Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux
Sven Rudolph, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
$Id: packages.sgml,v 1.38 1997/03/30 23:11:03 sr1 Exp sr1 $
1. General Questions
1.1. Before reading this document
You should have read the Debian GNU/Linux FAQ (
http://www.debian.org/FAQ/ ).
1.2. Pur
> "Gertjan" == Gertjan Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Gertjan> I wish I could convince bash to work like this!
Open up your info reader; either inside Emacs or XEmacs, by typing
'info' at a bash prompt, or via http and dwww, and read the 'readline'
manual, which you've obviously not h
> Hi all,
>
> I upgrade a lot of packages, don't know exactly which ones though, and now
> shutdown -h now and umount will not unmount /usr(aka /dev/hdb3). It gives me
> same error:
> umount: /dev/hdb3: device is busy
>
> Does anyone have any idea as to what is causing this?
The other
"Robert D. Hilliard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Is it necessary, or even useful, to have the System.map-x.x.xx
> file in the /boot directory if loadlin is used for booting?
Yes, there are a lot of utilities referencing it - most notably ps.
> Is there any need to have a kerne
Kai Grossjohann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If you type, say, "g" then M-p repeatedly you get
> all command lines that begin with "g". I use this *all* the time, as
> an alternative to "!g" because it lets me see if I got the right
> command line before I hit Enter.
Still, none of this ev
On 30 Mar 1997, Siggy Brentrup wrote:
> Maarten Boekhold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I was just thinking: wouldn't it be a nice idea to have a pgcc package
> > around for ppl who want to get the most out of their pentium? Even if it
> > means the package must be in experimental
On 30 Mar 1997, Siggy Brentrup wrote:
> I don't know to what extent it has been integrated, eventually using the -m586
> flag in conjunction with -O? on gcc should optimize for pentiums. IMO there's
> no
> need for a special compiler version. Correct me if.I'm wrong.
Apparently the gcc people ar
Is it necessary, or even useful, to have the System.map-x.x.xx
file in the /boot directory if loadlin is used for booting?
Is there any need to have a kernel in / or /boot unless lilo is
being used?
Bob
Maarten Boekhold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi,
>
> I was just thinking: wouldn't it be a nice idea to have a pgcc package
> around for ppl who want to get the most out of their pentium? Even if it
> means the package must be in experimental?
I don't know to what extent it has been integrated
I've found that you have to mark the WIN95 partition as the "bootable" partition
in the partition table or win95 has a hissy-fit. However, this DOES NOT affect
the
boot-ability of your linux partition. You can make both linux and win95
bootable
on power-up by editing your lilo.conf file in your
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Hallo Syrus,
On Sat, 29 Mar 1997, Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote:
>
> I don't know, but I'm very happily using the new tetex packages from
> unstable which seem to fix most of the previous problems with the tex
> packages. I'm doing this on two machines that I upg
On Sun, 30 Mar 1997, Paul Nelson wrote:
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>
> When I upgraded to the Bo (Unstable) it tells me that package modules
> relies on package modutils (which is not available). With that I do not
> get a few files needed for kernel compilation (such as /sbin/genksyms
Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I can't find any reference to the debian-sparc mailing list
> (or did one never exist?). Is anyone using Debian on a
> sparc (or barring that, is anyone using Linux on a sparc ;-).
> The heart of my question is this, is it possible to get Linux
> up and
Wouldn't it be great to port dpkg to DOS/Win95? It then could be used by
shareware/freeware authors... And people would be biased towards Debian
when adopting Linux
--
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] | The channel of the debian developers =)
On Fri, 28 Mar 1997, Mike L. Dickey wrote:
> I've read the Iomega ZIP HOWTOs and noticed that they only mention
> 3 versions of the hardware (parallel external, SCSI internal, SCSI
> external). I've also browsed through the Debian website (noticed
> the facelift) ... there is no good site-wide se
Jim Pick:
> Randolph Chung has released a alpha-test version of a utility that
> will convert .deb files to .rpm files.
>
> http://132.236.56.9/pages/rc42/program/martian.html
>
> And Debian's alien package can already install .rpm files.
Randolph is a close friend of mine (I'm the maintainer of
On Sat, 29 Mar 1997, Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote:
> On Sat, 29 Mar 1997, David Puryear wrote:
>
> > I upgrade a lot of packages, don't know exactly which ones though, and now
> > shutdown -h now and umount will not unmount /usr(aka /dev/hdb3). It gives me
> > same error:
> > umount: /dev/hd
On Sun, 30 Mar 1997, Jim Pick wrote:
>
> > >From Redhat's blurb about their new Maximum RPM book.
