Re: preocupacion: por falta de configurabilidad

2000-04-29 Thread Ismael Canales
El Fri, Apr 28, 2000 at 12:35:02PM +0200, 2070718 dijo: Hace algun tiempo instale las Xf 4 y me kede un poco preocupado pq no se podian ajustar los modelines como en las series 3xx siendo esta posibilidad una gran ventaja que con un poco de esfuerzo da grandes resultado como: -modos de

Re: Duda sobre lilo

2000-04-29 Thread Ismael Canales
El Sun, May 21, 2000 at 07:48:45AM -0500, ADnoctum dijo: o Usa la última versión de LILO, que ignora el número de cilindros y es capaz de arrancar cualquier cosa desde cualquier cilindro. Y alguien sabe de dónde la puedo bajar ¿ freshmeat ? ( www.freshmeat.net ) --

Viajar a Europa por solo $ 450.- ?

2000-04-29 Thread Addmyweb
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Re: Viajar a Europa por solo $ 450.- ?

2000-04-29 Thread Julian Armando Mena Zapata
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Re: Filosofia de Debian.

2000-04-29 Thread Antonio Castro
On Fri, 28 Apr 2000, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Javier_Fafi=E1n_Alvarez?= wrote: [...] Las distribuciones en Cd que es lo que reclama la gente son un añadido, no entra a formar parque de el porqué de existir de Debian, son como algo que se hace porque la gente se reclama, pero no es algo a lo que se le

Re: Diccionario inglés-castellano ?

2000-04-29 Thread Santiago Romero
El vie, 28 de abr de 2000, a las 09:52:33 +0200, Javier Fafián Alvarez dijo: Buenas Me preguntaba si alguno de ustedes conoceria algún diccionario de inglés-castellano, yo tengo uno, el qi2c, pero es en modo gráfico, sobre qt encima !, y me gustaría saber si conoceis algo que rule en modo

Nueva pagina de Linux de S. Romero.

2000-04-29 Thread Santiago Romero
Enas. Ademas de mantener mi página personal en la dirección habitual, http://www.ctv.es/USERS/sromero , he creado una nueva página que espero sea algo más organizada y de fácil acceso y a la que voy a ir incorporando todo aquello que vaya escribiendo a partir de

Unidentified subject!

2000-04-29 Thread Javier Fafián Alvarez
Saludos ! mi numero de firma para Drivers para linux es:00056845 pasaros por:http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Javier Fafián Alvarez en un AMD-K6II a 350 con 64 Mb de RAM Con Linux Debian Potato (frozen) kernel 2.2.14

Re: Filosofia de Debian.

2000-04-29 Thread Javier Fafián Alvarez
On Sat, 29 Apr 2000, Antonio Castro wrote: Estoy de acuerdo pero quizas la compresión no deba venir solo de una parte. Si yo estoy contigo, no me gusta en estos aspectos la filosofian de Debian, pero lo que digo es que no la van a cambiar porque no tienen ninguna motivación, si de lo que se

Re: mkfs.msdos

2000-04-29 Thread Pedro Guerreiro
On Wed, Apr 26, 2000 at 08:05:32PM +, Nivaldo A. P. de Vasconcelos wrote: O programa de diagnostico/correcao foi taxativo: erro 0258, procurar o suporte. O meu também deu isso! Já procuras-te suporte? O que é que eles disseram? -- Pedro Guerreiro

Re: .debs da Xlib com patches do Quinot dispon?veis para download

2000-04-29 Thread Pedro Guerreiro
On Fri, Apr 28, 2000 at 01:46:42PM -0300, Eduardo Marcel Macan wrote: ainda estão engatinhando, e em terceiro o pacote do XFree tem que ser modificado para compilar duas versões da Xlib, a com patch e a sem patch, Uh? Mas porque é que é necessário duas versões? A versão compilada com o patch

Boot-floppies em Português da Potato - Andamento

2000-04-29 Thread Gleydson Mazioli da Silva
- Acentuação... Pronto, fiz as modificações necessárias no código fonte do dbootstrap e inclui as fontes de tela para suportar os conjuntos de caracteres LATIN1. Todos os acentos aparecem corretamente (ãÃÀàá ao invés de aAaae). Inicialmente inclui os idiomas pt e es como idiomas com suporte ao

Re: Is a cryptic password always necessary?

