Walter Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hey Man
Try http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/
Walt
-Original Message-
From: Magnus Sandberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
I have an older installation of Debian Potato (like half a year old) on a
machine were I also have ckermit
Dave Sherohman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I just did an apt-get upgrade (to frozen) for the first time in several
months. Unlike most of the people who say things like that around here,
everything is still (mostly) functional, but it has acquired a few
unpleasant quirks...
1) I used to
Nitebirdz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I just installed Debian for the first time. It is Debian 2.1 slink. When
I try to install Netscape via apt-get I get the following error message:
Setting up netscape4 (4.0-15) ...
ERROR: The Netscape archive must be in /tmp, owned by root,
and
Nitebirdz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
That did it! Thanks a lot, Gary!
Just one more little question, since I'm new to Debian. How can I notice
which packages are virtual and which other are not?
Hmm. There are very few virtual packages. That's the only one I've
ever run across, and in
JudiElaine [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
As an extremely conservative user i have just upgraded to
potato (and, since in the moment i upgraded something was
wrong because some important library was deleted, hosing my
complete system, my conservatism has been reinforced -- i had
done slink -
jpb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Ton Sonnemans wrote:
Yes, so far so good but when I start XF86Setup I don't see my Card listed.
Is it dependend on other files or what??
Please help me, I'm a beginner and want to get it running but I don't seem
to get my Viper 550 Card up and running,
Ton Sonnemans [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Yes, this could work but I'm also still not able to download with my modem
in Linux, so I stil download averything via my ISDN-card with Windows. So
upgrading via Linux and Internet is not an option.
anyone else?
Of course you can always download the
Goeman Stefan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
If I am correct, it should be possible to read and write from/to an NTFS
mounted partition.
However if I try this I get an error message in the style of permission
denied, can not create file /mnt/winnt/..
(whereby /mnt/winnt) is the place where
Shao Zhang [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Is there any script out there that will let me to choose what
services to start by default?
For instance, I would like to have apache installed on my laptop,
but I don't want to start it everytime I boot up. Editing
/etc/init.d/*
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson) writes:
Debiandomain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I just install sendmail on frozen then I installed mutt. I can send mail
with now problems, but when I try to receive mail using fetchmail I see that
it downloads it from my ISP but when I run mutt there is no mail.
an incremental about once a week and other
than a manual full backup about 4 times a year, and a VERY rare tape
change, I never have to touch my backup software.
Lot's of choices for the original poster and about as many
opinions. Good luck!
Gary Hennigan
Andrew Whitlock [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm using Debian 2.1 (slink) and I have two packages I'm trying to install,
g++2.95.2-12 and libstdc++2.1-dev that seem to depend on each other. I have
them unpacked but can't configure them since they claim, correctly, that the
other is not
Olaf Meeuwissen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Gary Hennigan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I only mirror the 386 portions of potato, US and non-US, and my
archive is about 2G.
I guess you don't do the sources then.
Nope. Just the binary *.deb files and only for 386.
I had a major problem
Shaul Karl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I don't seem to find netdate in potato. I am pretty sure it was there
in slink.
Is there any replacement for it?
Not sure if I am not confusing netdate with something else but I believe you
should check *ntp*, and chrony.
netdate used to be
Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi all,
I'm planning to make a mirror of debian i-386 (slink, potato,
woody) at my lab and want to know to measure how big it will be and if
someone could me provide an rsync line or mirror config file for
this.
I only mirror the 386
Christophe TROESTLER [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I needed to recompile a kernel to support some hardware on my laptop.
Thus also the PCMCIA modules needed to be build. I issued:
make-kpkg modules_clean
make-kpkg modules_image
and installed. All went fine. Except with depmod (in
Martijn Meijers [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On my machine running Debian Woody I've downloaded kernel-source 2.2.15
and compiled my own kernel using make-kpkg. That worked fine.
