On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 10:34:21AM +0200, Andreas Mueller (EED) wrote:
Hallo Debian's
I've tried to install lynx out of the potato 2.2 r_0_ CD-Roms using dpkg
Lynx claims to depend on libz1. I couldn't find these on any of my
CD-R's.
Can someone help me please on that? Andreas...
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 09:28:44AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
Since you're probably root at the time you're doing this sort of thing,
you'll find yourself with an unusable system.
For that reason, I always advise people to forget that killall exists,
even if it's a handy short cut on Linux.
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 07:07:53AM -0600, Jimmy Richards wrote:
May 23 06:13:15 c243491-a sm-mta[407]: f4NCCqk7000407:
from=[EMAIL PROTECTED], size=2433,
class=-30, nrcpts=1,
msgid=[EMAIL PROTECTED], proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [127.0.0.1]
Is there anyone who might know why
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 03:41:21PM +0200, vester wrote:
i know this sounds trivial, but i haven't figured it out...after
installing and successfully loading ALSA drivers (as root) sound
applications only work as root...what do i need to change to make sound
accessible to normal users?
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 10:39:22PM +0100, Darren Wyn Rees wrote:
Would some people give me an opinion on the US Robotics external
56k Message Modem ? Is it suitable for use with Linux.
I used one for a couple of years with windows and linux, absolutely no
problems in either. Not the fastest in
Hi,
I wanted to install gnumeric but the dep list is huge here (see below)
is there a way to shrink it.. is there any scope for this building
from source?
Any (mebbe console based) alternatives?
Reading Package Lists...
Building Dependency Tree...
The following extra packages will be
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 07:33:38AM -0400, Hall Stevenson wrote:
I wanted to install gnumeric but the dep list is huge here (see
below)
is there a way to shrink it.. is there any scope for this building
from source?
Do you not run many gnome packages ?? Many of those are pretty
standard
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 09:47:44AM -0400, Hall Stevenson wrote:
application, I was concerned that I'd need to install various qt
libs and possibly even some KDE, depending on how things were
packaged. Luckily, it only req'd (not including what I already had
installed) libqt2.
Mmm I use the
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 11:55:46AM -0400, Hall Stevenson wrote:
Yeah, I picked a good example, didn't I ?? In fact, gnumeric may not
have any sound capabilities at all. Maybe it does... Where esound
comes in is that *another* package that gnumeric requires requires
esound itself. Aren't
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 11:25:09AM -0700, Abner Gershon wrote:
I am trying to install a Linux driver for my NVIDIA
GTS2 Geforce video card. Their site lists RPM, RPMS,
and tar files for non-RPM systems. I should use the
tar file, right?
thats what I've been using.. unpack, type
make
as
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 10:03:11AM -0700, Randolph S. Kahle wrote:
99% [Scanning packages]Template parse error near at
/usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/Template.pm line 60, TEMPLATES check 3.
E: Sub-process /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt returned an error code (29)
E: Failure running script
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 10:29:35PM +0200, Daniel de los Reyes wrote:
This is the output I get from nmap about things I am not sure what to do
about:
9 opentcpdiscard
13 opentcpdaytime
37 opentcptime
113 opentcp
On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 04:51:03AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Everything else is commented out. Even commented out the following
lines:
# Emergencies are sent to everybody logged in.
#
#*.emerg*
So what gives? How do I stop this logging to the
On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 10:06:15PM -0400, Brian Nelson wrote:
the settings. Personally after you get the hang of things
it's not bad for free. I don't even pay attention to the
banner ads. g
It's all configurable... except for the toolbar with the ads which is
the biggest and most
On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 01:43:21PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Plextor's 2mb. I assume, all things being equal, this would be an
advantage. Is this a valid assumption?
My understanding after reading about Burn-Proof on the Plextor web page is
that
this technology pretty much prevents
On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 06:49:48PM -0500, Balbir Thomas wrote:
Hi,
I am using kernel 2.2.19 and with debian 2.2r2 and keep getting the following
message at boot up :
Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than /lib/modules/2.2.19/modules.dep
I read the earlier post in this mailing list
On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 11:03:59AM +1000, Krisno Pryosusilo wrote:
Hi,
Question 1 : - Is there a simple blow by blow description on how to
install a deb package which is currently in a directory on my
hard-drive?
dpkg -i filename
The reason : -
I'm trying to install Opera and understand
Hi,
Everytime my isdn (ipppd) connection goes up or down it dumps messages
on whatever console I'm logged in on and it's annoying.
Tried fiddling with syslog.conf and looked over the /etc/isdn files but
can't seem to stop it. or work out what is doing it.. The kdebug
level for ipppd is set to
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 07:38:06AM -0400, Wayne wrote:
Hi All,
I search the web for an answer, but came up short.
try a search for
pop rfc
at www.google.com
Occasionally I get some junk mail that will hang
my system and won't let me get my mail. So I
telnet into my isp an look for the
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 02:45:35PM +0200, Stefano wrote:
Hi all.