> > > RPM currently runs on Linux, IRIX, Solaris, SunOS, AIX,
> > > HP/UX, AmigaOS, and FreeBSD, and is quickly becoming the
> > > de-facto packaging standard for
> >From Redhat's blurb about their new Maximum RPM book.
> > RPM currently runs on Linux, IRIX, Solaris, SunOS, AIX,
> > HP/UX, AmigaOS, and FreeBSD, and is quickly becoming the
> > de-facto packaging standard for free software on the
> > Internet.
At 10:27 AM 30/03/97 -0500, Stan Brown wrote:
> A quick look at /etc/init.d doesn't make it obvious how to do this?
> Could someone point me in the correct direction?
Look at the file nis.debian.howto.gz in /usr/doc/nis - if you follow it to
the letter it'll work fine - well, it did fo
A quick look at /etc/init.d doesn't make it obvious how to do this?
Could someone point me in the correct direction?
Thansk.
--
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Factory Automation Systems
Atlanta Ga.
--
Look, look, see Wind
On Sun, 30 Mar 1997, Chris Trantau wrote:
>
> I finally got my CD ROM working and my packages installed but i still have
> a question.
>
> Is there a way to make like a menu that appears when i start my computer
> that asks me which OS
> (win95/linux) i would like to go to ?
>
> I have tried ma
I finally got my CD ROM working and my packages installed but i still have
a question.
Is there a way to make like a menu that appears when i start my computer
that asks me which OS
(win95/linux) i would like to go to ?
I have tried making my Linux partition bootable, but it goes there
automatic
On 30 Mar 1997, Norman Walsh wrote:
> I can't find any reference to the debian-sparc mailing list
> (or did one never exist?). Is anyone using Debian on a
> sparc (or barring that, is anyone using Linux on a sparc ;-).
>
> The heart of my question is this, is it possible to get Linux
> up and ru
I can't find any reference to the debian-sparc mailing list
(or did one never exist?). Is anyone using Debian on a
sparc (or barring that, is anyone using Linux on a sparc ;-).
The heart of my question is this, is it possible to get Linux
up and running on a sparc w/o a CD-ROM drive? Can Debian
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Hi folks!
I just installed the new Debian Logo Page (v10) today. You can have a look
at it via
http://fatman.mathematik.tu-muenchen.de/~schwarz/debian-logo/
The new page contains 14 new and 9 old logos and uses HTML forms to
make it easy for you to te
On Sun, 30 Mar 1997, Gith wrote:
>
> >From Redhat's blurb about their new Maximum RPM book.
> RPM currently runs on Linux, IRIX, Solaris, SunOS, AIX,
> HP/UX, AmigaOS, and FreeBSD, and is quickly becoming the
> de-facto packaging standard for free software on t
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Hi!
I've got a little question:
I'm setting up a firewall and wanted to examine what happened with the
packets I put through it. I've configured the kernel for firewall logging
but somehow, nowhere in the logs in /var/log the information shows up.
Is there any
The developers have realized more and better documentation is needed. Did
you know there is now a mailing list for discussing this type of thing?
([EMAIL PROTECTED] the subscription address is
[EMAIL PROTECTED]) This might be a better place to
discuss a Debian book. (which is something we desp
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> Hi there,
>
> I've recently downloaded the latest stable POSTGRES95 package and installed
> it (Debian 1.2; kernel - 2.0.27).
>
> Apparently I'm missing a package, as postmaster keeps on complaining: "can't
> load library 'libbsd.so.1.0.0".
>
> I will appreciate
I'm trying to get the Chooser to work with XDM, so I can select what
machine I want to use. (In other words, I want to use my own machine as an
X-Terminal.)
I've managed to get the chooser to select a couple of machines (including
my own), but whenever I try to select one of them I end up with the
For those that remembered a few weeks ago when I had posted my idea for a
Debian Manual/Book. I got such a good response on it. I have started the
outline but I don't feel that the current debian lists that are out are
the proper place for this. So I have started up a list for the book.
You ca
>From Redhat's blurb about their new Maximum RPM book.
RPM currently runs on Linux, IRIX, Solaris, SunOS, AIX,
HP/UX, AmigaOS, and FreeBSD, and is quickly becoming the
de-facto packaging standard for free software on the
Internet.