But when I run 'apt-get upgrade' now, it's automatically downloading
kernel-image-2.2.15-2.2.15-1.deb. And that's
Anyone else having PCMCIA trouble with the latest version in potato? I
just tried installing
kernel-image-2.2.15_2.2.15-1.deb
pcmcia-modules-2.2.15_3.1.8-13k1.deb
and the PCMCIA modules are giving me a lot of unresolved symbols
whenever an attempt is made to install them. I tried compiling from
Ethan Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 07:29:40AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:
Anyone else get this? [Snipped for berevity]
Just checked my Spam box and I did not receive that message.
i don't know if i got this exact message or not, i delete anything
with subjects
Parrish M Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I built it by hand. Reason being I shouldn't have to recompile the
entire kernel to add one module. So I tried it that way. I downloaded
the 2.2.14 kernel-source and messed arround with the compile command
for a while and found that the sugested
David C. Ables [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm a debian newbie stuck with an annoying winmodem, so I'm about to buy an
external modem for my system. (the diamond supraexpress 56e has been
recommended to me.)
my question is whether linux supports usb modems. the hardware-howto only
mentions
Joe Emenaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
JavaSoft apparently released the Linux version of the JDK 1.2.
Anyone know if anyone is packaging it already?
I assume JavaSoft = Sun Microsystems? If so, the JDK 1.2.2 has been
out for at least a month or two. As far as I know it's not packaged
for
Michael Skipper [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I formatted this for submission to the bugs list, but it seems
such a basic problem that I suspect it stems from my status
as an absolute novice with linux--and so I'm posting here.
package: boot floppies
version: linux 2.0.36
Bob Bernstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have a slew of tar.gz files in a directory, and I want to unpack them in
that directory. I can't seem to wildcardize the usual commands I use to do
this:
tar xzvf *tar.gz (and)
gzip -dc *gz | tar xvf -
both fail to do it.
Any help, praise,
A. Scott White [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I recently upgraded to Potato and Linux 2.2.15
Now, when I go into dselect-select several packages are listed as Obsolete.
What, exactly, does this mean? Should I remove these packages?
If you don't need them then it's generally safe to delete
Ron Rademaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Try a 2.3 kernel, it supports USB (I think there are also USB patches for
2.2 kernels but I'm not sure.).
Yes there are 2.2.x patches. Haven't tried them but they're
there. Take a hop over to http://www.linux-usb.org and look for the
Backport of 2.3 to
Oswald Buddenhagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Does anyone know of a program that will give you a list of files changed
since a certain date? It would be extremely useful for backups,
because you could just back up files that were changed since your
last backup...
find should do the
Robert L. Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
How do you find a packagename that's pretty long?
{0}:iggy:/rootdpkg -l | grep ^r
rc xfonts-biznet-iso-8859- 3.0.0-6 75 dpi BIZNET ISO-8859-2
fonts for X servers.
There might be a more elegant solution but I've
Kelly Corbin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
After much searching, I can't find anywhere how to set the viewport in X
to the current screen resolution. Either it is set manually, or it is
the highest resolution possible. I have consulted my gurus to no
avail. Also it is annoying to some people I
Jay Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I notice when I go into /etc there isnt a file named smb.conf. Does that
mean that samba is not installed or do I need to create the file myself?
On Debian it's in /etc/samba. locate, find and dpkg -S are your
friends!
Gary
Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Is there some way to do this? It seems it should be possible but I havn't
been able to find any reference to it in the emacs
docs. list-colors-display just produces an empty, colorless list. Any
info appreciated.
Last time I checked into this one of the
Kevin Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
At 01:38 PM 5/10/2000 +0800, Andrew McRobert wrote: hi
... you need to configure your network if you haven't already done so ...
the files you need to edit are:
/etc/init.d/network /etc/hostname
I thought that was all done during the initial
John Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I need a driver or info as to new kernels that allow for mounting,
reading and writing to a Windows2000 file server from Debian Linux. Any
Ideas??
