ldconfig -pNX | grep /local/
Bingo!
Our servers have XWin32 LIVE libraries installed (A X11 server for
MS/Windows, but which installs some libraries on the Linux box). The
install of XWin32 placed links in /usr/local/lib. I removed those
links and X is now functioning
Thanks for
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On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 13:49:53 +1000, Graham Williams wrote:
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On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 14:46:58 +1000, Graham Williams wrote:
[...]
There should be some input devices
Thanks again Florian.
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On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 14:46:58 +1000, Graham Williams wrote:
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On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 09:21:11 +1000, Graham Williams wrote:
Received Fri 10
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On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 18:10:41 +1000, Graham Williams wrote:
Have just upgraded
To what? Lenny
Received Fri 10 Apr 2009 6:31am +1000 from Florian Kulzer:
Thanks for the suggestions Florian. More details below.
On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 18:10:41 +1000, Graham Williams wrote:
Have just upgraded
To what? Lenny, Squeeze, or Sid?
From etch to lenny, as per Subject
Received Fri 10 Apr 2009 11:30pm +1000 from Thorny:
On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 06:44:42 +1000, Graham Williams posted:
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On Thu, 09 Apr 2009 18:10:41 +1000, Graham Williams posted:
Have just upgraded a fairly vanilla etch install on a Dell
Have just upgraded a fairly vanilla etch install on a Dell Precision
690 (AMD64) with an nvidia graphics chip. All seemed to proceed well,
but on reboot and starting up GDM, most key presses result in the
screen resolution changing - I can't login!
After quite a bit of research and attempts to
Received Thu 09 Apr 2009 9:12pm +1000 from Thorny:
On Thu, 09 Apr 2009 18:10:41 +1000, Graham Williams posted:
Have just upgraded a fairly vanilla etch install on a Dell Precision 690
(AMD64) with an nvidia graphics chip. All seemed to proceed well, but on
reboot and starting up GDM
Received Sun 08 Jul 2007 7:23pm +1000 from Jonathan Kaye:
Zach wrote:
On 7/8/07, Jonathan Kaye [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Zach,
It might be a better idea to run aptitude (or apt-get) upgrade rather
than dist-upgrade as a matter of routine. I think you will avoid these
kinds of
Received Fri 08 Jul 2005 7:14pm +1000 from Rakotomandimby Mihamina:
Hi,
I would like to customize the debian gnome splash screen in order to add
the name of our organisation.
I did not see how to... would you know?
Thank you.
I've got some details at
Received Wed 29 Jun 2005 7:39pm +1000 from Anthony Campbell:
I found that wajig disappeared here after an update to unstable a couple
of days ago and attempts to reintall it are greeted with the message
that it has unmet dependencies and I should file a bug report. However,
bug reporting
Received Wed 29 Jun 2005 8:43pm +1000 from Clive Menzies:
On (29/06/05 11:09), Anthony Campbell wrote:
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
From: Anthony Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 11:09:18 +0100
Subject: Re: wajig broken in unstable?
On 29 Jun 2005, Graham
Received Wed 29 Jun 2005 7:39pm +1000 from Anthony Campbell:
I found that wajig disappeared here after an update to unstable a couple
of days ago and attempts to reintall it are greeted with the message
that it has unmet dependencies and I should file a bug report. However,
bug reporting
Received Wed 11 May 2005 7:41pm +1000 from Amira Youssef:
Hello,
I'm looking for tg3 driver source or bin (kernel 2.4.18-1-686-smp)
can any one advise where I can find them?
Perhaps http://survivor.sarovar.org/Tigon3_Network.html might help.
Regards,
Graham
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Received Fri 17 Dec 2004 1:41am +1100 from Jon Dowland:
Writing this using Debian/sarge kernel 2.4.27-1-686 on a Dell Optiplex
GX270 with a 17 Dell TFT (not sure of model #).
So far no problems although I think I faffed around with XF86Config
quite a bit.
Likewise, running Debian sid on
Received Fri 17 Dec 2004 3:15pm +1100 from jack kinnon:
Hi,
Is there a 'cd-rw howto' for Debian? Or one that is
applicable to Debian too?