I have to say up f
Thanks to everyone for the tips.
modem now works :))
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On Sun, 30 Mar 1997, Francesco Tapparo wrote:
> I'm a happy debian user: I have a bo installation.
> I have noticed that rxvt and emacs don't run automatically update-menus
> after the installation. I think that these are bugs, and I have reported
> thes using bug. Bug has mailed the message to [E
Hi.
I noticed that the debian version of qpopper doesn't seem to use the
/etc/popper.deny file which our old version of qpopper did.
Does anyone know what I need to do in order to be able to use this file
again to restrict POP access to mail?
Thanks,
Adam.
Does anyone know what happenedn to the http://rae.ton.tut.fi/preview/?
I loved this page. It made life *s* much nicer evertime I wanted to
find a new package.
Thanks,
Adam.
David Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I upgrade a lot of packages, don't know exactly which ones though, and now
> shutdown -h now and umount will not unmount /usr(aka /dev/hdb3). It gives me
> same error:
> umount: /dev/hdb3: device is busy
>
Try doing `fuser -m
On Sat, 29 Mar 1997, Chris Trantau wrote:
> I have to boot off of my rescue disk because my lilo wont work. When i try
> to go to
> the Boot of the Hard Disk option it gives me this error:
>
> sbin/dinstall: cannot creat /target/etc/lilo.cong: directory
> nonexistent
The partition has
On Sat, 29 Mar 1997, Ralf Comtesse wrote:
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>
> Hi,
>
> When I use some of the not so common fonts in a TeX document, MakeTeX* of
> debian 1.2.7 cannot generate them automatically anymore. The *.tfm files
> are present and I think all paths in texmf.conf are co
On Sat, 29 Mar 1997, David Puryear wrote:
> I upgrade a lot of packages, don't know exactly which ones though, and now
> shutdown -h now and umount will not unmount /usr(aka /dev/hdb3). It gives me
> same error:
> umount: /dev/hdb3: device is busy
>
> Does anyone have any idea as to wha
I have .bashrc setup for remote login differences. I also have executable
scripts in my home directory to account for other differences. I usually
give them single-letter names because I am not a great typist.
Paul Wade - Greenbush Technologies Corporation
http://www.greenbush.com/cds.html
Linux
Use modconf and add the serial module. It's under misc on the modconf
menu.
Paul Wade - Greenbush Technologies Corporation
http://www.greenbush.com/cds.html
Linux CD's sent worldwide
On Sat, 29 Mar 1997, Peter Yarych wrote:
>
>
> Hello all
> I just installed Debian 1.1 today and it ref
In your email to me, Peter Yarych, you wrote:
> Hello all
> I just installed Debian 1.1 today and it refuses to see my modem
> during the boot-up process /dev/cuaX = no such device
> I'm new to linux, but not that new...
> I have been running RH for a few months.
> I ran setserial /dev/cua1 and i
I just installed Debian Linux v1.2.0 for the first time and im having some
problems.
I have a 486dx2/66 16 MB RAM, 540 HD. Linux partition about 200 MB and
Linux Swap partition 16 MB.
I have to boot off of my rescue disk because my lilo wont work. When i try
to go to
the Boot of the Hard Disk o
> As I sometimes use the first box in local mode I want the screen size to
> depend on how I access it and I want it to stick when I su to root.
I generally put something like this in login files (as well as aliasing it to
'rs'):
eval `resize`
stty cols $COLUMNS rows $LINES
You may find it use
Hello all
I just installed Debian 1.1 today and it refuses to see my modem
during the boot-up process /dev/cuaX = no such device
I'm new to linux, but not that new...
I have been running RH for a few months.
I ran setserial /dev/cua1 and it returned the correct values
BTW, usr 33.6 pnp
> That was one of the first things I tried.
Got me, then. Sorry.
When telnetting into a remote Debian box I want to have the screen size
set automatically to 100x40 to suit my home Debian box. At the moment I
am using:
export LINES=40 COLUMNS=100
after I log in.
As I sometimes use the first box in local mode I want the screen size to
depend on how I access i
> Try typing your passphrase and hitting Enter. You may be
> experiencing a problem with the visibility of the dialog window (it
> may be off the edge of the screen).
That was one of the first things I tried.
As far as I can tell, PGP is never actually run. It seems that X or
FVWM2 balks when Ex
At some distant point in the past I used to get color in my xterms... I
had even customized the colors using X resources. But after installing a
bunch of things, I don't get color anymore. The xterm still understands the
color escape sequences, but it maps them all to either black or white
It does
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