2000-04-29 Thread kmself
On Thu, Apr 27, 2000 at 06:49:02PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: On Fri, Apr 28, 2000 at 09:21:43AM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: BTW, does anyone use MD5 for /etc/shadow? I'd like to use it, but how do migrate from crypt() to MD5? I don't think that just changing the entry in the config file

Re: Simple mouse question....

2000-04-29 Thread kmself
Which X config section? There are a number of different utilities, among them xconfigurator (command line), XF86Setup (graphical), and others. Don't sweat it, you can always change the setting later. If you've got a mouse with a small, round, 9-pin connector, you've got a PS/2 mouse. If it's

POP3 using SSH

2000-04-29 Thread Sven Burgener
Hello I tried fetching mail using fetchmail in conjunction with SSH. My setup is as follows: (replaced original FQDN) poll mailhost.net via localhost port 1234 with proto pop3: preconnect ssh -f -L 1234:mailhost.net:110 mailhost.net sleep 20 /dev/null /dev/null; This corresponds to

Mouse not working in X

2000-04-29 Thread Richard Ingram
Hi, I'm using the out of the box VALinix/SGI/Gnu Debian at work, I installed X and it will not work with the logitech mouse, you have to play with gpm and X and get the right combination, I installed it at home about 3mnths ago and got my Logitech trackball working OK. Trouble is I have forgoten

Re: hacked? - ftp

2000-04-29 Thread Alvin Oga
On Fri, 28 Apr 2000, w trillich wrote: so if telnet is relatively secure, how about ftp? which server do y'all'uns recommend for best security? replace telnet with secure telnet ( many flavors .. say ssh ) use sftp(client) and sftpd(daemon) for secure ftp xfers c ya alvin

Re: new perl dependencies

2000-04-29 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Hello Ian, I ran into same problem last night during up update. Running potato now and so I figured I would update a few times a week. Last night, it was KDE for me. one screen then back to dependency back and fourth. Finally, I used the Q to force it and it worked. Don't know much about

Web address for list archive

2000-04-29 Thread Matthew Quigley
Where can I find an archive to debian-user? Thanks Matt

Re: Xproblem - modelines [try a different IRQ]

2000-04-29 Thread Dan Halbert
Earlier this week there was a discussion of trying to get an S3 graphics card to work with XFree86 and getting only black screens after startx. I had reported that some people said that S3 cards and LX motherboards didn't mix. I had given up on this combination, though I didn't understand why

Re: Web address for list archive

2000-04-29 Thread Colin Watson
Matthew Quigley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where can I find an archive to debian-user? Linked straight off the Debian home page, http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/ has archives of all the Debian mailing lists. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: .deb for the latest version of lilo? any ideas?

2000-04-29 Thread Colin Watson
John Stevenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It would be great if the latest version of lilo could be droped into the potato boot flopies, There's a thread on debian-devel about this. There doesn't seem to be much opposition to the idea, so if the release manager agrees I guess it'll make it in. How

Installing lp in potato..

2000-04-29 Thread Kenneth Scharf
When selecting the device driver module for lp (line printer) in potato I get this error: /lib/modules/2.2.14/misc/lp.o: init_module: Device or resource busy /lib/modules/2.2.14/misc/lp.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.2.14/misc/lp.o failed /lib/modules/2.2.14/misc/lp.o: insmod lp failed.

RE: General Protection Fault

2000-04-29 Thread C. Falconer
Are you sure the K6 hasn't been over clocked by some bastard salesman ? -- From: Ron Rademaker[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 24 April 2000 5:57 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject:General Protection Fault How do I solve a General Protection Fault (Oops =

RE: General Protection Fault

2000-04-29 Thread Bryan Scaringe
Also, What, exactly, did you upgrade? What type of motherboard did you have before? now? This is definately a HW issue, so we'll need details on the system. Bryan On 29-Apr-2000 C. Falconer wrote: Are you sure the K6 hasn't been over clocked by some bastard salesman ? How do I solve a

Mouse configuration question

2000-04-29 Thread Ron Stordahl
I have been unsuccessful in getting my Microsoft IntelliMous 1.1A PS/2 working. Where I believe I am stuck is is not providing the correct device name. I am using XF86Setup and I have selected the IntelliMouse, then I am asked for the device in the form /dev/??, but I have no idea what to

are there any good free 3d modeling tools?