Some information at
http://www.togaware.com/linux/survivor/CD_Reading.shtml
Hope it might help.
Regards,
Graham
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Received Thu 14 Oct 2004 7:14am +1000 from Martin Dickopp:
Michael Satterwhite [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
In Adobe Acrobat, there is the ability to combine PDF documents, inserting
document 2 at a given location within document one. Actually, all I really
need is to take a document and
Received Thu 03 Jun 2004 2:37am +1000 from David Baron:
On Friday 14 May 2004 12:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
If I remember correctly, all the Java stuff is installed in one place
(e.g. /usr/local/java/j2sdk1.4.2_04), so it is easy to maintain. You
can however create a deb package from
Received Sat 22 May 2004 1:53pm +1000 from David Purton:
On Sat, May 22, 2004 at 08:59:14AM +1000, Graham Williams wrote:
The current beta 4 debian-installer will install to SATA okay, but
treats the disk as IDE (/dev/hda). In moving to kernel 2.6.6 from sid
this uses SCSI (/dev/sda
Received Sat 22 May 2004 7:17pm +1000 from Jonathan Matthews:
Graham Williams had the gall to say:
My _NEC DVD+RW ND-2100AD, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive that is easily
identified under 2.4.25 (as /dev/hdc) goes missing under my 2.6.6
kernel. dmesg has no hint at all of the DVD. This is my only
My _NEC DVD+RW ND-2100AD, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive that is easily
identified under 2.4.25 (as /dev/hdc) goes missing under my 2.6.6
kernel. dmesg has no hint at all of the DVD. This is my only IDE
device (using a SATA hard drive).
Is this a matter of finding the right module? The machine is sid,
The current beta 4 debian-installer will install to SATA okay, but
treats the disk as IDE (/dev/hda). In moving to kernel 2.6.6 from sid
this uses SCSI (/dev/sda) and the reboot fails. Is there a migration
path one needs to follow?
Regards,
Graham
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Received Sat 22 May 2004 3:04pm +1000 from J.S.Sahambi:
I am using Debian/sid. Some times when I mount a cdrom and try to
unmount it immediately, it gives the following error on the terminal:
umount: /cdrom: device is busy
umount: /cdrom: device is busy
But the fact is the cdrom is not
On Fri, 2004-05-14 at 07:09, Stu Woodbridge wrote:
I have a dell poweredge 2200 and a problem with installing debian.
I am using a net install from cd, the installation process does not
detect my hard drive and asks for
essential modules to be loaded from floppy. I have also tried from
from Stu Woodbridge:
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 9:25 AM
Subject: Re: dell poweredge 2200 scsi installation problem
On Fri, 2004-05-14 at 07:09, Stu Woodbridge wrote:
I have a dell poweredge
Received Wed 12 May 2004 4:14am +1000 from Antonio Rodriguez:
On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 01:01:16PM -0400, Matt Price wrote:
[...]
Well, if you have scanned all the pages in about the same position,
and you can establish reassonably well the coordinates of the crop,
you can write a script that
On Sun, 2004-05-02 at 05:36, Bruce Miller wrote:
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On May 1, 2004 15:07, Juan Noguera wrote:
Hello,
When trying to run the mysqlcc, the system complains:
Error while loading shared libraries: libXrandr.so.2 cannot open
shared object
On Wed, 2004-04-21 at 16:32, Alex Malinovich wrote:
On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 20:57, Cage wrote:
I got my hands on a copy of Oracle 8i. I'm mostly trying it out for fun.
But from what I've read it's a bear to install. I'm up to the
challenge. Been getting bored lately with no new projects.
On Wed, 2004-04-21 at 06:37, Alex Malinovich wrote:
On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 15:08, Florian Ernst wrote:
[...]
I prefer dselect for the one task that I use it for, and that's
dist-upgrades with the dependency resolution screen. The rest of the
time I use wajig. The only thing that I can't do that
On Wed, 2004-04-21 at 05:31, Florian Ernst wrote:
Hello Paul!
On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 12:21:10PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote:
I've moved to Sarge in anticipation of it's soon becoming
'stable'. But I can't find the program growisofs, which I have come to
depend on to do backups of DVD+RW.
