Re: Installing the other OS by cp -ax

2001-12-18 Thread Emiel Metselaar
On Tuesday 18 December 2001 16:06, o polite wrote: Some time ago I tried to install the userfriendly OS Windows 98 on spare partition. Of course it succeded in rendering my laptop unusable. It took me two days to get my system back. This was four weeks ago, so now I'm ready for some more pain.

Re: Installing the other OS by cp -ax

2001-12-18 Thread Emiel Metselaar
On Tuesday 18 December 2001 16:29, dman wrote: On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 04:06:56PM +0100, Emiel Metselaar wrote: ... | sys c: I did this once. Destroyed the disk! I don't recommend doing it again. The story : A few years back I acquired some antique hardware (Intel 8086 system

glutg3-dev xlibmesa-dev

2001-11-22 Thread Emiel Metselaar
Yesterday I installed glutg3-dev xlibmesa-dev for my visualisation code, since the non-dev things do not have the header files. Today going throught the apt-get update, upgrade routine I see that these 2 files will be removed. My question is why, i didnot deselect them... A related question is

Re: reportbug package

2001-11-14 Thread Emiel Metselaar
man reportbug: --email=ADDRESS Set the email address for your report. This should be the actual Internet email address on its own (i.e. without a real name or comment part). This setting will override any environment variable that is

Re: Intel(R) Fortran Compiler

2001-11-14 Thread Emiel Metselaar
On Wednesday 14 November 2001 13:44, Daniel Faller wrote: has someone tried and/or managed to install the Intel(R) Fortran Compiler on a debian (potato/unstable) system ? yep, I did it the dirty way install on a RH machine and then copy it to the debian machine It is not a clean way of

Re: kde 2.2 upgrade

2001-11-13 Thread Emiel Metselaar
Are you getting error's like these: delibs3 (= 4:2.2.2-1) but 4:2.2.1-14 is to be installed Then head over to the debian-kde lists (thread 2.2.2 changes), in short the files are not uploaded yet, but the meta package is.. emiel On Tuesday 13 November 2001 12:50, Tom Allison wrote: Tom

lprng ps-to-printer.fpi

2001-10-25 Thread Emiel Metselaar
I was trying to print using lprng on a woody machine and it did not work. After some poking around i found that in /usr/share/lprngtool/ps-to-printer.fpi something did not work allright. It seems that the line source ${SPOOLDIR}/postscript.cfg does not work. I am not much of a shell script

Re: lprng ps-to-printer.fpi

2001-10-25 Thread Emiel Metselaar
On Thursday 25 October 2001 14:28, Emiel Metselaar wrote: I was trying to print using lprng on a woody machine and it did not work. After some poking around i found that in /usr/share/lprngtool/ps-to-printer.fpi something did not work allright. It seems that the line source ${SPOOLDIR

Re: lprng ps-to-printer.fpi

2001-10-25 Thread Emiel Metselaar
On Thursday 25 October 2001 14:42, Colin Watson wrote: On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 02:28:09PM +0200, Emiel Metselaar wrote: I was trying to print using lprng on a woody machine and it did not work. After some poking around i found that in /usr/share/lprngtool/ps-to-printer.fpi something did

Re: intel fortran compiler

2001-10-24 Thread Emiel Metselaar
I also had some problems with alien, but since i just converted from a red hat machine and i had backups i could just *ahum* copy the backup /opt/intel directory and it worked. So try to find a rh machine and try the same approach. Not clean nice, but one could call it pragmatic good