Re: mozilla-firefox 0.8-5 cant add bookmark

2004-03-22 Thread Brian Nelson
John M Flinchbaugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, Mar 21, 2004 at 10:31:34PM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: Hi list, ever since I upgraded to mozilla-firefox 0.8-5, I cant bookmark any page. This is totally reproducible on my box, everytime I click Bookmark this page on any random page

Re: QT not found problem

2004-03-22 Thread Brian Nelson
Simon Cahuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: config.log: tmp/cc6m0aWH.o(.text+0xb): In function `main': : undefined reference to `QString::null' [...] Uh, you left out the important part of the log--the command used to attempt to compile the test program. -- You win again, gravity! -- To

Re: Aptitude Wants to Delete/Remove Way Too Much

2004-03-21 Thread Brian Nelson
David Crane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I did an update in aptitude last night, and it now wants to remove most of my system because they are no longer used or due to unsatisfied dependencies. Since some of those packages are used every day, I must have broken something. I have not let

Re: mozilla-firefox 0.8-5 cant add bookmark

2004-03-21 Thread Brian Nelson
Isaac Claymore [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi list, ever since I upgraded to mozilla-firefox 0.8-5, I cant bookmark any page. This is totally reproducible on my box, everytime I click Bookmark this page on any random page, a warning dialog pops up saying: XML Parsing Error: not well formed

Re: Question re Debian versions

2004-03-18 Thread Brian Nelson
Michael Satterwhite [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thursday 18 March 2004 14:28, Monique Y. Herman wrote: What sorts of testing would you want to do on your testing machine? The testing distro is a little odd in that it's really intended for developers, not users. It's the stuff they're

Re: Question re Debian versions

2004-03-18 Thread Brian Nelson
Monique Y. Herman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Say you have package A that makes it past unstable and into testing. Then someone finds a bug in package A. It turns out to be an icky bug, and it takes quite a while to fix it. The bug will be fixed in unstable before trickling down into testing.

Re: Question re Debian versions

2004-03-18 Thread Brian Nelson
Travis Casey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thursday 18 March 2004 21:35, Paul Johnson wrote: Monique Y. Herman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm not sure that less stable is the right term, but less usable almost certainly is. backports.org is your friend. Here's a question for the more

Re: gnus: mail aliases

2004-03-17 Thread Brian Nelson
Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Looking through the gnus manual, I cannot for the life of me find any information on whether or not gnus even has any method for saving and retrieving email addresses in any sort of sane manner. You need to setup bbdb. What, you didn't think moving to

Re: gnus losing mail?

2004-03-17 Thread Brian Nelson
Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: gnus seems to have this odd habit of at least appearing not to handle incoming mail very well. It warns that the mailbox was changed on disk out from under emacs and asks if I really want to save my changes. If I say no, I can't leave the group. If I

Re: gnus: How to automagically handle GPG

2004-03-16 Thread Brian Nelson
Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm wondering if it's possible to make gnus automatically try to do the Verify and decrypt command on every message viewed, and to sign all messages posted or sent. Has anybody done this, and if so, what do I need to add to my ~/.emacsrc ? First do

Re: gnus: How to automagically handle GPG

2004-03-16 Thread Brian Nelson
Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 12:39:20AM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: (require 'gpg) (setq mm-verify-option 'always) (setq mm-decrypt-option 'always) (add-hook 'message-send-hook 'mml-secure-message-sign-pgpmime) That seems to have fixed it sending, but I

Re: c++ reference package

2004-03-14 Thread Brian Nelson
Micha Feigin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there a package with c++ references in one form or another? I found quite a lot of c references but could locate anything proper on c++. stl-manual and libstdc++5-doc are the only ones I've found useful. Mostly I stick to paper books though. -- You

Re: Debian Slow?

