X11 libs problem
There seems to be some sort of problem with the libraries in /usr/X11R6/lib. Almost every program I install that isn't from a debian package won't run because it can't find libraries from this directory. This is my ld.so.conf: /usr/local/lib /usr/lib/libc5-compat /lib/libc5-compat /usr/X11R6/lib /usr/X11/lib I've even used the LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable and it still won't work. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
depth and GTK
I recently installed the gtk libs, development, and doc packages. Following the instructions in the docs I compiled a very basic program. When I try to run it though I get the message ** ERROR **: unable to find a usable depth and a core dump. I'm running the plain ol' VGA16 server and I think the depth is 4. Can I change Xwin to work with gtk, or vice versa - or do I have to wait until I get a comp. with better graphic display? Thanks - Jef -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
X11 libs not found
I've run into this a few times - Some programs, more often than not non-Debian stuff, can't find libraries in /usr/X11/lib. For example, I installed teTeX from binaries I already had and couldn't run xdvi. Now I compiled some Xforms demos with FPK-pascal and they can't find libX11 or libforms although I checked and they're all definitely there. Running ldd on these programs shows that only libs in /usr/X11/lib are the ones not found, all other libs seem to be fine. Thanks - Jeffrey Shilt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
gcc g++
Since g++ is now seperate from gcc, I noticed after installing both of these that I have two directories under /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux. One is 2.7.2.3 from gcc and the other is egcs-2.90.26. Other than a few differences they seem to have the same files each taking almost 3M. I'm running on a 486 laptop with a 120M hardrive and was wondering if I can combine the files in these directories to use less space. Thanks, Jef -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem with my shell
On Mon, May 04, 1998 at 02:08:36AM -0400, Jeff Shilt wrote: I wrote a postinst shell script for a package and when I went to test it I get bash: ././postinst: no such file or directory I changed my PATH environent variable around a bunch, even took out . and tried to run postinst with ./postinst and I get bash: ./postinst: no such file or directory I cut the script down to: #! /bin/sh echo Creating symlinks in directory and I don't see that there's anything wrong with this. The file has executable permissions. If I go to /var/lib/dpkg/info and run one of the scripts there with ./filename it runs fine. It just seems to be any file I create. What's up with this? Try removing the space after #!. Also ensure the script is executable (chmod +x postinst), not that this will make much difference Adrian I did remove the remove the spaces, that wasn't it. However, I did solve it by using mcedit from mc. Apparently it had something to do with how ae was saving it. I've stopped using ae! Thanks, Jef -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problem with my shell
I wrote a postinst shell script for a package and when I went to test it I get bash: ././postinst: no such file or directory I changed my PATH environent variable around a bunch, even took out . and tried to run postinst with ./postinst and I get bash: ./postinst: no such file or directory I cut the script down to: #! /bin/sh echo Creating symlinks in directory and I don't see that there's anything wrong with this. The file has executable permissions. If I go to /var/lib/dpkg/info and run one of the scripts there with ./filename it runs fine. It just seems to be any file I create. What's up with this? Jeffrey A. Shilt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ld can't find X libs
A few programs I've tried to run in X11 can't find the X11 libraries. XDvi copmlains about no libXaw.so.6. When I ldd xdvi it shows this library and others (like libX11) as not being found. If I ldd a program in /usr/X11R6/bin it finds all of them. I checked ld.so.conf and it has the correct directory listed. Why does it only know where they're at sometimes? Thanks, Jef -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Copyright Question.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi, I want to package Blender. It will have to go into Non-free. or maybe contrib... What I want to know is yalls thoughts on weather or not we can even distribute this software. Heres the pertinant part of the licence. Permission to use, copy, and distribute this software and its documentation without written agreement is hereby granted only for non- commercial purposes. Distributing blender 'bundled' in with ANY product is considered to be a `commercial purpose'. This entire copyright notice must appear in all copies of this software. The part that worrys me is the line about ... Bundled in with any product. I'm wondering if this would mean packing for debian is comercial? I think that this would mean it would be okay to make a debian pacakge out of it, because a package is not a product just a modified redistributing. However it looks like it is not allowed to be put on any Debian CD's and that would be up to the CD makers to not do. Having the .deb package available itself (i think) would be fine. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installing large packages from DOS formatted diskette
Hi, I am a newbie to Debian. Recently I installed Debian 1.3 on my PC from diskettes. It is working fine. However I downloaded some Debain packages which are larger than 1.44M (diskette size). How can I install these packages? I have DOS/Windows tools like pkzip, arj, gzip but I am not sure how to decompress it to a Linux partition on my hard disk. My guess is that I need a DOS partition but I couldn't create one using the Rescue Disk. BTW, which type of DOS partition do I create? FAT12, FAT16, etc.. Thanks in advance. Best Regards, Chee Seng ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installing large packages from DOS formatted diskette
Hi, I am a newbie to Debian. Recently I installed Debian 1.3 on my PC from diskettes. It is working fine. However I downloaded some Debain packages which are larger than 1.44M (diskette size). How can I install these packages? I have DOS/Windows tools like pkzip, arj, gzip but I am not sure how to decompress it to a Linux partition on my hard disk. My guess is that I need a DOS partition but I couldn't create one using the Rescue Disk. BTW, which type of DOS partition do I create? FAT12, FAT16, etc.. You don't need to make a DOS partition (who needs it anyway). Here's two ways I handle this. 1. The file is downloaded to you're debian machine or another *nix machine. I use 'split' and 'cat'. Split takes a number as an argument that determines the size of the split-up files. I've found between 4000 and 5000 gives a bit over 1M size files. You can then save these on multiple disks, copy them to your Debian system and then cat them back together. For example: split -4500 package.deb (this makes files xa*, xb*, ..) cat xa* xb* package.deb 2. The file is downloaded to a DOS based machine. PKZIP them across multiple disks. Each disk has the same name file, so cp them into a directory on your system with different names (make sure to keep things in order - name them part1, part2, etc). Now cat these together into a package.zip. There is an unzip for *nix systems (sorry, don't remember where I got mine) that can unzip PKZIP files. Unzip package.zip and you should have you're package.deb. I haven't had to use two for a while, but I use one all the time cause I have a small harddrive, so I keep all the packages I download on floppies. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: swapFILE vs swapDISK ??
