On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 02:59:28PM -0500, dick thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:
I am too. What happens is that Iceweasel starts off fine and then
randomly drops out completely. You can bring it right back up but it
just seems to randomly hiccup. I am not doing anything
On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 11:22:50AM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL
PROTECTED] was heard to say:
On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 09:45:42PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
There are other mailbox formats, most notably Maildir, which store each
message in a separate file. If the system drops while a
On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 07:09:42PM +0200, Dotan Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:
As a thunderbird user, what am I missing by not using mutt? Teach me,
if it's a better client than I'd love to learn it. I'm not afraid of
the CLI, and I'm not afraid of VI[M].
For me, the #1 feature
On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 07:01:47PM +0200, Jabka Atu [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:
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Good day,..
since i can't send find a fast way to send many pictures to Gmail /
ISP mail (Quata limit for single mail).
I thought it will be fun to
On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 11:51:35AM -0600, Dennis G. Wicks [EMAIL PROTECTED]
was heard to say:
Greetings;
I am running aptitude upgrade after aptitude update and
everything works fine up to a point.
Everything is downloaded and after it starts the
installs I get messages like this. This
On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 04:27:50PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom [EMAIL PROTECTED]
was heard to say:
Turns out that keypress access *is* the hardest. You have that in Qt but
you have to be running in X and within a widget. It's ridiculous to do
all that to find out if a key is pressed.
I have
On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 02:46:31PM -0500, Marty [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard
to say:
tom arnall wrote:
i attempted the distr-upgrade and after i rebooted did:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -r
2.6.16.4
so i did the distr-upgrade again. following is the session output. '31
not fully installed
On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 09:24:22AM -0900, Ken Irving [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:
n Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 12:16:28PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
Why issue a 'sync' instead of just unmounting and waiting until the
thing stops flashing?
sync blocks, so you can tell from the
On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 09:59:50PM +, Rodolfo Medina [EMAIL PROTECTED]
was heard to say:
on Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 12:16:28PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
Daniel Burrows [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
So does umount. (I see you said that below, but I wanted to underline
it again
On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 12:07:14PM +, Jaime Ventura [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:
Hello,
Im maintaining my own debian due to some compile options requirements.
So, here's my problem.
A few weeks i've built a package version 8.0.1-1.
I've copied it properly to my repo
On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 05:47:08PM +0300, Ebanutiy Ebanatik Ebanatovich [EMAIL
PROTECTED] was heard to say:
xxx:/home/xxx# ls -l /boot/ /lib/modules/
/boot/:
total 15845
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 73188 2008-01-03 21:34 config-2.6.22-2-amd64
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 68625 2008-01-04 08:52
On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 08:22:15AM +0100, Paul Csanyi [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:
2008/1/12, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 09:47:21PM +0100, Paul Csanyi wrote:
2008/1/9, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 02:37:30PM +0100,
On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 06:08:31AM +0100, Misko [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard
to say:
And because I only have 33k modem internet connection I do
not plan to add any online repository to that list.
I would be willing to download single packages that I am
interested in only if I could find URL to
On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 04:17:03AM +0100, Misko [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard
to say:
On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 03:59:59PM -0200, Felix Cuello wrote:
*manpages-dev - Manual pages about using GNU/Linux for development
manpages-posix-dev - Manual pages about using a POSIX system for development
On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 06:44:27AM -0800, Daniel Burrows [EMAIL PROTECTED]
was heard to say:
libstdc++6-4.2-doc has some documentation for C++ stuff, but for
the STL stl-manual.
I meant to say that for the STL I prefer the documentation in
stl-manual. You can also find this by typing stl
On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 02:37:30PM +0100, Paul Csanyi [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:
Hello!
I do on my home server
aptitude search ~i installed_packages
Now I want to reinstall all these packages listed in
'installed_packages' file, with aptitude.
How can I do that?