2004-03-07 Thread Brian Nelson
Joseph [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, 2004-03-06 at 23:16, Brian Nelson wrote: Karol Czachorowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 01:47:01PM +1300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm starting to wonder how much difference gentoo's optimization actually makes. Gentoo

Re: korganizer 3.1.1 crashing after latest update

2004-03-07 Thread Brian Nelson
Alexandros Papadopoulos [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm running unstable, and was wondering if anyone has noticed the same behavior. Right after I ran apt-get upgrade and restarted KDE (3.2), korganizer started crashing on me right after any event was viewed (double-clicked) or the calendar

Re: Debian Slow?

2004-03-06 Thread Brian Nelson
Karol Czachorowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 01:47:01PM +1300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm starting to wonder how much difference gentoo's optimization actually makes. Gentoo is much faster than debian. Prove it. -- Don't worry, it's *in*-flammable. -- To

Re: errors during make xconfig

2004-03-05 Thread Brian Nelson
[Please keep your replies on the mailing list so that others that have a similar problem may benefit from the discussion.] Kamaraju Kusumanchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thanks for your reply. I purged libqt-dev and installed libqt3-mt-dev package. Now I am getting the following errors. These

Re: errors during make xconfig

2004-03-04 Thread Brian Nelson
Kamaraju Kusumanchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Gregory Seidman wrote: Looks to me like you have a Qt library installed which is incompatible with the C++ compiler you are using for your kernel compile. For example, if you have libqt3 installed rather than libqt3c102 (check with dpkg -l libqt\*

Re: testing versus unstable: tradeoffs?

2004-03-01 Thread Brian Nelson
Kai Grossjohann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: People at my site wish to migrate away from Debian stable to something more current. I understand that unstable is more bleeding edge than testing, and that there is some kind of automatic process whereby packages migrate from unstable to testing.

Re: Qt cannot be found

2004-02-27 Thread Brian Nelson
Moritz Beller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello! I get, after installing qt3-dev, That should be libqt3-mt-dev. the following message when trying to compile a kde package: checking for Qt... configure: error: Qt (= Qt 2.2.2) (headers and libraries) not found. Please check your

Re: DDs: etiquette of inquring about status of an ITP?

2004-02-27 Thread Brian Nelson
Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Anyone's opinion is valued, of course; but I'm especially interested in hearing from any DDs who might read this . . . I'm curious what the etiquette is about inquiring into the status of an ITP. On one hand, I'm reluctant to ask because I don't want

Re: X4.3 (Again)

2004-02-09 Thread Brian Nelson
Sam Halliday [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hank Marquardt wrote: I've added experimental to list.sources, I've update and even upgraded today so the system is current, here's my current X inventory: [ snip lots of 4.2.1-16 stuff ] What I'm concerned with is that if I enumerate all those in a

Re: libqt-dev and libqt3-dev: can they coexist?

2004-02-02 Thread Brian Nelson
Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 09:28:21AM -0800, Brian Nelson said You're correct, libqt-dev and libqt3-dev cannot coexist. If you really You'll want to move to libqt3-mt-dev. From libqt3-dev's description: WARNING: The nonthreaded version of Qt3 is considered

Re: libqt-dev and libqt3-dev: can they coexist?

2004-01-24 Thread Brian Nelson
John Spray [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, (Unstable, most recent packages) I have been trying to install qt 2.x headers in order to complete a compilation on some qt 2.3 based software. I have libqt2, libqt3 and libqt3-dev installed and functioning, but cannot install libqt-dev:

Re: Kernel 2.6.0 and Debian

2003-12-22 Thread Brian Nelson
Martin J Hooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 21 Dec 2003 at 23:40, GCS wrote: Also, what kind of ATI card do you have? I have a simple Radeon, and FB works well, and with XFree86 4.3.0 I have OpenGL as well. I may help you with my config. Radeon 9800 Pro - Where did you get 4.3 from? Can

Re: aspell with mutt

2003-12-04 Thread Brian Nelson
Stephen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 11:41:34PM -0600 or thereabouts, Jacob S. wrote: On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 20:39:28 -0500 Stephen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well that's too bad, why now, has the license changed from before? I happen to like Aspell much better, so

Re: www.debian.org

2003-11-26 Thread Brian Nelson
Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Lukas Ruf wrote: Cristi Banciu [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-11-21 13:17]: http://cert.uni-stuttgart.de/files/fw/debian-security-20031121.txt after having read: I have run upgrades on various machines this morning. Is there any chance that these machines have

Re: OK, may be not a hoax... (was Re: Hoax: Re: What up with www.debian.org ?)