Received Tue 02 Mar 2004 9:08pm +1100 from Adam Funk:
Sorry if this is a stupid question, but...
Suppose foo has already been removed without the --purge option, and I
later want to purge it.
# apt-get --purge remove foo
gives the error that foo is not installed and therefore takes no
Received Wed 03 Mar 2004 10:39am +1100 from MJ Inabnit:
Greetings:
I'm testing the latest debian Sarge installer. It's improving, but . . . What
application includes the startx command? I realize I can install
xdm/gdm/whateverDM, but I like keeping things lite on the older computers.
Received Fri 06 Feb 2004 5:18am +1100 from Deryk Barker:
I think I'm on the verge of persuading our technical people that we
should be using debian in our labs rather than RH.
One thing that would tip the scales is if it were possible to
*completely* automate the upgrade process.
For
Received Sat 06 Dec 2003 10:32pm +1100 from Luis Fernando Llana D?az:
Hi all,
I have several LP's that I would like to transfer to CD's. I have already
connected a LP player to my sound card and I cad heard it. I am searching
programs to:
1. Record the LP in the hard disk.
2. Split the
Any ideas on why starting X or changing virtual terminals to the X
window (C-A-F7) might pause for 30 seconds with a blank screen or at
best the background and window outlines showing. Seems like it is
timing out waiting for something? Perhaps associated with usb or a usb
mouse?
This is occurring
Received Fri 10 Oct 2003 4:27am +1000 from [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I'd like to look at the change log of a package before installing it.
I installed apt-listchanges, but it seems like I have to download the
.deb first. Is that true?
I sometimes like to check the changelog first. Perhaps this
Received Thu 26 Jun 2003 11:03am +1000 from Tom Allison:
OK, I'm confused.
I have a javaplugin_oji.so in whatever directory I'm supposed to have it in
according to the mozilla dev website.
Nothing works. I get that stupid busted puzzle piece.
Have a read of
Installed kernel-image-2.4.21-1-686. Updated lilo.conf to use this as
default. Ran lilo. Now all I get when I reboot is LIL and it then
hangs.
What's the next step.. no boot floppy for this machine :-(
This is an uptodate unstable installation.
Regards,
Graham
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Received Wed 13 Nov 2002 3:53am +1100 from Mike Dresser:
On Sun, 10 Nov 2002, Graham Williams wrote:
I'm at this moment in the throws of installing Debain 3.0 on an ASUS
P4B533-VM based machine.
...
I've got ... 4 of these boards in Debian machines here, with one that is
the P4B533
Received Sun 10 Nov 2002 10:53am +1100 from Graham Williams:
Received Sun 10 Nov 2002 8:08am +1100 from Bill Moseley:
At 07:22 AM 11/10/02 +1100, Graham Williams wrote:
... Debain 3.0 on an ASUS P4B533 based machine. ...
... Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 installed just fine (booted with bf24
I'm installing Debian 3.0 on a new machine with a 80GB IDE recognised
as /dev/hda. I've upgraded to kernel-image-2.4.19-686 as we've added
another IDE card to the machine (a CMD680). Now when it boots (using
Grub) the boot starts okay and then finds the CMD680 (presumably
before it finds the
Received Sun 10 Nov 2002 3:53am +1100 from Bill Moseley:
Does anyone have experience installing Debian on a ASUS P4B533 based system
that can offer any comments? I'm not finding much on-line discussion of
this motherboard.
Hi Bill,
I'm at this moment in the throws of installing Debain 3.0
Received Sun 10 Nov 2002 8:08am +1100 from Bill Moseley:
At 07:22 AM 11/10/02 +1100, Graham Williams wrote:
... Debain 3.0 on an ASUS P4B533 based machine. ...
... Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 installed just fine (booted with bf24 to
use the 2.4.18 kernel) but the onboard network card
I've got myself stuck somehow with upgrading some packages (am current
with unstable). After a recent apt-get dist-upgrade I now have:
debconf: DbDriver config: /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked by
another process
and the various messages about
Package debconf is not configured yet.
