Re: upgrading from corel linux to potato
On Sat, 20 Nov 1999, Joey Hess wrote: aphro wrote: i have a feeling corel will have a glibc2.1 update to their linux not long after potato is released ..very few will want to try to upgrade from corel to potato ..it would be too painful It wouldn't be, if corel hadn't done stupid things with kde-corel. It's true, they got a bit sloppy. But it's easily fixable with a dpkg-divert call. Unfortunately, I was trying to get Corel's package manager to run on my potato system (whereas you've been trying for the other way around), and I hit a dependency problem: kde-corel depends on an older version of the apt libraries. I just got into Corel's ftp site, and there is a source repository. Perhaps I can recompile kde-corel to fix the dependency problem. And remove the silly file conflict while I'm at it...
Re: Debian and Redhat - are most linux users missing the point?
On Sun, 28 Feb 1999, P Asokan wrote: It appears to me dselect is more a sysadmin's install tool. Even Yast looks a little easier. for my $0.02 i would strongly suggest ywo install programs a simpleone with less choices and another for the more adventurous. It's an interesting thought. The installer gives you a bunch of preselected options, and then you go into dselect. If the installer made dselect *optional* if the user selected a preselected list, this might make the steep learning curve disappear while still offering lots of flexibility for people like me who always select Custom on Windows install programs.
Re: Where are ms-dos filenames for Debian packages?
On Sat, 27 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Keith Saxon([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Where can I find Debian packages with 8.3 filenames so I can install them from a DOS partion with dselect? I have no idea! I doubt that you would or could find any! If he's running a vfat system like Win95 or Win98, he can install on to hard drive and be sure to load the vfat kernel module during installation. This will see the long filenames.
Re: More xfstt help needed.
On Sun, 28 Feb 1999, James E. Starr wrote: Thanks for all the help given so far, however, after following all advise and puting FontPath unix/:7101 as the last line in my XF86Config file, I tried to run the test, as per the FAQ.gz. I got as far as xfstt but I received the error msg cannot open TCPIP port 7101, better try another port. Isn't 7101 the port X runs on? If so, why wou't it open? Do I need to configure something i've missed? If you've installed xfstt as a package, then it was started when you booted your machine. You don't need to start it manually. It's complaining about not being able to open port 7101 because another copy of xfstt already has it open! 7101 isn't the port X runs on, but the default port for xfstt.
Re: I have PINE .debs...
On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: You can't re-distribute dirivative works. That's key because an official Debian package would require a slightly modified binary in order to comply with the Debian filesystem guidelines. You can modify it for LOCAL USE, in which case you need to append L to the version number. Making something available for download on the internet hardly constitues local use. I hope I'm not resurrecting a very old and too-often-discussed issue, but I was wondering if someone could tell me the specifics. What is it exactly that requires a compliant Debian-released Pine to be a derivative work? Are there changes to file locations that can't be handled with a configure parameter?
Re: xdm question
On Sat, 20 Feb 1999, Pann McCuaig wrote: I did a ctrl-alt-F1 and found xdm in /etc/init.d/. Is it okay to remove xdm from here without any adverse effects? Well, I did it anyway :) but I was just wondering if I should seek an alternative solution. man update-rc.d Better yet, dpkg --purge xdm
Re: pine mutt
On Sat, 20 Feb 1999, Frederick Page wrote: It's the other way around here: I used Pine for email and news, was content about the way it handled email, but it sucked for news. And it did not have color, which is very helpful (for me). There is a patch available for Pine that gives it some color. Not as extensive as Mutt, but it adds a nice touch. Now I use mutt and tin and am quite happy with both. Sounds like mutt wasn't too good for news either.