2003-11-26 Thread Brian Nelson
Arnt Karlsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 02:00:35 -0800, Brian Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message There should be an official announcement one way or the other soon. Yes, within the next hour. ..www.debian.org and debian.org are both up, but still no statement

Re: What up with www.debian.org ?

2003-11-21 Thread Brian Nelson
Roberto Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Raghavendra Bhat wrote: Jerome posts: What happens to www.debian.org ? Someone has cracked all the servers of the Debian Project. There has been a severe security mishap and guys should uninstall all stuff downloaded and installed in

Re: OK, may be not a hoax... (was Re: Hoax: Re: What up with www.debian.org ?)

2003-11-21 Thread Brian Nelson
Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: on Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 01:30:36AM -0800, Karsten M. Self ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: on Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 01:07:20PM +0530, Raghavendra Bhat ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Jerome posts: What happens to www.debian.org ? Someone has cracked

Re: Xaw-based applications have XOpenFont failures, but only locally

2003-11-20 Thread Brian Nelson
David Z Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Starting sometime within the past week, something has broken on my (x86 unstable) system, such that Xaw-based applications won't start up. For example: {53} dmaze% xcalc X Error of failed request: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for

Re: Does using debconf with X server preclude swapping Control/Caps Lock?

2003-10-24 Thread Brian Nelson
Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Brian Nelson wrote: Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Woody (3.0r1), when installing xserver-xfree8, does using debconf to configure the server preclude using the standard XFree86 keyboard options to swap the Control and Caps Lock keys? Hmm

Re: how to set up a mix from stable/testing/etc

2003-10-23 Thread Brian Nelson
Christian Schnobrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, Woody's spamassassin (2.20) provides me with a hit rate of about 60%; partly to increase this, partly because I'm curious about that fancy Bayes filter, I'd like to have a more recent spamassassin. But how? I'm a little shy of

Re: Does using debconf with X server preclude swapping Control/Caps Lock?

2003-10-23 Thread Brian Nelson
Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Woody (3.0r1), when installing xserver-xfree8, does using debconf to configure the server preclude using the standard XFree86 keyboard options to swap the Control and Caps Lock keys? Hmm, I thought there was a debconf question for this. Maybe it

Re: Search feature in PDF files

2003-10-21 Thread Brian Nelson
Roberto Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Are there any Free Software PDF viewers that have the ability to search and copy/paste text and graphics? I ask because I find that sometimes I have to use acroread (non-free, of course) becuase I have a large PDF file and I need to search for a

Re: package for bug regarding system installation and boot logo

2003-10-20 Thread Brian Nelson
Daniel B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Colin Watson wrote: On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 04:32:19PM -0400, Daniel Barclay wrote: What's the right package or pseudo-package to use to report a bug about the boot logo in a new installation? Is this a logo that's displayed before the kernel is

Re: using equivs to replace debian packages

2003-10-18 Thread Brian Nelson
John L. Fjellstad [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I use equivs to replace debian packages, for lots of reasons (need a newer version of a package, or in case of mta, I like to have better control of how the qmail package is installed). The problem is that the already installed debian package is

Re: Debian / Linux KaZaA client?

