On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 12:26:38AM +0100, somethin2cool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was
heard to say:
> Given that aptitude is awesome and that all the stuff I want is missing
> from all the repositories, is there anyway for me to use .deb files and
> dpkg in conjunction with aptitude. I'm sure they hav
On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 10:02:24PM +0100, somethin2cool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was
heard to say:
> Joe Hart wrote:
> So the single line answer would be "use aptitude exclusively and it's
> awesome". The thing is I've started with apt now :-(
You can switch to aptitude -- it just will assume that
On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 11:34:21AM -0700, Freddy Freeloader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
was heard to say:
> Does this mean that apt-cache reads the local database + the server
> repositories rather than the just the server repositories? I tend to
> see that as a bug, not a feature, as it leads people,
On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 11:45:51AM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL
PROTECTED]> was heard to say:
> Yes, aptitude is the tool to use. However, if you read all the recent
> threads on aptitude you'll see that the _first_ time you use it, you
> need to get your options set (e.g. not including rec
On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 11:10:55AM -0400, Jan Sneep <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was
heard to say:
> I'm a total newbie ... downloaded and successfully installed my very first
> Debian OS a month of so ago and thought I should try and make sure I have
> all the latest updates ... my preference is for using
On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 11:45:34PM +0200, Mauro Sacchetto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
was heard to say:
> But aptitude install -f kde/unstable gives me this output:
>
> ==
> debian:~# aptitude install -f kde/unstable
> .
> .
> .
> The following packages were blocke
On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 08:59:09PM +0200, Misko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard
to say:
> All the sudden aptitude refuse to start.
> When I try to start it show little box saying "Loading cache"
> and then exit with:
> Uncaught exception: vs_progress.cc:38: virtual void vs_progress::paint(const
> s
On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 11:00:05PM -0400, "D. Hugh Redelmeier" <[EMAIL
PROTECTED]> was heard to say:
> I was trying to install the Debian for the first time and ran into several
> issues.
>
> I would send this to installlation-reports but I seem to need a
> running Debian system for that.
Hi,
On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 08:02:45PM -0800, Ken Irving <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was
heard to say:
> On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 08:43:27PM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 03:09:21AM -0400, Ninenineone Efx <[EMAIL
> > PROTECTED]> was heard to say:
> &g
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 03:09:21AM -0400, Ninenineone Efx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
was heard to say:
> I think I made a big mistake.
>
> I executed the following command to install a font package.
>
> aptitude install ttf-unfonts
>
> After it installed the font package, it began to remove packages
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 10:05:18AM +0200, Jonathan Kaye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was
heard to say:
> Doesn't aptitude have an "undo" command? ctl-u or something like that.
Yes, but it doesn't work across sessions.
Daniel
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On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 09:16:14AM +0200, Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was
heard to say:
> Now, as for getting your apps back. They *should* all be in the apt's
> cache. You just need to reinstall them. If you can't figure out which
> ones to reinstall, then maybe aptitude was right and you did
On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 10:43:47AM -0700, "David E. Fox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
was heard to say:
> On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 12:08:06 +0200
> Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > You really should be specific to which version you're running. If
> > you're running Sarge, you won't be getting many up
On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 08:25:20PM +0200, Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was
heard to say:
> I can bet. I suppose it makes a difference how many users are on the
> machine. For me it's just me, so if I screw something else I get to
> yell at myself, but if I had 200 users yelling at me for doing s
Adding an explicit example is a good idea -- I realize not everyone
who looks at the documentation speaks English natively. :)
Daniel
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On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 11:04:00AM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL
PROTECTED]> was heard to say:
> On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 07:04:48AM -0400, Michael Pobega wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 12:03:20AM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
> > > On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 11:39:03PM -0400, Michael Pob
Ok, I guess I won't request the removal of noteedit for now. Anyone else
who wants to file that bug is certainly free to, though.
Daniel
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On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 01:14:27PM -0400, Chris Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard
to say:
> On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 11:30:53 -0400
> Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > I was just looking at whether to upload noteedit to
> > testing-proposed
nue to maintain tse3, so noteedit will be buildable on
sarge.
(please include me or debian-devel in replies, as I am not presently
subscribed to debian-user)
Daniel
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set of CDs with the subset of the archive that is useful
to your project, and write a non-sucky system configuration tool.