2000-04-29 Thread Chris Baker
Hello, I'm looking for good free (as in speech) 3d modeling tools. Any and all suggestions are welcome. TIA, cbb

Re: Mouse configuration question

2000-04-29 Thread Corey Popelier
My Intellimouse (PS/2) is on /dev/psaux. Haven't got the scroll bit working in X yet though, I recall this is some setting regarding the Z axis, but I haven't played with it. Cheers, Corey Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas Work Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 28 Apr 2000,

Re: are there any good free 3d modeling tools?

2000-04-29 Thread John Carline
Chris Baker wrote: Hello, I'm looking for good free (as in speech) 3d modeling tools. Any and all suggestions are welcome. TIA, Don't know how good it is, but Moonlight Creator is on the Debian disk. John -- Powered by the Penguin

Re: samba's /etc/samba/cmb.conf -- empty?

2000-04-29 Thread Didi Damian
There's a pretty good walk-thru (newbieized help file) on configuring Samba at: http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/network/samba/samba1.html Give it a try. * w trillich [EMAIL PROTECTED] [27-04-2000 06:12 AM -0500] i did the religious apt-get install samba and then apt-get

Re: Is a cryptic password always necessary?

2000-04-29 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Apr 28, 2000 at 04:30:21PM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 27, 2000 at 06:49:02PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: On Fri, Apr 28, 2000 at 09:21:43AM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: BTW, does anyone use MD5 for /etc/shadow? I'd like to use it, but how do migrate from crypt() to

Re: Simple mouse question....

2000-04-29 Thread Didi Damian
I used to have a PS/2 Microsoft Intellimouse and it never work with the Intellimouse protocol, only PS/2. Of course, YMMV. * kmself@ix.netcom.com kmself@ix.netcom.com [28-04-2000 04:37 PM -0700] The PS/2 setting should work with both types. An IntelliMouse will be somewhat more functional if

Re: Web address for list archive

2000-04-29 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Apr 29, 2000 at 02:59:11AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: Matthew Quigley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where can I find an archive to debian-user? Linked straight off the Debian home page, http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/ has archives of all the Debian mailing lists. just be sure to

Re: Mouse configuration question

2000-04-29 Thread Didi Damian
Add ZAxisMapping 4 5 (without the quotes) to the Pointer section. * Corey Popelier [EMAIL PROTECTED] [29-04-2000 12:29 PM +0800] My Intellimouse (PS/2) is on /dev/psaux. Haven't got the scroll bit working in X yet though, I recall this is some setting regarding the Z axis, but I haven't

[Fwd: Mouse not working in X]

2000-04-29 Thread Vitux
Vitux wrote: Richard Ingram wrote: Hi, I'm using the out of the box VALinix/SGI/Gnu Debian at work, I installed X and it will not work with the logitech mouse, you have to play with gpm and X and get the right combination, I installed it at home about 3mnths ago and got my

Re: Simple mouse question....

2000-04-29 Thread kmself
The debain-user list appears to have been dropped from your reply, I've added it again. On Fri, Apr 28, 2000 at 10:22:30PM -0500, Ron Stordahl wrote: I guess its XF86Setup, it runs automatically during the install process. In any case I am not getting any success with the mouse. Right after

Creating booklets with Latex

2000-04-29 Thread Nils-Erik Svangård
Hi! I've gotten in trouble again, bragging about how good Debian is and that I write all my reports in Latex. Well now I might gone under. I'm supposed to produce a booklet i A6 (folded A5) with students songs. I have read some docs on the web, it seems I can create a booklet by using either lpr

Re: Any interest in an Aureal Vortex soundcard driver .debs?

2000-04-29 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: i'm not an expert in these things, but i would send the changes to the upstream maintainers from aureal. Are there any upstream maintainers? I've heard stuff about them abandoning Linux development and possibly going out of business altogether.