2003-10-13 Thread Brian Nelson
Pigeon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does anyone have any more up to date information on the availability of KaZaA clients for Linux? No, but I think the Windows client is supposed to work OK with wine, though I haven't tried it myself. -- I'm sick of being the guy who eats insects and gets the

Re: Illegal Instructions

2003-10-12 Thread Brian Nelson
Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: on Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 11:52:48AM -0500, Doug MacFarlane ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Team: I'm at a loss about what is causing these, or how to fix it . . It's a Debian Sparc Stable system, Sparc 20 with 256 mb of RAM. ranum:/home/madmac# ps

Computer won't boot without video cable

2003-09-16 Thread Brian Nelson
I have a monstrous roaring beast of a computer that I want to hide away in a closet and admin remotely. However, I've run into a problem I've never seen before: the damn thing won't boot unless a video cable is plugged in to the video card. I think the problem is either with the video bios or

Re: Computer won't boot without video cable

2003-09-16 Thread Brian Nelson
John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Why not just pull out the video card? Because I thought for sure it wouldn't work without it. Surprisingly (to me, anyway), it works fine without it. Thanks for the tip. -- I'm sick of being the guy who eats insects and gets the funny syphilis.

Re: mozilla vs. mozilla-firebird

2003-08-19 Thread Brian Nelson
Stefan Waidele jun. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Franois Chenais wrote: Hello, what's the difference between mozilla and mozilla-firebird under SID ? mozilla: Webbrowser, E-mail client, Composer, IRC client, ... -- Does many things, is big and slow firebird: Webbrowser. -- One thing, small

Re: emacs spell checking broke

2003-08-18 Thread Brian Nelson
Rodney D. Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A quick question concerning emacs spell checking. I have emacs20/emacs21 installed, and aspell, aspell-bin, aspell-en, to work with sylpheed. Since aspell, evidently supersedes ispell, now emacs does not spell check, complaining about not finding

Re: Kernel 2.5.69 compilation issue ...

2003-08-15 Thread Brian Nelson
Johannes Graumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, This is my first attempt on this kernel business, so be kind ... please ... I recently downloaded through dselect kernel-source-2.5.69. I followed the procedures from http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/kernel-pkg.html. If you're not a

Re: Meta: Scoring debian-user with mutt?

2003-08-08 Thread Brian Nelson
Jesse Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm a tad curious how people use mutt (or any other MUA) with scoring to handle the vast amount of email that passes through this list. I use gnus' scoring to increase/decrease the score of posts by certain people depending on if I like them or not,

Re: I have a problem with this list

2003-06-29 Thread Brian Nelson
Paul E Condon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think that it used to be that when I posted to this list, my message would be returned to me from the server at the time that it was sent out to everyone else on the list. Now that is not happening. Now, when I post, I see nothing on the list, but

Re: You must have Ncurses installed in order to use 'makemenuconfig'

2003-06-29 Thread Brian Nelson
nori heikkinen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: on Wed, 25 Jun 2003 03:04:20PM -0500, Nathan Poznick insinuated: Thus spake [EMAIL PROTECTED]: However, I *do* have libncurses5 installed, as well as every other packages which matched a search for ncurses on my dselect. My sources for apt are set

Re: How to dpkg -i on broken system

2003-06-29 Thread Brian Nelson
Ross Boylan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My system got in a broken state in which it could not mount some disks. I had patched the evms libraries to correct a problem, and then overwrote them with an updated Debian package (which unfortunately lacked the patch). I wanted to dpkg -i my_old.deb

Keysigning opportunity in Portland, OR

2003-06-22 Thread Brian Nelson
I'm going to be in Portland, Oregon, for June 22-28. I'll probably have time for a keysigning and maybe a quick beer if any Debian developers and/or users are interested. Just drop me a mail if you want to meet somewhere. -Brian -- Poems... always a sign of pretentious inner turmoil.