I'm going to install debian gnu/linux on a new computer and I'm wondering
if woody is stable enough. What would you suggest me: potato or woody?
The system is a PC workstation used for statistical analysis and
office-like
On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 10:34:20AM +0200, Joerg Johannes wrote:
Sorry, I did not express myself clear enough. This sed thing changes
every line in the wget-script script. This, I did easily with emacs
(while sed is much more elegant). My problem is: I do not want to do
hundreds of
mv
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 12:28:12PM +0200, Joerg Johannes wrote:
So enough of talking, here comes my idea of how to do it: Is there a
shell-script that can change the x'es in the downloaded file names
back to % (the script, I edit with emacs, this is no problem).
Unfortunately, I have no
On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 09:46:28AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have made the big leap for me and installed Debian. I had a few
problems (once it crashed during install) but I'm there, I'm at bash
I dont think you say what version you installed, but see if you can get
the latest potato,
On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 05:59:37PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote:
echo 40960 /proc/sys/fs/inode-max
in a bootup script, probably whatever starts your servers.
I'm afraid you need to reboot the server (the machine) to activate these
changes.
You probably don't, just find the bootup script
On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 10:38:09PM +0100, Sean Quinlan wrote:
I'm looking for a GUI cd-burning tool that I can let loose on users
without expecting them to patch the source or jump through any other
hoops to get it going. In other words, something that works. There is
xcdroast but it
On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 11:21:06AM -0500, Carl Fink wrote:
I recently reinstalled Potato from scratch. As part of this I changed some
system software, including smail -- exim.
How can I tell exim to refuse connections from other than local addresses?
I've searched the docs, but can find no
On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 03:57:06AM +0200, chris wrote:
does it work ?
It does, but I purged it as soon as I realised you could do
apt-cache search ^task*
and then just
apt install task-name
for the one you want... do you really need a front end for that :)
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 11:43:52PM +0200, Dominique Deleris wrote:
Having upgraded my woody box this evening, I am not able to run X
anymore. It will complain that it does not find the 'fixed'
font. Anyone having the same problem ? What can I do ?
Do you still have the xfonts-base package
hello, I am a graduate student in molecular biology and I AM SICK OF MS
WINDOWS! I am installing your debian Linux os on my IBM 600x laptop, but I
still need a couple statistical packages currently only available for MS
' Q: Can I have Debian/Linux OS installed on my computer while also
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 10:14:56AM -0700, Charles Lewis wrote:
Apparently it was a permissions problem with /dev/sg0.
Not sure what that device is used for, because my cd is on /dev/scd0, but
after I fixed permissions, grip worked just fine.
sg0 refers to the sg.o kernel module which provides
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 03:32:28PM -0400, Cheng wrote:
As you first say this ..
Second, I'd like to install the 2.4 kernel due to some of the advantages I've
heard about it, such as Athlon optimization, more efficient threads, and
memory detection.
then ..
To me stability is more
$ startx xterm
...and report if it still prompts for a password.
still the problem persists.
I also tried as root, no results.
try editing the startx script and add
set +x
at the start of it, it should echo the commands it runs as it does so ,
might give you a clue as to which one
On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 06:50:04AM -0700, John and Kristy Woodill wrote:
I have just bought a GForce 2 graphics card and now i can't seem to get x to
configure and load correctly. I just get a black and white screen all
scrambled up. I have a Riva TNT 2 before and had zero problems with
after a few months I am using Debian at home I keep
wandering whether it uses too much RAM.
Dont forget that memory is used for caching and suchlike..
Why is is so bad to have 90% memory used after all is it
better for it to be unused? you paid for it! ;) So it is used
to speed things up,
out of memory you should take it with a pinch of salt (and
maybe wonder why the other 10% isn't made to do something
useful too)
In theory, this is fine. But on my system (512 MB RAM) it's not always
like
that. After a few hours of work with a lot of opening apps and documents
and
i don't see any point to using upgrade instead of dist-upgrade.
But surelly upgrade has some use, I mean, there's probably some
situation in which you would prefer to use upgrade in place of
dist-upgrade, could someone please shed some light in this isue?
I'm going back to using
I just subscribed to the list, I'd really need some help for
separating mail from lists, as you might easily guess.
This is my cfg: mutt/exim/potato
Any help (and receipe better yet!) will be higly appreciated
Have a look at
www.procmail.org
and in particular (the ones that made it click
There ain't none. mp3 encoders are all patent encumbered, so Debian
distributes none. It's been an ongoing discussion on -legal for years
now. My suggestion is to go ogg/vorbis or build lame from source.
www.debianplanet.org
has a few unofficial apt sources, and I am pretty sure there is a
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