Are you talking about accessing files on a remote server or a disk in
a local dual boot machine? For the
Ivan J. Varzinczak [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'd like to know if someone can give me any sugestions about
how I can discover the domain name given an IP address. For example,
if I have the IP address 205.188.146.23, I would like to discover what
the domain name is, in that case,
Charles Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
deselect shows:
--- Obsolete/local Optional packages in section non-US ---
*** Opt non-US libssl09 0.9.4-5 none
*** Opt non-US ssh 1.2.3-3 none
Is ssh imbedded in another package or what? Surely it's not truly
Robert Fendt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
i am running debian linux 2.1 (kernel 2.0.38) on a laptop with a 3com 3c589D
ethernet card (pcmcia).
there are scripts
A) /etc/init.d/pcmcia (starting pcmcia services)
B) /etc/init.d/network (containing loopback nic config, ip adresses etc..,
Joseph de los Santos [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I am trying to install efm and I was wondering if the required package libz
by efm is the same as libzvt (the zterm widjet?) or libzephr? or maybe it's
something else? I can't find the exact libz package itself on the debian ftp
site. My next
Can someone tell me why glimpse was obsoleted in potato/non-free? It's
pretty much the only search engine widely available that suits as many
purposes as it does, but if there's a DFSG replacement I'd be willing
to give it a shot. In the meantime I suppose I'll either have to leave
it on hold or
pplaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
debs,
i just got a sony picturebook (pcg-c1xs) yesterday.
i did a smooth, harddrive install. (thanks project!)
having a usb floppy drive, i want to make a boot floppy, but the
box doesn't recognize /dev/fd0.
eg. $ mount /dev/fd0 /bt bentley taylor
Steven Satelle [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Isnt there a command call 'locate' which is simalir to find but about 1000
times faster (search your entire filesys in about 10 seconds) which works by
examining the filesys every few hours?
could be this which is running find
-Original
Michael O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Rookie question here. I'm trying to setup an encrypted filesystem as per:
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Loopback-Encrypted-Filesystem-HOWTO-3.html
The first step is installing the latest crypto patch. How do I install the
latest crypto patch
David Henningsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
You mean you can also mount the ext2 filesystem from the Win98 OS?
How? I thought this would not be possible?
There is a read-only utility I got from a guy at irc.debian.org. So I don't
know where on the web it is. The zip file was called
Bryan Walton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Greetings to the list,
I have a situation where I need to run one program as root,
through an x terminal, while my x windows session is being run as
non-root. When I open up an x terminal in this environment, become
superuser, and then execute the
Attila Csosz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I tried to compile spice 3f5 from source but I got the following error
[errors snipped]
What is wrong?
You need to install the termcap compatibility package, termcap-compat
and then you may need to create the link:
ln -s /lib/libtermcap.so.2
Brian Lavender [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have been using cvs to track development of the my latest tk/perl
application. I have been coding along starting with version 1.1
cruising along and making commits along the way. I got up to version
1.7 when I realized that I wanted to back up to
Viktor Rosenfeld [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Ron Rademaker wrote:
PS. Editing your lilo.conf could also make your system instable in these
kind of situations.
Huu? How so?
I assume by getting something wrong in there, or by some quirk of your
hardware. For example, I have a laptop with
Ron Rademaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Maybe somehow linux can use the keyboard, but I am SURE usb is NOT
supported in the 2.2.14 kernel, so you will NOT be able to use that mouse
under X using a 2.2.14, about the keyboard: I don't think you can use
it in X but I'm not sure.
You can also
John Stevenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have netscape6 (mozilla in netscapes clothing...) running fine on
my potato install. I ran it as root first (a bit risky but its not
an important system) and it complained about missing library:
libstdc++
So I checked thorugh dselect and
David Karlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hello,
Occasionally fetchmail/exim drops incoming mail being fetched from
my pop3 box.
This morning, fetchmail informed me that 32 messages were being down-
loaded, but when I opened my mailbox with mutt, there were only ten
new ones in there.