Re: mozilla firebird doesnt recognize mozilla plugins

2003-06-20 Thread Brian Nelson
K S Sreeram [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [debian sarge] I have installed mozilla plugins [flash,acroread, etc] from some sources in www.apt-get.org, which work in mozilla. but unfortunately they dont seem to work on mozilla-firebird. How can i get my existing mozilla plugins to work in

Re: login as root to GUI

2003-04-03 Thread Brian Nelson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 2 Apr 2003 23:31:52 -0800 Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Please turn your line wraps on to something more sensable like 72 columns per line instead of one paragraph per line. This isn't meant to be

Re: upgrading to unstable KDE

2003-04-02 Thread Brian Nelson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 2 Apr 2003 02:37:03 -0800 Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd also go re-read the long The Myth of Apt Pinning thread that ran a while back. One of the DDs speaks out against pinning, essentially considering it harmful. Consider yourself warned if

Re: dpkg -r --force-all doesnt work HELP

2003-04-02 Thread Brian Nelson
Eildert Groeneveld [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: got myself (SID) into a nasty problem in that I cannot remove xfonts-scalable, no matter how hard I hit (dpkg force etc) Removing xfonts-scalable ... dpkg - warning: while removing xfonts-scalable, directory `/etc/X11/fonts/Speedo' not empty so

Re: Debian package from other orig.tar.gz

2003-03-30 Thread Brian Nelson
Egor Tur [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi folk. I want to build package from source but with other orig.tar.gz. What can I do? Can I do change dsc file? md5sum? Thanx. Extract the alternate tarball and apply the diff.gz to it with something like zcat *.diff.gz | patch -p0 Then, clean it up

Re: When will Sarge become Stable ?

2003-03-23 Thread Brian Nelson
B. L. Jilek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi Paul! On Sun, 23 Mar 2003, Paul Johnson wrote: On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 12:35:16AM -0500, Carl Fink wrote: I've said this way more than enough times, but MORE THAN A YEAR for another stable release? This isn't a bad joke? Fast or right: Pick

Re: Official Exim 4 package

2003-03-22 Thread Brian Nelson
Jeff Hahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, 22 Mar 2003, Jamin W. Collins wrote: Not so. exim is a base package. That doesn't mean that exim4 would have to be a base package. It would just be another _optional_ package. Why isn't there just a exim4 package that provides

Re: dependency bug in libgd-text-perl (woody)?

2003-03-20 Thread Brian Nelson
Vinai Kopp [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, I am not very experienced with the dpkg, so hopefully I will learn. Please forgive me if the solution should have been obvious to me. On a woody (i386) system I can't install the libgd-text-perl packet without having libgd1 and libgd-perl

Re: libvorbis0a? in unstable

2003-03-20 Thread Brian Nelson
Ken Bloom [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 19 Mar 2003 09:00:14 +0100, Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 12:46:13PM -0500, Shawn Lamson wrote: They work for me too, however, won't updated packages overwrite

Re: Bug#184764: libvorbis0a? in unstable

2003-03-18 Thread Brian Nelson
sean finney [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 12:46:13PM -0500, Shawn Lamson wrote: On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 11:04:45AM -0500, sean finney wrote: has a discussion it looks like. anyone have an idea when a fix is going to go in? there's all kinds of packages i can't

Re: MySQL 4

2003-03-18 Thread Brian Nelson
Vineet Kumar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * Andrew Pritchard [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20030318 15:27 PST]: With the recent release of MySQL 4, I was wondering when (if ever) Debian was going to be incorporating it into at least the 'testing' tree (let alone After two weeks of being in unstable with

Re: gtk-gnutella: Odd syslog entries

2003-03-17 Thread Brian Nelson
Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When running gtk-gnutella, every few minutes I see this appear in the syslog again...what does this mean? Mar 16 11:02:22 ursine kernel: KERNEL: assertion (newsk-state != TCP_SYN_RECV) failed at tcp.c(2229) Mar 16 11:02:22 ursine kernel: KERNEL:

Re: KDE 3.1 + Korganizer?

2003-03-17 Thread Brian Nelson
Kirk Strauser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm tracking unstable, and have updated much of my KDE installation to 3.1. However, korganizer is nowhere to be found. Does anyone know of a good source for that program? http://people.debian.org/~ccheney/kde-3.1.1-1/ -- I had no feelings about it.

Re: Printers via SMB?

