Re: Error installing Emacs20 in Potato

1999-12-14 Thread John R. Sheets
Marshal Wong wrote: For the emacs20 error, I think you need to make the directory /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/dpkg-dev and copy debian-changelog-mode.el into it from /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/dpkg. I though that this problem was fixed already. Anyways, see if that helps. Hey, thanks!

Error installing Emacs20 in Potato

1999-12-13 Thread John R. Sheets
I've been getting this error for a couple weeks, and it's keeping me from installing a bunch of other stuff. Anyone know what the problem might be? Here's what I have installed (more or less): $ dpkg -l | grep emacs rc emacs19 19.34-23 The GNU Emacs editor. iF emacs20

Re: Potato broke my mouse in X?

1999-10-19 Thread John R. Sheets
Aaron Solochek wrote: I just installed a potato partiton, all seemed to go well. I even installed accelerated X on it, and its setup didn't segfault, an obvious improvement. The first time I ran X everything worked fine. Then, out of the blue, the mouse stopped working in X. I get this

Perl dependency problems in unstable

1999-10-01 Thread John R. Sheets
Hi, I just did an upgrade of the latest unstable branch, and ran into a rather perplexing problem with the perl-5.005-doc package. Dselect won't let me change the upgrade status of that package. In fact, it won't even let me hold it! When I hold it and the main perl package, it comes back with

Re: Need docs on Fontselector In Gnome

1999-09-23 Thread John R. Sheets
John Foster wrote: I have looked for the docs on the Gnome fontselector. There do not seem to be any. Anyone have any ideas? Sure: http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/libgnomeui/gnomefontselector.html However, it has been deprecated in favor of GtkFontSelection or GnomeFontPicker. I imagine

Re: dselect updating when Debian config changes

1999-09-15 Thread John R. Sheets
Bryan Scaringe wrote: OK, If you wish to get a new package that is released WITHOUT updating all existing packages that have new versions, just use apt-get to install tha package directly. apt-get update #update the package DB apt-get install package Is it possible to use

Re: 2.2.* on slink

1999-09-10 Thread John R. Sheets
Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: IPX also has a bug that prevents me to use 2.2. with my slink. I'm using 2.0.38 on the machine that needs IPX support and 2.2 in the rest. Does this also apply to the 2.2 kernel in unstable? I was thinking about upgrading my kernel, but if that'll prevent me