Daniel
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problem would be to make xbase-clients a dummy
package which depends on the "xinit" package and xbase-clients - xinit
(could be called, eg, xbase-clients-nonessential?)
The rest of your proposal looks like you're against this solution, though.
Daniel
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> (just joking, of course :-))
Sssh! Don't give him ideas!
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yway, in a year or so this won't be my problem 'cos I'll
be outta here, so it's probably not worth wasting too much time on :)
Daniel
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erface, if that's what they're using. :( So I
guess they'll have to buy more hardware if they want to use Linux, or wait
for someone to write one..
Thanks,
Daniel
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see any promising drivers (aside from a SurfBoard 1000, which is
completely different) in the kernel.
If you know anything about this card, please email both of us (group reply)
since we aren't subscribed to -user. (you could just email me, but I'd
like to keep him informed)
Than
> them. there's more to this life than computers, and there's already too mucy
> time needing to be spent on this thing, when it's not even out of the docks
> yet.
See zmore(1)
Daniel
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hey're a single record, and thus chokes and dies.
Adding the line back in made the upgrade work again.
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| The sig
I am trying to register KDE as a window-manager in /etc/alternatives
using update-alternatives. I can't seem to get it to register - kde is
in /usr/bin so I tryed adding it like this:
update-alternatives --install kde kde /usr/bin 9
but I can't see it when I run:
update-alternatives --config x-
What the best GUI based irc client in potato?? Please 'CC' me in a
reply.
Thanks.
I have downloaded wine (the version with potato). I am trying to
configure it properly using a .winerc file in my home directory but I
can't get it to work properly, when I try and run it this is what I get:
sigaltstack: Function not implemented
Warning: could not find wine.conf [Drive x] entry
How do I set-up suid so that normal users can read and write to a fat32
parition? Please 'CC' me in a reply.
Thanks.
Could someone please send me there wine.conf file as I'm having trouble
getting it to work. Please 'CC' it to me.
Thanks.
How do I give normal users permissions to mount cd-roms? Do I add them
to a group?? Which one? Please 'CC' me in a reply.
Thanks very much.
Is there an app which helps configure your printer for you? I can't
remember what its called. Please 'CC' me on a reply.
Thanks.
How do I register KDE as a window manager in potato? Also, how do I get
rid of the annoying icons left by a previous scheme in KDE? Thanks.
Please 'CC' me in a reply.
I am trying to register my ICQ account with everybuddy but when I add it
in and re-start - I go back to the accounts section and it's empty - Is
this supposed to be empty? Please CC me on a reply.
Thanks.
It's not registered, so any ideas how to do this? I can't get anywhere
with it.
"Eric G . Miller" wrote:
>
> On Sun, May 28, 2000 at 08:35:24PM +0100, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> >
> > I have just upgraded to potato. Previously, in slink, I had setup my
&g
Thanks for that. I was trying to compile it from source.
Mike Werner wrote:
>
> Daniel Burrows wrote:
> >
> > I'm trying to install everybuddy. http://www.everybuddy.com - I can't
> > seem to get anywhere with it. Anyone use this app and got it to work? I
&g
Just upgraded to potato - I can't seem to get rid of a pop-up message
telling me I don't have a fvwm directory every time I start X - even
though I thought I had. Where is this supposed to be?
Thanks.
I'm trying to install everybuddy. http://www.everybuddy.com - I can't
seem to get anywhere with it. Anyone use this app and got it to work? I
need a step-by-step guide please!!
Thanks.
Can someone suggest how I configure potato for my AWE64 s/card?? Anyone
have any experiences doing this? I would be interested to know what
happened.
Thanks.
How do I start gnome from potato?
Thanks.
I have just upgraded to potato. Previously, in slink, I had setup my
window-managers file to start kde by default but now I get fvwm2 when I
type startx. Why is this? The file still points to kde as the first
option - is there a different config file for this in potato?
Thanks v.much.
I have just upgraded to potato and I can't get into X as a normal user, only
root works. When I type startx (as a normal user) I get a message saying I
don't have privileges to do it.
Thanks.
Get Your Private, Free E-mai
I am trying to point my apt sources.list file to a UK debian ftp site
for potato so I can perform an upgrade. The address for the site is:
ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian and I think it should be pointing to
/dists/potato but when I try and change this in apt and perform a
apt-get update it bombs o
Whats the command for telling me if I have slink or potato?