2003-03-15 Thread Brian Nelson
Joseph A Nagy Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jamin W. Collins wrote: On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 10:21:14AM -0600, Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: I'd like to be able to use the Epson from my computer, but I haven't a clue on how to mount a printer. Take a look at CUPS. jan-jr-ent:~# CUPS su: CUPS:

Re: libvorbis0a? in unstable

2003-03-15 Thread Brian Nelson
Cameron Hutchison [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If this is true, could I create a meta-package, libvorbis0, that depends on libvorbis0a, libvorbisenc2 and libvorbisfile3? I would have to change libvorbis0a so that it no longer conflicts with libvorbis0, but that's easy to do from the source.

Re: Source for 2.2.20 kernel

2003-03-14 Thread Brian Nelson
Jeffrey L. Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Quoting Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 10:51:14AM -0600, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote: I'm missing something. What is the name of the source for the 2.2.20 kernel? kernel-source-2.2.20 if it's still actually

Re: libvorbis0a? in unstable

2003-03-14 Thread Brian Nelson
Cameron Hutchison [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I notice that in the unstable distribution that libvorbis0 has become libvorbis0a, and that libvorbis0a conflicts with libvorbis0. This is causing apt-get dist-upgrade to want to remove a lot of my packages, packages that I'd rather keep. I

Re: deb(x)conf

2003-03-13 Thread Brian Nelson
Andy Hurt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Rob Weir wrote: On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 10:45:15AM -0500, Andy Hurt wrote: But, I'm concerned about the lines: # If you want your changes to this file preserved by dexconf, only make # changes before the ### BEGIN DEBCONF SECTION line above, and/or

Re: Get in Trouble Now

2003-03-11 Thread Brian Nelson
Mark L. Kahnt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 11:28, David Z Maze wrote: arief_mulya [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But I do notice that gdm is back to the gnome1.4 version. And the font become very ugly. The gdm is sid is the GNOME 1.4 gdm; I don't think the GNOME 2.x gdm

Re: Safety of Upgrading Unstable

2003-02-19 Thread Brian Nelson
David Z Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've been following debian-devel and debian-user looking for problems people have had with upgrading unstable and haven't seen that many (a few regarding kde / libfam issues). This is probably the best way to find out if something is broken in

Re: Safety of Upgrading Unstable

2003-02-19 Thread Brian Nelson
Hall Stevenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: At 10:56 PM 2/18/2003 -0500, Mark wrote: I installed unstable about a month ago and have had nothing but good times. I've been following debian-devel and debian-user looking for problems people have had with upgrading unstable and haven't seen that

Re: KDE 3? or 4?

2003-02-16 Thread Brian Nelson
Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 02:23:05PM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: Yes, libfam0c102 conflicts with libfam0 (debatably so, see bug #181104). What I meant was that the KDE stuff in unstable that has not been upgraded to KDE 3 would have to be removed in order

Re: The myth of aptitude simplicity

2003-02-16 Thread Brian Nelson
Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 02:29:39PM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: I think you'd be much better off forgoing apt-get and using an interactive package tool instead such as aptitude. Proper use of such a tool will make it much easier to keep your package

Re: aptitude explanations

2003-02-16 Thread Brian Nelson
Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Someone mentioned that aptitude can explain, for example, why a package is being held back. Please explain. I have a package now that it being held back, and aptitude is giving me no more information than apt-get does. Select the package, type

Re: backspace in aptitude

2003-02-16 Thread Brian Nelson
Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Seems that when I try the interactive search in aptitude, my backspace key doesn't work. Does anyone have a fix for this? It works fine in all my terminals. Unreproducible here... -- On a scale of 1 to 10? It sucked.

Re: KDE 3? or 4?

2003-02-15 Thread Brian Nelson
Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 02:05:37PM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: As for the missing packages (kdenetwork and kdepim, I think), they should appear in the archives in the next few days. You'll also need to remove libfam0 and anything depending on it before

Re: KDE 3? or 4?