I tried:
On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 10:26:54PM -0500, Rick Pasotto [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:
I would like to increase the size of my /var partition. It is a logical
volume so I made it bigger with lvexpand. I then ran resize2fs, which
according to the man page works on mounted file systems with
On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 10:30:57PM +0800, Michael Yang [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:
Hi all:
I'm starting the C++ Developer work on linux, no GUI app involved.
Could you tell me what the tools you are working with?
I'm trying with g++ and vim. Is there a package containing the
On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 11:19:46AM +0800, Michael Yang [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:
OS's API is what I would need mainly.
manpages are good, but it would be better if there is a well organized
documents.
For example, when I want to investigate some issues on regular expression,
in
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 03:05:10PM -0500, Peter Smerdon [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:
Hi, I too have some issue with UTF-8, although I can install and remove
software without a problem, my logs get filled with perl warnings about
locales.
Which logs? Terminal output?
On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 09:09:53AM -0500, charlie derr [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:
aptitude-create-state-bundle doesn't apparently exist on my system -- was
this a relatively recent addition to aptitude? (it may have been a year or
slightly longer since I've upgraded aptitude)
On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 12:58:22AM +, Hendrik Boom [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:
On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 09:49:43 -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote:
On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 03:58:03AM +, Hendrik Boom [EMAIL PROTECTED]
was heard to say:
/etc/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session startup
On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 07:26:18PM -0800, David Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:
On 12/31/07, charlie derr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
snip some stuff
I'm not aware of ever intentionally doing anything to install any 64bit
libs. My whole system is running as 32-bit.
MIne too
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 01:50:42PM +1300, Chris Bannister [EMAIL PROTECTED]
was heard to say:
On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 05:19:52PM -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote:
I'd guess that the locale of the workstation is relevant here. Your
terminal is going to be running in your locale (you didn't
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 02:57:20AM +, Hendrik Boom [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:
On Wed, 02 Jan 2008 07:57:22 -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote:
On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 12:58:22AM +, Hendrik Boom [EMAIL PROTECTED]
was heard to say:
Thanks. How did you ever manage to think
On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 10:24:07AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL
PROTECTED] was heard to say:
On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 06:24:07AM -0500, dave N wrote:
If you wait long enough (at least 30 seconds, maybe a couple minutes,
I can't remember) you should get dropped to a busybox shell. Then
On Tue, Jan 01, 2008 at 12:48:04PM -0600, Dave Sherohman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
was heard to say:
On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 05:19:52PM -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote:
On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 06:23:52PM -0600, Dave Sherohman [EMAIL
PROTECTED] was heard to say:
Is it significant that the old machine
On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 05:28:48PM -0500, charlie derr [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:
It's been a while, but I just attempted a massive upgrade (executing
aptitude upgrade) and ended up with:
Errors were encountered while processing:
The interesting thing is why these packages
On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 03:58:03AM +, Hendrik Boom [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:
/etc/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session startup ...
Setting 1M through im-switch for locale=en_CA
Start IM through /farhome/hendrik/.xinput.d/en_CA linked to
/etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/uim_toolbar.
failed
On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 08:01:32PM -0500, charlie derr [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:
The following packages will be upgraded:
gnome-session libgnome2-common libgnomevfs2-common shared-mime-info
4 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 795 not upgraded.
Need to get
On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 12:00:42PM -0600, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:
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On 12/31/07 11:42, Daniel Burrows wrote:
I don't know any reason that mixing apt-get and aptitude should cause
problems, particularly this problem
On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 01:15:48PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED]
was heard to say:
On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 08:13:31 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Not all the docs are under /usr/share/doc/[package name], some are
under usr/share/[package name] with no apparent rhyme nor
On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 03:59:16PM -0500, charlie derr [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:
Daniel Burrows wrote:
It would be interesting to know what ldd /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2 says.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/cache/apt$ ldd /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2
linux-gate.so.1 = (0xb7fb7000
On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 04:02:01PM -0800, Daniel Burrows [EMAIL PROTECTED]
was heard to say:
You may want to check if anything else has been placed in
/usr/local/bin or /usr/local/lib, and what the timestamps are (run
ls -l /usr/local/bin /usr/local/lib), as any other files
On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 06:34:55PM -0500, charlie derr [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:
I'm not aware of ever intentionally doing anything to install any 64bit libs.