Thanks.
Is there a URL which anyone can recommend to take me through the process
of upgrading to potato from slink?
Thanks.
How do I give dial-up access to standard users accounts?
Thanks.
I want to configure my HP LaserJet 3IIIP under Debian but don't know
really where to start. Is there a good website devoted to Debian and
printing or Linux and printing??
Thanks.
Daniel.
I want to start subscribing to newsgroups and wondered if anyone could
recommend a really good news group application, one with a good GUI if
possible.
Thanks.
I have a fairly new IDE CDRW drive and was wondering if someone could
recommend a package which is known to be reliable.
Thanks very much,
Daniel.
When I download KICQ and attempt to install it, it fails at the make
point saying - nothing to be done. Is there a parameter I should be
passing in make?
Thanks.
I have an AOPEN CDRW9624 IDE drive and I was wondering if there is a
Debian package that would work with this with the minimal of
configuration.
Thanks very much.
Daniel.
Can anyone recommend an ICQ app? I heard KICQ lacks a lot of feature and
won't let you create new accounts.
Thanks.
How do I set a default colour to the this window manager so that its the
same every time I log on?
Thanks.
Does the 'su' command expire after a certain time? If it doesn't how do
you 'go-back' to a normal user?
Thanks.
I have downloaded KDE and would like to install it. I have all of the
essential packages as well as some optional ones. When I install I do so
like this for each package, one at a time:
dpkg -i package.deb
This installs but throws up a some dependency problems. Once I have
installed them all I r
I am trying to allow dial-up access using pon but want to avoid 'su'ing
to root everytime. Is there a way round this?
Also, I want to avoid booting into a graphical login. Can someone tell
me which parts of xdm I need to edit? I tried renaming it but it screwed
up my system. Step-by-step please,
OK, thanks. But do I just rename all the files in that directory or the
directory itself? I am very paranoid about damaging my system so I wanna
get it right first time. Also, if I use the method suggested won't I get
an error message of some kind when I boot-up, saying "xdm not found" or
something
Hi,
I am trying to edit the xdm configuration files so that I don't boot
into a graphical login. It's probably very easy but since this is the
first time doing this I don't want to experiment too much in case I do
serious damage!!
Regards,
Daniel.
I have no idea what should be done, but if it's decided that replacing the
console device is correct..
On Sat, Jan 29, 2000 at 05:53:30PM +0200, Shaul Karl was heard to say:
> 2) Decide what current users (slink users) should do. Is it simply a matter
> of
> rm slink /dev/console and MAKEDEV t
On Thu, Dec 09, 1999 at 03:14:29PM -0600, David Starner was heard to say:
> On Thu, Dec 09, 1999 at 12:59:08PM -0800, Jamey Sharp wrote:
> > So I'm trying to decide whether I should request the removal of oneliner,
> > or fix the bugs in it. The only reason that I can see to *not* request
> > oneli
On Wed, Jun 02, 1999 at 04:53:46PM -0500, Oleg Krivosheev was heard to say:
>
> Hi, All
>
> just tried to debug my MT stuff using latest potato stuff and
> did not succeed. Is MT debugging lost in transition? I was able
> to debug my stuff on slink with glibc 2.0.7 and gdb 4.17
>
> What package
On Fri, Apr 23, 1999 at 12:15:39PM -0500, The Doctor What was heard to say:
> I mean unstable as in Debian version unstable. Gnome is the phase 2 stuff
> from a debian`ers website on master.debian someplace (I don't have the URL
> handy).
>
> The debian menu appears empty under Gnome (and hence u
On Wed, Feb 17, 1999 at 04:34:19PM +, George Richard Russell was heard to
say:
>
> > On Tue, 16 Feb 1999, David Webster wrote:
> > I am wanting to start some GUI development but I am having a hard time
> > figuring out just what the GUI development is? I see that the GTK
> > libaraires are t
lsm...)
Anyway, in the hope that it's useful, here it is.
Daniel Burrows
PS - I just read the Weekly Newsletter and noticed discussion of distributing
WindowMaker, E, etc themes as Debian packages. I suppose that this is somewhat
relevant to that. Personally, I think that I'd r
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