2003-02-15 Thread Brian Nelson
Bill Webster [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, 2003-02-15 at 02:42, Paul Johnson wrote: On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 10:53:02AM -0700, Bill Webster wrote: I am having a problem and I am wondering if someone out there is having the same problem or can explain what is going on. My laptop was

Re: KDE 3? or 4?

2003-02-14 Thread Brian Nelson
Bill Webster [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am having a problem and I am wondering if someone out there is having the same problem or can explain what is going on. My laptop was running KDE3 from unstable. About 3 days ago I did an upgrade that upgraded it to what appears to be a partial

Re: KDE 3? or 4?

2003-02-14 Thread Brian Nelson
Bill Webster [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have been playing around with my machine and I have determined that some how when I performed an upgrade I triggered the package libfam0c102 to replace libfam0. The latest KDE packages that require libfam0c102 I was not able to get to work at all. Also

Re: Detecting memory leaks

2003-02-13 Thread Brian Nelson
Jeetu Golani [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi ppl, I'm using Debian 3.0, kernel 2.4.18,KDE 3.1 on a P4 2.2 with 512MB RAM and 256 MB Swap. I've noticed that in a few days time or weeks the system slows down i.e screen refresh takes longer, apps may take longer to launch,etc. The apps I

Re: noteedit für kde3?

2003-02-12 Thread Brian Nelson
Craig Dickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [CC'd to the Debian NoteEdit maintainer] Norbert Preining wrote in debian-user: Hat schon irgendwer irgendwo noteedit (2.0.19) für kde3 gesehen? I'm guessing this means, When will sid have NoteEdit rebuilt for KDE 3? That's a good question. Is the

Re: dpkg inconsistency

2003-02-12 Thread Brian Nelson
Gary Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In the spirit of don't re-invent the wheel this is what I use: #!/bin/sh # Written by Larry Holish, [EMAIL PROTECTED] # As customized by Gary Turner for his own use # Script that writes current list of packages installed # from

Re: Debian newbie: Truetype fonts

2003-02-09 Thread Brian Nelson
Jeff Elkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello List, I'm a total Debian newbie, having used RedHat for years and years. I'm having some difficulty making Debian see my TT fonts. They show up in selection lists, but they look pretty poor whhen compared to RH8. Maybe you're expecting them

Re: KDE 3.1 in sid

2003-02-07 Thread Brian Nelson
Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 10:43:03AM +0100, Tom Verbreyt wrote: Paul Johnson sagte: You might consider switching back, as they really are putting KDE 3.1 in sid, just waiting on dependancies to work thier way down now. Now how do you people know that

Re: KDE 3.1 in sid

2003-02-07 Thread Brian Nelson
Brian McGroarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 12:39:16AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 03:54:31PM +0800, Arne Goetje wrote: Btw, is kde3.1 already in sid? I thought when I did my upgrade kde would be upgraded, but nothing happend... You might

Re: shuttle disaster

2003-02-07 Thread Brian Nelson
Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 01:56:59PM +, Pigeon wrote: There's the New Town, Milton Keynes, which is totally designed around the car. It is _huge_ (by British standards). It is possible to get from one side to the other in about the same time as for a

Re: columbia -- what really happened

2003-02-03 Thread Brian Nelson
Hal Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 3) Please, all those in other countries, do not hold Dub-ya up as an example, or an American ideal. Far less than 1/2 of elegible voters voted him into office. Considering only about 40% of all eligible voters in the US actually casted votes, that's

Re: Swap capslock-control in console?

2003-02-03 Thread Brian Nelson
Johan Kullstam [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have swap-caps-ctrl in X, why shouldn't I want it in console too? How do I set things up so that I swap caps-lock and control in the console? Everytime that console-data updates it tries to clobber my setup (explained below). Is there a debian way

Re: Desktop environment---what am I missing?

2003-02-02 Thread Brian Nelson
nate [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hugh Saunders said: what do you want to do that mutt cant? full IMAP support - Mutt does support IMAP, but it's a slow, incomplete implementation. A fairly popular alternative is to instead use and IMAP mailbox-syncing program (isync, mailsync, offlineimap,

Re: Mt Rainier Support?

