Re: Before I install Debian

2017-02-11 Thread John Culleton
On Sat, 11 Feb 2017 14:13:20 -0700 Bob Holtzman <hol...@cox.net> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 03:54:34PM -0500, Doug wrote: > > > > > > On 02/10/2017 03:45 PM, Sven Hartge wrote: > > >John Culleton <j...@wexfordpress.com> wrote: > > > &

Re: Before I install Debian

2017-02-11 Thread John Culleton
them? > > Keith Bainbridge > > 0447667468 > > keithrbaugro...@gmail.com > > Sent from my APad > > On 11 Feb 2017 07:40, "John Culleton" <j...@wexfordpress.com> wrote: > > > All I need from Debian is Adobe Acrobat Reader. Is this available > >

Re: Before I install Debian

2017-02-10 Thread John Culleton
On Sat, 11 Feb 2017 10:04:35 +1300 Ben Caradoc-Davies <b...@transient.nz> wrote: > On 11/02/17 09:39, John Culleton wrote: > > All I need from Debian is Adobe Acrobat Reader. Is this available > > with Debian? > > What functionality do you need? I suggest

Before I install Debian

2017-02-10 Thread John Culleton
All I need from Debian is Adobe Acrobat Reader. Is this available with Debian? -- John Culleton Wexfordpress Book design and indexing.

installing knoppix or debian on hard list

2017-02-03 Thread John Culleton
I have my existing OS on /sda3. I want to leave it untouched. I also have an OS on /sda4 that I am willing to overwrite. The easiest path for me is to fire up Knoppix 7.6 and write it to hard disk. But I need assurance that I won't disturb /sda3 in any way. -- John Culleton Wexfordpress Book

xfce

2017-02-03 Thread John Culleton
Some OS like Slackware come with an optional screen manager called xfce. Does Debian? If not has anyone installed anyhow with success? -- John Culleton Wexfordpress Book design and indexing.

Kmail and Scribus 1.5.0 on Debian Testing.

2011-04-02 Thread John Culleton
directories to /usr/lib but I am not sanguine about the results. My base question: assuming that important parts of Qt4 have been overwritten by KDE4 how do I get beck to the original testing versions? -- John Culleton Create Book Covers with Scribus: http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html

Re: Cmake on Knoppix

2011-03-28 Thread John Culleton
On Sunday 27 March 2011 17:44:22 Chris Brennan wrote: On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 4:56 PM, John Culleton j...@wexfordpress.com wrote: Knoppix is a Debian derivative so I am asking here. I want to compile svn versions of programs such as Scribus. Scribus has switched from conventional

Cmake on Knoppix

2011-03-27 Thread John Culleton
under another name? -- John Culleton Create Book Covers with Scribus: http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org

Upgrade to latest Inkscape

2010-08-30 Thread John Culleton
I want to upgrade to latest Inkscape 0.48.0 To that end I did a net install of Debian and ended up with Lenny and Inkscape 0.46. Two questions: 1. What release of Debian is likely to get Inkscape 0.48 first? 2. How do I upgrade to that release? -- John Culleton Wexford Press Create Book

How do I go from Lenny to unstable?

2010-08-30 Thread John Culleton
The subject tells it all. -- John Culleton Wexford Press Create Book Covers with Scribus Printable E-book 38 pages $5.95 http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Upgrade to latest Inkscape

2010-08-30 Thread John Culleton
On Monday 30 August 2010 09:13:28 James Stuckey wrote: On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 2:56 PM, Kelly Clowers kelly.clow...@gmail.comwrote: On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 04:59, John Culleton j...@wexfordpress.com wrote: I want to upgrade to latest Inkscape 0.48.0 To that end I did a net install

Inkscape 0.48

2010-08-28 Thread John Culleton
Inkscape 0.48 has been recently released. I am considering putting up a Debian-family partition just to house this release. But is it in any Debian repository yet? If so which one? -- John Culleton Wexford Press Create Book Covers with Scribus Printable E-book 38 pages $5.95 http

Versions of Debian

2010-07-13 Thread John Culleton
I see references to various versions of Debian, including Lenny etc. For a 32 bit system, what is the latest stable and the latest unstable version? -- John Culleton Wexford Press Create Book Covers with Scribus Printable E-book 38 pages $5.95 http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html

Re: Screen width on Knoppix install.