Scott Barker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 09:03:51AM -0400, Touloumtzis, Michael wrote:
I too got daylight time to be recognized by changing experimentally from
the SystemV-style EST5EDT to America/New_York. But that is not a solution
to the problem that EST5EDT seems
Ringo De Smet [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have an empty harddisk installed, and I want to installing Debian
packages to create a working Debian system. I have unpacked the dpkg
package (ar -x and then tar xfz data.tar.gz) on my working RedHat
system. I now want to install packages using
Bruce Sass [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On 5 Apr 2000, Bob Hilliard wrote:
I haven't seen it documented, but from experience, I believe the
daylight saving change is only done if the hardware clock is set to
GMT (UTC=yes in /etc/default/rcS).
That would be a bug, if it was true.
GMT has
George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, Greg Quinn wrote:
I have potato 2.2.13 running on an AMD Athlon box. Looks good, but the
network interface dies under pressure. Typically, an ftp of a large file
from a remote machine to this new box will kill the network: an
Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I used the one that came with the card (actually, I downloaded it from the
web site)
and that worked best for me.
matt garman wrote:
Hello:
I've been having some problems setting up my home network, and I was
wondering if my card is not
Matt Kopishke [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I currently maintain a small debian mirror for a local computer user group.
I run mirror daily to keep up with the latest version of potato and
woody. We have one problem, mirror is quite good at getting the newest
packages, but it keeps the old ones.
I just started having problems with my DNS queries after I recently
upgraded potato (been running potato for quite a while). Now when I
dial up I'm getting timeouts on queries. I have a local DNS server
that serves my little 3-host home network. I also use the same box
running my local DNS server
kmself@ix.netcom.com writes:
On Mon, Mar 13, 2000 at 09:05:13PM -, Pollywog wrote:
I just ran the last command, and I noticed that my machine has crashed
several times since March 1 and in each instance, the time was the same,
17:01
UTC.
What is the best way to track down the
Todd Suess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hey gang,
I want to temporarily allocate some disk space I have spare on my
/dev/hda1 partition (vfat) and link it to a symbolic link in a users
directory so he can upload files. The setup works fine if I create
links for all the files manually, but if
Attila Csosz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
How could I extract ( like unzip ) a deb package to a directory?
I wouldn't install it. I'd like to get a file from it.
*.deb files are simply ar archives, like *.a libraries. To extract:
ar x file.deb
The files are actually contained in a gzip'd tar
While it may seem unbelievable to some, one of our dialup servers at
work still requires SLIP, as opposed to PPP. So I was a bit disturbed
to see that the dip package disappeared from potato upon my latest
apt-get upgrade. I've been using dip for many years now and haven't
had to touch it in
Jaye Inabnit ke6sls [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I just read the latest news (debian.org) on potato. Seems that whoever takes
care of DIP hasn't be responding to the bug horizon request and was dropped
from the project/package. I need DIP too for other reasons, so I hope that
the person can be
Paul Kallstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Is there an easy way to recursively remove files with specific extensions? I
need to go through several ncpmounts and recursively remove all *.bak files.
Thanks!
I generally use something like:
find . -name '*.bak' -print|xargs rm -f
for tasks like
kmself@ix.netcom.com writes:
On Tue, Feb 22, 2000 at 03:49:59PM -0500, Joe Block wrote:
kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
nothing else running on commercial Unix that comes close (I'm not
counting Mac OS X as it's not based on X Windows and isn't a full Unix
despite its Mach core).
Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Mon, Feb 14, 2000 at 10:22:11AM -0600, Timothy C. Phan wrote:
Hi,
I'm in the middle of rebuild the 2.2.13 kernel for potato
to include IP-MASQ plus some other modules. I'd like to
know after the kernel and some modules were built, how
Ron Rademaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
How are you guys compiling your kernel???
Why don't you 'just' config the thing and do:
make dep make clean make bzImage make modules make
modules_install
After that, simply edit your /etc/lilo.conf, run lilo and add your modules
using modprobe
Mike Werner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 03:04:05PM -0800, Joe Emenaker wrote:
When the last Debian release was coming up, I had deselect downloading from
stable, frozen, and unstable. Then, some time ago, 'frozen' went away. This
caused dselect to complain a lot when
Marko Cehaja [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Does somebody know how to set up tex/latex system on slink?