2003-01-31 Thread Brian Nelson
Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 11:50:55AM +1030, David Purton wrote: I just bought a swish new cd-writer which claims to have Mt Rainier support. Does anyone know of some good docs to get this working under linux? What's the non-buzzword name for this? Bout

Re: PGP Signatures

2003-01-30 Thread Brian Nelson
Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 02:51:39PM +, debian parisc wrote: Friends, forgive me for my ignorance, but I see a lot of emails on this list with PGP signatures. Exactly what purpose does it serve having PGP as part of your signature? They just look

Re: Desktop productivity with Debian GNU/LINUX

2003-01-22 Thread Brian Nelson
Nathan E Norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 01:05:28PM -0600, Jamin W. Collins wrote: On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 12:40:17PM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: [ snip ] I think so many Debian-ites have not needed to install for such a long time that they've forgotten what it is

Re: slash: How to convince it to work...

2003-01-21 Thread Brian Nelson
Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Anybody have this one before? I'm not knowledgable enough with Perl to understand this, but it seems to be grinding a few things to a halt. Tue Jan 21 14:50:00 2003 message_delivery.pl begin Error in

Re: Thnaks to the developers (sylpheed-claws aspell)

2003-01-20 Thread Brian Nelson
Steve Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Oh the irony that I send a message to a public list thanking people for a spell checker with a spelling error in the first word in the subject line. *sigh* Heh heh. Most developers don't follow debian-user too closely, so if you want reach more

Re: Curious...Are most of you in tech-related careers/schooling?

2003-01-17 Thread Brian Nelson
Brooks R. Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | I wonder if all (or most) of you are in similar careers and that is | why you are so proficient with compiling and testing and tweaking | all of this stuff. Or is it just a hobby that has gone on for so | long that you have advanced your

Re: Big difference in antialiasing

2003-01-15 Thread Brian Nelson
Richard Beri [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You're right, gtk 2.2 brings in Xft2. It's very pretty. Does anyone else find AA fonts annoying? I hate them, sure they look smoother, but I find that it just seems blurred and they are hard to read. Makes me feel something is wrong with my eyes.

Re: Galeon HELP!!!

2003-01-15 Thread Brian Nelson
Curtis Spencer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well I have tried now running mozilla, and that doesn't spawn infinite windows, but rather just exits. There is not output in the console. It just exits. I have run apt-get install mozilla and apt-get install galeon Sounds like a bug that has been

Re: Big difference in antialiasing

2003-01-15 Thread Brian Nelson
Craig Dickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Brian Nelson wrote: Richard Beri [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does anyone else find AA fonts annoying? I hate them, sure they look smoother, but I find that it just seems blurred and they are hard to read. Makes me feel something is wrong

Re: Apt-get funkitude

2003-01-14 Thread Brian Nelson
Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Did I find a bug? ursine:~# apt-get build-dep nautilus Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done E: Some broken packages were found while trying to process build-dependencies. You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct

Re: host for an apt repository

2003-01-12 Thread Brian Nelson
Jamin W. Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 10:17:00AM +0200, Mohammed Sameer wrote: I'm interested for packaging some software for debian. Any one know about a free host to make my own apt repository ? can't afford paying for a web space :( I could give you a shell

Re: Fetchmail security problem and sarge

2002-12-24 Thread Brian Nelson
Bob Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I figured it out--fetchmail-common no longer exists with the newer version. Using --force-depends with dpkg got fetchmail to install. Ick. Why not just remove the fetchmail-common package instead of forcing the depends? -- Curse my natural showmanship!

Re: package trees

2002-12-19 Thread Brian Nelson
Tom Allison [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This will probably get me ejected from the planet or accused of not understanding how Debian works, but here goes. There has been a long standing bitch by some that Debian is so vary slow to update their base system. Personally I stand entirely behind

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