiWiq2dhkBAelcBAC6EG3V+djVMSWZKFlEuCdUyxc6YR+d9ccIHMyx 71YXc9b1ztclP8sVjgnyizaXD8qyeTtlgoULCbkO5bG/vXrLy+VhnxTrpVeoAI3I Q7RGL+G0Bd4k21CA8ONvLbEM8363/mLYyRw0LESfIbHpUbWaosS88ZZeH6tPKqvF v92mTA== =VAPe -END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-