My whole system is running as 32-bit.
Note that this has nothing to do with 64-bit libraries. The 64 in
gzopen64 means,
On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 06:23:52PM -0600, Dave Sherohman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
was heard to say:
Is it significant that the old machine was using the basic en_US locale
or that I've been accessing both of them via ssh from a workstation with
its locale set to C?
I'd guess that the locale of the
On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 08:19:32AM -0800, Daniel Burrows [EMAIL PROTECTED]
was heard to say:
On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 07:02:46PM +0100, Paul Csanyi [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:
2007/12/28, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
you'll need to just press enter to keep
On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 01:35:40PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL
PROTECTED] was heard to say:
On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 08:30:15AM -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote:
On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 04:04:02PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL
PROTECTED] was heard to say:
Just to clarify, the problem
On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 07:02:46PM +0100, Paul Csanyi [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:
2007/12/28, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
you'll need to just press enter to keep it as currently set.
Do you have a ~/.xinitrc or ~/.xsession file? if so, what are the
contents?
I
On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 04:04:02PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL
PROTECTED] was heard to say:
On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 04:35:36PM -0300, Gabriel Parrondo wrote:
I'm not sure what does it mean with will not be saved when you Is
it that there will be no way to know that the package was
On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 05:05:57PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL
PROTECTED] was heard to say:
The keyboard is a slightly different issue as all wireless stuff tends
to be. If it has a driver in the linux kernel supplied by Debian (i.e.
not excluded due to tainted licensing), then it too
On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 03:13:43PM +1100, hce [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to
say:
What packages I can use man to display program manual, such as man
recv, man string, for both C and C++ (ISO) in my Debian machine?
For C programming, you need man-db (the manpage viewer) and
manpages-dev (the
On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 09:31:40AM +0100, Sven Joachim [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:
Hi,
On 2007-12-28 04:19 +0100, Daniel Burrows wrote:
On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 11:26:00AM -0800, schmity [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -r
2.4.27-3-386
[EMAIL
On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 06:41:25AM -0800, Daniel Burrows [EMAIL PROTECTED]
was heard to say:
On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 09:31:40AM +0100, Sven Joachim [EMAIL PROTECTED]
was heard to say:
He's not running lenny, the libc6 there does not work at all with a 2.4
kernel.
And of course /etc
On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 02:42:53PM +0100, Dan H [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard
to say:
Hello,
back in the olden days I used to be able to log in on a text console and then
use startx to start an X session. I just tried that (without X running of
course) but was rebuffed with the message that
On Wed, Dec 26, 2007 at 09:15:43PM -0800, schmity [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard
to say:
Could you post your /etc/apt/sources.list and the contents of
/etc/debian_version ? I'm wondering if you maybe upgraded to etch by
accident (which could have happened if you listed stable instead of
On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 06:13:48AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say:
I am trying to install gcc and it cannot access ftp.debian.org to install the
package. I am using aptitude to do this. I cannot ping ftp.debian.org, so
the server appears inaccessible. Is there a different
On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 11:26:00AM -0800, schmity [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard
to say:
On Dec 27, 8:50 am, Daniel Burrows [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Dec 26, 2007 at 09:15:43PM -0800, schmity [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:Could you post your /etc/apt/sources.list
On Tue, Dec 25, 2007 at 07:09:25PM -0800, schmity [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard
to say:
I am running debian sarge and I just did an apt-get dist-upgrade and
my wireless keyboard and mouse are no longer working. I know that
bios sees the wireless keyboard and mouse because I can hit delete and
On Sat, Dec 22, 2007 at 09:04:15AM -0800, Tyler MacDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED]
was heard to say:
I've decided I want to install all arcade games on my desktop system. I
noticed that abuse has a Tag: game::arcade associated with it. However,
when I do an apt-cache search game::arcade, nothing
On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 02:22:02PM -0600, John Salmon [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:
I keep seeing Aptitude Reference Manual mentioned in the documentation
but can't find a location to access it. Can anyone help me?