Received Sat 01 Jun 2002 10:16am +1000 from Joey Hess:
Graham Williams wrote:
I've got myself stuck somehow with upgrading some packages (am current
with unstable). After a recent apt-get dist-upgrade I now have:
debconf: DbDriver config: /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked
Running Debian unstable up to date installation, Kernel 2.4.18.
Trying to get XFree86 on an ATI Rage 128 Ultra Pro II.
Works just fine on a RedHat XFree86 4.1 installation. But can't get it
going with XFree86 4.1 on Debian. Seems that it is not supported under
4.1 but is on 4.2? Not sure why it
Received Sun 03 Mar 2002 7:02am +1100 from Xeno Campanoli:
Is there a similar command in apt or dpkg to this thing with rpm that
allows you to figure out the package of a file? That really would have
helped me recently.
As others have noted, dpkg -S works for installed packages and the
web
About a week ago I updated a Debian box, running a custom kernel
2.4.16, with a dist-upgrade in unstable (it's been running unstable
for a long time, and this just brought it up to date).
On the next reboot (a few days later) things started breaking! In
particular nfs, audio, and cdrom and cdrw
Received Thu 24 Jan 2002 3:18pm +1100 from Brian P. Flaherty:
I would check the catalouge on-line at www.ctan.org, under 'Graham
Williams's catalogue.' I would assume a package installed version
could get old pretty quickly. But, obviously it is better than
nothing if you don't have
Received Thu 24 Jan 2002 12:12pm +1100 from martin f krafft:
also sprach nori heikkinen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002.01.24.0203 +0100]:
copying the list because i don't know, and i certainly didn't write it
myself. i just have it, and i find that explicitly setting the
margins gives much better
I'm installing Debian from CD-ROM (2.2).
The hard disk is a RAID array (Adaptec 2100s). I've the driver for it
from adaptec for kernel 2.2.19 (and the CD-ROM has 2.2.18pre21 kernel
but the driver seems okay?).
During a clean install I need to load the driver from floppy right
after the
I'm installing Debian from CD-ROM (2.2r2 since that's what I have
lying around).
The hard disk is a RAID array (Adaptec 2100s). I've the driver for it
from adaptec for kernel 2.2.19 (and the CD-ROM has 2.2.18pre21 kernel
but the driver seems okay?).
During a clean install I need to load the
I've just apt-get dist-upgrade a couple of machines (one sparc one
i386). I'm running unstable and when nfs-kernel-server was being
upgraded it gave the message:
Starting NFS kernel daemon: nfsdnfssvc: Invalid argument
mountd.
Until now NFS has been working just fine. I'm running kernel
I've just apt-get dist-upgrade a SS2. I'm running unstable and when
then nfs-kernel-server was being upgraded it gave the message:
Starting NFS kernel daemon: nfsdnfssvc: Invalid argument
mountd.
Until now NFS has been working just fine. I'm running kernel 2.2.19.
(NFS is now not working -
(to n).
Run `wajig -vv help' for documentation.
Regards,
Graham Williams
Received Fri 20 Jul 2001 10:35pm +1000 from Colin Watson:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I now use Graham Williams wajig shell script as a front end to apt,
mostly because of the extra facilities it provides an easy interface
to.
...
e2fsprogs 1.18-3 1.18
Watson:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I now use Graham Williams wajig shell script as a front end to apt,
mostly because of the extra facilities it provides an easy interface
to.
...
e2fsprogs 1.18-3 1.18-3.0potato1
That looks like a bug in his version comparison
I've set up fetchmail to retireve via POP3 on one machine
successfully. Same set up (as far as I can determine) on another
machine fails. Using other ways of retrieiving POP3 mail on this
other machine works just fine.
The POP3 with fetchmail fails once it tries to download the messages:
Received Fri 13 Jul 2001 9:16pm +1000 from Joost Kooij:
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 05:58:19PM -0400, John Covici wrote:
But this doesn't solve my problem -- why am I getting errors which say
no such file or directory -- its looking for a file which isn't there
Sorry not to have any useful
On 12/07/01 22:38 +0200, Martin Bretschneider wrote:
[...]