Re: webmin

2000-04-29 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, Vitux wrote: I have a non-critical machine for testing, but you don't tell where to get your new debs from? Regards Vitux I did say, it just didn't make any sense to you :-) incoming = when packages are uploaded to the Debian archive they first go to the incoming

Re: webmin

2000-04-29 Thread Brad
On Sat, Apr 29, 2000 at 01:21:15AM -0500, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: incoming = when packages are uploaded to the Debian archive they first go to the incoming directory on master.debian.org . This is off-limits to non-developers but there are public mirrors. A list of these can be found at

Re: Creating booklets with Latex

2000-04-29 Thread Chanop Silpa-Anan
Once upon a time, I heard Nils-Erik Svangๅrd say Hi! I've gotten in trouble again, bragging about how good Debian is and that I write all my reports in Latex. Well now I might gone under. I'm supposed to produce a booklet i A6 (folded A5) with students songs. I have read some docs on the

mount win partition

2000-04-29 Thread jerry j jaskierny
i have an old windows partition that i have set to be mounted upon boot in /etc/fstab... /dev/hda1 /mnt/win vfat defaults 0 2 as the partition is mounted, it hangs there for a bit, and just before that, i get an odd error message. can't find nls-iso- can't find someother module i

RE: General Protection Fault

2000-04-29 Thread Ron Rademaker
The K6 says it's 533, it runs on 520, so I don't think that can be a problem, or am I mistaken? On Sat, 29 Apr 2000, C. Falconer wrote: Are you sure the K6 hasn't been over clocked by some bastard salesman ? -- From: Ron Rademaker[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

Thanks everybody

2000-04-29 Thread Davide Di Lazzaro
Hi everybody, this mail doesn't contain questions, is only to thank all of you which, with their questions and answers, made possible for me to install and maintain with very few (I repeat, very few) pain my debian machine. It's been almost one year now, and I couldn't be more satisfied. I am

Netscape and mp3-files

2000-04-29 Thread Johann Spies
I am trying to download mp3-files from the internet, but netscape (4.7.1) quits when I try to do that. Although Netscape reports that it has the plug-ins to play streaming mp3-files, it also refuses to do that. Is there any cure to do this? I have also tried a beta version of opera, but without

Re: mount win partition

2000-04-29 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
can't find nls-iso- can't find someother module i can't remember the specific ones, but they are only there when the windows partition is mounted at boot. can someone tell me what's up? thanks. jerry the question is, whether you compiled an own kernel and removed the old modules.

Re: Creating booklets with Latex

2000-04-29 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Hi Nils-Erik. i am attaching instructions written by me for myself to work in windows environment using MikTeX (based on Tetex) , ghostscript and psutilities (which we also have in Linux). It uses usletter paper size, but should be easily adaptable if you follow the main ideas, which are well

Re: Netscape and mp3-files

2000-04-29 Thread Martin Schulze
Johann Spies wrote: I am trying to download mp3-files from the internet, but netscape (4.7.1) quits when I try to do that. Although Netscape reports that it has the plug-ins to play streaming mp3-files, it also refuses to do that. Is there any cure to do this? I have also tried a beta

Re: Creating booklets with Latex

2000-04-29 Thread Jesse Jacobsen
On 04/29/00, Nils-Erik Svangård addressed Creating booklets with Latex: I've gotten in trouble again, bragging about how good Debian is and that I write all my reports in Latex. Well now I might gone under. I'm supposed to produce a booklet i A6 (folded A5) with students songs. I have read

Re: Netscape and mp3-files

2000-04-29 Thread John Bagdanoff
I had success with the linux version of RealPlayer. Still, I had to setup netscape to use it for streaming. There was a url that I bumped into on my searches through deja.com that had step by step instructions to setup the netscape plugin. Maybe someone here has the url? On Sat, Apr 29, 2000

Re: Netscape and mp3-files

2000-04-29 Thread Vitux
Johann Spies wrote: SNIP Any help would be welcome. Is it worth while to download 12 meg of files to upgrade to Netscape 4.7.2 on a dialup-connection? Johann -- I have pretty good experiences w/ 4.72. It's almost stable. Some (few) websites will cause it to crash, saying bus error,

Upgrading to Potato from Slink

2000-04-29 Thread Eric Hagglund
I would like to upgrade to the frozen release 2.2 from the official 2.1 Where can I find the information for doing this? I've looked on Debian's documentation as well as in the Faq-O-Matic and found nothing. __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends

Re: Upgrading to Potato from Slink

2000-04-29 Thread John Bagdanoff
On Sat, Apr 29, 2000 at 06:28:55AM -0700, Eric Hagglund wrote: I would like to upgrade to the frozen release 2.2 from the official 2.1 Where can I find the information for doing this? I've looked on Debian's documentation as well as in the Faq-O-Matic and found nothing. Use apt-get, here is

deallocvt: could not deallocate console N

2000-04-29 Thread Matthew W. Roberts
Hello, I run debian GNU/Linux (slink, kernel 2.0.36) under console mode (it's an older system) and am having problems with virtual consoles. I have logins on the first two consoles and then spawn additional consoles (with the `open' command) when I need them. A few days ago I opened up console

Another dpkg or apt-get question from a new user

2000-04-29 Thread Maury R. Merkin
[How] can I get a listing of the files installed with a package? I.e., if package dork.deb was installed on my box last week, can I see what files were installed? If so, how? Tia, Maury

Re: daemons -- who needs'em?

2000-04-29 Thread Marek Habersack
** On Apr 28, Brad scribbled: i merely think i have a screwy setting here or there that's needlessly duplicating log messages. settings are the bane of my linux existence, still... Now, stop right here for a while. syslog isn't Linux - it's a common software, created quite

Re: Debian Security

2000-04-29 Thread kmself
On Fri, Apr 28, 2000 at 05:43:10AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: if you go with *nix you should also check out the book Practical Guide to Unix and internet security (or very close to that, sorry don't have it handy at the moment) it does a good job pointing out historical mistakes and what

Re: Another dpkg or apt-get question from a new user

2000-04-29 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Apr 29, 2000 at 09:58:38AM -0400, Maury R. Merkin wrote: [How] can I get a listing of the files installed with a package? I.e., if package dork.deb was installed on my box last week, can I see what files were installed? If so, how? dpkg -L packagename -- Ethan Benson

RE: General Protection Fault

2000-04-29 Thread Kent Nyberg
Try with a better and larger cpufan. My K6-2 400 was so hot that Linux crached all the time. Nearly all those who sells computer with K6-2 and K6 use a to small cpufan. Sad but true.. Once upon a time someone wrote: Are you sure the K6 hasn't been over clocked by some bastard salesman ?

Re: Another dpkg or apt-get question from a new user

2000-04-29 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Sat, Apr 29, 2000 at 09:58, Maury R. Merkin wrote: [How] can I get a listing of the files installed with a package? I.e., if package dork.deb was installed on my box last week, can I see what files were installed? If so, how? cat /var/lib/dpkg/info/dork.list

Re: Boot disk quit working after second install

2000-04-29 Thread Marvin Stodolsky
A common cause of this problem is that the floppy drive may be of the newer ATAPI type common to newer laptops especially, as constrasted to the older /dev/fd0 floppy type. The install kernels come with ide-floppy support needed for ATAPI compiled in, but the kernel installed has ide-floppy

Re: Another dpkg or apt-get question from a new user

2000-04-29 Thread Phillip Deackes
Maury R. Merkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [How] can I get a listing of the files installed with a package? I.e., if package dork.deb was installed on my box last week, can I see what files were installed? If so, how? You might be interested to know that: If you install an app with apt-get

menus question

2000-04-29 Thread Maury R. Merkin
I finally (okay I'm slow but ...) figured out that the only apps which update-menus will find are those which have been installed using *.deb packages system. ('apt-get install' or 'dpkg -i' or however.) But I have several important (to me) apps which I've accumulated over time in /usr/local/bin

Re: menus question

2000-04-29 Thread Peter Palfrader
Hi Maury! On Sat, 29 Apr 2000, Maury R. Merkin wrote: I finally (okay I'm slow but ...) figured out that the only apps which update-menus will find are those which have been installed using *.deb packages system. ('apt-get install' or 'dpkg -i' or however.) But I have several important

Obtaining KDE

2000-04-29 Thread Steve White
Greetings, I have been trying most of the morning to obtain the KDE distribution from ftp.linuxberg.com and have thus far been unsuccessful. I am using apt in dselect and cannot seem to find the right combination of strings to enter so that it can find the package file. When prompted, I am

tape drive device

2000-04-29 Thread Rob Lilley
I've installed the base and standard slink distributions, configured them and then went to do a tar archive to my Seagate 4mm SCSI tape drive. Bless me, there is no /dev/st0 to do this to. Are they not supported? Do I have to add another package or rebuild the kernel to get this driver? Rob