While doing simple configurations I always get errors like
tex.fmt not found or latex.fmt not found.
So I can't convert *.tex files via latex nor use LyX.
I tried with FAQ suggestions to
Robert L. Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Ok,
I hate xconfigurator. It did it's job but it's confusing as hell
if you don't know everything about modelines and frequencies.
When my box was redhat I had an XSetup which was considerably easier.
I haven't found it yet. Anyone know what
I thought I saw this discussed at some point in the past but can't
find it in the archives, so, if this is a repeat forgive me.
I just installed the kernel-source package for the 2.2.14 kernel from
potato. I used make-kpkg to build up the kernel and now when I go into
dselect it shows that the
Cliff Draper [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm looking to start work on a Java project that I'm hoping will make its
way into the Open Source world soon. I have a few questions:
1. I was thinking of using the Mozilla Public License (MPL). The GPL is
definately too restrictive for me, and the
Oleg Krivosheev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
stupid question: what i have to do in order to
prevent Netscape from expanding .gz files?
Just hold down the shift key when you click on it. That seems to do
the trick.
Gary
Bob Hilliard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Is there a package that is functionally equivalent to mirror that
uses the http protocol instead of ftp?
There are two that I'm familiar with, and I'm sure a lot more that I'm
not familiar with. If you want a very broad idea of what's available
I'd
Robert L. Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Ok,
I'm showing 3 days download of potato. Instead I'm doing a recursive
ftp get of debian/dists/potato/ on http.us.debian.org.
This may, or may not, work. Depends on your ftp client and what ftp
server you're using. The trouble is that some of the
Tim Nicholas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
can anyone tell me what this error message might mean?
sl0: transmit timed out, bad line quality?
this message was printed on the screen several times and it looks
like something which should be looked in to.
thanks for any help,
Well, sl0 is a
Ethan Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I am wondering what different methods people here are using to filter
your mail? (ie each mailing list to its own mailbox or other such
techniques of dealing with several high volume lists)
I am going to be switching to mutt soon and the filtering
Brian J. Stults [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I want to by a SCSI drive and controller for one of my older computers
so it can act as an ftp server. My understanding is that a slower
computer can act as a decent server if you use SCSI since it doesn't
require much from the processor. Is that
Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
the adaptec 2940u2w (aic-7890) is well supported in every kernel
I've seen recently.
As I stated, I haven't had any problems with the driver not
working. It's more a question of whether Adaptec's product is worth
the premium price they place on their
Michael Jessop [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I upgraded to Potato (that's what it took to get XWindows to work correctly
on my system -- now I have to figure out how to get KDE to be my default WM)
but my KERNEL didn't upgrade?! It is still at 2.0.36 (or .39, I forget
which). How? Why?
paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[snip]
OK. At least I feel I`m doing something constructive now.
Firstly dpkg -l | grep mail transport tells me:
FUDO2:/home/guest# dpkg -l | grep mail transport
ii sendmail8.9.3-20 A powerful mail transport agent.
which is as I expected
Patrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Over the weekend, I took my trusty server which had multiple
partitions and swap files for RH, SuSE, NT and Debian and turned the
whole thing over to Debian.
Naturally, I backed up 4 Gigs of data first using tar czvf. Did a
few tests and all seemed to work
Roger Pittman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Tue, Jan 18, 2000 at 02:16:36PM -0700, Gary Hennigan wrote:
Is anyone else having remote xterm trouble? ...
