libjpeg6a, libjpegg6a, kde

1999-06-09 Thread Anonymous Coward
ok i d/led the hamm version of kde from ftp.kde.org because the only other was potato and i am running slink. so i try to install the kdelibg thing or whatever and it complains about no libjpeg6a so i find the closest thing which is libjegg6a and libjpeg6b and install both of them and neither of

enlightenment, rpm

1999-05-24 Thread Anonymous Coward
ok i wanted the latest version of enlightenment on my debian 2.1 so i took the rpm off of the RH6 cd and copied it to /. then i did alien -d theenlightenmnetrpm.rpm on the rpm and it generated it. i also did it on the enlightenment-conf rpm. then i used dpkg -i on the .deb files and everything

X, netscape

1999-05-02 Thread Anonymous Coward
now i am getting very, very annoyed. with all the talk about how stable etc. debian is then i try it and all the claims are invalid. first with the default everything on X etc. mozilla comes up with errors (actually they are X errors, like error invalid ButtonX call etc. you get the idea). on

slink and netscape/mozilla

1999-04-30 Thread Anonymous Coward
ok this is all on default slink install stuff from a 4-cdrom set purchased off of cheapbytes. netscape/mozilla gives errors in X just various stuff as well as hitting enter in the location textbox at top does nothing. i have to goto file-open to goto a webpage. i did not have to do this on

kernel 2.2.6

1999-04-24 Thread Anonymous Coward
i'm a new debian user, but fairly experienced linux user. i just got slink (debian 2.1) in the mail so installed it. i downloaded kernel 2.2.6 to upgrade the first time it said a86 command not found so i searched mailing list archives and found out i needed the bin86 package so then that worked.