Re: Obtaining KDE

2000-04-29 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
How then do I force apt to look at the Packages.gz file and download the appropriate .deb files knowing where on an ftp site these files reside? (It seems to me that apt is assuming a very specific underlying directory structure and I cannot figure out how to circumvent this assumption). my

Re: tape drive device

2000-04-29 Thread Robert Waldner
man MAKEDEV ... DESCRIPTION MAKEDEV is a script that will create the devices in /dev used to interface with drivers in the kernel. ... hth, rw On Sat, 29 Apr 2000 11:57:30 EDT, Rob Lilley writes: I've installed the base and standard slink distributions, configured them and then

Re: Upgrading to Potato from Slink

2000-04-29 Thread Eric Hagglund
Thanks. --- John Bagdanoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Apr 29, 2000 at 06:28:55AM -0700, Eric Hagglund wrote: I would like to upgrade to the frozen release 2.2 from the official 2.1 Where can I find the information for doing this? I've looked on Debian's documentation as well as

Frontpage recommendations

2000-04-29 Thread Paul McHale
Hi all, If you are interested in implementing Frontpage server extensions with apache, it isn't that bad. Here are a few pointers: 1. Don't use apt-get. Download the source and compile yourself. This puts apache in /usr/local where most documentation I have found expects it to be. I am not

Re: webmin

2000-04-29 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Sat, 29 Apr 2000, Brad wrote: Aren't these being phased out in favor of http://incoming.debian.org? Yes, you're right they are. -- Jaldhar H. Vyas [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Simple mouse question....

2000-04-29 Thread Bernhard Rieder
Ron Stordahl wrote: Of the choices these 2 make sense: 4 PS/2 Mouse 9 Microsoft IntelliMouse Actually it is both, but that's not a valid choice. By choosing 9 will I be selecting a serial port rather than a PS/2 port? Try installing the PS/2 mouse. Then manually edit

Re: multi line regex's in vi ...

2000-04-29 Thread Rick Younie
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: is there a way to match a pattern over more then one line in vi (i normally use vim)? i'm html formatting text documents and what i'd like to do is replace something like the below paragraphs:

Re: Frontpage recommendations

2000-04-29 Thread Colin Watson
Paul McHale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you are interested in implementing Frontpage server extensions with apache, it isn't that bad. Here are a few pointers: 1. Don't use apt-get. Download the source and compile yourself. This puts apache in /usr/local where most documentation I have found

Re: Another dpkg or apt-get question from a new user

2000-04-29 Thread Colin Watson
Phillip Deackes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maury R. Merkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [How] can I get a listing of the files installed with a package? I.e., if package dork.deb was installed on my box last week, can I see what files were installed? If so, how? You might be interested to know

Re: new perl dependencies

2000-04-29 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ian Zimmerman) wrote: When I run dselect last night, there was a bunch of important packages that had been upgraded. One of them was perl-5.005-doc. I accepted all the suggestions, but when I was ready to exit selection mode and start downloading, I was thrown into a

Re: new perl dependencies

2000-04-29 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I ran into same problem last night during up update. Running potato now and so I figured I would update a few times a week. Last night, it was KDE for me. one screen then back to dependency back and fourth. Finally, I used the Q to force it and it worked. Don't know much

install problem

2000-04-29 Thread Homer \(Tony\) Stavely
Going through the install process with Debian 2.1r4 on two new cdroms, I get as far as Install the Base System. Some error develops while extracting base2_1.tgz from the cd and I have so far found no way around it. I've been looking forward to trying Debian so I hope there's an easy fix for this

Re: Installing without rebooting (running the installation proggie from within Linux)

2000-04-29 Thread Arcady Genkin
Brad [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How about downloading base2_1.tgz (or base2_2.tgz if you want to go straight to frozen) and untarring that into the new partition before chrooting into it? In case anyone was following this thread, here are a couple of gotchas that I ran into: 1. I couldn't

Mail/news software

2000-04-29 Thread Kovacs Istvan
Hello! What mail and news software do you recommend? The ideal software would be able to handle both mail and news in an integrated manner, place incoming and outgoing messages into folders automatically using header info, integrate with PGP/GPG, handle UU/MIME attachments, thread messages, fetch

Re: install problem

2000-04-29 Thread Rob Lilley
Tony, et al, I just went through problems with the CD-ROM during install myself. I was trying to install the Debian O'Reilly\SGI\VA Linux distribution. The boot kernel didn't recognize my SCSI CD-ROM. I was afraid I was going to have to make lots of floppies to install the base system.