Hi, I was wondering whether there are any benefits to using a swap partition as opposed to using a swap file. I am running debian 1.3 on a system with relatively low resources (200 megs HD, 12 megs ram), and have it set up to have a 12 meg swap partition. But, today I found out about mkswap and how I can on the fly create a swap file and use that. It seems like this would be pretty useful to me as I can 'dynamically' choose how to allocate my memory / harddrive space. Is there any performance loss to making swapfiles (large ones), as opposed to having a static swap partition? Will it (this may sound silly, but my hard drive is old too ... 1993) increase the wear and tear on my hard drive? I use a 486 laptop w/ 8M ram and an 8M swap partition. This total of 16M has really never been a problem unless I run a bunch of heavy things at the same time. I f you're machine already has 12M, you could probably safely decrease your swap partition (8M, maybe 4). I would suggest leaving some sort of swap partition cause you don't always know when the machine wants more. On some occasions when my 16M isn't enough I do also make a swap file to use for that particular job and then get rid of it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Cannot correctly print non-ascii files
Problem: My HP Laserjet 6L can only print ASCII files correctly. Other files just print things such as ASCII headers on Postscript files. Printing from Netscape also prints out wacky ascii characters. I don't know if this is quite the same error I got originally after installing gs and magicfilter, but it's something to check. My fonts were located in a subdirectory of ghostscript and apparently gs couldn't find them. Set the environment variable GS_LIB to the directory containing the fonts listed in Fontmap. Hope this is your problem :) 5. Maybe the problem isn't with printing per se. Here is an error I get when trying to read a PostScript file generated by Netscape's browser (4.0.4). # ghostview intro.ps A notifier window named information pops up and prints... While reading gs_fonts.ps: Error: /undefinedfilename in (Fontmap) Operand stack: Execution stack: %interp_exit --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- false --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- Dictionary stack: --dict:429/631-- --dict:34/200-- --dict:429/631-- Last OS error: 2 Current file position is 2350 Error: PostScript interpreter failed in main window. Thanks in advance. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dpkg options
The man page for dpkg says it's inaccurate and also out of date. Is there an updated man page somewhere? I was just wondering if there might be some options for the program that are not listed in the man or --help pages. For example, is there an option to get the long description of an installed package (as opposed to the output of -l)? Is there a way to list the packages that depend on a certain installed package, and a way to list the packages that a certain installed package depends on? I suspect that these options may just be undocumented. If they don't exist, they probably should; all this info is available in /var/lib/dpkg/status (and besides, I think you can do these things with rpm, and I wouldn't want that tool to out-do dpkg in any way ;-). Try checking out dpkg-deb --help. Dpkg passes some options on to dpkg-deb and handles some itself, but dpkg-deb also has some options that can't (I don't think) be accessed through dpkg. For example: dpkg-deb --info will give you quite a bit of information about a package, includeing depends and a long description, although dpkg -s gives you the same. Check it out, maybe some of the things you want are there. Phil Garcia [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
jdk1.1-runtime
I just downloaded biss-awt_0.87-1 and the web page says there are no depends, etc but during installation I found out it needs jdk1.1-runtime. Where is this package? Does jdk1.1-dev provide this or should I just ignore depends? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
gcc problems
I am using the Debian 2.0 distribution, and recently installed the various development packages. When I used a configure script for a program, it says: checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) works... yes (other stuff) checking for c++... no checking for g++... no checking for gcc... yes checking whether the C++ compiler (gcc ) works... no So, i tried running gcc on one of the files from the command line and get the message: gcc: installation problem, cannot exec `cc1plus': No such file or directory Here's the packages I have installed: gcc 2.7.2.3-4 libg++272 2.7.2.8-0.1 (standard and development) libc6 2.0.7pre1-4 (standard and development) binutils2.8.1.0.23-1 cpp 2.7.2.3-4 kernel-headers 2.0.32 and also libc5 5.4.38-1 (for compatability) If anyone can help getting me compilin' would be wonderful. Thanks, Jef -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Zmodem recovery
Minicom doesn't recover when I have partial files. It sees it and skips to the next file or stops the download. I'm usually downloading from my school shell account. I type sz files and minicom automatically starts download. In the setup it says it's running rz -vv for zmodem downloads.
g++ file doesn't run
Thanks for the help - it does compile with g++ instead of gcc, but the
executable produced isn't doing anything. Here's what i'm doing:
//test.c
#include iostream.h
main(){
cout Hello there.;
}
The test file doesn't print out anything when I run it.
Also, I was wondering if this was a descrepency in versions of gcc. The
installaition I had before (using the main parts of the Slackware dist.)
compiled both c and c++. Like somehow it knew which way to process it.
gcc - iostream.h
I recently installed the basic development files - gcc, cpp, binutils, libs, and libs-dev. When I tried to compile a program with just a cout line it says iostream.h: no such file... I remeber seeing a lot of this on the linux newsgroup, and there seemed to be as many theories as there were answers. In usr/lib there is a link to /usr/include/g++ which does have iostream.h in it. But how do I make gcc look there? Thanks, Jeffrey Shilt