In addition to the other two replies, typing aptitude reference manual
On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 03:44:00PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre [EMAIL PROTECTED]
was heard to say:
On 2007-12-20 07:55:21 -0600, Kent West wrote:
Is not screen another solution? (I'm not terribly familiar with
screen, but I thought this sort of
backgrounding-and-come-back-to-it-later thing
Just to answer the package-management part of your question.
On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 12:50:49PM -0800, Jeppe [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard
to say:
Well, I did apt-get install php4-mysql (I have included some of the
---
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building
On Sun, Dec 16, 2007 at 11:57:32PM +0530, Amogh Hooshdar [EMAIL PROTECTED]
was heard to say:
I am on Lenny and I am doing aptitude update, aptitude dist-upgrade
(dist-upgrade to lenny itself to make it more uptodate and get the
newer kernel also).
I did not go ahead with it because it wants
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 01:49:07PM -0500, Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:
bts tag 233129 d-i
Hm, that's an interesting one. It looks like the apt fetcher claims
that the update succeeded even when some sources failed, so I have to
iterate the list of download items after the
On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 08:14:12PM +0530, Amogh Hooshdar [EMAIL PROTECTED]
was heard to say:
Why this difference? Why two blocks of output for the same package in
apt-cache show. I have included the full outputs of both the tools
below.
aptitude only shows the current/latest version of the
On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 09:46:58PM +0100, Nigel Henry [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:
On Wednesday 12 December 2007 20:23, Peter Werner wrote:
On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 07:44:39PM +0100, Nigel Henry wrote:
How do I prevent the fltk package being upgraded using Apt?
put the package on
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 01:57:55PM +, Nick Boyce [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:
Daniel Burrows wrote:
... If you want this in a hurry your best bet is to either
send a working patch to a bug report or (if such a patch
already exists) to harass me via email until I apply
On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 05:05:34AM -0500, Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to
say:
I'm a newbie to Debian Etch but not new to Linux in general.
I was reading the Debian Reference doc section 5.2 going to upgrade from
i believe the terms are Etch Stable to testing. I did a
cp -f
On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 12:51:00PM -0500, Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to
say:
Hello,
Thanks for your reply. I've included my sources.list file below. I am
getting this error with the file, any suggestions on what to do with it?
I've run the apt-get update many times each with the
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 02:24:15AM +, Nick Boyce [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:
Does anyone think another bug report is called for ?
It looks as though it's known that the error handling behaviour
needs attention but it's not high on anybody's TODO list.
I'm currently busy working
On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 10:04:19AM +0100, roberto [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard
to say:
hello
i am receiving a long list of errors from aptitude but i do not know
how to copy and post them here ...
If you are running at the command-line, you can click and drag to
select text, and then
On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 01:04:21PM -0500, Mark Grieveson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
was heard to say:
On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 21:58:19 +0530
Kumar Appaiah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 10:56:12AM -0500, Mark Grieveson wrote:
Hello. I'm subscribed to the digest of this list, and
On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 03:27:12PM +0900, js [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to
say:
So I'm thinking that I also switch my notebook's OS to Debian.
Before starting this switch, I like to hear some comments from
people who's using Debian on their notebook.
Is there any annoyance?
I could tell
On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 08:42:30AM -0500, Michael Pobega [EMAIL PROTECTED]
was heard to say:
From what I remember you're generally not supposed to run any sort of
updates while in an X environment; If I were you I'd quit X and change
to TTY1 before administering any changes (Especially if the
On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 07:30:43PM -0800, joseph lockhart [EMAIL PROTECTED]
was heard to say:
Does this happen every time you run an upgrade?