Re: Netscape 6 -- related lib question(s)

2000-04-29 Thread Felix Natter
montefin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I planned to watch this thread because a.) I want to install Netscape 6 this weekend too. Though I have libstdc++2 libs, if it really wants ++1.6* libs I'd like to know where to d/l them, and... I'm not sure if you can run Netscape 6 with slink because it

Re: Creating booklets with Latex

2000-04-29 Thread John Pearson
On Sat, Apr 29, 2000 at 08:14:02AM +0200, Nils-Erik Svangård wrote Hi! I've gotten in trouble again, bragging about how good Debian is and that I write all my reports in Latex. Well now I might gone under. I'm supposed to produce a booklet i A6 (folded A5) with students songs. I have read

OFFTOPIC: what is vaporware?

2000-04-29 Thread Pollywog
What exactly is vaporware? -- Andrew

Re: OFFTOPIC: what is vaporware?

2000-04-29 Thread Mike Werner
On Sat, Apr 29, 2000 at 08:13:26PM -, Pollywog wrote: What exactly is vaporware? From the Jargon File: :vaporware: /vay'pr-weir/ /n./ Products announced far in advance of any release (which may or may not actually take place). See also {brochureware}. :brochureware: /n./ Planned

Re: Mail/news software

2000-04-29 Thread John Hasler
Kofa writes: What mail and news software do you recommend? Gnus has all the features you list. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin

Re: OFFTOPIC: what is vaporware?

2000-04-29 Thread montefin
Mike Werner wrote: On Sat, Apr 29, 2000 at 08:13:26PM -, Pollywog wrote: What exactly is vaporware? From the Jargon File: :vaporware: /vay'pr-weir/ /n./ Products announced far in advance of any release (which may or may not actually take place). See also {brochureware}.

site to site ftp?

2000-04-29 Thread Ron Farrer
Is there a tool available that can do a site to site ftp? I need to transfer a few files from one ftp site (via anonymous ftp) to another site (via user ftp). Unfortunately the destination site does not allow users to ftp out, but you can ftp in. So basically I am looking for a tool like flashfxp

Re: Netscape and mp3-files

2000-04-29 Thread Johann Spies
On Sat, Apr 29, 2000 at 03:29:57PM +0200, Vitux wrote: Johann Spies wrote: SNIP Is it worth while to download 12 meg of files to upgrade to Netscape 4.7.2 on a dialup-connection? -- I have pretty good experiences w/ 4.72. It's almost stable. Some (few) websites will cause it to crash,

update-alternatives again: a homemade hack

2000-04-29 Thread itz
After convincing myself by a browse of the perl code that none of the existing options to update-alternatives will make it do what I want, I wrote the following. Whoever is responsible for update-alternatives in Debian, please consider merging this into the official version. begin 755

Re: Obtaining KDE

2000-04-29 Thread Brad
On Sat, Apr 29, 2000 at 11:47:13AM +, Steve White wrote: I have been trying most of the morning to obtain the KDE distribution from ftp.linuxberg.com and have thus far been unsuccessful. I am using apt in dselect and cannot seem to find the right combination of strings to enter so that it

Re: Frontpage recommendations

2000-04-29 Thread Brad
On Sat, Apr 29, 2000 at 12:35:55PM -0400, Paul McHale wrote: 3. The only additions is virtual hosts. If you use them, make sure to replace all occurrences of: AllowOverride X with AllowOverride All Of course, this means you can't control the Options directive anymore... Things like

Re: mutt and courier-imapd

2000-04-29 Thread Brendan Cully
On Sunday, 16 April 2000 at 03:05, Eric Gillespie, Jr. wrote: I'm trying to use courier-imapd with SSL and mutt, but they don't seem to get along very well. Sometimes, mutt displays no subject, no author, and a 0 message size. Other times, it displays the information from the wrong message.