2010-06-02 Thread John Culleton
On Wednesday 02 June 2010 02:49:18 you wrote: On Ma, 01 iun 10, 22:33:26, John Culleton wrote: I ask here because my message to the Knoppix list has not yet appeared. I assume you missed my reply [1] to your previous message so I am CCing you now. [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian

Re: Screen width on Knoppix install. Progress report.

2010-06-02 Thread John Culleton
On Wednesday 02 June 2010 02:49:18 Andrei Popescu wrote: On Ma, 01 iun 10, 22:33:26, John Culleton wrote: I ask here because my message to the Knoppix list has not yet appeared. I assume you missed my reply [1] to your previous message so I am CCing you now. [1] http://lists.debian.org

Screen width on Knoppix install.

2010-06-01 Thread John Culleton
list has not yet appeared. -- John Culleton Wexford Press Create Book Covers with Scribus Printable E-book 38 pages $5.95 http://www.scribd.com/doc/24676863/ http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Size of screen.

2010-05-31 Thread John Culleton
but cuts off at the right edge of the background. The physical screen is 17.4 by 9.75 approximately. I suspect that some editing of xorg.conf is needed but if there is another preferred method please let me know. -- John Culleton Wexford Press Create Book Covers with Scribus Printable E-book 38

Scribus versions-CROSSPOSTED

2009-06-19 Thread John Culleton
will be with that number. Thanks for your attention. -- John Culleton Create Book Covers with Scribus/e-book $5.95 http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Partioning Vista equipped laptop.

2008-12-30 Thread John Culleton
added no files to the system. -- John Culleton Resources for every author and publisher: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf http://wexfordpress.com/tex/packagers.pdf http://www.creativemindspress.com/newbiefaq.htm http://www.gropenassoc.com/TopLevelPages/reference%20desk.htm

Partition for latest versions of graphic programs.

2008-11-21 Thread John Culleton
1. I want to set up a Debian partition so that I can use the very latest versions of programs such as Gimp, Inkscape etc. Do I need Unstable or Sid? 2. I want to use some sort of netinstall. Where would I find the netinstall image for the answer to question 1? John Culleton

How to deploy deb files.

2008-10-18 Thread John Culleton
- -- John Culleton Resources for every author and publisher: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf http://wexfordpress.com/tex/packagers.pdf http://www.creativemindspress.com/newbiefaq.htm http://www.gropenassoc.com/TopLevelPages/reference%20desk.htm

Grub overkill

2008-09-24 Thread John Culleton
have no doubt that I can search out the pertinent grub file and delete the extras but I wonder why I have to . -- John Culleton Resources for every author and publisher: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf http://wexfordpress.com/tex/packagers.pdf http://www.creativemindspress.com

Re: cmake and Scribus 1.3.5 on Debian testing

2008-09-24 Thread John Culleton
that at the root of the problem is cmake itself. I tells you what statement blew up, not which file is missing. I'll raise this issue with the maintianers of Scribus. -- John Culleton Resources for every author and publisher: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf http://wexfordpress.com/tex

Re: cmake and Scribus 1.3.5 on Debian testing

2008-09-24 Thread John Culleton
On Wednesday 24 September 2008 03:34:48 pm John Culleton wrote: On Wednesday 24 September 2008 12:02:22 am Mumia W.. wrote: The typical incantation for preparing to build from the source suggests this: apt-get install build-essential apt-get build-dep scribus Happy to announce

cmake and Scribus 1.3.5 on Debian testing

2008-09-23 Thread John Culleton
so far. I need to download something but I don't know what. I am a noob in Debian but have a decade or so using Slackware. -- John Culleton Resources for every author and publisher: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf http://wexfordpress.com/tex/packagers.pdf http

Re: cmake and Scribus 1.3.5 on Debian testing

2008-09-23 Thread John Culleton
On Tuesday 23 September 2008 03:33:15 pm Florian Kulzer wrote: On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 15:08:20 -0400, John Culleton wrote: I just installed Debian testing for the specific purpose of building the bleeding edge version of Scribus. Scribus 1.3.5 requires cmake. Did you try the scribus-ng

Re: cmake and Scribus 1.3.5 on Debian testing

2008-09-23 Thread John Culleton
On Tuesday 23 September 2008 05:31:14 pm Ron Johnson wrote: On 09/23/08 14:59, John Culleton wrote: On Tuesday 23 September 2008 03:33:15 pm Florian Kulzer wrote: On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 15:08:20 -0400, John Culleton wrote: I just installed Debian testing for the specific purpose