Hm, I yust wanna update few debs day by day. If I understand it the right
way, I can make an 'apt-get update' and then install my wanted deb with
apt-get [deb]. Right?
[...]
# apt-get install emacs20
will get emacs20 deb and required
Thanks for all the comments I've received re my wajig script.
I've put the current version at http://velox.act.cmis.csiro.au/~gjw/wajig
This is a script that simply collects together some typical package
management operations into one place.
A sample iteration for me is:
# wajig update
I'm trying to set up NIS on a unstable Debian machine. I believe
I've set up the config files appropriately.
$ apt-get install nis
...
Starting NIS services: ypserv yppasswdd ypxfrd ypbind
But it then sits there waiting?
I exit from this and try
$ ypbind -d
...
Cannot register service: RPC:
I need libXt.so.6 and libX11.so.6 to run Wordperfect how do
I find out which .deb package provides these?
If you want to find where some file lives then you can ask at
http://packages.debian.org/.
You probably want to apt-get install xlibs.
I have a script that searches from the
be
# done better. I find it useful and in case others do I release it.
#
# Suggestions are most welcome. Email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
#
# Currently it only runs as root which needs to be rectified.
# Perhaps using fakeroot or sudo when (and only when) it is required.
#
# Copyright (c) 2001 Graham Williams
Matthias Richter wrote to debian-user on 09 Jun 2001 23:30:41 +1000:
Is there anything for Linux that provides at least some of the
facilities of Powerpoint?
Matthias I've just completed a presentation using pdflatex
Matthias (texpower, hyperref, ifmslides) \ldots so if you're
After doing an apt-get update there are two types of packages I'm
particularly interested in: newly available packages (new to Debain
since the last time I did an apt-get update) and packages I have
already installed but that have been updated since the last time I did
an apt-get update. (I.e.,
adduser.local script from John Zaitseff.
Closes: #94245
Pointers to where such information lives might be useful if such a
tool does not exist but could be written.
Regards,
Graham Williams
http://edm.act.cmis.csiro.au/debian/debinstall.
Regards,
Graham Williams
Using cdrecord 1.10a18-2 on an up to date Debian unstable installation
with kernel 2.2.18 (self compiled) trying to write to CD writer:
cdrecord: Invalid argument. Cannot get mmap for 4198400 Bytes on
/dev/zero
Any ideas what the problem is and a solution?
Many Thanks,
Graham
I've a Debian unstable installation, up-to-date.
If more than a single user is using gnome on the console, then the
latter users can not start the gnome panel (as of
gnome-panel_1.4.0.3-1).
After some hunting around I think the problem might be that
/usr/bin/panel seems to create /tmp/languages
I'm get the following Packet log each time I'm connected to my ISP,
every 4 seconds
Packet log: input DENY ppp0 PROTO=88 152.83.4.1:65535 224.0.0.10:65535
L=60 S=0xC0 I=0 F=0x T=2 (#9)
Any help explaining what this is? (I've read through the IPCHAINS
HOWTO and have searched quite a bit.
I've the NVIDIA driver on two machines, one a TNT2 M64 the other a
GeForce 256.
On the TNT M64 machine, when switching virtual screens using
Ctl-Alt-F8 (e.g., running two X servers) the screen goes blank as
usual, but then stays that way permanently! The whole machine is
locked, keyboard and all.
I've just upgraded my unstable installation to use XFree 4.0.1
(previously XFree 3.3.6) on a neomagic-based laptop. I run Helix GNOME
and gdm with two displays active by default. Soon after installing I
was moving from one X display to the other (Ctl-Alt-F8) and suddenly
the mouse changed from the
Dave Sherohman wrote to Colin Watson on 13 Nov 2000 12:55:36 +1100:
Dave Different person, same problem. It _was_ working yesterday,
Dave then I upgraded a bunch of (woody) packages and backspace
Dave stopped working. The Windows key also stopped being usable
Dave as a meta.
I've installed Helix Gnome on a Debian Potato moving to Woody
machine. It works great, and the extra bit of effort that Helix has
put into the presentation is really worth it (IMHO).