I am. Remote boxes are Ultra 1's, AXi's, and AXMP's, running
Solaris 2.6 or 7. Worked fine until a recent apt-get run. If I
telnet
Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It`s a long story but in order to install fidogate I replaced my
perfectly working exim with sendmail. Now when I try to collect my mail
with fetchmail I get:
reading message 1 of 10 (1598 header octets)
fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed
The above is
Gary Hennigan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Is anyone else having remote xterm trouble? If I log in to my Debian
laptop, running potato, from my SGI, running IRIX 6.5, via an xterm
the terminal is almost unusable. It seems to lose track of the
cursor. For example, if I fire up dselect and I start
Pollywog [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On 20-Jan-2000 aphro wrote:
if the program you are compiling requires 2.2.x i suggest re linking
/usr/include/linux to /usr/src/linux/include/linux (i think thats
right) .. rename /usr/include/linux
That is the action I was considering, but I did not
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Howard hollered,
hawkinsttyp0:ch_1.scarcitylatex scarcity.tex
This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.2)
I can't find the format file `latex.fmt'!
I had a similar problem with jadetex in the past, when a similar file was
not created upon installation
Gary Hennigan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[snip]
Well, I can't help with how to generate it but on my potato system:
% locate latex.fmt
/var/lib/texmf/web2c/latex.fmt
It is not associated with a package, ie., dpkg -S latex.fmt doesn't
show a package, so it must
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have a Debian box which has been rock-solid in the three years I've
been using it. Currently it's slink with the 2.0.38 kernel
(custom-compiled) and just a few extras in /usr/local. No other OS.
Until recently it had just 32MB of RAM. I added 64 more on
Saturday.
Gary Hennigan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have a Debian box which has been rock-solid in the three years I've
been using it. Currently it's slink with the 2.0.38 kernel
(custom-compiled) and just a few extras in /usr/local. No other OS.
Until recently it had
Brian Servis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
*- On 7 Jan, Carl Fink wrote about Re: umount - URGENT
On Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 01:52:15PM -0500, Michael Stenner wrote:
while it's a good habit to demand successful umounts before removing
media, remember that it IS a cdROM after all. You're
Ron Rademaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, Cameron Matheson wrote:
Hey,
I am sorry for asking so many questions, but I am only fifteen, so I don't
have any sort of large income to spend on books.
I was just wondering if I am logging out of X Windows correctly.
Is anyone else having xterm problems when logging in to a potato
system from another system? I'm actually not sure where the problem
lies, xterm, ncurses or somewhere else, but whenever I log in to my
Debian laptop from my workstation (SGI using ssh in an xterm) the
terminal properties seem to be
Ben Lutgens [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 10:00:37PM +0100, peter karlsson wrote:
Preparing to replace base-files 2.1.10 (using .../base-files_2.1.11_all.deb)
...Unpacking replacement base-files ...
dpkg: error processing
David Densmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I recompiled the kernel and installed the modules with the
make modules_install command, but it didn't create a modules.dep file.
I hacked one by hand from an old copy I had and it works, but what is
the proper way to generate modules.dep?
It's
Christopher S. Swingley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
installed it under Debian/slink. Unfortunately it doesn't run because
it is linked to the following libraries which are not available under
Debian (even not with potato):
I can't answer your question about slink, but I had no trouble
Paul Keenan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Please help! People are asking to use this program, and I can't
get it to work
It doesn't answer your question of why the build is failing, but why
not just install the binaries to get the system up and running ?
Gary Hennigan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Paul Keenan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Please help! People are asking to use this program, and I can't
get it to work
[snip]
Paul said he didn't have one of the fortran intrinsic functions, I
[snip]
I
Ron Farrer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Sound works great on my potato system as root, but I have permission
problems as a normal user. Is there a way I can make it so a normal user
can play sounds/music?
Yes, add them to the audio group. You can see what group a particular
device is in by
Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Does anyone know either of the following. 1)If there are potato
cd-images around, and if so, where? 2)Where the documentation for
setting up a debain mirror is?
I want to be able to bring the entire distro home with me over
christmas, where I will
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Mark Santaniello [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Right now, if I ssh to the machine, and attempt to run an X app...say
xterm...it gives this error:
_X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 110
xterm Xt error: Can't open display: progression:10.0
1) From what
Mark Santaniello [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Ok I figured out my problem and now I feel stupid...
However in the interest of making the list archive complete so that other,
perhaps also stupid people, can fix this problem (should they be so stupid
as to create it), I will post the details (in
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