Does apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade do
the same thing?
can't answer this one, i only use apt-get source
--download-only and that only
On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 08:43:19AM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL
PROTECTED] was heard to say:
On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 04:12:49AM -0800, joseph lockhart wrote:
strange, every morning i run two aptitude commands
from the command line
aptitude update and aptitude full-upgrade
I've
On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 04:12:49AM -0800, joseph lockhart [EMAIL PROTECTED]
was heard to say:
strange, every morning i run two aptitude commands
from the command line
aptitude update and aptitude full-upgrade
Does this happen every time you run an upgrade?
Does apt-get update apt-get
On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 02:13:41PM -0500, Michael Pobega [EMAIL PROTECTED]
was heard to say:
Soon I plan on designing a good front-end for aptitude (Or perhaps I'll
just work on Aptitude itself, I've yet to decide). Waiting for winter
break from college before I start anything.
I look
On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 09:52:33PM -0800, David Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:
On 12/3/07, David Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Previously:
OK, I got bitten and just checked my /etc/apt/sources.list, and
noticed all my debian references were to ftp.debian.org. I beg
penance.
On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 06:19:41AM -0800, Daniel Burrows [EMAIL PROTECTED]
was heard to say:
If k9copy reads an environment variable (usually TEMP or TMP) to find
Sorry, my brain was in Windows-land. Of course here we use TMPDIR.
Daniel
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On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 05:45:35AM -0500, Mark Neidorff [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:
Is it possible to increase the space available in /tmp without doing the
backup/repartition/reinstall/restore dance?
I'm trying to backup a dvd using k9copy. It wants to have about 8 gig free
in
On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 09:08:32PM -0800, mond [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to
say:
I have been using debian(sid) for quite a while. I also have windows
xp installed on my pc too. When I use debian, I modified fstab to let
debian mouse an NTFS drive automatically.
Today, to test some
On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 09:05:24AM -0600, Jack Schneider [EMAIL PROTECTED]
was heard to say:
On Wed, 2007-11-21 at 09:42 -0500, Michael Pobega wrote:
aptitude purge metacity aptitude install metacity (If this gives you
dependency errors reinstall everything else as well).
-
Have'nt
On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 09:06:59PM -0600, Jack Schneider [EMAIL PROTECTED]
was heard to say:
On Tue, 2007-11-20 at 10:26 -0500, Michael Pobega wrote:
On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 02:42:09PM +, Jack Schneider wrote:
I have lost my Desktop window borders. I am using Debian lenny
updated.
On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 01:43:33PM -0900, Ken Irving [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:
I never have understood the reasons (haven't checked very hard), but it
seems like apt-get normally gives an are you sure? prompt before doing
the action, but sometimes it just goes ahead and does it.
On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 09:56:21AM -0500, Loeghmon T. Nejad [EMAIL
PROTECTED] was heard to say:
I am learning Debian and I was wondering if it possible to install two
instances of Debian on the same machine. One as the production
workstation for the daily work, and the other for
On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 07:51:19AM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL
PROTECTED] was heard to say:
On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 03:29:51PM +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:
On 11/18/07 04:20, David Fox wrote:
Please give such files a .txt suffix so that Tbird knows what to do
On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 10:01:04AM -0800, David Brodbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED]
was heard to say:
On Nov 16, 2007, at 8:12 AM, Jeff D wrote:
What testing suite are you using for this? Have you tried to use dd to
create a file larger than this? I'm going to guess what you are seeing
here is
On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 01:59:19PM +, Chris G [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard
to say:
On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 02:37:51PM +0100, Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote:
I didn't think the OP was confused so much as confusing. It is not normal
to mix number of bits and number of colours as he did, but
On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 10:30:13PM -0600, Jude DaShiell [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:
libgtk2.0-bin The following packages have been automatically kept back:
libgtk2.0-common 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and
1 not upgraded.
Need to get 8098B of archives.