I've installed a number of user accounts starting from scratch for
each one of them (removing previous .gnome etc
My system also started life as slink, and has been potato for the past
few weeks. When I tried Helix Gnome I also got some error like yours
about a package (as I recall it was some library rather than grip). I
simply changed potato to woody in my sources.list (thought I would
take the leap) and
I've mostly updated a slink installation on a Dell Latitude CPi D300XT
to potato.
In an attempt to get sound working I've compiled ALSA (alsa-source)
using make-kpkg (kernel-package) together with kernel-source-2.2.13
and pcmcia-source.
I want to remove libesd0 and replace it with libesd-alsa0
to have an effect
(i.e., to get pon working again).
I'm getting by, but I'd sure like to understand what's going on, and
fix it?
Cheers,
Graham
Dan Christensen wrote to Graham Williams on 30 Nov 1999 02:57:31 +1100:
Dan ... One thing that makes my modem work again is to type:
Dan
I need to downgrade libpng2 from the current 1.0.5 in potato to the
older 1.0.3 (which I believe will fix a problem with pdflatex in
tetex-bin - Debian bug #49834).
Where do I find old version of deb packages?
Cheers,
Graham
John Carline wrote to Graham Williams on 29 Nov 1999 17:02:13 +1100:
John Hi folks,
John Every time this has happened to me, it was either a bad
John floppy or a bad floppy drive. On one occasion, the
John connector to the drive became slightly loose and all the
John disks
I've also just started moving to Potato and was trying the 2.2.12
(kernel-image-2.2.12_2.2.12-4.deb) and 2.2.13
(kernel-image-2.2.13_2.2.13-1.deb) kernels, creating a boot floppy,
and getting exactly the same problem, with the same message over and
over again:
0400
AX: 0212
BX:
Thanks for the reply John. Below are details from my log files.
pointers to what I should be reading or exploring further are most
welcome.
Graham Williams wrote to debian-user on 22 Nov 1999 08:02:22 +1100:
Graham I just used apt-get dist-upgrade to move from a slink to
Graham
I just used apt-get dist-upgrade to move from a slink to a potato
distribution on my Laptop (Dell Latitude CPi D300Xt). Had a minor
problem with configuring some packages because of perl. I manually
dpkg --install perl* and then got apt-get going again. Almost
succeeded, failing in the end on
I have Debian GNU/Linux (Slink) with a 2.2.12 kernel on a Dell
Latitude CPi D300XT which has a Crystal Semiconductor CS4237B Sound
Blaster Pro compatible sound card.
On boot I get the message:
Sound initialization started
Sound Blaster Pro (8 BIT ONLY) (3.02) at 0x220 irq 5 dma
I was updating my page on installing Debian GNU/Linux on the Dell
Latitude CPi D300XT when it occurred to me that a lot of the material
there might be of interest in general. It's a log of how to install
Debian on this laptop (and maybe installing Debian in general) and
aims to be fairly
A great resource for finding packages in LaTeX is
http://www.ctan.org/CTANfind.html.
A new package called currvita has just been released.
Cheers,
Graham
I've tried on and off to figure this one out or to find some other
posting with similar problems, to no avail.
Debian 2.1 on a Notebook running xserver-neomagic (using XFree86 3.3.2
as comes with Debian 2.1 rather than the newer 3.3.3) and supplied
kernel 2.0.36. I installed gnome 1.0.2 through
Jim Pick wrote on 08 Aug 1996 04:44:21 +1000:
wb2oyc ... In an effort to get a working 2.0.0 kernel with the
wb2oyc proper options ... results in errors during the prerem
wb2oyc or postrem scripts for both the source and image package.
Jim I had the same problem with a virgin
I personally find dselect very confusing. I install all packages
using just dpkg (dselect is a front-end to dpkg). It is actually very
easy. The only thing that is more difficult is in manually dealing
with dependencies between packages.
The simplest thing to do is to identify any packages you
Susan G Kleinmann wrote on 03 Aug 1996 20:14:45 +1000:
Susan ...
Susan Yes, you need a kernel with special support for the mouse
Susan compiled in. Reading the 'config-?' files in
Susan buzz-fixed/disks-i386/special-kernels it appears that all
Susan of the special kernels
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