On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 07:45:35AM -0700, Travis Crook [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:
On Sat, 10 Nov 2007 07:28:54 +
Chris Lale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Travis Crook wrote:
Hi All,
I've noticed that the list of installed software that
Synaptic tells me and what I
On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 07:06:03PM -0500, Frank McCormick [EMAIL PROTECTED]
was heard to say:
On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 16:18:42 +0100
Jochen Schulz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
BTW, this has been asked several times on this list in the last few days
and an announcement has been sent to
On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 07:52:15PM -0800, Jeff Grossman [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:
I know this question is going to get a variety of answers, but I would like
to get everybody's opinion. I am currently running Testing with a few
packages from Sid. I just moved to Debian a few
On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 10:52:27AM -0700, Travis Crook [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:
I've noticed that the list of installed software that Synaptic
tells me and what I actually can use on my box are not the same. For
example, I can run Evince, but Synaptic tells me that it is not
On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 08:06:15PM -0500, Larry Kilmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:
The computer I am sending this email over is not the computer I am trying
to configure. The target computer is a Dell 8100. I downloaded the entire
20+ cds, then bought the 2005 Debian GNU/Linux 3.1
On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 11:09:07AM -0800, Ken Irving [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:
On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 08:19:58PM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote:
No, I just come down hard on this meme because it seems to have taken
on a life of its own and I'd like to squash it before it grows up
On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 05:19:49PM -0700, Jeff Grossman [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:
Manually installed packages have status i while automatically
installed ones have i A.
They have a c next to them.
So what you did is you removed the Debian package and then ran make
install,
On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 09:35:02PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL
PROTECTED] was heard to say:
On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 08:19:58PM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote:
On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 09:25:02AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL
PROTECTED] was heard to say:
this bothers me
On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 07:54:32PM -0800, Ken Irving [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:
My impression is that there's no particular reasons that it can't be done,
but it just hasn't been done. There are probably wish list requests to
this effect filed away somewhere on this, or so I dimly
On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 12:36:07PM +0100, Richard Lyons [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:
On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 09:31:12PM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote:
On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 12:53:46AM +0100, Richard Lyons [EMAIL PROTECTED]
was heard to say:
[...]
reverse direction in mid-search
On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 09:25:02AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL
PROTECTED] was heard to say:
On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 08:03:42PM -0400, Celejar wrote:
On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 00:13:23 -0500
Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 10:06:59 -0700, Daniel Burrows
Thanks for the kind words. :)
At the risk of spoling the mystery,
On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 05:22:16PM -0600, Nate Duehr [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:
I think the niftiest feature (and one that still has me scratching my head
as to how you accomplished it) is the MOUSE control in
enough times to probably
pass whatever it was you didn't quite see...
changeset: 604:42378273c12b
user:Daniel Burrows [EMAIL PROTECTED]
date:Sat Mar 10 16:46:30 2007 +
summary: [aptitude @ Add a keyboard command bound to 'N' that repeats the
last search in the opposite
On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 04:30:43PM -0700, Jeff Grossman [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:
How come such a difference? I don't want to install all of that other
stuff. I just want to install mercurial and what is required to run that
program.
I guess that a lot of that is being pulled
On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 12:14:18AM -0600, Nate Duehr [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:
On Oct 28, 2007, at 11:06 AM, Daniel Burrows wrote:
I'd say the main difference is that apt-get is a command-line tool,
whereas aptitude is an interactive tool that can be driven from the
command-line
On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 10:12:31AM -0700, Amit Uttamchandani [EMAIL
PROTECTED] was heard to say:
On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 10:01:02 -0700
Jeff Grossman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I was just reading the forums at forums.debian.org and came across a
thread about apt-get and aptitude. I just
On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 12:13:23AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED]
was heard to say:
On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 10:06:59 -0700, Daniel Burrows [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I'd say the main difference is that apt-get is a command-line tool,
whereas aptitude is an interactive tool that can
On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 11:37:33AM +0200, Jörg-Volker Peetz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
was heard to say:
In the manual the description of the '%t' says
The archive in which the package is found.
And aptitude seems to list the archive with the lowest priority.
So my advice about the aptitude command
On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 08:51:44PM -0600, Javier Vasquez [EMAIL PROTECTED]
was heard to say:
I've used http_proxy/ftp_proxy to enable apt-get to download packages
through a proxy server whenever required.
However I've tried the same environment variables with aptitude with
no luck... Looks
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